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flas9sd··on Build your own private WireGuard VPN with PiVPN
yes the webui now has some convenience options for generating and importing configs, but there's still a gap (as in default package installed) in client profile management or network management on cli.

What pivpn (and similar tooling wrapping lower level commands) bring along is this client management and even some network topology/routing management : https://docs.pivpn.io/wireguard/ and https://github.com/pivpn/pivpn/tree/master/scripts/wireguard

I think it's a interesting spectrum between wg-cli and tailscale.

flas9sd··on In China, Germany’s foreign minister does not hold back–and is still welcomed
> applications for e-mail, calendars and contacts integrated into commercial iPhones..

maybe I did misread you. You lamented the "hand over" of "the entire German gov mobile communication stack" to Apple. But what you show is BSI audited iOS and verified their own Indigo solution to be compliant with their requirements for handling VS-NfD documents (one solution of a handful of others).

So VS-NfD bits will pass that software stack sure - but as I was sceptic if "the operational part" was handled by Apple, I don't see this supported. An MDM will set endpoints for email/carddav/caldav to .de gov servers, I hope :)

flas9sd··on NitroKey disappoints me
a-gps/supl ("xtra"?) and qcoms izat api (in-building location services using indeed accesspoint info) are mixed in both HN threads. If izat triggers in customroms and sends plain http needs to be shown, but the .so libs are on device firmware partitions if not actively deleted. On older devices lineage mounts them unmodified from stockrom into /vendor/
flas9sd··on In China, Germany’s foreign minister does not hold back–and is still welcomed
I can see the Wire ref and can understand the device choice on Apple. But the operational part of email? that you'd need to show me a reference for
flas9sd··on PSA: Upgrade your LUKS key derivation function
tl;dr check for desirable presence of argon2id as key derivation function in the output of

    lsblk
    sudo cryptsetup luksDump /dev/sd[xy]
or more terse (not sure if this works for luks1 header format too)

    sudo cryptsetup luksDump /dev/sd[xy] --dump-json-metadata | jq '.keyslots | .[].kdf.type'
if you see anything but argon2id, consider migrating. Thanks for the explanation and PSA @mjg59

https://anarchistnews.org/content/update-ivan-alocco has the english translation of the letter by comrade arsonist anarchist

flas9sd··on Mariadb.com is dead, long live MariaDB.org
there are less dimensions in user/access management to grok, no role privilege inheritance to think of. The public schema in psql has a surprise for unsuspecting mysql converts. Easier connection model. No vacuuming. Maxscale (by mariadb) is a good addition.

Now you didn't ask for Postgres advantages but I know a lot too, I like the choice and competition.

flas9sd··on Mariadb.com is dead, long live MariaDB.org
as a database engines fan, I am glad for mariadb to have been the replacement in many distros. This way it got traction and mariadb did interesting things the last few years. Oracle mysql put out interesting releases with v8 again too. While I got hit by some bugs in mariadb, I did also benefit. As long as core developers aren't stranded or go outside sql/databases I don't think there is a technical loss.
flas9sd··on Show HN: A Google Reader-inspired RSS reader
looks very neat, your effort shows. Look forward to feed it with some of my urls.
flas9sd··on uBlock Origin 1.48 adds readiness status, code viewer, and other fixes
while I do some dnsmasq tweaks to raise minimum ttl on my terms, doing bulk gathering ahead of time and sinkhole anything not cached (I assume) is interesting. What's your refresh interval? source of domains you query in bulk (browser history / bookmarks?). Any place you described your process to read into?
flas9sd··on Google: Turn off VoLTE, Wi-Fi calling: severe Exynos modem vulnerabilities
even in Androids phone diagnostics?

    *#*#4636#*#*
flas9sd··on Bandcamp Unionizes
me too - at the moment it is uniquely positioned for both what creators and (some) fans want. Can't see unionizing in a bad light at all especially in the realm of arts.
flas9sd··on Reddit is currently down
funnily enough today was also the day I saw a hackernews comment recycled in a twitter post in reddits daily rolling top10, something that I haven't seen before.

From r/antiwork of all - https://old.reddit.com/r/antiwork/comments/11r3sfs/rich_vs_p...

The practice of re-posting across platforms amuses me.

For direct domain links nothing was >6k upvotes yet, but hard to do analytics on screenshots, the common currency of the crossposting economy - https://old.reddit.com/domain/news.ycombinator.com/top/?sort...

flas9sd··on Greece adopts new rules on Router Freedom
the new Greek regulation has those exemptions on fibre too, handoff is past a SFP. They gave their arguments on why they'd prefer it to be at the passive equipment at https://fsfe.org/news/2022/news-20220628-01
flas9sd··on Smartphones and social media are destroying children’s mental health
the deer in headlights, the blink of an eye are interesting representations. You can make that argument of what is deemed unnatural on a lot since industrialization took root (and you did, as in cars). That genie is out of the bottle with world populations raising in lock-step to technology.

Humans continue to live - in mega cities, with mass transportation, mass communication, world wars for more than 100 years. I don't know to what degree we biologically adapt, but most certainly we do adapt. Smartphones are yet another shock to populations that I'm sure we'll absorb.

The web-accessed FT article on youth mental health, this conversation, this message board of worldwide concurrency are all adaptions.

flas9sd··on Show HN: Ichido, search engine that tags sites using Google and Cloudflare
own index: the wiby.me DIY writeup is fantastic. Each person will do this differently based on knowledge and experience, but the step by step guide was educational.

marginalia put out the news yesterday getting a NLnet grant with one of the sub-goals "to produce and offer portable data in order to bolster adjacent efforts in the search and discovery space", maybe talk?

As an end user I profit from the many licensees to the bing index, different interfaces and ideas can compete with less effort required.

flas9sd··on Show HN: Ichido, search engine that tags sites using Google and Cloudflare
quite a price hike. Bad for the sustainability of the other portals I use that are backed by the bing index. Will either increase their pricing or efforts on monetization.

Is it easy for you to rely on more search index providers, what are your options?

flas9sd··on Show HN: Ichido, search engine that tags sites using Google and Cloudflare
I see you offer an opensearch.xml already - if you embed it as link node with the appropriate type it will be straightforward to add it to the browser as (default) search engine: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/OpenSearch#auto...

also: happy to give this a try, more knobs for power users

flas9sd··on Nokia launches DIY repairable budget Android phone
I'm writing this from a 2016 device that ticks all of the boxes of repairability the announced phone has. Without the GPL, bootloader unlock and a willing vendor (motorola), it's end of life would've been in 2019. Thanks to source availability the community gave it another lease up to today and it's a candidate for a 10+ year phone thanks to kernel mainlining.

While hardware repairability is a pillar, it's only one of two and nothing without "software repair". Sadly even the ecodesign draft proposal (in the EU) goes soft on this topic and criticism of it (by eeb.org) still thinks only in "update duration" instead of the real ingredient of sustainability: software sources and ability to build it.

flas9sd··on Circadian – Suspend-on-Idle Daemon for GNU/Linux Power Management
yes, homeservers do not need to run at all times. I solve this by being able to ssh into the router from WAN via wireguard and sending out wake-on-LAN magic packets.

There are also webuis that can do this for you https://github.com/sameerdhoot/wolweb

flas9sd··on Real-time Ubuntu is now generally available
interesting, can I go on reading about this? I found https://www.cnbc.com/2018/05/11/full-elon-musk-transcript-ab... but it didn't speak on the tolerable latency to go all ethernet
flas9sd··on Newsboat: an RSS/Atom feed reader for the text console
I use newsboat exclusively for podcasts. It includes a downloader "podboat" that does the file transfers. There's the external "podbit", that builds up on and/or replaces podboat as full audio player. It starts being fun when the underlying file sync between devices is automatic.

Reading articles via RSS didn't stick around for me for reasons others noted too (only part of the article content inside the feed). With podcasts that is no concern.

flas9sd··on Tell HN: Whole Yandex Git repository leaked
my cards for the source on the leak are more on dissent than outside party infiltrating. If you were brought up on working in open source the last 20-30 years with contributors from all over the world, getting into the friend/foe mindset is much harder.
flas9sd··on DIY Raspberry / Orange Pi NAS That Looks Like a NAS – 2023 Edition
the scope is impressive. After showing all the hardware he goes on presenting his own developed "webOS" (https://arozos.com/) how to make the best use and get a lot of value out of the NAS.
flas9sd··on Ask HN: How many of you are open to Piracy again?
while I agree that despite fragmentation, it is more accessible, this can be a US-centric view. Even if you're aware of the service that can provide a series, you might need a VPN to subscribe and use.
flas9sd··on Ask HN: Anyone using proprietary Unix at work?
Last I used a Xerox digital printing press I was greeted with a "SunOS" version string when opening a shell - being some version of a Solaris. It wasn't much impressed by my linux cli-fu. Looking at current brochures those still ship with it. Product is called "Freeflow Print Server" that GUI for the job queue looked java based as it also has Windows incarnations. It will do the raster imaging before printing. Good times
flas9sd··on The 6.1 kernel is out
people specifically looking for places where the read/write hole on raid56 is addressed, the problem is stated at minute 9 and solution of a new "raid-stripe-tree" presented from min 14 and on
flas9sd··on The 6.1 kernel is out
there's ongoing work on fixing this by Johannes Thumshirn, see https://old.reddit.com/r/btrfs/comments/wcxfqs/btrfs_declust...
flas9sd··on Linux Desktop Environments System Usage
while I don't mind on a desktop, if it's a not so recent smartphone and has 2G ram, memory usage matters. Gnome mobile and phosh are very good shells. Using the same gnome-settings on mobile is quite a feature, it being memory efficient makes for broader usage (in those devices)
flas9sd··on Sign in with Google has been removed for your privacy
indeed, the about page also is not your usual legal boilerplate either
flas9sd··on Amazon Is Running Out of Warehouse Workers. Cue the Robots
despite knowing about what Kiva robots do at Amazon, apparently I've been living under a rock for how things got along since. Fun trivia from that video: Ocado is using off the shelf xbox 3d cameras to check the packing grocery box.

I'm unsure if I personally am in need of prepackaging an order living in a city. Having 5 minutes on foot to the next market I like to see it as a break. But different lives, different needs.

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