Tuesday November 12th, 2024 NCLUG Meeting

[Evelyn Mitchell]

Hi Bob and all!

Sorry I missed the AI filled meeting.

Bob, you already have IPv6 addresses locally, as you know. Linux has had
good support for IPv6 for more than 20 years.

If you want to get a public IPv6 allocation you talk with ARIN:
https://www.arin.net/resources/guide/ipv6/
https://www.arin.net/resources/guide/ipv6/first_request/
They will be able  to give you an end user allocation;
https://www.arin.net/resources/guide/ipv6/first_request/#enduser

You will need to figure out a way to be multi-homed, but you should be able
to sort that out with your Boston volunteering and he.net's
https://tunnelbroker.net/

I'd offer to help, but I no longer have any ARIN IPv4 space. You know who
to talk to.

Hope this helps,
Evelyn

On Tue, Nov 12, 2024 at 8:03 PM Bob Proulx <bob at proulx.com> wrote:

> j dewitt wrote:
> > What: Tuesday November 12th, 2024 NCLUG Meeting
>
> We always spend 15-30 minutes in chaos discussion mode.  It's been a
> month since we have seen each other and we have to catch up! :-)
>
> Once again not having a prearranged agenda after the random discussion
> died down we started in on a round-robin for anyone who wanted to say
> anything about what they have been working on lately.
>
> Morey started things off giving a demo of his most recent adventure
> with LLM Machine Learning.  Fired up his laptop OFFLINE and ran one of
> the current "AI" models and demonstrated some pretty cool interaction.
> Things like, "Generate a bash shell script to search my home directory
> looking for PDF files and list them out in sorted order leaving the
> list in my home directory."  And then it generated a script which
> called find piped to sort.  All offline.  Which is really pretty
> impressive.
>
> Then Morey talked about how all of this interacted internally.  The
> various things that can be done with it.  He changed speakers and gave
> various demos.  Among other things you can ask for it to speak using
> the voice model of (non-copyright) speakers.  It was pretty good!
>
> As a side note I mention that RT Russia Today the state news source
> admitted this past week that half of their newscasters are generative
> AI models complete with social media accounts.  Because of course TV
> personalities must have social media to be able to interact with their
> fans.  But in this case the are constructs.  They don't really exist.
> But they speak the state propaganda.
>
> Stephen spoke about his adventure writing tools for the Creator Hub
> Wordpress site.  Which is of course in PHP.  So we griped about
> Wordpress for a while.  And mentioned the only way that *we* would run
> Wordpress but of course that's not the way it is being run and so it
> is getting compromised repeatedly.
>
> Mike then talked about his experiences chatting with an AI tool
> talking about security context of encrypted data.  And others agreed
> that at the end the AI often complements you.  It will say thank you
> for being a security researcher and improving security of systems and
> similar types of conversation.
>
> And we talked about how people can game the AI systems to get it to
> tell us information which is otherwise to be filtered out.  Out of a
> need for security I am not going to repeat it here.
>
> Carlos joined us for the first time tonight.  I truly hope we did not
> scare him off!  The advantages of free software operating systems.
>
> Lucas is also somewhat new and so I asked the two Randal Schwartz
> questions of what's your favorite programming language and edit.
> This was a soft answer and not hard but recently go-lang and
> previously emacs but now vscode.  (So close to the right
> answers. [haha])
>
> Aaron lamented his current interactions with security theater of
> corporate security theater department.  Required to run security tools
> flag things like zero sized security key file which contains no keys
> and therefore grants no access but the presence of the file is flagged
> and so it upsets the tool.  But it is not in his part of the project
> but in a 3rd party tool which he can't affect anyway.  So much fun.
> Well I remember similar interactions.  I sympathize.  So happy I am
> not dealing with that now.
>
> Kirk stood up and said, My name is Kirk and I do not like AI.  (Ha!)
> Been reorganizing his computer rack.
>
> Alex talked about a fancy feature of python parsing YAML which avoided
> most of the pain of dealing with YAML.
>
> Scott is now after years not now has been for the last month writing
> nothing but PowerShell for his employer.  Shock to the system!
> (Brian, He missed your talks about PowerShell!)  Has been getting help
> from Perplexity which is another AI engine.  Talked about how it is
> really a better way to generate searches.  Can mostly convert what you
> ask into a more intelligent search.  Then the search turns up the clue
> that is needed.
>
> Scott had one interesting problem.  A Docker hosting instance for some
> reason he hasn't figured out yet is changing the /tmp directory to the
> owner of the docker containers and restricting access to /tmp.  Which
> breaks other things which then try to use /tmp later.
>
> Bob griped and whined about how IPv6 not being functional on my
> Connexion ISP connection.  IPv4 works.  It works extremely well.  So
> well that there is really no way to detect that something is not
> working.  I asked the question if anyone knows for certain that their
> IPv6 is working on their Connexion home network and no one has been
> looking.  Because Connexion is working really well.  I don't want to
> make it sound like I don't like Connexion.  Connexion is awesome!
> It's 100x better than my previous ISPs and you won't pry it out of my
> hands.  But I want all of it to be working.  I am working up a test
> system so I can interact with support reasonably and get this figured
> out.
>
> This was typed in on the fly by me, definitely not an AI.
>
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