Tuesday January 14th, 2024 NCLUG Meeting

[Bob Proulx]

j dewitt wrote:
> What: Tuesday January 14th, 2024 NCLUG Meeting

I was late arriving to the meeting tonight while introductions were
already in process.  It was good to see two new faces in the group
tonight!

My own report today included that I have been fixing bugs in the GNU
debbugs bug tracker.  Some years ago someone on that system decided to
redirect all of the output from cron jobs to /dev/null.  Not a great
solution!  I removed that redirection assuming that I would get
hammered with email from errant cronjobs.  And I was right.  Lots of
email from */10 and */30 and other jobs.  I have been slowly working
through the errors.  Pick one and chase it down to root cause and fix
it.  Then move to the next one.

Alex won the recent CTF Capture The Flag challenge from NoCo Hackers!
Yay!  Alex gave us the story of the recent challenge.

Morey talked about AI.  Talked about espeak advancements.  Remote
access to his phone.  The Fort Collins downtown visitors center.  It's
not really for visitors.  It's a citizen's center.  Basically
community meeting space.  Apparently no URL available?

    https://huggingface.co/

Kyle demonstrated "pyspread".  A python based spreadsheet.  Mature
spreadsheet.  Python can be run in each cell.

    https://pyspread.gitlab.io/

Evelyn told us a story of woe where through the course of events of
having installed Ubuntu with LUKS there was an encryption event which
left her machine encrypted and unable to decrypt it due to being
unable to supply the correct decryption password.  The moral being to
be careful with fully encrypted systems because the data is truly
inaccessible without the passphrase.

James talked about his desktop project.  Which is the top of a desk.
Woodworking project.  He is making an oak top for his desk.  Somewhat
of a long wood working project but the top is now looking lovely and
soon it will be the top of his desk.

David stood up and said that he has been Dew free for X days from his
Mountain Dew addiction.  Hahaha.  Then a short tale of his current
GNU/Linux adventures.

Stephen had two topics.  OpenZFS now has a new online raid capacity
expansion.  Playing with rclone.  It's like rsync but does a bunch of
additional features.

Brian talked about file sync to onedrive using rclone.  With the
advantage of onedrive keeping its own versions which can act like a
backup for that purpose.

Morey talked about the performance increase moving to a WiFi-7 Access
Point.  He just upgraded and is getting 800 Mb/s across the wifi now.