<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">Hi Bob and all!</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">Sorry I missed the AI filled meeting.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">Bob, you already have IPv6 addresses locally, as you know. Linux has had good support for IPv6 for more than 20 years.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">If you want to get a public IPv6 allocation you talk with ARIN: <a href="https://www.arin.net/resources/guide/ipv6/">https://www.arin.net/resources/guide/ipv6/</a></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><a href="https://www.arin.net/resources/guide/ipv6/first_request/">https://www.arin.net/resources/guide/ipv6/first_request/</a></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">They will be able to give you an end user allocation; <a href="https://www.arin.net/resources/guide/ipv6/first_request/#enduser">https://www.arin.net/resources/guide/ipv6/first_request/#enduser</a></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">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 <a href="http://he.net">he.net</a>'s <a href="https://tunnelbroker.net/">https://tunnelbroker.net/</a></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">I'd offer to help, but I no longer have any ARIN IPv4 space. You know who to talk to.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">Hope this helps,</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">Evelyn<br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, Nov 12, 2024 at 8:03 PM Bob Proulx <<a href="mailto:bob@proulx.com">bob@proulx.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">j dewitt wrote:<br>
> What: Tuesday November 12th, 2024 NCLUG Meeting<br>
<br>
We always spend 15-30 minutes in chaos discussion mode. It's been a<br>
month since we have seen each other and we have to catch up! :-)<br>
<br>
Once again not having a prearranged agenda after the random discussion<br>
died down we started in on a round-robin for anyone who wanted to say<br>
anything about what they have been working on lately.<br>
<br>
Morey started things off giving a demo of his most recent adventure<br>
with LLM Machine Learning. Fired up his laptop OFFLINE and ran one of<br>
the current "AI" models and demonstrated some pretty cool interaction.<br>
Things like, "Generate a bash shell script to search my home directory<br>
looking for PDF files and list them out in sorted order leaving the<br>
list in my home directory." And then it generated a script which<br>
called find piped to sort. All offline. Which is really pretty<br>
impressive.<br>
<br>
Then Morey talked about how all of this interacted internally. The<br>
various things that can be done with it. He changed speakers and gave<br>
various demos. Among other things you can ask for it to speak using<br>
the voice model of (non-copyright) speakers. It was pretty good!<br>
<br>
As a side note I mention that RT Russia Today the state news source<br>
admitted this past week that half of their newscasters are generative<br>
AI models complete with social media accounts. Because of course TV<br>
personalities must have social media to be able to interact with their<br>
fans. But in this case the are constructs. They don't really exist.<br>
But they speak the state propaganda.<br>
<br>
Stephen spoke about his adventure writing tools for the Creator Hub<br>
Wordpress site. Which is of course in PHP. So we griped about<br>
Wordpress for a while. And mentioned the only way that *we* would run<br>
Wordpress but of course that's not the way it is being run and so it<br>
is getting compromised repeatedly.<br>
<br>
Mike then talked about his experiences chatting with an AI tool<br>
talking about security context of encrypted data. And others agreed<br>
that at the end the AI often complements you. It will say thank you<br>
for being a security researcher and improving security of systems and<br>
similar types of conversation.<br>
<br>
And we talked about how people can game the AI systems to get it to<br>
tell us information which is otherwise to be filtered out. Out of a<br>
need for security I am not going to repeat it here.<br>
<br>
Carlos joined us for the first time tonight. I truly hope we did not<br>
scare him off! The advantages of free software operating systems.<br>
<br>
Lucas is also somewhat new and so I asked the two Randal Schwartz<br>
questions of what's your favorite programming language and edit.<br>
This was a soft answer and not hard but recently go-lang and<br>
previously emacs but now vscode. (So close to the right<br>
answers. [haha])<br>
<br>
Aaron lamented his current interactions with security theater of<br>
corporate security theater department. Required to run security tools<br>
flag things like zero sized security key file which contains no keys<br>
and therefore grants no access but the presence of the file is flagged<br>
and so it upsets the tool. But it is not in his part of the project<br>
but in a 3rd party tool which he can't affect anyway. So much fun.<br>
Well I remember similar interactions. I sympathize. So happy I am<br>
not dealing with that now.<br>
<br>
Kirk stood up and said, My name is Kirk and I do not like AI. (Ha!)<br>
Been reorganizing his computer rack.<br>
<br>
Alex talked about a fancy feature of python parsing YAML which avoided<br>
most of the pain of dealing with YAML.<br>
<br>
Scott is now after years not now has been for the last month writing<br>
nothing but PowerShell for his employer. Shock to the system!<br>
(Brian, He missed your talks about PowerShell!) Has been getting help<br>
from Perplexity which is another AI engine. Talked about how it is<br>
really a better way to generate searches. Can mostly convert what you<br>
ask into a more intelligent search. Then the search turns up the clue<br>
that is needed.<br>
<br>
Scott had one interesting problem. A Docker hosting instance for some<br>
reason he hasn't figured out yet is changing the /tmp directory to the<br>
owner of the docker containers and restricting access to /tmp. Which<br>
breaks other things which then try to use /tmp later.<br>
<br>
Bob griped and whined about how IPv6 not being functional on my<br>
Connexion ISP connection. IPv4 works. It works extremely well. So<br>
well that there is really no way to detect that something is not<br>
working. I asked the question if anyone knows for certain that their<br>
IPv6 is working on their Connexion home network and no one has been<br>
looking. Because Connexion is working really well. I don't want to<br>
make it sound like I don't like Connexion. Connexion is awesome!<br>
It's 100x better than my previous ISPs and you won't pry it out of my<br>
hands. But I want all of it to be working. I am working up a test<br>
system so I can interact with support reasonably and get this figured<br>
out.<br>
<br>
This was typed in on the fly by me, definitely not an AI.<br>
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