lemmyreader @ lemmyreader @lemmy.ml

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Hi @InternetIsScary@mstdn.social

Also, do most people know of this on fediverse? Jw

Some people noticed earlier posts from Mastodon to Lemmy and thought it was cool. Guess it is a matter of getting used to for others 🙂

This PAKE post by Cloudflare is way over my head, but very good to see that new things are explored to make security really better.

The OP posted from Mastodon (check their profile) hence the hashtags.

Beautiful!

There's an open issue here from Mar 13, 2023 : https://github.com/hyprwm/Hyprland/issues/1775 One commenter writes that it works on Sway but not hyprland.

What is it ?

😁

Glad to see another person who is not keen on the passkeys. I have the feeling it is being hyped and perhaps without good reasons. Therefore I was glad to share this blog post when I saw it on Mastodon. btw, the blog post author turns out to be the software developer of similar software like Authentik and Keycloak. In other words, not just the average Linux user :)

I really think that we should have just iterated on passwords. Switch to a PAKE and keep improving password-manager UX and pushing most users to auto-generated passwords. So much was lost by switching to a system that most users don’t understand.

When I search with a search engine for PAKE I don't find anything useful. Got a link ?

I like your reasoning about just using passwords. However, my experience is that a scary amount of users are using the same rather weak password for lots of different accounts. And a still scary amount of users does get tricked into phishing emails. What I like for myself is have a bunch of security keys and use them as much as possible for important logins.Some applications allow for five different security keys to be configured.And this could theoretically also be a way to use 2FA within teams. One team person does the login, adds a key, then let's the second team member put in their key and so on.

I wrote a blog about this a while ago. https://kevincox.ca/2022/04/07/passwords/

Thanks. I see you shared it two years ago on Lobsters and got a fair amount of comments. 👍

My personal tin foil hat theory is that they purposely made windows 11 trash so that people would support a subscription based Windows service with Windows 10.

I'm with you on that.

I’ve read through the Linux command line by William shotts,

That didn't ring a bell though on further inspection I've seen it before. Thanks.

https://linuxcommand.org/tlcl.php (Creative Commons licensed. PDF free download).

But to answer the question, I love shortcuts. I got into emacs and learned enough to use enough of the agenda features to have a lot of journal entries on it.

I guess this Emacs orgmode, right ? I read of lots of people being very happy with that.

I've not looked much further into this software but it looks like it would use rbw, a command line tool for Bitwarden, to work with rofi.

Thanks

C*ntOS 🤯

Looks pretty much opinionated. I like the colors and the whole of the image. I can agree with Gentoo Linux being very interesting, but not sure about CentOS. In that case I'd rather use Rocky or Alma, though for servers Debian fits my bill.

I like to tinker and learn how things work, and windows ME blue screened on my one time too many, so I picked up Linux in 1998.

Nice. So you're an old timer :)

Redhat box from compusa, if anyone remembers that place.

compusa does ring a bell. Suddenly reminds me of InfoMagic though. Here's a photo found with a search engine.

And that’s when my life changed; using the skills I taught myself i got well paying jobs as a sysadmin and then as software developer and now I’m an “infrastructure engineer” (I write terraform to manage cloud infrastructure and i do other sysadmin stuff ).

Awesome.

Oh and it seems KDE went back with the cube for Plasma 6! Alas it’s still masked in Gentoo and who knows when it would be ready, but it’s a bit great I’m not the only one for that cube nostalgia.

Nice. Learning some more Gentoo Linux is on my wish list, but every time I find the first step too intimidating. Now that they have binaries since (half a year or so ?) I expected an installation to be easier. Maybe I should try it with QEMU or VirtualBox. Hmmm, actually, are there any VPS providers that provide Gentoo as image ?

🙂 Well, you know I'd say you don't have to sacrifice your daily driver Linux install. I use more than one computer and SBC cause I like to tinker with Linux and BSD. In the country that I live in a reasonable (as in : I only need to browse the Internet and check email and Fediverse, no gaming or 3D rendering or pro photo editing and so on) refurbished laptop with touchscreen can be had for just 75 Euros. I'm thinking about getting another one so that I can omit some clonezilla restore/backup time.

Rofi is a window switcher, run dialog and dmenu replacement. Screenshots : https://screenshots.debian.net/package/rofi

So that means that with a keyboard shortcut a menu will pop up where you can either start typing and it will do suggestions for you, or you click on what is already available. It's nice for people who prefer to not do too many mouse clicking (think : RSI).

Running Debian now (desktop, laptop, and SBCs), but my heart belongs to Slackware.

Slackware! The good old days with Pat :^) (Yeah, that smiley is (c) Patrick Volkerding)

But since they offered to do the “installation and set-up process” with me, I relented. (The scare quotes are there because it was not an ordinary installation process: my friend basically exorcised the Manjaro out of my system.)

😃

I have a few distros I would like to try, off the top of my head: EndeavourOS, Fedora Silverblue, and NixOS.

I am not a NixOS user but I have tried it a few times and I find it really impressive for some features. Though I feel intimidated by having to learn about more features. But the thing I find impressive so far is how to switch DEs so incredibly easy after a basic NixOS install. For example in case you're currently running XFCE4 :

• Edit the one NixOS configuration file to define the DE you prefer on one line, say GNOME, and add some more packages you want.
• Run the build switch command.
• Reboot (or logout and restart the relevant Display Manager if needed)
• Enter GNOME
• Edit the one NixOS configuration file again, remove the GNOME line, and insert a line with KDE Plasma
• Run the build switch command.
• Reboot
• Enter KDE Plasma.

It's like magic! 🐧

I still intend to show this to a Linux friend one day just for fun and sharing. And with clonezilla or rescuezilla it should be pretty easy and fast to recover from backups, show it to the friend, and then put Arch Linux back from backups.