It’s raining today where I live, and I was reminded of a certain Luke Smith video. In the video, Smith uses mpv + dmenu to create a keybinding to view doppler radar.
It’s a little dated as the links for the radar stations have changed, and it’s not using the text editor of the future, Emacs! So I decided as a challenge to set this up in emacs.
Read more...Libreboot has support for truly Full Disk Encryption
To understand why this is cool, lets look at a typical GRUB setup.
TRADITIONAL BIOS BOOT
BIOS
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/dev/sda (GRUB)
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-->/dev/sda1 /boot (Grub finds this)
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-->/dev/sda2 / [LUKS ENCRYPTED]
Lets look at a Libreboot GRUB boot process for Full Disk Encryption.
Read more...I have an annoying problem, a number of evil devices (specifically a smart TV) keep banging around my network, attempting to connect to Port 35 for no reason. Likely sending data to nefarious groups.
At first, I tried using “guest wifi” to deal with this problem. It didn’t work, and my router only has two ethernet ports. “VLANS” aren’t really going to work when all I have is a dumb switch, and I don’t think they would have helped me anyways. So what am I do to do?
Read more...I am setting up OpenBSD on my edgerouter lite when I ran into an issue
Ted U’s guide: https://flak.tedunangst.com/post/OpenBSD-on-ERL
and
This guide: https://www.codeghar.com/blog/openbsd-network-gateway-on-edgerouter-lite.html
Both say to use this command to boot OpenBSD from u-boot
# setenv bootcmd 'fatload usb 0 $loadaddr bsd; bootoctlinux rootdev=/dev/sd0'
Unfortunately this failed, with something like “unable to read bsd”
Using this command which I got from this guide: https://wiki.analog.com/resources/tools-software/linuxdsp/docs/das-u-boot/loading_file_from_usb_storage_in_uboot
# fatls usb 0:1
Unfortunately for me, I’m stuck using Matrix to communicate to people. The client I use to do this is iamb on a remote machine. On emacs, I’m able to get notifications for IRC messages with dbus and dunst. I wanted to get the same for notifications from my friends with iamb.
It’s entirely possible, I used this blog post: https://nikhilism.com/post/2023/remote-dbus-notifications/ to figure out how.
The blog explains how to setup your ssh config to forward your dbus socket.
Read more...I recently purchased a Kobo Clara BW in a bid to hopefully start reading books more. While I don’t necessarily have a preference for paper vs ebook, (I don’t really read books), I thought it would be a good purchase. I also have a seemingly bricked Kobo Clara HD that I was planning to install PostmarketOS on, but thats a different project for another time.
Read more...Hi, my name is cqst and this is my first blog test. This post is mainly to test out the blogging functionality of my site, but perhaps there is some useless information here. Read on!
I don’t really know how I would classify myself. I’m not a software engineer, programmer, cybersecurity professional, or anything like that. I am a college drop out, who, for better or for worse, has spent the last 2-3 years researching and using Linux, GNU/Linux, OpenBSD, etc. I will mostly be writing about those topics but I hope to talk about non-technical topics on my blog as well, the world needs more shouting into the void.
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