September 2016 - Talk - lists.gtalug.org

OT - the heuristics of privacy
by Russell Reiter 09 Oct '16

09 Oct '16

Interesting tech news about Stingray surveillance. I wonder if there is some way to detect that an intruder has captured your signal. You can test for capture and cause them to power down by having someone near you call 911. Apparently authorities have to let EMS calls access the real network. I think black hats.... umm not so much. http://www.cbc.ca/beta/news/technology/government-surveillance-rules-rcmp-c… Russell Sent from mobile.

3 2

GTALUG Election Officer
by Myles Braithwaite 03 Oct '16

03 Oct '16

GTALUG is looking for an Election Officer to oversee the GTALUG Board Election on 11 October 2016 at 7:30 p.m.. We need someone who will: * Run the GTALUG candidate nomination process. * Announce the candidates for the GTALUG board. * Give out ballots to GTALUG members. * Count the votes. This person cannot be on the board, an executive of the GTALUG organisation, or running for a board seat. If interested, contact me off list at <me(a)mylesbraithwaite.com>.

1 1

curious... Linux vs BSD ?
by William Park 01 Oct '16

01 Oct '16

Just curious about state of Linux vs BSD... I use Linux, but examining my use case carefully, I don't really "use" Linux. I use applications and tools found in Linux distro. These applications and tools can also be found in BSD distro. To those who knows/uses both BSD and Linux... Should I learn BSD, and which one? -- William

12 13

LPI beta testing news exams in Toronto
by Evan Leibovitch 30 Sep '16

30 Sep '16

[apologies if this was double-posted -- I has originally sent this from a non-subscribed address ] Hi all, The (GTA-based) Linux Professional Institute is doing beta testing on new exams for its second-level two certification. Testing is going on in Toronto, and participants (who can pass the exams) may achieve their LPIC-2 certification free of charge. If interested, please go to this link <https://lpi.org/lpic-2-beta-signup/> for more information. Meta-discussion on the value of certification is beyond the point of this announcement. FWIW, since I helped co-found it LPI, in part based on discussions held in this very mailing list, it has delivered nearly 500,000 exams worldwide and helped a lot of people get jobs. -- Evan Leibovitch Geneva, CH Em: evan at telly dot org Sk: evanleibovitch Tw: el56

1 0

Re: [GTALUG] OT - the heuristics of privacy
by Russell Reiter 30 Sep '16

30 Sep '16

Belated thanks for the link. I had thought after the Snowden video which showed how to disable the mic on a common cell phone, there might be some hope for project Ara. Alas not, it's been cancelled. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Ara. Russell Sent from mobile. On Sep 22, 2016 12:27 PM, "Bob Jonkman via talk" <talk(a)gtalug.org> wrote: -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Yes, there's an app in F-Droid that claims to detect such attacks. I haven't used it. https://f-droid.org/repository/browse/?fdfilter=stingray&fdid=com.SecUpwN. AIMSICD - --Bob. On 2016-09-22 11:47 AM, Russell Reiter via talk wrote: > Interesting tech news about Stingray surveillance. I wonder if > there is some way to detect that an intruder has captured your > signal. You can test for capture and cause them to power down by > having someone near you call 911. Apparently authorities have to > let EMS calls access the real network. I think black hats.... umm > not so much. > > http://www.cbc.ca/beta/news/technology/government- surveillance-rules-rcmp-csis-1.3769014 > > Russell Sent from mobile. > > > > --- Talk Mailing List talk(a)gtalug.org > https://gtalug.org/mailman/listinfo/talk > - -- - -- Bob Jonkman <bjonkman(a)sobac.com> Phone: +1-519-635-9413 SOBAC Microcomputer Services http://sobac.com/sobac/ Software --- Office & Business Automation --- Consulting GnuPG Fngrprnt:04F7 742B 8F54 C40A E115 26C2 B912 89B0 D2CC E5EA -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2 Comment: Ensure confidentiality, authenticity, non-repudiability iEYEARECAAYFAlfkBmcACgkQuRKJsNLM5ere1QCgjFBKsYya3zyJjX00UcZkKoKI YFcAoOQI0dgyfiVdtI55oXI9G2kGxD5C =KDIG -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --- Talk Mailing List talk(a)gtalug.org https://gtalug.org/mailman/listinfo/talk

2 1

LPI is beta-testing new exams
by Evan Leibovitch 29 Sep '16

29 Sep '16

Hi all, The (GTA-based) Linux Professional Institute is doing beta testing on new exams for its level two certification. Testing is going on in Toronto, and participants (who can pass the exams) may achieve their LPIC-2 certification free of charge. If interested, please go to this link for more information: https://lpi.org/lpic-2-beta-signup/ - Evan

1 0

GTALUG Board Elections
by Myles Braithwaite 29 Sep '16

29 Sep '16

GTALUG's Annual General Meeting is coming up on 11 October 2016 which means we will be hainvg an election for board members. To vote you will need to be a member of the GTALUG Organisation which costs $20 for the year (this helps cover the cost of running the server for the mailing list and website). This year there are three openings on the board. If you are interested in helping GTALUG become even more awesome then you should definitly run. Just show up to the Annual Genreal Meeting (on 11 October 2016 at 7:30 p.m.), nominate yourself, and ask for someone to second your nomination. The requirments for being a board memeber are: * You have to be at least eighteen years old. * You have to be a member of GTALUG (or become one within ten days of getting elected). * The abliity to somewhat regularly attend GTALUG board meetings (this year were held on the forth Monday of the month at HackLab.TO (1266 Queen St. West)). See GTALUG Bylaw Number 1, Directors for more info: <https://git.io/vPTue>.

1 0

[GTALUG-Announce] Meeting on 11 October at 7:30pm
by hi＠gtalug.org 29 Sep '16

29 Sep '16

<http://gtalug.org/meeting/2016-10/> ### Annual General Meeting (7:30 p.m.) * GTALUG Update - 5 minutes * Treasury Update - 5 minutes * Board Elections - 15 minutes ### Ansible (8:00 p.m.) Ansible allows you to turn your infrastructure administration into a codebase. Descripting all the processes that are necessary for deploying a server with a set of provisioning scrips that can be stored in version control. Myles Braithwaite will be giving an overview of deploy and configure your infrastructure with Ansible. Alex Volkov wil be going over running Vagrant as test environment, setting free as in speech LXC and KVM hypervisors with Vagrant, notes on getting from bare hardware running with Debian automated install, and a few wrong Ansible commands. ## Location George Vari Engineering and Computing Centre 245 Church Street, Room 203 Ryerson University <http://goo.gl/maps/16oJ2> <http://www.openstreetmap.org/way/23447525> ## Schedule * 6:00 pm - Please discuss on the general mailing list (i.e. <talk(a)gtalug.org>) where you want to go for dinner. * 7:30 pm - Meeting and presentation. * 9:00 pm - After each meeting, a group of GTALUGers move to The Imperial Pub (54 Dundas St East) for refreshments and more socialising. # Code of Conduct We want a productive happy community that can welcome new ideas, improve every process every year, and foster collaboration between individuals with differing needs, interests and skills. We gain strength from diversity, and actively seek participation from those who enhance it. This code of conduct exists to ensure that diverse groups collaborate to mutual advantage and enjoyment. We will challenge prejudice that could jeopardise the participation of any person in the community. The Code of Conduct governs how we behave in public or in private whenever the Linux community will be judged by our actions. We expect it to be honoured by everyone who represents the community officially or informally, claims affiliation or participates directly. It applies to activities online or offline. We invite anybody to participate. Our community is open. Please read more about the GTALUG Code of Conduct here: <http://gtalug.org/about/code-of-conduct/>. If you have any questions, comments, or concerns about the GTALUG Code of Conduct please contact the GTALUG Board @ <board(a)gtalug.org>. --- GTALUG Announce mailing list announce(a)gtalug.org https://gtalug.org/mailman/listinfo/announce

1 0

FSOSS 2016 registration is now open
by Stewart C. Russell 29 Sep '16

29 Sep '16

As Scott mentioned at Tuesday's meeting: What ==== The 16th Free Software and Open Source Symposium http://cdot.fsoss.ca/ Where ===== Seneca@York Campus 70 The Pond Rd, North York, ON M3J 3M6 http://www.openstreetmap.org/?mlat=43.77151&mlon=-79.50007#map=18/43.77151/… geo:43.772,-79.5 When ===== 2016-10-27 – 2016-10-28 (Last Thursday & Friday in October) How much ======== $75 early bird until beginning of October How === http://fsoss2016.strikingly.com/#register-for-fsoss (or go through the main http://cdot.fsoss.ca/ link) Why === I enjoyed this a lot the last time I went. Price seems to have gone up a bit, but it goes up a *lot* if you miss the early bird. Easy to get to by transit, kinda expensive to park. ISTR a somewhat stodgy pizza lunch is thrown in, but the campus is about a 10 minute stroll to Bamiyan Kabob, a truly epic Afghani restaurant. cheers, Stewart (oh, and in same location *tonight* is the Raspberry Pi meetup: https://www.meetup.com/Raspberry-Pi/events/229466291/ )

2 1

Interesting article on a new grep written in Rust
by Christopher Browne 27 Sep '16

27 Sep '16

http://blog.burntsushi.net/ripgrep/ This takes me well back in time; we had a talk back in 2006 ( https://github.com/gtalug/legacy-wiki-extract/blob/master/legacy-pages-proc… ) talking about the state of the art at that time. The issues that were discussed at that point tended to be about whether you'd want your "grep" to expand regular expressions or leave them dynamic. The state of things have certainly changed since then. I have often tended to use, for repository-oriented searches, ack-grep (a recursive grep implemented in Perl), and was aware of The Silver Searcher; I'm giving ripgrep a good try as alternative based on how interesting the blog entry was. The new state of affairs are that we still have "Ol reliable," but there are a pretty substantial set of newer options. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- what tools are we benchmarking? ripgrep (rg) (v0.1.2) - You’ve heard enough about this one already. GNU grep (v2.25) - Ol’ reliable. git grep (v2.7.4) - Like grep, but built into git. Only works well in git repositories. The Silver Searcher (ag) (commit cda635, using PCRE 8.38) - Like ack, but written in C and much faster. Reads your .gitignore files just like ripgrep. Universal Code Grep (ucg) (commit 487bfb, using PCRE 10.21 with the JIT enabled) - Also like ack but written in C++, and only searches files from a whitelist, and doesn’t support reading .gitignore. The Platinum Searcher (pt) (commit 509368) - Written in Go and does support .gitignore files. sift (commit 2d175c) - Written in Go and supports .gitignore files with an optional flag, but generally prefers searching everything (unlike every other tool in this list except for grep). ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- FYI, the Rust language project was founded by Graydon Hoare, who used to be in Toronto, once upon a time... -- When confronted by a difficult problem, solve it by reducing it to the question, "How would the Lone Ranger handle this?"

1 0