April 2020 - Talk - lists.gtalug.org

Oculus Quest now available
by Evan Leibovitch 12 Apr '20

12 Apr '20

Hi all. For those of you experimenting with Virtual Reality: The $550 Oculus Quest, best VR headset that doesn't require tethering to a PC, has been nearly impossible to get (at regular price) since September. It's now for sale at both Amazon and Best Buy. Delivery only -- no in-store pickup because the stores are closed. Best Buy can ship faster right now but its just being available for purchase on either site is not very common. -- Evan Leibovitch, Toronto Canada @evanleibovitch or @el56

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Google GCP
by Ansar Mohammed 12 Apr '20

12 Apr '20

It’s not as mature as AWS or Azure, but you can get a free (no time restriction) Linux VM in GCP. You need a credit card to sign up, but there is no charge on the card if you don’t use anything else.

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LonTV on Jitsi (and Zoom)
by D. Hugh Redelmeier 08 Apr '20

08 Apr '20

LonTV is a YouTube channel. I often find he talks about things I'm interested in. He doesn't focus on Linux but he does install it to test systems once in a while. In the 2020 April 6 episode he talks about Jitsi and then about Zoom security issues. <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gRaTFDMk67g> This reflect's Lon's change of thinking since this 2020 March 30 episode. <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MqWamqiaF00> If you are going to watch both, I suppose that it would be best watching them in cronological order. (I'm only now watching the earlier one.) I had not bothered to read up on Jitsi (or Zoom). I learned from Lon that a hosted Jitsi is available with no charge. Of course that might have security problems. Hosting Jitsi on one's own system would reduce those concerns (but not eliminate them).

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Losing Whoozin
by John Moniz 07 Apr '20

07 Apr '20

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[GTALUG-Announce] Meeting on Tuesday, April 14 at 07:30 PM
by hi＠gtalug.org 06 Apr '20

06 Apr '20

<https://gtalug.org/meeting/2020-04/> # Round Table Q&A A Round Table Q&A Session is where we take questions from the audience, and the audience discusses and attempts to answer those questions from their own knowledge. It's a great way to meet fellow members of our community and discover the skill sets we each bring to the table. There will be no video recording during the session. Due to global pandemic we are going to hold this session virtually in zoom. Zoom meeting URL: https://zoom.us/j/555304054?pwd=eWdoNlBWUGtXMXZrN1RmZ2tCTEE2UT09 Meeting ID: 555 304 054 Password: 077170 One tap mobile: +16473744685,,555304054 +15873281099,,555304054 Dial by your location(Canada): * +1-647-374-4685 * +1-647-558-0588 * +1-587-328-1099 * +1-778-907-2071 * +1-438-809-7799 Find your local number: https://zoom.us/u/acqLA3Cd7V ## Location Zoom meeting ## Schedule * 7:30 pm - Meeting and presentation. # 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: <https://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

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Planning April Meeting
by Alex Volkov 06 Apr '20

06 Apr '20

Hello Everyone, We're thinking of doing April meeting online, we're thinking of having a Q&A. Which of the teleconference software do you find the most comfortable to work with? * Zoom * Hangouts * Jitsi * Something completely different * Let's just skip a meeting Please reply to this email so we can gauge the interest in the next meeting. Thank you, Alex.

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Pingdom's odd security choices
by Giles Orr 03 Apr '20

03 Apr '20

We use Pingdom at work, and have been very happy with it. They provide a simple service, but they do it pretty well and generate good statistics and graphs in the process. But today I had an extraordinary experience: I switched two back-end Nginx servers to TLS 1.3 only (the public accesses HAProxy servers that front these servers still provide TLS 1.1, 1.2, and 1.3). And the instant I did, Pingdom declared both of them down. They were demonstrably up. So I emailed Pingdom, and got this rather astonishing response: "Thanks for contacting us!" "I'm afraid that at the moment we don't support TLS 1.3" "I will however tag this up as a feature request for future development, although I can not give an ETA on when it'll become available. We do also have a public forum available here where feature requests can be submitted for product management to read!" As I replied back to them, TLS 1.3 is available in all the major browsers AND all the major web servers. Don't make me choose between security and my alerting system ... I'm not really looking for replies here (although I'd be interested if anyone does). I was just so gobsmacked by this I wanted to share - and warn people that Pingdom may not be keeping up with the times. -- Giles https://www.gilesorr.com/ gilesorr(a)gmail.com

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