Today was day 1 of the linux.conf.au conference in Geelong. The first two days are organized as "MiniConfs", where rooms have a general topic and presentations are scheduled by the MiniConf organizer instead of the LCA programme committee. In the morning I primarily attended the documentation/technical writing MiniConf. I was…
Getting ready for LCA2016 :D
Running a tor relay! https://metrics.torproject.org/rs.html#details/7B190463E733CC292AA4010D194D1798CD8EB9A0
Thank you Robert Kaye (@MayhemBCN) and MusicBrainz for the new laptop stickers:D
I upgraded to Fedora 23 last night, and it went pretty smoothly. I started with sudo dnf system-upgrade download --releasever=23, which started with a fun dowload of 2.5G of package upgrades (still better than Xcode!). I ran into the documented upgrade issue with the vagrant package, but the workaround of…
Today I spent two hours setting up an SSL certificate with Lets Encrypt for the wikiconferenceusa.org website. It. Was. Easy. It was relatively straightforward, and I felt comfortable with all the steps I went through. First, I cloned the git repository, and ran the letsencrypt-auto script, which installed the necessary…
At Internet Archive!
As part of using only free software, I also started thinking about the various non-free services I am dependent upon. One of those I had already started working on replacing was Github. Github is currently the canonical source location for a lot of my various projects, including some that aren't…
Wow, two blog posts in one day. Okay, I was close and just didn't finish in time. As the title alludes, I became an FSF member today yesterday. Aaand then I proceeded to buy their Super Sticker Mega Multi Pack. ^.^ I thought this would also be a good time…
This past weekend I volunteered at the 2015 CalGames tournament, which played the 2015 FIRST Robotics Competition game, Recycle Rush. This year CalGames had a few new things going on, and one of them was using a new field management system (FMS), called Cheesy Arena. Cheesy Arena was written by…
Only took 9 hours 46 minutes.
I recently got a new ThinkPad T440S through work, and decided to install Fedora on it. This was a few weeks ago, so I started out with Fedora 20 (now running F21). Overall, it's perfect. There are a few issues so far, but all of those seem to be hardware…
I've recently switched from using ZNC+Textual over to Quassel. It has the same idea as a bouncer, with a "core" that runs on your server, and a "client" that you run locally. I've been using ZNC for over 2 years now, so this was a pretty big switch for me.…