Notices tagged with libreplanet2019

Mike Gerwitz (mikegerwitz)'s status on Tuesday, 26-Mar-2019 01:21:51 UTC Mike Gerwitz

Both slide PDF and source code are now online for my #LibrePlanet2019 talk "Computational Symbiosis: Methods That Meld Mind and Machine":

https://mikegerwitz.com/talks#cs4m

This year, I tried to commit much more frequently than in past years (see Git history) to demonstrate how I use Org mode to track the progress of sections of my talk and outline the work I need to do. I'll write about it some time.

Tuesday, 26-Mar-2019 01:21:51 UTC from web permalink
Mike Gerwitz (mikegerwitz)'s status on Monday, 25-Mar-2019 16:44:48 UTC Mike Gerwitz

As an errata of sorts to my #LibrePlanet2019 talk---I think I said "GNU/Linux running on the proprietary Windows kernel", when Linux isn't involved---it's GNU/kWindows. Microsoft wrote a compatibility layer that translates Linux syscalls, so programs compiled _for_ GNU/Linux run atop of the Windows kernel. See https://mikegerwitz.com/2016/04/gnu-kwindows for more information.

I also forgot to mention for the 2FA password manager example that storing long-term secrets using asymmetric ciphers isn't a good idea; you should use symmetric keys for that. Fortunately, pass{words,phrases} (as I demonstrated in the talk) aren't long-term secrets---they're easily changed. But you can easily do _both_ asymmetric for 2FA with a smartcard and symmetric by adding another GPG invocation to the pipeline.

More to come (including repository of the source code for the slides, as well as notes) within the next day or so. Slides are at https://mikegerwitz.com/talks/cs4m.pdf. Thanks to all those who attended and watched online. Feedback/criticism welcome. I simplified my talk a lot in case the audience wasn't technical but I also didn't want to simplify it too much in case the audience was full of hackers. The intent was to just provide some exposure to the concepts for further research by attendees.

Monday, 25-Mar-2019 16:44:48 UTC from web permalink
Mike Gerwitz (mikegerwitz)'s status on Monday, 25-Mar-2019 04:05:50 UTC Mike Gerwitz

It was a pleasure meeting everyone again at #LibrePlanet2019. I hope to see you all again next year!

Monday, 25-Mar-2019 04:05:50 UTC from web permalink
Find us on Librem One (purism)'s status on Monday, 25-Mar-2019 00:51:30 UTC Find us on Librem One

hanging out with the team after #libreplanet2019 sending SMS on the Librem 5 devkit #devkitSunday #LibremLife

Monday, 25-Mar-2019 00:51:30 UTC from mastodon.social permalink
Mike Gerwitz (mikegerwitz)'s status on Saturday, 23-Mar-2019 11:50:55 UTC Mike Gerwitz

Since I'm on hotel Wifi, a reminder to travelers: consider using a VPN or Tor. I use the latter, both for my web browsing and for SSH to my home server, for privacy reasons.

It's not just about data collection on guests by the hotel or network operator---some networks, like my hotel, aren't even encrypted, so any non-encrypted traffic can be sniffed. There's a lot of metadata that can be sniffed even from encrypted connections, including domains that you're accessing, and traffic analysis can get a pretty good idea of what it is you're looking at depending on the sites you're visiting. So any guest or anyone else within range (or any users of long-range antennas, even) could sniff data from guest connections.

Be safe!

#LibrePlanet2019 #privacy

Saturday, 23-Mar-2019 11:50:55 UTC from web permalink
Mike Gerwitz (mikegerwitz)'s status on Friday, 22-Feb-2019 04:02:23 UTC Mike Gerwitz

Finally received word: #LibrePlanet2019 will once again be held in the Stata Center at MIT in Boston, MA.

I'm excited to see everyone there, and I'll be speaking. Who here on the fediverse is attending?

Friday, 22-Feb-2019 04:02:23 UTC from web permalink
Mike Gerwitz (mikegerwitz)'s status on Friday, 15-Feb-2019 05:59:35 UTC Mike Gerwitz

I will be speaking this year at #LibrePlanet2019:

https://mikegerwitz.com/2019/02/i-will-be-speaking-at-lp2019

More details to follow in coming weeks.

Friday, 15-Feb-2019 05:59:35 UTC from web permalink
Mike Gerwitz (mikegerwitz)'s status on Saturday, 06-Oct-2018 03:38:15 UTC Mike Gerwitz

A reminder to submit your session proposals for #LibrePlanet2019:

https://libreplanet.org/2019/

I still haven't submitted mine yet. Remember that the FSF welcomes anyone to speak, even if you haven't done so before!

Saturday, 06-Oct-2018 03:38:15 UTC from web permalink
Mike Gerwitz (mikegerwitz)'s status on Friday, 07-Sep-2018 03:27:26 UTC Mike Gerwitz

#LibrePlanet2019 will be March 23-24 in the Greater Boston Area in MA:

https://libreplanet.org/2019/

This is the one event that I must make it to each year, and I encourage everyone to attend and see the faces of many that are at the heart of the free software community.

Consider submitting a session! Or, if you can't make it but plan on watching online, maybe help someone else attend by contributing to the travel fund. The call for sessions ends October 26th.

I'll be attending again this year, and I plan on submitting a session proposal. I won't have the time to do my 100+hr research talks like the past couple years, so maybe I'll fall back on something more technical that I won't have to research.

It's still a ways off, but if you do plan on attending, do let me know so I can say hello!

Friday, 07-Sep-2018 03:27:26 UTC from web permalink

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