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Jarkko Sakkinen

Edited 1 year ago

Changing user account name in #Linux-based operating systems is not hard, but can at least be inconvenient dance to do for various reasons. Just to give an example, sometimes root account needs to be enabled for password login temporarily so that home directory name can be changed without issues.

It would be super nice if this could be done similarly as with TPM chips and machine over keys (aka MOK managed with mokutil). I.e. there would be a way to set out a request for username change for logged in local account and upon next reboot there would be a query for new account name, and this process would be taken care of renaming username, group and home directory.

User name and group name are trivial because they don’t really change any identifiers associated with the user but AFAIK usermod completely denies home directory name change for a logged in account.

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@tychotithonus I barely know how to use it to seal my OpenPGP but at least from the yubikey manager you can configure authorizations for short and long press of the device.
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@esko @Stoori @tuulap Ja esim. Tampereen yliopiston IT-ylläpito ei suostu lainkaan avaamaan minkäänlaista IMAP/SMTP-putkea. Ja tämä tietoturvan takia, vaikka nyt on todellinen riski et saastutan koko verkon vahingossa, kun en osaa tulkita HTML:ää oikein :-)
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@esko @Stoori @tuulap ennen mastodon-palvelinta sähköpostipalvelin yliopistoihin. en uskalla avata webmailissa oikein mitään meiliä, kun on vuosikymmenien tottumus plain text-emailiin.

Vaikka tietoturvan parissa olen paljon tehnyt töitä niin nimenomaan HTML-moskan seasta phishing-meilien kaivelu ei ole mun alaaa. Muttilla, ja nykyään aercilla, ei roskapostia voi olla tunnistamatta, ja ei sen avaaaminenkaan ole erityisen vaarallista...

Mä oon vanhan liiton sähköpostimies. Meilit quotaaan Jukka Korpelan oppien mukaan, ne on aina plain textiä ja ei top-postailua kiitos :-)
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Jarkko Sakkinen

Edited 1 year ago
another thing that still puzzles me in #yubikey: i do not get short and long press, other than that if someone else gets access to my key,it is game over :-)

perhaps i've misunderstood the feature but at least on surface it looks insecure by design...
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Jarkko Sakkinen

Edited 1 year ago
OK, so I've been wondering for a long time why my #yubikey's fails sometimes, and sometimes works: it goes to #USB-A both sides :-)

I switched year ago...
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We are now in the middle of "Oops"

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I bought to this only to save samples for archiving: https://decomposer.de/sitala/.

It is pretty good for the job and even has #linux version so workaround is not that bad. I have cross-platform distribution/archiving format from which I can quickly move to something else.

Also I think 16 pads is a good limit per archive. I recently curated all my sample folders and now I'm converting them to kits with 16 samples each that somehow fit together as a whole. Goal is to have all samples stored like this. Some have drums, some one shots, longer loops etc.
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Jarkko Sakkinen

it is funny how old school #tracker's got it right but modern drum #plugin's do not: preset should be self-contained with the samples packed to the preset file.

I like ToguAudioLine's Drum, and more recently Klevgrand OneShot, but both carry this gltich in their arhitecture. Sitala on the other hand does support zip package with the preset file and samples so I use that to archive curated samples and then move them to appropriate drum plugin for playback.... It is no that inconvenient but feels a bit counter-productive tbh.

Bitwig's Drum Kit does the right thing but it is unusable in other DAW"s.
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@ljs apparently it has this:

-o FILE
           Export all necessary information to FILE instead of opening the browser interface. If
           FILE is "-", the data is written to standard output.  See the examples section below
           for some handy use cases.

meaning that probably the maintainer does not get upset of submitting patches enabling e.g. JSON output json-c, I’d suppose…

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@ljs ace! yeah same feeling. i'm so used to seeing these type of "space lenses" as GUI applications that with my limited creativity could not imagine this. did not know that i needed this handy little tool desperately :-)
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@ljs no idea i literally spotted this few hours ago. even as just ncurses gui it is gold tho :-) have to get better acquainted with the project.
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@ljs this is also useful for kernel testing, CI stuff and alike. I wonder if it could publish the data in structured formats (json et al). have to check at some point.
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yeah, i've seen only similar ones with gui before so though that it is good make people aware :-)
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Jarkko Sakkinen

not a new tool but i just found it when looking for tool to solve the problem it solves, super useful: https://dev.yorhel.nl/ncdu #ncdu
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@zethtren I don't really know anything about where trends and hype is at either :-) I just see bunch of useful applications with emphasis on modernising legacy C software (thanks to robust FFI) and also anything where executable size is critical it seems to have its edge...
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@zethtren thanks for the remark! there's other things also that i like, e.g. fine grain control to memory policy. it allows to easily at least mitigate from memory allocation failures, which requires effort in Rust. and I like the way FFI works in zig. that said, not real experience with the language but i think it does deserve its existence :-) it would be interesting see how those ideas mature over time...
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Jarkko Sakkinen

this why i got #sitala, for archiving without issues of finding samples. #audio #musicproduction
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@codrusofathens i hope project endures, it has some great and original ideas
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