BELUG meeting Tuesday, November 12th, 2024 at 6:30pm

[Steve Herber]

BELUG: Supporting Linux and open source for 20 years.

The next BELUG meeting is Tuesday, November 12th at 6:30pm.

The Zoom link, with password, is:

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/131116407?pwd=OFkwZzZWMVhDdlhMTU91K2lOVkQvZz09

Meeting ID: 131 116 407
Passcode: 117647

The in-person location is at the North Bellevue Community Center:

North Bellevue Community Center
4063 148th Ave NE
Bellevue, WA. 98007

Please come early, if you can, to help set up the room.

The meeting will follow our normal format with introductions all around,
collecting technical questions to answer later, then any presentations,
and finishing with our best answers to the technical questions.

Last month we touched on these topcs:

Randy discussed using an OBD2 reader for his car. An example is this
device:

https://www.amazon.com/Scanner-Adapter-FORScann-Elmconfigg-Diagnostic/dp/B0C13M3W78/

We spent a bit of time talking about editing the command line, both
emacs mode, the default, and vi mode, and the software, readline, that
does it all:

https://www.gnu.org/software/bash/manual/html_node/Command-Line-Editing.html
https://tiswww.case.edu/php/chet/readline/rltop.html

MJ mentioned using templates in libreoffice, one of the most powerful
features:

https://www.libreoffice.org/discover/templates-and-extensions/
https://www.libreofficetemplates.net/

I gave a presentation on hosting the RSS feed reader, CommaFeed, on my
proxmox server, using the tteck community edition script for the install:

https://www.commafeed.com/#/welcome
https://www.proxmox.com/en/
https://community-scripts.github.io/ProxmoxVE/scripts

I was sorry to hear that the person behind tteck was very ill. The new
community edition has been formed to continue the work.

Please reach out in you are interested in helping this group. We have
plans to update the web site by moving to a markdown format and to add
pages with some of these announcement emails.

We cover a wide range of topics and I hope you can attend our next meeting.

Thank you,
Steve Herber her...@herber.us cell: 425-281-0355
Software Engineer, UW Medicine, IT Services

[Steve Herber]

BELUG: Supporting Linux and open source for 20 years.

The next BELUG meeting is Tuesday, December 10th at 6:30pm.

The Zoom link, with password, is:

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/131116407?pwd=OFkwZzZWMVhDdlhMTU91K2lOVkQvZz09

Meeting ID: 131 116 407
Passcode: 117647

The in-person location is at the North Bellevue Community Center:

North Bellevue Community Center
4063 148th Ave NE
Bellevue, WA. 98007

Please come early, if you can, to help set up the room.

The meeting will follow our normal format with introductions all around,
collecting technical questions to answer later, then any presentations,

and finishing with our best answers to your technical questions.

Last month we touched on these topics:

We discussed backups and urbackup, rsnapshot were mentioned:

https://www.urbackup.org/index.html
https://rsnapshot.org/

Ethan mentioned a SeaGL session on the linux based postmarketos for cell phones:

https://postmarketos.org/

The Firefox extension, ublock-origin, was discussed and recommended:

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/ublock-origin/

Ethan was also working on the wireguard VPN with some success:

https://www.wireguard.com/

Other topics under discussion were using a VPS to host a game server
and adding a file browser into a docker container and a bit about
kuberenetes:

https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-1-e&q=linux+friendly+vps+hosts
https://kubernetes.io/

We discussed the latest release of NixOS, void linux, gentoo, arch,
and damn small linux:

https://nixos.org/
https://voidlinux.org/
https://www.gentoo.org/
https://archlinux.org/
https://www.damnsmalllinux.org/