I’ve updated my old notes on managing a certificate authority and turned my current usage into a GitLab project. If you are looking at using TLS certificates on a private network, this is a good starting point to learn more about the process and best practices.
Take Care by Michael D. Higgins
The President of Ireland is a poet of some acclaim. He published this today on the official Facebook page of his office. Pretty sure this is a first for me, linking to Facebook, but I thought it was worth sharing under the current circumstances.
Patriarch of Pandemics
I just read this article on Demystifying Science about the 1918 influenza pandemic. It’s an interesting perspective given the current situation with COVID-19.
Redemption Song
I’d heard that Redemption Song had a relationship to an idea expressed by Marcus Garvey. But I didn’t know that the speech in question was apparently given in Nova Scotia.
Another interesting link between Jamaica and Canada.
Happy 2020!
Here’s wishing everybody the best year possible in 2020!
Fonts
I uploaded a small package of my preferred monospaced console fonts here.
Migration to Debian 10 complete
The servers that host this website have been successfully migrated from Debian 9 to a fresh installation of Debian 10. As part of this migration quay.net now resolves to 99.79.1.85 and is no longer available on the old server, hal9000.
This upgrade means that the website now supports TLSv1.3 and a number of other improvements. If you come across any missing content or bugs, please let me know.
Using ssh-agent on WSL: Take Two
I’ve updated my instructions for using ssh-agent with Windows Subsystem for Linux, as originally described in this post. From here on, I’ll be maintaining this on GitLab and any changes or improvements can be found there.
Disable terminal bell in WSL
Windows Subsystem for Linux is pretty nifty, but Windows has a very rudimentary terminal interface compared to most modern Unix implementations; though I do have high hopes for the new Windows Terminal project. One particularly annoying issue is that there is no way to directly disable sound, this can be a particularly annoying issue when using tab completion or backspace.
The easiest solution to this lack of functionality is to disable the bell in the Linux shell by modifying the readline(3) configuration in /etc/inputrc or ~/.inputrc.
# do not bell on tab-completion set bell-style none
Linus Torvalds on GPLv2 vs. GPLv3
I just came across this Q&A session with Linus Torvalds regarding the GPL, I was aware of his opinion, but I’ve never heard him talk about it in detail.