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Replying to @tmw@ioc.exchange
i attempted but it didn't happen. today the attempts continue
gpg: agent_genkey failed: No pinentry
Key generation failed: No pinentry
oh god not again
try imagining things sometimes. just imagine them yourself; don't let a computer or somebody else imagine them for you.
today's exercise: bob ross reads software documentation. take your time. be sure you're still absorbing information. bob ross will be patient with you
Replying to @jcrabapple@dmv.community
@jcrabapple@dmv.community 2023 hacking? 19-year-old cyber criminal?
i'm not a math genius, but it sounds like this person was a child at the time.
microsoft, spying on children and tracking them around the internet? creepy!
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re: guixing out Hover or focus to reveal Sensitive
this is very useful: https://codeberg.org/hako/emacs-guix-starter/src/commit/3b154d3ec165e0988ff2d5d40d4134d84f8c2e67/init.el#L49-L55
seems that those lines load the necessary dependencies!
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re: guixing out Hover or focus to reveal Sensitive
ah, emacs-guix is a thing
Replying to @csolisr@hub.azkware.net
@csolisr from what i can see, it only shows as Lake Ontario outside of the US. no both-sides nonsense currently being displayed to the rest of the world. so that's different from the Gulf of Mexico
Replying to @cwebber@social.coop
@cwebber@social.coop too shy to join, but i am "hacking" my way through The Little Schemer right now. hope everyone has fun!
Replying to @tmw@ioc.exchange
something i came across looking into distributions to replace debian is the stance that qubes takes on secure boot:
"UEFI Secure Boot is not supported out of the box as UEFI support in Xen is very basic. Arguably secure boot reliance on UEFI integrity is not the best design. [...] See the [Heads project] for a better-designed non-UEFI-based secure boot scheme with very good support for Qubes."
https://doc.qubes-os.org/en/latest/introduction/faq.html#is-secure-boot-supported
alas, i don't think my framework amd laptop (their first-gen amd) supports open firmware...
#debian #secureboot #qubes
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guixing out Hover or focus to reveal Sensitive
seems that the search results that mentioned guix repl were onto something:
Compared to just launching the guile command, guix repl guarantees that all the Guix modules and all its dependencies are available in the search path.
- so says the guix manual.
,use (gnu home) has no errors in guix repl. someone had suggested making a script that launches guix repl and having that be the geiser binary. i tried it, maybe too hurriedly, and there were errors... but in realizing this, guess i'll try it again.
Replying to @tmw@ioc.exchange
is this maybe not something people do?
do people just use the manual as a reference?
Replying to @tmw@ioc.exchange
i do have pinentry, i have various pinentry variants installed and pinentry is in the path. but idk what to do to make this not happen.
i'm trying this as root so that the system can decrypt the encrypted parts of its configuration: gpg --generate-key
and that's when i run into the dreaded pinentry issue
Replying to @tmw@ioc.exchange
i don't really need a gpg passphrase (in this specific instance) since i need the system to be able to read its own secrets in an unattended manner.
finally found this solution to avoid pinentry entirely:
gpg --pinentry-mode=loopback --passphrase "" --gen-key
Replying to @tmw@ioc.exchange
aha... debug options helped.
can't exec `/root/.guix-profile/bin/pinentry': No such file or directory
so even though pinentry is in PATH, it's trying to find it somewhere else. neat
Replying to @tmw@ioc.exchange
since web search is basically poison, i'll have to make the ultimate sacrifice: checking the documentation
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pinentry and i have forgiven each other
it's been a wild ride, but now you could even say we're friends
Replying to @tmw@ioc.exchange
re: pinentry hates me and the feeling is mutual, but maybe less than i thought Hover or focus to reveal Sensitive
oh: DISPLAY= emacs -nw and then the prompt shows up at the terminal. okay... that's not hard, once you know it
Replying to @tmw@ioc.exchange
pinentry hates me and the feeling is mutual, but maybe less than i thought Hover or focus to reveal Sensitive
so the plain pinentry packages actually works fine - at least, as long as i am physically at the computer:
(service home-gpg-agent-service-type
(home-gpg-agent-configuration
(pinentry-program
(file-append pinentry "/bin/pinentry"))
(ssh-support? #f)))
it even works from a vty.
now i wonder how i can coerce it into letting me enter a password from a tmux session started at the computer, instead of showing its prompt on the computer itself.
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exaggerating Hover or focus to reveal Sensitive
i'm calling it now: pinentry is ableist software design
Replying to @tmw@ioc.exchange
when you have a brain that doesn't work very well, this kind of crap eats up so much time.
and the pinentry info pages basically act like there's no good option for a frontend, and that the emacs option is possibly the worst one.
maybe if there's no good frontend, it's not a good design?
happy loud-and-obnoxious-as-hell day
oh yeah? well, *my* autocorrect broke containment, too!
be prepared for a flurry of em dashes the likes of which you've never seen
pop the bubble spongebob
rest in peace, monochrome fonts
we hardly knew you, un-antialiased glyphs
you'll always be in heart
user@computer ~$ clear
bash: clear: command not found
user@computer ~$ reset
bash: reset: command not found
user@computer ~$
this is fine
update: ahhh, i have learned that Ctrl+L is a thing!
Replying to @stib@aus.social
@stib@aus.social oof! and it's foss? sounds like you did everything right. i am so sorry
Replying to @gblues@bolha.us
@gblues@bolha.us @chadmccullough@mastodon.bsd.cafe @eff@mastodon.social EFF has been glazing AI for several months or more. it's pretty noticeable in their live streams, with such paraphrased hits as "i used it to figure out more about the mp3 codec as a side note for a presentation for some reason, without having to read about it! it's incredible!" and "love it or hate it, it's undeniably useful and everyone is using it! we just need to regulate it." they are definitely inevitability-heads on this and *love* to vaguely reference its importance and power
Replying to @ashwin@defcon.social
@ashwin@defcon.social yes AI is absolutely a problem. there can be multiple problems.
https://codeberg.org/ethical-foss/open-slopware/src/branch/main/why_not_llms.md
Replying to @user47@m.ai6yr.org
@user47@m.ai6yr.org the ability to figure things out via web search has been seriously degraded over the past, idk, decade or more. so it's understandable.
you used to be able to search for a question and find people asking the question alongside an answer (eventually). i think that's still sometimes the case, but much less often*. it's no wonder the slop machines have taken off. and they didn't cause the problem but they made it a lot worse
- honestly, this might be because i started using duckduckgo (i.e. bing with a duck pasted on top), but nowadays they're all worse at their core functions imo due to the sloppification of the internet which - again - predates llms. and i may also be searching for things that are more obscure, as my desire to have Nice Things pushes me further to the fringes
Replying to @jrm4@mastodon.social
@jrm4@mastodon.social is somebody saying we can't keep the good ideas?
Replying to @cwebber@social.coop
@cwebber@social.coop do people usually join with video/audio on? like, would it be outside the norm or uncomfortable for others if someone joined in text only?