Notices by Brendan Conoboy (bconoboy@mastodon.social)

A quick #forgejo timeline at #flocktofedora

@adamw Oh crap, I ruined the joke. Hrm. Uh. You might be a home network admin if: you have 2 dozen vlans, a pair of redundant 48 port switches, and only 3 ethernet ports in use. Yeah, that's the ticket!

@adamw Everybody's junk drawer needs a USB-to-Ethernet dongle 🙂

@adamw needs a Fedora boot logo ;-)

@BrianJopek Great tax write-off, fewer unwanted vehicles on the street, and of course good marketing.

@rgulick Never had a ranger, but those from the early 2000s look about right. 6' was considered a shortbed! I'm looking for the compact pickup form factor, while the industry is trying to make the biggest most imposing vehicle it can. Good mileage and the ability to move the kinds of things that DIY homeowners move (appliances, lumber, furniture) is what I'm looking for, and I suspect I'm not alone. Small is better, but not at the expense of a bed, that's what makes it a truck.

@rgulick Certainly true of a PHEV, maybe as an EV. I basically want my gen 1 toyota tacoma (6' bed, 2 doors, no back seats), only with batteries. I'd even buy a Ford Maverick if they'd get rid of the back seats and extend the bed.

@jzb It's a recent change, just since October - Most of the people who work full time in the community Linux space report through me, particularly those who focus on the platform as a whole (as opposed to individual technologies).

More than a decade ago we went on a similar journey with ARM: bootstrap the OS, port adjacent packages for the distribution, and of course play with an endless succession of cool development boards with many blinking lights. This lead to an enterprise OS built for enterprise equipment. It took many years, but it was an incredible, engrossing project. Now we're doing it again. Anybody can work on RISC-V in the Fedora community, but with this role you can have it be a part of your career, too.

A couple #opensource linkedin reposts (2/2):

At Red Hat we're creating a new role in Community Linux Engineering that will work full time in Fedora: A quality engineer for RISC-V. Here's a direct link to the job posting: https://redhat.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/jobs/details/Software-Quality-Engineer---Fedora-Linux_R-041233-1

More context for this one in the reply ...

A couple #opensource linkedin reposts (1/2):

We're starting 2025 at #Red Hat with a bang, the job posting for a new #Fedora Project Leader is now live! Here's the official link: https://redhat.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/jobs/jobs/details/Fedora-Project-Leader_R-044932

While we would prefer somebody in Boston (or interested in relocating), my top priority is to hire a great project leader, no matter where they live. If you think that might be you, please apply. If you know somebody who would be great at it, pass the word. Happy to take questions. Thanks!

Future ideas to pursue: Explore the openwrt suite of plugins (hello ad blockers), put an opnsense router in front of both the #OpenWRT devices, add a sim card to the bpi for network failover, and maybe add a tiny fileserver on the untrusted network to remove the smb attack surface. Feels great to spend a little time on tech and have a much more robust setup for the fun!

Over the last 2 weeks I moved file services to a spare NUC (#CentOSStream 10) and replaced the Ziply (ne' Comcast) router with 2 #Openwrt routers (Banana Pi r4 and an old WRT1900ACS): untrusted systems on the WRT, trusted on the BPi... Separate SSIDs, network segments, and of course physical separation all in effect. Heavy firewalling in all 3 directions, minimal holes for Sonos to talk to Samba and desktops get to a network printer.

Mostly I fiddle with #Fedora and #CentOS, but this winter break was all about #OpenWRT. I'm heading back to work tomorrow with a much more secure home network! For the last few years I've had all my Linux systems and blackbox devices (roku, sonos, google stuff, etc) on the same network, using a comcast cable modem router- the upmost in lazy network administration. Likewise my main desktop was also serving as the file sever. Yuck.

OK mastodon connections, who should I be following that I'm not following? When I exited twitter about 18 months ago I followed as many people as I could find who had also joined here. But I've not gone back and looked in depth since, instead just casually following people I see from boosts. So I have https://mastodon.bida.im/@fluffykittenspambot and https://botsin.space/@raccoonhourly but who do you love seeing updates from that I might be missing?

@mattdm Was the 3.75 oz of jalapeños or... something else?

@carlwgeorge This is so cool, RHEL 10 is going to be the most usable RHEL ever at launch because of this!

@GottaLaff Your updates over the last few weeks really helped me get through the campaign period, I really appreciated your diligence. You're not the only one who felt this way throughout, people were stressed because the outcome they feared seemed likely.

@retrotechtive FTA FTW!

@blogdiva ohai, stranger here, but SE NM has so many great places to visit I feel compelled to share! If you ever do plan a to visit to White Sands consider also: Hot springs in Truth or Consequences, Green chile in Hatch, the space museum in Alamogordo, the lodge and observatory in Cloudcroft, Carlsbad Caverns, alien memorabilia in Roswell / Aliens in Artesia, old west in Lincoln, Carrizoza cider, and of course Trinity (open for 1 day in April and October). And so much more!