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August General meeting Aug 19, at Kupros
by Brian E. Lavender 31 Jul '25

31 Jul '25

Next meeting is social at Kupros Who: you Time: 06:30 PM to 09:00 PM Date: Tue August 19, 2025 Location: Kurpos 1217 21st Street Sacramento, CA 95811 Topic: We will return to Kupros for this meeting. It will be open discussion. Bring your gadgets, questions, and projects that you may be working on. Brian -- Brian Lavender https://www.brie.com/brian/ "There are two ways of constructing a software design. One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies. And the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies." Professor C. A. R. Hoare The 1980 Turing award lecture

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[kbrisso@gmail.com: Re: Locale: Not that I'm Paranoid]
by Gary 29 Jul '25

29 Jul '25

I did a little reading and I'd be interested in the whole ecosystem: Lucene, Solr, Elastic and how your project fits in and what it does. I'm definitely a "small ball" player at the opposite end of the spectrum from the enterprise folks, but I like to keep in touch :). Besides, I have a lot of files that I am still working on organizing and need to occasionally find. Finding isn't as easy as I would like and cam be stressful. AFA weird sites: Noting that I linked to from another site, nothing where I don't have some kind of other relationship with the owner of the site outside of the internet, nothing used for software development of any kind. Date: Mon, 28 Jul 2025 14:06:23 -0700 From: Kevin Brisson <kbrisso(a)gmail.com> To: Gary <saclug(a)garymcglinn.com> Cc: lug-nuts(a)bigbrie.com Subject: Re: [Lug-nuts] Locale: Not that I'm Paranoid Hi Gary- That is very strange. (you might want to burn the computer) I guess that local is Amharic (Ethiopia) . Tell me more about " visit weird sites. " BTW my Github AI project has 40+ stars! https://github.com/kbrisso/byte-vision Anyone interested in a demo of local document analysis? Kevin Brisson On Mon, Jul 28, 2025 at 11:01 AM Gary <saclug(a)garymcglinn.com> wrote: > Somehow, my locale on one of my systems was changed to am_ET.uft8. I > might not have noticed, actually. It only obviously broke a few farily > minor things. But, I use xdotool scripts with "search --name" parameters > and they stopped working. The target of these commands is my Firefox > browser. It turns out that Firefox will default to it's "C" locale if it > doesn't recognize the locale as set. > > Everything looked the same, but was in fact different :) > > After switching the locale back to en_US.utf8, my xdotool scripts worked > just fine. > > It seems to me that resetting the locale in this way could be used for all > kinds of attacks. If an attacker could change my locale, I have two > questions: How did they do it and what else did they change. It happened > on one of my more secure systems where I don't visit weird sites. > > I was stracing some stuff and used a few related programs and was playing > with file descriptors. That may be the culprit too :) I'm going to move > this activity to another system, which will be more cumbersome. But, I'd > like to keep the affected system relatively secure > > After forcing Google/Gemini to treat these changes as an attack, it gave > me back some pretty generic advice but nothing about a specific attack > other than some attacks look at the locale. > > Just an FYI and seeing if anyone has any experience or thoughts. I found > the insideous nature of the effects of the locale change interesting. > _______________________________________________ > Lug-nuts mailing list -- lug-nuts(a)bigbrie.com > To unsubscribe send an email to lug-nuts-leave(a)bigbrie.com > ----- End forwarded message -----

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Tonight's meeting at Strad Meadery
by Brian E. Lavender 15 Jul '25

15 Jul '25

What is mead? It is honey wine! Tonight's meeting will be at Strad Meadery. 2539 Mercantile Dr. Suite 1 Rancho Cordova, CA 95742 Tuesday, July 15, 2025 6:30 - 8:30pm Topic C# on GNU/Linux. presented by Brian Lavender (me). https://www.saclug.org/articles/2025/july-2025.html Brian -- Brian Lavender https://www.brie.com/brian/ "There are two ways of constructing a software design. One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies. And the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies." Professor C. A. R. Hoare The 1980 Turing award lecture

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July meeting at Strad Meadery on C# with .Net
by Brian E. Lavender 05 Jul '25

05 Jul '25

We will discuss C# on GNU/Linux. Strad Meadery graciously provided their facility to us for hosting the meeting. July General Meeting When: Tue July 15, 2025 06:30 PM to 08:30 PM Speaker: Brian Lavender Location: Strad Meadery 2539 Mercantile Dr. Suite 1 Rancho Cordova, CA 95742 Brian -- Brian Lavender https://www.brie.com/brian/ "There are two ways of constructing a software design. One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies. And the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies." Professor C. A. R. Hoare The 1980 Turing award lecture

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Ada jumps to 11 on the Tiobe index
by Brian E. Lavender 23 Jun '25

23 Jun '25

Perhaps this is a testament to SPARK/Ada's focus on secure programming? Ada jumps to number 11 from 25 https://www.tiobe.com/tiobe-index/ I gained new respect for the Pascal family of languages after I started working with Delphi and later teaching introduction to programming. Much of Ada is influenced by Pascal. Brian -- Brian Lavender https://www.brie.com/brian/ "There are two ways of constructing a software design. One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies. And the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies." Professor C. A. R. Hoare The 1980 Turing award lecture

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dot net free software / open source and next talk on C#
by Brian E. Lavender 18 Jun '25

18 Jun '25

Back in the day, we used to love to hate Microsoft. I imagine that still may be true with some. Did you know that Dot net is open source / free software? https://dotnet.microsoft.com/en-us/platform/open-source I am thinking that next meeting, we do C# on Fedora. I was just working through the following tutorial. https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/csharp/tour-of-csharp/tutorials/tu… Brian -- Brian Lavender https://www.brie.com/brian/ "There are two ways of constructing a software design. One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies. And the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies." Professor C. A. R. Hoare The 1980 Turing award lecture

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meetup tomorrow
by Brian E. Lavender 16 Jun '25

16 Jun '25

Reminder for the SacLUG meetup tomorrow at Kupros on 21st St. Time: 6:30 - 8:30 https://www.saclug.org/articles/2025/june-2025.html I will bring a paper printout of the tux penguin and put it in the holder on the table. Brian -- Brian Lavender https://www.brie.com/brian/ "There are two ways of constructing a software design. One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies. And the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies." Professor C. A. R. Hoare The 1980 Turing award lecture

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whatever happened to OSCON
by Brian E. Lavender 28 May '25

28 May '25

I don't know how many of you ever went to OSCON, yet I have fond memories of attending it both in 2010 and 2014. I searched online and it seems that Covid put the nail in the coffin for OSCON and stopped it for good. https://www.oreilly.com/conferences/from-laura-baldwin.html What a bummer deal. I remember it was 1997 that I believe the first PERL conference started and it eventually turned into OSCON. I am going to start sing "Glory Days" by Bruce Springsteen. On a side note, I spoke with Kyle Rankin, who has presented at various conferences, and he presented at SCALE (Southern California Area Linux Expo). He said that they have a good in person conference. Brian -- Brian Lavender https://www.brie.com/brian/ "There are two ways of constructing a software design. One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies. And the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies." Professor C. A. R. Hoare The 1980 Turing award lecture

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June social meeting
by Brian E. Lavender 28 May '25

28 May '25

Hello Everyone, We will have another social meeting at Kupros, June 17, 6:30pm https://www.saclug.org/articles/2025/june-2025.html We will likely be at a large table upstairs. I will put a paper penguin in one of the holders on the table. If you are not sure where to look, please email me beforehand we can coordinate. See you there. Brian -- Brian Lavender https://www.brie.com/brian/ "There are two ways of constructing a software design. One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies. And the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies." Professor C. A. R. Hoare The 1980 Turing award lecture

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May meeting at Kupros
by Brian E. Lavender 20 May '25

20 May '25

See everyone back at Kupros on May 20. https://www.saclug.org/articles/2025/may-2025.html -- Brian Lavender https://www.brie.com/brian/ "There are two ways of constructing a software design. One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies. And the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies." Professor C. A. R. Hoare The 1980 Turing award lecture

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