Re: [DebConf22] Not well-known gate of the Venue
On Wed, Jul 13, 2022 at 11:17 PM Martin wrote: > > On 2022-07-13 22:46, Roger Shimizu wrote: > > It has easy access to get to downtown Prizren. > > Nice! Could you mark it in OSM and send a link, please? > https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/29292346 > I'll stay in a hotel, so I'm very much interested in a shortcut! https://www.openstreetmap.org/note/3265546 I'm not quite sure, so please double check / verify. Thanks! Cheers, -- Roger Shimizu, GMT +2 Prizren PGP/GPG: 4096R/6C6ACD6417B3ACB1
[DebConf22] Not well-known gate of the Venue
Dear all, I'm informed and then confirmed by myself that there's a secret / not well-known gate near our dining place. It has easy access to get to downtown Prizren. Just go straight down the path between the dining place and U6 dorm building, and you will eventually see a stainless steel gate. Say hi to the gate keeper, and he will get you through. This can save at least 15 min walk if you visit downtown. Cheers, -- Roger Shimizu, GMT +2 Prizren PGP/GPG: 4096R/6C6ACD6417B3ACB1
[DebConf22] Rolling curtain tips for on-site accommodation
[ Please ignore this email if you don't have on-site accommodation for DebConf22 ] I struggled quite a bit and finally got to understand how to pull down the curtain for on-site accommodation. If you have the same issue with me, please check the wiki page for the tips. https://wiki.debian.org/DebConf/22/Accommodation/RollingCurtain Cheers, -- Roger Shimizu, GMT +2 Prizren PGP/GPG: 4096R/6C6ACD6417B3ACB1
Re: [DebConf22] About Data SIM Card
Dear Arianit, Thanks for your information! > "Common EU SIM card (like "Three" from UK) cannot be used in Kosovo by > roaming." \> This is not correct. We use the same SIM cards and there are roaming agreements with plenty of European carriers. It looks kinda expensive for UK carriers to roam in Kosovo though. If common EU sim can roam to Kosovo, it make easier to us to purchase the prepaid SIM in our home country in advance. Usually 10G prepaid cost EUR 15-20, which is a bit expensive than your local one, but it's more convenient, especially if the flight is scheduled to arrive very late. > For a few euros you can buy a local card with VALA or IPKO at the airport, > downtown of any town and probably at ITP campus as well. Yes, local SIM seems to be much cheaper. Hope I can get one when I arrive. Cheers, Roger On Tue, Jun 14, 2022 at 2:43 AM Arianit Dobroshi wrote: > > Hi Roger, > > "Common EU SIM card (like "Three" from UK) cannot be used in Kosovo by > roaming." > > This is not correct. We use the same SIM cards and there are roaming > agreements with plenty of European carriers. It looks kinda expensive for UK > carriers to roam in Kosovo though. > > For a few euros you can buy a local card with VALA or IPKO at the airport, > downtown of any town and probably at ITP campus as well. > > Arianit > > > > > > On Mon, Jun 13, 2022 at 6:22 PM Roger Shimizu wrote: >> >> Dear Debconf list, >> >> To prepare for the upcoming trip, I want to know the status for data >> SIM for Kosovo. >> The following is what I got to know from a few sites. Hope local >> people can double check. >> Thank you! >> >> Common EU SIM card (like "Three" from UK) cannot be used in Kosovo by >> roaming. >> So we need to purchase a local SIM card, to get connected out of DebConf >> venue. >> >> Local Carrier: Vala or IPKO >> UMTS (3G): Band 8: 900MHz (for both carriers), and maybe also Band 1: >> 2.1GHz for IPKO >> LTE (4G FDD): Band 3: 1.8GHz >> Place to buy prepaid SIM: airport shop or .. (better to have more >> detail info from local team) >> Plans: [site to refer] https://prepaid-data-sim-card.fandom.com/wiki/Kosovo >> >> Cheers, >> -- >> Roger Shimizu, GMT +9 Tokyo >> PGP/GPG: 4096R/6C6ACD6417B3ACB1
[DebConf22] About Data SIM Card
Dear Debconf list, To prepare for the upcoming trip, I want to know the status for data SIM for Kosovo. The following is what I got to know from a few sites. Hope local people can double check. Thank you! Common EU SIM card (like "Three" from UK) cannot be used in Kosovo by roaming. So we need to purchase a local SIM card, to get connected out of DebConf venue. Local Carrier: Vala or IPKO UMTS (3G): Band 8: 900MHz (for both carriers), and maybe also Band 1: 2.1GHz for IPKO LTE (4G FDD): Band 3: 1.8GHz Place to buy prepaid SIM: airport shop or .. (better to have more detail info from local team) Plans: [site to refer] https://prepaid-data-sim-card.fandom.com/wiki/Kosovo Cheers, -- Roger Shimizu, GMT +9 Tokyo PGP/GPG: 4096R/6C6ACD6417B3ACB1
Re: Foz do Igaçu [Was: DebConf19] Beers
On Tue, Jul 23, 2019 at 7:25 AM David Prévot wrote: > > Hey, > > For those who may visit Foz do Igaçu soon, may I warmly recommend the > recently opened 277 microbrewery. They have a fair set of delicious dark > beers (Mate Stout, Petroleum, etc.) and various other kinds of pretty > good beers. We just visited Iguazu Falls yesterday, last Sunday. It was so great. Personally I recommend the helicopter tour, provided by Helisul, which cost R$430 and takes about 10-15 minutes. Fantasy experience, once in a life time. Cheers, Roger
Re: Flashing Coreboot on laptops in the Hacklab
On Tue, Jul 23, 2019 at 5:55 AM rajudev wrote: > > > We are starting to flash coreboot on laptops of people who would be > willing to have it on there laptops. > > People who want to flash it on there laptops or people who are willing > to learn on how to do it are welcome to join in the Noisy HackLab after > the Cheese and Wine Party. > > For those who have literally no Idea about coreboot > Take a look at > > https://www.coreboot.org/ I'm interested. Could you inform me which hacklab? There're too many hacklabs this debconf... :P Cheers, Roger
Re: Debconf in Israel
On Fri, Mar 22, 2019 at 1:59 AM Nasir El-Amin wrote: > > Here one Palestinian user of Debian points out he would be excluded: > https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/b3cen2/debconf20_to_be_hosted_in_haifa_israel/eiyxby6/ > > How about we agree that Debconf never take place in a country that would > exclude someone based on their religion or national origin as a firm policy? > I’d also be advocating against a Debconf in Saudi Arabia because they exclude > Israelis. I'm sorry you didn't say so when we had debconf in Taiwan, where ever occupied by Spanish, Nederlanders, Japanese, and Chinese. That didn't prevent a success conference. We had fun in Taiwan. And I hope we have fun in Israel, too. Please stop hate speech. Cheers, -- Roger Shimizu, GMT +9 Tokyo PGP/GPG: 4096R/6C6ACD6417B3ACB1
Re: About ECC Keysigning issue on stretch (stable release)
On Sun, Aug 26, 2018 at 12:53 AM, Roger Shimizu wrote: > Hi there, > > If you use stretch to keysinging like me, you may also had the > difficulties to sign some ECC keys getting from this debconf. > I already reported the issue as https://bugs.debian.org/906545 > > Since this issue doesn't occur on unstable version, I uploaded the > stretch-backports version in DELAYED/3 [1]. > It also need to get through NEW queue [2]. So I guess you will be able > to install the fixed gnupg from stretch-backports in 10 days. gnupg2 and its dependency libassuan just passed backports-NEW queue last night. So now you can simply install it though stretch-backports: $ sudo sh -c 'printf "deb http://deb.debian.org/debian stretch-backports main" > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/stretch-backports.list' $ sudo apt update $ sudo apt -t stretch-backports install gnupg Hope this can make "modern" (with more ECC keys) keysigning party easier. Cheers, -- Roger Shimizu, GMT +9 Tokyo PGP/GPG: 4096R/6C6ACD6417B3ACB1
About ECC Keysigning issue on stretch (stable release)
Hi there, If you use stretch to keysinging like me, you may also had the difficulties to sign some ECC keys getting from this debconf. I already reported the issue as https://bugs.debian.org/906545 Since this issue doesn't occur on unstable version, I uploaded the stretch-backports version in DELAYED/3 [1]. It also need to get through NEW queue [2]. So I guess you will be able to install the fixed gnupg from stretch-backports in 10 days. [1] https://ftp-master.debian.org/deferred.html [2] https://ftp-master.debian.org/backports-new.html Cheers, -- Roger Shimizu, GMT +9 Tokyo PGP/GPG: 4096R/6C6ACD6417B3ACB1
Re: Swimming?
On Mon, Jul 16, 2018 at 12:31 AM, u wrote: > Hi! > > Yao Wei: >> It's 180 per person for guests. 140 if you are under 18 y/o. I just find recently that only using the outside pool (w/o spa) is much cheaper, NTD 80 per ppl. But it also finishes earlier than the indoor pool, 20:00 for outdoor and 22:00 for indoor one. Indoor user have the permit to go outside, after stamping a red seal. You can back any time by showing the seal. Quite complicated mechanism for such gym.. Cheers, -- Roger Shimizu, GMT +8 Hsinchu, Formosa PGP/GPG: 4096R/6C6ACD6417B3ACB1
Re: local shop sells sim cards
On Thu, Jul 26, 2018 at 9:33 PM, Clayton wrote: > I know there are some out there looking for a place in the neighborhood > to buy a sim card. It seems they are not common because they have been > infected with the we-want-to-track-you disease here, they need to copy > your passport and take a photo and generally do a bunch of paperwork. I > did find one not too far away though: It's more convenient to buy SIM card in airport. If you arrive TPE, it's just 30 meters ahead on left side after exiting customer check point. And the price is NTD 700 for 15-day unlimited data, or NTD 500 for 7-day unlimited data. Check the sample pic I random find online: - https://nakazimachica.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/buy-taiwanmobile-simcard-in-taoyuan-airport_05.jpg I guess the shop you went also have those plan. Just ask for them. Cheers, -- Roger Shimizu, GMT +8 Hsinchu, Formosa PGP/GPG: 4096R/6C6ACD6417B3ACB1
[need help] gpg-agent doesn't work with yubikey since I came to Hsinchu
Hi there, I'm suffering with gpg-agent problem with yubikey. I didn't have this when I were home. But maybe after apt upgrade, or other accident, something broke. Usually after plug-in my yubikey, I'll run: $ pkill ssh-agent; pkill gpg-agent; eval $(gpg-agent --daemon); ssh-add -L After that, ssh-add -L can usually show my ssh key stored on my yubikey. But now gpg-agent refused to reload and show the following error: gpg-agent: a gpg-agent is already running - not starting a new one It looks like the old bug: https://bugs.debian.org/851462 But I'm using stretch version of gnupg 2.1.18-8~deb9u2, which shouldn't have the above bug. I'm in debcamp and debconf these days. So it'd be appreciated if there's anyone can kindly help me. Thank you! Cheers, -- Roger Shimizu, GMT +8 Hsinchu, Formosa PGP/GPG: 4096R/6C6ACD6417B3ACB1
Temperature setting for conference venue, hacklab, and on-site accommodation
Dear orga team, I'm starting to pack, so I want to know what's the temperature setting for conference venue, hacklab, and on-site accommodation. I know it's hot and humid outside, as we can see the weather report on websites or TV, but I'm not quite sure the usual setting indoors. It's said that it may be 15 or 20 degree centigrade, if so I need to bring a heavy coat. Thanks! Cheers, -- Roger Shimizu, GMT +9 Tokyo PGP/GPG: 4096R/6C6ACD6417B3ACB1
Re: DebConf18: Call for keys for keysigning in Hsinchu, Taiwan
On Sun, Jun 24, 2018 at 1:05 PM, Gunnar Wolf wrote: > DebConf18: Call for keys for keysigning in Hsinchu, Taiwan > > As part of the Debian Conference (DebConf18) that will be held in > Hsinchu, Taiwan, there will be OpenPGP (pgp/gpg) keysignings. If you > intend to participate in the DebConf18 keysignings, please send your > ascii armored public key as explained at [0] no later than 23:59 > UTC/GMT/Zulu on Sunday 22 July 2018. I'll start processing keys after > a day or two. > > More (and up-to-date) information is available at [0], so keep > watching it. > > [0] http://people.debian.org/~gwolf/ksp-dc18/ksp-dc18.html > > If you have questions please send them to the mailing list at > debconf-disc...@lists.debconf.org. If you don't want to post to the > mailing list, send your questions to d...@debian.org, gw...@debian.org > and nood...@debian.org. Thanks for organizing this keysigning event, every year! However, I find the guide a bit outdated. - It mentions "OpenPGP Best Practices", but the document declare itself outdated, which was written for GnuPG 1.4. [0] The updated document, which is for GnuPG 2.1, is still on-going status[1]. I think many of us have already migrated to GnuPG 2.1, which is default since Stretch. so it's worth being noted this. - It recommends hopenpgp-tools for key checking, but it cannot work well with GnuPG 2.1 [2]. - If user don't configure a working MTA, it's hard to send out the email. Especially for new contributor. There're many reasons not to set up a working MTA. I know it's possible to setup exim4 as smarthost [3], but .. personally, I don't like to be flooded by notice, such as cron job of my own machine everyday. And I don't like my gmail credential being saved as plain text in system. So what I recommend is using msmtp, which already works well with caff [4][5]. In this way, the gmail credential can be saved as encrypted file by GPG, and got decrypted on-the-fly when you send email [6]. After set msmtp up, we can use almost the same command as sendmail, just replace sendmail with msmtp: (echo -e "To: gw...@debian.org\nFrom: Your Full Name \nBcc: n...@example.org\nSubject: KeySigning Party @ DebConf18\n"; gpg --armor --export-options export-clean,export-minimal --export 0xfedcba9876543210 0x0123456789abcdef | gpg --local-user 0xfedcba9876543210 --clearsign --local-user 0x0123456789abcdef --clearsign) | msmtp -t Maybe we can discuss how to improve this during my stay in DebCamp / DebConf. See you around! [0] https://riseup.net/en/security/message-security/openpgp/best-practices#how-to-use-this-guide [1] https://github.com/riseupnet/riseup_help/issues/451 [2] https://bugs.debian.org/868769 [3] https://wiki.debian.org/GmailAndExim4 [4] https://wiki.debian.org/caff#Requirements [5] https://wiki.debian.org/caff/msmtp [6] https://wiki.debian.org/msmtp Cheers, -- Roger Shimizu, GMT +9 Tokyo PGP/GPG: 4096R/6C6ACD6417B3ACB1
