Meetups/Infra/2025-03-17

Discussion of security, not as much in the notes.

Introductions

• [name] - [background]. [goals for meetup, or interests to explore]

• Loren --
• Max -- haven't been here for a while. background in cybersecurity, didn't come for it, staying for it to chill
• -- question about BSD experience. NAS setup, bsd or linux. FreeNAS
• Mati -- french, here for (interview?) -- curious to hear about free software, open source -- all things software
• Patrick -- accidentally at infra meetup, used to do sysadmin stuff, mostly ubuntu. work from home usually, by myself

(break out of otaku shell)

• Cloud -- got introduced to fun stuff, cryptography, llm, shell, use --
• Doug -- desperately trying to be technical. interested in inference and training models, and crashing things into the sun

Lesson or Demo

• Read aloud: clarify for meetup. We are taking notes in a riseup pad (or I am--help appreciated, and links). We have meeting notes posted to the wiki. noisebridge.net, search Infra, or Meetups/Infra. (the Infrastructure page has a disambiguation link.)
• Shell, web services, self-hosting, networking!

• https://slamdunksoftware.substack.com/p/hidden-messages-in-emojis-and-hacking
  • https://github.com/postgres/postgres/commit/5dc1e42b4fa6a4434afa7d7cdcf0291351a7b873
• https://blog.dshr.org/2025/03/archival-storage.html

• TLS OPAQUE -- PAKE Password Authenticated Key Exchange

Mutual authentication

cli finance -- bsd

Questions, Discussion, or Coworking

• [Issue]

For next time

Readings & Exercises

• Readings
• Exercises

Join online

• Try it yourself!
  • Join libera.chat #nb-meetup-infra

https://www.noisebridge.net/wiki/Meetups/Infra