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Christina's 5 Questions for November

As per:

gopher://sdf.org:70/0/users/christyotwisty/phlog/2021-11-Five_Questions.txt

1. Name five things you'd like to learn or do, that you do not care whether or not you'd be terrific at doing, only that they seem interesting or fun.

I can only think of two at the moment

1. Arabic

2. Leatherwork

Other things I want to learn, like solar and mains electrical wiring, Timber framing, growing stuff, land management, permaculture, and probably a bunch more, I kind of want to be not terrible at.

2. What's the best book you've read this year? Fiction, non-fiction, as long as it has an ISBN.

I think Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir. Really well done.

3. I made a delicious hot chocolate today then remembered I have lactose intolerance. What foods do you wish you could still enjoy?

Oooh, that's an easy one, sausage rolls! I suffer from Coeliac disease, and Gluten Free pastry just isn't the same. So yeah, I miss sausage rolls

4. Is there any simple tip or trick for people to lead happier, healthier lives that you've given up sharing or kept to yourself because most don't seem interested or receptive?

No, have you got one that I can try? :)

5. Describe a perfect day spent indoors at home.

My Saturdays are pretty close to being perfect, so here's a saturday with the boring bits removed and some embellishments to make it that extra bit perfect!

0700 Up to have breakfast and coffee, catching up on my tech news sites.

0800 Get some baking in the oven.

0830 Gardening

1000 shower

1015 Make a ragout

1100 Morning tea with coffee and baking, catch up on youtube subs

1200 Coffee roasting

1230 prep a quick lunch

1300 watch a movie with my partners

1530 reading in front of the fire

1730 get the pasta on

1815 eat the lovely bolognese! Have a glass of red with it, chat with partners

1930 some night time youtube/tv

2100 bed time!

Bonus Question for the Morbid, because it's that kind of month: Have you noticed absences of online people you're friendly with? Do you wonder more often now if they're healthy, rather than wonder where they toddled off to? Do you imagine someone is wondering where you toddled off to?

Yeah, that is a concern now, me and my friends are around the 40 year mark, and things start to take their toll around that age!

Bonus Question for the Capable and Helpful: I need more than 'ssh-keygen', then ssh-copy-id to beastie instructions. From where do I use ssh-keygen, optimally? If it is from tty or some server ARPA members have access to, what isthe correct syntax for using ssh-copy-id? Because 'ssh-copy-id ... beastie' doesn't yield the success I hoped for.

SSH key usage is a whole thing. Ideally, you generate a key on your main workstation, which you protect with a long passphrase, and then use the ssh-agent to take that password, decrypt the protected key and send it automagically to SSH servers you're connecting to.

There can be lots of tricks done to forward the agent through jumpbhosts/bastion host etc so that you should only ever need one key.

From that main workstation, you can use the ssh-copy-id to copy the public key of that protected private key to any server you want to connect to without having to enter a password.

That said, I tend to have a key on my laptop, and a separate one on my main admin VM. Admin VM accepts only the laptop key, all other infrastructure accepts the admin VM key.

A different way is to use SSH CAs, which works a bit more like the TLS CAs underlying the HTTPS protocol, where a server will accept all keys signed by a specific CA, as long as everything in the chain is valid. Can also use this to generate ephemeral keys and can be integrated into a site wide AAA system (Authentication, Authorization, Accounting). I've only read about this stuff, have not actually implemented as yet!

Bonus Question for the 'still reading in hopes of controversy': vim or emacs?

nano ;)

Though I mostly use emacs for actual writing, muscle memory from learning it in my undergrad studies.

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