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It’s amazing how quickly public opinion changes. Or, how quickly people cave. Remember just 10 years ago, how people felt about google glass? https://www.businessinsider.com/i-was-assaulted-for-wearing-google-glass-2014-4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m8coAuWZL20 Or how they felt when they found out target was analyzing their purchases and perhaps … Continue reading →
OCI (open container initiative) images are the standard format based onthe original docker format. Each container image is represented as anarray of ‘layers’, each of which is a .tar.gz. To unpack the containerimage, untar the first, then untar the second … Continue reading →
Project Machine is the home for our "OCI-native operating system". We started this work in 2017. As many people, including cyphar and Tycho have pointed out, the .tar.gz nature of OCI layer files has many problems. So starting early in … Continue reading →
Let’s say you had one of those huge keyrings, with 50 keys on it. (Let’s say 41 keys – number chosen either randomly or bc its the current number of capabilities) On the plus side, when you want to let … Continue reading →
Containers are most commonly distributed in two ways: 1. ‘Image based’: lxc and lxd distribute their container images as full images, a simple representation of root filesystem and some configuration info. 2. OCI: based on the original docker format, this … Continue reading →
Sorry, I should have posted this weeks ago to save others some time. If you are running openconnect-sso to connect to a Cisco anyconnect VPN, then when you upgrade to Ubuntu Jammy, openssl 3.0 may stop openconnect from working. The … Continue reading →
If you are looking for a new phone that either respects your privacy, leaves you in control, or just has a different form factor from the now ubiquitous 6″ slab, there are quite a few projects in various states of … Continue reading →
User namespaces were designed from the start to meet a requirement that unprivileged users be able to make use of them. Eric accomplished this by introducing subuid and subgid delegations through shadow. These are defined by the /etc/subuid and /etc/subgid … Continue reading →
This is one of those “for my own reference on my next (pine) phone” posts, but anyone using ubuntu phone (ubports.com) may find it useful. I use mutt (in a libertine ‘container’) on the ubuntu phone for sending email. The … Continue reading →
For the past few weeks I’ve been using a nexus 4 running ubuntu touch as, mostly, my daily driver. I’ve enjoyed it quite a bit. In part that’s just the awesome size of the nexus 4. In part, it’s the … Continue reading →