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GPG transition statement

Sun, 07 Jun 2015 14:39:58 +0000

(Inspired by http://viccuad.me/blog/GPG-transition-statement/)

This exact same text can be found at this location.

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Hash: SHA512

Sun Jun  7 14:12:39 CEST 2015

For a number of reasons, i've recently set up a new OpenPGP key, and
will be transitioning away from my old one.

The old key will continue to be valid for some time, but i prefer all
future correspondence to come to the new one.  I would also like this
new key to be re-integrated into the web of trust.  This message is
signed by both keys to certify the transition.

the old key was:

pub   rsa4096/6E1A4E79 2009-05-11
      Key fingerprint = CBD6 EEE3 7132 027A A237  9659 013F A50B 6E1A 4E79

And the new key is:

pub   rsa4096/A29D259B 2015-06-05 [expires: 2016-06-04]
      Key fingerprint = DBC1 07DC 8601 B275 835F  9178 FBE5 5AED A29D 259B

To fetch the full key (including a photo uid, which is commonly
stripped by public keyservers), you can get it with:

  wget -q -O- https://www.dennogumi.org/A29D259B.txt | gpg --import -

Or, to fetch my new key from a public key server, you can simply do:

  gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-key A29D259B

If you already know my old key, you can now verify that the new key is
signed by the old one:

  gpg --check-sigs A29D259B

If you don't already know my old key, or you just want to be double
extra paranoid, you can check the fingerprint against the one above:

  gpg --fingerprint A29D259B

If you are satisfied that you've got the right key, and the UIDs match
what you expect, I'd appreciate it if you would sign my key:

  gpg --sign-key A29D259B

Lastly, if you could upload these signatures, i would appreciate it.
You can either send me an e-mail with the new signatures (if you have
a functional MTA on your system):

  gpg --armor --export A29D259B | mail -s 'OpenPGP Signatures' lbeltrame at kde.org

Or you can just upload the signatures to a public keyserver directly:

  gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --send-key A29D259B

Please let me know if there is any trouble, and sorry for the
inconvenience.

Regards,
        Luca Beltrame
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Isso for comments

Mon, 01 Jun 2015 12:04:58 +0000

As I said in my latest post, I wasn’t very happy with using Disqus to store my comments, mainly because I do not want my data to be hosted by someone else. Thanks to some commenters, I was made aware of an alternative, called isso.

After reading the online documentation, I decided to set it up with dennogumi.org. It was all a matter of creating a new user called isso, setting a virtualenv to its home dir, and then installing isso itself and uWSGI:

Dynamically static

Sat, 30 May 2015 09:52:40 +0000

Since 26th December 2005, I’ve been runnning this blog with Wordpress. At the time there were little alternatives and finally I had got hold of a host (Dreamhost, at the time) that supported PHP and MySQL without being overly restrictive. 10 years later, things have somehow changed.

The issue
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The main reason lies in how Wordpress has evolved over time: no, I’m not speaking about the subjective “bloat”, but the fact that it’s been moving towards a full-blown CMS, which is not what I have in mind to run my blog. Also, performance with many plugins had somehow worsened, in particular when accessing things like the administration interface. Not to mention that plugins itself are still somewhat fragile, and upgrade could still cause harm to your whole site. Lastly, the mere fact that I had to use plugins to lessen the performance impact was off-putting.

Moving hosts!

Tue, 03 May 2011 20:48:49 +0000

After many years of (good) service, I’m in the process of moving from Dreamhost web hosting to a Virtual Private Server (VPS) service hosted by the folks at Linode. It’s definitely more pricey but I like the control and freedom that I have at my disposal. Thanks to a number of guides and some help, I was able to set up lighttpd and php-fpm to serve web pages, and Postfix+dovecot+amavisd-new for email.

I haven’t moved off a few services yet (including my primary mail), but I’m rather satisfied at the moment.

Blogging scholarships!?

Fri, 12 Oct 2007 20:29:41 +0000

I just read from Weblog Tools Collection that CollegeScholarships.org is hosting a vote for a round of $10,000 blogging scholarships. Now, I may be a little out of the “Web 2.0” trend (actually for me “2.0” does not relate to Tim O’Reilly’s buzzword, but to real and interesting technologies like the Semantic Web), but I find this absurd.

I mean, I have no doubts that the people listed there have made interesting blogs. But I would rather give a scholarship based on merit rather than the mere act of blogging something “interesting”. Don’t get me wrong, blogging can be fun and has its uses (see scientific blogging) but for heaven’s sake, this is a little overboard.