@joshbressers great episode with @Di4na !

If I were still in higher education I would have totally taken on qualitative/interview/ethnographic research tasked with identifying open source maintainers' needs. Your discussion was really interesting from the standpoint where cyber security can benefit from social science insights.

That probably all sounds a bit highfalutin, but bottom line is this episode underscores some really important points while also gesturing to huge areas where we have only a dim understanding of how to improve.

Hey @kalilinux, not sure this is the right forum, but any chance Vagrant Cloud is going to receive 2025.1c? I only see 2025.1.0 and obviously there is the signing key issue that borks updates on that one.

#kali

"To grow up loving Star Wars is to eventually find that it never quite seemed to grow up with you, to realize that the children’s stories that thrilled you in your youth remain children’s stories when you return to them as an adult. And this can be fine, at times. (I’m not made of stone; I get my kicks out of The Mandalorian; I cried a little at “Chewie, we’re home.”) Getting a TV series that thinks seriously about what life living at the dawn of a fascist regime looks like, though? That imagines this galaxy I love as a place of real weight and texture, populated by real people—from the comfortably unthinking Imperial cogs of Coruscant to the oppressed farmers of Mira-Rau, and every point in between? That’s the kind of treasure I would happily have sat through five seasons of. I feel lucky enough that we ended up with two."

https://www.avclub.com/andor-series-finale-recap-season-2-episode-12

Great piece by William Hughes on the finale of Andor. I agree that if our choice, as an audience, was between nothing and a second and final season, I'm happy for what we have.

Still, its almost painful to see the skeleton of something extraordinary lying just beneath the surface of season 2 as it plays out.

#Andor #StarWars

Another entry in the niche blog post chronicles: How to install Guacamole for remote desktop connections to Kali Linux.

This is a combo post with both context and guide. Its also the first in a series on migrating from Vagrant/VMWare/Ansible to Proxmox/OpenTofu/Ansible. In it I work through some issues of building Guac on Ubuntu 24.04 and installing TigerVNC on Kali.

This post is a stepping stone on the way to resolving the issue of frequent Kali crashes, though I think of it as only a preparatory step as it deals with a niche issue where SPICE doesn't work for me on Proxmox. I hope to get on to the IaC stuff soon.

https://christopherbauer.org/blog/guac-proxmox-kali/

#SelfHosted #SelfHosting #Kali #ApacheGuacamole #Proxmox #proxmox_ve

Andor s2e5, that final scene with Forest Whitaker - I'm breathless. Simply outstanding.

#Andor