Jordan Sissel
“A Young Turk spared hackerdom from respectability”
I'm a hacker living in California. I take photos of arthropods, do various computer projects, and do lots of repairs on things around my house. I also like to bike and trail run :)
20+ years of open source, systems administration, software engineering, distributed systems, and infosec. You may have used software I've built -- Logstash, fpm, grok, pleaserun, xdotool.
If a user has a bad time, it’s a bug.
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Fedora 44 continues to crumble before me - Now booting drops me at a login console.
Checking:
* systemctl's default target is graphical
* gdm service is enabled, but "inactive" at boot
* systemctl start gdm ... worksI don't get it. Nothing obvious in journalctl. Who do I sacrifice to fix this? Me, that's who! lol. Maybe a reinstall will help
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weeeeeee! cloud-init, mgmt, and qemu -- provisioning a bunch of linux desktop installations - it's so beautiful all of them running at once. Makes me want a tiling wm to make them all behave and stay neatly arranged.
Fedora (43+44, gnome, kde, cosmic), Debian (12, 13, gnome, kde), Arch (niri, gnome), Ubuntu (24.04, 26,04, kde, gnome)
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Desktop Linux security is kinda funny, like, SElinux, apparmor, seccomp, and more aren’t usable or useful?
They(?) gave up on the kernel and put everything in userland by putting all access boundaries into DBus calls. Wanna open a file? Forget open(2), you ask DBus. Screenshot? DBus. Webcam? DBus. Open a URL in your browser? DBus. Deleting a file? You guessed it, DBus.
I don’t hate the effort, but it sure is a funny commentary on what was lacking in the existing access policy systems
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Dont' worry, yall. SELinux isn't protecting me from copyfail, or anything else really, but it really wants me to know that it's stopping systemd from doing normal things.
(This is on a mostly-stock Fedora 44 installation)