Besides the health benefits you save a lot of money.
My “no smoking” Piggy Bank was fat enough to sponsor a pc upgrade.
My upgrade consists;
My pc is “smoking” fast now :-)
In previous blog posts, we discussed setting up a GPG smartcard on GNU/Linux and FreeBSD.
In this blog post, we will configure Thunderbird to work with an external smartcard reader and our GPG-compatible smartcard.
Before Thunderbird 78, if you wanted to use OpenPGP email encryption, you had to use a third-party add-on such as https://enigmail.net/.
Thunderbird’s recent versions natively support OpenPGP. The Enigmail addon for Thunderbird has been discontinued. See: https://enigmail.net/index.php/en/home/news.
I didn’t find good documentation on how to set up Thunderbird with a GnuPG smartcard when I moved to a new coreboot laptop, so this was the reason I created this blog post series.
Read more...I made some time to give some love to my own projects and spent some time rewriting the Ansible role stafwag.ntpd and cleaning up some other Ansible roles.
There is some work ongoing for some other Ansible roles/projects, but this might be a topic for some other blog post(s) ;-)
An ansible role to configure ntpd/chrony/systemd-timesyncd.
This might be controversial, but I decided to add support for chrony and systemd-timesyncd. Ntpd is still supported and the default on the BSDs ( FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD).
It’s possible to switch from the ntp implementation by using the ntpd.provider directive.
The Ansible role stafwag.ntpd v2.0.0 is available at:
Updated @ Mon Sep 2 07:55:20 PM CEST 2024: Added devfs section
Updated @ Wed Sep 4 07:48:56 PM CEST 2024 : Corrected gpg-agent.conf
In a previous blog post, we set up GnuPG with smartcard support on Debian GNU/Linux.
In this blog post, we’ll install and configure GnuPG with smartcard support on FreeBSD.
The GNU/Linux blog post provides more details about GnuPG, so it might be useful for the FreeBSD users to read it first.
Likewise, Linux users are welcome to read this blog post if they’re interested in how it’s done on FreeBSD ;-)
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