Welcome to My New Computers Blog
D-Bus experiments and utilities
I wanted to try some simple Bluetooth programming on Linux, but since the modern way to do this in Linux is through D-Bus, I had to learn about that as well. D-Bus is a high-level way of communicating between processes. The D-Bus protocol is not fixed to a certain programming language, and there exists implementations…
Yubico Yubikey and PAM
I just purchased a Yubico Yubikey 5 NFC, a hardware authentication device that is plugged into a USB port. It can be used for signing in to your own machice or some web services such as GitHub. Often it is used as part of a multi-factor authentication scheme, so for instance signing in would require…
Follow My Blog
Get new content delivered directly to your inbox.
Thoughts from the bottom of a well 