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 implementationsContinue reading “D-Bus experiments and utilities”
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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 requireContinue reading “Yubico Yubikey and PAM”
PipeWire and MIDI on Ubuntu 20.04
I sometimes use my external MIDI keyboard and Qsynth to play some music. I got it working, but it wasn’t trivial. An additional problem is created because using MIDI on Linux requires using Jack, which does not work together with PulseAudio. It would be nice to listen to music, for example, from YouTube and toContinue reading “PipeWire and MIDI on Ubuntu 20.04”
Thoughts from the bottom of a well 