Server migration for blogs.dgplug.org

I have been maintaining dgplug [https://dgplug.org/] infrastructure for sometime now. We have a blogging platform, blogs.dgplug.org [https://blogs.dgplug.org] for our community. We were planning to migrate it to the latest version of Operating System and the blogging software, but my post covid symptoms hindered…

How to use Yubikey or any GPG smartcard in Thunderbird 78

Thunderbird [https://www.thunderbird.net/en-US/] is the free and open source email client by Mozilla Foundation [https://foundation.mozilla.org/en/]. I have been using it for some years now. Till now the Thunderbird users had to use an extension Enigmail [https://enigmail.net/index.php/en/] to use…

Using Mailvelope with Yubikey in Linux

Mailvelope [https://www.mailvelope.com/] is an extension on web browsers to send end to end encrypted emails. This is a good option available to the users to send end to end encrypted without changing the email service they use. It is licensed under AGPL v3 [https://www.gnu.org/…

PyLadies India embarked its journey

PyLadies India embarked its journey 20th June 2020 marked a new beginning for PyLadies in India. We had our first meetup. I started my journey with PyLadies in 2016 as an organizer of PyLadies Pune [http://anweshadas.in/coming-out-of-hibernation-pyladies-pune-chapter/]. It began with a personal itch of the lawyer who wanted…

Software Licenses : Legalese to English

When I was doing a licensing survey in the Fedora ecosystem. I asked a few developers, "What is license according to them?" I got some interesting answers: "I do not care about the license; it bores me." - a super senior developer says this. (not a…

PyLadies India June meetup

We, PyLadies, have started our journey for quite a sometime now. Every year since 2016, we are growing in numbers and chapters. Currently, we have eight active chapters and counting. The COVID pandemic has somehow stopped our course of having physical meetups. But on a brighter note, the situation has…

Difference between chcon and semanage

SELinux Security Enhanced Linux, SELinux is the discretionary access control in the Linux distribution. This extra layer of security keeps the user's data safe in the system. SELinux context contains additional information, labels attached to each process, and files to determine the SELinux policy. The extra details about…