KWLUG Meeting: Monday, Nov 4, 2024, 7pm
Meeting Date
Mikalai Birukou will give us an update on his platform PrivacySafe.
Mikalai Birukou will give us an update on his platform PrivacySafe.
Sam Zhang compares video download tools, with an emphasis on yt-dlp. Gord Dey discusses relaying radio signals using the MQTT server Mosquitto. See kwlug.org/node/1389 for additional information, slides and other auxiliary materials. Note that this audio has had silences clipped.
We are continuing the dinner meetup tradition at Crabby Joe's in downtown Kitchener, starting at 7pm. Note that this restaurant meeting is on a Wednesday.
This is a supplementary informal meeting; we will still hold hybrid meetings for technical topics.
The restaurant is located at 70 King St E in Kitchener, at the corner of King and Frederick St. Here is a map.
Colin_ will discuss the virtualization platform Proxmox. He writes:
In this demonstration, I'll show how to set up a Proxmox cluster with High Availability using a stack of older Mac Minis, a Raspberry Pi, and a network switch. The presentation will highlight Proxmox's simplicity and reliability in a simulated home network environment, providing insights into its practical applications and benefits.
Michael Free discusses the components of a digital signage system he built. Mikalai Birukou discusses spreadsheet macros in LibreOffice. See kwlug.org/node/1387 for additional information, slides and other auxiliary materials. Note that this audio has had silences clipped.
We are continuing the dinner meetup tradition at Crabby Joe's in downtown Kitchener, starting at 7pm. Note that this restaurant meeting is on a Monday, and that it is being held at the same location as last month's restaurant meetup.
This is a supplementary informal meeting; we will still hold hybrid meetings for technical topics.
The restaurant is located at 70 King St E in Kitchener, at the corner of King and Frederick St. Here is a map.
Livia Lima discusses the online training resource Linux Upskill Challenge, and Sam Zhang discusses downloading tools wget, wget2, aria2, and curl. See kwlug.org/node/1381 for additional information, slides and other auxiliary materials. Note that this audio has had silences clipped.
Sam Zhang will follow up his July presentation on download managers with a discussion about video downloading tools. He will cover the death of youtube-dl, the rise of yt-dlp, as well as commandline usage and configuration for these tools.
Gordon Dey will tell us about his journey of getting a transceiver working with the MQTT publish/subscribe server Mosquitto.
We are continuing the dinner meetup tradition at Crabby Joe's in downtown Kitchener, starting at 7pm. Note that this restaurant meeting is on a Wednesday.
This is a supplementary informal meeting; we will still hold hybrid meetings for technical topics.
The restaurant is located at 70 King St E in Kitchener, at the corner of King and Frederick St. Here is a map.
Michael Free will discuss how he put together a digital signage player using common Linux utilities and bash scripts. He will discuss using Debian preseeding for automatic installation, packaging deb files, using Cockpit to manage digital signs, and Ansible for automation.
Mikalai Birukou will tell us about how to automate things using macros in LibreOffice. He writes: