Review of Interesting Things at FOSDEM 2024

FOSDEM 2024 is happening this weekend and I’ve put together a list of interesting topics to review at a more leisurely pace.

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Set up SANE (Scanner Access Now Easy) on a Raspberry Pi

Introducing SANE (Scanner Access Now Easy)

The SANE project lets you easily use a scanner from a Linux host. It supports many different brands and models of scanners and while it is mostly a library and server that provides access to a scanner, several clients are available that you can use to scan documents.

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Building a Hugo Site and Deploying to Linux using Azure DevOps

Summary (tl;dr)

Building a Hugo site using Azure DevOps and deploying to a Linux server is done by:

  1. Set up an SSH service connection in Azure DevOps
  2. Create a pipeline in Azure DevOps. The pipeline will need several steps:
    1. Install Hugo
    2. Build the site
    3. Deploy the built site

Setting up an SSH Service Connection in Azure DevOps

An SSH service connection is what will allow your hosted Azure DevOps agent to connect to your Linux based server using SSH. Service connections can be found under the Project Settings, on the bottom left side of the UI:

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Accessing the Department of Education Listserv

The DOE runs a listserv server for mailing list management. Here are some notes on how to subscribe to their lists. Specifically the FSATECH mailing list.

Send email to LISTSERV@LISTSERV.ED.GOV with the listserv commands:

LIST - Lists (some of the) available lists on the server

SUBSCRIBE FSATECH - Subscribe to the Federal Student Aid Tech list

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