Cool! Today my ordered barcode scanner has just arrived and #Linux has happily detected it:

[5415724.653044] usb 2-6.1: new full-speed USB device number 36 using xhci_hcd
[5415726.189043] usb 2-6.2.1: new full-speed USB device number 37 using xhci_hcd
[5415726.290946] usb 2-6.2.1: New USB device found, idVendor=05e0, idProduct=1200, bcdDevice= 0.03
[5415726.290949] usb 2-6.2.1: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=3
[5415726.290950] usb 2-6.2.1: Product: Symbol Bar Code Scanner::EA
[5415726.290951] usb 2-6.2.1: Manufacturer: Symbol Technologies, Inc, 2008
[5415726.290952] usb 2-6.2.1: SerialNumber: S/N:B8BC5A23C069EA479E223DC43B13F757:3
[5415726.298240] input: Symbol Technologies, Inc, 2008 Symbol Bar Code Scanner::EA as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:14.0/usb2/2-6/2-6.2/2-6.2.1/2-6.2.1:1.0/0003:05E0:1200.0016/input/input49
[5415726.357180] hid-generic 0003:05E0:1200.0016: input,hidraw1: USB HID v1.10 Keyboard [Symbol Technologies, Inc, 2008 Symbol Bar Code Scanner::EA] on usb-0000:00:14.0-6.2.1/input0

I already did test scans here and I'm happy to say it works neatly!

I would like to share a simple #2FA #Bash script with you, you. it is a #wrapper script around the oathtool program. You only have to then memorize simple names, such as 2fa.sh itchio or so.

Some examples:

$ 2fa.sh itchio
$ 2fa.sh friendica

So you only have to memorize itchio instead of your secret key.

Here is the script, public domain:

#!/bin/bash

# Helper script to easier store your secret keys for 2FA, needs
# oathtool being installed
#
# Author: Roland Haeder / Fediverse: roland@f.haeder.net

# Variables:
OATHTOOL_BIN=$(which oathtool)
BASE_PATH="${HOME}/.2fa"
SECRET_FILE="${BASE_PATH}/.secrets"
SECRET_KEY=""

# Check conditions, requires one parameter, oathtool and create base path
if [ -z "$1" ]
then
	echo "Usage $0 <service>"
	exit 1
elif [ -z "${OATHTOOL_BIN}" ]
then
	echo "Program 'oathtool' is not in your path or installed."
	exit 1
elif [ ! -d "${BASE_PATH}" ]
then
	mkdir "${BASE_PATH}"
	chmod 0700 "${BASE_PATH}"
fi

if [ ! -f "${SECRET_FILE}" ]
then
	touch "${SECRET_FILE}"
	chmod 0600 "${SECRET_FILE}"
fi

echo "Looking up secret key for service '$1' ..."
SECRET_KEY=$(grep "$1" ${SECRET_FILE} | cut -d " " -f 2)

if [ -z "${SECRET_KEY}" ]
then
	echo "Secret key for service '$1' not found."
	while [ -z "${SECRET_KEY}" ]
	do
		read -s -p "Please enter it: " SECRET_KEY
	done

	echo "Adding secret key ..."
	echo "$1 ${SECRET_KEY}" >> "${SECRET_FILE}"
fi

echo "TOTP code is:"
${OATHTOOL_BIN} -b --totp "${SECRET_KEY}"

Have fun!

#GeorgeCarlin was a living legend, what he had to say is so much true, until now. Today most of our languages (I know 2, German and Engliish) has become softer, people don't want to hear those direct words anymore, like "shell shock". You don't see a docotor in a hospital anymore, you visit the medical advisors in a wellness center (maybe a bit wrong, but you got the idea).

Or how about names: Do you name your child #Kyle when the sex is clear and is a boy? Why no #Eddie anymore? Or why no shithouse, why "comfort room" (he didn't talk about it, never that word "mention"!)? You are going to piss or shit there, right? Or take a shower or bath?

And speaking of child names, can we dump these #unisex names likes #Alex ? If the child is a boy, give him Alexander, if a girl it's Alexandra but never Alex. There is no unisex in genitals, unless you want to be an eunuch (sex-less human) or in chromosomes, XY or XX.

But I don't want to speak about dicks and ... er,no. Not cunt as by definition that's degrading. So how about pussy? No, that has a double meaning, same with vagina (sword's vagina).

So let's not get into there as you might know, I block those who call me insecure in "my" heterosexuality.

So let's get into watching what he has to say on the National Press Club conference: