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Thread: wmutils tricks and tips
Post: RE: wmutils tricks and tips
| Workspaces can be reduced to a list on windows to show at a given time. Say you start on ws#0. When you "switch" to ws#2, you save the list of currently visible windows, hide them, then get the list o... |
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z3bra |
Desktop Customization & Workflow
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09-02-2022, 07:22 AM |
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Thread: UNIX Diary
Post: RE: UNIX Diary
| (17-12-2021, 03:49 PM)venam Wrote: I'm wondering if this isn't too much information disclosure though, because the mac address can inform you about the manufacturer.
This is a legitimate concern, an... |
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z3bra |
Psychology, Philosophy, and Licenses
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126,078 |
20-12-2021, 08:34 AM |
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Thread: wmutils tricks and tips
Post: RE: wmutils tricks and tips
| This is not possible to do, while maintaining the way xmmv works right now. The behavior you expect involves that xmmv runs as a background process, while grabbing the shortcut Mod4+click. By doing so... |
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z3bra |
Desktop Customization & Workflow
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15,779 |
14-12-2021, 01:59 PM |
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Thread: Where is what
Post: RE: Where is what
| I don't know which shell you're using, but you can do the same by prefixing the command with \ in most shells (even dash(1)):
Code:% alias ls='ls -l'
% ls
code
data
tmp
% \ls
code data tmp |
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z3bra |
Servers Administration, Networking, & Virtualization
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29-11-2021, 07:50 PM |
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Thread: rm -i
Post: RE: rm -i
| As said above, you can simply "rm -rf directory" as it will expand to "rm -i -rf directory" and -f takes precedence over -i. |
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z3bra |
BSD
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21-11-2021, 03:55 PM |
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Thread: Community gopher hole
Post: RE: Community gopher hole
| Should be fixed now. I inadvertently pushed the default index.gph of the server's project, which took precedence over the correct one.
Sorry about that and happy gophering ! |
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z3bra |
Community & Forums Related Discussions
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19-11-2021, 03:34 AM |
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Thread: Web Tag
Post: RE: Web Tag
| https://nixos.org/manual/nix/unstable/co...-edit.html
Keep it up !
[Image: https://0x0.st/-Rpf.png] |
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z3bra |
Community & Forums Related Discussions
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16-11-2021, 07:27 AM |
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Thread: Community gopher hole
Post: RE: Community gopher hole
| It's just that the server wasn't registered to start on boot. This should be fixed now. |
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z3bra |
Community & Forums Related Discussions
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04-11-2021, 06:22 AM |
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Thread: Community gopher hole
Post: RE: Community gopher hole
| It was indeed, the gopher daemon didn't start after the reboot. Not sure why thouhg…
Thanks for the notice, it should be back up now ! |
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z3bra |
Community & Forums Related Discussions
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9,806 |
03-11-2021, 06:02 AM |
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Thread: The Gemini protocol
Post: RE: The Gemini protocol
| @freem, dude you're overreacting a bit there. You seem to take it personally at this point 😂
I used to think just like you, specifically about the crypto part. However, I've been digging through crypt... |
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z3bra |
The WWW
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25-10-2021, 10:58 AM |
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Thread: What are you working on?
Post: RE: What are you working on?
| I've been working on a Go based file sharing system (posing as an HTTP server). Result is here: partage.
I wanted a self-hosted solution for my family to share big files (eg. pictures, videos, …). In... |
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z3bra |
Programming On Unix
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179,734 |
25-10-2021, 06:36 AM |
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Thread: What are you working on?
Post: RE: What are you working on?
| (22-10-2021, 03:46 PM)humky Wrote: Here is regex, any critique is welcomed:
Code:grep -aEo "(((http|https|git|gopher|gemini|ftp)://|www\\.)[a-zA-Z0-9._-]*[:]?[a-zA-Z0-9./@$&%?\#... |
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z3bra |
Programming On Unix
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179,734 |
25-10-2021, 06:29 AM |
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Thread: Your top 10 commands
Post: RE: Your top 10 commands
| You guys should mount your download directory as TMPFS 😉
This way everything I download goes to ~/tmp and is wiped as I reboot. So when I download archives, I extract them right in ~/tmp, and only mov... |
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z3bra |
Desktop Customization & Workflow
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25-10-2021, 05:47 AM |
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Thread: Your top 10 commands
Post: RE: Your top 10 commands
| Why the hell do you guys use rm(1) so much ? |
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z3bra |
Desktop Customization & Workflow
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20-10-2021, 02:39 PM |
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Thread: Making the best CLI programs
Post: RE: Making the best CLI programs
| (15-10-2021, 12:49 PM)freem Wrote: This tool (sorry z3bra) also seems to only support power of two units, not power of 10 ones (unit(1) might be able to do that, though, not sure).
Haha no problem. ... |
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z3bra |
Programming On Unix
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17-10-2021, 07:54 AM |
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Thread: Your top 10 commands
Post: RE: Your top 10 commands
| Holy cow that post was 1 year ago already ! Good retrospective, given that your top command is vim, I'd suggest aliasing it 😉
That's funny to see you use tree rather than ls. isn't it too verbose when... |
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z3bra |
Desktop Customization & Workflow
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15-10-2021, 02:26 AM |
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Thread: webzine
Post: RE: webzine
| Good idea ! I tried to start a similar thing in the past, but it never caught up…
A few links:
https://nixers.net/Thread-Nixers-magazine
https://github.com/nixers-projects/magazine
https://i.imgur.... |
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z3bra |
Community & Forums Related Discussions
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12-10-2021, 12:13 PM |
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Thread: What are you working on?
Post: RE: What are you working on?
| I decided to make my email stack more robust, so I built a secondary mail server to queue up mails in the event that my primary server goes down.
Turns out, it's super easy with opensmtp ! I did that ... |
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z3bra |
Programming On Unix
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01-10-2021, 02:11 PM |
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Thread: What are you working on?
Post: RE: What are you working on?
| (30-09-2021, 04:36 AM)Ssynicil Wrote: I've been trying to increase my knowledge on computers and have began running linux (more specifically the Ubuntu distribution) through a virtual machine.
Prett... |
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z3bra |
Programming On Unix
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179,734 |
01-10-2021, 02:07 PM |
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Thread: window manager development thread
Post: RE: window manager development thread
| (13-09-2021, 01:11 AM)seninha Wrote: But it is too slow to redraw the window at every mouse motion...
There is another solution: only redraw every once in a while. Mouse motion events occur at a rea... |
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z3bra |
Desktop Customization & Workflow
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13-09-2021, 08:58 AM |
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Thread: Picking a new distribution
Post: RE: Picking a new distribution
| No idea, I didn't look it up in a while. |
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z3bra |
GNU/Linux
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10-09-2021, 03:31 AM |
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Thread: Picking a new distribution
Post: RE: Picking a new distribution
| 404 ?? shows just fine to me. https://z3bra.org/pm or https://git.z3bra.org/pm (the website is a glorified version of the readme file).
I also wish musl had better support ! |
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z3bra |
GNU/Linux
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01-09-2021, 04:31 PM |
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Thread: how do you know which tools you (really) use?
Post: RE: how do you know which tools you (really) use?
| It's funny that you mention that your "mindmap" looks like a roadmap to create a new distro. In the process of making a distro myself (which I never accomplished btw), I wrote a package manager for my... |
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z3bra |
Community & Forums Related Discussions
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30-08-2021, 03:03 PM |
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Thread: How do I Ubuntu ?
Post: RE: How do I Ubuntu ?
| So I finally managed to do everything I wanted, and get my very own configuration working. There are multiple key points, so I'll list them here:
X.org session startup
Ubuntu 21.04 ships with GDM3 a... |
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z3bra |
GNU/Linux
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30-08-2021, 01:15 PM |
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Thread: Picking a new distribution
Post: RE: Picking a new distribution
| Best reason to use Void is to have a fully working musl-based distro in no times, and easy to use. However, last time I tried (probably monthes/a year ago now), a 100% musl distro was painful in some ... |
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z3bra |
GNU/Linux
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30-08-2021, 11:19 AM |
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Thread: How do I Ubuntu ?
Post: RE: How do I Ubuntu ?
| Ubuntu default's session is Xorg, but wayland is supported also.
I didn't want to "hack" around the distro, that is, leave GDM running, change TTY and login+xinit. If I'm stuck with a distro, I might... |
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z3bra |
GNU/Linux
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30-08-2021, 06:51 AM |
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Thread: How do I Ubuntu ?
Post: RE: How do I Ubuntu ?
| Window management mostly. And some application launchers that I use (xmenu, sxhkd, dmenu) for which I need the ability to start them when the session starts.
In this regard, there are also a lot of th... |
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z3bra |
GNU/Linux
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22-08-2021, 01:34 PM |
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Thread: How do I Ubuntu ?
Post: RE: How do I Ubuntu ?
| Because my usage of a linux distribution goes beyond typing stuff at a shell. The softwares I'm used to is different from what's shipped by default on Ubuntu. |
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z3bra |
GNU/Linux
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22-08-2021, 01:05 PM |
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Thread: How do I Ubuntu ?
Post: RE: How do I Ubuntu ?
| Mmmmh, for me it's my toolbox, and I spend 7+ hours working with it. I just can't convince myself that gnome-shell is the solution to my problems.
To "work" on this issue, I decided to install it ahe... |
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z3bra |
GNU/Linux
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08-08-2021, 07:27 AM |
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Thread: How do I Ubuntu ?
Post: RE: How do I Ubuntu ?
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z3bra |
GNU/Linux
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06-08-2021, 04:48 PM |
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Thread: How do I Ubuntu ?
Post: How do I Ubuntu ?
| Hello folks,
This thread will be a little awkward (for me at least!).
Next monday, I'll have my work laptop reinstalled under stock Ubuntu 21.04, as per my company's policies.
The thing is, I have n... |
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z3bra |
GNU/Linux
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2,102 |
06-08-2021, 12:36 PM |
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Thread: Backing up and Deploying
Post: RE: Backing up and Deploying
| Edit : Removed my whole description, because I'm stupid. I already described my setup last year, in this same thread. Like, 4 posts above… No need to spam redundant info here, sorry for the noise ! |
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z3bra |
Servers Administration, Networking, & Virtualization
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14,860 |
04-08-2021, 08:46 AM |
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Thread: Launchers
Post: RE: Launchers
| Mostly dmenu, bound to super+x. And I have my most used software launchable via a menu when I click the root window.
Back when I ran wio on wayland, I liked that I could just fire up everything from ... |
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z3bra |
GNU/Linux
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20-07-2021, 03:03 AM |
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Thread: The Guess What I'm Talking About Game
Post: RE: The Guess What I'm Talking About Game
| Yup that's it ! Well done ;) |
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z3bra |
Psychology, Philosophy, and Licenses
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94,054 |
05-07-2021, 04:38 AM |
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Thread: Workflow Compilation [June Events 2021]
Post: RE: Workflow Compilation [June Events 2021]
| I wish I knew how to record the screen under wayland. Anyway, I don't have much to show off yet as I'm still figuring out how to make a usable wayland desktop. Looking forward to the full vid ! |
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z3bra |
Desktop Customization & Workflow
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6,587 |
30-06-2021, 10:21 AM |
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Thread: Which keyboard layout(s) do you use?
Post: RE: Which keyboard layout(s) do you use?
| I use a modified version of the "new azerty" layout (french), created by the AFNOR committee. It's fresh and new, so don't have much adopters (eg, no manufacturer print it yet), but it makes much more... |
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z3bra |
Off topic
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23,672 |
24-06-2021, 05:05 AM |
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Thread: Making the best CLI programs
Post: RE: Making the best CLI programs
| (21-06-2021, 06:23 AM)phillbush Wrote: Instead of a -h option for different programs to produce human readable values, use a utility, such as z3bra's human, that converts values from its input into ... |
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z3bra |
Programming On Unix
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23,205 |
24-06-2021, 04:59 AM |
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Thread: Nixers Book Club - Review and next book #3
Post: RE: Nixers Book Club - Review and next book #3
| The Wayland book is IMO the best starting point at understanding how Wayland works.
It explains all the concepts of wayland from the ground up, which is extremely valuable. My main problem with it is ... |
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z3bra |
Community & Forums Related Discussions
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30-04-2021, 04:49 AM |
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Thread: Alternative formats
Post: RE: Alternative formats
| It does, but is much more complex than cat(1). If videos where just streams of data, you could simply concatenate them by appending one after the other. |
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z3bra |
Unix Related Arts & Image Manipulation Software
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09-04-2021, 04:35 AM |
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Thread: Password management
Post: RE: Password management
| The only argument I have against this technique is password reuse.
I do agree that having a long plaintext password is secure enough (eg, a quote from a movie, book extract, …). For it to remain secu... |
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z3bra |
Security & Cryptography
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32,143 |
18-03-2021, 10:30 AM |
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Thread: Password management
Post: RE: Password management
| (17-03-2021, 12:35 AM)Ramiferous Wrote: Is askpass the same thing as a pinentry-program (set inside ~/.gnupg/gpg-agent.conf ?).
From the end-user perspective, yes. When I say "askpass", I don't mean... |
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z3bra |
Security & Cryptography
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32,143 |
17-03-2021, 11:34 AM |
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Thread: Password management
Post: RE: Password management
| (10-03-2021, 09:04 PM)Ramiferous Wrote: I'm looking at setting up something like this. Is it considered safe to push an encrypted password-store db to a git repository though? I have been using GNU'... |
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z3bra |
Security & Cryptography
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53 |
32,143 |
16-03-2021, 07:37 PM |
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Thread: Password management
Post: RE: Password management
| I too have been using safe(1) for the last year, and I love it. Because it feels good to use something you made, but also because I took the time to correctly setup a password management process with ... |
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z3bra |
Security & Cryptography
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32,143 |
08-12-2020, 06:31 AM |
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Thread: How to change the defaut grey bg of apps
Post: RE: How to change the defaut grey bg of apps
| You just hope that said software allows for using a different background color than "light black". Sometimes they do, sometimes they don't…
Either patch it if you have access to the source, or make "... |
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z3bra |
Desktop Customization & Workflow
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1,019 |
04-12-2020, 05:05 AM |
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Thread: I want to explain you about pandemiuc
Post: RE: I want to explain you about pandemiuc
| Hello woo,
Who created you ? |
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z3bra |
Community & Forums Related Discussions
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03-12-2020, 05:40 AM |
