Not for smartcards

I used to use Thunderbird, but their PGP integration always crashed the whole program. I now use Evolution.

All the important login information should just be present somewhere in your home folder. If you back that up and restore it later you should be fine, no need to save the dropbox binary.

If that is no option and you only want to back up dropbox files and nothing else follow the instructions below (I can’t guarantee that they will work, but they should):

Back up the whole system, if something goes wrong you can at least restore to a working state. Read the instructions at least once completely before following them.

Look at the documentation for dropbox to see which files are relevant and need backing up. Its the Dropbox folder with all the files, but will probably be some folders/files in your $HOME too, which store login information. Lets hope that they don’t store some metadata there that will invalidate the config if it’s running on a different machine (to prevent what you are trying to do).

If there is no documentation, you can stop dropbox completely. Look for dropbox processes that don’t get stopped when you stop the GUI with something like pgrep -f -i dropbox.

Once you are sure all dropbox processes are stopped run inotifywait -r -m ~. That command wont exit unless you stop it by issuing ^C. It will list all filesystem events in your home directory. Now start dropbox and see which files it accesses, those are the files you need to back up. It will probably be one or more whole directories in ~/.config and ~/.local.

Add those files to a tar archive using something like this: tar cvJf dropbox_config.tar.xz [list of folders...]. Savre the resulting tar file somewhere else, reinstall and extract it using tar xvJf dropbox_config.tar.xz. Take care to run those commands from the same directory.

The dropbox login secrets might also be stored in your system’s keyring, if you are using GNOME, then that will be GNOME Keyring. Open your system’s credential manager and look for stuff related to dropbox. Look for instructions on how to back up and restore those secets. I don’t use that often enough to be able to give you more detailed instructions right now though.

References

• https://www.man7.org/linux/man-pages/man1/tar.1.html
• https://linux.die.net/man/1/inotifywait
• https://linux.die.net/man/1/pgrep
• https://specifications.freedesktop.org/basedir/latest/

Edit:

• backups
• keyring

I use something like this:

#!/bin/bash

set -euo pipefail
URLS=(
    'https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/ublock-origin/'
    'https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/privacy-badger17/'
    'https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/passff/'
    'https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/copy-plaintext/'
    'https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/duckduckgo-for-firefox/'
    'https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/user-agent-string-switcher/'
    'https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/clearurls/'
    'https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/temporary-containers/'
    'https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/consent-o-matic/'
)

DOWNLOAD_BASE_URL='https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/downloads/latest'
_="${FIREFOX:=firefox}"
_="${DST:=/usr/lib/$FIREFOX/browser/extensions}"

if [ $UID -eq 0 ]; then
    SUDO=
else
    SUDO=sudo
fi


download_links=()
for url in "${URLS[@]}"; do
    package_name="$(sed 's_/$__' <<< "$url" | awk -F/ '{print $NF}')"
    download_links+=("$DOWNLOAD_BASE_URL/$package_name/addon-$package_name.xpi")
done

workdir="$(mktemp --directory)"
cd "$workdir"
for url in "${download_links[@]}"; do
    curl -OL "$url"
done

for ext in *.xpi; do
    ext_id="$(unzip -p "$ext" 'manifest.json' | jq -r '(if .browser_specific_settings then .browser_specific_settings else .applications end).gecko.id')"
    target="$DST/$ext_id.xpi"
    echo "$ext -> $target"
    $SUDO install -Dm644 "$ext" "$target"
done

That doesn’t handle the extension config though.

To check your system for those packages (assuming you are using bash):

comm -1 -2 <(pacman -Q | awk '{print $1}' | sort) <(sort vulnerable_packages.txt)

With vulnerable_packages.txt containing one package name per line.

Google: Laughs in “Everybody else you communicate with who has that shit enabled”

Did you waive your rights to the code anywhere? If not then it’s still your code and they used it without obtaining the rights to using it - depending on your jurisdiction ofc.

Good to know! I didn’t see a link in your about page.

Hi, nice project. Why would I use your project over similar (open-source) projects like sharry and lufi?

I personally would prefer to use those alternatives because their source is available and can be reviewed, I didn’t see any reference to your source code - which is fine, but a no-go for me personally.

I think I remember some weird power bugs in the 2700x, though I never encountered them myself. The best thing I could find was this reddit thread https://www.reddit.com/r/Amd/comments/apw8im/ryzen_freezes_in_linux_even_if_linux_is_in_vm/

Do you still have the live iso you used to install arch? Does it work? Do other distros work (just the live systems are enough)?

Edit:

Some more things: Did you try disconnecting the pc from mains, pressing the power button (to discharge all capacitors) and reconnecting. Reseat the button cell for the bios?

There are good April’s fools jokes and there is this. Some things you just don’t joke about.

I’m still of the opinion, that your GUI sucks if it needs documentation.

Docker container can’t read a bind mount. Permission issue? No, it’s SELinux, again. And I didn’t even install it explicitly, it just got pulled in by another package.

And to be clear, the issue isn’t SELinux really, but unexpected non standard behaviour which I never asked for (never explicitly installed it).

It’s really only downloading the executable and java, starting it and opening the required port. See the official documentation for instructions.

If you want to get more involved there are some convenient docker containers which automate some stuff:

• one for running the server
• a proxy

Just don’t bring any device to a protest if you consider bringing a burner device.

Seems like I have an affected device. No thanks to google for helping me figure that out. Their useless page shows no information regarding that. Had to look at the serial number of the battery: sudo cat /sys/class/power_supply/battery/serial_number. Which contains the string from the mastodon post.

Now, I have a custom ROM, so that means I won’t suffer degraded battery capacity, it just might be dangerous to continue to use my phone.

I just keep my history file around and have set it up to never truncate. Then grep or ^R.

Something like that should do it:

i = ~((~i + 1) + ~0) + 1