🐰 chee cherries quiet party
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Sunday the 23rd of May 2021

  • released unidentified
  • i first read about "alt+tab" in a physical paper book called something like Windows 95 Tricks & Secrets
    • i ran over to my computer, which was running the Windows 98 beta that I got given on a secret CD
      • my father obtained it through his contacts in The Industry
      • i lent it to 1 of 100 english army boys called Matt who lived down the street
        • i don't believe i ever got it back
    • i actually remember the feeling, it was like "how many more are there like this?"
    • i'd uncovered a secret interface
      • maybe i'm embarking on a new journey where i would learn hundreds more
      • i'm just now lighting my torch in this dark cavern
    • there were exactly 0 more
  • on Wednesday abe and me got tacos in a real life restaurant
    • it's called DF Tacos
      • they do really good tacos
        • i really like tacos
  • i don't really remember the rest of the week
    • photo of chee rabbits wearing a calyx t-shirt

      i got this calyx institute t-shirt

    • you know, they run a free vpn and a free xmpp server

  • i have a vaccine booking for early june
    • they're going to inject me with 5g and make me a magnet
    • i wish i could choose which vaccine i'm getting
      • i want the russian one
        • it's one and done
      • or one of the cuban ones
        • one of the cuban ones is a spray that goes up your nose
        • help them out
        • let's move to cuba
          • Dr Gerardo GuillΓ©n, who heads up development of two vaccines at the Center for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology, is a chocoholic who has had to do without his favourite fix for over a year (there is none in the shops). His Β£200 a month salary is a hundred times less what he could earn abroad.

            β€œWe do have offers,” said Dr Mitchell ValdΓ©s-Sosa, β€œbut we prefer to stay because we feel a commitment to the development of our country. We’re not working to make some chief executive obscenely rich; we’re working to make people healthier.”

          • like wtf

    • the thing i remember to comfort me that they aren't going to inject me with 5g and make me a magnet is that if they really wanted to get something inside me they would simply put it in the water supply
  • anyway i need to make coffee now. please enjoy unidentified
    • if you listen with your eyes closed it's the 14 minute first half of a story of first contact
      • musically speaking, i mean. it's not like a word story. just pure vibes
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did that thing today where i blow away my whole linux partition and start again

it's some kind of extreme sport; recreational crisis zone

i tried qubesos, it was unusable on my laptop. now i've installed
manjaro. manjaro is remarkably good. btrfs, encrypted boot. it was almost
effortless to get to a system that would normally take me an hour or two on
vanilla arch.

i'd like some vanilla ice cream, but they would saw my feet off. 
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what do you think would happen if you were to rub mayonnaise into your skin every morning you go to hell
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going to start referring to this decade as "the doubles", sorry 
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Q: what do these things have in common?:
- HTTP cookies
- the blink element
- HTTP server push
- HTTP proxying
- the lynx web browser

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A: they were all created by Lou Montulli 
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Restoring from a SeedVault backup stored in Nextcloud

On Android there's a nice open source backup tool written by the cool folks at The Calyx Institute, called SeedVault. It backs up your apps and all of their settings, and re-installs your settings when you re-install an app. It's cool, it's good.

You can store your backups in a few different places: the phone, a usb stick plugged into the phone and Nextcloud.

On CalyxOS, GrapheneOS and LineageOS there is a section of the install process that offers to let you restore from your Seedvault backup. However, you don't have Nextcloud installed yet when you're at that part of the install. The installer promises to let you install Nextcloud, but it seems to try to do that using Google Play, which you don't have. So instead it just crashes. And when you continue the install you can no longer restore from the back-up -- going into the settings and selecting Backups starts the process of creating new backups.

So, here's the process:

  1. Install GrapheneOS
  2. Skip restoring from backup
  3. Download and install F-Droid
  4. Install Nextcloud from F-Droid
  5. Log into Nextcloud
  6. Enable Developer Options on your phone
  7. Enable USB Debugging, and allow your phone
  8. From computer:Β adb shell am start-activity -a com.stevesoltys.seedvault.RESTORE_BACKUP
  9. On the phone: tap Nextcloud
  10. Watch "Looking for backups" for a while
  11. SeedVaultΒ appears to exit, but do this again: adbΒ shellΒ amΒ start-activityΒ -aΒ com.stevesoltys.seedvault.RESTORE_BACKUP
  12. Now you should be able to enter your backup passphrase and enjoy all your apps coming home again
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https://www.wired.com/story/the-full-story-of-the-stunning-rsa-hack-can-finally-be-told/

Timo Hirvonen, a researcher at security firm F-Secure, which published an outside analysis of the breach, saw it as a disturbing demonstration of the growing threat posed by a new class of state-sponsored hackers.

is it? or is it a demonstration of the threat of centralization?

https://freenode.net/news/freenode-is-foss

centralization is a ticking bomb