James SleepyPeko

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Most VPN Services are Terrible

Short version: I strongly do not recommend using any of these providers. You are, of course, free to use whatever you like. My TL;DR advice: Roll your own and use Algo or Streisand. For messaging & voice, use Signal. For increased anonymity, use Tor for desktop (though recognize that doing so may actually put you at greater risk), and Onion Browser for mobile.

This mini-rant came on the heels of an interesting twitter discussion: https://twitter.com/kennwhite/status/591074055018582016

iOS, The Future Of macOS, Freedom, Security And Privacy In An Increasingly Hostile Global Environment

This post by a security researcher who prefers to remain anonymous will elucidate concerns about certain problematic decisions Apple has made and caution about future decisions made in the name of “security” while potentially hiding questionable motives. The content of this article represents only the opinion of the researcher. The researcher apologises if any content is seen to be inaccurate, and is open to comments or questions through PGP-encrypted mail.

TL;DR

Exporting your 2FA tokens from Authy to transfer them into another 2FA application

IMPORTANT - Update regarding deprecation of Authy desktop apps

Past August 2024, Authy stopped supported the desktop version of their apps:
See Authy is shutting down its desktop app | The 2FA app Authy will only be available on Android and iOS starting in August for details.

And indeed, after a while, Authy changed something in their backend which now prevents the old desktop app from logging in. If you are already logged in, then you are in luck, and you can follow the instructions below to export your tokens.

If you are not logged in anymore, but can find a backup of the necessary files, then restore those files, and re-install Authy 2.2.3 following the instructions below, and it should work as expected.

Install BetterDiscord on Linux

This Gist contains simple instructions on how to install, update, and uninstall BetterDiscord on Linux.

For more thorough documentation, take a look at betterdiscordctl's README.

Do NOT submit issues here as I don't check the comments. You should submit them here instead.

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This won't work anymore because Discord moved to cloud storage for the gifs

Backup

Open Discord.
Press CTRL, SHIFT and I on your keyboard at the same time.
In the newly opened window, at the top, click the >> button, and then click on Application.
Once in the Application tab, click the little triangle next to Local Storage, and then click on https://discordapp.com.

	DO WHAT THE FUCK YOU WANT TO PUBLIC LICENSE
	Version 2, December 2004

	Copyright (C) 2011 Jed Schmidt <http://jed.is>

	Everyone is permitted to copy and distribute verbatim or modified
	copies of this license document, and changing it is allowed as long
	as the name is changed.

	DO WHAT THE FUCK YOU WANT TO PUBLIC LICENSE

	# Fail2Ban configuration file
	#

	[Definition]

	# Notify on Startup
	actionstart = /usr/bin/curl -s -F "token=<token>" -F "user=<user>" -F "title=[Fail2Ban] <name>" -F "message=Jail <name> has been started successfully." https://api.pushover.net/1/messages

	# Notify on Shutdown
	actionstop = /usr/bin/curl -s -F "token=<token>" -F "user=<user>" -F "title=[Fail2Ban] <name>" -F "message=Jail <name> has been stopped." https://api.pushover.net/1/messages


	"Mozilla/5.0
	"Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/75.0.3770.100 Safari/537.36"
	'Cloud mapping experiment. Contact [email protected]'
	'Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Seekport Crawler; http://seekport.com/'
	() { :; }; echo ; echo ; /bin/cat /etc/passwd
	(CASE WHEN (1933=6210) THEN 'Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US) AppleWebKit/531.4 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/3.0.194.0 Safari/531.4' ELSE 1933*(SELECT 1933 FROM DUAL UNION SELECT 6210 FROM DUAL) END)
	(CASE WHEN (3405=3405) THEN 3405 ELSE 3405*(SELECT 3405 FROM DUAL UNION SELECT 8193 FROM DUAL) END)
	(CASE WHEN (5046=4939) THEN 5046 ELSE 5046*(SELECT 5046 FROM DUAL UNION SELECT 4939 FROM DUAL) END)
	(CASE WHEN (7404=7404) THEN 'Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US) AppleWebKit/531.4 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/3.0.194.0 Safari/531.4' ELSE 7404*(SELECT 7404 FROM DUAL UNION SELECT 6679 FROM DUAL) END)