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How to change a cloned GNU/Linux machine's identity

You've just finished installing and configuring all those packages on your first machine. Now it's just a matter of cloning the hard drive into all the others and changing the hostname. Right?

Well, not so easy. If you wish to avoid conflicts on your network, backups and elsewhere, i.e. if you wanna end up with a unique fingerprint for each machine, you must go a few steps further.

Here follows a checklist to help you out. It's aimed at Debian and derivates (e.g. Ubuntu), though other distros won't be much different.

hostname

The old way: edit /etc/hostname and /etc/hosts

Live screencast stream on GNU/Linux through CLI

Requirements

ffmpeg
mkvserver_mk2

Software encoding

ffmpeg -f x11grab -s 1920x1080 -i :0.0 -r 5 -g 10 -vcodec vp9 -f matroska pipe:1 | ./server

Public XMPP servers with Tor Onion Service

This is a tentative list of public XMPP (Jabber) servers that provide a Tor Onion Service (.onion address) for connections from within the Tor network. By public I mean, servers that are free for everyone to use and place no barriers on registration.

Clearnet domain	Tor Hidden Service	In-Band registration	XEP compliance
5222.de	fzdx522fvinbaqgwxdet45wryluchpplrkkzkry33um5tufkjd3wdaqd.onion	links to web form	100%
cock.li	xdkriz6cn2avvcr2vks5lvvtmfojz2ohjzj4fhyuka55mvljeso2ztqd.onion	disabled	30%
dismail.de	4colmnerbjz3xtsjmqogehtpbt5upjzef57huilibbq3wfgpsylub7yd.onion	disabled	100%

Tips for a full dark desktop interface

GTK+ based desktop environments

On GNOME, Unity, Cinnamon, MATE, Xfce, LXDE and all other GTK+ based desktop environments choose a deep-dark theme such as Dorian. If you already run GTK+ 3.20 check out Cloak 3.20 or the darkest variant of Candra 3.20.

These are full-featured themes by killhellokitty that include modifications for Google Chrome (Chromium), Firefox and Thunderbird.

Web browsing

How to backup and restore an encrypted CyanogenMod Android

The easiest way to backup a CynogenMod (CM) based Android, such as Replicant, is to enter ClockworkMod Recovery (CWMR) and use the backup/restore feature. However that won't work in a device with Full Device Encryption (FDE) because the /data directory is encrypted and therefore unaccessible in CWMR.

Thus we'll have to use backup apps that work within CM, when /data is accessible. The following procedures can be used to backup and restore all your apps, data and settings, using only free software.

Backup

Install oandbackup. Go to preferences > cryptography, enable encryption and set up your OpenPGP email. Back in preferences enable copy own apk and special backups.
Use oandbackup to backup data+apk for all your user apps. Tip: use batch backup with sort and filter.

Change keyboard layout

dpkg-reconfigure keyboard-configuration

Set locale

locale-gen dpkg-reconfigure locales vi /etc/default/locale

LANG="en_US.UTF-8"

LANGUAGE="en_US:en"

	# Maintainer: Matthew Sexton <[email protected]>
	# Contributor: Nebulosa <nebulosa2007-at-yandex-dot-ru>
	# Contributor: dllud <dllud riseup net>

	pkgname=python-curl-cffi
	_name=curl_cffi
	pkgver=0.5.10
	pkgrel=2
	pkgdesc="Python binding for curl-impersonate via CFFI"
	arch=(x86_64)

	/*
	* by Stefan Agner 2014
	*/
	/* Full line insert, left to right or visa-versa */
	@define-color insert-bg #203020;
	@define-color insert-outline #387038;
	@define-color insert-text White;

	/* Missing files in folder diff */
	@define-color delete-bg #302020;

	#!/usr/bin/env python
	# -- coding: utf-8 --
	#
	# This is how I used it:
	# $ cat ~/.bash_history \| python bash-history-to-zsh-history.py >> ~/.zsh_history

	import sys
	import time

	def main():