Lawrence Velázquez larryv

How to have local versions of tracked config files in git

This is a fairly common question, and there isn't a One True Answer.

These are the most common techniques:

If you can modify your application

One of my favorite past times is to look at the notebooks of famous scientists. Da Vinci's notebook is well known, but there plenty others. Worshipping Da Vinci like no other, I bought a Think/Create/Record journal, used it mostly to keep jot down random thoughts and take notes. This was great in the beginning, but the conformity of lines drove me nuts. Only moleskines made blank notebooks, so I had to buy one.

At the same time I started a freelance project. The project itself is irrelevant, but suffice to say it was very complex and spanned several months. It seemed like a perfect opportunity to use the moleskine. Looking back, all my entries fell under few categories:

Todo
Question
Thought
Bug
Feature

Operational PGP

This is a guide on how to email securely.

There are many guides on how to install and use PGP to encrypt email. This is not one of them. This is a guide on secure communication using email with PGP encryption. If you are not familiar with PGP, please read another guide first. If you are comfortable using PGP to encrypt and decrypt emails, this guide will raise your security to the next level.

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

Keybase proof

I hereby claim:

I am larryv on github.
I am larryv (https://keybase.io/larryv) on keybase.
I have a public key ASA2PbEQSvMzBp7j89WM-YZemJrpkz0EfZj87XVnLNxNVQo

To claim this, I am signing this object:

	#!/usr/bin/env python3

	import subprocess, itertools

	class Shell(list):
	def __init__(self, shell, cmds):
	self.shell = shell
	super().__init__([(x, self.__run(x)) for x in cmds])

	def __iter__(self):

	-----BEGIN PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK-----

	mJMEV0+CqxMFK4EEACMEIwQAPhnLUWIaQZlMynz9JvYmUrcC8EJ/r9TK7RuKvGB9
	MZAKGdEFEk6rVWRHZ26G679kxkor5iRon7RUq4D3C9JnjagAdLGO/bZurLR5nD8Z
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	SgIbAQwLCQ0KCAwHCwMEAgEHFQoJCAsDAgUWAAMCAQIeAQIXgAIZARYhBFuiwikL
	JAhYKVJJQqsw1mQfmvDjBQJZcDuoBQkD+LH9AAoJEKsw1mQfmvDj6CgCCQFHJ9JV
	GfDsafIjIL/lESBEDCyt5Us7yqfRJAYC+aPXPN/ySySmAs/lIB5OpXEguDzk5ZJ8
	6mWcuoD03XL1KWX9lwIGJuNlC/eYx+2g2cmHBg5v5husWKHClhAPSLxqOYXu7jEU

	-----BEGIN PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK-----

	mQGNBFrAWkgBDADfVpDDWCTqTYl7hwdozP+TPw6fxNVuHXnjU58tXyDTmXVHG9vP
	Vi3Sph7EQ2kREa5XjflI/k7qODZV1KlqOSSaOamptkcbRGtEbAoNSzHubARDfcUD
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	E5dw29Cevi2akebSzXVhIkfucYQ5JFtdfEok3EpoSAF7AIpzh6/yVd+mqxIGmVI2

	-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
	Hash: SHA256

	I am transitioning to a new OpenPGP key, which is available from
	Facebook [1], Gist [2], Keybase [3], and the public keyservers. I will
	revoke the old key sometime after 4 July 2018.

	Old key fingerprint: 5BA2 C229 0B24 0858 2952 4942 AB30 D664 1F9A F0E3
	New key fingerprint: 3FD9 0322 47DE 2D20 1E75 28C4 9AC9 40DF FD01 7443

	:xdg-support: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/XDG_Base_Directory
	:xdg-spec: https://specifications.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-latest.html
	:fhs: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filesystem_Hierarchy_Standard
	:madness: http://pub.gajendra.net/2012/09/dotfiles
	:litter: https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/971m0z/im_tired_of_folders_littering_my_home_directory/
	:systemd: https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/
	:systemd-fhs: https://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/file-hierarchy.html
	:systemd-fhs-bin: https://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/file-hierarchy.html#~/.local/bin/

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