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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.

Well, that was unexpected. In the following, I’m trying to follow Jon Evans’ advice from “The Terrible Technical Interview”.

To: [email protected]
From: Ahmed Fasih
Subject: Re: Programming Test Invitation

Hi there! Thanks for offering to let me take a HackerRank test for ABC, I appreciate the vote of confidence.

Installing tmux-256color for macOS

macOS 10.15.5
tmux 3.1b

macOS has ncurses version 5.7 which does not ship the terminfo description for tmux. There're two ways that can help you to solve this problem.

The Fast Blazing Solution

Instead of tmux-256color, use screen-256color which comes with system. Place this command into ~/.tmux.conf or ~/.config/tmux/tmux.conf(for version 3.1 and later):

Think twice before abandoning X11. Wayland breaks everything!

Wayland breaks everything! It is binary incompatible, provides no clear transition path with 1:1 replacements for everything in X11, and is even philosophically incompatible with X11. Hence, if you are interested in existing applications to "just work" without the need for adjustments, then you may be better off avoiding Wayland.

Wayland solves no issues I have but breaks almost everything I need. Even the most basic, most simple things (like xkill) - in this case with no obvious replacement. And usually it stays broken, because the Wayland folks mostly seem to care about Automotive, Gnome, maybe KDE - and alienating everyone else (e.g., people using just an X11 window manager or something like GNUstep) in the process.

	#!/bin/bash

	#
	# When you are working on your macbook sitting in cafe and you have to go pee,
	# you need some way to guard you machine.
	#
	# Start this script, remove any earphones, and go do the job.
	# The assumption is the thief will close the lid of the laptop before taking it away.
	# This script detects the closing of the lid and plays some loud audio that will
	# likely distract the thief and/or grab attention of nearby people, making the

	#!/bin/bash

	# Tom Hale, 2016. MIT Licence.
	# Print out 256 colours, with each number printed in its corresponding colour
	# See http://askubuntu.com/questions/821157/print-a-256-color-test-pattern-in-the-terminal/821163#821163

	set -eu # Fail on errors or undeclared variables

	printable_colours=256

	#! /usr/bin/env ruby

	# NOTE: Requires Ruby 2.1 or greater.

	# This script can be used to parse and dump the information from
	# the 'html/contact_info.htm' file in a Facebook user data ZIP download.
	#
	# It prints all cell phone call + SMS message + MMS records, plus a summary of each.
	#
	# It also dumps all of the records into CSV files inside a 'CSV' folder, that is created

	Mute these words in your settings here: https://twitter.com/settings/muted_keywords

	ActivityTweet
	generic_activity_highlights
	generic_activity_momentsbreaking
	RankedOrganicTweet
	suggest_activity
	suggest_activity_feed
	suggest_activity_highlights
	suggest_activity_tweet

	#!/bin/bash

	URL=$1
	DOMAIN=$(echo "$URL" \| awk -F[/:] '{print $4}')

	## Domain starts with
	if [[ $DOMAIN =~ $(echo ^\($(paste -sd'\|' /home/your-user/.config/url-start.txt)\)$) ]]; then
	chromium-browser "$URL" & disown
	elif [[ $DOMAIN =~ $(echo ^\($(paste -sd'\|' /home/your-user/.config/url-is.txt)\)$) ]]; then
	firefox "$URL" & disown