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GPG and git on macOS

Setup

No need for homebrew or anything like that. Works with https://www.git-tower.com and the command line.

Install https://gpgtools.org -- I'd suggest to do a customized install and deselect GPGMail.
Create or import a key -- see below for https://keybase.io
Run gpg --list-secret-keys and look for sec, use the key ID for the next step
Configure git to use GPG -- replace the key with the one from gpg --list-secret-keys

Vim cheat sheet

Starting Vim

vim [file1] [file2] ...

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

Create PDF files from Markdown sources in OSX

When [Markdown][markdown] appeared more than 10 years ago, it aimed to make it easier to express ideas in an easy-to-write plain text format. It offers a simple syntax that takes the writer focus away from the formatting, thus giving her time to focus on the actual content.

The market abunds of editors to be used for help with markdown. After a few attempts, I settled to Sublime and its browser preview plugin, which work great for me and have a small memory footprint to accomplish that. To pass the results around to other people, less technical, a markdown file and a bunch of images is not the best approach, so converting it to a more robust format like PDF seems like a much better choice.

[Pandoc][pandoc] is the swiss-army knife of converting documents between various formats. While being able to deal with heavy-weight formats like docx and epub, we will need it for the more lightweight markdown. To be able to generate PDF files, we need LaTeX. On OSX, the s

Do not use this guide. The dnscrypt protocol and dnscrypt-proxy configuration file have changed a lot since I wrote this gist. Check the following links for help:

Install & Configure

Install DNSMasq

$ brew install dnsmasq

	# this is a sample .curlrc file
	# https://everything.curl.dev/ is a GREAT RESOURCE

	# store the trace in curl_trace.txt file. beware that multiple executions of the curl command will overwrite this file
	--trace curl_trace.txt

	# store the header info in curl_headers.txt file. beware that multiple executions of the curl command will overwrite this file
	--dump-header curl_headers.txt

	#change the below referrer URL or comment it out entirely

	#!/bin/bash

	# References
	# http://www.computerhope.com/unix/nc.htm#03
	# https://github.com/daniloegea/netcat
	# http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/26715/how-can-i-communicate-with-a-unix-domain-socket-via-the-shell-on-debian-squeeze
	# http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/33924/write-inside-a-socket-open-by-another-process-in-linux/33982#33982
	# http://www.linuxjournal.com/content/more-using-bashs-built-devtcp-file-tcpip
	# http://www.dest-unreach.org/socat/
	# http://stuff.mit.edu/afs/sipb/machine/penguin-lust/src/socat-1.7.1.2/EXAMPLES


	FILE SPACING:

	# double space a file
	sed G

	# double space a file which already has blank lines in it. Output file
	# should contain no more than one blank line between lines of text.
	sed '/^$/d;G'

	#
	# Sets Prezto options.
	#
	# Authors:
	# Sorin Ionescu <[email protected]>
	#

	#
	# General
	#

	---
	####
	#### THIS IS OLD AND OUTDATED
	#### LIKE, ANSIBLE 1.0 OLD.
	####
	#### PROBABLY HIT UP https://docs.ansible.com MY DUDES
	####
	#### IF IT BREAKS I'M JUST SOME GUY WITH
	#### A DOG, OK, SORRY
	####