Making keys

Generate keys:

1gpg --full-generate-key

Follow the guide.

Encrypting a file

1gpg -r malinfreeborn@posteo.net -e file

-r specifies the recipient.

Check you have an encrypted version of your file.

Changing Expiration Dates

1gpg --list-keys
2# or...
3gpg -k

... and then use the second part of 'pub', which is …

Basic Documents

Great a file called name.ms, with the following content:

1.TL
2Groff-Time
3.AU
4Ghost
5.NH
6How to Format Groff Documents.
7.PP
8Groff needs two new lines to show a new paragraph.

Then make a pdf from the document with:

groff -ems name.ms -Tpdf > name.pdf

The commands must be placed at the start of a …

Get the basic config:

1mkdir ~/.config/khard

1cp /usr/share/doc/khard/examples/khard/khard.conf.example ~/.config/khard.conf

Short list

1khard list

Longer list

1khard show

Show from addressbook 'work'

1khard list -a work

Make a new contact in address book 'family'

1khard new -a family

1khard edit grampa

1khard remove …

Video instructions

Setup gpg keys.

Show your gpg secret it:

1gpg --list-secret-keys

Then use the id number under sec to make a pass repo:

1KEY="$(gpg --list-secret-keys  | grep -m 1 -A1 '^sec' | tail -n 1)"

1pass init $KEY

To add a basic password, e.g. for $WEBSITE:

1pass $WEBSITE

To insert a multiline …

How to translate pdf book images to text (results are very poor, and will need lots of corrections).

Dependencies

Search for 'tesseract english' (or whatever language).

Arch: tesseract-data-eng and poppler-utils

Script

1pdftoppm -png *file*.pdf test

1for x in \*png; do
2    tesseract -l eng  "$x" - >> …

Check before you start:

• you have a normally running site on nginx already.
• your server has the directory /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/ enabled in the nginx config.

Installation and Service

Install radicale through your package manager (not pip). The standard radicale package should come with a nice systemd service file. …

• Sample file

Basic Commands

See Cells

Cells are hard to see. Change this with :set autowrap.

Make sc-im always autowrap:

1mkdir .config/sc-im/bash
2echo 'set autowrap' >> .config/sc-im/scimrc

Movement

You can share parts of a secret with multiple people, so only some of them need to agree to see the secret.

Install ssss, then decide on the total number of secrets (N), and the threshold of people who must share their shard of the secret in order to reveal the secret.

1N=5
2T=3
3FILE=secret.txt
4fortune | ssss-split …

http Setup

In this example, the port used is 23231, but it can be anything. Open /var/lib/soft-serve/data/config.yaml and make sure the http section looks like this:

 1# The HTTP server configuration.
 2http:
 3  # The address on which the HTTP server will listen.
 4  listen_addr: ":23232"
 5
 6  # The path to …

Work with a database:

1sqlite3 "$FILE".sqlite3

Compress the database:

1pragma vacuum;

Optimize the database:

1pragma optimize;