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Manage your passwords with password-store

Hello everyone, lately I’ve decided not to use the password manager offered by all major browsers nowadays, but instead try to manage all my passwords using some open source software in order to have a better control over my passwords. I’ve decided to write this article after reading this blog entry by AlienBob where he speaks of KeepassXC, and since I’ve used it, I wanted to give a valid alternative to some downsides that I’ve stumbled upon while using it. The first approach I’ve attempted, as I said, was using KeepassXC, quoting their website: KeepassXC website What I did was install keepassXC on my Slackware64-current, export all my passwords from my main browser, save them as CSV and import them inside keepassXC. Now I have to remember just one password to access my database and I can install the browser integration add-on for chromium (or firefox) to have all my passwords readily available. Neat!! To share my passwords between my devices, I simply made a private git repository on my server and synced the password database with it. I then went and installed KeePassDroid, which is an Android implementation of keepassXC. Since keepassdroid doesn’t sync automatically from a remote server, I had to use git on my phone to pull/push to my remote in order to keep the password database up to date, and even if that’s not a big deal, I wasn’t happy with my password workflow so, while still using this approach, I was looking for alternatives.

Money for indipendence

If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. — Henry Ford

Speak to Me

Pink Floyd – Speak to Me Credo che questo sarà il mio primo tattoo.. :)

R.I.P. Steve Jobs

pure nerdgasm

responsibility

nerdness

We are nerds. Resistance is futile via ipstenu.org

outside of the box

It isn’t enough to think outside the box. Thinking is passive. Get used to acting outside the box. — Tim Ferriss

Ceasar quote

What we wish, we readily believe, and what we ourselves think, we imagine others think also. — Julius Caesar

Katsushika Hokusai

I just wanted to share a few images by one of my favourite artists with you. **Katsushika Hokusai** (葛飾北斎, Katsushika Hokusai 1760–May 10, 1849) was a Japanese artist, ukiyo-e painter and printmaker of the Edo period. In his time he was Japan&'s leading expert on Chinese painting. Born in Edo (now Tokyo), Hokusai is best-known as author of the woodblock print series Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji (c. 1831) which includes the iconic and internationally recognized print, The Great Wave off Kanagawa, created during the 1820s. Hokusai created the "Thirty-Six Views" both as a response to a domestic travel boom and as part of a personal obsession with Mount Fuji. It was this series, specifically The Great Wave print and Fuji in Clear Weather, that secured Hokusai’s fame both within Japan and overseas. As historian Richard Lane concludes, “Indeed, if there is one work that made Hokusai&'s name, both in Japan and abroad, it must be this monumental print-series...” While Hokusai&'s work prior to this series is certainly important, it was not until this series that he gained broad recognition and left a lasting impact on the art world. It was The Great Wave print that initially received, and continues to receive, acclaim and popularity in the Western world.

haiku

il suo profumo. il piacere dei sensi. fine di un sogno. — yours truly

haiku

Gli uccelli cantano nel buio. Alba piovosa. — Jack Kerouac

sasso, carta, forbice, lucertola, spock!

Chi di voi miei fedeli (3) lettori non ha giocato almeno una volta nella vita a Sasso, Carta, Forbice? Beh, se ci avete giocato, avrete notato che tra giocatori che si frequentano assiduamente, c’è l’80% di probabilità di un pareggio causato dalla scarsità di alternative… Ecco che vi viene in aiuto l’espansione del classico gioco: Sasso, Carta, Forbice, Lucertola, Spock! In quest’espansione sono aggiunti 2 ulteriori simboli, la mano a forma di lucertola (un po’ come il serpente delle ombre cinesi) e il classico saluto vulcaniano (indice e medio da una parte e anulare e mignolo dall’altra).

Mario Congiusta candidato al Consiglio Regionale calabrese

Vi voglio segnalare un avvenimento molto importante per me. Premesso che io non mi interesso molto di politica, mi guardo intorno e mi rendo conto che la situazione in Calabria e in Italia sta cadendo vertiginosamente in un baratro senza fondo. La corruzione c’è sempre stata, ma ultimamente la nostra politica sembra diretta sempre più verso un’idea totalitaria, verso un futuro che non voglio nemmeno immaginare. Chi è al potere cerca di accentrare sempre più potere su se stesso, non esistono più schieramenti, tutti le parti politiche collaborano tra loro di nascosto, si scambiano favori in modo da ottenerne altri, e tutto questo uccide la democrazia, tutto questo uccide la voce che il popolo ha in merito alle questioni dello Stato.