Tag: keepass

GnuPG PIN cache, Smartcards, YubiKeys and notifications

I am still obsessed with the OpenPGP smartcard. I know, it is definitely far inferior to YubiKey. It has far, far less features and it's GnuPG implementation is even riddled with serious bugs that can take days to work around. It definitely has it's peak years behind. But no matt…

Five differences between blog and microblog

Are you using Twitter? Or maybe you explore the depths of the Fediverse, for instance through Mastodon? Or maybe you use both. These services tend to be called microblogging platforms. And maybe you also have your own blog. And if not, at the very least, you are reading this, pub…

Make Auto-type work in kitty under Wayland

Being a big fan of KeePassXC project I am making use of virtually all the features it provides. One of the features I use really often is the global Auto-type feature. I use it for providing passwords into ssh sessions and into ansible when becoming a super user. The correct pass…

Install F-Droid on Arch via Anbox

F-Droid is an installable catalogue of FOSS applications for the Android platform. Apps I like: FairEmail as feature-packed email client Syncthing for file synchronization KeePassDX as a password manager GitNex as a Gitea client Tusky as Pleroma client Sometimes I like to docum…

SSH prompting KeePassXC unlock

Most servers I connect to have the option PasswordAuthentication set to no, meaning I do more often than not see an error: Permission denied (publickey). The reasons for this are multiple, but in my scenario, this happens because there are no identities (keys) present in the SSH…

Gnome Shell 40 upgrade

Performing my mundane periodic software package upgrade on a laptop I did not expect anything spectacular to happen. The Informant did not stopped the upgrade due to some breaking news. There was no problem with mirrors, key signatures, cyclic dependencies or incompatible package…

Syncthing can sync my entire phone

Syncthing has totally got me as a software. Every day I find new ways it helps increase my productivity. It started with a synchronized folder with password files made by KeePassXC between my phone and the notebook. Then I went on by synchronizing my photos folder. Apart from the…