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balu_ | 2 years ago | on: Autogenerating a Book Series from Three Years of iMessages

Nice Idea, tryed to use the source and build a quick example myself... Now i'm reminded of me disliking latex (it just doesn't work)

balu_ | 2 years ago | on: Ask HN: What are your top goto Websites that you surf to on a daily base

i would also be interested

balu_ | 2 years ago | on: Proton Pass: Open-Source and Encrypted Password Manager App

further more, does anyone see the source anywhere? -edit it seems parts of it are on github https://github.com/orgs/protonpass/repositories

balu_ | 3 years ago | on: Show HN: A-Pass – small little password manager

None of the existing password managers filled my need, so i started to write my own (not the crypto ofcourse). Here it is :)

Why did I do it? I'm totaly dependend on my password managing software, all my passwords are generated by random so non of them are rememberable. During the last years I felt that my expectations and the traits of the password manager I was using grew appart. I dislike subscription based software (especialy if i might need it to extract/recover my secrets out of an old file). I dislike Web-UIs in native Apps. So i was looking around but when I had an incident where a licensed password vault just forgot that it was licenced and denied access I had enough. I wanted something that had a UI but also a data format that enables recovery with very little tools. So thats what I started to create.

A-Pass saves its secrets as json content encrypted by age[1] (so no hasseling with gpg). No information is visible without decrypting the files (no names / no urls). The file structure should be easy to sync, but its not implemented yet.

Looking forward to input & comments :)

[1] https://github.com/FiloSottile/age

balu_ | 3 years ago | on: Ask HN: Is anyone successfully self-hosting Firefox Sync?

unfortunately not anymore, in the early days of firefox sync back when it was called wave it was easy to selfhost. Just throw some[1] php files to a host and it worked. Then mozilla changed it to use multiple services (auth, ...) it got difficult and the documentation wasn't easy to access.

At that time i stoped selfhosting & using it :(

[1]: https://github.com/balu-/FSyncMS

balu_ | 4 years ago | on: Show HN: Age 1.0 – Simple, modern and secure file encryption

I would love to see a password manager based on age. Idealy using ssh-keys beeing combinable with git

balu_ | 4 years ago | on: Libimobiledevice – Open-source library to communicate with iOS devices natively

There doesn’t have to run anything special on the IPhone. In the early days iTunes could make backups on the local pc when the iPhone was connected via usb. Later on apple extended this to wifi: so if you had an iTunes running in your wifi and the iPhone joined a backup was done at the iTunes side.

I‘m not sure if this feature is still there, but I would have found this very useful if it would have been possible with the computer that is running anyways (as in the pi).

balu_ | 4 years ago | on: Libimobiledevice – Open-source library to communicate with iOS devices natively

Has anyone a solution to use this to backup the iPhone to a linux pc (raspi) automaticaly?

balu_ | 8 years ago | on: Stellar: The future of banking is here

good question, what is the shovel equivalent of the blockchain?

balu_ | 9 years ago | on: Save the Date by Google

"52.1821, 20.9965"

points to poland (18 on the map)

hint url here is https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/0B2BGioksxQiRc2hpTDJ1...

balu_ | 10 years ago | on: 1Password Leaks Your Data

An other reason why it's sad that Agile Bits does support Droppbox but not Webdav or any other selfhosted sync option

balu_ | 10 years ago | on: 1Password Leaks Your Data

There is no linux client to sync too

balu_ | 11 years ago | on: Ask HN: Which file storage service would you recommend for the long term?

Any idea how to cleverly check data integrity over some distributed services? (without downloading everyting)

balu_ | 11 years ago | on: Pulse: open, trustworthy, decentralised sync and cloud service

did you take a look at sparkleshare, it's kind of a dropboxreplacement based on git. Last time i checkt it was possible to enable ciphertext storage ( https://github.com/hbons/SparkleShare/wiki/Client-Side-Encry... ) .