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@@ -1,13 +1,26 @@ #+title: My feed -#+OPTIONS: num:1 toc:nil +#+OPTIONS: num:nil toc:nil timestamp:nil #+HTML_HEAD_EXTRA: <style>*{font-family: sans-serif !important}</style> #+ATTR_HTML: :rules all :frame border :align center | [[https://skylarcloud.xyz][🌎 Home]] | [[https://skylarcloud.xyz/feed.html][📡 My feed]] | [[https://searx.skylarcloud.xyz][🔭 SearXNG]] | [[https://git.skylarcloud.xyz][⚙️ Git Repos]] | +#+HTML_HEAD_EXTRA: <style> div.abstract { margin: auto; width: 80%; text-align: center; color: black; } </style> +#+begin_abstract +When my orbit allows me, I'll beam out various notes or longer posts about the things I'm interested in. I'm still experimenting with how to structure them. +#+end_abstract + #+TOC: headlines 1 -* Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse :post:book: +* Moving away from writing this site in org-mode :note: + +I've been writing this website in Org files, and exporting them to HTML. This is easy to get working, but working with raw HTML and CSS seems like a better opportunity for learning, and will let me do more customization without a bunch of org-export knowledge. + +I've rewritten the homepage with just HTML, and started working on my own CSS style. I've been using org features for creating the RSS feed, so I'll have to figure that out before I change all pages. + +Org-exported HTML also has many many features, including many that I don't need, and generates larger file sizes than I need. + +* Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse :note:book: :PROPERTIES: :ID: 22138706-ea97-4202-8c7f-a50511f31237 :PUBDATE: 2025-04-05 Sat 00:54 @@ -27,41 +40,29 @@ This book has been rattling in my brain since I read it a couple month ago. I wa #+end_quote -* Spinning, combing, waiting, waiting - draft :song: +* [[https://skylarcloud.xyz/music/spinning-combing-waiting-waiting.m4a][Spinning, combing, waiting, waiting - draft]] :song: :PROPERTIES: :ID: 51652c89-25a8-40b6-9344-6b5a1d7e3ee6 :PUBDATE: 2025-04-04 Fri 23:24 :END: -[[https://skylarcloud.xyz/music/spinning-combing-waiting-waiting.m4a][Spinning, combing, waiting, waiting - draft]] -* The Tor Browser :post:tor: +* [[https://skylarcloud.xyz/posts/tor-browser.org][The Tor Browser]] :post:tor: :PROPERTIES: :ID: 0ebb418d-f15f-4379-8343-a4c5a9054d7a :PUBDATE: 2025-04-05 Sat 07:47 :END: -[[https://skylarcloud.xyz/posts/tor-browser.html][How and why of the Tor Browser, used to browse/publish on the internet anonymously and escape censorship.]] +How to use the Tor Browser to escape censorship and browser/publish on the internet without being surveilled. * 3 Browser extensions I almost always install :note: :PROPERTIES: :ID: b366ef4e-8747-49af-ba35-a088163c7623 :PUBDATE: 2025-04-03 Thu 05:40 :END: -** uBlock Origin -:PROPERTIES: -:ID: 8035be60-1ae7-47bd-a9b8-40d964dc393b -:END: -Perhaps the most ubiquitous content/ad blocker, reliable as ever. I recommend this to anyone and everyone. - -** Vimium C -:PROPERTIES: -:ID: c6685409-84da-4101-8c74-efa4ddda78c4 -:END: -This lets do basic navigation in your browser with vim-like keybindings. You can click links, scroll, go back and forth between tabs and through your history, select/copy/search text and more with your keyboard. - -** Dark Reader -:PROPERTIES: -:ID: 83562b76-589a-470f-a16c-794bef1bf786 -:END: -Makes all websites default to a dark mode, and provides an easy toggle bound to Alt-Shift-d. +- uBlock Origin + - Perhaps the most ubiquitous content/ad blocker, reliable as ever. I recommend this to anyone and everyone. +- Vimium C + - This lets do basic navigation in your browser with vim-like keybindings. You can click links, scroll, go back and forth between tabs and through your history, select/copy/search text and more with your keyboard. +- Dark Reader + - Makes all websites default to a dark mode, and provides an easy toggle bound to Alt-Shift-d. * Prepping for v2 of my salt repo :note:qubes: :PROPERTIES: @@ -70,91 +71,11 @@ Makes all websites default to a dark mode, and provides an easy toggle bound to :END: I've massively restructured my salt repo and added enough features that I'm going to make a new repository and release it again in full, as a 2.0 version. This should be done within the next week or two. -* Examples of installing software in QubesOS with Saltstack :post:qubes: -:PROPERTIES: -:ID: bb15d59f-c217-441a-9446-108429b52c10 -:PUBDATE: 2025-04-02 Wed 22:34 -:END: -Here are some various methods of installing software that I've used in my personal salt configuration: -** pkg.installed -:PROPERTIES: -:ID: 0e128288-8e86-41b1-9d4e-8ed5d431d110 -:END: - -Here's ~/srv/user_salt/pkgs/accounting.sls~ as an example. It uses the simplest way of installing programs, which is by using ~pkg.installed~ and passing it a list of packages to pull from a qube's repositories. This is the typically the most preferable way to install software if the desired package is already in your distro's repositories. - -#+begin_src salt -# Install accounting tools -accounting--install-apps: - pkg.installed: - - pkgs: - - hledger # Command-line plain text accounting - - gnucash # Graphical GNU accounting suite -#+end_src - -** Install from third-party repo with a script -:PROPERTIES: -:ID: 98e7e2ec-b88b-4a92-a065-5876a4f7c0ed -:END: - -Here's ~/srv/user_salt/pkgs/signal.sls~ as an example. It places an installation script, ~/srv/user_salt/pkgs/install-scripts/signal-repo.sh~ into a qube and executes it to install the Signal messenger. - -#+begin_src salt -... - -signal--repo-script: - file.managed: - - name: /usr/bin/install-repo # this is where the installation script is placed - - source: salt://pkgs/install-scripts/signal-repo.sh # This is where the installation script was sourced - - user: root # sets the owner of the file, you can usually default to root - - group: root # sets the group of the file, you can usually default to root - - mode: 777 # sets the permissions of the file, you can usually default to 777 (any user on the qube has permissions) - -# This simply executes the install-repo script in a qube -'install-repo': - cmd.run -#+end_src - -Here's the installation script that's ran: - -*** ~/srv/user_salt/pkgs/install-scripts/signal-repo.sh~ -:PROPERTIES: -:ID: f07d4cd1-6ec6-41da-af32-41b9512eefb9 -:END: - -#+begin_src bash -# Retrieves Signal's key for verifying the package -# The request is proxied through 127.0.0.1:8082 to allow the template qube to access the internet -sudo curl --proxy 127.0.0.1:8082 -s https://updates.signal.org/desktop/apt/keys.asc | gpg --dearmor | sudo tee -a /usr/share/keyrings/signal-desktop-keyring.gpg > /dev/null - -# Defines Signal's repo in /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ -echo 'deb [arch=amd64 signed-by=/usr/share/keyrings/signal-desktop-keyring.gpg] https://updates.signal.org/desktop/apt xenial main' | tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/signal-xenial.list - -# Updates packages and installs signal-desktop through the newly configured repository -sudo apt update -sudo apt install signal-desktop -y -#+end_src - -** Move a binary file into /usr/bin -:PROPERTIES: -:ID: 0dacbd16-7ddd-420e-8422-acff908a3c46 -:END: - -Here's ~/srv/user_salt/pkgs/st.sls~ as an example. It very simply takes a binary file that's part of the salt repository, and moves it into the ~/usr/bin/ directory in a qube. - -#+begin_src salt -# Installs my build of st terminal -/usr/bin/st: - file.managed: - - source: salt://pkgs/bin/st.bin - - user: root - - group: root - - mode: 777 -#+end_src - -* Convenient torrenting with qBittorrent :post: +* [[https://skylarcloud.xyz/posts/install-pkgs-w-saltstack.html][Examples of installing software in QubesOS with Saltstack]] :post:qubes: +Some demonstrations of installing software in 3 different ways in qubes via Saltstack. +* [[https://skylarcloud.xyz/posts/torrenting.html][Convenient torrenting with qBittorrent]] :post: :PROPERTIES: :ID: 13adfc33-4537-4010-aeb5-06b84c451fbd :PUBDATE: 2025-04-05 Sat 08:09 :END: -[[https://skylarcloud.xyz/posts/torrenting.html][Straightforward guide for using qBittorrent to search for and download media files]] +Quick guide for searching and downloading media with qBittorrent. |