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A Git Repo Root of Trust (A Proof-of-Concept & Work-in-Progress)

by Christopher Allen, Principal Architect, Blockchain Commons

Purpose of the Repository "Inception" Process

• Initialization of a Secure Repository: Establishing a new repository with a root of trust ensures all future changes and commits build on a secure and verified foundation.
  • NOTE: This initial commit relies solely on basic git and ssh-keygen tools, without additional code libraries or identity infrastructure.
• Leverage DIDs: By utilizing Decentralized Identifiers (DIDs) instead of traditional email addresses in the author and committer fields, we enhance privacy and align with decentralized practices.
• NOTE: The resulting initial commit identifier can serve as a unique identifier for the repository. A future "did:repo:git-commit-id" method could be created that allows a DID resolver to create a temporary DID Document to verify authenticat

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• macOS, Zsh, and more
  • Zsh initializations
  • Zsh way of $PATH
  • the special macOS
  • /usr/libexec/path_helper
    • What is it?
    • What does it do?
    • What does it break?
  • Situation explained

• The .*shrc file

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As root you need to edit /etc/apt/sources.lst

Then add contrib and non-free at the end of each line that begins with deb and deb-src just like the example:

deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian jessie main contrib non-free

deb http://security.debian.org jessie/updates main contrib non-free

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Brew Bundle Brewfile Tips

Copyright & License

Unless otherwise noted (either in this file or in a file's copyright section) the contents of this gist are Copyright ©️2020 by Christopher Allen, and are shared under spdx:Creative Commons Attribution Share Alike 4.0 International (CC-BY-SA-4.) open-source license.

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Gordian Envelope Links

• Tags: #gordian #envelope #dcbor #list #links #unsorted

Status & Copyright

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#!/usr/bin/env zsh

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# macOS Preferences Defaults
# By Christopher Allen @ChristopherA https://github.com/christophera/

# My most basic macOS preferences, in this gist to make it easy to load on
# multiple machines and VMs. Ideally runs on all macOS versions since Yosemite,

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Mermaid on Github Examples

All of these diagrams are dynamically rendered during html display by Github, the images generated from text inside the Github-Flavored Markdown. None are static images. Mermaid support was released for Github on 2022-02-14

Pros & Cons:

• Pro: You don't need to care about the layout.
• Con: You cannot control the layout.

Notes:

• Not all the features of Mermaid (in particular symbols B-->C[fa:fa-ban forbidden], hyperlink and tooltips) are supported by Github.

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1. do a fresh Erase Install Script
2. create user account as admin
3. login and auth iCloud
4. login to github with iCloud passkey
5. setup TouchID with sudo https://gist.github.com/ChristopherA/a0f6612b1a0491b8a80e0e0a1e58318e
6. terminal and my simple macOS Preferences Defaults
7. scutil --set HostName eurynome
8. scutil --set LocalHostName eurynome
9. scutil --set ComputerName eurynome
10. sudo hostname eurynome

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yt-dlp

A youtube-dl fork with additional features and fixes. Download videos from YouTube and other websites. More information at https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp

• Download a video or playlist (with the default options from command below):

yt-dlp "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oHg5SJYRHA0"

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macOS Time Machines Tips

Speed up

To give priority to Time Machine:

sudo sysctl debug.lowpri_throttle_enabled=0