Jim Newsome @sporksmith@mastodon.social

Anyway, let's see how well this works...

I added a single contact on my phone, installed evolution on my desktop, and symlinked the evolution directory to the syncthing directory there.

Opened evolution and... contacts is empty. Tried to add a contact there and it claims the db is read-only. Hmm...

Apparently syncevolution is a thing. I don't want to deal with teaching every program whose backing store I want to sync about which devices to sync to and how to contact them, though.

One of the mechanisms syncevolution can use is 'SyncML' which looks like a generic synchronization protocol. I wonder if there's a "syncthing for SyncML"...

It'd be nice if there were a simple command to "copy the user permissions to the group permissions".

Since there shouldn't actually be any executables there I can probably get away with just setting everything g+rw, and then the directories go g+x.

```
sudo chmod -R g+rw /var/lib/syncthing/Sync/evolution
sudo find /var/lib/syncthing/Sync/evolution -type d -exec c
hmod g+x \{\} \;
```

Permissions are a little tricky. I think I want everything in syncthing's directory to be owned by syncthing, but I need to still have access.

I've chown'd the directory to syncthing.syncthing, but not everything is group-accessible, so my user can't access it anymore.

I could just recursively set everything to g+rwx, but that'd be weird for files that shouldn't be executable.

Anyway, yolo

```
mv ~/.local/share/evolution /var/lib/syncthing/Sync
ln -s /var/lib/syncthing/Sync/evolution ~/.local/share/evolution
```

That's how I've been keeping my keepass password db sync'd across machines. So far keepassxc and related clients handle it pretty gracefully. If I try to save and the DB has changed out from under it in the meantime, I'm prompted whether I want to reload first. If syncthing notices conflicts when syncing and leaves a conflict file for me, I can use keepass to merge the extra copies of the db and then delete them.

Contemplating syncing ~/.local/share/evolution via syncthing as a way to sync contacts etc. on my pinephone.

@PINE64 Woohoo! My PinePhone is here! Unfortunately I'm stuck at "use your fingernail or another soft object to pop up the back of the case". I've tried my fingernail and a coin, but so far no luck. Any pointers?

Looks like I'm in the market for a new phone. I'm leaning towards finding one I can flash LineageOS onto. Any recommendations for such a phone, or other mature libre-software alternatives?

Attempting to come to a truce with the Rust type system https://www.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/hvjk9q/strategies_for_referencing_and_mutating_parent/

orrrr it turns out I can work around it by just using fork instead of vfork.

Compiling a newer gdb from source to get the fix for a follow-fork bug. Looking forward to trying out the latest greatest bugs :).
https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=24454

Why to consider implementing an onion service for your company's web site https://www.facebook.com/notes/alec-muffett/how-to-get-a-company-or-organisation-to-implement-an-onion-site-ie-a-tor-hidden-/10153762090530962/

Sharing generic platitudes about peace and love as a response to what's happening right now is the "I'm not touching you" version of "all lives matter" #subfacebooking