Firejail and symlink pointing outside of home directory

I normally move /home/user/Downloads off /home/user to a secondary mechanical drive and then symlink it back to /home/user. Firejail for security reasons does not allow whitelisting directories residing outside of the home directory, the simplest solution I found is mount Download directory using mount --bind. sudo mount --bind /mnt/data/Downloads/ /home/user/Downloads To make the change permanent edit fstab: cat /etc/fstab --- /mnt/data/Downloads /home/user/Downloads none bind

Posted on

Free Suunto Ambit3 from the botnet

Suunto makes some solid sport-watches, problem is that the management software is comprised of a closed source synchronization program (compatible with Windows and OSX only) and some cancerous cloud web interface accessible directly from their website. Even putting aside my personal aversion for closed source software, it is clear that this approach is retarded because an internet connection is required to be able to download any kind of data from the watch. What if I don’t have any signal? What if I don’t want to upload my data to Suunto’s servers? Luckily some good lads reverse engineered the communication protocol used by the watch to speak with the PC synchronization client, and even more, they also wrote an open source Linux compatible tool that can be used to download data from the watch. This tool is called: Openambit The version included in Fedora 27 repositories is not up to date and does not support the Ambit3 Run I own, luckily the github version does. …

Posted on