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Too personal to share, but maybe too personal and important to share even with the members of the cloudy cartel, i.e. the Providers. Is exactly why I wrote myba that does full contents and paths encryption before syncing with the lapsable remotes ...

https://kernc.github.io/myba/

Some things are better public. Some are not ...

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That looks nice!

The moment I started syncing dotfiles between my work and personal computers, I know it was an error because very different reasons. Difficulty of maintaining different OS details (Linux vs MacOS). What if leaked a private key or a sensible path. What if a pushed to the wrong place or somebody made public the wrong repository...

When reading your comment something and idea came to mind about using something like sops to encrypt paths, passwords and keys. But I'll check yours first, so to avoid to construct a bunch of stuff that you've already done :D

I am trying to contextualize git-based dotfiles.

  $ context set universe://work/customer-a/devops --update-dotfiles

will "render" and apply one set of dotfiles

  $ context set unvierse://work/customer-b --update-dotfiles

another set

  $ canvas dot apply user.name@remote.id:workspace-foo

Will apply all dotfiles of a workspace-foo (git clone repo, symlink)

  $ canvas dot apply user.name@remote.id:workspace-bar/shell/bashrc

will apply dotfiles of workspace-bar/shell/bashrc

yes, complicated, probably hard to comprehend/reason about, work in progress

I can no longer edit my original dot manager comment so to add some context: I developed an allergy for the term "vibe-coding" (and made a joke on the selection of OPs words), AI won't turn a lazy unskilled inexperienced person into John Carmack, lazy person + AI still equals to a lazy person. With that being said, most of you may have already experienced a divide between the above empirical truth and management decisions across your favorite corporate environments. So, the race is on, AGI-level agentic frameworks may be here soon enough to mitigate the above, then again, in the end isnt the enduser of most of our economic production directly or indirectly a human? Can a synthetic immortal system really cater for human needs? There is a reason why big deals are always negotiated in-person

this reminds me of public repos of pass [1] i've seen in the wild

same issue of intimacy, the paths aren't encrypted.

[1] https://www.passwordstore.org/

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