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Debian developer, sysadmin, ex-entrepreneur, anarchist, photographer, musician, writer.

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2024-09-13 15:41:08

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@npub1upk…tcwy https://github.com/jwilk/git-landmine is another one of those deliberately hostile repos

2024-09-13 15:26:13

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@npub1upk…tcwy i'm curious: how do you feel about the security of git status in prompts? this has typically been a huge attack vector when cloning and browsing untrusted git repositories, does fish handle that correctly?

2024-04-15 15:04:38

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@npub18et…m5kt none of the above. just type random commands in a terminal in desperation.

2024-04-10 17:41:56

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@npub1upk…tcwy wait, what's wrong with git describe and branch --contains? that's what i would have answered... :) is it because it's two separate commands?

2024-03-05 01:29:37

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@npub16uk…pv7k @npub1trd…ussx @npub1kzk…k9tq yeah, certainly i must be doing something wrong, would love to be educated about the Right Way to fix all my shit. feel free to peruse our docs and send improvements https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/tpa/wiki-replica/-/blob/master/howto/gitlab.md

2024-03-05 01:23:49

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@npub16uk…pv7k @npub1kzk…k9tq @npub1trd…ussx my blog tends to be subjective, it's not a newspaper or magazine (and even that would not be objective). 'painful' is definitely subjective, in any case. it is the pain i am receiving in self-hosting gitlab, of which i have extensive experience. it is not "trivial", nor is the cost "vanishingly small"

2024-03-05 01:21:15

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@npub1trd…ussx @npub1kzk…k9tq yes

2024-02-08 15:10:21

"Wayland and X.org are both part of freedesktop. Whatever maintenance is still happening on X.org is mostly being done by people who primarily work on Wayland. There isn't some kind of holy war going on between The Wayland Developers who want to kill X.org, and The X.org Developers who believe it is great and want to keep it. They're nearly all the same people, and they all want X.org to die."
— Adam Williamson https://lwn.net/Articles/960634/

2024-01-30 04:21:49

router archeology: the Soekris net5001 https://anarc.at/hardware/server/roadkiller/ #blog #debian-planet #freebsd #hardware #node #python-planet

2023-11-02 15:01:25

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@npub1upk…tcwy great post, thanks! one note: i'd be careful around saying that "`git reset --hard` and `git restore .` do basically the same thing": it's true if you read this literally, but the second you add an argument to `git reset --hard`, that goes out the window and you're moving the branch pointer! very dangerous, as you can lose commits!

2023-10-27 13:56:33

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@npub1upk…tcwy that. so much. i refused to work with git for a long time as it seemed like an obscure, unusable piece of software. coming from mercurial, CVS and SVN (and more), git was the absolute worse. i think the only reason i find the UI acceptable now is stockholm's syndrome, understanding the data model helps of course, but *you* thought me (last week!) that I didn't even fully understand *that* so i think most people overestimate that as well