notklaatu
@strypey I heartily suggest rdiff-backup. Al lthe convenience of rsync combined with diff'ed backups. Super simple, and when you have to recover, so much more precise that an rsync dump.
Here's my tutorial about it. Pretty quick read.
http://slackermedia.info/handbook/doku.php?id=backup
notklaatu
@archer72 I suggested pushing HEAD because not all "main" branches are called master but HEAD is always HEAD. I ran into that with a few repos when I was transferring stuff; one repo's main branch would be called development, or trunk, or something unexpected, so pushing HEAD was more generic and safer.
notklaatu
I know it's a dangerous nit-picky audit trail to start down, but I hate it when I find out that a #charity I donate to spends money on #proprietary software. It makes me want to stop donating, because I know there's a huge amount of money being wasted on something that can and should be $0. Like, without question, $0, if not supportive of #opensource.
(And yes, I know sometimes charitable orgs get $0 proprietary software, but rarely is it $0 across the board.)
notklaatu
@strypey
What does that say about the society that created TLJ vs the originals. It's almost like we modern folk can't even conceive something that is not structured by militaristic authority, even in our fiction.
notklaatu
Took a while to get it all sorted, but 94% of my repos are now gone from Github. I'm using this script:
https://notabug.org/notklaatu/sync-up
to mirror some stuff only found on Github with other remotes. Working out pretty well so far.
notklaatu
If you're looking for a nice self-hosted but multi-user git instance, take a look at Gitolite. It makes backend admin of your repositories, and adding users, authenticated by SSH keys, easy.
notklaatu
If Microsoft truly loves open source, they'd open source #github upon acquisition.
notklaatu
@ixn
Haven't had a chance to get back to it. Busy at work lately, plus writing a book, etc.
notklaatu
@cobra2 @wolfteeth Sorry I'm actually not a avid mobile user. Krita and Mypaint are excellent on the desktop, but I just don't know much about mobile.
notklaatu
@h4ck3r9 200 OK! Success!
notklaatu
@h4ck3r9
Solidarity. Forgetting the firewall step is something you do reliably, every single time, for at least a year. I think it takes about 17 times, then it finally sinks in and you Never Forget Again.
notklaatu
@theru Yeah, all I typed was:
$ curl icanhazip.com
and it responds with my public IPv4 addr. I just now tested both Fedora 27 and Slackware 14.2
Maybe it's something I configured on my home router or something.
notklaatu
@theru I didn't know that. But it does appear to forward my request on to https successfully. *shrug*
notklaatu
@h4ck3r9 Haha, yes that would be an issue!
notklaatu
@h4ck3r9 If you're cheap like me and this isn't a vital service, you can go to freenom.com to get a $0 domain.
notklaatu
@h4ck3r9 Not sure how much you know and don't know, so ignore me if I'm being pedantic.
You need a public IP address that points to your web server, and you may need to poke a hole in your firewall.
0. Log in to the computer serving your web site and type:
$ curl icanhazip.com
This shows your public IP addr.
1. Obtain a domain name and point it to that IP addr.
2. Open port 80 in your server's firewall, and possible forward port 80 from your router to the internal IP of your web server.
Ellie D.
Remember when we trusted software? When people said things like "don't install things from that site, they're probably viruses" and "I won't use software from them anymore, they put in ads and broke my trust."
Now it's all "install this app, it's absolutely spyware and adware and was written by some techbro in a basement motivated by nothing but quick money, but your phone's sandboxing should protect you from having your phone taken over or personal information stolen"
Benjamin Mako Hill
I've got a new paper with Sayamindu Dasgupta that analyzes a natural experiment in Scratch and shows how "wide walls" can support engagement and learning. https://mako.cc/copyrighteous/wide-walls-natural-experiment
notklaatu
@cobra2
I'll press the issue because I know you can take it - I'm going to argue that Gentoo's docs don't provide the amount of task-specific instruction or theory that my Slackermedia docs do.
Although... I guess somebody could build gentoo and then use my slackermedia docs for learning the tools and workflow.
I guess we're both winners this time. Darn, I was so sure I had the upper-hand.
notklaatu
This is an amazing talk about why open source software needs open source tools.
"We should listen to ourselves when we cite our openness as a reason to choose our software." - @mako
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