Ever considered setting up and running your very own git server? It’s actually quite easy! In this post, I’ll outline the steps I took to set up my own so that you can give it a try yourself. But first, why might you even want to go through the trouble of setting up your own server?

After all, there are a wide array of excellent and free to use choices out there, such as GitHub, GitLab, and the up-and-coming sourcehut.

One reason is ownership: in today’s world of corporate surveillance, rampant privacy violations, and data breaches, there is something to be said of truly owning your own data. Both git and the web itself were designed and built on principles of decentralization and distribution. Standing up your own server is one way to tap into that heritage.

It’s also just plain fun, at least if you’re into that sort of thing. You get to build something useful and put your name on it. It’s something you control. You get to decide how it works, how it looks, who can access it, and what exists on it.

Setting up a git server is actually relatively straight-forward. Almost all of the heavy lifting is done by git itself, but I will also introduce a few supplementary tools to handle things like access control and HTTP access.

Pipes are cool! We saw how handy they are in a previous blog post. Let’s look at a typical way to use the pipe operator. We have some output, and we want to look at the first lines of the output. Let’s download The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky, a fairly long novel.

Don't be boring! If you still have to go to work meetings via Zoom's video calls, switch up the background to something interesting. Using the "virtual background" feature (once you're logged into the meeting), you can insert ANY image you want behind you. Share your flair with the people you work with!

SSH is a powerful tool which often grants a lot of access to anyone using it to log into a server. In this post, I’m going to talk about a few different ways that you can easily improve the security of your SSH model without needing to deploy a new application or make any huge changes to user experience.

The central region of our galaxy, the Milky Way, contains an exotic collection of objects, including a supermassive black hole weighing about 4 million times the mass of the Sun (called Sagittarius A*), clouds of gas at temperatures of millions of degrees, neutron stars and white dwarf stars tearing material from companion stars and beautiful tendrils of radio emission.

The region around Sagittarius A* is shown in this new composite image with Chandra data (green and blue) combined with radio data (red) from the MeerKAT telescope in South Africa, which will eventually become part of the Square Kilometer Array (SKA).

Zoom up to new altitudes by downloading these #TopGun
: Maverick Virtual Backgrounds for your @zoom_us
meetings, hangouts and happy hours here: https://bit.ly/topgunzoom.

To your favorite Pixar locations…and beyond! Let the fun begin with these rootin’, tootin’ video call backgrounds!

Am Wochenende haben sich mehrere Menschen nicht an die Auflagen gehalten. Polizisten lösten Partys auf und schlossen Eisdielen. Die Grünen kritisieren: Es fehle ein klarer Handlungsrahmen für Polizei und Ordnungsämter.

It’s early yet, but we’ll see once the bodies are buried

So I used to work for the US government dealing with a bunch of international weather records and this was constantly causing problems.
Being a US government agency, we naturally used the US government standard.

But most of the time people entering in values used ISO codes 

Published on Feb 27, 2020

For today’s episode of War Stories, Ars Technica sat down with Naughty Dog Co-founder Andy Gavin to talk about the hurdles in bringing the original Crash Bandicoot to gamers around the world. When Andy and his partner Jason Rubin made the decision to bring the action platforming genre into three dimensions, it required living up to their company ethos of “leaving no stone unturned” in the search for memory - even if it meant hacking Sony’s library code.

Technocratic management, no matter how brilliant, cannot unwind structural inequalities

Waste the space or fill up the rack with additional Raspberry Pies? Well, we decided for the latter, and so our 1024-node Raspberry Pi cluster became a 1060-node Raspberry Pi cluster

Mad maker, Peter Sripol, apparently got a zillion requests from his viewers to build an R/C model of an Ekranoplan, aka the Caspian sea monster, a Soviet-era ground-effects vehicle (GEV), a plane designed to skim over water.

Here you’ll find my complete set of posts covering the Amiga Machine Code course.

The course consists of twelve letters and two disks, that can be found here. The letters are available as PDF’s in their original danish language as well as translated to english