alienbob
Unfortunately the Forge web site forge.slackware.nl is super slow today. The reason: an onslaught from many many IP addresses belonging to Chinese infrastructure. It almost feels like a DDoS attack. Every repository, every commit, every ‘blame’ page seems to be requested and the requestors are...
alienbob
In an earlier article here on the blog, I documented how I have setup cgit to create a browseable web interface to my git repositories, most notably git.liveslak.org and git.slackware.nl. That configuration has worked just fine for years, and you could clone a branch of a repository using the...
alienbob
I wanted to share some news with you. After weeks of hard work and being forced to learn new tech from scratch, the Slackware Community Forge, a git software forge, is now available at https://forge.slackware.nl/ . It’s not just a git repository server but also a Docker container registry! What...
alienbob
Time for a KDE Plasma6 package refresh. On KDE’s announcement page, the releases of KDE Gear 26.04.1 and Frameworks 6.26.0 were announced yesterday and today. Since OS packagers have early access to the source tarballs, I had everything compiled and ready for days and could simply push everything...
Akseli
Just testing out the forgejo instance I set up. Nothing should really change, my blog just is now on my own instance, so I can be less careful about the amount of data the blog repo uses, since I have tons of pictures. Setting it up was rather easy. I was having tons of problems with DNS finding...
Akseli
Preface: I am really bad with servers. I actually dislike working with them, most of the time. Setting up ports and proxies and other stuff just really frustrates me. It's like washing dishes by hand: I just want to get it over with. I wanted my blog to automagically update whenever I make a git...