A quick and dirty way I usually combine private repositories is to use the
--rebase option for git pull. I have written about such option already
in a post about
keeping git fork in sync with the upstream.
Here's how to do it:
git remote add --fetch other ../other-repository
git …
Clicking pghero under Mastodon Administration menu, the interface shows the
Query stats must be enabled for slow queries orange warning, in the
interface that looks like this:
After clicking the blue Enable button, instead of a success, the error
The database user does not have…
A minimal set of commands I had to do to successfully run Mastodon via
docker-compose on the VPS. Many OS specific configurations are omitted, as
I decided to use Arch on this VPS as well, which is not what most people
choose for their server environment, at least not when
caveat…
Setting up a Mastodon instance was not so hard. I mean, it took some tries
to get it right finally, but generally I could understand what is happening
and why there is currently a problem all the time during that process.
However, configuring that instance to send emails was a fr…
After adding support for PHP 8.0, Arch news reported they are
keeping legacy PHP7 packages
available back in January. I was quite out of PHP scene for now, but
recently, I had to test something.
The test obviously required the
php core package, now
the version 8.0 and a second ha…
You might be thinking there is a typo in the rrsync but it is actually a
legitimate command name. The command name comes from restricted rsync and
is usually distributed alongside rsync via the package manager. Lets find
out where it is located on Arch Linux:
$ pacman -Fy &&a…
There is no shortage of privacy related issues on the Internet. One of them
I decided to tackle today is EXIF metadata embedded to the photos I publish
here. I do not publish photos too often currently, but occasionally I do.
Before today, I did not strip any EXIF metadata and th…