Release: Gitea 1.14.0

Today marks the release date of the Gitea 1.14.0, only a few days after the release of the patch version 1.13.7. Although 1.14.0 is a minor release from the semver's perspective, it contains a lot of changes. I decided to add comments on the Features I am the most excited about. …

Hate speech in the Fediverse?

Fediverse is still an unknown for a lot of people. It is also unregulated by no central entity and everyone can impose their own rules. Critics say that such environment attracts actors that are thrown out of other communities and that these actors are actually bad actors. Why wo…

SSH prompting KeePassXC unlock

Most servers I connect to have the option PasswordAuthentication set to no, meaning I do more often than not see an error: Permission denied (publickey). The reasons for this are multiple, but in my scenario, this happens because there are no identities (keys) present in the SSH…

Gnome Shell 40 upgrade

Performing my mundane periodic software package upgrade on a laptop I did not expect anything spectacular to happen. The Informant did not stopped the upgrade due to some breaking news. There was no problem with mirrors, key signatures, cyclic dependencies or incompatible package…

Feature: task list in Gitea issues

There is a feature in Gitea that got me a little puzzled recently. At first, I thought it is related to Project Milestones (a Kanban Board in Gitea). After clicking around at everything I have found, and even removing all the boards and milestones, the icon with a progress bar p…

How to use flashrom on Archlinux ARM

By corrupting a bootloader on my router's motherboard I managed to soft-brick it. Bootloader is usually the first batch of software instructions, the motherboard executes when powered up. Soft-bricking means that the device won't boot up, but can be resurrected to life, or de-bri…

Arch news pacman hook tip

Part of the Arch Linux system maintenance is to actively read latest news. Mostly anyone who uses Arch has come across this piece of advice: read the news before updating! In other words, before running the dreaded sudo pacman -Syu command, one should be prepared to act upon any …