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The branch reflog (git reflog or git log -g ) is a lot easier to follow in the case of rebase than the HEAD reflog (which gets an entry for each commit that gets checked out / appl…

My favorite from this release. > The built-in new function, which creates a new variable, now allows its operand to be an expression, specifying the initial value of the variable. …

As long as what it says is reliable and not made up.

That's why I mentioned multiple addresses. The public addresses (assigned using SLAAC or DHCPv6) are for global reachability, while you use the local prefix for stable addresses wi…

The ipv4 routing table contains many individual /24 subnets that cannot be summarized, causing bloat in the routing tables. With ipv6, that can be simplified with just a couple of …

With IPv6, it's common to have multiple addresses on an interface. So on options is to assign yourself an [RFC 4193]( https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc4193 ) fc00::/7 rando…

Instead, you get to hunt the nouns.

It affects many open source projects as well, they just scrape everything repeatedly without abandon. First from known networks, then from residential IPs. First with dumb http cli…

Only if that AI does not hallucinate, otherwise it would be useless.

Systems that use shamirs secret sharing, like openbao, require multiple operators to unlock the secret engine. Gitlab premium can also require multiple approvals before a merge req…

If a TUI is an option, then `tig blame` is a good interface. https://github.com/jonas/tig

> OpenSSH sshd on musl-based systems is not vulnerable to RCE via CVE-2024-6387 (regreSSHion). https://fosstodon.org/@musl/112711796005712271

They have a blogpost about it: https://tailscale.com/blog/free-plan > TL;DR: Tailscale’s free plan is free because we keep our scaling costs low relative to typical SaaS companies.…

Until you want to introduce a change that affects both machines. You need to start rewriting history or cherry-pick the changes on both branches. The further the history diverges, …

It's surprising how often projects retag releases. Diffoscope makes it easy to see the difference between the original tarball and the retagged versions. Changes vary from from for…

For someone who understands git, it certainly is not. But if you are not aware of how git works, committing things when HEAD is detached could to confusion in the best case, and lo…

git diff by default outputs valid patch files that you can feed to patch out git apply. --word-diff does not Kernel development involves working with patches a lot, so it made sens…

Lift-off

Which is the equivalent of a fast-forward merge. Same result, different mechanism.