Git config with multiple identities

Wednesday, Jun 17, 2020 Post 361 words 2 mins read

Let’s say you work with multiple repositories, some personal, some work-related and you’re doing some freelance work for a friend or two. You definitely don’t want to use the same identity and expose your juicy don@fat.club email and the linked GPG key you sign your commits with. Or if you’re bipolar.

Let’s assume your git config is similar to this (just an example, not the same name and email address, of course).

$ git config --get user.name
Don Donnington
$ git config --get user.email
don@fat.club

Start by removing the existing global identity:

Malta

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Dirge Without Music by Edna St. Vincent Millay

Tuesday, Jun 16, 2020 Post 190 words 1 min read

I am not resigned to the shutting away of loving hearts in the hard ground.
So it is, and so it will be, for so it has been, time out of mind:
Into the darkness they go, the wise and the lovely. Crowned.
With lilies and with laurel they go; but I am not resigned.

Lovers and thinkers, into the earth with you.
Be one with the dull, the indiscriminate dust.
A fragment of what you felt, of what you knew,
A formula, a phrase remains, —but the best is lost.

The KLF: The White Room

Sunday, Jun 7, 2020 Music 116 words 1 min read

Quote of the Day

Saturday, Jun 6, 2020 Link https://old.reddit.com/r/announcements/comments/gxas21/upcoming_changes_to_our_content_policy_our_board/ft1nno4/

I once heard that Reddit was a free, anarchic and self-governed community that allowed for an open exchange of ideas.
When I came to Reddit, I found an authoritarian community heavily biased against any view apart from the vague liberal identitarianism that passes for establishment wisdom in the U.S. joined at the hip with an unspoken corporate agenda.
I encountered mobs of users who bristled at the faintest suggestion that the various hysterias gripping American politics had little basis in any discernable evidence. I encountered moderators who censored my modest and thoughtful posts for little reason other than that it contradicted their personal politics.
And today, I encountered a “spez” fellow who assumed the power to intrude into my feed and announce from on high his noble quest to purge “hate” from Reddit. Everywhere dissenting views are being tarred with the label “hate.” Black people and various minorities are presented as helpless children who do not have the power or discernment to fight their own battles or to speak for themselves. The enlightened God Kings of Big Tech must make the world safe for their utopia (while keeping their neighborhoods in California and New York scrupulously clean of actual black people, and the poor, and the homeless).
Am I crazy to think that an opaque cabal of Big Tech insiders do not have the most noble of intentions? Am I impolite to point out the obvious political expediency of a crusade against “hate” when the fist of an authoritarian police state smashes into black, white, and brown alike? What a potent tool something like Reddit could be against the malevolence of the police and the intelligence apparatus; but no, “spez” must drive the deplorables out!
It’s a bit depressing that a site as once-respected as Reddit has so thoroughly come to resemble the smiley-face authoritarianism of modern liberal politics. Who is “spez” friends with? Do they rankle at those pesky dissenting views? Why won’t “spez” do something about that rabble?
/user/Butkantcant

Cloudflare and marketing George Floyd's death

Wednesday, Jun 3, 2020 Post 128 words 1 min read

Inside scoop from Cloudflare office, Matthew Prince and John Graham-Cumming talking:

“- How can we market George Floyd’s death so people hear some more of Cloudflare and we can nag them with our captchas even more while MitM-ing all the traffic?”

“- I know, let’s do a blog post about how the number of cyberattack HTTP requests blocked! That will show them! All hail the Silicon Valley overlords!”

And a blog post was born (blog.cloudflare.com/cyberattacks-since-the-murder-of-george-floyd) and a submission to Orange News came normally afterwards. I’m not linking to the actual Cloudflare blog post because I’m against linking to cancerous companies.