Lately, I’ve been having some problems when building picom-ibhagwan-git and picom-tryone-git. The first one would build OK, but not the second one. After a bit of debugging, I found out that it was a problem related to the way makepkg and git handle the cache when building these forks. This would also happen when adding the picom-git package: it would build because it’s the first package in alphabetical order and Jarvis builds the packages that way, but not the other two....

Há mais de um ano cruzei-me por acaso com dois trabalhos que o músico israelita Kutiman fez para o projeto Mix the City. Na altura, fiquei fascinado com o que ele criou e ouvi as músicas em loop durante algum tempo. Acabei, no entanto, por não ouvir as restantes criações deste projeto e nem sequer ver do que se tratava. Hoje, no entanto, decidi ir ao Youtube pesquisar algumas músicas do Mix the City e deparei-me com a seguinte música: Ziggy Has Ardeur - Mix The City Mannheim....

You might have noticed that Userrepository uses Cloudflare. I chose it for two main reasons: their ability to help mitigate (D)DoS attacks and to help hiding the IP address for the VM from script kiddies. It’s not that I think Userrepository will ever be a target for a (D)DoS attack, but better safe than sorry. Also, I have more than enough automated failed SSH authentication attempts without revealing the IP: 441 blocked _IP_s and counting for one fail2ban ssh rule and 2 for another fail2ban ssh rule....

It took me a while to update you about the latest changes to my Arch and Arch-compatible Linux distributions repository. But first, let me apologize for the delay: work, personal life and, for about 3 weeks now, a horrible back pain (that just doesn’t stop, even with an handful of medication) have kept me from doing this in the time frame I expected. First on the “agenda”, I experimented with increasing the zstd compression level for the packages like I said I would do in my last post about the repository....