The Return of Git and a New Bookmark Service

Hello everyone!

Our git server has returned! This is a fresh start running Forgejo and requires a 32-Bit Cafe account to log in.

As many of you noticed, our git server (and also the tilde) went down last month. The machine it was running on was not owned by the barista/technomancer team so the sudden disappearance had caught us off guard. This unfortunately means that data stored on the old git server and tilde is lost. The new server is owned by the barista team and I have taken steps to build out a more robust automatic backup system to prevent this from happening again in the future.

If you use SSH to push/pull from repositories, you will notice a scary error message when you try to interact with the new server. This is expected because our host key has changed.

WARNING: REMOTE HOST IDENTIFICATION HAS CHANGED!

IT IS POSSIBLE THAT SOMEONE IS DOING SOMETHING NASTY!
Someone could be eavesdropping on you right now (man-in-the-middle attack)!
It is also possible that a host key has just been changed.

To mitigate this, run the following command then try again

ssh-keygen -R git.32bit.cafe

Additionally, we are offering a new bookmarking service! This is an instance of Linkding and also requires a 32-Bit Cafe account. With this, you can install a browser extension or use a bookmarklet to save webpages you visit, and retrieve them with an RSS feed or the API. Check out @fLaMEd’s blog post for an example of integrating this with 11ty to publish his bookmarks on his website!

Please give these services a try and as always, don’t hesitate to ask questions or give feedback on how we can better serve the community.

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This is great! I recently got a Boox (e-reader) and have been looking for an easy way to transfer article links from my phone. Thank you to the technomancers working on such handy community resources! <3

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as a web dev, this made my heart flutter. I’ll make sure to try the git server out.

The effort to move the whole service to a privately owned solution is also very much appreciated.

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I’m already taking advantage. Feel free to learn from my mistakes.

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