Tobias Tom tobiastom

It all comes down to trust

I had an awkward experience today. I downloaded an update for an app. I got excited about the excellent stuff they have done to their previous version and I really do love the app. Then I thought to myself: that's just too good to be true. It kind of was.

What did happen

I'm using an OS X Server for my mails, calendar, contacts, messages, wiki, VPN, whatever. You may like it or not, but it's a self hosted server which makes it easy for almost everyone to host their own stuff.

As paranoid as I am, as naive I can be. I did trust that application. I don't know anyone behind the app personally, but they seem to be some nice folks. I instantly logged myself into my jabber server with a username and a password in the believe that the password will stay on my device.

Beside other nice things the application provides a feature with which you can stay online, even after Apple has terminated the application (after a maximum of ten minutes, which can be quite annoying for a permanent

Description

This simple script will take a picture of a whiteboard and use parts of the ImageMagick library with sane defaults to clean it up tremendously.

The script is here:

#!/bin/bash
convert "$1" -morphology Convolve DoG:15,100,0 -negate -normalize -blur 0x1 -channel RBG -level 60%,91%,0.1 "$2"

Results

Backup repositories

The idea of this script is to backup all repositories from a remote SSH server.

It will search for ´.git´ directories inside the home directory of the "git" user. By default it is the current user, but can be configured by changing the $GIT_USER variable at the top of the script.

All repositories will be cloned into the current working directory.

If there is a previous clone of the repository at the given destination, it will obviously only make a new pull.

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