With @adswa we built a #gitAnnex special remote for https://internxt.com/drive
They offer "lifetime" plans for >>TB-sized zero-knowledge-encrypted cloud storage.
Should be good for private stuff.
The special remote implementation is wrapped around the official CLI.
It is not without issues (see README), and the API availability could be better. But if you don't like their android/desktop app, this could be means to put that drive to good use.
Starting a #gitAnnex fsck job on a repository that has approx. 1TB of mp3 files... this will take a while.
I did a thing: https://github.com/matthiasbeyer/git-annex-flake
#nixpkgs #nixos #gitAnnex #contributionsWelcome
:boost_ok:
testing new #gitAnnex feature that lets it be used with just about any P2P network that supports socket-like connections. yggdrasil, fowl, iroh, etc. Expanding on tor hidden services that git-annex already supports.
My test script simulates such a network using socket files with this absurdly small shell script.
It was pretty cool when "git pull" and "git-annex get" just worked over this on the 1st try.
![#!/bin/sh
if [ "$1" = address ]; then
date +%s
else
if [ -z "$2" ]; then
socat - UNIX-CONNECT:"/tmp/$1"
else
ln -sf $(realpath "$socketfile") "/tmp/$1"
fi
fi](https://files.mastodon.social/cache/media_attachments/files/114/954/492/217/481/039/original/357b73c01c6c2532.png)
Hier ist die Aufzeichnung meines #TdF4 talks letzten Samstag über „Das Leben in Git (Annex)”:
https://media.ccc.de/v/tdf4-26-das-leben-in-git-annex-
:git: #git :gitannex: #gitAnnex #radicale #opentimestamps #annextimelog #passwordStore
#forgejoAneksajo v12.0.1-git-annex0 just dropped! 🥳
Smooth update, even with my own patches 👍
Thank you @matrss for maintaining this amazing @forgejo fork! 💪
https://codeberg.org/forgejo-aneksajo/forgejo-aneksajo/releases/tag/v12.0.1-git-annex0
@umphy @datalad @matrss @mih @forgejo Now we just need to get rid of this other 'create pull request for synced/git-annex' noise when pushing.
@heise_ct Cool! Hab mal durchgeskippt, aber nichts zu einer tatsächlichen Backup-Lösung gesehen.
#Syncthing ist KEIN Backup! ⚠️ Muss man sonst auf die harte Tour lernen. Syncthing synchronisiert nur Ordner. Auch das Löschen von Dateien!
Auf dem :raspberrypi: #RaspberryPi muss dann noch sowas wie #borgBackup oder #restic oder :gitannex: #gitAnnex laufen, dann ist es eine super Lösung. 👍
z.B. hier: https://nobodyinperson.gitlab.io/talks/2025-tdf-life-in-git.html
https://streaming.media.ccc.de/tdf2025/
Hier sehr ihr mich gleich über :gitannex: #gitAnnex und #git reden
EDIT: Folien gibts hier: https://nobodyinperson.gitlab.io/talks/2025-tdf-life-in-git.html#/title-slide
EDIT: Hier die Aufzeichnung: https://media.ccc.de/v/tdf4-26-das-leben-in-git-annex-
Sneak peek für meinen talk „Das Leben in Git” beim #TdF in #Tübingen am 26.07.2025, 19:00 in der Westspitze.
TIL: #gitAnnex can be limited in bandwidth: `git config remote.REMOTENAME.annex-bwlimit-download "1MiB"`
Same goes for `annex-bwlimit-upload` and global limits are also possible (see `man git-annex`).
And here another one: #gitAnnex is notorious for making many commits in the background to the branches synced/<yourbranch>, synced/git-annex and git-annex. These have a perfectly valid technical reason and make git annex as awesome as it is, but in a #forgejo dashboard feed, these are massively confusing as they mask the really important changes. With a little bit of template massaging, these can be filtered out. Probably better to make this configurable somehow (checkbox? 🤔), but this is a workable solution for now.
It's very useful if you self-host the #FOSS tools you need, because then you can fix little issues you have here and there on your own.
For example, we use #forgejoAneksajo (#forgejo with #gitAnnex support) to sync and collaborate on code and data. We often have long filenames, which are unfortunately obstructed by forgejo's gigantic commit message column 😅 But a bit of #CSS later and that's fixed so we can more easily browse through our multicopter flight plots 😌
Heyy #gitAnnex quality people, do you have a quality tutorial to follow for archiving photographs? I am not satisfied with just creating a repo on an external drive because then I can't easily browse the archived photographs, and I am struggling to make an exported directory repo...
🎉 Registrations are now re-opened for #distribits2025, taking place 23-24 October!
https://www.distribits.live/news/2025-distribits-registration-open/
Join us in person (spots are limited) or remotely - sign up now at https://www.distribits.live/.
Please note:
⛔ The call for contributions is closed
🤖 The #hackathon is full, but you can ask to join the waitlist in your registration form
@datalad #gitannex #distributed #data #opendata #rdm #tech #open_source_software #conference
I must say I am positively impressed at how resilient to my own stupidity #gitAnnex is. :D
@umphy :gitannex: #gitAnnex and :datalad: #dataLad organize the data and sync it to our own :forgejo: #forgejoAneksajo instance. You can instantly see if everything is there and worked. A great workflow!
@umphy I spent the last two weeks migrating and curating all the :nixos: #NixOS configurations for the sensor packages to flakes. Previously, I hand-rolled the pinning, and it involved a lot of manual scripting, which is now gone, what a relief! 🥳
I had to drop :gitannex: #gitAnnex though for tracking assets I want to deploy on the copters. Unfortunately, flakes don't like git annex. 😔 But there is workarounds for many things.
