I got off facebook today. My account isnt active anymore. There’s a point to which you can stand those ToS changes that Facebook makes and then breaks for their benefit. To have random ads showing up in my feed is just not worth anymore! And sitting there isnt giving me any money either. I’m no big Security and Privacy advocate but if Facebook knows when you’re taking a leak, you should definitely be concerned! Read more

Day one - Tour of Karnataka . What a day! I couldn’t be happier! 150 km covered in just over 7 hours of riding… The usual knee pain, but in all an amazing ride. Idli and vada did not help once again… And I had to resort to energy bars to push to lunch point at 119km. The heat almost killed me post lunch.. Hassan should be renamed HAS-ONLY-SUN. Chennai would lose hands down in heat wave comparisons. Read more

I moved to Bangalore in July this year and the first thing I realised that there was no way I was prepared to share my paychecks with Uber. There was no way I was going to stay stuck in traffic for 2 hours in each direction either. The only option left, that I’d put on the back burner was Cycling. So I went ahead, spoke to a few friends, met the inspiring Mr. Read more

My Name is Ashwin, known around the internet as cruisemaniac. I am a DevOps, Infra and Cloud engineering leader who likes to help people build, migrate and get going with their technology solutions on major cloud providers like AWS, Azure and GCP. I love working with tech - I run my own DNS and email servers. Work I work as a Senior DevOps engineer with the Autonomous Robotics Research Center at the Technology Innovation Institute. Read more

Git just announced a new release (ver 2.2.1) of the git client that fixes a vulnerability affecting all git users on Windows and Mac OSX operating systems. Github says this: The vulnerability concerns Git and Git-compatible clients that access Git repositories in a case-insensitive or case-normalizing filesystem. An attacker can craft a malicious Git tree that will cause Git to overwrite its own .git/config file when cloning or checking out a repository, leading to arbitrary command execution in the client machine. Read more