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·Dec 18, 2020

Mounting a Google Cloud Storage bucket into CentOS/Debian, even behind a proxy

Google Cloud Storage is an awesome service for all your storage needs on the cloud. It can be accessed from GCP Compute instances relatively easily using gsutil commands. But there might be a time when you need to mount this onto a VM or a physical machine or even your…

Google Cloud Platform

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Mounting a Google Cloud Storage bucket into CentOS/Debian, even behind a proxy
Mounting a Google Cloud Storage bucket into CentOS/Debian, even behind a proxy

May 24, 2019

Two factor auth via SMS — just don’t

It is no wonder that you have enabled two factor authentication for most of your accounts. But is it adding any safety? not always. Today, a friend of mine came with a suspicious SMS that came to him when he tried to log in to his Gmail. Google, as usual…

Security

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Two factor auth via SMS — just don’t
Two factor auth via SMS — just don’t

Published in GDG SRILANKA

·Sep 10, 2018

Running Jenkins on Docker — for a newbie

I never learnt software the “right” way. Most of the stuff I have learnt is thru jumping into the river without knowing how to swim. So these big deal CI/CD things never amused me. It was compile — sftp — run — repeat for me. But when I wanted to…

Docker

3 min read


Published in GDG SRILANKA

·Apr 3, 2018

EcoTrail Game Walk-through

There is a good possibility that you know what the EcoTrail Game was if you found this post. But there is always a chance that you might not.. EcoTrail was a quiz type game which me and fellow GDG Sri Lanka guys got together to make for Google IO extended…

Ecotrail

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EcoTrail Game Walk-through
EcoTrail Game Walk-through

Jan 18, 2018

Did I just see my Nokia 6 updating my device ID to some Chinese web server?

It was just by chance that I saw a familiar tag in the logcat in my Android Studio. “SMACK”. No, not the famous fruit drink from Sri Lanka. Its the famous XMPP library for Java. Now who in the world is using SMACK to communicate I thought… Then I did…

Nokia

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Did I just see my Nokia 6 updating my device ID to some Chinese web server?
Did I just see my Nokia 6 updating my device ID to some Chinese web server?

Mar 7, 2017

TimeTrek ඉවරයිද?

timetrek එක ගැන සෑහෙන්න කතා වෙනවා දැකල මේක ලියන්න හිතුනේ. timetrek කියනේ මේ genre එකේ පලවෙනි සයිට් එක නෙමෙයි. ඊට කලින් මම GDG එකට හැදුවේ riversafari එක. හැබැයි එකත් මම දන්නා පලවෙනි එක නෙමෙයි. ඒ බව පැහැදිලිව කිව්වා riversafari වලට පස්සේ. එක මම හැදුවේ firebase.foo කියන Google quiz එක බලලා…

Timetrek

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