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mark-wagner··on Nick Cave on ChatGPT and the creative process
Funny you should say this. See https://www.theredhandfiles.com/originality-hard-to-obtain/

“What else have you stolen?” I ask Warren.

“Everything,” he says, “Absolutely, everything.”

mark-wagner··on Nick Cave on ChatGPT and the creative process
I agree. I see ChatGPT as similar to music synthesizers. They enable creativity. Creativity in novel ways as well.

What if you want to express yourself with a violin sound but don't know how to play one?

mark-wagner··on Official Chrome extension to use iCloud Keychain Passwords
I attempted many times to use this extension under Windows. It was one of the most frustrating software installation experiences I've ever had. I never got it to work. Note that it has a 2 star review.

Perhaps Apple developers don't know how to write a Windows program but the macOS version will be usable.

mark-wagner··on Tell HN: IPv6-only still pretty much unusable
A long, long time ago my (large) school had 2 /16s and a bunch of /24s and every device--including those in the medical center--got a public, internet accessible IP address. https://itconnect.uw.edu/tools-services-support/networks-con...
mark-wagner··on Permissive forwarding rule leads to unintentional exposure of containers (2021)
I'm confused. Does docker change the routing table? Otherwise there will be no route back to the attacker's machine.

Also, if 172.16.0.0/12 is bound to the docker0 interface then the kernel will see packets from IPs in that range that come in on other interfaces as martians and drop them.

mark-wagner··on Ask HN: How do you deal with rude interviewers?
It was https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31199300

> It’s thrilling to be extremely polite to rude strangers.

mark-wagner··on Moving a macOS window by clicking anywhere on it
To be explicit, the fix is to go into the trackpad options, more gestures, and change "swipe between full screen apps" (poor name choice) to three fingers.
mark-wagner··on A realization of why email is critical infrastructure for the Internet
Yes, and .is (Iceland) is pretty good. See https://slc.is/#The%20Best%20TLD%20is%20Not%20.com which somewhat summarizes https://www.eff.org/files/2017/08/02/domain_registry_whitepa...
mark-wagner··on Imgur Acquired by Medialab
Based on IPs and whois, imgur uses fastly.
mark-wagner··on What Is the Most Free TLD?
Looks like there are no restrictions on nationality or language (like .cat).

I was unable to set up my domain with Cloudflare's name servers because you need to register the domain first and the registration process requires that the domain is served by the name servers you enter. I ended up selecting "parked" instead and should be able to switch it later.

mark-wagner··on Muse Group Continues Tone Deaf Handling of Audacity
Here are the commits I could find that remove the "telemetry:"

commit 2a37cd19a022fd6bc63d1c0a403840eb300dfd1c Author: Cookie Engineer <cookiengineer@protonmail.com> Date: Sun Jul 4 10:22:57 2021 +0200

    :shit: Remove Breakpad Crash Reports
commit 5728dd542fac39c0673dbb1c9d716838a25d69bd Author: Cookie Engineer <cookiengineer@protonmail.com> Date: Sun Jul 4 10:20:24 2021 +0200

    :shit: Remove Update Check
commit bbf352d36d725335962718f91fc3591a1037f39b Author: Cookie Engineer <cookiengineer@protonmail.com> Date: Sun Jul 4 10:19:04 2021 +0200

    :shit: Remove Sentry Reporting
mark-wagner··on Oregon has legalized human composting
Just like the "fathertrees" from Card's book "Speaker for the Dead."
mark-wagner··on AMD vs. Intel CPU Market Share
Yes, for example in AWS the instance types with "a" appended (AMD EPYC) are lower cost than the corresponding Intel-based instance.
mark-wagner··on ZFS fans, rejoice – RAIDz expansion will be a thing soon
Before the Available column there was the -/+ buffers/cache line that provided the same information. Maybe it was too confusing.

             total      used      free   shared buffers    cached
      Mem: 12286456  11715372    571084        0   81912   6545228
  -/+ buffers/cache:  5088232   7198224
     Swap: 24571408     54528  24516880
mark-wagner··on How to circumvent Sci-Hub ISP block
Maybe Usenet? It already support massive copyright infringement yet it is still around.
mark-wagner··on Anatomy of a Linux DNS Lookup
If bazonga.com is domain only accessible through the VPN then you most likely always want to look up flargle.bazonga.com through the VPN name servers. On the internet you'll get NXDOMAIN.

However, this could be solved by setting the name servers always to the VPN name servers and make them recursive. But then, what if those name servers don't have internet access?

mark-wagner··on Listen to your to PostgreSQL database in realtime via WebSockets
Similar: Solaris's snoop (tcpdump equivalent) with the -a option:

Listen to packets on /dev/audio (warning: can be noisy).

https://docs.oracle.com/cd/E23823_01/html/816-5166/snoop-1m....

mark-wagner··on How to write cold emails to investors
In this case "M" is a Roman numeral meaning 1000. So "MM"is one thousand thousands, or one million.
mark-wagner··on M1 Mac Mini Teardown
Yes, and if you look at the at the IHS it looks like it was intended to cover the RAM, but couldn't, so they just chopped that part of it off.
mark-wagner··on Deprecating scp
There are patches for openssh when using it over LFNs: https://psc.edu/research/networking/hpn-ssh/ (which seems to be in a sad state currently). These patches might interact poorly with other implementations (e.g., it didn't interoperate with paramiko (2 years ago)).

Also, make sure TCP window scaling is working. I was making transfers through a F5 Big-IP which was running a profile that disabled it.

mark-wagner··on Zoom Rolling Out End-to-End Encryption Offering
I'm even less of an expert but here is an example: https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/a42e/022f812a7b5c464cf83454...
mark-wagner··on Next-Generation IBM POWER10 Processor
There is also this: https://azuremarketplace.microsoft.com/en-us/marketplace/app...
mark-wagner··on Mac keyboard shortcuts
Not only that, if you hate the virtual escape key KE can make caps lock send escape if tapped and control if held. See https://medium.com/@pechyonkin/how-to-map-capslock-to-contro...
mark-wagner··on When your coworker does great work, tell their manager
Until November 2013 Microsoft used stack ranking.
mark-wagner··on “Adobe Flash is no longer supported in Safari”
Here it is: https://web.archive.org/web/20200527204809/https://www.apple...
mark-wagner··on Converting an old MacBook into an always-on personal Kubernetes cluster
From my experience running a 3 node cluster (as VMs) etcd was a beast in terms of CPU and disk use.
mark-wagner··on The Cube Rule of Food Identification (2017)
In his Philosophical Investigations, Wittgenstein's response to this problem are the concepts of "language games" and "family resemblance." From https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/wittgenstein/#LangGameFam...:

> Still, just as we cannot give a final, essential definition of ‘game’, so we cannot find “what is common to all these activities and what makes them into language or parts of language” (PI 65).

> There is no reason to look, as we have done traditionally—and dogmatically—for one, essential core in which the meaning of a word is located and which is, therefore, common to all uses of that word. We should, instead, travel with the word’s uses through “a complicated network of similarities overlapping and criss-crossing” (PI 66).

mark-wagner··on Amazon Aurora Backtrack
For mysql it is "--i-am-a-dummy". I wish SQL supported putting the where clause first: "where X = Y update..."
mark-wagner··on Unraveling rm: what happens when you run it?
> As it turns out, the getpid function supposedly takes no parameters, so the inclusion of the parameters in the call above perplexed me.

This is due to the fact that dtruss is actually a shell script trying to emulate truss with a d script and not quite succeeding.

See the section starting with the comment "print 0 arg output" in dtruss if you wish to understand the meaning of the 3 "arguments."

getpid() is most likely being called with 0 arguments.

mark-wagner··on Eminent Philosophers Name the Most Important Philosophy Books from 1950-2000
I would recommend against that book. Through slightly changing claims he's "established" he concludes for the need for "sense data" which is nonsense.

Also, white paper looks yellow under a yellow light because it white. White is the color of the paper.

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