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- 01:55, 20 March 2024 Dank talk contribs created page TRIM (Created page with "SSDs generally need to have the blocks belonging to a file explicitly deallocated. This is done with the ATA TRIM command. Unfortunately, regular use of TRIM can have negative effects on performance (TRIM cannot be queued on some devices) and lifetime. It is thus not generally recommended to trim after every delete operation, though this can be configured ("online mode"). Note that trimming generally requires the filesystem to be mounted, unlike e.g. <tt>fsck</tt>. Note...")
- 21:13, 8 March 2024 Dank talk contribs uploaded a new version of File:Resume.pdf (Update for leaving Microsoft.)
- 06:10, 8 March 2024 Dank talk contribs created page Rescuing Linux (Created page with "Sometimes you need perform irregular, unpleasant tasks involving a Linux box. One generally picks up the techniques via experience. This kind of thing tends to become less necessary as one learns Linux better, and thus it's easy to lose currency. The introduction of systemd, for instance, changed almost all of this shit up. ==grub== ==access sans password== ==kernel command line== ==initramfs== Almost all distributions ship kernels making use of initramfs these d...")
- 08:01, 4 March 2024 Dank talk contribs deleted page File:Self-publishing and nuclear secrets.pdf (Deleted old revision 20240304080041!Self-publishing_and_nuclear_secrets.pdf: Duplicated file: content was: "== Summary == Talk given 2024-01-27 at the reading for my novel [https://midnightssimulacra.com/ midnight's simulacra].", and the only contributor was "Dank" (talk))
- 08:00, 4 March 2024 Dank talk contribs uploaded a new version of File:Self-publishing and nuclear secrets.pdf
- 06:54, 20 February 2024 Dank talk contribs created page File:Self-publishing and nuclear secrets.pdf (Talk given 2024-01-27 at the reading for my novel [https://midnightssimulacra.com/ midnight's simulacra].)
- 06:54, 20 February 2024 Dank talk contribs uploaded File:Self-publishing and nuclear secrets.pdf (Talk given 2024-01-27 at the reading for my novel [https://midnightssimulacra.com/ midnight's simulacra].)
- 02:41, 14 February 2024 Dank talk contribs created page Io uring and xdp enter 2024 (Created page with "Last year (2023), I spent significant time writing code using XDP and io_uring. The latter was delightful, the former less so. My summary of io_uring through liburing 2.3 hit #1 on HackerNews (twice!) and the great [https://lwn.net LWN], which pleased me. Work on these technologies has progressed, and it seems time for an update. ==XDP== One of the big problems I had with <tt>AF_XDP</tt> sockets was the lack of support for large packets. One could typically only...")
- 08:50, 11 February 2024 Dank talk contribs created page Ebooks are hot garbage (Created page with "'''dankblog! 2024-02-11, 0349 EST, at the danktower''' Pretty much exactly what the title says. I did not consider ebooks when writing <i>[https://midnightssimulacra midnight's simulacra]</i>. This was both fortunate and unfortunate: unfortunate because it's proven difficult to make an acceptable ebook after the fact, fortunate because I really like the print version, and it's more important to me than the ebook, and properly designing for an...")
- 18:51, 21 January 2024 Dank talk contribs created page EPUB (Created page with "EPUB (in version 3.3 as of 2023-12-21) is a container for ebooks using ZIP for its archive and compression. Most of the content is XHTML or media (usually graphics).")
- 04:48, 19 January 2024 Dank talk contribs created page KEF LS60 (Created page with "I acquired a pair of [https://us.kef.com/products/ls60-wireless KEF LS60] active wireless speakers in January 2024. The speakers are awesome, but getting them working well with Linux was not completely trivial, and is not quite complete. At the time, I had the following versions of crap: * Linux 6.7 * Pipewire 1.0.1 * Pulseaudio 16.1 * KEF firmware 2.0 ==Requirements== I was using MPD 0.23.14 for my music, but I needed a solution at the audio device level, so that...")
- 10:34, 13 January 2024 Dank talk contribs created page Unicode Math (Created page with "Unicode admits a plaintext encoding of mathematics approaching that of MathML or LaTeX. This encoding, [https://unicodemath.org/ UnicodeMath], is Unicode [https://www.unicode.org/notes/tn28/ Technical Note 28]. This ought not be confused with the CTAN [https://ctan.org/pkg/unicode-math?lang=en unicode-math] package. As of 2024-01, the current revision is 3.2, last updated 2023-04-13.")
- 08:37, 28 December 2023 Dank talk contribs deleted page File:Midnightsimulacra-cover-1024x768.png (Duplicated file: replaced by Midnightsimulacracover.jpg)
- 08:36, 28 December 2023 Dank talk contribs created page File:Midnightsimulacracover.jpg (Hardback cover for Midnight's Simulacra)
- 08:36, 28 December 2023 Dank talk contribs uploaded File:Midnightsimulacracover.jpg (Hardback cover for Midnight's Simulacra)
- 04:15, 28 December 2023 Dank talk contribs created page File:Dijkstra.jpg (edsgar dijkstra is watching you)
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- 04:08, 28 December 2023 Dank talk contribs created page MediaWiki:Sitenotice (Created page with "- Coming 2024-01-09: my first novel, [https://midnightssimulacra.com midnight's simulacra]!")
- 23:34, 15 December 2023 Dank talk contribs created page SILEX (Created page with "Third-generation laser uranium enrichment out of Australia.")
- 12:22, 5 December 2023 Dank talk contribs created page File:07-SSKRunHighway-HC-300.jpg (the difference between me and you is that i am not on fire)
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- 12:19, 5 December 2023 Dank talk contribs created page File:06-DYK-Zoo-HC-300.jpg (a mathematical theory of communication)
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- 12:18, 5 December 2023 Dank talk contribs created page File:20-OrianaCab-HC-300.jpg (le dieu du carnage (god of carnage))
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- 12:18, 5 December 2023 Dank talk contribs created page File:15-DeveshTurtle-HC-300.jpg (leviathan)
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- 12:17, 5 December 2023 Dank talk contribs created page File:11-OZCoffee-Redux-HC-300.jpg (le plaisir du texte (the pleasure of the text))
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- 12:16, 5 December 2023 Dank talk contribs created page File:13-SSK MLBStressTable-HC-300.jpg (unfair arguments with existence)
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- 12:15, 5 December 2023 Dank talk contribs created page File:16-ElevatorWarhead-HC-300.jpg (war in the age of intelligent machines)
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- 12:15, 5 December 2023 Dank talk contribs created page File:04-AT-CrossingStreet-HC-300.jpg (to the lighthouse)
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- 12:14, 5 December 2023 Dank talk contribs created page File:11-SSKErikaLab-HC-300.jpg (a dream of fair to middling women)
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- 12:13, 5 December 2023 Dank talk contribs created page File:09-Erica-Arguing-HC-300.jpg (le sens du combat (the art of struggle))
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- 12:12, 5 December 2023 Dank talk contribs created page File:05-Cloud-SSK-PhishLot-HC-300.jpg (their eyes were watching god)
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- 12:11, 5 December 2023 Dank talk contribs created page File:08-VCT-Gaming-HC-300.jpg (fanged noumena)
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- 12:10, 5 December 2023 Dank talk contribs created page File:05-SSK MLBVanLeer-HC-300.jpg (le rouge et le noir (the red and the black))
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- 12:09, 5 December 2023 Dank talk contribs created page File:07-AO MLB-HC-300.jpg (a clockwork orange)
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- 12:03, 5 December 2023 Dank talk contribs created page File:06-SSKPostItGirl-HC-300.jpg (the yellow wallpaper)
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- 12:03, 5 December 2023 Dank talk contribs created page File:03-DC-Party-HC-300.jpg (without MSG i am nothing)
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- 12:02, 5 December 2023 Dank talk contribs created page File:04-SSK MLBInDorm-HC-300.jpg (the age of innocence)
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- 12:01, 5 December 2023 Dank talk contribs created page File:03-MLBCompCubicle-HC-300.jpg (the thirst for annihilation)
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- 12:00, 5 December 2023 Dank talk contribs created page File:02-SSKSign-HC-300.jpg (mémoires d’outre-tombe (memoirs from beyond the grave))
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- 12:00, 5 December 2023 Dank talk contribs created page File:01-TeddieJodie-HC-300.jpg (jenseits von gut und böse (beyond good and evil))
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- 11:58, 5 December 2023 Dank talk contribs created page File:01-SSK-Trashcan-HC-300y.jpg (cien años de soledad (one hundred years of solitude))
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- 11:51, 29 November 2023 Dank talk contribs created page Writing a book in LaTeX in 2023 (Created page with "thumb|right '''dankblog! 2023-11-29, 0622 EDT, at the danktower''' as noted in my last post, i've been writing a somewhat experimental novel the past few months using LaTeX, in particular the LuaTeX implementation (i started off using XeTeX, but the all-important [https://ctan.org/pkg/microtype?lang=en microtype] package doesn't fully support XeTeX). print publication is a month from now...")
- 09:23, 29 November 2023 Dank talk contribs created page The World Crisis (Created page with "We made a great assembly of the Navy this spring of 1912 at Portland. The flags of a dozen admirals, the broad pennants of as many commodores and the pennants of a hundred and fifty ships were flying together. The King came in the Royal Yacht, the Admiralty flag at the fore, the Standard at the main, and the Jack at the mizzen, and bided among his sailors for four days. One day there is a long cruise out into mist, dense, utterly baffling—the whole Fleet steaming toget...")
- 08:20, 6 November 2023 Dank talk contribs created page Gold & Appel Publishing (Created page with "get it? ISBNs are managed through Bowker.")
- 05:13, 14 October 2023 Dank talk contribs created page File:Ghostbusters-TaB.png (TaB in Ghostbusters (1984).)
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- 10:35, 7 October 2023 Dank talk contribs created page Syntaxhighlight (Created page with "Test page for [https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:SyntaxHighlight Geshi] <syntaxhighlight lang="python" style="border: 3px dashed blue;"> def quick_sort(arr): less = [] pivot_list = [] more = [] if len(arr) <= 1: return arr else: pass </syntaxhighlight>")
- 20:45, 24 September 2023 Dank talk contribs created page File:Tex-2.png
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- 20:32, 24 September 2023 Dank talk contribs created page Latex joy of man's desiring (Created page with "'''dankblog! 2023-09-24, 1628 EDT, at the danktower''' i've been deep in the LaTeX shit of it all for the past three months while working on my novel. i think LaTeX was the right tool, and love the quality of the output and the workflow. with that said, some real annoyances have emerged. * for the highest quality output, the [https://ctan.org/pkg/microtype microtype] package must be used. i'd never used this bef...")
- 23:12, 19 September 2023 Dank talk contribs uploaded a new version of File:Midnightsimulacra-cover-1024x768.png (cartoonify)
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- 07:52, 31 August 2023 Dank talk contribs created page File:Midnightsimulacra-cover-1024x768.png (Cover for Midnight's Simulacra)
- 07:52, 31 August 2023 Dank talk contribs uploaded File:Midnightsimulacra-cover-1024x768.png (Cover for Midnight's Simulacra)
- 15:08, 26 August 2023 Dank talk contribs created page Midnight's Simulacra (Created page with "My first novel, coming 2024-01-01! * [https://nick-black.com/midnightssimulacra-promo.pdf promo packet] * [https://nick-black.com/midnights-simulacra-chapter-3.pdf Sample chapter 3]")
- 11:47, 24 August 2023 Dank talk contribs created page Eveline (Created page with "<b>from James Joyce’s <i>Dubliners</i> (1914)</b> She sat at the window watching the evening invade the avenue. Her head was leaned against the window curtains and in her nostrils was the odour of dusty cretonne. She was tired. Few people passed. The man out of the last house passed on his way home; she heard his footsteps clacking along the concrete pavement and afterwards crunching on the cinder path before the new red houses. One time there used to be a field ther...")
- 21:31, 17 August 2023 Dank talk contribs created page Iron (Created page with "Night lay beyond the walls of the Chemical Institute, the night of Europe: Chamberlain had returned from Munich duped. Hitler had marched into Prague without firing a shot. Franco had subdued Barcelona and was ensconced in Madrid. Fascist Italy, the small-time pirate, had occupied Albania, and the premonition of imminent catastrophe condensed like grumous dew in the houses and streets, in wary conversations and dozing consciences. But the night did not penetrate those...")
- 10:26, 25 July 2023 Dank talk contribs created page APX (Created page with "Not quite the return of CISC, but a fascinating shot by Intel, claiming "Intel® APX demonstrates the advantage of the variable-length instruction encodings of x86." The new REX2 and EVEX prefixes are used to modify existing instructions. * Suppression of writes to status registers (eliminating a common source of false dependencies) * Expansion of the conditional instruction set * Fits within existing XSAVE/XRSTOR space due to deprecation of MPX registers * New PUSH2/PO...")
- 23:28, 6 July 2023 Dank talk contribs created page Book collecting (Created page with "yeah ok so i've kinda gotten into book collecting. ==Not happening== * Signed first Ulysses ==Dream acquisitions== * Signed Feynman Lectures on Physics * Signed first Blood Meridian * Signed first Naked Lunch * Signed Discipline of Programming (Dijkstra) * Signed first Dubliners * Signed first Gravity's Rainbow ==Doable== * Signed first Infinite Jest * Signed Illuminatus! Trilogy * Signed Schrodinger's Cat Trilogy * Signed first The Power of One * Signed first America...")
- 19:10, 30 June 2023 Dank talk contribs created page Pidfd (Created page with "Since Linux 5.2, pidfds have more or less allowed one to refer to a process using a file descriptor, making it possible to eliminate a set of race conditions and ambiguities. At the heart of the pidfd abstraction is the <tt>CLONE_PIDFD</tt> flag to the <tt>clone(2)</tt> system call (note that this recycles the deprecated <tt>CLONE_PID</tt> bit). It is not possible to use this flag with <tt>CLONE_THREAD</tt>, and thus the created process will always be a t...")
- 02:42, 29 June 2023 Dank talk contribs created page Timestamping (Created page with "yo dawg i heard you like timestamps so i timestamped your timestamps. use ethtool to see what timestamping methods are available on Linux: <pre> [schwarzgerat](0) $ ethtool -T ixgbe1 Time stamping parameters for ixgbe1: Capabilities: hardware-transmit software-transmit hardware-receive software-receive software-system-clock hardware-raw-clock PTP Hardware Clock: 1 Hardware Transmit Timestamp Modes: off...")
- 04:54, 15 June 2023 Dank talk contribs created page Aruba 2500-48p (Created page with "The Aruba 2500-48p Mobility Access Switch was available very cheaply (around $100) for a switch of its class (4x SFP+ ports + 400W PoE + full capacity w/ jumbo frames) circa 2019. One came with my rack for better or worse (the switch is rather more of a power hog and heat generator than I would have liked). The manual for ArubaOS 7.4 doesn't seem to correspond very closely to what runs on the 2500-48p, so here are some frustratingly-acquired details regarding the dev...")
- 04:46, 15 June 2023 Dank talk contribs created page Rack (Redirected page to A Rack of One's Own) Tag: New redirect
- 15:44, 14 June 2023 Dank talk contribs created page Bears that dance (Created page with "They entered the town in a light rain falling. The horse nickered and snuffed shyly at the hocks of the other animals standing at stall before the lamplit bagnios they passed. Fiddle-music issued into the solitary mud street and lean dogs crossed before them from shadow to shadow. At the end of the town he led the horse to a rail and tied it among others and stepped up the low wooden stairs into the dim light that fell from the doorway there. He looked back a last time a...")
- 08:35, 13 June 2023 Dank talk contribs created page OPML (Created page with "A markup language for trees, primarily used to transcode RSS.")
- 10:43, 11 June 2023 Dank talk contribs created page File:Voltage-grafana.png
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- 21:06, 8 June 2023 Dank talk contribs created page Category:Homelab (Created page with "Homelabs become homedatacenters or, in my case, homesupercomputingcenters.") Tags: mobile web edit mobile edit
- 21:04, 8 June 2023 Dank talk contribs created page Visualization (Created page with "My current home metrics + visualization stack is self-hosted [https://grafana.com/ Grafana OSS] atop a [https://github.com/prometheus Prometheus] time series database. Prometheus is fed by [https://github.com/hikhvar/mqtt2prometheus mqtt2prometheus], which reads [https://mosquitto.org/ Mosquitto]-brokered metrics from my bespoke scripts and various IoT devices. It also ingests SNMP via its own snmp_exporter. I was originally using Prometheus's node_exporter, but thought...") Tags: mobile web edit mobile edit
- 11:02, 7 June 2023 Dank talk contribs created page Fstab is a nightmare from which i am trying to awake (Created page with "'''dankblog! 2023-06-07, 0628 EDT, at the danktower''' <tt>mount(2)</tt> is surely one of the messiest system calls (i mean <tt>ioctl(2)</tt> has it beat for sure in terms of sheer area, but that's pretty much the point of <tt>ioctl(2)</tt>). it's grotesque and grows more rather than less grotesque over time. would-be heroes have several times volunteered as tribute, offering rewrites such as [https://lwn.net/Articles/759499/ fscommit] and [ht...") Tags: mobile web edit mobile edit
- 16:23, 2 June 2023 Dank talk contribs created page File:Discordia1-1.jpg (Discordia-1 side view.)
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- 16:22, 2 June 2023 Dank talk contribs created page File:Discorda1-4.jpg (Rack front door open, half of drive trays not yet filled.)
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