Hulusi - Wikipedia

Chinese flute as demonstrated by a man in the lift in my flat.

Kennelly–Heaviside layer - Wikipedia

The Heavyside Layer, coveted destination of every Jellicle Cat, is a layer of the ionosphere whose discovery caused some controversy around its ability to reflect radio waves in a way which would seemingly require them to exceed the speed of light.

British Restaurant - Wikipedia

> Originally called "Community Feeding Centres", the name British Restaurants was chosen by the Prime Minister, Winston Churchill.

Slowly realising that a lot of dystopian parody comes directly from 19th- and 20th-century British everyday life.

Davey Phillip Smith

Crazy guy I met on a bus

Enable installation logs for MSI installer without any command line arguments - Stack Overflow

Verbose logging for MSI installs. Fun.

Galactic algorithm - Wikipedia

A galactic algorithm is one with world-beating theoretical (asymptotic) performance, but which is never used in practice.

Erich's Packing Center

Packing things optimally

python - Get last exception in pdb - Stack Overflow

Use PDB for post-mortem debugging with python3 -m pdb -c continue (the thing) and you drop into a debugger when an exception is thrown. Useful for curses.

Mac Source Ports

Game ports (mostly) to Apple Silicon

pikvm/ustreamer: µStreamer - Lightweight and fast MJPEG-HTTP streamer

This, combined with a random eBAY HDMI capture card (identifying as 345f:2131 UltraSemi USB3 Video), worked straight out of the box.

Kernel same-page merging - Wikipedia

Scan through page frames, find duplicates, remove one of them, and set the other COW. Didn't know Linux did this

12V 9AH AGM Battery Deep Cycle Battery AMP Lead Acid SLA Solar Power

For the UPS I need 12V 9AH SLA batteries, ideally deep cycle (can handle being discharged to more than 80%)

How to root RN13 (sapphire)? | Unofficial Xiaomi European Community | MIUI ROM Since 2010

How to root my xiaomi phone (assuming the bootloader is unlocked, which requires a Mi account, a 7-day wait, and Windows)

Explore

Social network / job site / del.icio.us clone thingy which katja keeps telling me to visit even though it hurts my eyes

Rainwave Video Game Music Radio

video game music radio stations

Routing & Network Namespaces - WireGuard

You can put network interfaces in namespaces in Linux. Namespaces now seem to be everywhere in Linux and it reminds me of the Zen of Python about how they're one honking great idea.

This came up when it turned out that rogue DHCP servers can push specific routes which are more specific than the default route set by the VPN and thus bypass it. This doesn't apply in namespaces because each namespace has its own routing table, so you can have a VPN-specific namespace where all the applications live where the only device available is the VPN virtual device.

We Have Always Lived in the Castle (Limited Edition) | The Folio Society

katja birthday

sendfile() is broken when sending a file from a Linux guest which is mounted in a shared folder | Parallels Forums

For my records, to compile this, you actually need to add the following to the prl_fs Makefile:

KBUILD_EXTRA_SYMBOLS := /usr/lib/parallels-tools/kmods/prl_tg/Toolgate/Guest/Linux/prl_tg/Module.symvers

(as per another forum post)

... and copy it over the appropriate spot in /lib/modules.

Termsonic: a terminal client for Subsonic - SixFoisNeuf

It's good, but why do these subsonic clients only ever have an artist view?

agomphious - Wiktionary, the free dictionary

"toothless". What a good word. Gomph gomph gomph.

softheartclinic - Blanket Fort

Found this on Marginalia search and it's cute

Music like Tokyo Jihen - Similar Bands and Artists

Fun music mapping site

Wilhelmine of Prussia, Margravine of Brandenburg-Bayreuth - Wikipedia

Heard her Concerto in G Minor tonight.

Swift.org - Build a Command-line Tool

Arc from The Browser Company

Katja's browser

for-loops that run at least once and "Possibly unbound" · microsoft/pyright · Discussion #2033

The comment by erictraut sums up the attitude of MS / Pyright in general: Python is too permissive and should be written more like "C, C++, JavaScript, TypeScript, Java, C#, Basic, Julia, etc"; rather than attempt to improve support for its dynamic nature, Pyright is being written to type-check a different language.

> Python is unlike most programming languages in that it allows local variables to appear within a scope but have no value bound to them. In all other languages I can think of (C, C++, Javascript, TypeScript, Java, C#, Basic, Julia, etc.), you would be forced to assign a value to a variable on all code paths, and you would receive a compiler/interpreter error if you failed to do so. So if you adapt your usage of Python to be like all other programming languages in this respect, you won't run into any problems with unbound variable errors.

Why Is It So Hard to Build an Airport? - by Brian Potter

> When questioned about aircraft noise by a US congressman in 1962, the head of the FAA stated that “we feel the statement that people must live with noise is realistic in the light of our growing society using complex means of transportation and communication. Noise in urban America is one of the prices paid for progress and economic growth."

This context reframes the contemporaneous Simon & Garfunkel song The Sound[s] of Silence for me.

Antithesis: continuous reliability platform

Completely deterministic execution of code with fault injection. Via HN

Classical music ripped off by popular culture - YouTube

jill's new playlist

zsync

rsync for individual files over the web

Square Signals : Vegetable stock: my secret lover

Passionate food writing gets me going. The secret subtopic is nasturtium soup, which sounds (at least when he writes it) delicious.

The related HN discussion talks about keeping peels, tops and tails, etc., in a bag in the freezer and using them to make stock.

IFC Center

NYC stuff

Film Forum

NYC stuff

BAM | Winter/Spring 2024

NYC stuff

Buy Prepaid eSIM for USA from $0.7 per GB | MobiMatter

Another HN recommendation for roaming / international esim

Local and regional eSIMs for travellers - Airalo

HN recommendation for roaming / international esim

Simple turnip cake [lo bak go] recipe - Cook Simply

I really want to make a turnip cake.

Easy white bread recipe | BBC Good Food

Delicious. Though I was a little o_O when it described the concept of preparing the bread one day before and leaving it in the fridge overnight to be a "great timesaver". No time has been saved. In absolute terms some time has been wasted. Reality is a construct. Your perception defines your world.

wwmm/easyeffects: Limiter, compressor, convolver, equalizer and auto volume and many other plugins for PipeWire applications

Apply various effects on-the-fly to Linux audio using Pipewire.

This was great. Someone on a meeting had random high-pitched noises and I could, on the fly, add an equaliser to attenuate all frequencies about 11 KHz -- minimal impact on voices and noise disappeared!

SaltyBet - Twitch

Twitch stream that plays bots off against each other in the Mugen fighting game. Been going for ages (decades?)

EFIStub - Debian Wiki

Set up for grub-less Linux booting using EFI stub plus debian hooks

One Hundred and One Monochrome Mazes : John Vaughn / IBM : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

Game of the day. It's so monochrome it doesn't work with colour graphics adapters.

What’s inside popular disposable vapes? Let's open and take them apart!

The activation mechanism is a microphone, which is pretty interesting.

What does the Cerebellum Do Anyway? - by Sarah Constantin

HN

Understanding SameSite cookies

One key annoyance is that from 2016 to 2019, omitting SameSite meant SameSite=None. From 2019 onwards, omitting SameSite meant SameSite=Lax. As of 2023 (https://caniuse.com/same-site-cookie-attribute), Safari and Firefox use the pre-2019 behaviour.

The Quiet Man (video game) - Wikipedia

"Exhausting and miserable time". "Spectactular disaster". But the Imogen Heap accompanying song is quite sweet.

Intel iAPX 432 - Wikipedia

Capability-based, OO-focused processor in 1976

iea-vs-reality-photovoltaics-2018.png 551×455 pixels

Thick black line: solar energy capacity added in gigawatts over time. Other lines: international energy agency predictions. Note exponential reality vs flat prediction, what, 10 times in a row?

Is YouTube anti-adblock fixed yet?

Browsing Youtube; didn't realise I was in the middle of a fight between some youtube exec and half the Internet.

The Magical Japanese Art of Luggage Forwarding — Ridgeline issue 170

"Magical Japan" articles are so 90s but this one on takkyūbin is very well written (hn)

... except that takkyūbin is apparently a trademark and the generic term is takuhaibin (again, the fine pedants of hn)