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The Magic of Demos # I remember playing the demo of Indigo Prophecy (known as Fahrenheit in Australia) when I was younger.

I was looking to watch the documentary No Other Land — from the wiki: [No Other land] was recorded between 2019 and 2023 and shows the destruction of a Palestinian community in the occupied West Bank, which had been resisting forced displacement after an…

Why is it a Problem?

The UI and Navigation # Keyboard shortcuts aren’t clear, or at least not encouraged.

TXT Record Specification Primer # Reading through the RFC Using the Domain Name System To Store Arbitrary String Attributes to summarise the relevant part: Any printable ASCII character is permitted for the attribute name.

OpenAI API keys in the format sk-<40 case-sensitive alphanumeric characters> A simple regular expression for this would be /sk-[a-zA-Z0-9]{40,}/ i.e., match any string that starts with “sk-” followed by at least 40 alphanumeric characters.

Ignoring system caches, and logs in general for safety.

Confessions of a Superhero The Dungeon Masters The Parking Lot Movie Cinemania American Movie American Juggalo Einstein’s Brain Confessions of a Superhero # Follows four people that dress up in superhero costumes and work on tips taking photos with touris…

Primer Hardware Setup Random Read and write performance Standard volume RAM Disk I/0 latency Standard volume RAM Disk Cleanup Results Primer # Whilst docker does support tmpfs natively, it’s only available if you’re running docker on linux.

I use Micro Snitch, a neat tool that shows a notification overlay whenever the microphone or camera is accessed.

The Setup # Recently I’ve made efforts to have a local lossless music collection.

Typically, to find the overall wear of a MacBook drive, one installs smartctl from smartmontools via brew install smartmontools or sudo port install smartmontools Then by looking at the Percentage Used from the output of smartctl -a /dev/disk0 === START OF

Ephemeral Debug Containers # One can use ephemeral debug containers Alternatively to edit in-place to test out configs and env vars use kubectl edit to modify a pod (or Deployment, StatefulSet etc.)

You may find it useful for your PS1 to signal if a previous command returned 0 or not.

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