Sai Charan

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world.

A note to self on my Gitea setup.

I think if you do something and it turns out pretty good, then you should go do something else wonderful, not dwell on it for too long.

When software problems get too hard, sometimes the answer is ‘better physics’. — Urs Hölzle, on LinkedIn.

We somehow ended up watching a few commencement speeches last night.

Note: this note pertains to WD MyCloud running firmware v04.06.00-111.

David A.

Note: Ollama is really easy to get started with. llama.cpp git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ggerganov/llama.cpp sudo apt install nvidia-cuda-toolkit sudo apt install gcc-12 g++12 (GCC 13+ isn’t supported) cmake -B build -DGGML_CUDA=ON -DCMAKE_CUDA_C…

Note: these notes apply to Ubuntu 24.04 LTS.

Notes for installing MiaB for a subdomain (not the root domain) on OCI’s aarch64 Ampere shape VMs: Turn up a VM, note it’s Public IP Pick an Ubuntu LTS version listed at https://mailinabox.email/ The tol only support every other LTS version, see this supp…

We can only see a short distance ahead, but we can see plenty there that needs to be done. — Alan Turing, as seen at mlajtos.mu.

Reasonable Person Principle: Everyone will be reasonable.

I was filled with the love of music, and the pleasure if doing it with great musicians.

The Office is not a random series of cynical gags aimed at momentarily alleviating the existential despair of low-level grunts.

There is space, however small, between the thoughts.

Note to self on setting up Ghost with SQLite3 in production (Ghost only officially recommends and supports MySQL in production, so figuring this out was a bit of an effort).

There are two ways of constructing a software design; one way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies, and the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies.

A leak at home got me looking at water level sensors, but Arlo’s recent annoucement EOL’ing camera support pushed me over the edge into DIY IoT devices.

Relying on intelligence alone to pull things off at the last minute may work for a while, but, generally speaking, at the graduate level or higher it doesn’t. — Terence Tao’s career advice.

Following up on previous notes on setting up Let’s Encrypt for private networks and SSL for DD-WRT routers, here’s notes on automating renewal of Let’s Encrypt certificates using acme.sh.

Reading Stratechery’s Tech and Liberty, ‘The Marketplace of Ideas’ section, I see this quote: The theory of our Constitution is “that the best test of truth is the power of the thought to get itself accepted in the competition of the market,” Abrams v.

Note to self on setup for auto-renewing Let’s Encrypt SSL certificates from an (almost) private network.

Note to self on setting up Let’s Encrypt SSL certificates for DD-WRT.

Another note to self on enabling Airprint for a legacy network printer with Avahi and CUPS on DD-WRT (HP P3005).

This is yet another note to self on setting up my home network to isolate ‘smart’ and other IoT devices into isolated networks in their own subnets, but having a functional UX for the family.

Yes, evil often seems to surpass good.

Note to self on setting up OpenVPN Client on Asus RT-AC68U Router with DD-WRT.

Note to self on setting up Wireguard VPN service. # Enable wireguard PPA (not required on Ubuntu Eoan) sudo add-apt-repository ppa:wireguard/wireguard -y sudo apt-get update -y # Install dependencies and wireguard sudo apt-get install linux-headers-$(uname

‘I gazed around myself, and my soul was wounded by human suffering.

“We’re in such a hurry most of the time we never get much chance to talk,” Pirsig writes.

A NON-MATHEMATICIAN MIGHT ASK if any of these problems have real-world applications, but is that fair?

The lesson, maybe, is simple: If your phone is so much more powerful than the computers that put humanity on the moon, then why are you just staring at Instagram all day?

The key in making great and growable systems is much more to design how its modules communicate rather than what their internal properties and behaviors should be. — Alan Kay on Smalltalk Design on squeak-dev list.

To be brief, a CSRNG should be unbreakable by smart attackers with lots of resources.

After two years of working together, I finally knew for sure what I had long suspected: “Stupid” was just an expression Feynman applied to everyone, including himself, as a way to focus attention on an error so it was never made again.

From Bartosz Milewski’s What Does Haskell Have to Do with C++?

The ACM Queue article titled Standing on Distributed Shoulders of Giants was a fascinating read.

The following excerpts from the ACM Queue article caught my attention.

We are systematically creating races out of things that ought to be a journey. — Charles Wheelan, WSJ.

I’ve been experimenting with hosting static websites on Google App Engine(GAE) for a while now.

Here’s a problem I’ve long faced and a neat use of Levenshtein Distance.

Migrating between hosting and blogging solutions can cause headaches.

Great advice on so many levels.

When once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward, for there you have been and there you will always long to return. — Leonardo da Vinci (seen on Mark Shuttleworth’s blog.)

Gmail’s contact details includes provision to add usernames from other IM networks.

Installing mosh, the MObileSHell on a linux box with no sudo access can be quite a bit of a pain.

James Hague, in a piece titled The Silent Majority of Experts, quotes Elizabeth Rather: …there are people solving real problems with Forth, but they don’t hang-out in the newsgroup.

Inspired by wikipedia, marco.org and other gorgeous websites, I added the necessary CSS for this website to adapt dynamically with varying layouts – note: no Javascript, just plain CSS.

As of 3PM PST on 07/10/2012, the DNS provide for my domain saicharan.in is Amazon’s Route53 service.

To enable Chrome Sync with a Google Apps account, the admin must enable this feature.