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Hello all, and happy thanksgiving. I mostly wanted to provide some thoughts about local ai somewhat vibe coding and my somewhat new framework desktop.

First of all its amazing what a little bit of optimization can do. I had initially struggled to even get the ai tools working, but things are much...

I was kind of reading today that facebook is quite abusive with their ai tools. So I decided to fight fire with fire. I had the ai (gemini in this case) write the following script to BLOCK all ipv4 access from facebook properties to your site! Its in nftables format. It does require jq an the iprang...

Today was mostly 'fix the grav' day. I managed to get my second factors working again (I had to add some xml json's that were missing to the dockerfile!):

1. Fixed the stupid bug that made the container break (I won't get into it I just HATE ubuntuisms)
2. Updated the site image with a nice new pict...

Just a quick update. I updated recipe.munn.me to the new server today. It had been down for a while while I migrated to this new server.

I haven't written anything in a while (really since March, when the site was having problems that I still can't figure out why. Anyways, my last dependence on the THE EMPIRE OF EVIL complete. I upgraded my o365 email after all the copilot nonsense started mining my data. I also was QUITE angry how...

I managed to finally get windows 11 working on my qemu and it seems reliable. Its quite an adventure. Here are the highlights that I learned

1. Windows 11 is VERY picky about settings. I had to fiddle with them. Basically I needed to add a 'pass through' tpm chip which is 2.0 (alas you have to enab...

I had a devil of a time getting SMTP to work like it used to. @#$@#$%#$^ at&t blocks outbound port 25 so we have to get really clever. The nice part of this is that this enables me receive daemon updates on my watch, all through the signal app. I managed to find an easier way (compiling java is a...

Just use this line

GOAMD64=v3 GOARM64=v8.0 go build -trimpath -ldflags -w -tags netgo,osusergo -buildmode=pie

I came up with a nice gluten free cooke recipe this week.

• 1 stick gf dairy free butter
• 1/2 c. brown sugar
• 1/2 c. turbinado sugar
• 1 egg
• 1/3 can pumpkin
• 1.5c king arthur flour gf general puropose
• 1 tsp. baking powder
• 1/2 tsp salt
• 4-6 oz. 85% dark chocolate bars chopped up
• 1/3 c....

My previous blog lamented the demise of my very pernicious and evilly recommended mini IS forum hx90. It served my unfaithfully for 3 years (the usb 3 never worked, the network died, and so did the bluetooth). It also didn't have thunderbolt, and was very noisy. The STH (evil server at home people)...

Just a quick update on my graphene OS experience: I had tried it for about 6 months but then they massively made all my apps break. So alas, I am back to using 'stock' android with the Microsoft launcher. Hopefully my next phone will let me experiment with this a bit more. Sad that it didn't work ou...

I have completed racking and upgrading my old faithful synology 5 bay unit (now out to pasture and retirement after 13 years) with a terramaster u8-423 (I could have gotten the u8 with the 10gbps, but didn't ordered this one by mistake). I tried the terramaster os, but it was buggy and slow. I then...

The MOST EVIL facebook requires you to give permission in order to message people. But there is a NICE workaround: https://newchat-ga.pages.dev/ If you are worried about them collecting data, just host it yourself! Once you have a single contact, simple put the phone # of the person you want to ad...

I found this nice link which shows how to add all the man pages for all installed commands in alpine.

Here is the code for convenience:

  apk list -I |
  sed -rn '/-doc/! s/([a-z-]+[a-z]).*/\1/p' |
  awk '{ print system("apk info \""$1"-doc\" > /dev/null") == 0 ? $1 "-doc" : "" }' |
  xargs ap...

Windows 11 started destroying itself randomly after its latest update. the 'fix' as far as I can tell, is to change the cpu type to 'qemu64' type. this seems to 'heal' windows 11. I tried everything, and with every reboot it would 'destroy' itself when passing through the native cpu type. It seems r...

I ran into the zluda emulator today, and while I haven't used it yet, it seems nice to write about it. basically gets you some CUDA stuff with amd cards.

I was getting annoyed with chrome using gnome-keyring to store passwords (I dont store ANY passwords that matter in my browser), and I stumbled onto this:

cd ~/.config/chromium/
touch "Disable Local Encryption"
chromium --enable-encryption-selection

This very nicely disabled the stupid prompts f...

Many of you may have had some trouble with getting virsh working with external snapshots. This is rather problematic, in that you can't get uefi images to easily be 'saved' without doing a lot of crap. this is one of the best resources I have found for doing this. I am saving this in case the origi...

As an ongoing saga of how to reduce the size of my qcow images smaller, I found a very nice solution. Basically you create a 'scsi' type disk, and then a virtio-scsi with discard turned on as 'zero'. This causes the fstrim utility to be able to reclaim used space due to the design of virsh. Its much...

I often run into programs that lack the vision to use the proper fish shell, and often have to do without fancy completions. I found a VERY nice gist that allows one to do this successfully, and have it seamlessly appear in the fish shell.

Here are some prerequisites that are necessary;

1. Bash c...

I went through some gyrations on the operating system front. I am tired of arch destroying itself, so I decided to try an 'unstable' ubuntu. So far its nice, but it was missing a nice mac like launcher. So I found ulaunch which enables me to ctrl space and not have to use the desktop or whatnot.

I was having terrible troble with sddm and kde not working nicely with my monitor. First, get the displays the way you want them. Then all you have to do is type in the below. After doing that you just need to cat the results inot Xsetup and save and reboot.

autorandr --save default
autorandr --de...

I had some trouble today when trying to get the qemu guest agent working in freebsd and libvirt. Here are the processes to get it working.

1. ensure that virtio_console driver is working
2. ensure that you have properly modified your 'channel' to include a necessary qemu channel for serial
3. ensure...

I was having some trouble today with getting my virsh console working with my new vm. I had forgotten that its necessary to uncomment

# Put a getty on the serial port
ttyS0::respawn:/sbin/getty -L ttyS0 115200 vt100

The above line in order to get things working on alpine linux. Once you do that...

I really like using xscreensaver with electric sheep (getting increasingly old alas) with my computer. But !@#%$!@#% cinnamon won't let me change the screensaver. I tried systemd blah blah blah.

Easiest fix: just move cinnamon-screensaver to cinnamon-screensaver.old and symlink xscreensaver to c...

I always was annoyed with how long it took to do garuda updates. If you run garuda-update --skip-mirrorlist the system won't run the 23$@$%@#$#$%@#$@#$% rate-mirrors every time which takes 10,000 years.

I just figured this out, I use git to make remote branches the same as local ones, useful if I have done lots of local branches that are stale and need to be murdicated:

git fetch --prune

LOTS of bad info on this. Its really pretty simple. When configuring the system (assuming your isp has SLAAC setup!) simply choose 'setup' eth0 with NO ipv4 address. things should 'just work' after that. oh and be sure to put in an ipv6 dns server! Also be sure to wait a bit since SLAAC can take a...

This may seem like a fairly random blog post, but I found a nice method to 'wash' suspenders (the kind with clip on non buttony things) in the washer without destroying them. Just put them in one of those bra containers and then wash in the washer. Air dry and all is well. I use one of the little zi...

I have had quite a time in getting vagrant to NOT work with the 23$#@$%$#%^#$$%^ virtualbox which is a horror spun from the 8th circle of hell. I use libvirt/qemu (a MUCH nicer solution!) and ansible / vagrant for setting up nice boxes. I also found a VERY NICE script for getting current alpine...