VirtualTam's bookmarks

1. robots.txt - AI / LLM User-Agents: Blocking Guide 2025-04-29

   tags: network/http, robots.txt, web/crawling, web/scraping

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   • A summary of my bot defence systems
     • Butlerian Jihad - Blog posts on the topic of fighting off spam bots, search engine spiders and other non-humans wasting the precious resources we have on Earth
   • EmacsWiki's robots.txt
2. A different approach to blocking bad webbots by IP address 2025-04-28

   tags: feed, network/autonomous-system, network/http, network/ip, web/crawling, web/scraping

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   • Now a bit about feed readers
   • A deeper dive into mapping web requests via ASN, not by IP address
   • Notes on blocking spam by filtering on ASN
3. The USB ID Repository - A public repository of all known ID's used in USB devices: ID's of vendors, devices, subsystems and device classes 2025-03-29

   tags: hardware, linux, serial-communication/usb

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   • Debian - usb.ids
   • vcrhonek/hwdata - Hardware identification and configuration data, such as the pci.ids and usb.ids databases
4. Picotron Fantasy Workstation - A self-contained creative environment built for imaginary hardware 2025-03-16

   tags: art/pixel-art, game, programming/lua, retro

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   • Picotron FAQ
   • Picotron
   • The Year of the Picotron Desktop
5. ICANN Update: Launching RDAP; Sunsetting WHOIS 2025-02-27

   tags: command-line, ietf/rfc, network/dns, network/rdap, programming/rust

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   • icann/icann-rdap
   • The rdap Command
   • The Registration Data Access Protocol
     • Client Implementations
   • RFC 9082 - Registration Data Access Protocol (RDAP) Query Format
   • RFC 9536 - Registration Data Access Protocol (RDAP) Reverse Search
6. The Heirloom Documentation Tools 2025-02-26

   tags: command-line, documentation/man-page, linux, programming/c, programming/html, programming/postscript, unix

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   • n-t-roff/heirloom-doctools
   • TYPSET and RUNOFF
     • roff
       • troff
       • nroff
       • groff
         • mandoc
7. Linux Containers - Incus 2025-02-08

   tags: distributed-system/cluster, linux/container/incus, linux/container/lxc, programming/go, virtualization/qemu

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   • Incus Documentation
   • Introducing Incus
   • lxc/incus
   • Packer - Incus Provider
   • Terraform - Incus Provider
   • FOSDEM 2024 - Introducing Incus
   • FOSDEM 2025 - Incus cluster: private cloud with system containers
   • FOSDEM 2025 - Bringing application containers to Incus
8. lnav - Logfile navigator 2025-01-30

   tags: command-line, database/sqlite, observability/logging, programming/c++, programming/json

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   • The Logfile Navigator
   • Command Line Interface
   • Log Formats
   • SQLite Interface
9. Stratoshark - Explore and analyze applications at the system call level 2025-01-27

   tags: linux, network/packet-capture/pcap, network/packet-capture/wireshark

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   • Those Aren't Packets: How Stratoshark Brings the Power of Wireshark to the Cloud
   • Stratoshark: Extending Wireshark’s legacy into the cloud
   • Getting Started With Stratoshark
10. baskervaldx – Extension and modification of BaskervaldADF with LaTeX support 2025-01-27

    tags: programming/latex, text/font

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    • BaskervilleF and Baskervaldx
    • Font Catalogue - Baskervald X
    • baskervaldadf – Baskervald ADF fonts collection with TeX/LaTeX support
11. NIST’s Cesium Fountain Atomic Clocks 2025-01-24

    tags: atomic, laser, physics/temperature, space, time/clock

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    • NIST-F1 Cesium Fountain Clock, 1999-12-29
    • NIST Launches a New U.S. Time Standard: NIST-F2 Atomic Clock, 2014-04-03
    • Advanced Laser Cooling for the Atomic Space Clock, 2021-10-12
    • Primary Atomic Reference Clock in Space
    • Laser Cooling
12. The SQLite JSONB Format 2025-01-21

    tags: database/sqlite, programming/json

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    • JSON Functions And Operators
    • SQLite 3.45.0
    • SQLite 3.45: Interactive release notes
13. Zork: The Great Inner Workings 2025-01-21

    tags: command-line, game/interactive-fiction, game/zork, history, parser, programming/c, programming/fortran, programming/go, programming/lisp

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    It is pitch black. You are likely to be eaten by a grue.

    • Zork: The Great Underground Empire
    • Down From the Top of Its Game: The Story of Infocom, Inc.
    • The Visible Zorker
    • r/raldi - I spent my weekend hacking Zork
    • historicalsource/zork1
    • historicalsource/zork-fortran
    • MITDDC/zork
    • jeffnyman/zmachine
    • ZoBoRf/ZILCH-How-to
    • ajdnik/gozork
14. Hacking the Yamaha DX9 To Turn It Into a DX7 2025-01-20

    tags: electronics, firmware, instrument/synthesizer, programming/assembly, reverse-engineering

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    • ajxs/yamaha_dx97
    • Yamaha DX7 Firmware ROM Disassembly
    • Yamaha DX7 Official Technical Analysis
    • Yamaha DX 7 Technical Analysis Booklet
    • Introduction to Reverse-Engineering Vintage Synth Firmware
15. Python 3 - struct - Interpret bytes as packed binary data 2025-01-19

    tags: binary, parser, programming/python

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    • Format Characters
16. Split tmux.conf into multiple files? 2025-01-17

    tags: command-line, command-line/tmux, dotfile

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    • Getting started - The configuration file
    • cmd-source-file.c
    • tmux(1) - manual page

    source-file [-Fnqv] [-t target-pane] path ...
                  (alias: source)
            Execute commands from one or more files specified by path
            (which may be glob(7) patterns).  If -F is present, then
            path is expanded as a format.  If -q is given, no error
            will be returned if path does not exist.  With -n, the
            file is parsed but no commands are executed.  -v shows
            the parsed commands and line numbers if possible.
    

17. PostgreSQL - What is a valid use case for using TIMESTAMP WITHOUT TIME ZONE? 2025-01-14

    tags: database/postgresql, time/timezone

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    • Date/Time Types
    • Should I store UTC timestamps or localtime for shifts
18. Apache Answer - A Q&A platform software for teams 2025-01-12

    tags: community, forum, programming/go, programming/typescript

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    • apache/answer
    • How to Improve Knowledge Sharing with Answer
    • Plugins
19. Internet Engineering Task Force - Groups 2025-01-12

    tags: ietf, ietf/rfc

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    • Active IETF working groups
    • Guide to IETF Working Groups
    • RFC Editor
    • Recent RFCs - RSS Feed
20. Go - Truncate strings with special characters without corrupting data 2025-01-05

    tags: programming/go, text/unicode

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    • Strings, bytes, runes and characters in Go
    • x/exp/utf8string - Index strings by rune rather than by byte
    • How can I elliptically truncate text in golang?
    • Why can the Go string type contain invalid UTF-8 data?