VirtualTam's bookmarks

41. Joplin - an open source note taking and to-do application with synchronisation capabilities 2019-12-30

    tags: knowledge, nextcloud, notes, self-hosting, wiki

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42. Writing userspace USB drivers for abandoned devices 2019-11-18

    tags: driver, image, linux, reverse-engineering, usb, video

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    • https://ghidra-sre.org/
    • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philips_PM5544
    • https://github.com/benjojo/userspace-vga2usb/
43. Coding Standards for pure C (not C++) - Stack Overflow 2019-11-07

    tags: guidelines, programming/c

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    • https://stackoverflow.com/questions/415452/object-orientation-in-c
    • https://sites.google.com/site/cinterfacesimplementations/
    • http://web.archive.org/web/20190125125043/http://homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk/dts/pm/Papers/nasa-c-style.pdf
    • https://www.maultech.com/chrislott/resources/cstyle/
    • https://wiki.sei.cmu.edu/confluence/display/c/SEI+CERT+C+Coding+Standard
44. hashcat - advanced password recovery 2019-11-04

    tags: cryptography/encryption, cryptography/hash, security, security/password

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    • https://hashcat.net/wiki/
    • https://github.com/hashcat/hashcat
45. Bollinger Bands with Prometheus and Grafana 2019-10-23

    tags: observability, observability/grafana, observability/time-series/prometheus, visualization

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    • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bollinger_Bands
    • https://www.investopedia.com/terms/b/bollingerbands.asp
    • https://github.com/grafana/grafana/issues/409
    • https://github.com/grafana/grafana/issues/940
46. Sway, a Wayland tiling window compositor 2019-10-21

    tags: wayland, window-manager/i3, window-manager/sway, window-manager/tiling

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    • https://github.com/swaywm/sway
    • https://github.com/swaywm/wlroots
    • https://github.com/swaywm/sway/wiki
    • https://thomas-leister.de/en/sway-window-manager/
47. RFC 2222 - Simple Authentication and Security Layer (SASL) 2019-10-21

    tags: email, linux, network/ldap, network/smtp, security, security/authentication, unix

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    • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simple_Authentication_and_Security_Layer
    • https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2444
    • https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc4422
    • https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc4752
48. ddate(1) - Linux man page 2019-09-23

    tags: calendar, date, easter-egg, linux, wtf

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    • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discordianism
    • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discordian_calendar
    • https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/1wnaw7/accidentally_typed_ddate_instead_of_date_got/
49. AWS | Enable Enhanced Networking with Elastic Network Adapters for vintage OS AMIs 2019-09-17

    tags: chroot, cloud/aws, linux, linux/debian, linux/kernel, virtualization, xen

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    Paravirtual (PV) to Hardware Virtual Machine (HVM):

    • https://stackoverflow.com/questions/24330721/amazon-ec2-how-to-convert-an-existing-pv-ami-to-hvm

    ENA support:

    • https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/enhanced-networking-ena.html
    • https://forums.aws.amazon.com/thread.jspa?threadID=166135
    • https://aws.amazon.com/premiumsupport/knowledge-center/boot-error-linux-m5-c5/
    • https://bugs.centos.org/view.php?id=14107
    • https://ygrene.tech/how-to-enable-ena-support-for-aws-amis-in-5-steps-and-make-your-bamboo-remote-jobs-really-fast-f2a4254a9955

    Build Debian AMIs from scratch:

    • https://bootstrap-vz.readthedocs.io/en/master/
    • https://github.com/andsens/bootstrap-vz
    • https://www.slideshare.net/JamesBromberger/debian-cloud-building-the-debian-amis
    • https://blog.james.rcpt.to/2012/12/06/official-debian-images-on-amazon-web-services-ec2/

    Squeeze:

    • https://lists.debian.org/debian-cloud/2013/02/msg00023.html

    Wheezy:

    • https://lists.debian.org/debian-cloud/2014/10/msg00009.html
    • https://lists.debian.org/debian-cloud/2014/11/msg00000.html

    Boot to chroot:

    • https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/85714/boot-into-a-chroot
    • https://wiki.debian.org/chroot
    • https://wiki.debian.org/Debootstrap
    • https://superuser.com/questions/384437/booting-linux-system-from-chroot-is-there-a-better-way-to-do-this/384457#384457
    • https://github.com/lemonsqueeze/boot-chroot
50. Azgaar's Fantasy Map Generator 2019-09-17

    tags: fantasy, generation, image, map

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    • https://github.com/Azgaar/Fantasy-Map-Generator
    • https://github.com/Azgaar/Fantasy-Map-Generator/wiki/Quick-Start-Tutorial
    • https://trello.com/b/7x832DG4/fantasy-map-generator
    • https://www.reddit.com/r/FantasyMapGenerator/
51. BookStack, a platform to create documentation/wiki content built with PHP & Laravel 2019-09-16

    tags: documentation, knowledge, programming/php, self-hosting, web, wiki

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    • https://github.com/BookStackApp/BookStack
52. /r/golang | Learning Distributed systems 2019-09-16

    tags: data, distributed, distributed-system/cluster, network, programming, programming/go

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    • https://github.com/golang/go/wiki/Courses
    • https://dataintensive.net/
    • https://columbia.github.io/ds2-class/
    • https://github.com/brendandburns/designing-distributed-systems-labs
    • https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/resources/designing-distributed-systems/en-us/
    • https://www.distributed-systems.net/index.php/books/distributed-systems-3rd-edition-2017/
53. knuth-elevator: A Go implementation of the elevator simulator described by Donald E. Knuth. 2019-09-16

    tags: algorithm, elevator, knuth, programming, programming/go

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    > One of the references on Wikipedia’s Elevator Paradox page is a paper written by Donald E. Knuth dated many years prior to his simulator. A side-effect of that research experience may have been a lasting interest in the intricate details of elevator systems.

    • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Art_of_Computer_Programming
    • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discrete-event_simulation
54. 0.30000000000000004 2019-09-09

    tags: approximation, arithmetic, float, hardware/ram, memory, programming

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    • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Floating-point_arithmetic
    • https://standards.ieee.org/standard/754-2008.html
    • https://stackoverflow.com/questions/588004/is-floating-point-math-broken/588014#588014
    • https://docs.oracle.com/cd/E19957-01/806-3568/ncg_goldberg.html
55. James Gurney 2019-09-02

    tags: art, dinosaur, fantasy, paint, painting

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    • https://gurneyjourney.blogspot.com/search?updated-max=2019-08-24T09:11:00-04:00&max-results=10
    • https://www.instagram.com/jamesgurneyart/
    • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dinotopia
56. [Archaeology] Why is all the ancient stuff buried? Like wells, roman walls an such. Does the earth eat it? : askscience 2019-08-24

    tags: archaeology, civilization, dirt, plant, ruin, soil, worm

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    • https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/17je7i/archeologists_are_always_digging_up_ancient_ruins/
    • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Formation_of_Vegetable_Mould_through_the_Action_of_Worms
    • https://www.thoughtco.com/what-is-a-tell-169849
    • https://www.quora.com/Why-are-ancient-buildings-buried-deep-underground
57. LDAPKeyserver - GnuPG wiki 2019-07-30

    tags: cryptography/pgp, cryptography/pgp/gnupg, network/ldap, self-hosting

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58. Tonto's Expanding Head Band 2019-07-04

    tags: analog, audio, electronics, instrument/synthesizer, music

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    • https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-features/history-of-giant-stevie-wonder-synth-tonto-752161/
    • https://www.synthtopia.com/content/tag/tonto/
    • https://www.synthtopia.com/content/2014/01/09/the-mothership-has-landed-tonto-synthesizer-finds-new-home-at-national-music-centre/
    • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tonto%27s_Expanding_Head_Band#The_TONTO_synthesizer
59. Diffie-Hellman Key Exchange 2019-06-24

    tags: cryptography, cryptography/elliptic-curve, cryptography/encryption, cryptography/public-key-infrastructure, security

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    • https://security.stackexchange.com/questions/35471/is-there-any-particular-reason-to-use-diffie-hellman-over-rsa-for-key-exchange
    • https://security.stackexchange.com/questions/45963/diffie-hellman-key-exchange-in-plain-english
    • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elliptic-curve_Diffie%E2%80%93Hellman
    • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forward_secrecy
60. Zim - a desktop wiki 2019-06-18

    tags: graphical, information, knowledge, text, user-interface, wiki

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    • https://github.com/zim-desktop-wiki/zim-desktop-wiki
    • https://www.reddit.com/r/productivity/comments/c25bf6/my_personal_knowledge_base_a_ramble_about_setup/