02-Sep, 2024 - morning links, etc.

links, etc Harder Drive: Hard drives we didn’t want or need a delicious waste of network bandwidth and linux network drivers. quite amusing. Have we stopped to think about what LLMs actually model? • The Register no. tags: linux, ai, hacks

September 2, 2024 · steve ulrich

disable IPv6 on a specific interface (linux)

because i have to google these sysctl settings every … time.. /etc/sysctl.conf # disable IPv6 on the wlan0 interface net.ipv6.conf.wlan0.disable_ipv6=1 # insufficient on its lonesome net.ipv6.conf.wlan0.autoconf=0 # don't forget this .. it’s important to disable autoconf because it will still pick up the RAs for learning the default and this may not deterministically let you do what you want. replace wlan0 with the interface you want to starve.

March 29, 2019 · sulrich

the lurking answer to gemfile.lock's existence

i’m not at all a ruby user so this is being stored away for future reference. of particular note, pay attention to the “checking your code into version control” section … specifically regarding the gemfile.lock and what to do … This is important: the Gemfile.lock makes your application a single package of both your own code and the third-party code it ran the last time you know for sure that everything worked....

June 7, 2016 · steve ulrich

init replacements

the nice thing about linux and the let a thousand flowers bloom mode of operation is the explosion of different init replacements you have to choose from. ...

August 13, 2012 · steve ulrich