Today I discovered the fonts-noto-color-emoji Ubuntu package, which I installed to get support for emoji fonts in Konversation, my IRC client.
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QEMU/KVM Attaching a Virtual NIC Directly to a Physical Interface
Man, it took me a while to figure out how to do this! Over on Attaching a Virtual NIC Directly to a Physical Interface I figured out I could use this XML in Virtual Machine Manager (virt-manager) for my NIC device:
<interface type='direct'> <source dev='enp9s0' mode='bridge'/> </interface>
That then gets expanded automatically to something like this:
<interface type="direct"> <mac address="52:54:00:ce:5b:09"/> <source dev="enp9s0" mode="bridge"/> <target dev="macvtap4"/> <model type="rtl8139"/> <alias name="net0"/> <address type="pci" domain="0x0000" bus="0x10" slot="0x01" function="0x0"/> </interface>
Update: ah, balls. This doesn’t completely work, because the guest can’t connect to the host, and vice versa, even though both the host and the guest can connect to the internet. This is a problem for another day. Maybe this or this will help?
Four pillars of virtualization
I’m reading Mastering KVM Virtualization and it says the four pillars of virtualization are:
- CPU
- memory
- storage
- network
Circle that presses them
There’s a great quote from Carlos Castaneda in Journey to Ixtlan: “A warrior proceeds strategically. If one wants to stop our fellow men one must always be outside the circle that presses them. That way one can always direct the pressure.”
Good learners
I was reading about Neil Postman and found myself on the inquiry education page. It says that all good learners have:
- Self-confidence in their learning ability
- Pleasure in problem solving
- A keen sense of relevance
- Reliance on their own judgment over other people’s or society’s
- No fear of being wrong
- No haste in answering
- Flexibility in point of view
- Respect for facts, and the ability to distinguish between fact and opinion
- No need for final answers to all questions, and comfort in not knowing an answer to difficult questions rather than settling for a simplistic answer
EarthBound
I read somewhere recently about EarthBound which is apparently a classic computer game. But I don’t recall ever having played it and I wasn’t able to find it on Steam.
Update: oh, I heard about it in The AI Revolution is Rotten to the Core
Fuck you ChatGPT
Man. Today I can’t prove I’m human to ChatGPT because its captcha is too hard for me. I gave it like five or six goes. I’m a bit pissed off because I pay for access to ChatGPT and having it waste my time like this and then deny me access wasn’t what I sent my money for. Off I go…
Update: gonna try NoowAI, that looks interesting and like it might satisfy my usecases.
Notation for ranges with included or excluded extremes
The square brackets are for a closed interval wherein endpoints are included.
The round brackets are for an open interval wherein endpoints are excluded.
Morris worm
Today I read about the Morris worm, malware from 1988.
Watch Loupe
This morning my new eyeglasses arrived, they are these ones from AliExpress: Watch Loupe Glasses Magnifying Repair Tool Loop Magnifiers Watchmaker Jewelry Jewelers Magnifier Foreye Convenient Professional.
Rather than do an unboxing video I thought I’d just write it up in this blog post.
There’s a headband type thing that comes with them that looks rather cheap and flimsy (it is), but it’s actually quite functional and practical.
The 20X magnification is my fav, and I might even see if I can get something with higher magnification one day.
