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Daggerheart I really wanted to play some RPGs and it was difficult to find someone to run it… So I became the GM. My gaming group has been playing TTRPGs for a number a good long while now. (nearly a decade!) We commonly jump around from RPG to RPG; We started off with D&D, moved to Mothership, then Shadowdark. Most recently we started playing Daggerheart and it’s been a fun…
Updating this for 2024… The Basics Password Protection Web Browsers Laptops Desktops Antivirus VPN Entertainment The Nerdy Stuff Linux vim The Basics Password Protection Passkeys are starting to happen. Step one Use a password manager. Use something that allows you to securely store randomly generated passwords. Bitwarden works well. Step two Use long passphrases if you need to remember the…
I tried out zsh, but it had too many buggy display bits for my tastes. After spending too much time researching the issues zsh and I called it quits for now. I’ve stuck with bash and build a fairly solid config that works for the way I work. A great book for learning bash is the O’Reily Learning the bash shell FILES /bin/bash The bash executable /etc/profile The systemwide…
Updating this for 2022… The Basics Password Protection Web Browsers Laptops Desktops Antivirus VPN Entertainment The Nerdy Stuff Linux vim The Basics Password Protection Step one Use a password manager. Use something that allows you to securely store randomly generated password. Bitwarden works well. Step two Use long passphrases if you need to remember the password. Use different(Complex,…
Laid out In order of urgency. Hang in there… This is like 15 years of testing and best practices I’ve nerded out on condensed into a single page. Emergency savings Put away at least $1k Somewhere safe as an emergency fund forget about it unless you are totally out of $$$. Add to this as possible Replenish as needed. This should not be your only savings. Budgeting Money Envelope system…
Note: I’ve had a handful of images that require the “host” cpu type. e.g. qm set $VMID --cpu cputype=host zfs - Add backup on pool assuming you have a zfs pool named “slow” zfs create slow/backups zfs set compression=lz4 slow/backups add to /etc/pve/storage.cfg dir: slow_backups path /slow/backups is_mountpoint 1 content backup,iso,vztmpl Promiscuous mode for an…
Las Vegas Timing We went as early as possible and the Omega Mart and we didn’t feel too crowded for the first couple of hours. Experience This was our second time visiting a Meow Wolf installation and the first time in Las Vegas. We had a ton of fun and the story was fantastic to follow and find out what is goin on. Denver Timing If you go. Go as early as possible.
I’ve been digging into welding knowledge lately. Learn to Weld: Beginning MIG Welding and Metal Fabrication Basics Hardcover – by Stephen Christena has been a good book resource for getting started. YouTube: TimWelds has been a solid video resource covering nearly any question I had within a few minutes. One thing I need to figure out is the power. I don’t have a good spot to plug in…
Soundcloud - Find some artists you like and see who they are connected with Locate music labels that promote music you like e.g. T&G or https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicago_record_labels 100-500 person music venues are a great source to find acts coming through town. Research music audiophiles like e.g. https://www.whathifi.com/features/50-albums-audiophiles Look for a local radio station that…
Some things you should be using if you happen to use the internet. I say should because I know of what I’m talking about. Been doing this a while. 2 factor, MultiFactor, 2step, etc. Authentication This is a service that most security conscious service providers… provide. (Oddly, a lot of banks do not provide this service, Shame on you banks!) Here is a List of websites and whether or not…
Find by Name Find Files find . -type f Find Directories: find . -type d Find Directories with a lot of files: time sudo find . -type f -exec dirname {} \; | sort | uniq -c | sort -nr | head -50 cd to the directory you would like to search in cd /home/username find . -name pattern find . -iname '<pattern>' find ~ -iname '<pattern>' find /etc/ -iname '<pattern>' Find Files by Time prior to 365 days…
Attempting to connect to a windows share, on a domain, in kubuntu 18.04 and I encountered some issues. (Note: ran into this in CentOS7, ubuntu 16.04, 14.04 and others) Normally smb://server/share/ would work in my file browser (using kde the file browser is dolphin) When I ran some tests: smbclient -L servername I received the error: SPNEGO(gse_krb5) NEG_TOKEN_INIT failed: NT_STATUS_NO_MEMORY…
Some of my favorite things Articles How to Live like a king - Thor Harris Iron and the Soul - Henry Rollins Derek Sivers - Hell Yeah! Boardgames Euphoria Lords of Waterdeep Carcassonne Linkage Pandemic Star Fluxx The Cave Fleet Creators and Interviewers Foundation - Interviews with Founders The Random Show - Random Stuff Swiss Miss - Awesome random design things. Rohan Anderson - Photography…
Tutorials Affinity Tutorials Designer Photo Envato TUTS+ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gd7FmjUxFnE Introduction 0:001.1 Affinity Designer Quick Start Vector Persona 0:582.1 Creating Curves 3:422.2 Adding, Deleting and Connecting Nodes 8:452.3 Node Types and Pen Drawing Modes 13:522.4 Using the Corner Tool 17:082.5 How to “Power Duplicate” 19:572.6 Real-Time Embedded Object Editing 24:092.7…
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Logging Nmap Ping only nmap -sn <hosts> Lists of hosts -iL list.txt Grep-able ‘‘Note: this does not display vulnerability info’’ -oG - (or file name) Grep display IP only <nmap command> -oG - | grep '/open' | awk '{ print $2 }' Grep vulnerability Something like this may work: nmap -sS -sU -p U:137,T:139 --script nbstat --script smb-os-discovery.nse <hosts> | grep -B 10…
Boilerplate def main(): pass if __name__ == '__main__': try: main() except(Exception): raise else: pass finally: pass argparse import argparse argparser = argparse.ArgumentParser(description='Arguments that may be parsed.',epilog='The Epilog') argparser.add_argument('--test',action='store_true',help='Simulate the Run') argparser.add_argument('--dir','-d',type=str,required=True,help='Required…
This character sheet is laid out to put some of the most commonly used Stats in prominent places. The locations and text were pondered over for a while and should help move game play along and with a cheat sheet for Actions, Bonus actions, Reactions, and Movement We hope it will make your Roleplay a bit more enriched. Couple this character Sheet with Form d20 (Included with this purchase) and you…
The Basics Password Protection Web Browsers Laptops Desktops Antivirus VPN Entertainment The Nerdy Stuff Linux vim The Basics Password Protection Step one Use a password manager. Lastpass; F-secure; Abine Blur; keepass; Google Smart Lock; Just use something that allows you to securely store randomly generated password. Step two Use different(Complex, Long, and different from any other password)…
No order to this list… Other than Woodcraft and Camping; If you have any interest in the outdoors; Buy a couple of these; one to keep and one to give as a gift. Woodcraft and Camping This is by far one of my favorite books. It’s written by a man called Nessmuk (George Washington Sears), a conservationist in the 1880’s. It has stories of camping and ways to smooth out the…
I don’t really use this anymore, it worked for a while but became super buggy over time. I wrote a python script to handle things a bit better. https://github.com/ryanbarrett/py_dashcast
Nearly all commands are in normal (not INSERT) mode. My vimrc file is here macros This is a super handy feature. Basically you can press q then any key, to start recording a macro to it. qo starts recording to register ‘o’, q stops recording. @o replays the recording Example… qydt,dt,xj0q start recording; delete to comma;delete to comma; delete one char; down a line; to the…
This should help with: Installing Rasbian on a micro sd setting up networking enabling ssh before boot find the raspberry pi on the network with nmap basic raspi config and Updates Write rasbian image to microsd card Download rasbian lite From linux computer with sd card inserted: $ lsblk mmcblk0 179:0 0 14.9G 0 disk └─mmcblk0p1 179:1 0 14.9G 0 part $ sudo dd bs=4M if=2xxxxxxx-jessie-lite.img…
The basics: Steel S30V - Great for sharpening and difficult to corrode. Expensive. Carbon - Great steel for sharpening. They rust easily. Inexpensive, and you can find high-carbon steel in abundance at any flea market/junk shop in the form of files. Stainless - Not great for sharpening and difficult to get a decent edge. Sharpening Sharpening is an art for sure, but one of the easiest arts to…
Date: 2019-07-21 Tags: design Permalink: /blog/richiepansfont “Richie Pan’s America” Font I watched a little thing called “Richie Pan’s America” and it had a font that I really liked. Couldn’t find any info on who made it. (I found it, See Update Below) Thought it would be a fun Design challenge for myself. Here are some samples. Update I didn’t…
Traveller → Percentile Conversion (40–80 Model) Skill Ladder Skill-0 → 40% Skill-1 → 50% Skill-2 → 60% Skill-3 → 70% Skill-4 → 80% Skill-0 is required to attempt a task. Untrained characters cannot roll. Jack-of-All-Trades grants Skill-0 (40%) in all skills. Base Skill Formula: Base Skill% = 40 + (10 × Skill Level) Characteristic Modifiers (DM Conversion) Percentile Conversion Rule Each +1 DM =…
Date: 2019-06-26 Title: shirt designs Permalink: /tshirt Tags: designs,logo My T-Shirt Designs Click on a shirt to visit my shop. I’ve always enjoyed looking at different logos and t shirt designs. There were tons of designs that I wanted and It seemed no one was making them. So… I set out to make a few designs that I wanted to see on a t shirt. All of my designs mean something to me…
Justin Dockins - Writer Tyler Harris - Artist of all sorts The Glorious Vapors - music Judson Claiborne - music Hands and Feet - music Low Skies - music Josh Hare - Video
NixOS ssl certs https://linuxunplugged.com/493 https://nixos.org/manual/nixos/stable/index.html#module-security-acme https://github.com/go-acme/lego https://paste.docs.lol/code/SuitesSacrosanctness security.acme = { acceptTerms = true; defaults = { email = 'you@domain.com'; dnsProvider = 'cloudflare'; credentialsFile = '/etc/nixos/cloudflare.env'; }; }; services.nginx = { enable = true;…
Things worth noting Menu Networking Notes Numbering Notes Temperature Notes Networking Notes Netmask Netmask (binary) CIDR Notes _____________________________________________________________________________ 255.255.255.255 11111111.11111111.11111111.11111111 /32 Host (single addr) 255.255.255.254 11111111.11111111.11111111.11111110 /31 Unuseable 255.255.255.252 11111111.11111111.11111111.11111100…
A deck of cards used to mock up a system for instruction, discussion, or design. Any type of system. This System design deck comes with a story. My grandpa managed a team of programmers that worked with some of the first computers at ALMSA (Army Automated Logistics Management Systems Activity). They designed systems for handling the movement of everything in the US military. He did a fair amount…
Computers Julia Evans’ zines are top notch for digging into the nitty gritty of the computer sciences. https://wizardzines.com/ Role playing - D&D - Sci-Fi Mothership https://www.mothershiprpg.com/