I write things sometimes.
I wanted my Discord bot to ring my phone. "Find my phone" is a solved problem - Google has a whole crowdsourced network for it - so I figured I'd wire up an existing tool and be done in an afternoon. Instead I spent the afternoon decompiling the Find Hub app, and came out the other side with a working reverse-engineering of an unpublished Google gRPC API. Here's what's actually going on under…
If you've found yourself stuck on an End-of-Life (EOL) Ubuntu release like 23.04, you might have encountered frustrating errors when trying to upgrade to newer versions. While the standard do-release-upgrade command typically handles upgrades smoothly, it won't work once your release has reached EOL status. Don't worry though - there's still a way to upgrade without reinstalling your system! The…
icon._icon_image.setTemplate_(True) . See isTemplate | Apple Documentation . You must do this every time you update the image. Tested on Mac OS Monterey, probably works on others. Permalink
If you're using Calico and your nodes have multiple network interfaces, you may have issues where your DNS strangely times out on some nodes and some pods sometimes. This might manifest, as it did for me, like this: headnode01:~$ sudo calicoctl node status Calico process is running. IPv4 BGP status +--------------+-------------------+-------+----------+---------+ | PEER ADDRESS | PEER TYPE | STATE…
Setup This year's setup involved 11 inputs and 5 outputs, not including the submaster mix for the livestream . Inputs consisted of two main choir mics, two auxiliary choir mics, two main vocalist mics, a seated vocalist mic, an instrumental mic, a line input for the piano, one floating general-purpose wireless mic, and one wireless headset mic. The outputs were a stereo output to the planetarium…
The setup this year aimed to provide both audience talkback and main output from the mixer (i.e. the sound that was going through the auditorium speakers) to the livestream. The purpose of this was to provide ambiance and a more immersive experience of being in the room to those following along at home or in the childcare room inside the center. To accomplish this, there were two channels provided…
Epistemic effort: A revision of a previous idea, marinated in several long conversations. It is intended as a reframe for a less technical audience, with more examples for accessibility and offerings of some insight for a particular neurotype. This makes sense to n=2 instead of n=1, now. Previously . Brains are by their nature hard to analyze. Their inner workings are locked away and mostly…
Warning: Spoilers for We Know The Devil (Date Nighto Games, 2015). Content warnings for injury, religion, mental health, trans stuff. The protagonists of WKTD, on finding god among the airwaves. Track to listen to: God Is Already Warning Us , Alec Lambert. We recently played We Know The Devil (WKTD), a Visual Novel about a trio of teenagers at a camp where they learn to fight the devil. It's a…
Epistemic effort: this is metaphor and introspection, and narrativization at that. Little has been done to verify that this works beyond n=1 besides throwing the metaphor at others and seeing some small progress. Let the mind be thought of as a program that transforms data, input to output. The input consists not only of things in the environment, but the stored result of running the program time…
Epistemic Effort : Drafted, slept on it, revised. Low citation count due to avoidance of concept contamination by reading others' experience. The ever-insightful Cassandra published yesterday an introspection on the process that she uses to think, comparing and contrasting it with various others, and proposing an trade-off between stability and flexibility. That axis is very appealing to me…
The more that I look at the discourse on Facebook, the less I like it. It is in general superficial and error-prone, and there is little keeping it going besides a network effect - it's where the people are. This is the sort of benefit that is hard to combat en masse , and is a problem that I'm going to leave for people who are smarter than me. One notable exception is the proliferation in the…
So, your webhost finally upgraded to PHP 7. Your site might runs faster (and more securely), but your über-customized phpBB 3.0 forum which has served you and your pals so well all these years is complaining about preg_replace_callback . What 's up with that? As it turns out, the method that phpBB used to implement BBCode for a long time required a language feature called eval . eval lets a…
Epistemic effort: metaphor seems intuitive, thought about language for a few weeks, did some research to see if this was original. Deep in the Pacific Ocean, far below the layer at which sunlight penetrates and the sun's warmth is felt, there exist giant tube worms . These worms grow to over a meter long and are a startling red in color. Their pigmentation comes from hemoglobins, the family of…
I am privileged and blessed to be attending a school in the University System of Maryland. Not only is there a well-deserved reputation for excellence in undergraduate teaching, but unlike many colleges and universities throughout the country (especially those with research as part of their mission), my campus of the USM - UMBC - has demonstrated the desire to engage with the growing concern…