# nic (blogs) — RSS Amplifier Recent posts from the 3 feeds in the RSS Amplifier directory that cover nic. Page: Feed: --- ## [Building Audio Insight: An Audio Analyzer That Actually Renders Smoothly](https://blog.chlc.cc/p/building-audio-insight/) _2026-08-16 · Charlie Chiang's blog_ I like audio analyzers. It answers questions that my ears alone cannot answer quickly. Where is that resonance? Is the low end actually mono? How loud is this over the whole track? Is a limiter catching an occasional peak, or working all the time? What I do not like is an analyzer whose interface feels slower than the display it runs on. On my M1 Max, Excite Audio VISION 4X appeared to top out at… ## [weekend magazine](https://leoniewise.com/weekend-magazine-2/) _2026-08-09 · Leonie Wise · Leonie Wise_ even in the winter weekends on our tiny island we are outside in cold winds and clear skies—filling ourselves up with moments of quiet joy during these short winter days. we leave the house layered in merino and wearing wooly hats for our regular sunday walks. wandering over ## [tiny snackers](https://leoniewise.com/tiny-snackers/) _2026-08-05 · Leonie Wise · Leonie Wise_ every winter we put fruit out for the birds that we share our home with, and oranges are a favourite of both the tui and the tauhou. these tiny snackers can get through half an orange in half a day (fortunately for us, one of our neighbours has a tree ## [proof of life](https://leoniewise.com/rotorua-roadtrip/) _2026-07-31 · Leonie Wise · Leonie Wise_ the year's tipped over its highest point and started rolling towards the end again, and here i am, with a few photos from a recent road trip to share +++  mount ngauruhoe as seen from the desert road • sh1, northbound for rotorua geothermal steam lifting off the ## [Installing Proxmox VE on an OVHcloud Kimsufi KS-5](https://blog.chlc.cc/p/kimsufi-ks5-proxmox/) _2026-07-06 · Charlie Chiang's blog_ I ordered an OVHcloud Kimsufi KS-5 dedicated server for 19.90 USD/month. It is not fast by modern standards, but it is a very usable small Proxmox box if you install it carefully. The goal for this machine was: Proxmox VE on mirrored ZFS root. Keep only part of each SSD for the root pool. Use the remaining SSD space as a fast disposable scratch pool. Put VMs and CTs behind NAT, because the server… ## [Minimal Alpine Linux on a 1 GB Btrfs Root Disk](https://blog.chlc.cc/p/alpine-minimal-btrfs-install/) _2026-06-25 · Charlie Chiang's blog_ I sometimes need a tiny cloud instance that only forwards traffic. CPU and memory can be small, and the disk is mostly wasted space. On one Alibaba Cloud ecs.t6-c4m1.large instance, a 1 GB root disk on a long contract can push the cost down to about $0.40/month, but a normal Linux install leaves too little usable space. The trick is not complicated: Use Alpine Linux, because the base system is… ## [Bundling macOS Dynamic Libraries](https://blog.chlc.cc/p/bundling-macos-dynamic-libraries/) _2026-06-08 · Charlie Chiang's blog_ I recently tried to build QEMU on macOS and make the result portable enough that it could still run after uninstalling the Homebrew packages used during the build, or I can move the whole QEMU directory to another machine. I don’t want the Homebrew build because it installs too many dependencies on the system, and I want a more self-contained bundle, not a system-wide installation. The short… ## [no safe place to land](https://leoniewise.com/no-safe-place-to-land/) _2025-12-22 · Leonie Wise · Leonie Wise_ (the big little adventure that wasn’t) as i write this, we’re sitting in a hotel in the south island of new zealand, drinking coffee and contemplating breakfast, our original christmas plans thwarted. if all had gone to plan, we would have been touching down on the ## [weekends in october](https://leoniewise.com/weekends-in-october/) _2025-12-15 · Leonie Wise · Leonie Wise_ (because it's december now • and october demands to be remembered) homeward bound after a lunchtime swim • lucky 13 october is lunch in the city with a friend and it's all the 13s. it is a cloud atlas and weather-appropriate waiheke wine. it is ## [(Chinese Only) 华为 AirEngine 5773-21 踩坑记录](https://blog.chlc.cc/p/huawei-airengine-5773-gotchas/) _2025-12-13 · Charlie Chiang's blog_ 背景 最近老家重建，家里需要重新布置无线网络。考虑到自建别墅面积比较大，单纯使用单个无线路由器覆盖不够，因此多个 AP 肯定是需要的。家里在装修的时候就每个房间吊顶中有留超六类线缆，这种情况对 AP 来说是非常友好的，因此决定使用企业级无线接入点（AP）来组建无线网络。由于华为系列的 AP 在国内使用量较大，闲鱼上非常好捡公司下架下来的二手设备，因此考虑华为系列的 AP。这些企业级 AP 并不需要担心二手问题，他们的质量是消费级产品无法比拟的，稳定性也是非常强。 目前是 2025 年 12 月，虽然在国内 Wi-Fi 7 （802.11be）的 6 GHz 频段还没批准无法使用（损失不少性能），但是上一下 Wi-Fi 7 追一下新也没什么问题。华为 Wi-Fi 7 AP 是 AirEngine xx7x 产品，我闲鱼花了 500 多，激情下单了一台 AirEngine 5773-21… ## [Reach prospects with real signals (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/pAfSp5LSAA3l) _2025-12-13 · **Sponsored**_ Find prospects talking about your problem and get context-backed moments to engage ## [Set Up ZeroTier Moon on Non-Standard Ports](https://blog.chlc.cc/p/set-up-zerotier-moon-on-non-standard-ports/) _2025-11-27 · Charlie Chiang's blog_ To install ZeroTier, one would typically allow port 9993/UDP on their firewall. However, in certain scenarios, you may need to run a ZeroTier moon on non-standard ports due to network restrictions (e.g. behind NAT) or conflicts with other services. This guide will walk you through the steps to set up a ZeroTier moon on non-standard ports. Setup Relays (Moon Nodes) on Non-Standard Ports Install… ## [postcards from doubtful sound / patea](https://leoniewise.com/postcards-from-doubtful-sound-patea/) _2025-10-28 · Leonie Wise · Leonie Wise_ a love letter to a place that changed me These are the things I want to remember: how the wind and rain made their home in my bones. How it was impossible to resist standing on the foredeck, legs braced against the weather, feeling the full power of being in ## [life on film](https://leoniewise.com/life-on-film-50/) _2025-10-17 · Leonie Wise · Leonie Wise_ did i already tell you about \[one of\] the amazing film cameras i have? it's this little yellow beauty. a vintage (circa 1987) minolta weathermatic, 35mm waterproof camera. my bestie, carol, found it in a second hand shop here on the island when she was house-and-cat- ## [percy](https://leoniewise.com/percy-the-pheasant/) _2025-10-12 · Leonie Wise · Leonie Wise_ we have a lot of different birds in our neighbourhood; from common sparrows to noisy native parrots. our newest arrival is a fine feathered chap we call percy, because apparently this is the name of all male pheasants\*. last week, when sitting on the sofa, i saw a flurry of ## [make some time for wasting](https://leoniewise.com/make-some-time-for-wasting-2/) _2025-10-09 · Leonie Wise · Leonie Wise_ it's 2007 and we've just moved to madison, wisconsin. this will be our home for the next 3 months while nic leads the hand over of a software development project to the new team and i hire my replacement. mother fools coffee house • photographed with ## [weekends in september](https://leoniewise.com/weekends-in-september-2025/) _2025-10-05 · Leonie Wise · Leonie Wise_ new carpet in the bedroom prompts a clean out and tidy up before we put everything back into place + brunch with friends overlooking the sea + lunch at a favourite local + cocktails (vesper martini for me, negroni for nic) and a few games of ticket to ride, europe sunday afternoon board ## [fiskesuppe and kardemummakaka](https://leoniewise.com/fish-soup-and-cardamom-cake/) _2025-09-13 · Leonie Wise · Leonie Wise_ the ferry from tromsø that takes me, and my new friends, to arnøya where we'll spend the next week in creative heaven it’s 10pm and the sun is still up. we’ve eaten well, shared a few stories and swum together in ## [the great noodle run](https://leoniewise.com/the-great-noodle-run/) _2025-08-23 · Leonie Wise · Leonie Wise_ described as the amazing race meets food crawl, the great noodle run was one of the auckland restaurant month events and consisted of a fun afternoon visiting four city centre noodle restaurants. love how clear the water is where we live • if we weren't heading to the ## [hamilton gardens](https://leoniewise.com/hamilton-gardens/) _2025-08-22 · Leonie Wise · Leonie Wise_ monday was my birthday, so nic and i both took the day off and did a roadtrip south to hamilton for the day. i specifically wanted to go to hamilton gardens as its been years since we visited. even in its sleepy winter state, the gardens were a delight. and, ## [Proxmox VE Shared GPU Installation Guide](https://blog.chlc.cc/p/proxmox-ve-shared-gpu-installation-guide/) _2025-08-16 · Charlie Chiang's blog_ Introduction Most schools and universities in China have a limited number of GPU servers (often only one or two, or even none). This makes the management of GPU development machines quite different than corporation which have virtually unlimited GPU servers. Let’s consider a normal lab environment with 12 students, each needing a GPU server for their projects, and we have one GPU server with… ## [Zero-Persistence E2EE (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/zdsZBh2nTEcd) _2025-08-16 · **Sponsored**_ End-to-end encryption with client-side WebCrypto and volatile memory. ## [(Chinese-Only) 一个Linux用户的绿联NAS配置指南](https://blog.chlc.cc/p/ugreen-nas-terminal-setup/) _2025-07-27 · Charlie Chiang's blog_ 启用 SSH 没SSH就别想着用Terminal了，赶紧去开了。 去绿联NAS的Web管理界面，控制面板 -\> 终端机 -\> SSH ，记得关闭自动关闭功能。 配置 root 用户 SSH 登录 用你的NAS用户名SSH到NAS上 ssh yourname@nas-ip 你需要先有一个SSH密钥对，如果你还没有，可以用 ssh-keygen -t rsa 生成一个。 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 # 切root sudo su # 打开 root SSH 登录（仅允许密钥登录） # 注意，别去改 /etc/ssh/sshd\_config ，因为绿联NAS的系统会保护这个文件，改了重启就失效了。 echo 'PermitRootLogin prohibit-password' \>\>… ## [the weekend that was](https://leoniewise.com/the-weekend-that-was-77/) _2025-06-22 · Leonie Wise · Leonie Wise_ matariki rising + the winter solstice kūmara cake / loaf (since i don’t own a cake tin) honouring matariki by baking christall lowe’s kūmara cake with orange toffee sauce (served warm with vanilla ice-cream) + parāoa parai (fry bread), using the same ## [the weekend that was](https://leoniewise.com/the-weekend-that-was-76/) _2025-06-15 · Leonie Wise · Leonie Wise_ tax returns + laundry + poetry in unexpected places + mia yeast bakery treats + chicken kottu from a favourite sri lankan curry maker (who is sadly soon closing up shop) + bus and ferry rides to go visit friends on the other side of auckland + dinner and the delights of a good catch up ## [RTX4090 GPUDirect P2P Unlocked!](https://blog.chlc.cc/p/rtx4090-p2p-unlocked/) _2025-02-07 · Charlie Chiang's blog_ If you want see the test results directly, please jump to the Test the unlocked performance section. What is P2P? From NVIDIA: GPUDirect Peer to Peer enables GPU-to-GPU copies as well as loads and stores directly over the memory fabric (PCIe, NVLink). GPUDirect Peer to Peer is supported natively by the CUDA Driver. As you can see, GPUDirect P2P allows for direct memory access between GPUs,… ## [XFS Tuning for Hardware RAID](https://blog.chlc.cc/p/xfs-with-hw-raid/) _2024-11-05 · Charlie Chiang's blog_ Stripe Size When you create an hardware RAID array, you must encountered the term stripe size . For example, an 8-disk RAID 1/0 has a stripe width of 4, with a stripe element size of 64 KB has a stripe size of 256 KB (4 \* 64 KB). A 5-disk RAID 5 (4+1) with a 64 KB stripe element size also has a stripe width of 256 KB drive (4 \* 64 KB) . A stripe is the smallest chunk of data within a RAID array… ## [Share NVIDIA GPU between CTs in Proxmox VE](https://blog.chlc.cc/p/pve-ct-share-nvidia-gpu/) _2024-11-04 · Charlie Chiang's blog_ Background Consider a small lab, students need to use GPU for their projects. We have a NVIDIA GPU in our Proxmox VE server, and we want to share the GPU between multiple containers so that multiple students can use the GPU at the same time. Why not use a VM? Because a GPU can only be passed through to one VM at a time (only one student can use the GPU at a time). And resources are not flexible in… ## [Fake macOS Version Detected by Homebrew](https://blog.chlc.cc/p/homebrew-fake-macos-version/) _2024-10-08 · Charlie Chiang's blog_ Background One particular issue that I encountered when I tried to install some software using Homebrew on my Mac is that Homebrew deprecates support for older macOS versions just like Apple do. Once a macOS version is deprecated, Homebrew will not provide bottles (precompiled binaries) for that version. This means that you have to compile the software from source, which is extremely…