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The article provides instructions for installing and activating StarUML Version 6 on Windows, macOS, and Linux. It directs users to download the software from the official website, then replace the original `app.asar` fi…
The article describes the author's workflow integrating tmux with Neovim for efficient terminal-based development, including custom tmux configurations like remapping the prefix key to `C-p` and enabling Vim-style naviga…
This article provides configuration code for setting a custom base URL for TubeArchivist using Nginx. The setup involves a reverse proxy configuration that rewrites requests from `/multimedia/tubearchivist/` to the TubeA…
This article describes a custom EasyEffects audio preset designed to achieve a "broadcast" or NPR-like sound for masculine voices, with a focus on aggressive noise reduction and voice clarity. The configuration uses a ch…
The article details the process of building and loading a RISC-V firmware for the SNESTang FPGA project, choosing the minimal RV32I architecture for its small size and mature toolchain. The firmware, which includes a bas…
The article explains the addition of a softcore CPU to the SNESTang 0.3 FPGA project to handle I/O tasks like USB and file systems, which previously consumed valuable FPGA logic space when implemented in Verilog. The cho…
The SNESTang 0.3 project ports the Super Nintendo Entertainment System (SNES) to Tang FPGAs, using a phase-based clock design with a main work clock (wclk) at 10.8 MHz to simplify logic and reduce clock domains. The arch…
This article provides a Python script that allows users to switch the Creative BT-W5 Bluetooth audio dongle between AptX Adaptive Low Latency and High Quality modes. The script, which was reverse-engineered from Creative…
The author switched from Artix Linux to Void Linux after experiencing stability and compatibility issues with Artix, including problems with package mixing and configuration debt. They praise Void Linux for its greater s…
The article provides instructions for installing Docker and Docker Compose on Arch Linux using the yay package manager. It outlines steps to install the packages, start the Docker service, and add the user to the Docker …
The article announces the launch of AWSAttacks, a new GitHub repository dedicated to collecting and sharing threat intelligence for Amazon Web Services (AWS). It serves as a curated hub for Indicators of Compromise (IoCs…
Based on the provided text, the article describes using the Hugging Face Text Embeddings Inference library via a local server at port 8080. It demonstrates sending HTTP POST requests to the `/embed` endpoint, first with …
This article provides a modern installation guide for Arch Linux using BTRFS on a UEFI system, aimed at helping new users set up a minimal installation. The guide covers steps from basic terminal installation through vid…
This article provides a technical guide for decompiling IL2CPP Unity games using Il2CppDumper and Ghidra for modding purposes. The process involves extracting metadata with Il2CppDumper, converting it for Ghidra compatib…
The article describes how the author built a blogroll for their Eleventy-based website, featuring each blog's favicon and latest post. They chose to schedule daily site rebuilds to keep the "latest posts" section reasona…
Apple's Virtualization framework in macOS 12 (Monterey) supports macOS guest VMs but imposes significant limitations, including the inability to install third-party kernel extensions in guests. The author has developed a…
The article describes the author's difficulty using Valgrind for memory debugging on Artix Linux, as both Artix and Arch Linux have removed debug packages in favor of a debuginfod system. While debuginfod worked with GDB…
The article explains best practices for writing alt text for code snippet screenshots on social media, emphasizing that the goal is to provide a text alternative that conveys the same information as the image. It advises…
This article provides a curated list of peer-to-peer (P2P) file sharing tools, including web-based services like Web Wormhole and PairDrop, as well as command-line applications like croc and Wush. It notes that some popu…
The article analyzes the cost and latency trade-offs of serving Llama-2-70B compared to GPT-3.5-turbo, concluding that Llama-2 is over 3x cheaper for prompt tokens but more expensive for completion tokens. It explains th…