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Cake day: June 30th, 2023

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  • What if companies lobbied and depositioned that oil consumption wasn’t bad, greenhouse gasses don’t matter, and that climate change wasn’t real? All while having evidence to the contrary.

    Like, a company does a thing. Turns out it was a bad thing, but - as an industry - lied under oath and paid money to have it all swept under the rug.
    That’s pretty damn bad.

    AI companies seem to be marketing their thing as a bad thing, idiots drink the coolaid and make it a bad thing.

    I think we are early enough in the adoption cycle before it becomes incumbent.
    Whereas oil adoption was a miracle liquid/gas that absolutely moved humanity forward at the expense of the planet.
    AI replaces humanity at the expense of the planet.







  • I’d start with learning some networking basics.
    Subnets, default gateways, DNS, routes, VLANs.

    Then get another computer to install proxmox on.
    Learn VMs, SSH, firewalls, basically Linux. Probably VPNs as well.

    Then set up a VM and play with docker & docker-compose.

    And that’s most of the tooling to be able to self host anything. A VM with docker, set up the docker compose of what you want, boom: done.
    Some projects are more of a “full of” kinda thing (like home assistant), which would be its own VM







  • The first play part is setting up arbitrary (in this case, player-entered) code execution.
    The 2nd part is entering the arbitrary code to be executed.
    The 3rd part is the arbitrary code being executed.

    From the description:

    This is a Tool-assisted run of Pokémon Yellow, playing around with arbitrary code execution and testing the limits of Gameboy hardware.

    Tool-assisted meaning a program entering the data into the game. A lot of times tool-assisted is in the context of a speed run, a TAS (tool-assisted speedrun).
    A TAS file can be shared and perfected by many people, and reflects the most optimised way to finish a game as fast as possible.
    Sometimes TAS runs include techniques that are “TAS only”, an extreme example being alternating between left & right every frame for 30 seconds. Sometimes these “TAS only” techniques end up being performed by actual speed runners. And some TAS runs are “Human viable” as in “no techniques used that can’t be executed by a speed runner”.

    Some TAS systems can interface with an actual console, pretending to be a controller (called “TAS Bot” I believe). Generally, they run the game in an emulator or interface with an emulator.

    So, this video is about a TAS (well, the tool-assisted part, not necessarily the speedrun part) setting up arbitrary code execution (ACE) that then executes a bunch of user-entered code, which is what happens in the rest of the video