Brent - lesser daemon (Page 6)

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Apr

Setting Up Port Forwarding on a VirtualBox RedHat VM With A NAT Network Adapter

OK, quickly discovered that I was less brilliant than I thought yesterday. It appears that for the functionality I wanted (both the ability to SSH into the VM and to port forward from my local machine to an application running on the VM) I need to use a NAT and not a bridge network.

I spent a while struggling with this and discovered that to assign your VM to the standard 10.0.2.* range and successfully connect to the internet, a NAT drive should be your first network adapter. I'd initially had a bridge network as Adapter 1 and

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07

Apr

Setting Up SSH And Shared Folders in A RHEL VirtualBox VM

I discovered recently that RHEL has a free developer license, something that could have saved me a lot of trouble if I'd known it earlier. Since I do a lot of work in RHEL I've wanted to have a virtual environment that mimics it - I had been working in WSL, but I think having to work with VirtualBox VM does a better job of replicating the experience of working on it in production.

You'll need to get a RHEL Developer License to download the necessary ISO image. You can pretty much roll with the default settings while creating the

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05

Apr

Things I Am Consuming: 4.5.2025

It's the weekend, I've got no brilliant tech tutorials in my pocket and I have no particular desire to write about societal collapse for at least a little bit. So I'm just gonna write about some stuff I enjoyed this week. I've finally burned out on videogames for a bit after spending a few weeks housing my backlog of visual novels and I'm finally getting back on my book/show/movie shit. There appears to be a throughline of lore-heavy nerd escapism which frankly I deserve.

“Children are dying."
Lull nodded. "That's a succinct summary of humankind, I'd say. Who

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04

Apr

Running gunicorn from a Python virtual environment with systemd and selinux

There are a lot of tutorials out there for running a gunicorn server on systemd, but I wasn't able to find one that actually told me how to do so in selinux. Since I'd never used selinux before, this relatively simple task turned into hours of trial and error, but my loss is your gain. YMMV dependent on how custom your selinux setup is, but this worked for me:

Assuming your project is in /www/myproject:

/www/myproject/gunicorn_config.py:

bind = 'unix:/run/gunicorn.sock'
worker_class = 'sync'
workers = 4
timeout = 60

/etc/systemd/system/gunicorn.socket:

[Unit]
Description=

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03

Apr

Thou shalt not make a machine in the likeness of a human mind

Today I am questioning even my minimal attempts to give the benefit of the doubt to AI. A thing is ultimately what it does and dear god there is so little good coming out of this technology right now and so much bad.

As far as anyone can tell, the tariffs announced yesterday (which will, if upheld, most likely result in a recession at best) were literally just calculated based on asking a chatbot how to eliminate trade deficits. Gemini even prefaced its response with "this is a super bad idea, but if you want to, here's how you'd do

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