100days - lesser daemon (Page 2)

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Apr

At least this time I have a good reason

Most of my earliest memories are of not being able to breathe. I had really severe asthma and had to use a dorky breathing device called a nebulizer for a couple of hours a day or I would have an asthma attack. Anytime I missed using the nebulizer or sometimes just because I was asleep I would have an attack and when I had an attack there was a solid chance I'd end up in the hospital. I actually ended up really liking the hospital. My mom was a health nut and we weren't allowed to watch TV so for

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09

Apr

Provisioning a Red Hat VirtualBox VM With Vagrant

In what I hope will be the last entry in the "Brent learns the basics of VM provisioning" series, I finally moved to using Hashicorp's Vagrant yesterday. I'm glad I took the time to mess around in VirtualBox itself first - I always like understanding what I'm working with before I move to abstractions - but Vagrant makes it significantly easier. Vagrant sets up SSH in your VM by default, which is a nice time-saver, and generally makes the process of automating VM setup quick and easy. Behold:

1) Install Vagrant & VirtualBox.

2) In your project folder, add the

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08

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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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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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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