chapmanjacobd

I just thought this was interesting--so copying here. Not my words:

In this article I (Edmundo Carmona) will describe an experience I had that began with the failure of some RAID5 disks at the Hospital of Pediatric Especialties, where I work. While I wouldn’t wish such an event on my worst enemy, it was something that made me learn about the power of knowledge—a deep knowledge, which is so important in the hacking culture.

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Friday, April 29, 2005

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chapmanjacobd

# aria2c https://downloads.raspberrypi.com/raspios_lite_arm64/images/raspios_lite_arm64-2025-10-02/2025-10-01-raspios-trixie-arm64-lite.img.xz
# unxz 2025-10-01-raspios-trixie-arm64-lite.img.xz
# 
# qemu-img convert -f raw -O qcow2 2025-10-01-raspios-trixie-arm64-lite.img raspios-lite.qcow2
# qemu-img resize raspios-lite.qcow2 +20G
# 
# rm 2025-10-01-raspios-trixie-arm64-lite.img

Use Raspberry Pi Imager to build an image

chapmanjacobd

/bin/qemu-system-arm64 \
    -name raspios-lite,process=raspios-lite \
    -machine virt,accel=kvm \
    # -cpu cortex-a72 \
    -cpu max \
    -smp cores=3 \
    -m 4G \
    -device virtio-balloon \
    -pidfile raspios-lite.pid \
    -rtc base=utc,clock=host \

chapmanjacobd

/bin/qemu-system-arm64 \
    -name alpine-v3.22,process=alpine-v3.22 \
    -machine virt,accel=kvm \
    -cpu max \
    -smp cores=3 \
    -m 4G \
    # -boot d
    -device virtio-balloon \
    -pidfile alpine-v3.22.pid \
    -rtc base=utc,clock=host \

chapmanjacobd

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https://april.wiki
https://aram.sh
https://asandei.com
https://carolwightman.com

chapmanjacobd

class ArgparseDBsOrPaths(argparse.Action):
    def __call__(self, parser, namespace, values, option_string=None):
        if values is None:
            return None

        databases = []
        if values == [STDIN_DASH]:
            print(f"{parser.prog}: Reading from stdin...", file=sys.stderr)
            stdin_paths = sys.stdin.readlines()
            paths = None

chapmanjacobd

> The Mojave Desert through the Eyes of the Minarchist
> The game starts off in almost perfect balance
> Each faction tolerates each other
> fighting
> but never killing off each other
> Then you start the game and you throw it all out of balance
> The Mojave is pretty unforgiving
> but if it's one thing
> it is fair
> It doesn't choose sides

chapmanjacobd

// ==UserScript==
// @name         MangaPlus Spacebar Navigation
// @namespace    http://tampermonkey.net/
// @version      1.4
// @description  Use space/shift+space to simulate clicks for MangaPlus navigation.
// @author       You
// @match        https://mangaplus.shueisha.co.jp/viewer/*
// @grant        none
// ==/UserScript==

chapmanjacobd

function untracked -w 'git status'
    git status --porcelain --short $argv | awk 'substr($0, 1, 2) == "??" {print substr($0, 4)}' | string unescape --style=script
end

function added -w 'git status'
    git status --porcelain --short $argv | awk 'substr($0, 1, 1) == "A" && substr($0, 2, 1) == " " {print substr($0, 4)}' | string unescape --style=script
end

function deleted -w 'git status'
    git status --porcelain --short $argv | awk 'substr($0, 1, 1) == " " && substr($0, 2, 1) == "D" {print substr($0, 4)}' | string unescape --style=script

chapmanjacobd

/var/lib/plocate/plocate.db: Permission denied

ls -lahg /var/lib/plocate/
Permissions Size User Group  Date Modified Name
.rw-r-----@ 337M root colord  1 Aug 01:02  plocate.db

Solution:
sudo chown :plocate /var/lib/plocate/plocate.db

but why does this happen?