I write on a variety of topics, only some of which it's appropriate to have mathematical typesetting for. To avoid triggering a math rendering engine on unrelated use of $spurious dollar signs$, while activating it when $\text{necessary}\wedge\text{appropriate}$, I decided to restrict them to only elements with .mathjax. Here's how that's done: MathJax = { tex:…
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ESXi: auto-reboot after Purple Screen of Death
Shamelessly stolen / archived from / hat-tip to this other website, vSkilled, for their post on this. I'm just copying the important details here for when they go under or get consumed by advertisements. esxcfg-advcfg -s 120 /Misc/BlueScreenTimeout # (That's for a two-minute wait; adjust to taste)
Converting SVG to .ico with Python
Just a super rudimentary script that I made which hooks CairoSVG up to Pillow because apparently Firefox doesn't support SVG-formatted browserAction images: import cairosvg.surface from PIL import Image from io import BytesIO def svg2ico(*args, resolutions={96, 48, 32, 24, 16}, write_to=None, **kwargs): t = cairosvg.surface.Tree(*args, **kwargs) ims = [] for res in resolutions: cairosvg.surface.PNGSurface(t, f:=BytesIO(), res…
Getting OpenNIC to work with pfSense
If you're using an alternate DNS root server such as OpenNIC, and your network uses a pfSense-based router, you may find that clients are, strangely, unable to resolve unofficial TLDs, getting SERVFAIL or NXDOMAIN. There are 3 ways I can think of to quickly solve this problem for the whole network, listed here in increasing…
Mandates ARE laws…
I've seen some people online saying variations on “[COVID-19 quarantine] mandates aren't laws! know your rights! [state] legislature didn't sign off on this!” However, these people are usually incorrect. I'll be compiling examples in this post, more to come if I feel like it, starting out with representative examples from each quadrant of the U.S.:…
[WIP] Namecheap let's encrypt
First, go to cPanel's SSL/TLS, Private Keys, View. Note the ID of your TLS key; copy it to your clipboard or something. (Be careful not to grab any extraneous spaces or anything; triple-clicking to select the whole line did work for me, but just be sure you're paying attention.) Then, go to cPanel's Terminal and…
test post: dash conversion
[TODO: delete this post once coffee2code/wpuntexturize#2 is resolved]
Is Gab a controlled-opposition operation?
This post will be sort of an "archive" of everything about Gab that gives me the heebie-jeebies.
[DRAFT] Pleroma on Docker Compose
This testing was done with Pleroma 2.2.0, in environment CentOS 8 (Before starting, be sure docker and docker-compose are installed, as well as git, and NGINX.) Fetch and prepare the source code: git clone -b stable –depth=1 "https://git.pleroma.social/pleroma/pleroma.git" && cd pleroma git fetch –depth=2 "https://git.lain.church/squeegily/pleroma.git" "features/docker-compose":"features/docker-compose" && git -c "user.name=Anonymous" merge –no-commit "features/docker-compose" sudo chown…
Tmux: create session if it doesn't exist
tmux new-session -A -s default