today's howtos
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Self-hosting with AT&T Fiber Internet
Today I got AT&T Fiber Internet installed at my house, and I thought I'd document a few things I observed during and after the install.
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Merging multiple mp3 files into an audiobook with chapters
I recently found the 3 Lord of the Rings audiobooks I bought from Phil Dragash some years back, as I was digging through my NAS. Each book is split into about 20 mp3 files, which makes it a bit unwieldy for me. As I mostly listen to audiobooks when I'm going to sleep, I oftentimes have to find the last part I remember listening to and start again from there the next day.
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When to use drgn instead of eBPF tools like bpftrace, and vice versa
I talked recently about drgn and using it to poke around in the kernel, and yesterday I followed that up with an example of finding out which NFS client owns a file lock that used bpftrace (and also I discussed using drgn for this). As an outsider, you might reasonably wonder when you'd use one and when you'd use the other on the kernel. I won't claim that I have a complete answer, but here's what I know so far.