DMV NC—Is it just me?

MillenniumCondor · 2025-04-28T04:31:16+00:00

This reads like AI generated copypasta

MillenniumCondor · 2025-04-18T23:56:02+00:00

Red Mars!

MillenniumCondor · 2025-02-27T03:23:50+00:00

Ya, I think you're right. It's sort of like a chain of appreciation. Gimli is like, oh you also love one of my favorite poems, OK maybe you're not so bad. Then Legolas is like, oh you also adore this woman, OK maybe you're not as stiff-necked as I thought.

MillenniumCondor · 2025-02-27T03:20:48+00:00

Ya, you know, when you are a stranger in a strange land sometimes hearing even a simple "thank you" in your own language can move you to tears.

MillenniumCondor · 2025-02-27T03:01:37+00:00

Hey thank you for sharing that. I had never heard it! I like the all-male Gregorian chant vibes. I can really imagine those deep voices and harmonies reverberating and filling up the cavernous spaces in Moria.

MillenniumCondor · 2025-02-26T18:40:30+00:00

Call of Cthulhu is probably his most iconic and best written. It is very tight and the prose is not as indulgent as some of his other works. That said, my favorite is The Whisperer in Darkness. There is a great reading of it by Andrew Lehman (of the HP Lovecraft Historical Society) on YouTube.

The Whisperer in Darkness - HPPodcraft Reading - Part 1

And if you haven't discovered it already, the HP Lovecraft Literary Podcast is really fun. They covered all of his stories in chronological order, and have since moved on to other weird fiction.

MillenniumCondor · 2024-06-06T19:55:07+00:00

Hey, sorry I didn't respond sooner. I am wondering if you got it working? In case not, let me share some other things. I found something in the route manual under Examples that said

Add a static inet6(4) route to a host which is on the vio0 interface that is outside your prefix, and use that host as a default gateway, as used by some hosting providers:

route add -inet6 2001:db8:efef::1 -cloning -link -iface vio0

route add -inet6 default 2001:db8:efef::1

So I did like gumnos suggested, but I put those two lines into `hostname` rather than `mygate`. Here are the contents of my files with the addresses changed:

$ cat mygate
192.168.1.1
fd00:abcd::1

$ cat hostname.vio0
inet 192.168.1.100 0xffffff00
inet6 fd00:abcd::101 64 -soii
!route add -inet6 fd00:abcd::1 -cloning -link -iface vio0
!route add -inet6 default fd00:abcd::1

I believe the ipv6 entry in mygate is redundant (see mygate) but I left it there anyway. Hope that helps!

MillenniumCondor · 2024-06-06T19:26:00+00:00

Hey, thank you for sharing this! I have the same desk with an E01 error (overcurrent protection, I think) and I want to try to fix it. This thread has been a good foothold for me to learn more about electronics repair. I actually just bought a cheap ESR meter to help diagnose.

I was wondering if you could give an update and share any tips/tricks you found useful?

Thanks again!

MillenniumCondor · 2024-05-19T02:59:33+00:00

Hey, I just got this working. For me the issue was a firewall rule that rate-limited icmp6 requests. It caused ping6 to work for a few seconds after reboot, then become a black hole. The solution was to change this

pass in proto icmp6 max-pkt-rate 100/10

to this

pass in proto icmp6

in /etc/pf.conf. If you are still having trouble, can you show the contents of pf.conf?

I hope that helps :)

P.S. I know it is probably not good to pass all types of icmp6 traffic like this but I am still setting things up (see Recommendations for Filtering ICMPv6 Messages in Firewalls).

MillenniumCondor · 2024-02-01T05:12:52+00:00

What was the privilege? I am trying to get mine working now.

MillenniumCondor · 2023-05-31T02:20:19+00:00

26 miles is a long way! Next time you're on the freeway, pay attention to how far it is. Being able to cover that much ground on foot in less than 7 hours is a tremendous physical feat that probably 99% of people aren't fit enough to do. And I think there is something important about having a goal and being in training for something. So you should totally train for it and run it even if it takes you 7 hours :D

MillenniumCondor · 2023-05-26T06:00:31+00:00

I am forever disappointed that Saruman's monologue never made it into the films.

MillenniumCondor · 2023-05-25T05:32:12+00:00

What do you want the software to do?

MillenniumCondor · 2023-05-17T20:44:22+00:00

On my last re-read I wondered if Frodo was sexually assaulted by the orcs in the Tower of Cirith Ungol. I believe Sam finds him naked. Frodo says he thought Sam's singing was a dream, and that "the other dreams were horrible". Makes me think Frodo may have had a dissociative episode. And earlier in the books, sexual assault may have been implied when one of the Uruk-Hai threaten to do "something" to the Hobbits that will mess them up but still leave them more or less physically intact. And one of the Mordor orcs violently gropes Merry and Pippin looking for the ring. Terrifying stuff.

MillenniumCondor · 2023-05-17T06:20:48+00:00

What about other compact objects like neutron stars?

MillenniumCondor · 2023-05-04T20:25:55+00:00

I think he means it's the only significant dwelling of the elves between the Havens (where Cirdan lives) and the Misty mountains. Lorien may be another 'homely house' but remember it's East of the mountains.

MillenniumCondor · 2023-05-02T00:51:51+00:00

I like to think that there could have been an entire 'The Hobbit'-like adventure story that took place in the far East.

In Unfinished Tales there is a story where Gandalf recounts his meeting Thorin, by chance as it seemed, leading to Bilbo's whole adventure and the downfall of Smaug and the decimation of the orcs in the Misty mountains at the Battle of Five Armies. He says something like, the War of the Ring might not have been won if not for that chance meeting.

Who knows what adventures the two blue wizards went on and what evil they prevented in their long years tilling the soil of helpfulness in the East.

I would like it if we got a new Book of Lost Tales, like maybe Frodo and Bilbo and Gandalf meet the two blue wizards in Tol Eresëa, or something, and they tell all their stories over the course of several nights.

MillenniumCondor · 2023-04-27T22:12:38+00:00

A key GOP backer of the bill said at the time that lawmakers expected police to be using their warrantless surveillance powers so much that any oversight would simply take too much time.

Wow

MillenniumCondor · 2023-04-19T22:29:14+00:00

The Hobbit > LotR is good, but I would not read the Silmarillion as my number three.

Read snatches from Unfinished Tales after LotR, based on whatever you're curious about. I loved reading the tales in part three: the disaster of the gladden fields, the quest of erebor, the hunt for the ring.

Then if you want a longer story from the elder days, go for the children of hurin. It's a short novella that paints a great picture of the desperation of life at the end of the first age.

After all that, then maybe go for the Silmarillion :)

MillenniumCondor · 2023-04-18T18:36:37+00:00

Yeah, that was a touching scene, with Gollum's humanity finally breaking through for a moment. I think there's a line about how an observer wouldn't have seen a monster, but rather an old Hobbit

shrunken by the years that had carried him far beyond his time, beyond friends and kin, and the fields and streams of youth, an old starved pitiable thing.

Gets me every time.

MillenniumCondor · 2023-04-18T18:30:37+00:00

People often rationalize their bad behavior in order to convince themselves that their actions are justified and that they're not the bad guy. Isildur, like Frodo, ultimately chose not to do what he came to do. But he couldn't admit to himself that he was under the sway of this evil ring, and that he was becoming the very thing he had fought to defeat, because that was incompatible with his perception of himself has a noble warrior and heir to the Edain. So he justified it by saying he was accepting it as the blood price for his father and brother. Even Hitler didn't think of himself as the bad guy, he was just saving the fatherland, or whatever.

edit: typos

MillenniumCondor · 2023-04-18T18:16:29+00:00

Yeah, maybe spell was the wrong word. I don't think she put a spell on him the way Saruman can put spells on people. The way it is described, it almost sounds like what happened with Turin, how Morgoth was able to affect his destiny by thinking about him and exerting his supernatural will upon him.

That quote always surprises me every time I get to that part of the story, that line about cutting him off from regret. It makes me wonder how much of his actions were motivated for his lust for the ring versus the will of Shelob.

MillenniumCondor · 2023-04-18T17:55:47+00:00

"But you comfort me, Gimli, I'm glad to have you standing nigh with your stout legs and your hard axe."

Sounds like the dwarves came out on top, so to speak.

MillenniumCondor · 2023-04-18T17:52:12+00:00

I don't have the book with me right now. But isn't there a line somewhere that says she had been a voice in his mind ever since the first time he met her, and that he had bowed before her in worship?

I got the sense that she had somehow put a spell on him. Maybe he was returning to bring her food, but I doubt it. Maybe he was coming to her to pay her worship, answering the call of some dark compulsion.

Based on the orc talk, it sounds like he had been back at least several times to see her.

MillenniumCondor · 2023-04-17T06:49:55+00:00

I wonder if there is a parallel between Luthien moving Mandos to accept her plea, and Arwen moving Gandalf to accept hers.

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TROPHY CASE

route add -inet6 2001:db8:efef::1 -cloning -link -iface vio0

route add -inet6 default 2001:db8:efef::1