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Ciro Santilli 37 Updated 2025-07-01 +Created 2025-05-07This section explains a tutorial on how to allow external computers to access a computer in your network.
For example, this could for example be used to allow you to access SSH or a web server running on a computer at your home from your laptop when you are outside of your home.
What you need to do seems to be:From there on, you just need to find your public IP and use that, e.g. you could test accessing a test server from your cell phone cellular network after turning Wifi off for the cell phone.
- NAT Forwarding: allows you to select which external port you want to forward to which internal IP + port
- Network > LAN Settings > Address reservation > and reserve the IP above to the MAC of your computer
Ciro Santilli tested this on his TP-Link Archer VR2800 router Virgin Media Hub 3.0 Wifi setup and it just worked. Virgin Media doesn't seem to pose any strict restrictions to this.
A next good step if you are going to have a workhorse computer without much personal logins of value is to setup "group isolation" so that if that computer ever gets compromised, hackers won't be able to infiltrate the rest of the network. But TODO: couldn't find the setting on the TP-Link Archer VR2800 even though the manual says it should be there. Oh well.
This is the one by Pasqal.
Many good mentions at: Obituary for the greatest monument to logical AGI by Liu Yuxi. They were largely funded by the
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Ciro Santilli 37 Updated 2025-07-01 +Created 2025-05-07One of the great joys of Breaking Bad are the possible accuracy chemistry scenes. You can really some some interesting things from them! This is partly due to the way things are so practically displayed.
Ciro Santilli's hardware Virgin Media Hub 3 by Ciro Santilli 37 Updated 2025-07-01 +Created 2025-05-07
Ciro Santilli 37 Updated 2025-07-01 +Created 2025-05-07Admin IP on router mode (the default): 192.168.0.1 It takes a long time to load each page and sometimes it seems to randomly fail, the experience is horrible. Resetting everything randomly sometimes helps, in particular browser cookies seem to break things so a clean browser profile is an idea.
Updates Post OurBigBook job search round 2025 by Ciro Santilli 37 Updated 2025-07-01 +Created 2025-05-07 2025-07-01
Ciro Santilli 37 Updated 2025-07-01 +Created 2025-05-07 2025-07-01I shouldn't be doing this on funded OurBigBook time which is until the end of May, but I was getting too nervous and decided to start a casual job search to test the waters.
In particular I want to see if I can get past the HR lady step without toning down my online profiles. If nothing works out for the next round I'll be hiding anything too spicy like:Another interesting point is to see if French companies are more likely to reply given that Ciro Santilli studied at École Polytechnique which the French worship.
- prominently seeking funding for OurBigBook on my LinkedIn profile
- CIA 2010 covert communication websites references. This will be my first job hunt since I have published that article. Wish me luck.
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Gay Putin, currently used in Ciro Santilli's Stack Overflow profile
. Ciro's profiles may be a bit too much for the HR ladies who reject his job applications on the spot. To be fair, perhaps not enough years of experience for certain applications and job hopping may have something to do with it too. But since they don't ever tell you anything not to get sued, we'll never know.I'm looking in particular either for:
- machine learning-adjacent jobs in companies that seem to be doing something that could further AGI, e.g. automatic code generation or robotics would be ideal
- quantum computing
- systems programming, which is what I actually have work experience with
I spent the last two weeks doing that:
- one week browsing everything of interest in London and Paris and sending applications to anything that seemed both relevant and interesting. Maintaining an application list at: Section "Job application by Ciro Santilli".
- one week on a very laborious but somewhat interesting take home exercise for Linux kernel engineer a Canonical, makers of Ubuntu.I had a week to finish 5 practical coding and packaging questions, and I tried to do everything as perfectly as possible, but I somewhat underestimated the amount of work and wait needed to do everything and didn't manage to finish question 4 and missed 5. Oops let's see how that goes.At least this had a few good outcomes for the Internet as I tried to document things as nicely as I could where they were missing from Google as usual:
- I re-tested Linux Kernel Module Cheat and made some small improvements. Things still worked from a Ubuntu 24.10 host (using Docker to Ubuntu 22.04), and I also checked that kernel 6.8 builds and GDB step debugs after adding the newly required config
CONFIG_DEBUG_INFO_DWARF_TOOLCHAIN_DEFAULT, also mentioned that at: Why are there no debug symbols in my vmlinux when using gdb with /proc/kcore? - I contributed some simple updates to github.com/martinezjavier/ldd3 getting it closer to work on Linux kernel v6.8. That repository aims to keep the venerable examples from Linux kernel module book LDD3 alive on newer kernels, and is a very good source for kernel module developers.
- How to compile a Linux kernel module?: wrote a quick Ciro-approved tutorial
- Dynamic array in Linux kernel module: I gave an educational example of a dynamic byte array (like std::string) using the kvmalloc family of allocators
- quickemu: this is a good emulator manager and I think I'll be using it for Ubuntu images when needed from now on. I wrote:
- How to run Ubuntu desktop on QEMU?: an introductory tutorial to the software as their README is not that good as is often the case. It's hard for project authors to predict what new users want or not. This is my second answer to this question, the previous one focusing on a more manual approach without third party helpers.
- How to share folder between guest/host? (Quickemu): I explained how to setup a 9p mount to share a directory between guest and host
- Error :: You must put some 'source' URIs in your sources.list: updated this answer for Ubuntu 24.04. This issue comes up when you want to do either of:which don't work by default, and my answer explains how to do it from the GUI and CLI. The CLI method is specially important for Docker images. Since Ubuntu doesn't offer a stable CLI method for this, the method breaks from time to time and we have to find the new config file to edit.
sudo apt build-dep sudo apt source - What is hardware enablement (HWE)?: I learned a bit better how Ubuntu structures its kernel releases for each Ubuntu release
Some of the main issues I had were:- compiling Linux kernel for Ubuntu is extremely slow. I was used to compiling for embedded system with Buildroot, which finishes in minutes, but for Ubuntu is hours, presumably because they enable as many drivers as possible to make a single ISO work on as many different computers as possible, which makes sense, but also makes development harder
- my QEMU setup for Ubuntu was not quite as streamlined and I relearned a few things and set up quickemu. By chance I had recently come across quickemu for testing OurBigBook on MacOS, but I had to learn a bit how to set it up reasonably too
- I re-tested Linux Kernel Module Cheat and made some small improvements. Things still worked from a Ubuntu 24.10 host (using Docker to Ubuntu 22.04), and I also checked that kernel 6.8 builds and GDB step debugs after adding the newly required config
Together with Janelia Research Campus.
Paper: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.03.11.584515v1 Whole-body simulation of realistic fruit fly locomotion with deep reinforcement learning (2024)
Using MuJoCo.
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