Tookmund

Recently I’ve been curious about how hibernation works on Linux, as it’s an interesting interaction between hardware and software. There are some notes in the Arch wiki and the kernel documentation (as well as some kernel documentation on debugging hibernation and on sleep states more generally), and of course the ACPI Specification

Someone is Wrong on the Internet

If you look up how to only forward ports with ssh, you may come across solutions like this:

ssh -nNT -L 8000:example.com:80 user@bastion.example.com

Or perhaps this, if you also wanted to send ssh to the background:

ssh -NT -L 3306:db.example.com:3306 example.com &

How to Work in a Text-Only Environment.

How to access a command line on your laptop without installing Linux.

I recently wrote a final paper on the history of written numerals. In the process, I discovered this fascinating tidbit that didn’t really fit in my paper, but I wanted to put it somewhere. So I’m writing about it here.