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Mounting BitLocker-encrypted NTFS drives as read/write on MacOS Ventura

BitLocker encryption has become a common alternative for securing personal files and is nowadays natively supported by Linux, at least within GNOME. Some additional steps, however, are still required to ensure full MacOS compatibility. This guide describes the necessary steps to achieve it.

Requirements

We require three packages: macFUSE, ntfs-3g (and brew), and dislocker.

1/3: Install macFUSE

Anti-hype LLM reading list

Goals: Add links that are reasonable and good explanations of how stuff works. No hype and no vendor content if possible. Practical first-hand accounts of models in prod eagerly sought.

Foundational Concepts

Pre-Transformer Models

The reverse turing test

I asked GPT-4 to come up with 10 questions to determine if the answerer was AI or human.

I provided my own answers for these questions and I also asked ChatGPT to answer them.

The result is that GPT-4 was able to correctly differentiate between AI and Human.

Windows Preparation

Ensure hypervisor functionality is enabled in BIOS.
- I know it sounds stupid, but if you already have it enabled, disable it, restart the machine, and enable it again.
- Otherwise you will hit microsoft/WSL#5363
Launch a PowerShell prompt in Administrator mode [Win+X > Windows PowerShell (Admin)]

dism.exe /online /enable-feature /featurename:Microsoft-Windows-Subsystem-Linux /all /norestart

Argo

I chose this product because i was interested to have something similar to Rundeck , but with more extended capability in order to be possible build a ci/cd without spinnaker
https://argoproj.github.io/

The installation is quite easy , i've just trick a configmap due to volume mount problem genereted by my small kubernetes installation

For a basic installation you need to create a dedicated namespace
kubectl create namespace argo

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Practice

SLA and Multi-Regions setup

For 2 9s (99%) and 3 9s (99.9%) scenario, a single region setup is enough.

	$remoteport = bash.exe -c "ifconfig eth0 \| grep 'inet '"
	$found = $remoteport -match '\d{1,3}\.\d{1,3}\.\d{1,3}\.\d{1,3}';

	if( $found ){
	$remoteport = $matches[0];
	} else{
	echo "The Script Exited, the ip address of WSL 2 cannot be found";
	exit;
	}

	#!/bin/bash

	# Installs missing dependencies from Debian 9 (stretch) for Powershell on Debian 10 (buster) and higher (including Kali Linux)

	mkdir /tmp/pwshtmp
	cd /tmp/pwshtmp
	wget http://http.us.debian.org/debian/pool/main/i/icu/libicu57_57.1-6+deb9u3_amd64.deb
	wget http://http.us.debian.org/debian/pool/main/i/icu/icu-devtools_57.1-6+deb9u3_amd64.deb
	wget http://http.us.debian.org/debian/pool/main/u/ust/liblttng-ust0_2.9.0-2+deb9u1_amd64.deb
	wget http://http.us.debian.org/debian/pool/main/libu/liburcu/liburcu4_0.9.3-1_amd64.deb

	#cloud-config

	# Set the hostname for this machine (takes precedence over hostname assigned by DHCP lease).
	hostname: myhost
	# Authorize SSH keys for the `rancher` sudoer user
	ssh_authorized_keys:
	- ssh-rsa AAA...ZZZ example1@rancher