Experimentation seems to show that Firefox can play videos from here if you load them from my home machine, at
https://home.vin-dit.org. That is a complete replica of this site. Maybe this has to do with Caddy handling things
better than Apache??? Also, in the Firefox developer console it seems Caddy is using HTTP/3. 🤷♂️
Now at hostwinds.com, hope that solves some issues....
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Haven't posted for a bit, just don't know what to say. I'm recovering from my mitral valve repair (heart surgery). Pretty amazing that doctors and their teams can do what they can do. Downloaded this video of Esperanza playing Overjoyed for Obama just to see that is possible on OpenBSD....Overjoyed.mp4. I had my issues with Obama but consider this, and what we have now..... Mourning the 175 innocent girls killed by our military. God help us. People are so deluded. Maybe trying to end delusion/ignorance is the most important thing. So ashamed of what my country has done to those people.March 04 ** 2 more info, from looking at the Portugese wikipedia entry, Internet Archive has their website: https://web.archive.org/web/20160708073544/http://www.meninascantoras.com.br/historia.htm Right there, there's a quote from George Martin (in a graphic, but easy to extract) "Só os anjos cantam assim..." -- Google translate says it is "Only angels sing like this...". So I think there's more to this story than the Instagram post had. Maybe someday I'll look at his autobiography (I think he has one) and find out.
March 04 During a visit to Brazil, George Martin was surprised at Rio de Janeiro’s airport by a performance from the Meninas Cantoras de Petrópolis choir. The group sang “Because,” a song he produced for The Beatles, and the reaction was immediate: Martin was visibly moved by the a cappella performance. Composed exclusively of girls, the choir stood out as one of the most important in the country in this format and ended its activities years later. GeorgeMartinInBrazil.mp4 That's what it said on the Instagram post, but Wikipedia discusses other (earlier?) connections between Martin and the group. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meninas_Cantoras_de_Petr%C3%B3polis. I trust Wikipedia. Also, see Chris Cron breaking down the harmoniesMarch 01 Rabbit, Rabbit, Rabbit!
February 26https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitral_valve_repair A supposedly fun thing that I'll (hopefully) never do again......
February 17February 16 Charlie Don't Surf. RIP Robert Duvall.
February 11 ** 2 re previous post: also needed GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet splash video=hyperv_fb:1920x1080" in /etc/default/grub, and sudo update-grub
February 11 This command in admin powershell on my windows 11 machine enabled my hyper-v debian to have a decent resolution: Set-VMVideo -VMName "debian-wireguard-restore" -HorizontalResolution 3840 -VerticalResolution 2160 -ResolutionType Single
This file: /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/30-hyperv.conf (name doesn't matter, but it needs to be in that dir) also critical
These things, installing lightdm and dependencies, and mate-desktop, enabled me to have X11 debian in hyper-v at a reasonable resolution. So then I set to installing xscreensaver. JWZ warns about debian, and correctly; however, in the source tarball there is a debian directory with instructions. With some tinkering and adding other packages, I was able to get a debian package of current xscreensaver that is working nicely.
February 09 ** 4https://actionnetwork.org/letters/email-your-state-reps-and-support-marc-elias-recommendations-for-state-level-action-re-2026-midterms?source=direct_link& I created a campaign to send emails to state reps regarding Marc Elias' recommendations about safeguarding the 2026 midterms. Give it a whirl; share it!
February 09 ** 3SoWeWontForgetLyrics.html TAKE_A_CHANCE_lyrics.htmlFebruary 09 ** 2 Another song I was just playing along with. "So We Won't Forget" by Khruangbin. Here's the video: SoWeWontForget.mp4 This video seems incredibly sad to me. I have my interpretation of it but I'll let you make your own. Really beautiful music.
February 09 DOMi and JD BECK and Anderson .Paak have this nice song, "TAKE A CHANCE" I was just playing along with. It has a video, which is here: TAKE_A_CHANCE.mp4. Not sure what it's all about. The last part, which is different musically, seems to show the three of them presenting immigration agents with bribes. Then they get something good in return (residency?). That seems sad, now, thinking of Trump and so on. Really sweet music, though. Such talented young people!
February 08February 06February 04 ** 2 Geeking out a little. Here at vin-dit.org command center, I have my web site hosted on a computer in my house, which is a way it would be nice if the world worked. That machine dual boots Windows 11 and Arch Linux. When it's running Windows 11, it has a VM running Debian. That's where the home copy of the website lives, when that machine is running Windows. I slowly figure out solutions to things...just now, I was looking into the IPv6 access to it. I now have IPv6 from Verizon, which is also something it would be nice if the world worked that way. So, for fun, I have an IPv6 only URL, home2.vin-dit.org. But....: The MAC address of the Debian VM is different than the MAC address of the machine when running Arch, so the IPv6 address changes. Solution: created a DNS record for home3.vin-dit.org !
So, long story short, you can get your vin-dit.org fix over IPv6 from home2.vin-dit.org or home3.vin-dit.org, depending on my whims. Caddy seems to be a wonderful solution to web serving, it just gets the certs from Lets Encrypt or something automatically. Also enjoy zsh, and oh-my-zsh, MATE Desktop, and other FOSS stuff. This post and the previous one done on my ancient Thinkpad running OpenBSD. Just for the fun of it!
February 04https://jitsi.org/ I found my way to this a little while ago, I have it running. In fact, it's working in a Hyper-V VM on Windows! I found instructions on doing it with Docker-it consists of four Docker containers that work together. It's interesting to me, we're all using Zoom now, and zoom has become the accepted word for computer-based videoconferencing over the Internet, like xerox or google are the words for what they do. The idea that you can host this yourself, for free, and that it is FOSS, is really cool, though! I haven't done any actual meetings on it because I don't want it to fail on some normal person who might not have the patience to deal with it. It seems to work fine, though, I've tested it with connections to it from multiple devices.
February 03 "I'm root, and you're not." -- Somebody in the local Linux community, about fancy "security models". I remember someone asking for help with the old rw-r--r-- style UNIX permissions stuff, at a job long ago. Then you find out about multiple group membership, ACLs, setuid, and all that stuff. I think it's even more involved on NT-based stuff. MacOS nowadays, even as root some things are like "nope-you're not changing this". SELinux. Sometimes "the old ways are the best ways". Just don't type "rm -rf *" as root! 😂
February 01 Rabbit, Rabbit, Rabbit!
