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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So I connected it to a different SATA cable. To try and recover from the errors, I reinstalled all packages and ran xfs_repair from a USB boot stick. It seems OK now, but once burned twice cautious or whatever. Been doing way too much geeky stuff since going to that Linux meetup.
May 17 ** 3 Taking home.vin-dit.org offline. Disk troubles.
May 17 ** 2 Was inspired by convos with Linux folk yesterday to mess with AI a little. Installed a recent deepSeek model in ollama on linux. It is pretty remarkable what it can do in terms of converting an english set of requirements into a working little program. This led to attempting to use the higher end graphics card in that Arch/Windows PC from Cory, a graphics card he discarded a little while back. It doesn't seem to work, and I don't really want to devote a ton of time to it. And the Windows / Debian VM problem seems to be sort of intermittent. I should study Spanish and get away from the computers!
May 17 My Windows 11 install on this machine, on another disk, has started refusing to allow my Hyper-V Linux (Debian) VM to be accessed from outside. I have not found the answer. I only really need Windows for Turbo Tax for Business, which is not available on any other platform. (I could use Wine, haven't done that, though). I know there's a whole Windows world and tons of users use it all the time. I just don't see the attraction. Was also curious about how you get access to Windows Server type stuff, as some people (Stack Overflow, for example) run on it. Seems pretty expensive. Maybe you have to have some inside info. <shrug emoji> (Linux emoji picker is something I don't recall rn.)
May 16 Sometimes, early in the morning, after the sun has been up for a bit, the sunlight is just gorgeous - kind of golden. It's like that right now. (6:31 AM).
May 14 Watching this on my TV via Apple TV, coming from my iPhone 11. Pretty incredible stuff! Gotta have a sense of wonder. Herbie and Tony look so young!MilesQuintetItaly.mp4May 05https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moral_foundations_theory This is interesting. Heard about Haidt from a Barry Magid talk. Why do some things seem right to some people and wrong to others, in a moral sense? This seems to be a relatively recent intellectual idea. I want to look into it, but I'm still working on a long book by Donald Lopez.
May 01 ** 2https://www.quantamagazine.org/physicists-discover-the-most-complex-forms-of-ice-yet-20260427/ Can ice-9 be far away? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ice-nineMay 01 Rabbit, Rabbit, Rabbit !!!
Gotta have a sense of wonder. Herbie and Tony look so young!MilesQuintetItaly.mp4