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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December 23 ** 2 BTW this blog is available (usually) over IPV6 (!) at https://home2.vin-dit.org which is actually a Linux machine in my basement 😀.
December 23 I’ve been following this site for a bit. It’s run by a computer genius who would be rather old now, US citizen who lives in Amsterdam. It’s really good news and analysis. Because of the time difference, it is often updated early in the morning. Really recommend it. https://www.electoral-vote.com/December 19 🎄🎄Here is Scrooge meeting the Ghost of Christmas Present:
Merry Christmas!!!! christmas.htmlDecember 17 ** 3https://fy.blackhats.net.au/blog/2025-12-17-yep-passkeys-still-have-problems/ December 17 ** 2 OK, got Animal Crackers here: The.Marx.Brothers.Animal.Crackers.1930.1080p.BluRay.x264.AAC.mp4December 17 I've been doing this for over a year. A year ago it was Public Domain Day, according to Cory Doctorow, and now it is again, in 2025. This stuff becomes public domain in 2026. I guess I should get a copy of Animal Crackers on here. I think people should try to have their own personal unencumbered copies of media that is important to them, when possible. You never know when that Youtube video will be taken down.
December 15HardTimesAreOverForAWhile.mp4 CrusadersHardTimes.mp4December 13 Just watched "soundtrack to a coup d'etat". It seems to only be on Amazon but whatever. Also thinking about this photo:
It's been making the rounds. There's some other stuff about Chomsky and Epstein. It's a big club and you ain't in it! Recommend the movie very highly. Don't even want to try and say anything about it but it's worth seeing.
December 09 ** 3 Amnesty International on Alligator Alcatraz: Amesty-Alligator-Alcatraz.pdfDecember 09 ** 2https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeQ9vgDkvLhahIloAJxmtlZetxXWI8hxQ2WsJNA7YI_JyWZdQ/viewform?pli=1December 15th Stop Buying Starbucks Day of Action!
December 09 https://firesigntheatre.bandcamp.com/album/the-nick-danger-case-file-1976-2008Some good stuff here, especially "The Case of the Missing Shoe".
December 07revbobby.htmlThe preacher's speech from Sirens of Titan. Hey, it's Sunday.........
December 05 ** 2https://archive.is/jAFBu I would download and liberate this, but it's not that important. The Times covers an issue that's been around for a while, without mentioning some of the people fighting for it like the EFF. Basically it is the increasingly common practice of gouging people for functionality in things that connect to the internet, so that the company can remotely remove or require payment for some of a device's capabilities. This actually goes back to the days when IBM would deliver a mainframe with hardware in it that wasn't turned on, and would turn it on for a fee(probably monthly). Maybe it goes back even further. It's kind of an eternal problem, where you want to own your device (like an inkjet printer) and think you should be free to do with it as you please. The company has other ideas, though; they want to get more revenue from you for "unlocking" or "allowing" some uses. Cory Doctorow has written a lot about this. (https://pluralistic.net). One of the worst results of this is when things stop being supported, or the company "bricks" your device. Or you can't repair a device. I bought an electric car this year, which I love, but it is very software-driven and now I read a piece predicting it will become "abandonware" when it's still mechanically sound. Let's hope not.
December 05 Cory sent me a link to a crazy blog post from a very smart person who likes to work in straight HTML+CSS when possible. And does more with it than I ever could. She recommends Sublime Text, which I used to use, so I'm typing this in it. Always looking for the One True Editor. Don't think it's much of a debugger but I'm not really doing that these days.
In other news, somebody clobbered our Fios cable in the middle of the night. They just replaced it. Some really good dudes who ran a new fiber cable from our house to across the street, where it must connect to something. Glad to have good internet back. Getting around 500 Mbps in each direction. Progress is awesome sometimes.
December 04 Really enjoyed this audiobook "Nothing is Hidden" by Barry Magid. You can look it up! I kind of
have issue with his discussion of the precepts towards the end, though. Even acknowledging his superior distinction to mine.
He sort of says the precepts are not like commandments, but ideas that make us realize the true nature of life. That to be alive is
necessarily to participate in killing other life to sustain oneself. Etc. Somewhere he says something like "a vegetarian tiger" which reminds me
of a friend saying, sort of, "our nature is our nature, and we shouldn't try to fight it". Well, I'm a vegetarian (of sorts, it's hard to be a perfect vegan, I cannot)
and I try and choose kindness and fight my impulses to be selfish, vindictive, sadistic, etc. I think what I would say is that as humans, I believe
we can make choices and there are things worth choosing. Such as:
Truth
Honesty
Kindness
Diligence
I was going to say that maybe these things make us human, in the sense that people elevate humans over other animals. But animals choose kindness,
and do their duty caring for their young, and so on. So....who knows?
To study the buddha way is to study the self.
To study the self is to forget the self. To forget the self is to be actualized by myriad things.
When actualized by myriad things, your body and mind as well as the bodies and minds of others drop away.
No trace of realization remains, and this no-trace continues endlessly.
