./yt-dlp.sh -F https://www.channel4.com/programmes/trump-v-the-truth/on-demand/78421-001
[DRM] Extracting URL: https://www.channel4.com/programmes/trump-v-the-truth/on-demand/78421-001
ERROR: [DRM] The requested site is known to use DRM protection. It will NOT be supported.
Please DO NOT open an issue, unless you have evidence that the video is not DRM protect
September 17 Supposedly this
domesticTerrorism.pdf is the report
the DOJ just removed, that shows that " far-right extremists have killed
far more Americans than any other domestic terrorist group" (according
to the Guardian). The Ministry of Truth is active. But
archive.org to the rescue!
If you want something on the Internet to be a usable reference, it's
best to get ahold of your own copy. I've posted about this before:
https://vin-dit.org/aug2025.html#2025-08-31
Disk space is very cheap! There are portable disks that can be taken to
safe locations! I don't want to sound paranoid but we're in an
unprecedented moment, it seems, in the USA.
September 16 Saw this video on Bluesky and
located it and downloaded it. It came from here:
https://www.instagram.com/p/DOelvdGiLQ-/ "bravenewfilms" account on
Instagram.
IsViolenceTheAnswer.mp4. Violence
really scares me. I think this is worth listening to, though.
September 14 ** 3 A nice video of Palmieri
and co. doing "Azucar". That's all! Azucar.mp4.
September 14 ** 2 Cory Doctorow's latest
screed sort of says "don't divide yourself from friends over 'wallet
voting' - for me, meaning friendship can be more important than whether
or not people use products from 'bad' companies. I've done a lot of
posting on Facebook telling people they should leave Facebook and also
agonized over using things from tech oligarchs, etc. He makes the case
that telling people to 'vote with their wallets' makes large problems
the responsibility of individuals, and small-scale actions of theirs -
like buying something from Amazon. A lot of my identity is wrapped
up in my abstaining from things - alcohol, drugs, meat, Amazon, blah,
blah. Doctorow is saying it's more important to try and band up and make
societal change as part of organizations of people - unions, political
parties, etc. Definitely food for thought for me. This blog is kind of
an act of abstaining from what 'normal' people do to share their
thoughts, likes, etc. on the Internet. Like tapping on a share link on a
youtube video on your smartphone and posting it to Facebook.
There are some real considerations that can be brought up, about whether
you have control over that content - youtube videos can be taken down,
facebook accounts can be deleted - it's all complicated. It's more work
to have your own content on your own devices. I have physical offsite
backups of this stuff. It's in "openly sharable" formats.
I've seen and been involved with people making websites with Wordpress,
Wyx, etc. Sometimes you're losing some control when you do that.
🤷🤷🤷🤷🤷
September 14 rolling August into
Posts from August 2025September 10 Writing this on the Mac Mini. Sort
of a very cheap Apple. But it's good for my needs. Using Zed....I
learned a little more about Zed from trying to get it running on my old
Intel MacBook running Arch Linux. Seems that at least part of the
problem is aspects of the Vulkan support available from the weird NVIDIA
card in that machine. It's a world of pain, trying to resolve it. I
wasn't familiar with Vulkan, I guess it's a graphics API or something.
Maybe comparable to OpenGL and DirectX.
Zed turns out (I tried building it from source) to be made of 1900+ Rust
dependencies. That seems "sus". I guess VS Code is also ugly under the
hood, being an Electron app I think, and of questionable openness. Emacs
is a beast too. Maybe old school vi is the One True Editor.....
I think (this whole post is full of ideas that I am not _positive_
about) that Rust projects, in general, don't have the behavior of
old-school "make", where dependencies and separate object files are not
rebuilt unless there is reason to do so. Compiling Zed on that machine,
it failed on the _last_ step of the build, and when I started the build
again, it started at the beginning.
I know that modern computing is designed by smart people for smart
reasons. I feel increasingly like the boomer I am though, and long for
"the old days".I have not "rolled over" with the new month, as I think
doing that in the middle of the month will make the RSS access more
reasonable. These links to my posts, which are just text between a
couple "hr" lines, will be wrong once the post is moved out of
index.html. So they can continue to work for a couple weeks into the
month if I do this.
September 07 Got home yesterday from a trip to
Boston for a wedding. Haven't posted for a bit.
Seeing the tech oligarchs sucking up to Trump made me really disgusted
and I again went down the rabbit hole of looking into not using any of
their products. Unfortunately I have money in their companies as my
savings for retirement are in index funds and such. That's actually
probably more important than lifestyle choices.
The only big tech companies whose products I'm really using in my
day-to-day at this point are Apple (a lot) and Meta (some). I can't seem
to divorce myself from those. Especially Apple. Linux phones and even
laptops have some serious shortcomings compared to the "Apple
ecosystem". All kinds of things that I use probably run on cloud
providers, etc. It's really hard and possibly not even that important to
cut yourself off from the companies that provide our modern way of life.
In my case I have to wonder about whether trying to do that is even a
sane goal. Anyway, typing this on an old Macbook running Linux but ssh'd
into a Mac Mini (running whatever they call MacOS now).
It's kind of depressing how much trouble I ran into trying to run
"XBill" on this laptop. I eventually gave up. I guess things change and
old tech becomes "incompatible".....
September 01 Rabbit, Rabbit, Rabbit....
