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. 🤷♂️
This makes a useful screen capture functionality in Mate Desktop, using the "import" command to do the hard work, from Imagemagick. "/usr/local/bin/zsh" and "/home/jholland/bin/snip" can of course be adjusted as needed or wanted. It appears in the Mate Desktop menu under Other. I put snip.desktop in /usr/local/share/applications but on Linux you don't need "local" in that path.
May 06 ** 2 While waiting for that video to transcode, I read this piece the NYT sent me in my email, though I'm no longer a subscriber. Seems worth republishing, so here it is: Nino.htmlMay 06 Just Monday night, Sherrilyn Ifill appeared on the Daily Show and was interviewed by Jon Stewart. They said there would be a longer video on their website, but I haven't seen it yet. Anyway, here's the video from Monday night as broadcast: Sherrilyn_Ifill_VRA.mp4
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May 05 ** 2
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May 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 !!!
April 29 ** 2 Re FreeBSD: OK, docker containers that need systemD don't work; bluetooth is pretty useless...I did find a workaround for the internal mike on the Thinkpad, which has been a problem with OpenBSD as well. It's kind of like it's OpenBSD but ZFS and the possibility of running Linux programs. ZFS adds a lot of stuff as I used to use, although I doubt I'll get that into it with this.
April 29 FreeBSD is kind of cool! You can run docker containers with the port of podman. Editing this in Sublime Text via Linux emulation on FreeBSD. ZFS.....almost all my open source faves are here.
April 28 ** 2Having some time on my hands, I return to putting FreeBSD on an alternate disk for the Thinkpad W520. That's what I bought it for, but FreeBSD and Wifi were very bad at the time, leading to my OpenBSD experimentation. Seems to have gone OK, once I realized what graphics driver to use and read the excellent docs. Connecting to Wifi and switching between Wifi and Ethernet seems a little awkward at the command line, I don't see a GUI tool for network configuration in my beloved Mate Desktop. Restoring a home directory backup from openBSD which will hopefully be close to workable and save some time. (zsh, ssh, borg backup, etc, all nice free software tools). I was pretty obsessive about FreeBSD for some time, in reaction to systemd, maybe I can be a little more "middle path" about it now.
April 28 If Michael J. Fox can show this gratitude then maybe I, we, can too: April 23 ** 3 Discovery for Linux on higher-res screens - you can scale the entire Sublime Text UI by going to Preferences->Settings and adding this to the file that appears:
"ui_scale": 2.0,
You can scale individual elements in ~/.config/sublime-text/Packages/User/Default.sublime-theme (or at least that works for me) such as:
The ui_scale multiplies the individual settings. For me, ui_scale pretty much takes care of the whole problem.
April 23 ** 2EmmetCohenWalkin.m4aEmmet Cohen and his quintet playing Miles' "Walkin'" in Santa Cruz, possibly as recently as 3 days ago. Just some solid straight-ahead jazz, live, by current players.
April 23https://theconversation.com/the-end-of-oil-as-fuel-shocks-cascade-53-nations-gather-to-plan-a-fossil-fuel-phaseout-280263 This is really cool!
April 15 ** 2 The master: ColtraneMomentsNotice.m4a Original Moment's Notice from Blue Train album (Lee Morgan, Kenny Drew, Philly Joe Jones, Curtis Fuller, Paul Chambers)
April 15JarrettMomentsNotice.m4a Keith Jarrett, Gary Peacock and Jack DeJohnette - Moment's Notice -from album After The Fall. (Live)
April 13 I like this: notstainednotpure.html - a piece by Barry Magid. I had a little programming fun making it so you can display it in one of two ways.
April 10 need to make this run about every minute. how to do in modern linux? I wrote a script with a while loop and put it in startup apps for MATE. It seems crontab is gone now, I guess you're supposed to use systemd timers.
April 03 ** 2MaryDontYouWeep.mp4April 03 ** 3 Hopefully James Taylor can laugh at himself..... LeeSklarJamesTaylor.mp4 MethadoneMaintenanceMan.mp4 Reality is for those of us who can't handle drugs......
April 03 ** 2 Hah! We've all seen Windows BSODs on public screens, now Linux takes a turn: .
April 03 Been looking into some Linux,etc., stuff a bit. These supply-chain attacks are really concerning. I remember when I first discovered open-source / Free Software and the idealism of it-that these clever people did their work to build these systems just for the fun of it and for getting credit where it's due. So now, we have things like the xz utils backdoor (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XZ_Utils_backdoor) - I really don't like people ruining our Free Software Utopia. So, I have my Linux machines, and my homebrew software, and even an OpenBSD laptop - what can be trusted? It all increases my paranoia ("It increases my paranoia ....Like looking in my mirror and seeing a police car" as David Crosby said in "Almost Cut my Hair"). Sort of related to this, I was trying to make sense of the firewall settings on my Arch Linux machine. It seems that both iptables and nftables can be operating, although I crudely turn off nftables as it breaks things. So, it seems that my use of Docker causes some things that are a little concerning from a security perspective; it has its way with iptables, and it seems difficult to figure out how to lock down the machine in terms of a software firewall on it. Probably more concerning is the constant updating of packages, in light of the supply-chain stuff happening. Maybe the answer is to realize perfection is impossible, the perfect is the enemy of the good, etc. What's a poor ex-programmer to do? 🙄😀🙏
April 01 Rabbit, Rabbit, Rabbit!