Mon 04 Mar 2024 12:45:47 PM EST Greetings List Lurkers,
Regarding a Vermont Monday at least it is not freezing... Our beloved Shogun, Mr. Joe Hart showed off his Large Language Model AI running on his new super desktop. Additionally our Shogun showed off a rescued Sharp Brain PW-A900 from the landfill. Dr. Joe is going to liberate this beastie using the information at BrainUX.org "A Linux distro for SHARP Brain", (you will need Google Translate). TechnoRubble magic... Saturday night was quite an event. My beloved wife and I are down in the media room watching old BBC Procedurals. Poirot finishes and a message originating from the ROKU box says you have to agree to a contract modification. You have no choice but to say "Yes". At first I thought it a malicious hack of my ROKU converter... Later I discover that ROKU is attempting to make me agree to a contract under duress. This is causing a bit of a stir... For more information please see: https://community.roku.com/t5/Community-discussions/Discussion-Roku-Dispute-Resolution-Term-Update/td-p/950649 I pity the folks with one of these daemon seeds actually built into the monitor itself! After sleeping on this problem, the answer became clear... DTG! Dave built a Raspberry Pi for his folks to use many years ago, and while it was a bit inconvenient to have DTG over for this instead of my LXcontainer lesson, Dave and I found a pi 4, loaded the Open Source Media Player (https://osmc.tv/), and I ended up with working Netflix and YouTube by suppertime, what a celebration! The ROKU is now TechnoRubble... This morning I began to realize the implications of this Denial Of Service (DOS) attack. My own personal response is available for your review here: http://docbox.flint.com/~flint/roku/roku_opt_out_2023-03-04.pdf This annoyed me so much that I have contacted Senator Bernie Sanders... Let's see what happens... Later this afternoon I am getting back to getting Google Drive to behave. This may involve a script to test and consistently mount your Google Drive, but right now it is not consistent, I am working on it and may have something prior to the meeting... This is all based upon my immediate goal which is to get my currently used version of zope2 running in a container... A critical ambition. Progress to date has most to do with developing these tasks: 1. Container management loading and persistence 2. Getting the right version of Python running and finally... 3. Coerce zope2.10 to run in this container. 4. Load the right data.fs file... 5. Reproduce-ability This bit of programming is dramatized in the ongoing Visual Bash script: http://docbox.flint.com:8081/visual.bash#MyOwnPersonalVersionOfHell In addition I concocted the following new script: lxcycl.sh - The LinuX Container CYCle (http://docbox.flint.com:8081/docker#LinxXContainercYCL) This is an attempt to recursively encapsulate the tools you need to perform docker based development. This unworthy effort is up on GitHub as I finished mercilessly editing lxcycl.sh. Please pull it and fix it. ...so more about these foolish ideas (like going up against ROKU) this Monday evening at 6PM. This all adds up to our centralizing and convocating at the York Branch Library this evening. That said, come in remotely and bring this and any other problems and questions and we will do our thing! This evening beyond the Library face-2-face & gizmo-2-gizmo, we shall use jit.si/bosi to connect. Feel free to click the following link to join... Come on to Jitsi at 6PM! Feel free to click the following link to join the meeting: https://meet.jit.si/bosi Let me know if this works for everyone... ===== Just want to dial in on your phone? Dial-in: +1.512.402.2718 PIN: 1992759198# Note that this dial worked with devastating effect from the road... Click this link to see the dial in phone numbers for this meeting https://meet.jit.si/static/dialInInfo.html?room=bosi Kindest Regards, Paul Flint
