Mon 03 Mar 2025 12:04:05 PM EST Greetings List Lurkers,
What can you say about March... Tis the season that comes in like a lion and goes out like a lamb, or so they say... Right now it is a pretty cold lion... The big breakthrough is that I have a Raspberry PI booting off an NVME drive... Still tweaking but hey! My foray into Red Hat Bluefin continues, hopefully under the continued guidance of the now healthy DTG. I must confess that DTG found the problem with running the Arduino Development code on my Bluefin. I still maintain that running Bluefin absolutely needs "Ports and Protocols" Documents. The issue here is what can you write to and what can you read from under these "immutable" distributions and under what conditions? What directories (and particularly ports)... What you can read and under what conditions (host or guest)would also be useful... This frustration has manifested itself in the following draft document: http://docbox.flint.com:8081/geekland/#BluefinPorts%26Protocols Which I continue to hack at. Can the "overlord process" transcending root be exposed? SUMMER DREAMS Again, my ridiculously ambitious plans for spring include my dream of a meet up of Adult Swim at SugarTower. The working title of this is for now "Open Source Summer Camp" (OSSC): http://docbox.flint.com:8081/geekland/#Open_Source_Summer_Camp_(OSSC) Sing out or attend this evening's meeting in person if you are interested in the SugarTower TechnoRubble organizational project, now known as OSSC... What would you think of a Summer festival maybe including other FOSS groups such as the Free Software Foundation? We have a nice 10 acre facility for this at SugarTower. Ah the dreams of Winter modulating into Spring! That all said we have a meeting tonight at 6PM. The life lesson here is that serious development remains for the winter. Winter shall soon allow us to answer questions like: - Can we build a Large Language Model server? (Preferably on the cheap) This is a serious discussion between acquiescing to NVIDIA (CUDA) or finding an open source equivalent. The next big project is a Jetson based LLM. - Can I the hardware and software into a "looperplex" (a musical instrument)? Answer, not without the worlds smallest 1000W power supply. ( http://docbox.flint.com:8081/echoplex) effects box? - A VIAOC based Arduino and Pi development environment that "Breaths" Code. http://docbox.flint.com:8081/geekland/#Virtual_Immutability_Associated_Containers_(VIAOC) - Can I use Chat GPT to generate VisualBash scripts? - Would it make sense to store VisualBash functions in MariaDB? - Could all tie into Kubernetes? - Should I start on a Baby Bear VM code review? (http://bbbvm.org/) Maybe dip my tow in today... ...so more about these foolish ideas is available this Monday evening at 6 PM at the York Library in beautiful East Barre Vermont. Thus we are convalescing, centralizing and convocating at the York Branch Library this evening. That said, come in person or remotely and bring this and any other problems and questions and we shall do our thing! Again this evening, beyond the Library face-2-face & gizmo-2-gizmo, we shall use https://meet.jit.si/bosi to connect. Feel free to click the following link (around 6PM tonight) 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, Director Barre Open Systems Institute
