Greetings List Lurkers, Rainy and foggy in Barre City...
The winter news DIGITAL ACTIVISM I first listened to the song "Call Me Antifa" about a month ago, it brought my 70 year old ass to tears... (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pLo5BgzXWtc) My father was wounded in action in the European Theater, while my mother earned a Bronze Battle Star at the Battle of Buna-Goa Among the errors of the current U.S. administration, there has been an attempt to classify "Antifa", a contraction of "Anti" and "Fascism", as a terrorist organization. This is a lie and a fabrication (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antifa). In our current incarnation as a U.S. Police State, fascism is clearly on the rise... ...so, while pawing around with my favorite, Visual Bash (visualbash.org), I thought to myself how could I help this Youtube entry become more popular... The current number of downloads is 360,437. If I wrote a downloading loop, could I influence the song's popularity? This is what I came up with: http://docbox.flint.com:8081/geekland/#DownloadCallMeAntifa It is imperfect beta code, now at Version 0.07, you are welcome to try it if you are on a Linux system that supports bash. Please do not hesitate to get back to me with scathing criticism of either the software or the moral position of my attempting to influence the Youtube Algorithm. If you are of a similar mind, please 1.) listen to the song and 2.) try running the code. In either case, get back to me. Thanks. 004 Society "Library of TechnoRubble" In the Dewey Decimal System, 004 Computer science encompasses books and materials related to data processing and computer science, including computer hardware, software, and networking. The Dewey Decimal System supports such a system. What do you think of developing a lending system for TechnoRubble? I am taking my time drafting a proposal... Otherwise I am trying to get back to playing with opencode ( https://opencode.ai/) check it out!! We have been sorting the Drek in the shipping containers and constructing a temporary enclosure so that we can get things organized at the SugarTower Tech Pavilion. Now that the snow has fallen and this will likely be cut back some. OPEN BROADCAST STUDIO Open Broadcast Studio (OBS) last week began to be understood by yours truly. I am already thinking about it in terms of Visual Bash.,, That all said we have a meeting tonight at 6PM. DREAMS... The life lesson here is that serious development remains for the winter. Winter should allow us to answer questions like: - Can I take a Caterpillar 315L and combine it with an ABB robot arm in order to do large scale 3D printing? - Can I combine the hardware and software into a "looperplex" (a musical instrument)? possibly about using RP2350? - A VIAOC based Arduino and Pi development environment that "Breaths" Code. By itself the concept of "breathing" code is essential and is really not part of the RP2040 / RP2350 architecture. I have not discovered how to get the code off of these buggers. http://docbox.flint.com:8081/geekland/#Virtual_Immutability_Associated_Containers_(VIAOC) Could the answer be to have the "inhale" code from git? - Need to write/revise "menubot.sh", a FED menu generator. Maybe with the help of opencode.com? Could opencode help me generate a general menu generator (GMG :^)? So far opencode is thinking about it... - Can I use the upgraded Ubuntu Jetson AI and Tabby to generate VisualBash scripts? (see https://github.com/dylanaraps/pure-bash-bible) - Would it make sense to store VisualBash functions in MariaDB? Or maybe Git? - Could all tie into Kubernetes? ...so more about these foolish ideas is available tonight, this Monday evening, at 6 PM at the York Library in beautiful East Barre Vermont. Thus we are centralizing and convocating at the York Branch Library this evening. That said, come in person or remotely and bring this and any Open Source other technical or personal blems and questions and we shall do our thing! Again this evening, beyond the Library face-2-face & gizmo-2-gizmo, we shall use 0https://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
