Greetings, Please note the date correction...
...as in this evening, not last week! Love, Flint On Mon, Nov 17, 2025 at 11:45 AM Paul Flint <[email protected]> wrote: > Greetings List Lurkers, > > Lotsa snow on the way here in Barre City... > The winter news is finally letting us dig into the software... > > DIGITAL ACTIVISM > A bit of an afterthought... > While I got this code to work: > http://docbox.flint.com:8081/geekland/#DownloadCallMeAntifa > > It is at best 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. > > Effin, our associate currently enjoying the PA prison system, pointed out > to me that I was violating the YouTube "Terms of Service" (or the > Girl-scouts Code of Honor or some such thing... :^), and that held up till > I read the statement from the Author(s), an organization called "Trump > Resistance Movement", Which contained the following snippet: > > <snip> > Feel free to share any of these songs anywhere you wish, on your social > media or with your own audience. The idea is to spread the mocking and the > criticism far and wide with a like-minded audience. > <snap> > (SOURCE:https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC5su99AdYKlXeZ8Qdf2QWEA/about > third graph) > > This statement seems to absolve anyone downloading the song for any > purpose, including my > Visual Bash code, which is currently at Version 0.8... As they say, your > mileage and prison > time may vary, but that is what they said in their playback terms and > conditions. > > 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. > > BASH BUILDOUT > I blame Dave Eddy ([email protected]) and YSAP (You Suck At Programming) > for this... > Dave talks about bash built-ins. The following script reveals the 3 score > bash built in commands: > > enable -a | cut -d " " -f 2,3 > > I would propose that for individual programmatic expansion to these bash > built-ins, build-outs. > The following code can add additional functions to these build-ins which I > call build-outs... > > Simple And Maybe Useful Functions: > To add additional functions to your environment, say for example, > functions contained in a file called smauf.env ( > http://docbox.flint.com:8081/visual.bash/#smauf.env) > do this in the directory that smauf.env exists: > > <snip> > export BASH_ENV=smauf.env > <snap> > > If you use the example file you will notice that the functions written > using visual.bash style > will be exposed by the following code: > > <snip> > #!/usr/bin/env bash > # > if [[ $BASH_ENV == "" ]] > then echo "BASH_ENV is empty"; exit > else > # cat $BASH_ENV |grep '#\* function' |while read "line"; do echo $line; > done > grep '#\* function' $BASH_ENV |while read "line"; do echo $line; done > fi > # env |grep '#\* function' > echo "trying to run spause" > spause > echo ran spause > <snap> > > The result should look like this: > ./tada.sh > #* function uroot - Checks to see if you are root > #* function spause - A simple tarry... > #* function flink - Adds one symbolic link between named program > #* function flunk - Un-Symlinks [file] & [file].sh into $PATH > #* function gonado - prints a line on the screen and then asks if you want > to do it. > trying to run spause > Hit enter to continue... > > ran spause > > The 5 "builtout" functions, all of which need debugging, are available now > programmatically > in any sub-shell, as is demonstrated by the fact that "spause" ran. The 5 > functions I believe > are extendable to many functions, and thus become available to the bash > program sub-shells... > > What I really want to know is would Dave Eddy be interested in being > subscribed to the BOSI newsletter? > Maybe Dave would take time to criticize the entire visualbash.org > environment? > > That's a pretty big chunk of of stuff that might be more time than he > has.... Let's see what happens... > > 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. It appears that 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 relating to the 004 Society, but > the bash buildouts kinda ate my time this week. > > OPENCODE > Otherwise I am trying to get back to playing with opencode ( > https://opencode.ai/) check it out!! > > TECHNORUBBLE > 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 my 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 >
