Mon 14 Oct 2024 12:55:11 PM EDT Greetings List Lurkers,
The outdoors is not without it's consequences... Cogito ergo geek... Take, for instance Wednesday last, when on a very pleasant bicycle ride through the sun and color filled woods of the Mascoma Lake valley I encountered gravity at about 13 miles an hour while crossing a poorly maintained rail trail bridge. My excuse is we had a house guest and we had to entertain him. This evening you shall be privileged to witness my cheerful, smiling face with the addition of a considerable amount of scar tissue, the result of a bicycle crash survived. I expect that our conversations may venture into areas of bicycle safety as well as the perils of even entering New Hampshire. Vermont may not have many bicycle paths but they are not festooned with peril as the path from Lebanon to Enfield... The good news is that I do not have to worry about a Halloween costume... Thus I will be able to continue cleanup at SugarTower, I fully intend to assess and organize the TechnoRubble that has accumulated and continue to expand the dry storage areas. Soon SugarTower will mostly shut down for the winter, I expect this will be revisited in the spring... Maybe by that time my face will look wonderful once again. By spring I dream of a meet up of Adult Swim at SugarTower. Sing out or attend this evening's meeting in person if you are interested in the SugarTower TechnoRubble loot. The new 'thespian' laptop is a case in point. Imagine a laptop which merely records video and audio. You boot it and that is what it does. More on this project as it develops over this coming winter. Tonight, I expect to continue my education in the SuSe version of Immutability and Associated Containers (IAOC) that DTG has been coaching me on IAOC which is really cool development environment. The general realization is that this unfortunate bike incident may limit my evening's viability as I am trying to heal... ...You shall see... This winter's ambitions to forge in the IAOC environment include, mastering Pipewire in this, we may be delving into some audio evil... AudioEvil.sh is a VisualBash script yet to be written, which strikes me as the ultimate name for a bash script to implement and monitor acquisition of protected audio streams (Piracy :^). Clearly a winter project... The next logical step after AudioEvil.sh would be AVRelay.sh. AVRelay would trans-code between different video conferencing applications (E.G. jitsi to zoom). Basically, one example; you would run a jitsi server on one virtual machine which would relay to a zoom client. Well they say it is good to dream... Again, maybe Dave can consider a brief stint of immorality to help me with AudioEvil.sh. AVRelay.sh seems morally clean. ...and winter is coming! That 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 I use Chat GPT to generate VisualBash scripts? - Would it make sense to store VisualBash functions in MariaDB? - Can we build a Large Language Model server? ...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 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! This evening, beyond the Library face-2-face & gizmo-2-gizmo, we shall use https://meet.jit.si/bosi to connect. Come on to https://meet.Jit.si/bosi at 6PM! Feel free to click the following link to join... 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 I for one will remember this fall of 2024! Kindest Regards, Paul Flint, Director Barre Open Systems Institute
