Greetings List Lurkers, They say some days the bear eats you, some days you eat the bear, and some days you both go hungry...
Yesterday the Magic White Smoke (MWS) escaped from one of my Raspberry PI Model IV's Let us just say that unlike Software, Hardware is permanent... The PI-4 seems like such an excellent sound and music device. Thankfully we have backups! Trust me when I tell you that this sleeves with my multiplexed destiny as the one of the features I want to explore is how to load programs or even Operating Systems from LinuX Containers (LXC) to either Pi or Arduino Systems. The fact that there are many of these LXC command environments for me creates a bit of a fun house mirror effect when it comes to the syntax involved. Obviously the development environment I wish for is not yet there... Additionally, one other bit of ignorance I need to overcome is JavaScript. As I mentioned weeks ago, the good news here is that there is a single standard for JavaScript maintained by the European Computer Manufacturers Association (ECMA), and while they are up to version 6, to my knowledge, unlike python they have not broken the earlier versions... As I have mentioned, not to say there are not JavaScript dialects... GoogleScript seems to be a rather faithful version of ECMA6, and I believe the mere existence of "GScript" may go a long way to keep Micro$oft and Visual Studio Code (VScode) editor honest, they love to Embrace, Extend and Eliminate anything they did not invent. Most folks follow the VScode path. While VScode Editor is supposed to be open source, I simply prefer developing in GScript and exporting the completed code to applications. The El-dorado I still seek is a way to expand Visual Bash or more specifically how to operate Bash as a JavaScript plug-in. This may or may not be possible, but it is a fun quest... Soon SugarTower will be completely shut down for the winter, I expect this will be revisited in the spring... The great news is I may have finally found a suitable connector for my icosahedron project, Here is a url if anyone is interested in addictive geometry. http://docbox.flint.com:8081/pinwheel 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 organizational project or the loot. BOSI's 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 based upon podman. SuSe Aeon may or may not be the way. Maybe the way is Red Hat... Dave indicates this would be transparent. Truth is I am seriously considering converting to >>> The Hat <<<... God help me. 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 Visual Bash 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 winter projects... As I have mentioned in the past, 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 which would relay to a zoom client. Another example might be to relay an audio-video from one market to another. Well they say it is good to dream... 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: - An LX Container based Arduino and Pi development environment. - Can we build a Large Language Model server? - Can I use Chat GPT to generate VisualBash scripts? - Would it make sense to store VisualBash functions in MariaDB? ...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! Again 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... If you are breathing right now, thank a Veteran! ===== 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 Time to get cracking for Halloween! Kindest Regards, Paul Flint, Director Barre Open Systems Institute
