Greetings Marcantonio, Thanks!!!
Do like me some Bash... Regards, Paul On Mon, Dec 9, 2024 at 6:18 PM Marcantonio Rendino < [email protected]> wrote: > nearly everything is possible - but only a small subset is worth the time > / effort -- and I say that as a Bash diehard 😏 > > On Dec 9, 2024, at 2:41 PM, Paul Flint <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Greetings List Lurkers, > > NOTE: My destination 70th birthday on 18 December shall take place > that evening at the Maple Leaf Bar in New Orleans ( > https://www.mapleleafbar.com/). Hence I will be traveling on the 16th > and 23rd of December, but will attempt to attend remotely on both > occasions. > > ...A WORD TO THE WYZE... > I was recently handed a Wyze Outdoor Camera by a friend who wanted to > get the silly thing working. She had switched platforms, she went > from Android to Apple, and lost use of the camera. What a pain in the > ass, > as this security camera does not support RTSP without re-flashing the > camera bios with an unsupported product. > > The alternative to reflashing is to build a "Wyze to RTSP" translator in > an LXContainer... Thus the immutable investigation continues... > > My foray into Red Hat Bluefin, under the guidance of DTG continues. > Dave and I are more or less in sync in the quest for good Red Hat Bluefin. > > As I stated last week, I am sticking with a Gnome GUI Desktop, and am very > happy that my Zope 2 based web efforts at least continue to seem stable > and redundant. > > My frustration with both Bluefin and Aeon are that both Aeon and Red Hat > Bluefin almost need "Ports and Protocols" Documents. The issue here is > what can you write to? What directories (and particularly ports)... What > you can read and under what conditions would also be useful... This is > this evening's frustration... > > The latest in the LinuX Containers (LXC) is that I seem to be having some > issue in migrating containers from SUSE Aeon to the new Hat Bluefin, > DTG found a work around that I am desperately trying to understand and > document. > > Maybe this is the interim ultimate way to go involving this IBM/Red Hat > power combination. I long to have my new 32GB of DDR4 making me a > master of multimedia... Other needs involve for instance, the ability > to load programs from Integrated Development Environments or even whole > Operating Systems to and from either Pi's or Arduinos. I would like to > call this relationship between devices and systems "Breathing". By this > I mean that I could "exhale" code to the device from my workstation, but > also "inhale" code from the device to my workstation, a much rarer > functionality. > > So, this has given birth to Yet Another Bash Project (YABP :^). > The working title of this is "podmania.sh"... Once you have the > shell script name, the rest is easy... The idea here is to > add both functionality and another less labyrinth overlay to the > "Chomskyic" ("Chomskyish"? ;^) podman suite of scripts... > > I am repeating this because I feel it is an important aspect of > computing in general. You may well ask, what is Chomskyic? > Noam Chomsky, early in his distinguished career asserted the > following according to the Google AI: > > NOUN AND VERB PHRASES - PHRASE STRUCTURE RULES > Noun And Verb Phrase rules break down sentences into their constituent > parts, > such as noun phrases (NPs) and verb phrases (VPs). For example, the first > rule > states that a sentence (S) is made up of an NP followed by a VP... > > Welcome to transformational grammar and command line programming sez I. > ...As usual, apply this to computers (ADP) and you have to reverse the > paradigm... > > In ADP the verb phrase (VP) is typically first, followed by a predicate > noun phrase (NP). Basically the verb phrase (VP) is recognized in > the system's path... To repeat, there are many basic examples of this > type of machine interaction. > > One of my first Chomskyic interactions was BASIC (Beginners All-purpose > Symbolic Code). More recently I became enamored with Bash, (Borne Again > SHell) to which I have humbly contributed the Visual Bash structural sugar > as > enforced by "shebangs" which is the basis for the Visual Bash FED - > (Function. Evaluator and Dispatcher :^). There are many other examples > of Chomskyish, many come to mind... Fortran, Forth, Assemblers,Podman, > Docker, distrobox, and postscript to name just a few, and there is so much > more. > > So another project topic, a winter's quest...can I forge > JavaScript/GoogleScript into a "Chomskyish" structure? This is the major > bit of ignorance I still need to overcome in 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. A feature! > > Again to repeat, there are 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. > Bluefin installs VScode on your Desktop whether you want it or not. > > So in a perfect world, "Chomskyish" Java/GoogleScript might be called > "ChomskyScript", based on it following the FED principles of Visual > Bash. > > Hell! another damned project!!! > > One El-dorado I will continue to alternatively 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 of which I will > attempt to keep you informed... > > Maybe the way to ChomskyScript is to carefully lawyer-read the ECMA6 > specification and shoehorn it in. Any takers? > > My 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) Sing out or attend this evening's meeting in person if you > are interested in the SugarTower TechnoRubble organizational project, the > OSSC, or the loot. > > 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 in Williamstown, Vermont. > > Tonight, we hopefully shall expand the Bluefin version of Virtual > Immutability and > Associated Containers (VIAOC). DTG continues patiently coaching me > on VIAOC which is a really cool development environment based upon both KVM > and podman. I have preserved the SuSe Aeon which got me started on this > quest. Maybe the way is Red Hat... Dave indicates this would be > transparent, it is not. > > In the meantime we cannot ignore this 800 lb. gorilla. Again, another of > this > winter's ambitions to forge in the VIAOC environment include, mastering > Pipewire in this, we may be delving into some audio evil... AudioEvil.sh is > a mythical Visual Bash script yet to be written, which strikes me as a good > name for a bash script to implement and monitor acquisition of protected > audio streams (Piracy :^). > > 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. RTSP to jitsi to zoom). Basically, one > example; you would run a jitsi server on a container or virtual machine > which would relay to an RTSP client. Another example might be to relay an > audio-video from one market to another. > > Hopefully this will all tie into Kubernetes... > > 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 VIAOC based Arduino and Pi development environment that "Breaths" > Code. > - Can we build a Large Language Model server? (Preferably on the cheap) > - 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... > > ===== > 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 > >
