Greetings List Lurkers, Everything was going pretty well.
Not so much by the end of the week... Right now I will take the half foot of snow hereabouts over the uncertainty and agony brought into DC by the current administration. My foray into Red Hat Bluefin continues, hopefully under the continued guidance of the flu infected DTG. My frustration with both Bluefin and Aeon is that both Aeon and Red Hat Bluefin absolutely need "Ports and Protocols" Documents. The issue here is what can you write to and what can you read from under these "immutable" distributions? What directories (and particularly ports)... What you can read and under what conditions would also be useful... This frustration has manifested itself in the following draft document: http://docbox.flint.com:8081/geekland/#BluefinPorts%26Protocols The "overlord" transcending root needs to be documented. Maybe the immutable "overlord" transcending root needs to be programmatically exposed... The epiphany that I arrived at in my meditations include the question: "Is all this immutability worth it?" I suspect by next week I will know the answer to this question, and I may reformat the Aeon NVME. Again, my ridiculously ambitious 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): http://docbox.flint.com:8081/geekland/#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, now known as OSSC. Alternatively, 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. That all 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 we build a Large Language Model server? (Preferably on the cheap) This is a serious discussion between acquiescing to NVIDIA (CUDA) or finding an open source equivalent. - Can I stuff this into a "looperplex" (a musical instrument) answer, not without the worlds smallest 1000W power supply. (http://docbox.flint.com:8081/echoplex) effects box? - A VIAOC based Arduino and Pi development environment that "Breaths" Code. http://docbox.flint.com:8081/geekland/#Virtual_Immutability_Associated_Containers_(VIAOC) the question now in my mind is is immutability worth it? - Can I use Chat GPT to generate VisualBash scripts? - Would it make sense to store VisualBash functions in MariaDB? - Could all tie into Kubernetes? ...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 convalescing, 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. 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
