Notices by Jolly Rancher (not_br549@jollyville.net), page 9
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Jolly Rancher (not_br549@jollyville.net)'s status on Thursday, 28-Sep-2023 08:19:04 JST 
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i never get tired of posting that clip. -
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Jolly Rancher (not_br549@jollyville.net)'s status on Thursday, 28-Sep-2023 08:11:35 JST
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but, we also have a safe and effective vaccine that does the same thing. trashes your immune system, causes random symptoms, lasts a long time, and so forth. the secret is to include (genetic code for) the viral toxin in the jab.
however, i do think that the central planners wanted it to be worse than it is. this clip was recorded in 2019. -
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Jolly Rancher (not_br549@jollyville.net)'s status on Wednesday, 27-Sep-2023 18:34:56 JST
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i don't know any 7th or 8th graders, but maybe start with a list, and winnow it down:
1. grub -- or other -- bootloaders.
2. filesystems -- "disk" partitioning.
3. some different distros . . .
4. ngnix
5. a database manager ?
6. an overview of development tools:
a. the gnu compiler family
b. git and revision control systems
c. languages?
7. html, website construction
probably can't cover all of this in a semester, you'll need to pick and choose -
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Jolly Rancher (not_br549@jollyville.net)'s status on Wednesday, 20-Sep-2023 05:33:36 JST
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Early palms were monochrome. And i never got used to their shorthand. -
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Jolly Rancher (not_br549@jollyville.net)'s status on Wednesday, 20-Sep-2023 02:54:54 JST
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I was on twitter that evening, and saw his desperate tweets... did not know what to do, it was very sad.
America, where you call the police if there's a problem, and they come shoot your dog and beat you senseless... -
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Jolly Rancher (not_br549@jollyville.net)'s status on Wednesday, 20-Sep-2023 02:54:53 JST
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Since ian left, it has become a crock of shit. -
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Jolly Rancher (not_br549@jollyville.net)'s status on Wednesday, 20-Sep-2023 02:54:52 JST
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<amateur-psychiatry>he suffered from bipolar disorder, and was undiagnosed and unmedicated. </amateur-psychiatry>
sometimes they do the most amazing midnight code projects, but they can be hard to live with.
I did not pay that much attention to him over the years, but at some point the distro started going downhill . . . -
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Jolly Rancher (not_br549@jollyville.net)'s status on Wednesday, 20-Sep-2023 02:54:50 JST
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in 1995 i bought a computer with a plan to install something other than microsoft on it. i bought a book on Linux that had a cd in an envelope glued inside the back cover. it ran off the cd, which made it painfully slow. and when you ejected the cd it went back to Windows 95.
next thing i tried was Slackware. everything is a tarball -- at least it was quicker than the cd. i blew away Win95 for Slackware. and then stumbled on Debian -- it had a package manager woo hoo!
but by about 2002 or so, i was just running whatever came with the computer, since it was evident that everyone was not going to do what desperately needed to be done, and dump mickeysoft.
so this operating system apathy persisted until some time into the 2010s, about the time systemd and codes of conduct were being forced onto every distro.
i knew civilization was crashing but the wreckage of open source software has been a shocking thing to behold. -
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Jolly Rancher (not_br549@jollyville.net)'s status on Tuesday, 19-Sep-2023 03:51:43 JST
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'Boebart'? these leftard meme lords are poor spellers. -
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Jolly Rancher (not_br549@jollyville.net)'s status on Saturday, 16-Sep-2023 03:19:43 JST
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The first one was one I resampled with VLC. I don't remember what codecs I chose -- it appears on Firefox as a sound-only file. The second one was a .mp4 file I saved from somewhere a while back -- a kugelblitz event. It shows up unchanged from the file I saved and uploaded.
It is easy to make a mess of a video with VLC, merely by choosing odd combinations of codecs and file extensions. VLC will play anything, but most combinations do not show up in a browser. -
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Jolly Rancher (not_br549@jollyville.net)'s status on Saturday, 16-Sep-2023 01:37:14 JST
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and it was converted to a .3gpp by Pleroma. It was a .mp4 file on the card.
Defect report time. -
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Jolly Rancher (not_br549@jollyville.net)'s status on Saturday, 16-Sep-2023 01:37:09 JST
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Remove SD card from phone, insert into laptop, and upload the same file from Firefox . . -
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Jolly Rancher (not_br549@jollyville.net)'s status on Saturday, 16-Sep-2023 00:45:20 JST
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Test video upload: is Jollyville converting every video to .3gpp, or only the ones I upload from my phone? -
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Jolly Rancher (not_br549@jollyville.net)'s status on Friday, 15-Sep-2023 15:14:22 JST
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Hmm, this phone can make a gif all by itself. -
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Jolly Rancher (not_br549@jollyville.net)'s status on Monday, 11-Sep-2023 04:50:24 JST
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government stuff should all be public domain, since we paid for it. -
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Jolly Rancher (not_br549@jollyville.net)'s status on Friday, 08-Sep-2023 21:07:48 JST
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Harvey agrees about the rabbit. -
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Jolly Rancher (not_br549@jollyville.net)'s status on Friday, 08-Sep-2023 02:20:08 JST
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i found this stuff at the hardware store called "Goo Gone" -- it is based on orange oil, and it smells like oranges.
it does a great job on water-insoluble messes, particularly terpenoid messes like pine resin. It's a solvent -- later, you wash the orange oil out, along with the dissolved goo -
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Jolly Rancher (not_br549@jollyville.net)'s status on Monday, 04-Sep-2023 01:35:05 JST
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out of curiosity, i did some research on the topic -- things have changed since i retired. for one thing, Gemalto is gone - a search gets me links to extended/legacy support, dead web pages, and etc. oh well, these companies last about as long as cicadas in August. like everything else, the tech has been taken over by China. God bless the infinite stupidity of our American overlords.
and these little chip cards are in all kinds of things now, including crypto wallets. oh well, again. hotel room keys, your new car 'keyfob', all those 'smart' appliances ...
if you're willing to risk something like $100K, you can probably buy a batch of (1,000? 10,000?) prototyping cards, along with their secret keys, from a vendor. (but not the manufacturer key, so...) you can put apps on the prototype cards. you can get some development tools:
https://duckduckgo.com/?q=smartcard+prototyping+tools
and carry on.
step 3: ???
and PROFIT!!!
One thing you cannot do with this technology is repurpose an old SIM card, bank card, or hotel room key. This stuff is designed to be thrown away. -
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Jolly Rancher (not_br549@jollyville.net)'s status on Sunday, 03-Sep-2023 07:15:08 JST
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yup. we had some test cards around the lab, in which the keys were all 'A5A5A5...' or '1234567...', which are therefore worthless outside the lab.
but it's going to be a problem, if you do not have a business relationship with the card vendor --
at one time, I could look at the pattern in the little gold contacts and tell you who the manufacturer was, but I've forgotten most of what I ever knew about them. -
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Jolly Rancher (not_br549@jollyville.net)'s status on Saturday, 02-Sep-2023 21:18:07 JST
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Interdasting.
They have little processors in em, you know. Operating systems optimized for intermittent action...
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