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Contact me: jholland at vin-dit dot org.

Experimentation seems to show that Firefox can play videos from here if you load them from my home machine, at https://home.vin-dit.org. That is a complete replica of this site. Maybe this has to do with Caddy handling things better than Apache??? Also, in the Firefox developer console it seems Caddy is using HTTP/3. 🤷‍♂️

Some fun videos here:
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Now at hostwinds.com, hope that solves some issues....

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April 23 ** 3 Discovery for Linux on higher-res screens - you can scale the entire Sublime Text UI by going to Preferences->Settings and adding this to the file that appears: 
        "ui_scale": 2.0,
You can scale individual elements in ~/.config/sublime-text/Packages/User/Default.sublime-theme (or at least that works for me) such as: 
{
    "variables": {
    },
     "rules": [
         {
             "class": "sidebar_label",
             // "font.face": "system",
             "font.size": 24,
 },
  {
                "class": "quick_panel_label",
               // "font.face": "system",
               "font.size": 24,
 },

 (and close the { and [ )
The ui_scale multiplies the individual settings. For me, ui_scale pretty much takes care of the whole problem.
April 23 ** 2 EmmetCohenWalkin.m4aEmmet Cohen and his quintet playing Miles' "Walkin'" in Santa Cruz, possibly as recently as 3 days ago. Just some solid straight-ahead jazz, live, by current players.
April 23 https://theconversation.com/the-end-of-oil-as-fuel-shocks-cascade-53-nations-gather-to-plan-a-fossil-fuel-phaseout-280263 This is really cool!
April 15 ** 2 The master: ColtraneMomentsNotice.m4a Original Moment's Notice from Blue Train album (Lee Morgan, Kenny Drew, Philly Joe Jones, Curtis Fuller, Paul Chambers)
April 15 JarrettMomentsNotice.m4a Keith Jarrett, Gary Peacock and Jack DeJohnette - Moment's Notice -from album After The Fall. (Live)
April 13 I like this: notstainednotpure.html - a piece by Barry Magid. I had a little programming fun making it so you can display it in one of two ways.
April 10 need to make this run about every minute. how to do in modern linux? I wrote a script with a while loop and put it in startup apps for MATE. It seems crontab is gone now, I guess you're supposed to use systemd timers. 
    archlinux:√ ~ % cat cyclepix.sh 
    #!/bin/sh
    export FILE=`ls ~/photos|shuf -n 1`
    DISPLAY=0:0  gsettings set org.mate.background picture-options scaled
    DISPLAY=0:0  gsettings set org.mate.background picture-filename /home/jholland/photos/$FILE
April 03 ** 2 MaryDontYouWeep.mp4Aretha Franklin entering the church to perform
April 03 ** 3 Hopefully James Taylor can laugh at himself..... LeeSklarJamesTaylor.mp4
MethadoneMaintenanceMan.mp4
Reality is for those of us who can't handle drugs......
April 03 ** 2 Hah! We've all seen Windows BSODs on public screens, now Linux takes a turn: eletronic sign showing Welcome to GRUB on it instead of whatever .
April 03 Been looking into some Linux,etc., stuff a bit. These supply-chain attacks are really concerning. I remember when I first discovered open-source / Free Software and the idealism of it-that these clever people did their work to build these systems just for the fun of it and for getting credit where it's due. So now, we have things like the xz utils backdoor (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XZ_Utils_backdoor) - I really don't like people ruining our Free Software Utopia.

So, I have my Linux machines, and my homebrew software, and even an OpenBSD laptop - what can be trusted? It all increases my paranoia ("It increases my paranoia ....Like looking in my mirror and seeing a police car" as David Crosby said in "Almost Cut my Hair"). Sort of related to this, I was trying to make sense of the firewall settings on my Arch Linux machine. It seems that both iptables and nftables can be operating, although I crudely turn off nftables as it breaks things. So, it seems that my use of Docker causes some things that are a little concerning from a security perspective; it has its way with iptables, and it seems difficult to figure out how to lock down the machine in terms of a software firewall on it. Probably more concerning is the constant updating of packages, in light of the supply-chain stuff happening. Maybe the answer is to realize perfection is impossible, the perfect is the enemy of the good, etc. What's a poor ex-programmer to do? 🙄😀🙏
April 01 Rabbit, Rabbit, Rabbit!