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And did he ever even get to that part about 'helmet safety' and that the guy in the photo wasn't wearing one?

Oh, no, yet another topic for the echo factory to pretend that people care about and repeat over and over.

 
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It's Autumn and soon to be Winter

I had a server failure and am just getting back to putting this website up again. This is a test to see if I can easily publish


Dec 09, 2024
5:44 PM EST

Winter will soon be here!

A lot can happen in a year. I used to update these pages all the time. Maybe I could start doing that again?

Today was the day of setting the clocks forward.


March 10, 2024
10:35 PM EST

Winter 2024



I would go back to work if I had an offer.

No one who contacts me about work seems to provide any serious prospects, like they are just hazing me..



Avoiding discord

The realization that much of what you find on line is just bots messing with people and trying to train them to be ineffective at debate by making them revert to insults, putdowns, and sub-human behavior makes social media seem to be a wasteland. It is best to not participate in that.

All the rain could have been snow!
2024!

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Political and Media Inanity
by Truck-u-later

Truck-u-later

in this column Truck-u-later steps in deeper . . .

well most news was about the raid a few weeks ago, I read up on what I could find.

I read up on it but I didn't try to spend too much time dwelling on it.

I wrote some things. But I can only observe these things. I wish not to be seen as being one who understands what it going on in the world these days. I try to learn what happens and try less to 'splain about the peeps involved. That whole 'It's them!' finger pointing is bogus and discordant to an eccumenical and open hearth world view.

And those who seek to live within a meta where they rule the world as a cartoon avatar persona . . . and do their pyramid scheme money-thang and their virtuality as if it's real . . . They do as they will and I have no say over their futures. So why do they pretend to have a say over mine?

The answer is: that if they live within a meta, then their rules are for them there. Outside of that, in the real world, those of us who aren't crazy with self-entitled ideation, and wealth beyond measure that enables us to put the equipment on, and all of it's tethering and attachments and live within that matrix world . . . all of us who do not wish to join them in what seems to be a depraved cult of wish fulfillment cooupled with a magical point of view about the fate of peoples and persons . . . all of us who have not gone crazy like that . . . you can't really expect us to let you carry on and try to rule us from within your cage of technology?

video gaming morphed into 'meta world creation' because the games were too depraved that had the cool world layouts that people like. The puzzles one loves to solve, and the cool graphics that one wants to see were those times interspersed with simulated acting out of depraved behaviors, like having to kill all the other characters in the scene before one moves on to the next level.

So at some point you trained yourself to not do it, to click through the depravity as if it's not there, and maybe miss a creepy backstory. I gave up playing those kinds of games, and I still ike to watch old replays, but I fast forward through the gun fight parts, the ghouls who hound Lara Croft in the end levels of, say Tomb Raider aniversary are tiresome and almost designed to make the players hate this kind of depravity in a game, as if the writers are telling their funders ;Really, a kill anything that seems alive simulation? Like clones could never be born without a need to kill everything else in the proximity from where it emerged? Well, we all know what happend to the Lora Croft franchise, and most video games.

But the graphics can be compelling and fun, so people still get some enjoyment out of it.

And those who think that they can rule from within a meta? they have the persona of the villianous ancient ghoul who haunts Laura through out here travels. Watch a walk through of tomb Raider Aniversary. Feel free to fast forward through the psychopathic parts. But do listen to the banter and the dialog. Spoiler alert: Laura has a lot of soul searching to do.

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sometimes you just need to remove kruft.

Politics never ends but sometimes it's better to remain mute. Mostly when there is nothing needing or wanting to be said.


but that is no one, that has
not hapened to anyone
you made it up.

thankfully true.

We move along. We keep doing for ourselves. We survive. We don't let the world define who and what we are, or how we feel, or what any of this really means.

And if they have bad humor, and will not forgive they will hate you then.


but at least in that
story they leave you 
alone after all of that


They dont' always leave you alone. It seems they still sometimes want to connect to try to draw that cray cray narrative out one more time. And you have to explain that, no, sorry, this is a bit. You caught me while I was writing a character, that's not me. I am using tht as a dialog in a paly that I'm having my character write inside of his narrative, he's writing his own play about a guy writing a play.

It's like he feeds on it, I get bothered that he lets me go on with it.




tell us how you really feel . . . . . . well . . . Truck-you-later!


I speak
but there is no one there.
I know that there is no one there.
I'm not really talking to myself
but I know that I'm not talking to anybody else.


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How not to behave

in honest interaction

The rule of repetitive lying

Don't actually follow rules of lying! You are supposed to be smart enough to know that lying is wrong

Grand liars have rules that they follow, for themselves, as to how to lie. They don't follow the rules the rest of us do. They aren't learning the law because they want to do what the law says. And they 'do as they will' attributing this to some kind of (imagined) superior quality that seems to hail all the way back to the grand Philosophers (though they were describing behavior of other people and not putting out a value judgment).

The Grand liars, they know how to stand on a podium. They love those heads bobbing behind them in unison to the beat of the jingo that they rap out to the crowd. It isn't a discussion of bad behavior designed to try and make us see it that way and not be that way, as we hope that Rap and performance Art would be. What it is: a grand attempt at hypnosis. Let's give the sheep something to bay out at those who dare to question their leader. And they couple it with an endless campaign: let's keep the payoffs coming. "You really need to move this all forward."

"Do not fear what they fear; do not be frightened.". 1 Peter 3:14

quote from NIV

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Michael

Hastings

Jan 28, 1980 -

June 18, 2013

may he

Rest

in

Peace

 Geesh, I've flown far and away today,
       haven't I?

" . . . . OH, off and uttering he goes and over towards the partials of inanity, (smueumattering) texting of his sails to the thirsty persons, my gorsh-taining-wall . . ."

"A vast! Write 'wing conspiracy' or I won't answer your post."

Has the congressman become a con-gross-man? Please do not 'sext' the interns. You know, they want him to remove himself from the race. They being 'saner minds'.

But how else can he spend his four million dollars?


  

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Here is something from the I Ching
Fellowship with Men in the open has supreme success.


     "Hall-all-lluu"

I'm working on it in my mind, thinking about how to make the music play and the strings to twang along.

Praise the Lord for his unfailing love.

    Praise the Lord just because you love Him!

Praise the Lord!

You know Favorite movie lines?

Wouldn't it be cool if I had a way for users of this page to enter in their favorite movie lines? I am sure that someone is already doing it. I could have made one of my bitbucket pages be that, but I don't let 'the world' post here. you need a password.

I've got you in my sights. How come no one ever writes? try this:

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Web Site Adminstrator

Amillia Publishing Company

PO Box 211

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If you have something real to share: a story, a poem, whatever, that is the best way to get my attention.

Some times it seems to me that people ought to know better. People who tangle themselves up in the secret secret land of spying, etc, know the score. If they cross the line they get the well defined consequences. Moralize about it all you want. Whatever. Youdon't get to sit at the poker table unless you anti-up. You have to pay the price of admission to get in To the parTy club. If you are supposed to check your gun at the door you better not have one with you when you are sitting at the bar.

I read elsewhere about a 'mysterious' death of a hacker who was so dumb as to figure out how to hack equipment and harm people. He was going to give a paper on it. Instead he made the papers. Well, SFGate, I guess it might still have a paper form somewhere. There is much cooler people that they talk about at SFGate who are well-loved. I guess someone must have loved this guy too, somehow. But how do I hack a pacemaker? Anyone who needs an answer to that question is not a moral person unless they have the cause of not being able to ever, ie they are the guys (or gals) who are the security apparatus for the medical device manufacturer. Anyone else who would request such data, unless they are doing a retrofit to make it secure because the device maker isn't (for whatever reason) anyone who would publish how to hack and kill, at a conference, where respectible peoole go and get drunk at conferences (Las Vegas), and go to show the world how much they love everyone. You are going to go to the city of hook-ups and tell people how to kill each other remotely? So, I guess, it really was so wrong and eggregious that this guy just died. Imagine. Was it the angels of the Evening Commute (devils to you when you are a devil) giving him the three angels and he chose wrong at the end of it all? Was it more false news and he went into hiding after faking his own death (which is a stock conspriacy theory, it really needs a number, how about conspriacy theory number 78 and a third of a Gallon. It needed a name. I never said it needed to make sense.

So, in our world, creepy people sometime die before they are able to release the creepy details of the sick-headed studies into how to break stuff that people rely on. Here is a clue to the generation of hackers: you can learn stuff that you don't share. Sometimes it is a necessity to do so. You don't share it because you know that others will use it for harm.

And the excuse that 'its the truth' is a pretty lame one. Walk your information into the future: imagine a scenario where the data that you provide is used by psychoic pepole to carry out murdurous intention. You can prevent it by keeping your yap shut. They used to say "Loose lips sink ships." Back then people understood how quickly things can go wrong and hundreds die suddenly, unexpectedly, some burned from the ordinance, some sucked down into the briney depths, some maybe survived for a while and then got eaten by sharks, some were saved.

so smarten up, full-disclousre generation. Some truths are too hard for people to take. Some things don't need to be widely known. No one person or group 'rules' the world. We all must rule ourselves. And when people don't do it well,when they succumb to a need for fame and publish materials on how to kill people, basically breaking security, well, we know what happens to them.

It is one thing to say 'yes this can be done.' If something needs to be proven, like how easy it is to hack a freezer and melt all your ice cubes. Or how you could change the settings on a throttle or the characteristics of hydrolic systems (which could be used for braking an automobile or just for pumping water out of a dehumidifier). If you need to show that it can be done, you should show it. You should put that driverless car out on the mudflat and show the world how easy it is to do this. And then the problem of teh exploding car should then be handed back to the manufacturer and they should make their cars secure. But please, please don't give details of how to specifically do things. You can show that things can be done without giving the secrets away. And that should be for a need to know crowd.

But publishing a paper on how to kill people wirelessly with faulty medical equipment? That seems just stupid. Did this guy die by accident? Did the angels (who are devils when you are a devil) do him over (to the other side, he becomes Jacob Marley) after sending him three ghosts (a Dickinsonian explanation, an obvious canard!). Or did . . . something else happen to him? I don't really need to know.

Am I sounding callow when I imply that I don't care how this guy died? Beset wishes to his family that loved him, I hope you make it through your time of grief. I am sure that some of you are asking the same seemingly unanswerable questions of why and how.

Concerning other recent and mysterious deaths; Ivan Heyn (The Argentinean Finance minister), Michael Hastings (The Gonzo Journalist); if there are details to be known to bring (possible) killers to Justice, I want able and in charge prosecutors to know. I want to know that someone is or has investigated and providing Justice. Worst case we leave it to the angels who be devils if you be a devil. I don't need to know their verdict. The events will speak for themselves. I can fret not, read Psalms, rest, work, keep writing, telling the better story I hope. Warning fools to wonder back from the cliff. Understanding that one is not a fool if he lingers along the cliff as long as it is the only trail through the arduous wildernesses into which we must sojourn. Ah, see how the need for the good story, that heroic longing for the undiscovered things, or to uncover long lost secrets.

But for some, they get to a sedentary place. They never joined a secret society or made blood vows to a single fraternal organization. They have no secrets to share. No one includes them in anything. They don't get to go to the high barbecues and hang at the crypt after the ancient one's funeral. They never get to take the private ferries to far-away-bye-ya (far away islands).

Everyone ought to have a sense of morality, what is right and wrong. And when people don't 'get it', if they don't understand to not be 'a rat', if they disrespect common decency, then, well, they meet their fate as anyone else would.

And when they keep up with the bad choices? Well you're hearing this from someone whose isn't part of anything, doesn't really know the 'real deal' truth: but it seems to be, at least now, that people who are that stupid still have to . . . deal with the consequences of their inept moral sense (senselessness of unconsidered morality).

Without words some things are clear. A sunset. The love of two people. Sometimes words get in the way. Words: we think they bring us fame. We want to be published. We need to share the Truth.

With words we monger for fame and fortune. That's fine. But when the jingo you spew makes it easy for others to be cruel and murderous: do you make your self an accessory? I do believe in the First Amendment, of course. It is very important. However I do also think that there are things that people should know better than to publish. Yes, the amendment is there. As far a technical manuals go: if you are providing block diagrams to make it easy to hack common equipment that will be used for harm . . . you ought to know better. You should have already known this before you ever started reading this page. You may have already known this in the womb. So, if that is true, how to people get to the place where they forget it? Or is it something that must be learned?

OK, I'm leading on to nowhere. The questions are over. We can say our prayers for the dead both holy and those, well, we aren't so sure. Leave it to someone else to judge them. They are gone. Let them rest in peace. And long life to all those with heart disease! May your pace-makers always be un-hackable.



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 If I had a better connection
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           at the bar
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         phone me
    at home me
          I don't know why you're just a great big
     phoney balony
    I went to Chincoteague and
          got me a pony
     You've got a bunch of stuff
  that you'd 
 probably loan me.
  But just because it is
   you don't f in own me.
 
I don't know why you lie
     when you could just high
   with the truth of your guy
   who is as bright as the sky.

 I don't know why it is 
     you think that you own me
  I don't know how it is
       your such a big fussing phony
What you say's not real
     is it just he way you feel?
        do you think it's a done deal?
    why do you lie and steal?

 I don't know it
    I don't know it
          what their trying to do now
    I don't know it
        I don't know it
             why they bother with you now
       
  And I don't understand
         what they are saying
    but it sounds more and more
           like wolfs baying.

    It's a little bit more
      of a time
         to be free
   and I'm trying to tell you now
            that if you don't then how will you be?
        Cause freedom is a gift from God.
 You don't need a politician to prod
                          you.
  You don't need a professor to
             profess to you
      what is moral, correct, and right to do.

If you don't love baby,
   if you don't need me
    what is it that you think I'm trying to say?
   If you don't want me
         why must you haunt me?
   why can't you just go away?
 
  And I don't understand it.
      You're so pushy and demanding.
   You say that I'm your man and
    then you get all commanding.

 And I don't want to tell you 'no'.
     it's a thing people learn as they grow.
         I was really really hoping that you'd know!
   But I see that it just isn't so.


There's no 'F' in phony

I got nothing more

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Poem Shards

just who reads, who writes these poems?
off a mountain road the poet roams
but only in a poem.

Realizing that the empty 
is empty
and not needing anything there.

just who shows up and for what?
I'm lonely or am alone or what does it matter?
driving off towards the nothing
walking along the nowhere path
up high
sure, it's a pretty view
but seen it, done it, jaded, back to the air port
he flew
his fantasy of happy vacation was through.


The deep snow.

The deep snow. She doesn't know how deep. She didn't think about it. Depth of snow no one know in rills and hollows where you shouldn't go when the storm is fierce and the night is cold even you shouldn't be so bold. poem is from 2012 short story titled Blizzard Baby The morning light is hued in cold awareness. Warming in the sun the bunny explores the snow covered lawn. The tracks melt by mid morning. Bunny doesn't know what the song means, anyway. This giant bubble that we call awareness? How could it have been formed? Seemingly hollow, it's filled up with you reading this and wondering where does this idle poet get his idle hours to spew out this bubble web of hollowness? 🚦 🚧 🚨 🚩 🚪 🚫 🚬 🚭 🚮 🚯 🚰 🚱 🚲 🌛 🌑 🌒 🌓 🌔 🌕 🌖 🌗 🌘 🌙 🌚 🌛 🌜 🌝. 🚤 🚥 sometimes there is beauty within the fragments . . . 🌜🌜🌜🌝🌛🌛🌛 Sprongg . . . onng . . . ongg ga Her tired morning seems more like poetry than anything you can find on a blog. Bark Bark. Bark Bark. Tree Bark Bark. Bark Bark. Dog 🌑 🌒 🌓 🌔 🌕 🌖 🌗 🌘 🌙 🌚 🌛 🌜 🌝. 🚤 🚥 Woof and woe🌝 🌑 🌒 🌓 🌔 🌕 🌖 🌗 🌘 🌙 🌚 🌛 🌜 🌝. 🚤 🚥 Space Ship snowman floats off towards Billy Perilli, writer of all of the things on this blog. 🌜🌜🌜🌝🌛🌛🌛

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Coders Edge

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Fedora 40

After 40 different versions what can one say about it anymore? It's installed in all my systems, a day earlier. There are a few minor issues, but no show stoppers.

I did some stuff with lvm to resize a root area. That took a very long time. It's on a machine that maybe just should be retired . . .


April 22, 2024
12:02 PM

Fedora Core 38 beta

Ya, I decided to load Fedora Core 38 Beta about a month ago, and this machine kept shutting down . . . I think I finally fixed it. Tomorrow is the big release day for the Fedora Core 38. My production workstation is still running FC37. I don't know if I'll jump right on it right away. . .

my server is still resetting, or maybe I have it fixed. I decided to just remove plasma-desktop, as I don't use it. The journals were giving all kinds of errors with that, and I think that might have been the issue, conflicting with the gdm that I do use. Worst case I'd just go to runlevel 3 but, as I said in another column, I don't really even know if anyone views these pages anyway.

My production box would upgrade but the dnf says it would downgrade grum and associated tools, and that's never a good thing to do. I'm just not going to do it! anyway I'll check tomorrow when the offical release is and probably do it then. If I'm in the mood.

So now I've run every version of Fedora serving this website! that's a long time.


April 17, 2023 8:28 PM EST


here is from a year ago:

Fedora Core 36 beta

It took some time to figure out how to defeat the new screensaver built in, but I was able to. It's the biggest downside to the new Gnome.

I set the keybindings to something I don't use, and then put in a custom keybinding to use the old tool.

There are other minor things that annoy too, like the restoration of a deleted file that I always have to delete again on every FC core upgrade. The file is name camera-shutte.oga. It's in /usr/share/sounds/freedesktop/stereo

1:12 AM EST 9 April, 2022 

At the precipice of coding.

a mountain trail often has a place with a great view and a perilous fall if you wonder just a bit too far to one side of the trail. It's called a precipice. It's not a scary place. It's a safe place that one passes through.


OK, so I've done an update to FC34.

the biggest issue was . . . . drum roll . . .a lock up of gnome.

and if i clicked on the activities button I would need to reload (log out log back in).

I was able to run stuff without that, and thus determined a list of files that might need to be removed. I did as full reinstall of gnome as such:

dnf reinstall gnome

then I did a

dnf list installed |grep fc33

which gave me a list of files to consider uninstalling.

from that I got the following:

first odd issue:

sudo was not at first working! I had to install it! I kept the configuration file so I have my preferences still set up.

dnf install sudo                                                                                                                                                                          dnf reinstall gnome-*                                                                                                                                                                       dnf reinstall kde*                                                                                                                                                                          dnf reinstall NetworkManager*                                                                                                                                                               dnf remove gnome-screensaver                                                                                                                                                               dnf remove gnome-shell-extension-desktop-icons-20.04.0-2.fc33.noarch                                                                                                                       dnf remove xorg-x11-xkb-extras-7.7-33.fc33.x86_64                                                                                                                                          dnf remove compat-openssl10-1:1.0.2o-11.fc33.x86_64                                                                                                                                        dnf remove mozjs60-60.9.0-7.fc33.x86_64                             

there are still some fc33 packages, (I also looked for fc32 packages, anything older that was gnome)

sudo dnf list installed |grep fc33
biber.noarch                                         2.14-4.fc33                            @fedora               
gamin.x86_64                                         0.1.10-37.fc33                         @fedora               
libgta.x86_64                                        1.0.9-5.fc33                           @fedora 

if removing a package also removed large numbers of other packages, I left it. For each of the few that I did remove, I always would make sure by reading what would happen before agreeing to the transaction.

now the gnome-shell is working and it doesn't lock up. So which of the packages that I removed made the difference? I am not sure.

and so after just a few short hours of install, I've got my system working in away that seems normal.

the new gnome shell moves the icons to the bottom of the screen.

I find gnome-shell to be annoyingly poppy at times. I tend to do things rapidly, and all the popping can be nauseating.

It is helpful to learn how to use dnf. I've found that the reverse history stuff works as long as you haven't made too many changes. It's a dicey, though, to try and go back to an older revision but I did it ONCE. Next time it didn't work out so well. AT that point it was installing dnf and yum from rpms.

and I had success. It's the kind of thing that when you know how to do it . . .

but there was one other trick that I needed and it was a scary way to reset a password and I did discover how to do it. I'm not sharing that one (barely remember) it's like these things exist in a nether, and it's best to . . . let the knowledge fade unless you need it. It's too scary to dwell in that space.

anyway, gnome shell is working. It's not flighty and hanging up. And all it took was to remove the old packages of gnome that might conflict with it. And now I can continue with my review.


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