johnk
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BBB System Configuration Testing Script
I’m working on a testing script to see if my server can run BBB. Useful if you’re building old systems to use as a development box. This is based on the BBB installation instructions. It doesn’t do everything, just several preflighting tasks. It ends before the Firewall section.
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After do-release-upgrade Name Resolver Stops Working
Symptoms: after doing a big release upgrade on Ubuntu, the name resolution stops working. You can’t use domain names to reach websites or servers. The file /etc/resolv.conf shows the nameserver is set to 127.0.0.53 What’s happened here is that the traditional DNS resolution system has been replaced by the systemd name resolution system.
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Audacity Recording Problems Choosing an Input Source on Linux Mint
Symptoms: Audacity is unable to get any input from the audio output or microphone. System uses PulseAudio and ALSA.
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WP-CLI: wp wc product update images
I’m running WordPress inside a Docker container, and wanted to control the website with command lines, and code. The two options are to use the REST API, or to use the WP-CLI interface. I opted for the CLI because I assumed it was faster. I suspect I’m wrong, but I’m sticking with it for now,…
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Run a Shiny Server with the rocker/shiny and Docker-Compose on Debian or Ubuntu
How to set up Ubuntu to run Docker, a Shiny Server container, with an existing Apache proxy server configuration. This setup will work for a low-volume application. It runs a single container, on a single host.
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Crossplatform Keyboard Mappings for MacOS, GNOME, and Windows
I use all three types of computers, and use the following mapping to make it easier to move between computers. Most of my software development has moved into a server in the cloud, and I SSH in. Even locally, I often use a Terminal session. My local Linux environment is GNOME, but this may also…
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Set Up an HP P1102w Printer on Ubuntu Linux
Introduction – This is a specific guide to setting up the computer on my own network. I’m writing it because, every time there’s some weird network problem, I change a password or something, and foul up the network, and cause the printer to drop off. Then I end up spending a couple hours fixing my…
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Using Flatpaks, Doctrine ORM is Meta, Talking Union, and Indexing Free Blogs
What are the best free blogging sites? I don’t know, but decided to see which platforms were best indexed on Google. Not surprised to find that Google’s own Blogger.com had the most pages. These are the results from using the Google search “site” filter.
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WordPress AntiSpam Plugin, Configuring Alpine Linux to Send Mail
The previous incarnation of this blog had a lot more inbound links, and accumulates spam. One day, I had 14,000 comments pending, and most were spam. So, I wrote a tool to help work through the backlog.
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The End of Facebook
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Facebook Memories
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The Purpose of Antisemitism in White Supremacy
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Programming Assistant LLMs
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Marxist Feminism
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Opening a Dozen Email Boxes? Use Mozilla Thunderbird (and Donate)
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I Think There’s Under Counting of Covid-19
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Brief Review of Migrating from Gmail and Outlook.com to Proton
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Long Beach Rent Control Research and Links
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Pee Commerce
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Health Insurance; Prisoner Laborers; Macron Shits on the Left, Appoints Right Winger PM
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Israel General Strike; IDF Shoots FilAm “Amado Sison”; Labor Zionism and South African white workers
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Make Meme/LOLCats Text with the GIMP
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Get in Touch
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Civil Rights Unionism
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Civil Comment about the Civil War
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The Return of Public Housing
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Ethnic and Unhoused
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California Proposition 1, 2018
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The Size of Mayan Civilization Compared to the Size of Los Angeles, CA
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Political Nerdmaxing: Q: Why Are Asians so Right Wing?
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Cascading Failures Due to Failing RAID1 on Linux
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Run a Shiny Server with the rocker/shiny and Docker-Compose on Debian or Ubuntu
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Using Flatpaks, Doctrine ORM is Meta, Talking Union, and Indexing Free Blogs
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January 5, 2019 Update
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USCIS New Anti-Immigrant Mission Statement
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Henry George’s Racist Screed Against Chinese People in California, New York Tribune, May 1, 1869
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Tech Bazillionaires Paid for Anti-Unhoused Anti-Camping Law in San Francisco in 2016
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Trump’s ICE War on Los Angeles
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DALL-E and Commas that Matter, “young people fighting the war on drugs”, SFW->NSFW
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New COVID Vax; Oceans Overflowing; Tech Ain’t Fixing the Climate; 4Chan->GOP
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Asian American Media Representation, Recommending Feminism
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Fantasy Vernacular Architecture
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Ghost Kitchens and Food Marketing
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Audacity Recording Problems Choosing an Input Source on Linux Mint
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There Are No Urban Design Courses on Race and Justice, So We Made Our Own Syllabus
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WSJ Election-Hype Poll about Perceptions of Prejudice Excluded Asians