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shows the nameserver is set to 127.0.0.53 What’s happened here is that the traditional DNS resolution system has been replaced by the systemd name resolution system.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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Down the Rabbit Hole: Traditionalism, Nationalism, Falun Gong, Shen Yun
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May 1, 2025 March and Rally for Immigrant Rights
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Responsive Design + Mobile First = Automated Layouts
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DIY Dustpan or Daspan
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1966 Denial of a Conditional Use for 11339 Dronfield, Pacoima, for Yoshito R. and Michiko Matsuda
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The KKK of the 1920s, and Fascism
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Selected Posts from Facebook from May 2020
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Recent Studies Look for Actual Spread of SARS-CoV-2 the COVID-19 Virus
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IP Address Change, DNS, Icecast2, Ezstream
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Birds Eye View of the Government Takeover and Repsonse to Trump
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Los Angeles Typographical Union ITU 174 at Angelus Rosedale Cemetery
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Civil Rights Unionism
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Inventing Black and White
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Libertarians on Immigration
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COVID-19 Vaccination Inequality
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SARS-CoV-2 in the Air
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A simple refutation of the “Supply and Demand” argument about how new apartment construction will lower rents.
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Downshiftism
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My Home Backup System (Triple Backups)
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Machine Learning Notes
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Little Tokyo Urban Renewal 1972, Urban Renewal Researcher from Japan 1968, Gentrification Notes
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ChatGPT: compare and contrast the different forms of slavery in the different regions
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Selected Posts from Facebook from April 2020
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Linux Nautilus Trash Folder Stopped Working
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Art Spiegelman: golden age superheroes were shaped by the rise of fascism
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Wong Kim Ark in Smithsonian
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AI Machine Learning and Bias Articles
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Beauty Calculator Results show AI Training Bias
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Umeboshi Misadventures
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Two Errors I’ve Made Interpreting COVID-19 Data, that Others are Also Making
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Racism: NatGeo, Housing, Crossword
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Two Videos of People with COVID-19, from Early 2020
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Programming Assistant LLMs
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Letter to Garcetti about Shipping Container Homes
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That “A cluster randomised trial of cloth masks compared with medical masks in healthcare workers” Article the Anti-Mask People are Passing Around, and Getting it Wrong
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Text of Vladimir Putin’s Speech on Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine, and Text of Zelensky’s Address to the Russian People (all Translated to English)