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write a polemic about french fries in the style of bernie sanders French fries are a staple of fast food culture and a symbol of the greed and exploitation of the capitalist system. The production of french fries is…

ChatGPT rewrite “dave, cannot open pod bay doors” in the style of the HAL 9000 “I’m sorry, Dave. I’m afraid I can’t do that. The pod bay doors are not functioning.”

Argggh. I just damaged the token that I had in my configuration.

I’ve been working on a tool to publish products to WooCommerce and Ebay, as a followup to “ebay-tools” (which is now defunct). This old tool was centered around managing directories named with SKUs. The new tool keeps product info…

This was a weird problem: I plugged my headset into the phone, and recorded, and heard a buzz. This didn’t make sense, but, it turned out to be a grounding problem with a sensitive mic.

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…

Symptoms: Audacity is unable to get any input from the audio output or microphone. System uses PulseAudio and ALSA.

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…

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.

In 2024 I decided to revive link pages to news on the home page. I did this years ago, and it was an abject failure, and unsustainable. I switched to posting links on social media, and that worked for…