A few days ago I did a series of hashtag searches and found groups of conversations of a bunch of interesting topics. Hashtags add speed and excitement to Mastodon. Given that Mastodon has no global text search except for hashtags and there is a reason for it.

Mastodon was designed with "friction" to slow down the propagation of information. By forcing propagation of post through posts of individuals and the lack of site wide search. Mastodon promote small conversations and not the quick spread of mass outrage

Installation of DISQUS for this blog. Updates my disqus account, on my site which has the Beautiful Jekyll Theme uncomment the disqus line in _config.yml and add my Disqus short name from the General Page on my Disqus account. I want to allow comments on this post I add comments: yes to my front matter.

First try

Hope it works.

I have updated blogging procedure

This is of a technical interest on how I actually produce my blog. I have always written by blog pages in emacs and historically have authored in Markdown syntax and the Beautiful Jekyll theme on GitHub. I now author my pages in org mode and use org-publish to render them to the Jekyll repository. Next I ensure that the blog posts are in the _posts/ folder and commit those changes to the git image of my site. Finally, I upload and push my local site to GitHub.

BREAKING

Middle Earth

In a report from the Bree Daily, Sauron, of Mordor, has reportedly paid 44 Billion Dollars in exchange for a Seer Stone called “Twitter”, a dollar being some odd foreign currency made of paper.

Mayor Sam Gamgee, of Bag End, has been quoted that “he knows nothing of any of Sauron’s latest dealings” but is “quite certain that no Rings of Power are involved.”

In other headlines from the Shire, ByWater and Beyond

There is a limit to the power of positive thinking. At every stage Trump has voiced a rosy scenario about the coronaviurs, only 15 cases, it will be gone by summer. Persistently the negative truth presents itself. The coronavirus is a threat to be reckoned with and not dismissed.

Trump loyalist are contributing to his dysfunction

I believe the loyal Trump supporters in the White house are still presenting him with rosy pictures. Pleasing Trump is more important than factual presenttions. Reality has a very tough way of presenting itself in light of the coronavirus. But the rosy supporters may just move on.

The lockdown

I am in an isolated location with one of my parents. COVID-19 changed all my planing.

It has been a long time since I have blogged.

The routing setup

The router is a WRT54G and there is wired extension to a DLink WBR-1310. I previously used another WRT54G at the extension position but that is in use at my orgininal location, which I and my wife use on weekly basis.

COVID-19 requires me to reloacate

My setup the hardware

• Kodi running on a Raspberry Pi, wired link to a home router
• Kore an App running on an Android phone connected via wireless.

My configuration

• Kodi Remote Server is configure on a local IP address at port 8080, User Name and Password.
• Kore a Remote Client is configured to use the above server address, port, name and pw.

The Kore problem

One moring my Kore remote stopped working due to a crashed home router. The main symptom other than non-function was that the Kore - Media Center (selected from the left hamburger) icon had RED icon. This icon should be GREEN when the client can connect to the server. When connecting the icon may be YELLOW.

I am experimenting with a SBCL compiled for mingw64

I use the Solarian Programmer’s Guide to build SBCL under mingw64. I am building the 2.0.0 from source.

I have MSYS2 installed at C:\devel\msys64 which is /c/devel/msys64 in MSYS2.

I have the binary windows distribution of SBCL 2.0.0 at /c/devel/SBCL_2_0_0-bin and I keep the sources at /c/devel/SBCL_2_0_0-src this includes the source.tar.bz2 the binary msi, as well as the expanded source.

I used these steps at MSYS command line do:

Make mingw64/sbcl run from slime.

In a previous post I created a sbcl which runs from the mingw64 shell. When I run sbcl from the ming64 prompt all works as expected but running it from CMD causes sbcl to complain that the core was built for another runtime.

This problem has two potential solutions:

• 1. Compile sbcl with CMD runtime.
• 2. Start a bash login shell and run sbcl programatically.

Option 1) requires I study the make process and possible build SBCL under MSYS2 by directing make to use mingw64 gcc.