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 Bald eagle adventures continued with some potato quality footage from Duke Blackwood.  The Goog showed him as the Ronald Reagan library director but could find no original copy of the footage.  Strange that he would take an interest in eagle spotting.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0WX9ayTQiUs    There were some more fragments of a longer video showing Jackie getting pinned down.  It was her time to go & be replaced by the younger bald eagles, but being in an overpopulated area full of humans changed the outcome.  Still programmed purely for life in the wild, she must have been thinking she would never fly again, settling into 1 final perch on a strange boat shaped tree.  Anemia & kidney inflammation were discovered.  The bald eagles got scared away from the nest from July 4 fireworks.   They went back by July 6. Reviewing what limited footage hasn't been blocked or gone paid, Jackie last entered the nest on July ...
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 Horror cycle continued with IT.  Lions saw bits of IT 1990 but it got boring fast & wasn't visually moving.  The downloader got the 1990 & the 2017 version over the last several months.  The IMDB gave the 2017 version a higher rating, though IMDB has no nostalgia for 1990.  The 3 hour 1990 version got rescanned in glorious 1440x1080, as a low budget TV movie.    4:3 really looks glorious in the age of vertical video, if only humans had the imagination.   Reminds lions of outerscope II's murky 16mm & kid cast.   Good idea: 13 year old hottie clenching fists & shooting a slingshot.    Bad idea: 13 year old hottie 35 years later.     Paper boat in the rain was as far as lions got into the book.  The sunny rain on TV was when lions tuned out. Skimming through the 5 hours of TV grade production, the 1990 version had a rematch between the antagonist & the kids in adult form.  The 201...
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 Gootube dropped way off in the last 3 years.  8 bit guy, retro guy, retro recipes, LGR, either disappearing or downsizing were part of a bigger trend of the juice not being worth the squeeze.  It's almost entirely converted to AI generated junk, AI generated thumbnails, & revenue mining formulas.  -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------     Ayatollah Kamanei dropped the hammer with a new round of price increases which lions don't believe are going away, so it was time to bring back the methuselah, the $58 80ozer.  It should last until mid Oct. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------    The IMAX 70mm projectionist 6 miles down the road is a god.   Another big hit movie,  2 months after Hail Mary, but lions just don't see the magic.  What sold young lion 40 years ago on the Odyssey were the giant creatures. ...
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 Continuing the battle of the VPN's, previously  https://growmane.blogspot.com/2025/10/in-wind-down-to-starting-line-came-mane.html  The home network evolved to a bunch of scripts, partially AI generated, to magically manetain a VPN connection behind DHCP, with no container.  That script still can't handle DHCP reverting the default route to the Comca$t router instead of the VPN router.  Lions have manually deleted the default route when it did that.  It hasn't lead to any packet leakage, somehow.  It seems to just break all routing.  The solution probably involves sniffing out the Comca$t router from the DHCP cache, polling the routing table for when DHCP forces it in.  The mane focus now is the day job VPN.  They migrated to public key authentication, in addition to a username password.  For openconnect, this required adding the .pem files to the command line.  Every month, you have to download new .pems.  Inside a conta...
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After 30 years, behold your biggest ally in the unauthorized downloading war, the wget wrapper:    #!/bin/sh wget --tries=0 --retry-connrefused --continue --no-use-server-timestamps --no-check-certificate $@ The protocol for downloading prerecorded twitter videos is pretty gnarly.  They use 2 different m3u8 files for audio & video, but the network log is flooded with hundreds of m3u8 files by the auto recommender & different resolutions.  It got lions pondering the use of language models to extract media files from the ponderous javascript.  You could probably prompt your way to a source level video downloader, with enough effort. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------  After 3 years, the lion kingdom uneventfully returned to daily runs at a 9 minute pace.  The mane factors seemed to be a bunch of 7:30-8:30 flat miles, 2g vitamin C, stretching, some slow 18 mile efforts, lack of time ...
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