Lion ponderings

 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. ...

 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...

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 ...

 Discovered Wolf 1994 while searching for Michelle Pfeiffer's body count.   As another scraggly old paw emerged on screen, the lion kingdom pondered how this was another geriatric get together from Nicholson's later career.  But no, it was Pfeiffer after hitting 35, dear god.      The object of every Nicholson movie after 1980 was to get him to make as many crazy facial expressions as possible.  What could be crazier than making him turn into a werewolf?      57 year old Jack obviously had a stunt double doing the running scenes.  He was pretty fried by 1990.    There were some nifty views inside the Bradbury building Not to be confused with Bladerunner.  Old Westbury mansion.  The Pfeiffer cottage may have been a movie set.  Nothing on IMDB matched it.  After a ponderously slow exposition, the ending took the L train.   A lion.   Twin towers in 1993. Nicholson got to look crazy a few mor...