Lion ponderings

   Next in the wind down to the starting line came the mane chopping.  Lions did it without a mirror.  It was quite uneven & shorter than desired.  It'll last 3 years.  It seems the rubber band used to mark the upper bound shifted up as the mane was being cut & pulled tight.  The tracker_trt program must be used as a rear mirror, but getting the phone in position is quite difficult.  It almost requires a head mounted display.  The cheap VR goggles need to strap around the mane but might work for a long mane. The godox doesn't wake up without the full ID signal, so it had to be constantly power cycled.  Usage in a model session would require the wireless system or adjusting the timeout.  A smaller flash might be the only way.  Recovering the 580EX II would require a donor flash. An xmas without mane. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- After 15 years, fina...

 Lions have pondered if the tube algorithm is even encouraging finance tubers to make relevant content for their own audience.  The audience is all top 10% males, yet tubers keep covering benefits for the bottom 50% like roth IRAs.  It's only attracting braggers because it makes the top 10% males feel good to see how bad everyone else has it. The advice for the bottom 50% is pretty worthless advice for the gootube audience though. No-one watching finance tube should prioritize a roth over a 401k.  They're all going to be in much lower tax brackets after retirement & they all have enough money to not need crazy high distributions. What if someone really did rebuild the drive-in in set in Monument Valley & showed a movie just to re-enact the back story of that part of Back to the Future, a period in 1955 with such a fever for westerns that they would paint a western in the theater. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------...

 Lions would be more excited if a name from 20 years ago posted again than by any of the current generation's recycling of the minimum material to get the most revenue.   Of course, a lot of the past internet is now only on apps.  Setjetters is something that would have been a website 25 years ago.  Now it's only a paid app which requires degraded location accuracy. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- So the amerikan people keep voting for a bigger government & the bigger government spends half the year shut down instead. Lions have been pondering what to do since the marathon is happening but all the museums are closed.  A big chunk of events are now gone. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The lion kingdom portfolio was pretty abysmal since April.  The index funds went up 10% but most of the stonk was in BRK-B which crashed 10%.  The c...

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ON9BNL3E4I The 2022 fed survey of consumer finances continues to fund gootuber mortgages, but lions have now graduated into the 50-54 group since then.  The top 10% in this group averaged $600k in home equity, based on the numbers.  That left $2M for expenses.  There was a big jump between 49 & 50.  The mane reason might have been inheritances & life expectancy of the parents running out in that time frame.   Lions believe the top 10% of the entire population no longer has enough money to retire, as of 2023.  The top 10% of the 50-54 group seems to be the minimum to retire now.  Of course, the survey only counts households.   Generation X can't buy 1st houses anymore.  There's not enough time to double their cash.  Generation Z will have no problem adjusting to the new prices. Home owners are going to shift younger because of the monetary reset & it's a reminder that t...

If you're renting to work in a job center, you're losing ground beyond a certain age. You're betting against "1 time price increases" in housing costs, wiping out decades of paychecks. Now another incentive is gone: the 401k catch up contribution. 401k catch up contributions were a big motivation for working after 50 & now they're gone. Finally, you're paying social security which is going away in 8 years. They are not going to bail it out when the smallest generation, generation X, is 62. They might bail it out for baby boomers & millennials. Generation X doesn't have any voting power.     There's literally going to be a 25% reduction for just those born after 1967.  Then 15 years later, there's going to be a new benefit for those born after 1980 because those are the generations with the votes. Roths pay off during periods of very high returns like 2010-2024 when most of the capital is coming from investments. ...

Apartment topology The latest apartment network ended up being sin: direct torrent VPN to 5Ghz Comca$t xena: router from wired network to 5Ghz Comca$t piano: 2.4Ghz router from desks & phone to wired network 5Ghz for the phone is still a dream, since it would eliminate ADB file transfers.  While Linux technically supports concurrent AP & STA, it's not practical.  The fundamental limit is the AP can't exist if the STA isn't joined. They have to 1st get connected on the STA, then run iwlist wlan0 channel to sniff out the channel, then start the access point with the hostapd.conf file edited to contain the same channel.  The problem is Comca$t can still go down & rejoin on different channels, breaking the access point. Unfortunately, virtual wlan0 devices behave badly when the 2 frequencies don't match.  The Comca$t outages would almost require the router to reboot. A hostapd wrapper would have to continuously monitor the station frequency & drop...

In today's discovery  const  char text[] = "asfakshfsd"; return text; text is not guaranteed to exist after the return. static const  char text[] = "asfakshfsd";  You have to declare it static even if it's const.  The problem seems to be masked by declaring the string  char *text = "asfakshfsd";  In that case, g++ statically allocated it.  A lot of students use char text[] because it's less intimidating than pointers.  XMLTag::encode_char somehow worked for 20 years before the compiler needed to overwrite the stack.  It was probably std::string.append_text requiring more memory than the old strcat.  Even mighty const inside a function is in volatile memory, probably because it's in a cache for speed. Here we have the 4 filebox instances in Cinelerra: index file location, render, load, save.  Render & all browse buttons use the browse button routine in file mode.  Index file uses the browse button in directory mode....

 Given the last government shutdown being 34 days & Trump's desire to be remembered, it'll probably extend past the MCM, beyond 34 days.  They'll announce an official cancellation in the next 2 weeks, since there would be no way to change course within 7 days.  Given the price of getting in, the number of volunteers, the 250th anniversary of the marines, it doesn't seem fair to depend on the government's shutdown.  Either way, the museums aren't going to happen.  That might take a drive from FL. In a parallel universe, a lion got 2 more walnut crushers in after Sep 22 before tapering in just the last 2 weeks.  In reality, the injuries never recovered enough to do any more.  There was instead a focus on 12 milers at race pace, alternating between walking days. If there is a refund for travel costs, it would have to be a significant amount to be worth it.  Otherwise, lions would just go & run the empty course with a bag full of batteries....

 After enabling text for labels, there arose a 50/50 probability that the label text should be stored in the EDL instead of the global preferences.  It also became clear that all the settings specific to EDL should be in settings->format instead of settings->preferences.  Settings->format should become EDL settings & settings->preferences should become global settings. Sadly, the division is a mess.  The playbackprefs & interfaceprefs bits in edl->session are a no brainer.  The recordprefs bits in edl->session are a mess. We have the device drivers in Preferences, but driver agnostic recording parameters in EDLSession.  Recording frame size is in global preferences.  Device drivers were moved to Preferences from EDLSession some time ago, so it might be a matter of finally moving the rest over.  Device drivers were in the EDL because each EDL was envisioned to support 1 tiled display configuration. The formerly format dial...

 https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2025/sep/27/us-women-single-dating  "willingness to commit to an equal, monogamous relationship as well as, in many cases, having a family."  For lions, given the choice between retirement & continuing to work to feed kids, it's now going to be retirement.  The trend with all of them is they're saying they're self sufficient & attracted to equals.  What they're showing on the internets though is attraction to higher status.  Higher status when they're self sufficient means doctors, lawyers, & CEOs. Instagram is awash in doctor husbands.  They've really been socialized not to show any sexual desire.  The only attraction for lions nowadays is sexual desire.   -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------  Pondered end games for 2 headed inflation.  The stuff on the top could correct down or the stuff on the bottom could...

All past VPN usage was inside containers & virtual machines, but problems with doing that behind wifi led to dedicating a host to a VPN.  The journey begins with installing a new raspberry pi.   dd if=image of=block device bs=4096 status=progress  Edit /etc/passwd & delete the root password to allow a root login without password.  They don't support the pi user anymore.  Then from the serial console, disable some services.    systemctl disable lightdm systemctl disable cups  systemctl disable ModemManager  systemctl disable NetworkManager  systemctl disable wpa_supplicant Reboot it  To enable public wifi on it, you need to log in on a browser.  iptables is not included in the image.  sshd, firefox, & chromium do come with the image.  sshd_config needs the PermitRootLogin yes line.  Firefox is broken but chromium can log in with a lot of prodding.  Then you can install iptables & bypass t...