Recent content by Gödel

Here's an interesting OP/ED from our northern North American "allies", still unconquered/not annexed, like Greenland, but threatened with tariffs, some fairly major, and other random, blithering bluster. The upshot seems to be that the rest of the world has grown weary, but much less wary, of...

I can't really explain what it is I don't like about Scotch, maybe it's what they call "peaty". But I guess that's similar to the "smokey" taste you don't like about mezcal. To each his own. And make it a double. 😜

Oddly, I don't like Scotch, but I do like Irish. And/or a nice tequila or mezcal. But for me, "straight, no chaser". Or nowadays, I believe the term is "neat". 🥃

Searching for Malört seemed to agree with "disgusting". Luckily, Virginia ABC stores don't carry it.

I'll have to check into that one. Currently, I'm particularly fond of a nice Mescal.

WTF? I'm boycotting Kentucky – bourbon in particular, as well as the many other liquors they sell. I've switched to Canadian whisky.

Happy 5ᵗʰ of July‼️🧨🎆 And happy royal wedding 👰🤵💒: From NYTimes: It’s a love story What better way to celebrate America’s 250th birthday than with our own royal wedding? Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce tied the knot at Madison Square Garden last night, amid a constellation of stars from the...

Whoa, you don't have AC, Merc? We're in for a 4ᵗʰ of July flag-wave of heat in the great ol' USA: Here in VA, highs around 100 Thu-Mon. Good thing there's no such thing as Global Warming, or things could get really hot soon.

MS just quietly extended the Win 10 extension by another year: From https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/extended-security-updates: "You can enroll in ESU any time until the program ends on October 12, 2027. If you’re already enrolled, your coverage will automatically continue through that...

Naw, my script runs sudo efw disable, then nohup Rhythmbox & without sudo, then runs sudo efw enable. I might try closing the ports I opened when I started mucking with them for this UPNP adventure. I believe if I'm not at risk with the brief firewall disable, it won't matter what ports I have...

Unfortunately, when I open those firewall ports, restricted to my local network, there is still a long delay detecting upnp sources in Rhythmbox. So I wrote a little bash script that turns off ufw, starts Rhythmbox, then turns ufw back on. Then Rhythmbox sees the upnp sources right away. How...

Thanks for your input, sedrosken. I checked the router, and it does have a firewall that's blocking outside access, so that part is good.

Back to my firewall issues, it looks like something like this: ufw allow from 192.168.1.0/24 1900/tcp ufw allow from 192.168.1.0/24 3689/tcp would restrict the port access to just the devices in my local network. Would that be acceptable, or would it still be as insecure as I am?

OK, I deleted those ufw rules, and I'll check into how to make them specific to my little network.

Upon further review, I figured out that my other PCs connected quickly because they weren't running firewalls. I don't know why; all 3 are running regular Ubuntu installs to which I didn't do anything UFW related. I googled a bit, and I found to open ports 1900 and 5000, and then VLC would see...