The question

I recently ask the following question to both Grok (paid account) and ChatGPT 4o (free account).

Are all numbers actually theoretical and/or approximates? 1 apple is 1 apple, but an 85g apple is less than a 100g apple. that doesn’t change the fact that it still an apple but the unit of “1 apple” is just an approximate.

The answers:

ChatGPT

You’re touching on a fascinating idea about how we quantify and define things in the world! The concept of numbers, especially when applied to the physical world, often involves both abstraction and approximation.

How I use Hugo with Podman.

Hi, I’m Jason. My C.V. is a globe-trotting adventure through many areas of the IT world. I’ve been tinkering, troubleshooting, and teaching tech for longer than most servers have been online. From the bustling tech hub of The Research Triangle Park, NC to the serene landscapes and charm of Prague, I’ve left my footprint across the internet and on at least a couple continents.

About This Blog:

I’ve been blogging in one form or another since 2002. You’ll find many old posts here that might seem weird, outdated, or even immature. That’s because they are. Over the years, I’ve grown a lot, and these early posts are a testament to that evolution.

There have been a lot of changes going on for me in the past few months. Without going onto a lot of details that I would rather not share, I’ve changed a lot in my personal and online life and I’ve taken on some new interests and possible changes in my future.

This blog has been running in one form or another for many years and I don’t want to get rid of it but it will be mainly focused on things that interest in me in the Usenet world.

What is Distrobox?

Distrobox is a project that I learned about a few months ago from Fedora magazine.

Distrobox is a piece of software that will allow you to run containerized terminal and graphical-based applications from many Linux distributions on many other Linux distributions.

For example:

• You can run applications from Arch’s AUR on openSUSE.
• You can run applications from .deb files that are only available for Ubuntu on Fedora.
• You can run applications from an old version of Debian on a current Manjaro system without fighting with dependency hell.
• You can even run entire desktop environments on operating systems that never supported them.

Because the applications are running in containers, they do not interact with the base system’s package management system.

Last Friday, my wife and I packed up our car and drove 9.5 hours south from Prague, Czech Republic through Austria and Slovenia to a small coastal town in Croatian on the Adriatic sea. We used the Waze app on my Android phone for guidance all the way there. We stayed in an Airbnb that I found online. On the way to Croatia, we stopped outside Saltzburg, Austria for lunch. Just outside of Ljubliana, Slovenia, we topped up on diesel and had a drink and a short break.

This is an idea that I’m playing around with. Here are some categories for any reviews. They could later depending on what I learn while doing the reviews.

1. Availability
2. Installation
3. Setup
4. Posting Articles
5. Filtering and Killfiles
6. Miscellaneous Features
7. Final Comments

For the past year, I’ve been posting to a private server that I was running. Now that server is offline because I need to save money and so I’ll be writing here again.

I’ve got a VM on my server whose IP address is 172.99.1.2. I can ssh using my test user, tux, by using:

ssh tux@172.99.1.2

Let’s say that I need a fully qualified domain name (FQDN) for this vm but I don’t have a private DNS server set up, I don’t have want to buy a domain name, and I don’t want to deal with editing /etc/hosts on every machine that will access it. I can use nip.io to access it.

Man

The man command is short for manual. It allows you to read the instruction manual for almost every command in Linux and other Unix-like operating systems. Don’t know how to use an application? The first thing to do is to run the man command and then the name of the application.

Below is an excerpt of the manual for the man command itself.

> man man

Man: find all matching manual pages (set MAN_POSIXLY_CORRECT to avoid this) * man (1) man (7mp) man (1p) Man: What manual page do you want? Man: 1