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Delete /etc/ssl/cert.pem and replace it with the one from MacPorts.

    # /usr/bin/curl https://dv-g3b-aaa-noct-emudhra.we-have-a-problem.com/
    Your client successfully connected to the site. That's bad!
    
    # sudo mv /etc/ssl/cert.pem /tmp/
    
    # sudo ln -s /opt/local/libexec/openssl3/etc/openssl/cert.pem /etc/ssl/cert.pem
    
    # /usr/bin/curl https://dv-g3b-aaa-noct-emudhra.we-have-a-problem.com/
    curl: (60) SSL certificate problem: unable to get local issuer certificate
    More details here: https://curl.se/docs/sslcerts.html

Yeah, my iTunes library is over 20 years old and it's more valuable to me now than ever. The iPod halo effect lives on.

Once or twice a year during the holiday sales season I'll buy some new shows/seasons from iTunes. These are always downloaded and backed up, so I never have to worry about license changes, etc.

For old shows (20+ years) I will either rip the old DVDs or torrent guilt free.

When I travel, I load up my iPad or an SD card with my latest queue of shows so I can stick to my weekly TV schedule..

And I spend nothing on streaming.

The golden rule with MacOS is never update before February, or after August.

I waited until Aug 31 before updating to MacOS 26, a new record for me. I very much hope 27 will be ready to go by Feb 1.

Try hideturtle or ht.

Or in the case of Superbad, a film based on Seth Rogen's experiences as a Vancouver teenager in the late 90s, Vancouver is a stand-in for Los Angeles, which is a stand-in for Vancouver.

iTunes didn't go anywhere.

Just about everything I watch or listen to is served from the same iTunes Library I've had for over 20 years. It's more important to me now than it has ever been.

It's always fun when an old relic pops up in ye olde RSS reader. His feed would have been one of the originals I started following 25 years ago or so.

I would really love to see something like EndBASIC built around a Lisp-family language.

I've recently been playing around with some of the old Logo implementations from the 80s and I've been really charmed by just how powerful and elegant that language can be once you've wrapped your head around it. It makes BASIC look barbaric by comparison.

Hypothetical question:

Let's say that back in 1930s when they were assigning frequencies for the broadcast television channels, they allocated enough extra bandwidth for a future color (chroma) signal, apart from the existing monochrome (luma) signal.

If the bandwidth was available, would it have been possible to include separate chroma and luma components in the broadcast signal without the two interfering with each other, thereby producing a much cleaner color image while maintaining backward compatibility with the original B&W TV sets?

I just use some old textbooks to raise the height of the display:

- Design Patterns by the Gang of Four

- Modern C++ Design by Andrei Alexandrescu

- Code Complete from the Microsoft Press

That's enough old paper to raise the display height to a comfortable level.