Harold Asmis @hasmis@qoto.org

#Linux **Zoneminder** Such a complicated thing that it has to be run on its own old mini-computer with no KDE. That interferes with mariadb. So the files have to go on NFS to the big machine full of disks. But ZM can't clean up old files through nfs. So a crontab has to be put in the big machine. ZM can handle files missing with zmaudit.pl

I love running zm on its own machine. The only big trouble is when php is updated, and there is a little trick, which I can never remember, about updating php on apache2.

You can see our endless rain in Toronto. but the file upload is out right now on qoto.

#physics #weather **Australian rain not stopped yet** You can see the tropical warm air is being driven down by the cold equatorial belt. This meets the southern cold. The result is continuous rain. Under normal circumstances, that tropical air should stay north. I'll keep looking for it to stop.

@freemo Just realized he never sees my freemojokes. Maybe I can trademark that? ...

Having a bash at the upstairs shower, using my Dupray steamer and Amazon 75% vinegar. Man, the vinegar steam is great for the sinuses on this cold, miserable day.

**Deep Fakes** Lots of money being scammed with this.

https://gizmodo.com/ai-deepfake-voice-how-to-avoid-spam-phone-calls-1850245346

Fremofake calling his mom: "Help, I'm being chased by a giant octopus. Send money!" Mom: "Get outta here!" ...

**Open source chatter** Yeah, now you just need a few billion to offer this for free, to suck the soul out of everyone...

https://www.geo.tv/latest/478456-databricks-pushes-open-source-chatbot-as-cheaper-chatgpt-alternative

I just read an article on my favourite topic of how ocean currents control the weather. It was on one of those super-cheap sites with horrible ads. And it was written by a cheap AI. Talk about soul sucking! ...

#physics #weather **Another monster storm hits Toronto** And we know what caused it...

**Moral Dilemma** I make a lot of raisin bread for breakfast, and buy a lot of raisins from Costco. Quel Horreur! I'm out of raisins! I end up getting a pouch from Amazon which is more expensive, but no endless trouble getting in the car, and eventually dealing with Costco wrapping to stop shoplifters. You could accidentally slit your throat with that stuff! .... But the Ammie trucks go by 3 times a day, and deliver to every other house. Less gas wasted than going to the store... Oh well...

#physics #weather **Lots of cold to come down** We would expect more tropical plumes to have hit the Arctic by now. You can see the cold air fronts coming down.

#physics #weather **Waiting for a miracle** We can expect the fantasy pushed by NOAA to happen any minute now. That's the end of the cold phase, and the new warm cycle - El Nino.

https://ontario-geofish.blogspot.com/2023/03/state-of-oceans-march-23-2023.html

Using physics, you can't get blood from a stone, but when will they call it? You can expect never. Nobody in politics says "Back to the drawing board".

**MrChat jobs** I would say that all 'mediocre' people with these jobs are at some risk, but they were always to the jobs to be outsourced to India. Especially stupid things like expense accounts in corporations.

https://www.euronews.com/next/2023/03/23/openai-says-80-of-workers-could-see-their-jobs-impacted-by-ai-these-are-the-jobs-most-affe

It's very difficult to 'go out of the box' when all the training is in the box. And if it does come up with something original, it has to be recognized.

#physics #weather **Heart of Darkness** We had endless storms, a consequence of the California storms spilling over. We are supposed to see the Sun tomorrow -- Yeah!

#physics #weather **Storms hit California** You can see the cold air coming down on the plumes. It's only a storm when the cold and warm collide.

#physics #weather **Latest chart**

https://ontario-geofish.blogspot.com/2023/03/a-geophysical-chart-for-masses.html

**Canadian computer systems out today** All the corporate systems are MSfanbois. I can't get into anything today.

#physics #weather **I'm out of business with weather** Lot's people will be happy.

https://ontario-geofish.blogspot.com/2023/03/all-geophysics-sites-are-leaving.html

Even if there are one or two sites hiding, I don't want to publish them, because they'll die.

#physics #weather **Unusual pumping of warm air into the Arctic** The warm air is bouncing from storm to storm. And my favourite site -climateanalyzer.com has left the building.

#physics #weather **NA in a steady pattern** This is a pattern of muck. We get cold blobs from the Arctic meeting the warm plumes from the Gulf. The Arctic cold air mass is breaking up.

#physics #weather **Where are we?** I just find that when the leftwingers mention a roadmap, then I can ask for charts. Without them getting all hoopy.