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Run a Shiny Server with the rocker/shiny and Docker-Compose on Debian or Ubuntu
How to set up Ubuntu to run Docker, a Shiny Server container, with an existing Apache proxy server configuration. This setup will work for a low-volume application. It runs a single container, on a single host.
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White Mold on Umeboshi (is Probably Yeast)
(I really don’t know where to put this, so I’m putting it on this site, which makes some sense, I suppose.) My mom makes umeboshi, and we have a ume tree, so it’s cheap to do, and tastes good. Lately, we haven’t had good yields, so she used some ume that had fallen, and had…
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How to Remove Rusty Scale From Your Toilet Bowl
If you have hard water, your toilet bowl will develop ugly mineral scale deposits. When these are brown, they’re called “rust” stains, but it’s not rust. These three techniques to clean out the bowl are easy, and two of them are pretty safe. The last is dangerous, but fast. For all these methods, you need…
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Crossplatform Keyboard Mappings for MacOS, GNOME, and Windows
I use all three types of computers, and use the following mapping to make it easier to move between computers. Most of my software development has moved into a server in the cloud, and I SSH in. Even locally, I often use a Terminal session. My local Linux environment is GNOME, but this may also…
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How to Buy Windows 10 Cheap
Not buying Windows 10 at all may be the least expensive way.
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Eviction of Seniors to a COVID-19 Impacted Facility
This ongoing story of the patients of Sakura Gardens ICF, formerly Keiro, is looking bad, with a looming threat that residents will be transferred to the Kei-Ai nursing home facility, which has the highest COVID-19 death rate in California. Ongoing information is published at the group fighting these transfers, Save Our Seniors. For a comprehensive…
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COVID-19 Vaccination Inequality
These are a few stories about how vaccination efforts to focus on the groups facing the most infection were undermined, and led to privileged people getting vaccinated. Los Angeles TL;DR: California and Los Angeles need to focus on getting vaccinations to working class Latino communities, which are extremely under-vaccinated. Los Angeles Times: Work-at-Homers Got Appointment…
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Henry George’s Racist Screed Against Chinese People in California, New York Tribune, May 1, 1869
I was forwarded a paper that was published in a journal. I wondered what the journal was about, and found that they were looking to preserve the intellectual lineage of Henry George, a late 19th century philosopher and early Progressive reformer of capitalism. He wanted land to be held in common, and was known for…
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On High Rates of Infection in the Latino Communities
The management of this pandemic is racist as hell. I looked back over my emails and some posts, and I was going off on the issue of essential workers and crowded housing back in April of 2020. This barely ever came up in the media as an important factor in the spread of COVID-19, until…
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How to take a “tour” of how much damage COVID-19 has done, using the LA County surveillance dashboard.
Go to the Dashboard. This article shows you how to click on the map and compare the COVID-19 stats for different communities. We’ll see the large disparities between communities in Los Angeles County.