No One Will Save You (2024) – Hulu
I think this is my first Hulu original movie. It’s an interesting take on an alien abduction/invasion horror film. Very visual. There was only a few sentences of dialog, not counting the aliens.
Ultracrepidarianism – learned a new word
And judging from the definition below I think everyone I’ve ever met is one…
An ultracrepidarian is a person who offers opinions beyond their own knowledge. It can also be used as an adjective describing such a person. This word is used in situations when someone is speaking as an authority on a subject that they have only limited knowledge of.
RDP with Guac
I finally decided to bite the bullet and upgrade my laptop to Windows 11 Pro, so that I could use RDP instead of VNC. The primary reason I did this is to make remote access faster. Not only is the RDP protocol much faster than VNC(prob more secure too), but I’ll be connecting to my laptop, which is much newer, with twice the RAM, some sort of i7 processor, and the wifi card seems a bit stronger.
The config was quite simple after I learned to interpret this gobbledygook below:
Oct 01 19:45:13 thecweb.com guacd[1382772]: Creating new client for protocol "rdp"
Oct 01 19:45:13 thecweb.com guacd[1382772]: guacd[1382772]: INFO: Creating new client for protocol "rdp"
Oct 01 19:45:13 thecweb.com guacd[1382772]: guacd[1382772]: INFO: Connection ID is "$7bea9685-1e55-4f4e-b0bf-7fc3f5fd0a5a"
Oct 01 19:45:13 thecweb.com guacd[1382772]: Connection ID is "$7bea9685-1e55-4f4e-b0bf-7fc3f5fd0a5a"
Oct 01 19:45:13 thecweb.com guacd[1382975]: FreeRDP initialization may fail: The current user's home directory ("/usr/sbin") is not writable, but FreeRDP generally requires a writable home directory for storage of configura>
Oct 01 19:45:13 thecweb.com guacd[1382975]: guacd[1382975]: WARNING: FreeRDP initialization may fail: The current user's home directory ("/usr/sbin") is not writable, but FreeRDP generally requires a writable home di>
Oct 01 19:45:13 thecweb.com guacd[1382975]: No security mode specified. Defaulting to security mode negotiation with server.
Oct 01 19:45:13 thecweb.com guacd[1382975]: guacd[1382975]: INFO: No security mode specified. Defaulting to security mode negotiation with server.
Oct 01 19:45:13 thecweb.com guacd[1382975]: guacd[1382975]: INFO: Resize method: none
Oct 01 19:45:13 thecweb.com guacd[1382975]: guacd[1382975]: INFO: No clipboard line-ending normalization specified. Defaulting to preserving the format of all line endings.
Oct 01 19:45:13 thecweb.com guacd[1382975]: guacd[1382975]: INFO: User "@f96cd9fe-6e30-495b-8b36-dbd32578750f" joined connection "$7bea9685-1e55-4f4e-b0bf-7fc3f5fd0a5a" (1 users now present)
Oct 01 19:45:13 thecweb.com guacd[1382975]: Resize method: none
Oct 01 19:45:13 thecweb.com tomcat9[1382777]: 19:45:13.459 [http-nio-8080-exec-8] INFO o.a.g.tunnel.TunnelRequestService - User "cweb" connected to connection "RDP on hp360".
Oct 01 19:45:13 thecweb.com guacd[1382975]: No clipboard line-ending normalization specified. Defaulting to preserving the format of all line endings.
Oct 01 19:45:13 thecweb.com guacd[1382975]: User "@f96cd9fe-6e30-495b-8b36-dbd32578750f" joined connection "$7bea9685-1e55-4f4e-b0bf-7fc3f5fd0a5a" (1 users now present)
Oct 01 19:45:13 thecweb.com guacd[1382975]: Loading keymap "base"
Oct 01 19:45:13 thecweb.com guacd[1382975]: guacd[1382975]: INFO: Loading keymap "base"
Oct 01 19:45:13 thecweb.com guacd[1382975]: guacd[1382975]: INFO: Loading keymap "en-us-qwerty"
Oct 01 19:45:13 thecweb.com guacd[1382975]: Loading keymap "en-us-qwerty"
Oct 01 19:45:13 thecweb.com guacd[1382975]: Certificate validation failed
Oct 01 19:45:13 thecweb.com guacd[1382975]: guacd[1382975]: INFO: Certificate validation failed
Oct 01 19:45:13 thecweb.com guacd[1382975]: RDP server closed/refused connection: SSL/TLS connection failed (untrusted/self-signed certificate?)
Oct 01 19:45:13 thecweb.com guacd[1382975]: guacd[1382975]: INFO: RDP server closed/refused connection: SSL/TLS connection failed (untrusted/self-signed certificate?)
Oct 01 19:45:13 thecweb.com guacd[1382975]: User "@f96cd9fe-6e30-495b-8b36-dbd32578750f" disconnected (0 users remain)
Oct 01 19:45:13 thecweb.com guacd[1382975]: guacd[1382975]: INFO: User "@f96cd9fe-6e30-495b-8b36-dbd32578750f" disconnected (0 users remain)
Oct 01 19:45:13 thecweb.com guacd[1382975]: guacd[1382975]: INFO: Last user of connection "$7bea9685-1e55-4f4e-b0bf-7fc3f5fd0a5a" disconnected
Oct 01 19:45:13 thecweb.com guacd[1382975]: Last user of connection "$7bea9685-1e55-4f4e-b0bf-7fc3f5fd0a5a" disconnected
Oct 01 19:45:13 thecweb.com tomcat9[1382777]: 19:45:13.855 [http-nio-8080-exec-3] INFO o.a.g.tunnel.TunnelRequestService - User "cweb" disconnected from connection "RDP on hp360". Duration: 396 milliseconds
Oct 01 19:45:13 thecweb.com guacd[1382772]: Connection "$7bea9685-1e55-4f4e-b0bf-7fc3f5fd0a5a" removed.
Oct 01 19:45:13 thecweb.com guacd[1382772]: guacd[1382772]: INFO: Connection "$7bea9685-1e55-4f4e-b0bf-7fc3f5fd0a5a" removed.
The bolded lines are what I needed to figure this out. Really it was quite obvious where that error was coming from once I decided to try to connect from a Windows PC. Seasoned admins should be familiar with the message below:
And it turns out that Guacamole has not way of dealing with this at login. So I added the bolded param to the config file and restarted things and boom goes the dynamite.
<connection name="RDP on hp360">
<protocol>rdp</protocol>
<param name="hostname">hp360</param>
<param name="port">3389</param>
<param name="ignore-cert">true</param>
</connection>
Now, I did spend a little bit more time on an error above the one about issues writing to /usr/sbin. A red herring to be sure. Maybe I should have paid more attention to the fact that the error says it may cause issues, not that it will cause issues. After I changed permissions to /usr/sbin/.config so that the Freerdp client could write there, the error persists, but it is still writing config files there, so not sure. I only mention it because it wasted like 30 minutes of my time.
Twitter suspended my account for posting the link to the Vance dossier. I just had to delete the tweets with the links in them. So this post is just so I can post it on twitter, then tweet the link, and see if my account gets banned again. I’m curious if they are just looking for the original URLs or doing some more extensive filtering.
I figure I’ll try the direct link first, and then just host the file directly on the site if that doesn’t work.
Scroll down and there is a download link for the full PDF.
Love Has Won: The Cult of Mother Good (2023)
I’ve kind of been into cult documentaries the last few years. I think it started with Going Clear. Anyway, this one is interesting but quite sad. I ended up feeling sorry for the leader, because it seemed like she was very mentally ill. Not in a sinister way, but more like actually believing her own bullshit most of the time.
Also, strangely attracted to Hope.
Ancient Aliens
Guess Netflix has the latest season on. I just started watching it and the only parental warning was for nudity, so I’m quite interested in where this season takes the show…
America’s Psychic Challenge (2007)
Yes, this show is real and what you think it is. Horrible.
I was hoping it would at least be a little funny, but so far just dumb.