I consider myself to be a geek/nerd. When I watch any movie/tv series I get excited when they show someone’s computer desktop, which happens quite often for my choice of the movies. Most of the time it’s a fake/made up stuff, trying to show “hackerish” stuff, way overloaded GUI, or they open a Windows CMD and type some commands like “tree”, so for a non techy person it looks cool & authentic hacking.
But what excites me is when the they actually showing real-life scenarios on those computer screens. TV series “Mr.Robot” had a lot of them, real shell commands, real Linux distros such as Kali Linux.
So, few days ago I decided to watch movie called “BlackBerry (2023)” – The story of the meteoric rise and catastrophic demise of the world’s first smartphone. At the beginning of the movie the scenes takes you to around mid 90’s, about a small company which later grew into huge one known as “Blackberry”. In some scenes (mid 90’s era) they showed people working on their desktops and I was surprised & excited when I saw IRC on it! One of the office geeks was chatting on IRC, you are able to see the channels messages & nicklist, even make out what’s being said.
Pretty funny that people in IRC channel were talking about light beer, and someone mentioned “Bud light Platinum”, which actually was released in 2012! Far far away from the scene, which suppose to take place in the 1996!
I’m pretty sure the client used was mIRC, since it had default mIRC font. It’s also being used in full screen mode on purpose, I’m pretty sure to hide the OS taskbar.
It’s funny that these few seconds of the movie are completely unnoticed for 99.98% of the people who watched it, but for me & other geeks it was a smile worth scene!

Once in a while I shop at Lenovo, usually it’s to upgrade my ThinkPad. You can’t really buy higher end ThinkPads at the stores, so I go to their website to customize it to my specific needs & always choose ON-SITE warranties.
When you register at Lenovo, they send you points once in a while, so I get small accessories often for like 95% off, I just bought a laptop sleeve which was $25 for around $2 (+ Free shipping)
So I was just randomly browsing their site and notice a pretty sweet deal:
15″ Lenovo IdeaPad 1 (AMD)
AMD Athlon™ Gold 7220U Processor (2.40 GHz up to 3.70 GHz)
4 GB LPDDR5-5500MHz (Soldered)
128 GB SSD M.2 2242 PCIe Gen3 TLC
Integrated AMD Radeon™ 610M
15.6″ FHD (1920 x 1080), TN, Anti-Glare, Non-touch, 220 nits, Narrow Bezel
720P HD with Dual Microphone and Privacy Shutter
Wi-Fi 6 2×2 AX & Bluetooth® 5.1 or above
Windows 11 Home
and 1 year warranty.
This is on sale now for only $179.99 !
Even though it doesn’t fit my needs, it’s still a very decent big screen laptop for someone. Great as a Christmas gift or as your own laptop.
Considering Chromebooks sell for similar price, here you get SSD, a decent CPU which came out on second quarter of this year, DDR5 4G RAM, which will be enough for basic needs.
So CLICK HERE to grab it while it’s still on sale!
(I do not have referral links or get anything from this sale)

I live not too far from the Ocean, aprox an hour drive to NJ beaches. I grew up in Lithuania where we have Baltic sea, also for couple years I lived right on the beach in Puerto Rico, so oceans is not a big deal for me, I actually like lakes better…
However, my friend foxy (f) from Freenode has never seen the ocean & always wanted to visit one. Since I live not too far from it, I thought why don’t I invite her here and we both go to the beach together, I would be happy for her to see the ocean while I’m next to her.
So we made plan to make it happen in the summer of 2024, not only she will see the ocean, but we gonna meet up & enjoy time together with random activities. There is bunch cool/interesting stuff you can do in Philadelphia & New Jersey, so I think it won’t be boring

This is a quick preview example of cameras that are being installed by XEON Security.
However, the main services provided are way more than the powerful cameras.
Some of the examples of some of the features XEON Security benefits:
– When someone steps on your property (property area a set in the software), the camera immediately zooms in, takes & saves a face picture & than follows the person (software able to recognize humans, animals, etc).
– Has a facial recognition, so that you can be alerted when the person on your property is not your family member or neighbor.
– Does human count on selected areas & provide statistics.
– Able to take pictures of license plates from moving vehicles, saves to Data Base. Separate folder for license plates that does belong to neighborhood (been seen many times), the ones that haven’t been seen within past 30,60 days or ever.
– Able to recognize make, model & color of the vehicle.

There is much more that will be listed on the company websites when it will be released after being upgraded. Below is the video of zoom / quality of one of the cameras

– I stopped using Facebook now for quite some time, I haven’t made a post in over 5 years. The only useful thing for me there is a Market Place, since it killed Craigs List. Facebook feels way over bloated, there is too much of everything even the people on the friend list are posting nothing you want to see, either they trying to show off something or promoting something to have a gain. I kinda missed the old Facebook, the simple, light & easy to use, the time we still were able to “poke” people.
Twitter on the other hand got way better after Elon took over, in this year alone I made way more post than thru the whole time I had it, and I created account almost 15 years ago! But I follow & post sstuff that is happening in the world, twitter is not a thing for friends, it’s more of almost real time news gathering of what’s going on, it’s great for businesses to interact with their customers.
– There was this startup, not sure if you remember it, called Orkut, it was a social media created by one of Google employees & I really liked it! It was exactly what I wanted, however it closed, since Facebook was on the rise at the moment & it killed off any Social Media startups out there. Of course if Orkut was still alive, I bet it would of become over bloated as well, specially being created by Google guy.
– So… After years of not having a humble, simple, fast & non-commercial social media platform, I thought why not start one. Where people can interact, have groups for specific topics, discuss things, where anybody with any interests could be using & enjoying it. A very simple, not bloated & not personal information stealing company. So I though let me open one up & invite people I interact with online, in my life or on IRC. IRC is amazing, but it’s it’s more like messaging & you can’t come back & continue the topic.
– So here we are, I opened 2 of them! lol Just to try out different platforms. You can create “Spaces” for you interest, lets say “Dream Meaning” & have people join, have discussions regarding this specific topic. You can join or create support “Spaces” for anything out there, from Tech, to carpeting to school work. Also have general “Space” for chatting, or meeting someone, make friends! Have a built in messaging platform, able to post links, pictures. Have a Poll for users to vote & even have a video call feature (one on one or group) with help of Jitsi! Your information is not being stored & sold for profit, there is no censorship, and your true right to the Freedom Of Speech exist! Also, a very light site, which loads fast & of course to be able to access it via mobile device.
– If that’s something you think you might like, please stop by & take a look at exorg.net – a simple, short domain. (it also can be accessed via EXorg.org, EXnetwork.net) Not sure what it stands for, but I think “EXORG – Excommunicado Organization Network” sounds just perfect lol.
– So go ahead, take a look, have a feel, make a post, create a group & let me know what you think, I would really appreciate that A LOT!

Thank You!
Dany Gran.

This happened today on 10/26/23. (Camera shows everything to be much further than it really is). The ford got cut off and then rear ended the car in front, who for some reason stopped on yellow almost in the middle of the intersection. Due to my driving skills (lol) I was able to avoid any crash. I was driving forward thinking someone behind me would of smashed into me since we all had to break hard. Even my iPhone automatically called 911 & sent out my location, thinking I was in an accident. (dashcam date & time is wrong)

File name: US.Army.IRC.MTTP-TacticalChat <- Click to view or download the PDF.
TC – Tactical Chat

So earlier I was going thru my very old backups & found this amazing documentation intended for “ARMY, Marine Corps, NAVY & Air Force” on how to use IRC Chat! Yes, you read that right, IRC Chat… They call it “TC – TACTICAL CHAT”. Also, such software as mIRC is being discussed as well! They really go in depth of IRC / mIRC usage. Even though, IRC old timer would know such info (government & their IRC usage) & this would be nothing new, but If you haven’t seen this, nerds like me will have a blast reading it. They literally list their IRC Rooms & their intended purposes.
Keep in mind, this is from 2009. However IRC was in decline already at that time…

Here is few items from the document to give some idea:

(2) Up to ten additional rooms may be open, but minimized and occasionally
“cycled through,” or have features such as “flash” in mIRC, to assist with
notification when new traffic is posted.

7 JULY 2009 FM 6-02.73 / MCRP 3-40.2B / NTTP 6-02.8 / AFTTP 3-2.77 67
Appendix F
CHAT ROOM MANAGEMENT EXAMPLE
For this training example, the chat system of record (SOR) is mIRC. Applicable
rooms and guard chart for the AOC dynamic effects cell (DEC) are shown below.

AIR DEFENSE VIGNETTE
During an air defense exercise hosted by the Weapons Tactics Instructor Course at
Marine Corps Air Station Yuma, AZ, the Army Patriot and Marine Tactical Air
Operations Center (TAOC) heavily utilized TC (Tactical Chat) during the execution phase of the
mission to pass timely information

F_CAOC_COD_Leader_Coord —This room is a coordination space internal
to the AOC for the chief of combat operations and his operations team leads. Other
AOC operations; planning; strategy; Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance
Division (ISRD); and Air Mobility Division (AMD) users may monitor this room for SA.
The primary participants are the CCO, Senior Air Defense Officer (SADO), Senior
Intelligence Duty Officer (SIDO), Senior Operations Duty Officer (SODO), C2 Duty
Officer (C2DO), AOC Commander, and combined forces air component commander
(CFACC).
F_CAOC_C2_Coord_Command —This room is the mIRC parallel of AC-1
secure voice. The C2 Duty Officer will use this space to coordinate status and health of
the tactical air control squadron (TACS) with mIRC-equipped TACS platforms as well as
transmit AOC-directed commands to air forces in the AO/

If you didn’t notice, there is “Installs Page“, where you can find useful Apps for Windows & Linux. The reason for making it, because Friends & People Online would ask how to Install this or that. so I decided to dedicate a page with most frequently asked Installs. And some are the ones that I consider great & useful. The instruction are simple & nothing I add is complicated, so beginners & noobs like me would easily understand it, since sometimes the instructions on developers pages are kind of complicated. Hope some folks will find it useful! As of this post there is instruction for Installing things such as Kasm Workspaces, ZNC, Linux Terminal Monitoring & some other Linux Simple Tools… I will try to add more once in a while & if you have particular request to simplify install instruction for something let me know by contacting me in “Contact” page!