Holiday Inn , Hilton, IHG WiFi captive portal not working when using Apple MacBook Pro

Problem: Can’t connect to hotel Wi-Fi. I got the normal pop up window for their captive portal that shows as soon as I connected my Mac laptop to the hotel Wi-Fi. This was on an antique Apple MacBook Pro laptop running macOS high sierra 10.13.x. Also, Wi-Fi was working just fine on my iPhone and my Wives laptop running Windows 11, so their system was not broken for everyone else.

Podcasting 2.0

Podcasting 2.0 A possible implementation of Value 4 Value for any Podcast. Podcasting 2.0 is driven by progress being made in the PodcastIndex project, and its improves on the original RSS standard for podcasting. Adding many new features one of which is the ability for podcast listeners to include a place to send cryptocurrency value for value using the Lightning Network directly in the metadata of the podcasts feed in podcast:value tag.

Millisats per what?

I brief explainer on how to make sense of what your contributing in podStation. As tested and documented for podStation version 1.40.1. What the heck is a millisat? This is all back to metric, so we need to look at the milli prefix. Which means 10-3 or thousandths .001 of a sat. For more information on What are sats? “Sats,” which is shorthand for “satoshi” is a term used for the smallest possible denomination of BTC: 0.

What is Value 4 Value

What is Value 4 Value Value for Value =Is a model of voluntarily letting the consumer of content contribute value for the content, based on the value received from the content. This value can vary from person to person, and is up to each person to decide what to pay or to not pay. This works really well in the digital world, and maybe could work in the physical world too, however that is a whole different discussion.

IPFS or InterPlanetary File System

Summary Very interested in IPFS, so I’m building things with it, finally. Intro I have been curious about IPFS since I first heard about it, many years ago, probably 2015 ish or so. Was very intrigued by reading about the project initially back then, but kind of left it at that level of interest. I think I may have installed the tools for experimenting, but I kindly left it there, until 2021.

First post, introduction

Welcome to new Brieck’s Pro website, I am planning to use this site as way to document my thoughts and ideas, as well as a place where I can provide recommendations based on my experience. It’s been a while, but I am excited to be back with a new site to share my ideas. I have a lot on my mind and hope to start getting a lot of it out.