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Between


As the light erupts across the sky
your morning has just begun
as cries of avow are birthed
I sing to you my little one...
'tis not at this extreme
'tis between

You can endure no more of this abundance
Your girths limit has been reached
Ill content and miserable
I say to you my child...
'tis not at this extreme
'tis between

Your barren face has lost its color
You are barely there at all
starving and desperate
I reason with you...
'tis not at this extreme
'tis between

Not a thought for anything else can be
she is all that you will see
obsession overcomes thee
Will you hear my plea...
'tis not at this extreme
'tis between

Her softest touch has torn your heart apart
madness grips you to your core
grief has manifest rage
listen to my screams
'tis not at this extreme
'tis between

As the light dims across the sky
your twilight finally arrives
as sorrow finds its rest
I utter my last goodbye...
'tis not at this extreme
'tis between

Unus Nemo ~ aka Jamie Roy Robillard
Published: 2013 then again on 2014



Jesus' theology as preached by the modern conservative movement:
tumblr.com/thepragmaticatheist…

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Everything That Is Nothing


I am everything
that is nothing
I am nothing
that is real
everything surreal
is my ideal

my strength is my weakness
my hope is my despair
my voice is my silence
my life is unclear

the truth is a lie
the hope is my bane
the way is a myth
the joy is my grief

~Unus Nemo ~ AKA Jamie Roy Robillard



Challenges




Server Update


I have managed to fine tune my instance for now. Though I will have to see how it handles heavier loads when new users signup. For now the logs only show anticipated issues. Such as graphics that are shared that are not to encoded to the standard and thus throw exceptions. I would rather those exceptions be handled though for now it is not a big deal as it does not affect the server performance.

I am still learning the Friendica codebase so it will be sometime before I can work out issues such as these. And there are far more pressing issues.



Interesting, apparently all those tariffs are expected to cause significant increases in the cost of beer.

"..Beyond malt, hops, yeast and water, aluminum is a key ingredient in the manufacturing process, used to make the cans for most of the craft beer sold at retail.... For the craft beer industry, which depends heavily on aluminum cans from Canada, the 25% increase will hit hard.... For us, in packaging, it’s probably the most expensive part of what’s in a six-pack... A typical Spiteful six-pack sells for $11.99 on store shelves, Klein said. He expects the retail price to go up at least $1 per six-pack after the tariff hits...."

#beer #tariffs #food #inflation

oregonlive.com/business/2025/0…

in reply to AI6YR Ben

Oh fasten your seat belts, because we're going to hit back with tariffs of our own, and TFP promises to escalate if we do, so that Aluminum tariff is going to go to 30%, 35%, 50%... whatever dumb number the moron thinks will do the trick, and when he does, we'll increase and/or expand our tariffs, so get ready for $18 six packs.

Oh, and $10/gal gas.

in reply to AI6YR Ben

I guess it's time for a re-popularization of refillable, returnable glass bottles over the disposable bottles.

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DOGE: Department of Gross Errors

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Wow, SpaceBar (formlery called "Fosscord") looks a lot like Discord.

SpaceBar is an open-source alternative to Discord.

spacebar.chat/

github.com/spacebarchat

#Discord #Fosscord #OpenSource #SpaceBar #SpaceBarChat

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in reply to @reiver ⊼ (Charles)

Does it federate though?

revolt.chat/ is also an open source Discord clone, but doesn't federate, so you end up with a single super server anyway, so the open source and self-hostable part becomes rather moot.

in reply to Emil Jacobs - Collectifission

@collectifission
Why do you think you would end up with a single super server? It is enough when the client can connect to multiple servers at once. Your chats would be on your servers, and mine on mine, and each of our clients would connect to both.

Why would you even want to federate a chat server? It only complicates things – you do no longer have an authoritative timeline, and you invite spam the way Google Hangouts died in spam before it defederated random Jabber servers.

in reply to Kris

@isotopp "It is enough when the client can connect to multiple servers at once."

That really would be enough, agreed. That's really all I meant: use 1 account (registered on whatever server) to connect to everyone else.

@reiver



"A woman is like a child": MAGA quickly turns its sights on stripping Republican women of power | Salon.com

salon.com/2025/02/26/a-woman-i…



One more time: if you want your data safe, secure and available in two places DO NOT USE CLOUD SERVICES.

'Cloud service' = 'exposed to the eyes of the guy who runs your cloud server'.

Use Syncthing. Opensource. Free. Bomb-proof. syncthing.net/

Unless you're an iphone person, because iOS wants to keep you locked into -ahem 'incentivized'- to pay for iCloud.

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Good Morning. The Woof Crew and I are thinking of Spring, so here's a photo of them on green(ish)grass.

Have yourselves a deliciously happy hump day!



Born here? Sorry. Got cash? Okay, sure.
#CitizenshipForSale

#Trump floats $5 million '#GoldCard' as a route to #US #citizenship

Trump on Tuesday floated the idea of replacing a #visa program for foreign investors with a so-called "gold card" that could be bought for $5 million as a route to American citizenship.

#NationalSecurity #law #immigration #MafiaState #kleptocracy #USpol #idiocracy
reuters.com/world/us/trump-end…

in reply to Nonilex

Wealth, especially inherited wealth, doesn't make you successful. Prime example is co prez the orange felon dummkopf. Note his six bankruptcies.
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in reply to Nonilex

"Give me your privileged, your rich,
Your rare millionaires yearning to be free from regulation"


job search, linux, please boost

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job search, linux, please boost

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I wonder if the reason the current US regime hasn't started coming down on Signal yet is because they're still working on their own FOUO ( or however they plan to designate it ) fork or alternative. Once they have theirs, then I can see them coming for everyone else's. Just a thought as people build out resiliency and contingency plans.
in reply to Ryo Kimball

after scrolling a bit, I got this lame error taking up the whole screen:

Application error: a client-side exception has occurred (see the
browser console for more information).

That makes no sense, but I'm on a mobile, so how the fuck am I supposed to look at a console?

The web page was looking fine until that popped up and obscured everything!

Crappy site!

As usual, archive.is saves the day: archive.is/ein6g

in reply to Ryo Kimball

@Ryo Kimball @cR0w This is all nonsense. I was using End to End encryption 20 years ago on Pidgin. So if criminals want to use E2E Enc, they are going to. By compromising the integrity of E2E Enc provided by Apple, Samsung, and others it will only help the criminals not Law Enforcement. A criminal enterprise does not need E2E Enc supplied by their communication providers. They can use their own devices as they always have and will continue to do. There is no good that can come from this.


My wife's very attractive friend messaged me to over to help with some DIY, while my wife was away and obviously in secret. Genuinely thought this was an affair so took a Viagra before I went. Absolutely wasn't and spent four hours building IKEA cabinets with an erection.


I feel like a lot of people are missing the whole story of why eggs are expensive, so I made a video on it. I touch on bird flu, animal welfare, and alternatives to eggs. Was sitting unlisted for almost 2 weeks and just published now:
youtu.be/-pmDvGdqd0s
in reply to Unus Nemo

@unusnemo Definitely get it - I bake too (and use flax personally)

The most common complaints I've heard is around breakfast & meals, not baking. Not to discount that issue as well. But it's a long video and hard to cover every use-case!

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in reply to Henry Fisher

@Henry Fisher 😀 Okay, I know it was a long video, I watched it. I guess it is just the dynamics of the society we are in. For me more people are concerned about how this impacts all of their meals not just breakfast. In your case people are just concerned about breakfast.

Typically, I use flax if I am making it for an event with vegan friends though for my house it is usually eggs. Though with the price of eggs it is flax at home too for the foreseeable future.



As one of the original March for Science organizers, I couldn't be more excited to support a new team that is organizing another day of mass mobilization in support of science at a time when we need it most.

scientificamerican.com/article…

in reply to Dr. Lucky Tran

The #StandUpForScience2025 rallies will be held in DC and around the US NEXT FRIDAY.

Please sign up to attend at standupforscience2025.org

To effectively push back the attacks on science happening now, it is critical to show mass support for science by gathering in the streets!



Great video by the always excellent Kurzgesagt, on meat prices.

youtube.com/watch?v=5sVfTPaxRw…

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in reply to It's FOSS

Been tinkering with Linux for years trying to learn how to not break it. I have settled on only running games in WIn 10/Win 11 and just keeping everything else even vaguely sensitive on an Artix install on a separate drive.
in reply to Acro

@Acro @It's FOSS So far all of the games I play work fine on Steam so I do not have to resort to having a MS/ Windows install. Though I have friends that dual boot for gaming.
in reply to Unus Nemo

@unusnemo
Yeah, it's just a little tough with Nvidia driver performance, gsync monitors, and persistent shader caching when I'm trying to click heads =P Some games work great, just not all of them.

And I still have to get familiar with the large amount of packages I need to install to have a lightweight, but efficient Linux install for gaming, especially when not using a distro pre-built for gaming.

in reply to Acro

@Acro @It's FOSS I use Fedora, which is not built for gaming but is cutting edge so I have not experienced a lot difficulties. With later versions of Fedora it tends to notice you have Nvidia GPU and will enable non-free drivers for it by default. Though if it does not you can always enable it after the install. Of course many gaming communities have tweaks for performance as well. Though most of the games I play are Story Line so require no tweaks.
in reply to Acro

@Acronychal
Immutable distros with atomic rollbacks is how you not break it. I use NixOS btw.
@Acro
in reply to startswithbalint

@startswithbalint
Is this the new "I use Arch, btw"? =D lol

But yeah, I've heard of immutable distros but haven't really looked into it. I assume NixOS is one.

in reply to It's FOSS

@It's FOSS I have been using Gnu/Linux since 1995. When I started using instructions from usenet to home roll a Gnu/Linux system, which would be equivalent to LFS today. It was not until 1998 when I got a copy of Debian on a Boot Magazine CD (Now Wired). That I started using X . As downloading The X System on Dialup was a bit adventurous.

I left MS/DOS and MS/ Windows behind, at least in my personal life, and never looked back. I have kept up with MS/ Windows for work and to help family and friends though I would not consider installing it on one of my own machines, except on VM to do compatibility testing for my development.

Today installing Gnu/Linux is as easy, if not easier than a MS/ Windows install. People have it easy today 😀.



I sense he will be as toxic to the Trump brand as he already is to the Tesla brand.


I'm not saying that LibreOffice is perfect by a long shot but they don't have ads in your fucking word processor.
in reply to Trivial Einstein

@Trivial Einstein I have MS Office 365 strictly because it gives me and 5 of my family members 1 TB of backup space. I have tried to force myself to use MS Office (via WUI). It is just to obscure. I prefer LibreOffice and my Open Source Tools.

I have used Gnu/Linux as my Daily Driver for over 30 years so I am used to not relying on MS products. Today I use Fedora 41 on my laptop, Arch on my Workstation and use Rocky 9 on my VPS. I have worked with Windows systems at work, and for friends though Windows is just not reliable enough for day to day use in my opinion.

in reply to Luna (De Lijn fangirl)

@queerthoughts not that I've been able to spot.

Although on Windows (work pc) it's got this weird thing going on where if you're in dark mode on your pc, it won't correctly render some in-doc elements and some stuff will literally just be invisible. Switching to a light theme manually doesn't fix all of it either and despite following online guides I can't get some of it to go into light mode at all.

No such issues on Linux, where I'm also using a system-wide dark theme.

in reply to Luna (De Lijn fangirl)

@Luna @Trivial Einstein No, it will not force any AI on you and LibreOffice has no intention at this time to add AI support to LibreOffice.

There are community projects that would allow you to use AI if you wanted to. Most importantly locally hosted AI such as Ollama or Llama.cpp so your information is not being shared with a corporation.



#witches #witchcraft #witch

Be careful out there.

wildhunt.org/2025/02/concerns-…

in reply to KentuckyConjurer

Oh yes, those poor misunderstood Christians. Ugh! Let me be honest and say that the struggle is real inside of myself to not hate the whole lot of them and their faith and their god. I'm trying to be better than this but it's hard. Haha. So much suffering for hundreds and thousands of years traced back to this fucking religion. Ugh
in reply to Hell's Kitchen Bitches! 🦮🔥

@Pawpower All I have to say is for fuck's sake, just following this and I'm like, wait, you assholes harrassed them, not the other way around. WTF!




in reply to Matt G

Dammit, AI-generated garbage again! Thought we were done with the fake billboard posts from Facebook.
in reply to Nini

@nini
It's not even that it is AI #slop, but that it takes an idea I think most folks here already agree with, and tries to present it with fake bona fides.

The implication is that someone cared enough to pay to put up a billboard on a public place. Social proof.

The message itself could have just been text, posted, even as a big image.

But whoever the original creator was chose to present it this way for more impact.

I'll agree with the point, but not the delivery



I think it's quite problematic on #Linux to start off with regular ol' #Python that came with the system (i.e. /usr/bin/python), and then as you go installing some packages (i.e. on the #AUR if you're on #ArchLinux) which will then install some Python libraries using it, and then you start using something like #Conda or #Miniconda whereby subsequent package installations or updates may be installing these libraries on the Conda environment (i.e. ~/miniconda3/python) and not the system, so there's some overlap there or so? I'm wondering what's the best way of moving forward from this point - esp since sometime ago, it's no longer possible to raw pip install <package> anymore for wtv reason.
in reply to Unus Nemo

wow, this is incredibly detailed and has taught me a lot. I was aware ofc of venv and do use it on a per-project basis, but I wasn’t aware that it could be used this way. I guess, as long as what’s been installed on the system (python library wise) is found on the (new) environment, all shd be good and I could remove all python/pip libraries installed on the system?
in reply to Mika

@Mika


I don't know how many will enjoy this but I thought I'd share the completion of my entryway closet curtain.
in reply to ryn

Oh this is cool! I'm glad you were able to make this work! The curtain sounds super neat.
in reply to Hell's Kitchen Bitches! 🦮🔥

@Pawpower It is so cool. Now when I open my door, my closet belongings won't be what people immediately see. The bedroom one I might need help to hang. It's heavier weight and uses the animal sketch design that I've had for years. I'm placing the loops closer together for It's hooks cuz I think it may need that. I just have to do the hem and the webbing strip for the loops. A good project for this rainy weather to let me procrastinate my rain gear further LOL


Putting this on the instance front page for new users.

#shitpost



Surely this new video won't make me seem like a crank.
youtube.com/watch?v=QEJpZjg8Gu…
in reply to Technology Connections

@TechConnectify@mas.to kWh: (1000 (J/s))/(3600*s)

kWh is almost as ugly as BTU. Please measure energy in Joules, like most of the world does.

in reply to Technology Connections

youtu.be/QEJpZjg8GuA&t=772

"But I've been indulging in some of the alternatives, like Mastodon and, lately, BlueSky... "

Glad I found ya!
I was intrigued that, instead of Technology Connections, the handle here was / is "techconnectify"





I just discovered a book I'd pre-ordered last year and sorta forgot about has been released and is on my e-reader! Book 3 of the Emily Wilde fairy scholar series. I really loved the first two books. #Bookstodon #EmilyWilde


I'm tired of the cold making my joints hurt. But most of all I'm sick of Hitler II destroying our country. I'm pulling out with the magical party bus and partying like it's 1999. Picking up @Pawpower, then moving onto get @Skepticat and @PraiseCheese then we're headed East to get @CoachMark.
Hop on since it's a magical bus all is welcome.

1999
Prince

youtu.be/rblt2EtFfC4?si=YiyxfU…

#PartyBus
#CoffeeDance
#Mar

in reply to Mar :🌻

😶‍🌫️ Quick peek into the bus from my ER Ambulance Bay. I'm chilling in the ER today. Pick me up on the way back.👋
@mooseandriosmom @Pawpower @PraiseCheese @CoachMark


Amazon has started its warehouse shutdown as it exits Québec :flagqc:.

montreal.citynews.ca/2025/02/0…
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Amazon a entamé la fermeture de ses entrepôts afin de quitter le Québec :flagqc:

lapresse.ca/affaires/entrepris…

#Québec #Amazon

in reply to Edwin G.

The Amazon workers’ union is trying to overturn the decision to close their warehouses in the Administrative Labour Tribunal (TAT) and get one year salary as compensation.

toronto.citynews.ca/2025/02/21…
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Le syndicat des travailleurs d’Amaxon essaie de faire annuler la décision de fermer leurs entrepôts devant le Tribunal administratif du Travail (TAT) et d’obtenir un an de salaire en guise de compensation.

lapresse.ca/affaires/entrepris…

#Québec #Amazon

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in reply to Edwin G.

The first day of hearings in the Amazon warehouse closure case in front of Québec’s :flagqc: Administrative Labour Tribunal (TAT) was today.

thecanadianpressnews.ca/quebec…
- - -
La première journée des audiences dans l’affaire de la fermeture des entrepôts d’Amazon a eu lieu aujourd’hui devant le Tribunal administratif du Travail (TAT) du Québec :flagqc:

lapresse.ca/affaires/entrepris…

#Québec #Amazon




JavaScript is awesome. You can do so much with it, from adding interactivity and animations to a website, to writing programs and scripts with Node. It's pretty easy to learn (in the scheme of programming languages) and very powerful.

People love to hate on JS. It can be used to track people around the web. It has some technical idiosyncracies (that's gotten a lot better in the last 20 years though). It can make websites slower in some circumstances. For the most part, these are problems caused by bad development practices, which you do not necessarily have to follow.

By no means do you need JS to make great websites, but it absolutely can take them to the next level. Add this powerful tool to your toolbox and learn JavaScript!

in reply to Senna 🌷

@Senna 🌷 When JavaScript started out it was a little more than a few event handlers to add some bells and whistles to your site, and perhaps avoid some round trips to the server by validating forms. It has grown up into a full fledged programming language. I have always enjoyed JavaScript. The few things I wish we had held onto is. No Cross Domain Scripting. This may seem like a huge limitation though it really is not. Cross Domain Scripting is at the heart of what most people hate about the web. Personally, I will not even use a CDN. I simply have no reason to.

Node does make it great, that you can use the same language frontend and backend. Helps in the learning curve for lots of developers. There is a reason why JavaScript is the most popular language in world today. Unfortunately it seems some developers have taken to just gluing together some frameworks and libraries and not bother to learn how to program at all. They have no idea what they are missing.

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in reply to Senna 🌷

I want to learn! Do you have any good resources to learn from where I can set up a good foundation for a variety of projects?

I have experience in intermediate C# programming, and have dipped my toes into JS on at least 10 separate occasions. It seems like every javascript library has some sort of idomatic way of doing things and enough syntactic sugar to make it almost a derivative of the lanugage. Typescript is its own can of worms but many of the open source projects I'd like to contribue to use it. I've been told "vanilla javascript" can make it all seem more approachable but practically every project that I want to work on seems to use a library of some kind.

It all seems very mystifying 😩

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in reply to Felix 🐊

in reply to Felix 🐊

@Felix 🐊 @Senna 🌷 Definitely everything that @Senna 🌷 mentioned and I would also recommend JavaScript The Good Part by Douglas Crockford. It is an older book though still relevant and not at all that expensive.

JavaScript The Good Parts @ Thrift Books

JavaScript The Good Parts @ Amazon

JavaScript The Definitive Guide 7th Edition @ Amazon