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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
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Craft brewers say Trump’s aluminum tariffs will raise the price of a six-pack
Tariffs may be another blow to already struggling craft brewers.Robert Channick (oregonlive)
Wow, SpaceBar (formlery called "Fosscord") looks a lot like Discord.
SpaceBar is an open-source alternative to Discord.
#Discord #Fosscord #OpenSource #SpaceBar #SpaceBarChat
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.
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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.
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"A woman is like a child": MAGA quickly turns its sights on stripping Republican women of power | Salon.com
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MAGA men are already coming for GOP women
Conservative women believe complicity will save them, but an emboldened far-right is gunning for their rightsSalon.com
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
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Because #terrorists apparently don’t have money. They finance multimillion dollar operations on multiple continents FFS.
Then there’s the #RussianOligarchs, #DrugCartels, you name it.
#Trump is such a f⁕⚠︎ing idiot it is painful.
#NationalSecurity #law #immigration #GoldCard #citizenship #CitizenshipForSale #MafiaState #kleptocracy #USpol #idiocracy
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FBI Warns iPhone, Android Users—We Want ‘Lawful Access’ To All Your Encrypted Data
UK forces Apple to provide encrypted data to security agencies—is America next?Forbes
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
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The Egg Price Crisis: More Than Just Inflation (Bird Flu & Animal Welfare)
The egg price discussion is everywhere, and I'm diving in! Inspired by The Daily Show's segment, I'm tackling issues behind the rising cost of eggs. It's not...YouTube
@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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@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.
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‘Stand Up for Science’ Rallies Will Protest Trump Attacks on Research
Amid President Donald Trump’s attacks on government scientists and science funding, researchers are arranging rallies to “Stand Up for Science” in Washington, D.C., and nationwide on March 7Meghan Bartels (Scientific American)
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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!
STAND UP FOR SCIENCE
March 7, 2025. Washington DC and nationwide. Because science is for everyone.STAND UP FOR SCIENCE
Great video by the always excellent Kurzgesagt, on meat prices.
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This Is NOT An Anti Meat Video
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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.
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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.
@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 😀.
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@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.
@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.
@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.
Be careful out there.
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Concerns Over Targeting of Pagan Community in Pickens, SC
Reports indicate that a Christian church allegedly harassed a Wiccan vendor, sparking community backlash in support of both the vendor and the market. The church now frames this response as an act of Christian persecution.Manny Moreno (The Wild Hunt)
@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
/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.
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Algorithms are breaking how we think
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@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.
"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'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.
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Amazon has started its warehouse shutdown as it exits Québec 
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Amazon a entamé la fermeture de ses entrepôts afin de quitter le Québec
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Amazon starts closing Quebec warehouses as union president calls for boycott
The union that represents workers at what was Canada’s only unionized Amazon warehouse says the online retail giant has begun shutting down its seven facilities in Quebec this week, putting thousands of employees out of work.Cole Fortner (CityNews Montreal)
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.
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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.
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Quebec labour group seeks to overturn Amazon decision to close Quebec warehouses
Amazon announced in January that it was closing the warehouses in Quebec, laying off almost 2,000 permanent workers.News Staff (CityNews Toronto)
The first day of hearings in the Amazon warehouse closure case in front of Québec’s Administrative Labour Tribunal (TAT) was today.
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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
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Amazon, worker union before Quebec labour tribunal over warehouse closures
MONTREAL - A Quebec labour tribunal has begun hearing a case against Amazon over the e-commerce giant's closure in January of seven warehouses in the province.thecanadianpressnews.ca
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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!
@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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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 😩
@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
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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.
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