Even if the Trump regime is prevented from subverting the voting process, they will be unconstrained after November 3rd, because they'll have no more political cards to play unless they create some chaos. This is where the real danger lies. The fascists in the regime are at least constrained by political necessity right now. After the election, they literally have no political necessities, because its a lame duck administration with a hostile Congress, and Trump will see them as a means to an end.
Mark my words. In the week or so after the election, there will be major actions both within the US and in the war on the Middle East. New massive military action in Iran is my primary bet, with starting a new war with a different MIddle Eastern nation in second place (Perhaps Yemen?). Simultaneously, I expect a huge burst of blatantly unconstitutional domestic actions from the Trump regime, all of which are anti-democratic and most of which will never really be intended to survive the courts, but rather to make people confused and scared.
Does anyone else long for the days when your email was just text with some tags for embedded images, instead of the "All CSS, all the time!" nightmare that is Outlook 365?
Sure would be nice if we could resize images, but apparently the css won't allow it!
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Sometimes some books make me question my reading and comprehension skills (of English) and make me question the time I have spent over the years learning them 😐
I have been reading Ernest Bramah's "What Might Have Been" (In the US, the book is called "The Secret of the League") and I have only been able to grasp the barebone structure of the plot and think that all the intricacies have been lost upon me, it is not the first time I am reading something penned by Bramah (I have read his detective stories of Max Carrados) but the writing style here is very difficult for me to understand with archaic words used sparingly. 😞
Ernest Bramah is a fantastic writer, but What Might Have Been is full of references and jokes specific to British society over a hundred years ago. Please do not feel that struggling with it means your English isn't good enough—most native English speakers today would be just as lost reading it! The difficulty isn't your vocabulary or reading skill; it is simply missing historical context. Once you learn a little about Bramah and the era he was satirizing, the book becomes much clearer.
Please don't respond in a negative way. I just don't think I could take it right now.
I posted on a different social media awhile ago about my sister and realize there needs to be more back story. My Mom cut my sister out of the will. I gave her half. She lost her job and wanted me to be there for her to talk, sometimes daily, even though I had a full time job and was a single Mom. Granted. I got really sick and needed her support. Nope. not available. She has now moved across the country to be "closer" to me and I hear and see from her less than ever. Since then, she has met a man and now I feel like I don't exist. She never texted or phoned unless I did first. She even cancelled our previous plans for Christmas. I am NOT a selfish person and don't begrudge her sharing Christmas with her new boyfriend. I just wish she hadn't said she would come, then back out. Heartbroken. Whatever. My son's 6 year partner recently broke up with him. I am heart broken. At first he was suicidal and came and stayed with me for a few days. He is still very severely depressed. Heartbroken. Our relationship has been fraught with misunderstandings and poor communication since he was a teenager. A couple of years ago a friend helped us with mediation when all my son did when he would got in touch with me was yell at me. We were doing better for awhile. For the first time in the last 20 or so years, he lives about a half hour drive away. Nearly every time I reach out to him, he ignores me. It was his 40th birthday yesterday. I sent him an e-card, posted a nice message on Facebook (which his Dad piggy backed on because he didn't have the courage or whatever to post his own) and left him a voice mail. When I didn't hear from him ... at all ...by late afternoon... I texted him. Thank God he responded! I was seriously worried that he had taken his life. And yet - not much more I can do. I have been very respectful, giving him his space. I haven't seen him in 3 weeks. Which some of you might think... not a big deal. It is a big deal to me because I know he will move away as soon as his lease is up in April and then I won't see him at all! and yet, if I say anything, he will run away even more. I know he is depressed and probably doesn't want to see anyone and that I shouldn't take it personally, though it is very challenging. Heartbroken.
Feeling like chopped liver with half of my family members. Geez
I have been crying for weeks over these two family dramas in my life.
As if that weren't enough, I finally found someone to play music with and now neither of my flutes will play very well. Those can be fixed, though in the meantime...Heartbroken.
AND I have tendinopathy in my right arm, which is preventing me from doing all of the things that I Love - crocheting, paddling and including playing my flute. I also make Christmas wreaths, which I probably won't be able to do this year. Heartbroken.
I deal with low energy, dizziness and other multiple other issues from a chronic illness every day of my life and manage to rise to many challenges. To some, these things that I have mentioned may seem minor. And compared to others, yeah, not a big deal.
I can't sleep. I lay down to sleep and I cry. Woke up at 4 am yesterday crying. My nervous system is so screwed up.
I have a counselor and she is helpful. I have friends. I am not a selfish person who makes everything about me. I have done personal growth workshops and have done a lot of work on myself.
I also have a husband who loves me and another son who does reach out often. Too bad my sons don't get along and the one who does talk to me can't handle me even bringing my other one up. sigh.
I just really need this pain to end. I am not suicidal. I just need a break.
I am not asking for advice, just understanding and moral support. Please don't respond in a negative way.
I hope your circumstance improves. Personal problems are never minor. They belong to us. Fortunately that gives us the authority and means to address them.
Well, my 14TB NAS HDD came in today ahead of schedule. Unfortunately it is defective and I had to get an RMA on it. I was actually surprised to get a response from them on a Sunday. I thought I would have to wait until tomorrow to get my RMA. Now I will have to wait for this drive to get back to CA before they ship the replacement to me. Thank goodness that USPS is so fast ... said no one ever.
In a few weeks when the replacement arrives I will be able to upgrade my NAS, until then it is back to waiting.
It's that time again, makers! 3 Days of hands-on workshops, lessons, and displays for a couple of hundred dollars. That's like $10 per class, but you get dozens of options! Kids are welcome, and can even do the hands-on stuff (with a guardian present, yadda).
Fiz as contas para um gabinete com seis postos e partilho o raciocínio.
Cenário assinatura: custo mensal por utilizador, pago todos os meses enquanto o gabinete existir. Ao fim de 4–5 anos, o total acumulado ultrapassa largamente uma licença perpétua.
Cenário licença perpétua: paga-se uma vez por posto. Sem nuvem incluída, mas o gabinete já tinha o seu servidor de ficheiros.
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Bem-vindo(a) à Friendica do Rogue Project. Por favor, leia os Termos de Serviço e as Regras. Espero que aproveite a nossa instância.
Como utilizo apenas software de código aberto, não me preocupo com as licenças. Se ainda utilizam o MS/Windows, pessoalmente não consideraria os vossos serviços, pois não gostaria que as minhas contas fossem capturadas pela IA do MS/Windows e enviadas para os servidores da Microsoft. Pessoalmente, não farei negócios com nenhuma empresa que se recuse a migrar para o GNU/Linux.
A follow up on last months federation post. Please remember that these statistics are relative to how Rogue Project's Friendica Instance federates and not of the entire Fediverse. I am also going to include a link to the entire report in pdf format here.
One disturbing thing to note is that we have nearly 2000 new Instances that we federate with, yet we have less active users. It is what it is, we will roll with it.
Hello folks, I was hoping to hold on to the good things that made social networking fun, and release the stuff that has made it awful.
I'm aware of network effect Wikipedia and I'm not going there. Though I'd like the policies income up with to scale.
I'm coming from the positive technology interactions of those iMessage Whatsapp signal threads I have with my family and neighbors. I'm recalling what it was when Facebook Myspace and Friendster were in their infancy.
We live in a world that does have all those things available, so what's the draw, or the niche, to a smaller crappier software that can be used by better community?
Some of the things I'm thinking of for my deployment.
Technically. I already have a home server running Unraid and Docker. I thought I'd self-host for now. That would be getting Friendica setup in Docker, another SQL (postgres) container for the database portion. If it grows or is popular I might do a Pangolin to VPS connection to hide my home ip address.
Yes, I am aware of Metcalfe’s law though I will take the millions of users that we federate with against Meta's Nefarious algorithm any day. I will always take quality over quantity. I am a Facebook refugee myself.
There is already an official Friendica Container available from the github if you want to go that route. Though of course you can design your own. If I was going to go that route I would, I am not fan of their setup at all.
You can of course run an Instance on your Home Server and if it is just a 1 person Instance with minimal federation (no relay) then you will do well. If however you want to run an Instance with the stats I show below then sorry, that is not going to happen. Neither can you run it from a shared web-server as they suggest in the documentation with that kind of federation involved. The problem is that even if you have a gigabit fiber connection at home the caps on a conventional ISP connection will break your Instance in seconds not minutes during peak federation periods. Due to the high volume of Server to Server communication. For the same reasons it will break a shared website like a standard GoDaddy subscription. To handle a high federation Instance you will need a VPS, I recommend IONOS. My VPS stats are Cpu:8 vCore, RAM:16 GB, Disk:320 GB NVMe SSD, though if you are only hosting a Friendica Instance you can likely do with half that.
I recommend going bare metal and skipping the latency of a kubernete distributed system as you do not need to worry about horizontal scaling, that will be handled by federating. You have no need of it and you will pay all the taxes of it. On a development server at home that you are not fully federating with then yes that would be fine, but I would not recommend it for a production Instance. You will notice that the other Friendica Instances that have constant 504 (database time out) issues are all container based Instances using S3 storage for their datastore.
Because horizontal scaling comes from the federation of many nodes on The Fediverse a Containerized setup pays no dividend for your investment. You can try it if you like and let the latency answer the questions for you . I know we have all been told to departmentalize everything and there is a lot of truth to that. In this scenario it just does not work well. I was thinking much along the lines you are when I first setup my Instance. The reality of actually administering this Instance for the last few years has showed me reality v ideology.
When you get your VPS and are setting up feel free to ask me questions. I will be glad to help you in all I can.
Do not despair, if you can afford $20.00 USD a month (or even less) then you can get a decent VPS from IONOS. Or maybe you only want a small Instance for family and friends? That a home server could handle.
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I recently joined #bookwyrm and as somebody who never tried to #goodreads I can be considered somewhat illiterate when it comes to this side of 'bibliophile' #socialmedia but I was not expecting the #ui there to be that much confusing for me 😟 not as user-friendly as this place #friendica or #mastodon !! I guess it's for #pros and I am clearly not one of them or for the serious Bibiliophiles who keep track of all the little details
Hashtags (the octothorpe) is really big on the Fediverse. It can be used on Mastodon to follow a certain topic. It can be used on Friendica the same way but you do a search on that hashtag and then save it. I would expect BookWyrm to have all kinds of hashtags that make no sense to me. I would just use the tags that you are familiar with and not worry about the rest. Those that are of value to you will eventually make sense.
I have never used or seen the BookWyrm UI (User Interface) so I have no idea about that. I know I hate the Mastodon UI and love the Friendica UI. And that is probably why I administer an Instance in the first place.
@Harib Murshidi I usually use goodreads just to keep me from reading books twice more than anything. It's happened before when I'm about 95% of the way into a mystery, on the last chapter, and I have this inkling that Mr so-and-so is the murderer; and I'm right. I'll check goodreads: ahhhyup, I already read this book like a couple years ago!
I have used "ratehouse" but it's not exclusively designed for books (and I always dread that someday it will disappear 🤕as they don't even give any option to save your data etc.) but it's UI is very user-friendly.
It's an interesting anecdote 🤔I have never found myself in such a situation, I also read a lot of crime-detective-mystery books (esp in the local languages here in 🇵🇰 ) but I have never read a book twice/thrice like that ! :D
I recently watched Le Comte de Monte-Cristo and it was refreshing to see that they kept many things from the original book (though they left some events/characters) but kept some very good elements like the Count's penchant for theatricality and deception with the disguises he used when he went around inquiring about his enemies. Haydee is not presented by the Count as a slave here and there is no Sign of his manservant Ali and Noirtier de Villefort as wel. In the end Haydee ends up marrying Albert (in the book, the Count ends up with Haydee).
After watching the movie I discovered that a mini-series also appeared in the same year about the 'elusive count' and the series started well for me apart from a few minor hiccups in the beginning where sometimes the characters used French terms like 'Monsieur' and sometimes 'Sir' and at least here we had Noirtier de Villefort (instead of the invented character of de Villefort's sister) and Jeremy Irons who plays the role of Abbe Faria brilliantly esp these bits went missing from the movie where the Abbe teaches Edmond about the sciences, the arts etc. But I still have issues here that the Count of Monte Cristo is not cold and calculating here, there is no mystery here with no disguises of a clergyman (Abbe Busoni) the English nobleman (Lore Wilmore).
The three conspirators (Caderousse, Danglars and Morcerf) have been turned into three cos the Count forgives Caderrouse (who is apparently a black man in this interpretation and here I started to notice something else), most of the people the count encounters are complete scoundrels but there is the midwife who is sprung from a lunatic asylum (a character which was not part of the original book, is played by a Black Woman) and in the beginning of Episode 5 we are introduced to Haydee (again played by a young Black woman) while in the book she was the daughter of Ali Pasha (who was an Albanian) and his Greek wife (Kyra Vassiliki) 😐I am all for diversity but how the heck are you going to fit this in the story ?! Ali Pasha's wife was not Greek or she was some part of Africa ?! 😒 and the pattern I was talking about the all the black characters are what one can consider somewhat 'good' compared to all the others !
On the good side, we get to hear about 'Sinbad' this series provide us with Luigi Vampa and the carnival, and the scene when Albert witnesses an execution of two prisoners in Rome, I still haven't finished the series yet but I am beginning to think that making a movie/series which will remain faithful to the original book is perhaps impossible (considering the length of the book) but maybe someday we might get an anime or another tv series which can do justice to Dumas' masterpiece
I have watched 'The Count of Monte Cristo' (2024 series) further and they showed a scene of a dinner at the residence of the Count of Monte Cristo; where the count mentions that his 'protegee' Haydee has prepared a certain Persian dish ! I am not sure what they are implying here that this 'Haydee' is part Persian or something else 🤷
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Started Le Comte de Monte Cristo, the 1998 miniseries (according to Wikipedia it is a co-production of France, Germany and Italy) is probably the strangest take on the story. The count in this one is the most uncouth and unruly as he is learning 'aristocratic habits' from his multi-talented fugitive confederate 'Bertuccio' (a cook, a robber and probably the closest person to this version of the Count of Monte Cristo).
The previous editions of 'The Count of Monte Cristo' I have watched had ignored the character of Bertuccio this one seems to have turned him into a hotch-potch pastiche character, so far there is no sign of Haydee and the Cavalcantis. As I have forget to mention earlier, this Count seems to have a penchant of moving around with an entourage of 'guards' who wear costumes straight out of some generic 'Arabian Knights' story book illustation ! 😆
I make a point to always use the restroom on the clock at work. Because I am not giving this sh!t away! That is right, I do not give a sh!t! I am all about this sh!t and you are going to pay for this sh!t ... do not mind me, I am just sh!t posting. I am new to this so let me know how I am doing.
@Unus Nemo RL story, a guy I know now 66 year old his grandfather told him before his 1st day at work to hold up the morning shits to perform at work, you are payed there to do so.
@Unus Nemo you ever done a little multiplication to figure out how much money you made while poopin'? Or how much your grandfather made (adjust for inflation)!?
I hate government, but this rule, I would stand for. People convicted of fraud should have their pants literally set on fire! While they're wearing them...
I love new books. Okay, It has been a while since I have done any web development. So I decided to get some new books to address changes in the last few years. Because, yes, in the last few years a lot has happened. I am hoping these books are solid. I will let you know. If you happen to be thinking of the irony of the choices of my two titles, I know, that is just how I process.
Yes, you do need JavaScript and no you do not . This book is about getting away from taking a JavaScript first approach and using a CSS first approach and to fallback on JavaScript when it is needed. CSS has really grown up and a lot of stuff we used to do with less can now be done directly with CSS with no need for the transcoder at all. Many things we used to do with Jquery are now supported directly in HTML5 and CSS 3.0. JavaScript will continue to be an important conduit for communication from the browser to the server (think AJAX). Though we are getting away from using it to implement a WebUI. HTML and CSS are declarative and process much faster than the imperative JavaScript. It makes for leaner and faster loading pages and simplification of UI development. This is comparable to when we stopped using Tables to layout Web Pages and started using CSS.
This book was published this year and so far I am really liking it. Though I tend to read a lot at one time. I am also currently Studying Introduction to JavaScript Object Notation by Lindsay Bassett and ActivityPub By Evan Prodromou which are both available DRM free from ebooks.com I bought these other two dead tree copies (depicted in the image above) from Amazon.
I will also add that their are a lot of privacy advocates that like to surf with JavaScript disabled. So if you want to be accessible, and it is an option, then design the UI to best fit your intended audience's needs. With or without JavaScript.
The issue I see here is that most of the general public have a misinformed idea of what Artificial Intelligence (AI) is. Most think of AI as LLMs and even though they are a significant part of AI today they did not evolve in AI until 2018, at least not to the general public. Yet AI has been a field of study and implementation since 1956. Take a look at the history of AI. Obviously it is not a new idea. I cannot tell you what all scientists think of AI. I can tell you what this scientist thinks of AI.
AI is a practical tool that can be used to make your research a lot more productive. AI can parse data sets far faster than humans can. With that said keep in mind that Natural Intelligence (NI) is not perfect and AI is modeled after NI, based on an Artificial Neural Network that can be trained (this is a generalization not a precise definition). Just like our own NI it can be taught wrong, it can produce bad results, just like us. It can even produce mistakes faster than any team of engineers could! Yet most of the time it produces useful results. So it is a vastly useful tool and one of the greatest achievements of our era.
I do not use general purpose corporate offerings for AI. I use domain specific LLMs that I train locally (fine tune not base train) and train ML architectures such as random forests, small CNNs. They have a far better accuracy rate as they are not trying to evaluate every possible evaluation as they are limited in scope by the domain they are trained in. I see this as the optimal way for a data science research. Also it is great for code analysis though I personally do not have AI generate code. I do not have an issue with those that do. In my opinion any one that has a code base of over 100,000 lines of code and is not using AI analysis is being irresponsible.
The anti-AI collective aka the general public have a very misinformed view of what AI is. Machine Learning (ML) is used to produce an LLM but an LLM is not the extent of what can be done with ML. AI is not chatbots on some corporations unregulated Data Center trained by nefarious methods. Contrary to popular belief. No, it does not take a data center to train a LLM, base training requires a lot of compute power but fine tuning it can be done at home with a rather modest data science rig, using no more power than a gaming computer. LLMs are not typically built on others Intellectual Property this is an attribute to how unregulated corporation train their LLMs not most data scientists. The whole topic is very skewed. What those AI Data Centers are for is to provide a service, to monetize AI, for the general public and corporations. They are not necessary to train AI nor to implement it. And training smaller traditional ML architectures can be done exclusively on local science data rigs.
I am against unregulated corporation doing whatever they please. I am against the way AI Data Centers are being developed with no concern for the environment. I am a humanitarian I am against pretty much anything that is a negative impact on humanity. I am not against AI or ML or LLMs. They are just tools that can be very useful to a data scientist or even the layperson providing they know something about what they are researching in order to vet the information they get.
It seems like everyone has forgotten all the bad advice given by obscure websites and the peer ask and answer sites that excel in being rude but often produce unreliable results even more so than AI. Because people associate LLMs with the behavior of unregulated corporations they do not like LLMs despite the fact that they have no idea what an LLM is. They just know they hate how corporation are monetizing them. I guess it has not occurred to them to address the actual problem and to push for regulations on the corporation in their demographic? Why address a problem by looking at the root of that problem when we can just use derogatory slurs about something we have no idea what it even is? Yes, I was being sarcastic as well as passive aggressive, my apologies.
We have real concerns with how unregulated corporations are destroying the environment. That has to be addressed. Yet, AI would still be in heavy use even if there were no AI data centers at all. The difference is that it would only be available to people like me with the knowledge of how to build a data science rig and implement the technology stack. The general public would be left out. So you decide, do you want to be left out? Great that is easy just do not use AI. If you do enjoy the benefits of this tool then do the ethical thing and push for regulations on corporations in their development of AI data centers. Enough said.
We do not have a lot of local traffic as we do not have a lot of users. As you add friends you will see a lot of activity in the Friends' Message which is the checkerboard icon on the left of the tool bar. For now Click the target icon, third from the left and then choose Global Community. There will be a lot more activity there.
@Harib Murshidi friendica is the connective tissue of the fediverse. it doesn't just speak activitypub like mastodon or pixelfed, it speaks activitypub AND diaspora AND ostatus AND its own dfrn protocol all at the same time, plus it has official connectors for bluesky and tumblr and even rss feeds. so one friendica account can follow a mastodon user, a diaspora pod, a pixelfed account, a bluesky handle, and a blog, and all of it shows up in the same timeline. no other platform does that natively. mastodon only does activitypub. diaspora only does diaspora. friendica does all of them. that's why it's called the universal connector. as for reach, the friendica network itself is small, around 270 to 410 active servers with roughly 16,000 to 21,000 registered users depending on the tracker, so it's niche. but the point was never friendica's own user count. the point is that a friendica node can see and interact with the entire fediverse, and one node on the network reports being aware of over 45,000 servers and 24 million registered users across all connected platforms. so friendica is small but it's the widest window into everything else.
Friendica is also older than Mastodon. It has a lot more history. I do believe I have posted a Federation Chart of how well Rogue Project's Friendica is federating. Just scroll down the local feed. I know everyone loves to doom scroll! 😈😅😆 Or you can find it here
Rogue Project's Friendica Instance Federation Distribution
This pie chart is relevant to Rogue Project's Friendica and its federation distribution. It does not reflect the entire Fediverse just the Instances this Instance federates with.
I sent you a follow, so that we can stay in touch. If you look in the Local Directory you will see our DevShack group. On friendica you join a group by following it.
So from here we can interact with users from any mastodon/pixelfed instance ? Like you don't need those fedibridges which are required on mastodon, bsky ? 🤔
Yes, exactly, because Friendica understands Activity Pub as well as DFRN and a number of other protocols it is easy to federate. There are cross network type limmits. For instance a Mastodon user cannot effectively join a Friendica Group, as vanilla Mastodon has no concept of a group. Private posts work between modern Mastodon Instance and Friendica but most Mastodon Instances are old to ancient and do not appear to be maintained or upgraded. There are certain network types that you will have to configure in your settings in order to be able to connect to. Furthermore I have been having issues with the Bluesky bridge as far as Webfinger authentication. If you have a Bluesky account just use the setting to connect it rather than using the bridge.
In general it will just work. The setup for networks in the settings is for more esoteric networks like Gnu/Social and federating email. I have a range of addons available. Some of them are transparent, and others you have to configure or enable to make use of, like Mathjax and Markdown. Take a tour through settings to full appreciate how many options you have. I have a feature turned on that allows you to tell this Instance that an user you follow is actually you on another Instance, be sure you only do this if it is you. When you turn it on all your activities on one Instance will be mirrored to the other. Take a moment to browse the Help section too, especially the BBcode section, and the privacy section. Privacy does not work well across network types. Basically if you make something private only those you follow on that network type will see it were a friend on Mastodon will not be able to. Even though you shared it with friends. This is because no specific protocol for verifying identities across network types has been adopted at this point. Feel free to ask questions.
And thanks, I put a lot of work in on GIMP to make that sig!
A well-known extortion group says it broke into Federal Bureau of Investigation systems and walked away with personal data on nearly every agent, employee and job applicant in the bureau’s history. The claim, first reported by 404 Media on September 22, 2026, comes from ShinyHunters, the same hacking collective behind a string of Oracle-linked breaches this year. The FBI has confirmed it is investigating, but as of September 24, 2026, no government agency has verified the full scope of what the group is claiming.
On September 22, 2026, ShinyHunters claimed it breached the FBI by exploiting a zero-day in Oracle PeopleSoft on FBIJobs.gov, then laterally moved into HR, Criminal Justice, and Medlink systems. It claims to have stolen 2–3 TB of data on "almost all" FBI agents and job applicants, including names, home addresses, SSNs, and medical records. The FBI confirmed it is investigating unauthorized activity affecting FBIjobs.gov but has not verified the full scope of the claim as of September 24. Reuters partially verified a 5,000-record sample by cross-checking SSNs against credit bureau records. Notably, ShinyHunters says the breach was not financially motivated it's demanding the FBI retract a May 2026 advisory it considers "false allegations," giving the bureau one week to comply.
Therapist: Do you read books and what do you love? Me:1984, George Orwell Therapist: So you hate society or dislike and mistrust the government? Me: Yes. But it's not the book that makes me as such.
One has to wonder how many new makers gave up because the instructions said "needle nose" pliers, so they ordered them, never realizing that sites like Amazon and TEMU have decided to label all fine-tipped flat and chain-nose pliers "needle-nose", while calling needle-nose pliers "Round Nose".
In the clearing stands a boxer And a fighter by his trade And he carries the reminders Of every glove that laid him down Or cut him till he cried out in his anger and his shame "I am leaving, I am leaving", but the fighter still remains. Simon & Garfunkel - The Boxer (Lyrics) invidious.nerdvpn.de/watch?v=I…
I was actually surprised to get a response from them on a Sunday. I thought I would have to wait until tomorrow to get my RMA. Now I will have to wait for this drive to get back to CA before they ship the replacement to me. Thank goodness that USPS is so fast ... said no one ever. 
Okay, It has been a while since I have done any web development. So I decided to get some new books to address changes in the last few years. Because, yes, in the last few years a lot has happened. I am hoping these books are solid. I will let you know. If you happen to be thinking of the irony of the choices of my two titles, I know, that is just how I process. 
Unus Nemo
in reply to Harib Murshidi • •@Harib Murshidi
Ernest Bramah is a fantastic writer, but What Might Have Been is full of references and jokes specific to British society over a hundred years ago. Please do not feel that struggling with it means your English isn't good enough—most native English speakers today would be just as lost reading it! The difficulty isn't your vocabulary or reading skill; it is simply missing historical context. Once you learn a little about Bramah and the era he was satirizing, the book becomes much clearer.