I was first introduced to the wonderful world of programming when I was 9 years old (46 years ago as of this writing). My middle school had just gotten some Franklin Ace 2000s (Think Apple IIe clone) and my father bought us a Commodore 64 for the house. While my siblings were most interested in playing games on the Commodore I wanted to program. Armed with books like Jim Butterfield's 'Machine Language for the Commodore 64' I began writing my own BASIC wedges and creating portable software from the Commodore 64 to the Apple IIe (which had similar CPUs in the 6502 family based on the Z80). I loved programming. It gave me a space that I felt like I had some control and my life was not just a tail spin of undesirable events.

Unus Nemo

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I occasionally get asked about my moniker Unus Nemo. If you are familiar with Latin then you already know that Unus Nemo means no one. Though that is applicable my moniker is multi-faceted. Meaning there are several reasons that I chose this moniker to name myself. As opposed to my given name which I was labeled with at birth.

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The recent database loss on Rogue Project's Friendica really woke me up to just how fast all my posts can disappear. Even before that I have been meaning to make more use of my blog for posts that I would like more persistence. I initially created the blog when I first came to the Fediverse. I stumbled upon Mastodon after my exodus from Meta and thought I would need to provided links for longer posts, as I am a little on the verbose side 😉. Well, my five minutes on Mastodon was not a surprise. I have never liked a microblogging environment. I found out about Friendica and quickly jumped on board. I was having a difficult time finding a stable Friendica Instance with an open registration so I did the most reasonable thing I could think of. I got another VPS and started a Friendica Instance. I was initially going to make it a single user Instance though I thought that would be a waste of resources and decided to open registration. I am going to tell you now that I fully understand why a stable Friendica Instance is not so easy to find 😉. I have learnt a lot in the last year of maintaining Rogue Project's Friendica and I definitely understand the frustrations of other Instance admins.

So I am now going to share my blog with the Fediverse. Rogue Project's Blog , I have comments turned off on the blog so I do not have to spend time managing spam. Feel free to comment here, or share a link yourself and mention me in it if you want my feedback. The entire blog is static so you can link to any category or individual essay, poem or rambling at your discretion. There is no login and there are no ads of any type.

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But a nation that claims to represent Jewish identity is ethically cleansing the region for greater Israel

You nailed it perfectly.

GhostOnTheHalfShell

2026-03-14 14:17:02

@zer0unplanned

The point being is that if you have somebody running around metaphorically killing off another person’s family members any rational individual will understand the desire to retaliate.

As you saying an eye for a community is Israel’s modus operandi. That a synagogue is targeted by an outraged relative is a tragedy and it’s wrong.

But a nation that claims to represent Jewish identity is ethically cleansing the region for greater Israel

For all the re follows after this exceptional incident, I am thankful. 🤍

Still, have to find back a lots of missing handles I just can't remember.

For over a year now I have maintained Rogue Project's Friendica Instance. I have had ups and downs. Sometimes it was smooth sailing and other times it was a storm. This week catastrophe hit. I was trying to deal with severe database bloat. My database had nearly filled my SSD of my VPS. I have a VPS with more than enough resources and this should not have happened. I was merely, due to inexperience, trying to maintain way to much persistence of federated data. I was in the process of trying to migrate from using my database as my main storage to the new file system storage that Friendica made available as of Friendica 'Blutwurz' 2026.01. I was attempting to truncate the storage cache in the database when disaster happened. I lost my whole Instance. I tried for days to extract the 2GB of data that was supposed to still be in the data file with no success. I finally just restarted my Instance. It is a fresh start and lessons learned. The database had grown to over 178GB and that prohibited my being able to download backups. I pay $50.00 USD a month for just 100GB of data and it would have cost me more than I could afford to download the backups. This was one of the reasons I was concerned about the bloat. The other was the impending shut down of the Instance when the database maxed out the SSD.

I do not take it lightly that my users lost all their data on my Instance. I am a seasoned System Administrator and I knew better than to operate without database backups. I just did not have the resources as things got out of hand. Between trying to maintain the Instance and work full time. When the Instance bloated there was no easy fix. I have taken preventive measures so that this cannot happen again. My storage is now on the file system so the database will stay manageable and I will not lose user data again. I have also setup more aggressive clean up measures and backups just in case of hardware failure on my VPS part. This is a very sad thing and I hope that Rogue Project's Friendica can rebuild and move past this.

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#Instance Crash #Rogue Projects Friendica

Ait, listen closely all.
I got your back. You wanna jump into Friendica? It’s like the underground club of the internet, quiet, respectful, and nobody’s sellin’ your soul. Here’s how you slip in smooth:
1. Grab a spot where the bouncer approves you.
Register… then wait. Yeah, it’s weird, but they’re keeping the riffraff out. Trust me, you’ll get in.

2. Set up your hideout!
Once in.. tweak ya profile, toss in your real vibe, not that corporate junk

3. Start following..
Don’t go wild like a raccoon in a trash can. Use the search: type #newhere or #gardening or whatever floats your boat.
then type: Just slid into the Fediverse. Who’s awake? #newhere #analoglife”
Boom. You’re in the network.

4. Hack the matrix (kinda)
Friendica’s magic? You can follow anywhere. Paste a Mastodon link? Works. Got a blog you love? Slam its URL into “Add new contact” it’ll show up like a ghost in your feed. Even Twitter? Yeah, connect it in Settings. You’re pulling strings now.
Please don't use Twitter.

5. Make it yours.
Go dark mode. Call your circles “Crew,” “Noise,” or “Do Not Disturb.” Star posts like gold teeth. No ads. No tracking. Just you, your people, and the open web.

edit: You’re not a user. You’re a ghost. And the machine? It works for you now.

I had an incident with my dbase and right now I am still trying to recover. At this point all data has been lost. I am not sure if I will be able to recover the lost data.

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#Server Update #DB Crash