You can always tell when something gives a little bit of power back to the people, because the government always finds a way to make it unusable!

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Okay, I have been struggling with an issue with Gnome 50 for about a year now. The issue was that when I right clicked an App Icon on the App Grid and tried to pin it to the Dash there was a long delay, sometimes as long as 3 seconds. The same thing just moving around App Icons on the Dash or unpinning them. This was, as you can imagine, really annoying.

Today, I installed Google's Anti Gravity and after setting it up I started having Gemini analyze the issue. I was able to work out a solution in around 30 minutes! After trying to comb through the Gnome Shell code base for over a year. I had totally missed the issue. By consolidating all of my App Icons into about a dozen Folders I had created a bottle neck for Gnome Shell. It was actually and easy work around after I found out what the issue was.

This was a hard to find bug in Gnome 50. I would have likely never found it by manually pouring through the source code. I am very happy to have my system performing up to specs now. I really do love Anti Gravity! Best new tool of the year for my toolbox!

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#AGY #Google Anti Gravity #Gnome #Gnome Shell

How it looms in the shadows
following me even now
in the twilight hours of my life

With nights fraught with strife
and days laced with misery
I ponder the cause
of my inequities

I forgave my foes
and forgave my friends
alas I see the ends of this means
I have forgotten to forgive me

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#Poetry #Poem

To those that have stood beside me, even when I lacked faith in myself, you have my everlasting gratitude, respect and love. You are the Cornerstones that my life is built upon. There is no way I could possibly repay you for all of your kindness and respect.

To those that have condescended me and have been intolerant of my flaws, even when you had no cause to be, thank you as you also have my everlasting gratitude, respect and love. You are the foundation of my life. More than any other person I know you have motivated, challenged, and driven me to success. I could not have been me, without you. There is no way I can repay this debt to you.

To those that have been apathetic and had no interest in my life, despite that I tried earnestly to be there for you, thank you as you also have my everlasting gratitude, respect and love. You have taught me humility, tolerance and compassion. Without you, I would be far less of a human being. There is no way I can ever repay my debt to you.

To those that I have never met and do not know me, just by circumstance, I can barely wait to meet you. You are my future and the person that will invest so much of your energy into building my character, wisdom and perspective to meet the challenges I will need in that era of my life. I will owe you more than I can ever repay someday, and I will do my best to be a positive contribution in your life. But how you receive me is not my option it is entirely your choice.

To those that I will never meet, due to time constraints, I want to thank you for the many ways you have improved my life though I cannot even fathom how you have. You have influenced others that have indirectly had an indirect or direct influence on me. I thank you for filling this need and I owe you a debt I can never repay.

When I tell you that you need to love your enemies, I am not being witty or sarcastic. I mean it emphatically and quite literally. How a person treats you is beyond your control. How you react and use their influence on your life is entirely up to you. They are not responsible if you fail to accept all the wonderful experiences they can bring to your life, if you let them.

No one will fail me because I will not allow that to happen. I will find a way to make their influence a positive one. If I do not meet this challenge then I have truly failed myself. You may say this is impractical or unrealistic, and I tell you it is not optional. What we do not use to build ourselves up with, will be used to bury us with.

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#Essay #Philosophy

It might seem on the surface that words, spoken or written, are quite fundamental, easy to understand. Is this really the case though? In all reality words are most misleading. Perhaps I should explain.

Almost every word in any given language has multiple and sometimes contradicting meanings, it is worth considering how sarcasm can reverse the meaning of a word in contemplating this. Also, every word has three distinct meanings in its simplest interpretation. The denotation of the word, which is its dictionary given meaning, which in itself is sometimes not exclusive. Ever taken a look at a dictionary some words have more than one given meaning. Then there is the connotation of a word, which is the meaning the speaker or writer is actually applying to the word. With all things considered, being that language is an attempt to communicate, this would or should be the most important interpretation of the word. The third and less obvious interpretation however is the most significant interpretation and is the listener, or reader's connotation of these words. I can not count the times I have been present to overhear a conversation between two people that I knew well, yet they had just met, and they were having a conversation and either totally agreed with each other or disagreed, and in reality were talking about two entirely different subjects to begin with, neither having a clue of this fact.

So at this point you might ask yourself. Just how do we unravel the mysterious meanings of these words? What are people really saying to me? Words in and by themselves having no real meaning that we can cling to, is there any hope of understanding someone else at all, or of them understanding us?

Consider this. When my daughter was an infant and clung to my finger smiling up at me. I needed no words to understand her at all. When she was five years old, and I stood beside her at the school bus stop, with her clinging to my hand as tight as she could with anxiety on her face and her small frame as tense as it could get. I needed no words to understand her at this moment either. Communication transcends mere words. I knew and still know my daughter's feelings, hopes and perception of life. It is what gives meaning to every word she speaks, or writes. It would be safe to say at this juncture that truly understanding the person is the key to understanding there words, whether of tongue or pen.

With that said, how often do we really even make an effort to understand the people we meet, or are we more satisfied to just accept our perception of them and judge there words by that standard? If I spoke to you, would you listen to me, or would you just hear me?

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#Essay #Philosophy

@Melissa BearTrix @Nelson

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.

"To become who you want to be, you must sacrifice Proprietary software!"

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#FOSS #Its FOSS

Plants of the genus Fenestraria produce optical fibers made from crystalline oxalic acid to transmit light to subterranean photosynthetic sites.

There. That's a really fascinating thing you know, now!

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!

Oh, for chrissakes! My internet service price jumped by 20% last month.

Fuck it, I'm going satellite...

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.

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#NAS WOES #NAS UPGRADE

I wonder who they are talking about?

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#Trump #Maga

The Funny Pages

2026-10-10 15:30:17

New Comic Strip Found: FurBabies by Nancy Beiman
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#comicstrip #furbabies

Okay, I am going to order one of these and design a few t-shirts to go with it, maybe even a jacket!

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#Custom Hoodie #Custom Clothing

@Melissa BearTrix @adingbatponder 👾 @Pol Dellaiera @Geo-Jigsaw 🌏 🖊️💡🎵 🎥 🍻 @Harib Murshidi @Kasey @Plan-A̵̛͈̬̥̿͋̓͛̕

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).

You should come...

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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.

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#Rogue Projects Friendica #Federation Report

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.

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#Sh!t P@st #Humor #Punny

Size the day!

(Yes, I know what I said.)

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.

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#Books #WebDev #Learning

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.

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#AI #ML #LLM #Data Science #Anti AI Collective

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.

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