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DIY Rag pipeline

~ Retrieval-Augmented Generation but my way..
changed OS to a Atomic version, so it needed a re build from scrap, long story short an opportunity to make things better.
the Friendly (use case on a public domain without hammering the server with a time outset) "crawler" to set up on local host, no API in a file where instruction LLM in system message is to look in that directory only.

And instead of a browser UI a GUI with incorporated checkers.

All is open source and private LLM as model, so leave the salt behind please.
Both PyQT5 app's .

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In Talking Points Memo, editor Josh Marshall has been exploring the contours of what he calls the Authoritarian International, which he identifies as “a host of authoritarian governments around the world, the princelings of the Gulf monarchies, the sprinkling of European right-ravanchist governments, the rightward portion of Silicon Valley (which accounts for a larger and larger percentage of the top owners if not the larger community), the Israeli private intel sector, various post-Soviet oligarchs and, increasingly, the world’s billionaire class.”

Marshall notes that those in this world are not just antidemocratic. They are constructing a private world in which deals are done secretly without any democratic accountability, mixing national interest with individual financial interest. The model operates in part by maintaining control over key figures thanks to compromising material on them. Marshall points out that the system can be oddly stable if everyone has something on everyone else.

February 12, 2026

In a ceremony at the White House yesterday, surrounded by coal industry leaders, lawmakers, and miners, President Donald J.
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#diy #biotech #homebrew #fermentation#yoghurt #fedigroups #HappyBowels
#domowe #przetwory #fermentacja #jogurt #SzcześliweJelitka #TeamZdrowie

Czy mamy na fedi dość ludzi, żeby założyć grupę fermentacji domowej? Zaczynam produkcję jogurtu na bakteriach probiotycznych i szukam bratnich/siostrzanych umysłów.

na stole jadalnym stoi niewielka jogurtownica z ośmioma słoiczkami pełnymi mleka.
#diy #fermentation #biotech #homebrew #fediGroups #yoghurt #jogurt #TeamZdrowie #HappyBowels #domowe #przetwory #fermentacja #SzcześliweJelitka

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2026-02-12 23:59:31

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ohai.social/@shansterable/1160… shansterable@ohai.social - Welp. The American Medical Association has had it with RFK Jr's quisling vaccine advisory committee.

The AMA is no longer waiting for recommendations from the regime. "That system has now effectively collapsed."

They will develop their own "deliberative, evidence-based" vaccine recommendations.

"Founded in 1847, the AMA is the largest and only national association that convenes 190+ state and specialty medical societies"

benefitspro.com/2026/02/12/ama…

#USPol #Healthcare #Vaccines #RFKJr


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Seriously??? I'm just now hearing that there's exception being taken at the #Olympics claiming that a French judge in particular took advantage of the fact that the last pair to skate in #FreeDance #FigureSkating (French) to make sure that pair got more points than the American couple which was in 1st place just before that. #ChockBates did a reprise of an earlier dance presentation, none of which merited the max number of points awarded (looking at skill-of-execution numbers) but the French pair got perfect scores in 2 areas.

Since there's more than one judge on the panel, seems to me when every judge on the panel awards the highest performance award in 2 areas, you can't hold a single judge responsible for that. No one judge can fudge a perfect score once, let alone twice.

#olympics #figureskating #FreeDance #ChockBates

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Tech Support: Now log into your google account.
Me: I don't have a google account.
TS: Yes, OK, so you need to log in to Google.
Me: No, I don't have a Google account to log in to.
TS: Please follow this link and sign in.
Me: OK, I followed the link. What do you want me to enter for username and password?
Ts: Please use your Google account.
Me: I DO NOT HAVE A GOOGLE ACCOUNT! I did not have one before. I do not have one now. No logging in to Google has ever occurred, BECAUSE I DO NOT HAVE A GOOGLE ACCOUNT.
TS: I don't understand.
Me: I know...

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2026-02-11 23:51:48

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scholar.social/@animalculum/11… animalculum@scholar.social - Call of the Mole Vole synapsida.blogspot.com/2025/02…

"There are over 170 recognised species of vole... And then, there are the #MoleVoles... most (but not all) mole vole species lack a Y chromosome. In these species, the males have exactly the same XX karyotype that females do... As of 2025, we have no clue as to how #SexDetermination works in these species."

#Animals #Mammals #Genetics


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Nostalgia
#linux #gnu #Nostalgia #GNU/Linux

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This part of the whole manifesto jumped into my mind after recent rampant social media trends

People fear the new and unknown. They prefer the old, the known and checked truths. They are afraid of what the new can bring to them. They are afraid that they can lose what they have. Their fear is so strong that it has proclaimed the revolutionary a foe and the free idea--its weapon. That’s their fault. People must leave this fear behind and go ahead. What’s the sense to stick to the little you have now when you can have more tomorrow. Everything they must do is stretch their hands and feel for the new; give freedom to thoughts, ideas, to words:

“A Cyberpunk Manifesto”

Christian A. Kirtchev

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Poland announced it was launching an investigation into whether Epstein was tied to Russian intelligence. “More and more leads, more and more information, and more and more commentary in the global press all relate to the suspicion that this unprecedented paedophilia scandal was co-organised by Russian intelligence services,” Polish prime minister Donald Tusk said. “I don’t need to tell you how serious the increasingly likely possibility that Russian intelligence services co-organised this operation is for the security of the Polish state. This can only mean that they also possess compromising materials against many leaders still active today.”

February 10, 2026

As of yesterday, members of Congress who sit on the House or Senate Judiciary Committees can see unredacted versions of the Epstein files the Department of Justice (DOJ) has already released.
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Gdybym chciał zbudować superprocę, łączącą bloczki od łuku i sprężyny skrętne typu balisty, To jaki byłby najlepszy materiał na owe sprężyny? Lity elastomer? Plecionka sznurów gumowych? Wiązka linek z jakiegoś rozciągliwego materiału? Źródła żeglarskie wskazują na nylon, ale może jest coś jeszcze lepszego?

#low-tech #ballista #RetroFuturo #DIY #Ropes

#diy #ropes #retrofuturo #low-tech #ballista

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Brie Mmm

Witruwiusz twierdzi, że najlepsze są włosy kobiece. Ale raczej nie porównywał z nylonem. Na moje wyczucie użyłbym materiału mało rozciągliwego.

Z ciekawości, czemu taka konstrukcja? W skali procy wydaje się nadmiernie skomplikowana, i fatalna szybkostrzelność; coś w rodzaju kuszy byłoby praktyczniejsze… jeśli zignorować kwestie prawne. Jak już, potrenowałbym procę typu Dawidowego – niepozorna, kieszonkowa po zwinięciu, tylko nad celnością trzeba długo pracować.

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Trump posted: “The Super Bowl Halftime Show is absolutely terrible, one of the worst EVER! It makes no sense, is an affront to the Greatness of America, and doesn’t represent our standards of Success, Creativity, or Excellence. Nobody understands a word this guy is saying, and the dancing is disgusting, especially for young children that are watching from throughout the USA and all over the World. (Note: I wouldn’t mention children if I were you.) This ‘Show’ is just a ‘slap in the face’ to our Country. There is nothing inspirational about this mess of a Halftime Show, and watch, it will get great reviews from the Fake News Media, because they haven’t got a clue of what is going on in the REAL WORLD.”


Yay!

“Together We Are America” | CW Daily

“Together We Are America”
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Last night, Bad Bunny highlighted Puerto Rican history, beginning with the workers at the heart of colonial sugar production and moving through to those same cane workers hanging from electric poles in an evocation of the recent blackouts in the country’s inadequate electric grid, poorly addressed by the U.S. government after Hurricane Maria wiped out the system in 2017. He carried the flag of the island from before the U.S. takeover—an independence flag banned from 1948 to 1957— its light blue triangle picked up in various fabrics throughout the performance.


#FuckICE #BadBunny #PuertoRico #LetterFromAnAmerican #HeatherCoxRichardson

February 9, 2026

Last night’s thirteen-minute Super Bowl half-time show featuring Bad Bunny had more watchers than any other halftime show in history: an estimated 135 million watched live, while millions more have streamed it since.
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#puertorico #HeatherCoxRichardson #badbunny #fuckice #LetterFromAnAmerican
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