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.
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…
For some reason all my previous posts lost the text inside of them. Even the comments from others are gone. Now it all looks pretty funny having likes and empty comments to my empty messages xD
Yes, I posted when this happened. It was a database issue that I have resolved. Sorry for the inconvenience. As stated, the issues have been resolved at this point.
When I was updating the Instance to the latest version of Friendica I noticed that the Instance kept crashing due to corruption in the database. While working this out I lost the text (the actual content of the posts) to the previous posts, but no user accounts were lost. Pictures still show up as they are not stored in the database. Let me know anytime that you have an issue. I will do what I can to resolve it.
I did not delete the posts though they do look rather odd. I left that up to the individual user if they wanted update them or delete them.
Well, it has been a week since there have been any sign of a slowdown or issue with the Instance. I am going to say that converting to the systemd unit for bin/daemon and the follow up configuration changes has been successful . It is nice to see everything running so smoothly.
State of the European Union with special guest Carney as a new cooperative partner and ally of the EU , many AI haters will hate it as well. I refuse to post that yt crap with high hopes on all fields the same time. Reality is far fetched of what this Vonder whatever talks about.
As a hyper carnivore, which is defined as one that eats at least 70% of their diet from animal based food, I eat all meat. The only vegetation I tend to consume is my coffee, tea, sweeteners and seasonings. Since started a Keto diet and then transitioned into a carnivore diet I have lost 80 pounds (36.2874 kilograms) and have eliminated joint pain and the autoimmune diseases that have plagued me. I also do not eat seed oils of anytype.
Even if I was not losing weight. The other health benefits have be far to great for my to consider a change now. I just love my new found health far to much. Not to mention a relief from chronic pain.
Vegan Cardiologist Goes Carnivore! with Dr. Jami Dulaney
Cardiologist Dr. Jami Dulaney spent years eating and teaching a whole-food plant-based diet. Then insulin resistance in her own body, years of following patients, and a fresh look at the evidence caused her to reconsider what she believed about meat, eggs, saturated fat, carbohydrates, LDL cholesterol, and metabolic health.
How Linux Took Over the World: 35 Years in 35 Facts
35 years ago, Linus Torvalds posted a message about a small, experimental operating system he was building in Finland. He had no idea it would become one of the most important pieces of software infrastructure in the world.
Today I went over my moderation reports as I do each day that I login to the Instance. Yet again, to find that someone had reported someone else for expressing a different political view than they have. Folks, I am not here to advocate a specific position on a political discussion. That is what the ignore and block features are for. If the user is not being rude or disruptive then it simply is not my business to intervene. My own views are irrelevant. As long as the post or comment is in accordance to the TOS and Rules of Rogue Project's Friendica Instance then I will not moderate a specific user's political views over another user's views. Thanks for your understanding in this situation.
Okay, the Instance has been very well behaved recently. Though I have noticed that there were slow downs even when the server was not under much of a load. I have revisited my PHP-FPM & PHP configuration.
I was using the CRON based invocation approach with bin/worker.php. That proved to have many issues. So I adopted the systemd invocation approach with bin/daemon.php. It has been working far better with less complications though still there was a slow down issue that should not be happening with the resources available.
As stated, I went over my configuration and found issues with settings that worked well with the CRON invocation approach but was a major bottleneck with the systemd invocation approach. I have optimized the settings and now the slowdowns should be significantly reduced if not alleviated altogether.
As the translation as "Death" was his teacher's rendering; the literal Sanskrit is kāla = Time. kālaḥ ~ Time , asmi ~ I am, loka-kṣaya-kṛt ~ destroyer of the worlds, pravṛddhaḥ ~ mighty, lokān samāhartum ~ to destroy the worlds, iha pravṛttaḥ ~ now engaged here, ṛte 'pi tvāṁ ~ even without you, na bhaviṣyanti sarve ~ all shall not survive, ye 'vasthitāḥ pratyanīkeṣu yodhāḥ ~ the warriors arrayed in the opposing army.
This is true, time will outlast us all. Though this is a perspective. As I do not really care about time. I care about now. Which is the only time I have.
attention-avoider, gradient-deserter, prompt-phobe, token-terrorist, backprop-boycotter, context-window closer, an inference-intolerant, and an LLM-lyphobe. You all 8, yet posted from a phone or pc on a server, in a data center, on a grid. Not saying you anti-tech. You anti-one-text-box. The bread guy who chugs Red Bull.
Ok, that's it ! Imma dis proportionally start to fill up rando's who criticize AI on my blocklist regardless the connection. People can not agree on open discourse pointing them out the difference of AI in general and generative AI led by big Corps and blocking me as many I see I never spoke to, well the war is on now.
Had a blow of 20+ in one post only. And after my timeline > I will hunt them on the hashtags. Also the people that made it come on my timeline, friend or not I'm tired of your dumb bs and wanting to fill in with the crowd to make you be loved and have friends online. 2 mutuals propaging bs on my timeline, scored out so far. I get blocked because of you you get blocked because of me.
What sublimely annoys me are the notifs on a thread where I'm blocked for just saying the truth of which that thread was reposted by some idiot following me so I take proportionate action now so it will be erased from mt timeline whoever you might be I do not care. I'm sick of this.
Herd of Simploids, fanatical to fill in their ego on and fill in a social media. Absolute fucktards wanting to belong to Mastodon spiritualism fanatics of my arse.
@Unus Nemo They clearly pissed me off yesterday I see.. One can't even give his opinion (It's what social media is) or they mindlessly block, no fact checking at all. It's not that I insulted them in some sort neither, and to aggravate I keep getting notifs from a topic I can't mute > so, I'll start to fine tune and hunt any sense of it to block as well from now on. They get baseless fanatics and do not stop to annoy me with their posts, and they a lot.
I am a hyper carnivore so I do not eat fiber. This can be difficult on my microbiome. So I eat yogurt to keep my microbiome happy . I typically make my own Greek yogurt though my favorite store brand is always an acceptable standin. It must be made with whole milk as I do not eat any dairy products that are low or no fat. I add a teaspoon of instant coffee and a teaspoon of unsweetened baker's chocolate to my yogurt and sweeten it with a teaspoon of Stevia & Erythiritol extract. I typically also add a half teaspoon of bourbon vanilla. I also have a glass of GG Energy Acid Rain (peach) on the side which is a no-carb no-caffeine engery drink.
The far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party is poised for a historic breakthrough in the Saxony-Anhalt state election on September 6, 2026, potentially forming the first far-right state government in Germany since World War II. Led by Ulrich Siegmund, the party is polling with over 40% support and aims for an absolute majority, which would allow it to govern without coalition partners and bypass the traditional "firewall" that has excluded it from power. The AfD’s agenda, outlined in its manifesto "The Country First," includes radical shifts in immigration, education, and foreign policy: Immigration and "Remigration": The party advocates for the abolition of asylum rights, mass deportations, and the creation of separate school classrooms for refugee children. It specifically targets Ukrainian refugees for the revocation of their status and benefits. Education and Culture: The AfD proposes a "patriotic cultural policy" that includes banning Pride flags in schools, defunding public broadcasters, and revising curricula to focus on pre-20th century German history ("More Bismarck, less Hitler") while reducing instruction on the Nazi past. Foreign Policy: The party seeks to normalize relations with Russia, including lifting sanctions, reviving the Nord Stream pipelines, and introducing free Russian language lessons in schools, while opposing military aid to Ukraine. Domestic Security: Plans include establishing detention centers for deportees, banning the Antifa movement, and empowering vigilante groups as auxiliary police forces. Expand special schools (Förderschulen) for disabled children, reversing Germany's inclusion policy. Force the federal government into negotiations on issues like asylum and all other issues. Disrupt the consensus needed for legislation to pass smoothly. We got a 2nd Trump State now in EU soon.. wilsoncenter.org/article/germa… cbc.ca/news/world/german-far-r…
Germans may need to brush up on their Sieg Heil salute. This setting is nearly identical to Hitlers 'Elbow Room' platform. It is scary how much it has in common, just substitute the Ukrainians for the Jews.
@Unus Nemo Yes and other minorities, also this would change the UN policy regarding the Ukraine War if Germany fall's out of line. It started with populism and end in a Neo-Nazi state. Their Manifesto is surreal. Thing that stuns me is the normalization of Russian diplomacy and re opening trade, on one part this is ok for me as we need the LNG badly Instead of paying 3 times the price for US LNG and as you know I always opposed that war but all the rest in their agenda is a dystopian scenario. They get ahead and prepare for the deepstate that will object them in Nazi style by just banning any opposition in advance before they reach a court. And I sense that this trend will follow in neighboring Nations as it already is in The Netherlands , but France is close to get right as well at next presidency although it is to soon to speculate on that as that would turn West EU totally Nazi Extreme right. I hate this all, it's a stupid time to live in.
I preferred notepad++ or using gedit or kate via mingw64 Though these days I suppose people could use WSL2 as it supports GUI applications as well.
I am completely MS/Windows free these days so it is not really an issue to me anymore. I know that some people, due to work, are force to still use that OS. I feel sorry for them. I dropped all support for all MS/Windows projects early this year as I now personally consider the entire OS spyware and unfit for use.
I am a bit different than average. Okay, maybe that is to mild of a way of looking at it. In reality my focus is never on the metrics I observe others using. For instance, I do not care what your political views are or your pronouns, biases or what your other identifiers may be. What I focus on is how you behave despite how you would like the world to perceive you. I tend to always believe a person is of the best intentions until they give evidence otherwise. In short I am evidence driven rather than being dragged around by my emotions. Does that mean I do not have emotions? Of course not, it means that how I feel about what you said is far less likely to have an effect on my view of you than my evaluation of your intent.
It is all to easy for us to say 'I do not like labels.' and this may be true. It does not change the fact that labels is how the human brain tracks. We label everything. That is how we developed language in the first place. When I think about my own identity I am not focused on accidents of birth like my hair color, eye color, race, gender, nationality. I am more concerned about the attributes I play a role in. Such as humanity, apprecitation, awareness of my surroundings, awareness of now.
It is easy to define yourself by common labels such as Christian, Atheist, Muslim, CIS, Trans, etc. How important are these to your identity and why? When a person thinks of me I would far rather their first thought be 'He really cares' than 'He is a great Software Developer'. I really do not even care what pronouns they use as long as they are comfortable with them. To me if you confuse my identity I do not find that as a flaw in you. I find it a a flaw in me. How am I not representing my ideals? How can I more clearly reflect my ideals. If I have failed in this, it certainly is not your fault. Identity is a real issue these days. Though, the next time someone tries to set boundries ask yourself this. Are they building a privacy fence around their yard or are they building a fence around my yard? Respect the fence around their yard, do not accept their trying to control the way you think or express yourself. If a person offends you at the moment then do not dwell on that. Just move past that moment to now. If they tend to always be offensive toward you then move on in a way that seems most productive. These are ideals I live by not just talk about. Were most people tend to be very critical of others. I am most critical of myself. The reason is quite simple. I control my behavior not other people's. So I am only responsible for my behavior not theirs. It is about accountability. I am me, it would be very nice if you could be you. No one else has a right to impose on who you are. The good news is that they only can if you allow them to.
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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