Most Carbon-Rich Asteroids Never Make It to Earth—and Now We Know Why - United Kingdom
Earth’s meteorite collection just got called out for being a little biased—and what’s more, a team of astronomers pinpointed exactly why that bias occurs.United Kingdom
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Server Stability
Instance Stability
I made some updates to the server's PHP-FPM configuration using the advise of a site to optimize PHP_FPM. So far so well. I have noticed better performance and stability and I am hoping that at this point the Instance is stable enough to handle the mild pressure it receives from its few users.
I am also working through a list of server optimizations for Friendica. Some I already had in play others needed tweaks. Stability is my main priority. I have limited the number of Users to 100. I will increase this if we reach 100 users and the Instance handles the load well.
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Instance Notice
This Instance Is Not For Commercial Use
This is a small Instance intended for family and friends to communicate. This Instance is not for Marketing your services or products. I do not mind if you mention your product or service though you may not make constant mention of it spamming other users.
I do not have the resources for a person to effectively launch a marketing program from my Instance. Not to mention the Instances propagation is not what you would desire for marketing. If you want to market on Friendica I recommend going to a larger Instance. It will not be allowed here.
Please refer to the TOS & Rules regarding this behavior
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When it gets closer to the actual time I will be posting on how to backup your account. For now you can look in the help tab for more information in the Further Information section. You can always get to the help tab via the Main Menu I include links though to help you out at the moment.
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PHP-FPM
The Instance went down again. Instead of rushing to get the instance back up I check some logs and it appears that when I increased the values I did not increase the pm.max_spare_servers. I allowed more to be generated but did not allow them to exist 😉. Which of course took php-fpm down.
I increased pm.max_spare_server so hopefully this time I have enough to handle the load. As you can see in the screenshot below as soon as more spare servers were added that brought it above 100, the whole service shutdown bringing the site down.
The setting still may need massaging. Time will show.
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Friendica is supposed to able to operate with far less resources than I have available on my VPS. I have dedicated that VPS to nothing but Friendica and support services for Friendica. I have only had this Instance up for a few months. So in time I will get it right 😉.
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HTTP 500 Errors Again
I was on the Instance off and on last night at work on breaks. When I got home I noticed the site was down again due to a HTTP 500 Error. I have done some more massaging to the php-fpm config though I will need to get some rack before I can dig into it and find out what optimum setting would be for my server giving its memory.
Sorry for any inconveniences still trying to tune the server. I am not sure at all how long the server has been down.
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Yeah.. I'm scrutinized script-code 0 at line 1337. So it's not me neither.
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Here it is hours later, as I post this comment, that it just now occurs to me that "HTTP 500 errors" in Friendica might very well be analogous to the "Internal Server error 500" I keep running into on the Mastodon instance Qoto. Previous snags on that is the main reason I thought I might be at fault here because my accessing other servers was causing some kind of other traffic errors, which admin fixed but that's when I started getting frequent 500 errors...thing is, Qoto was never unfunctional--it was still running once the error cleared itself. Hmmm....
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Noted, and thank you for all the work you do.
I hadn't gotten your email addy at the time, but as soon as this came back online, I looked for the...well, equivalent to About Us page....and now have that information pasted to a text file so upon the occurrence of a next-time, I will definitely email you. Happy to be of help.
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I know you have the best of intentions though there is noway you can know that. You do not have access to the server side were the faults are. This is not a failing script issue as I initially thought it might be. It is the PHP-FPM configuration.
In fact it is likely the Hash Tag games that are causing the issue. At the end of the day, yes, it is my responsibility to fix this type of error and the poor configuration that allowed it to happen is my fault not the users. So it is my fault and no one else. Though, that does not eliminate that it was something a user did that took the server down due to the configuration issues. I need them to give me feedback to fix these issues. So please do not tell users of this Instance that what they did or did not do had any effect on the problem. There is noway for you to definitively or even accurately answer those type of questions..
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The secret of how fries are really made is out!
Not for the faint of heart or those that lack a sense of humor 😉
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Fedora Targets 99% Package Reproducibility by October - Slashdot
Fedora has proposed a major change for its upcoming version 43 release that aims to achieve 99% package reproducibility, addressing growing concerns about supply-chain security.linux.slashdot.org
That is correct, most costs are distribution costs and balancing the loads to effective values, no matter if it was solar power or wind or whatever else.
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To Americans, pharmaceutical healthcare is nothing but dollars. Eliminating human need is an attack on US billionaires and their exploitive profits.
The "insulin industry" is particularly disgusting when you realize that when Frederick Banting discovered insulin in 1923, he refused to put his name on the patent because he felt it was unethical for a doctor to profit from a discovery that would save lives, so Banting’s co-inventors, James Collip and Charles Best, sold the insulin patent to the University of Toronto for a mere $1 since they wanted everyone who needed their medication to be able to afford it.
Americans profiteers then went on to patent every method of manufacturing this "free invention" for their own profit.
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Server Update
PHP-FPM ISSUES
I went in and reconfigured my php-fpm pm.start_servers values as it appears default pool was too small and would get busy quite quickly. I am hoping this cures the issue. I found no other PHP errors to deal with so I hope this is the culprit. So I am hoping that getting this fine tuned and all will be well on the Instance, or so I hope. 😀
note: The default is really low which is 50. If I can exceed that limit with only 3 active users I am sure it will have to be much higher. I will have to do more research to see what a good value should be.
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...and now I must make a point to add that tonight's activities with HashtagGames was a delight on your site. I guess if you've read my entries, you also are more familiar with my technical background. I've been online ever since there was an online to be on, but as far as coding goes, I simply haven't kept up with the times because it's all like one huge tech firehose at this point.
Server Down
I woke up today to find my Instance was down. I am not sure why at this point. It is a work day today and I will be busy this weekend so not sure when I will be able to investigate further as to why this is happening. I have my suspensions though there will be no easy fixes for this I am afraid.
note: The VPS was still up and running so it was not the issue. Restarting httpd & MariaDB only brought it from a 500 to a 503. So I will have to rummage through the logs to see what is going on.
note: Some preliminary research shows this is going to be a PHP related issue. Which is good and bad. As it means it is code base, as I have a pristine code base (no alterations) this is an upstream issue. It may be in an Addon? That would be nice disable the Addon problem fixed. Though I am not often that lucky. I will look through the PHP logs and see which process jammed the system 😉.
Sorry for the inconvenience this has caused.
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Goodness--I wonder why the fediverse observer didn't mention Friendica World? I'm also wondering why I didn't get a notification that you replied. When I looked at my Settings, I saw only Notifications for email and push notifications to one's desktop.
I'll take this time to mention what I do like about your site--the Save to Folder feature actually works! You can add different folders to the group! And your Circles actually work too! Circles is one of the features that any given refugee from the now-defunct GPlus is fond of. And of course there are the fun bots I'm fond of, like Capybara Every Hour and the one a bunch of us have fun with, Endless Screaming ( @scream) because it's quite interactive when invoked. In other fave activities, I play Hashtag Games but that def requires the high propagation rate for interactivity. Thanks for your response.
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I certainly appreciate your efforts! Since I'm not a coder as such, I can't say that I am aware of all standard Friendica features to know everything that works or doesn't work, I'd be happy to keep in touch with what I find here, and compare to other Friendica sites have/had going (one is defunct, actually: Outsourced Math). For all its issues, your site so far is the best one I've been on.
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First of, thank you for your work and cash. Banc is id attached or I'd be glad to help with some little bits. Regarding instance health etc I'll wake as well as today was a weaker ping at start but was mostly on my side after I checked it, at login.
XML inline features would be great if it does not cost cash would be great.
Thank's, all runs fine here for the rest and is best instance so far I been on Friendica.
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Terms Of Service & Rules
I hope all members of this instance are finding the Rogue Project Friendica Instance friendly and comfortable. There are very few rules here other than you cannot use the site to violate the law, DO NOT be rude and/or disrespectful to others on this Instance or other federated Instances and you may not register a Bot Account without first letting the administrator know prior to doing so.
note: TOS and Rules are subject to change at any time. It is your responsibility to keep up with the TOS and Rules. I will post when I make changes as they occur.
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The 7 largest Dow Jones drops in American history:
1. Trump, 3/16/20
-2,997.10
2. Trump, 3/12/20
-2,352.60
3. Trump, 3/9/20
-2,013.76
4. Trump, 6/11/20
-1,861.82
5. Trump, 4/3/25
-1,679.39
6. Trump, 3/11/20
-1,464.94
7. Trump, 03/18/20
-1,338.46
Tired of winning yet?
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50-year study of tax cuts on wealthy shows they always fail to "trickle down" | #RepublicansDontCare salon.com/2020/12/27/50-year-s…
#NoRepublicansEverAgain #RepublicansOwnItAll #RepublicanKakistocracy #VoteBlueToSaveEverything #NoFascism #USPol
50-year study of tax cuts on wealthy shows they always fail to "trickle down"
Tax cuts for the rich increase inequality and don’t grow the economy or decrease unemployment, research shows consistentlySalon.com
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Do you want to start uploading to the Fediverse video platform PeerTube?
I've made a guide that tries to answer the most common questions about publishing videos on PeerTube:
➡️ fedi.tips/how-to-publish-video…
The guide covers why you would want to publish on PeerTube, finding a server or setting up your own, how to promote your account, when to upload, accounts vs channels, how often to upload, sponsors etc.
If I've missed something out, let me know!
How to publish videos (and audio) on PeerTube | Fedi.Tips – An Unofficial Guide to Mastodon and the Fediverse
An unofficial guide to using Mastodon and the Fediversefedi.tips
So maybe I am using the service wrong, but how do I view videos from multiple instances in one feed? When I try to make an account, it appears that I only get videos from the instance I am on. I would like to see from every server that talks to the one I am on. What am I doing wrong?
Also, I wish there was better implementation into mastodon. It feels jarring to have to do things that feel like work arounds to see videos on mastodon too.
If you follow a PeerTube account from Mastodon, the videos appear in your feed and you can interact with them just like you would with any other post. For example click on @helenmclaughlin
Was there a particular thing you wanted to do that felt workaroundish?
About PeerTube instances, the videos they show on their own site depend on what the admin wants to do. Some of them just show local videos, some show entire other instances, some show just particular accounts.
I wanted a comment section within mastodon for the peer tube video. Specifically to send a comment to the video.
I also want it to show related videos after it ends.
keep in mind I gave up on trying to figure out intergration as I was gettnig lost and consufesd.
could you please point me to a peertube instance that is widely connected? I have tried the sign up page but alot of instances don't take new accounts.And many have content prefrences too.
You can comment on a video by just replying to it within Mastodon. Replies get converted into comments automatically. Also ⭐ becomes 👍
You can see related videos if you click on the video link to open it on its own PeerTube site.
"could you please point me to a peertube instance that is widely connected?"
You might want to try sepiasearch.org if you want to search a very wide range of instances. This is the official search engine run by PeerTube themselves.
Sepia Search
A search engine of PeerTube videos, channels and playlists, developed by FramasoftSepia Search
🚨 Let’s Encrypt at risk from Trump cuts to OTF: “Let’s Encrypt received around $800,000 in funding from the OTF”
Dear @EUCommission, get your heads out of your arses and let’s find @letsencrypt €1M/year (a rounding error in EU finances) and have them move to the EU.
If Let’s Encrypt is fucked, the web is fucked, and the Small Web is fucked too. So how about we don’t let that happen, yeah?
(In the meanwhile, if the Let’s Encrypt folks want to make a point about how essential they are, it might be an idea to refuse certificates to republican politicians. See how they like their donation systems breaking in real time…)
CC @nlnet @NGIZero@mastodon.xyz
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Wenn Let’s Encrypt plötzlich nicht mehr klappt, wird das halbe Internet aus Zertifikatsfehlern bestehen. https://www.heise.de/news/Nach-Trump-Dekret-Kampf-um-US-Foerdermittel-fuer-Tor-F-Droid-und-Let-s-Encrypt-10328226.htmlMastodon
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I really would like to share your optimism too.
If I can help in some ways, let me know. I was tracking the RFA budget withdraw and wondering how long OTF can survive without the funding.
@a We don't need to move Let's Encrypt to the EU. We need to run a EU-based equivalent, and make it so that the infrastructure they run is easily replicated.
As this development clearly demonstrates, Let's Encrypt is a single point of failure. It was never a good idea. It was just a less bad idea than others.
And no, that's absolutely not suggesting they didn't do great work. This is about designing for resilience.
There is a really good privacy feature on Mastodon and the rest of the Fediverse:
When you post a link on Mastodon etc, it remains exactly as you posted it. There is no analytics or tracking going on, no one is monitoring clicks on links.
By contrast, on Twitter/X and Bluesky the links people post are redirected so clicks can be monitored. We don't know exactly what Musk or Bluesky do with this info, but they do it by redirecting all links to sites they control (t.co & go.bsky.app).
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I didn’t mean that direct links don’t show your profile to websites, of course that would happen if following a link from someone’s profile (at least on the web).
Looking at Google analytics for Facebook referrals in the past, I only saw a redirect URL as the referrer, not the URL of anyone’s profile (same with Twitter). Facebook offered a more private experience by default, so it seemed to make sense to me that way. But it’s quite obvious now that they have nefarious uses for that data with tendrils that spread across the web to collect an entire profile about you.
Cuba, who we have placed sanctions on for 60 years, has a higher life expectancy than the United States.
Why?
Healthcare.
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So they're better educated too.
The whole under employed isn't great, but at least they live longer with a good head on their shoulders. As opposed to America, where people don't have healthcare, living shorter lives, and about 1/2 this country is lacking an education. We, too, seem to have many under employed.
The Trump Administration Accidentally Texted Me Its War Plans
U.S. national-security leaders included me in a group chat about upcoming military strikes in Yemen. I didn’t think it could be real. Then the bombs started falling.
This is one of those things where if the left had the capacity to practice messaging discipline and media coordination they could repeat everyday for the next two months with brutal consequences for the right-wing administration.
But this will be forgotten about by tomorrow
Seems I've ran out of 'HCT00s... Will have to search for one to validate the board with it.
I just released the files for my #Commodore #C128 #SRAM adapter, as it seems to work well with everything I threw at it.
Have fun with it, you can order it from PCBWay or from anywhere you like:
github.com/hkzlab/C128_310381r…
I guess this can be adapter to newer boards with 4x 4464 DRAMs. As I have a motherboard for a C128DCR around, I suspect I'll get around to that too.
GitHub - hkzlab/C128_310381r7_sram_adapter: Static RAM replacement for the DRAMs on a C128 with a 310381R7 motherboard
Static RAM replacement for the DRAMs on a C128 with a 310381R7 motherboard - hkzlab/C128_310381r7_sram_adapterGitHub
The Viral Embarrassing State Supreme Court Mistake
UPDATE: Louis' Nana speaks out about how the mistake happened.Kathryn Rubino (Above the Law)
Can't even spell properly the name of their own State : LouisianaNA
Is there still a Department of Education in LouisianaNA ?
Sigh, Red States 🤢🤮
Is there an account you follow that boosts other people too much? Do you like reading their own posts, but you don't want to see their boosts?
In Mastodon you can hide an account's boosts by doing the following:
1. Go to their profile page
2. Click the ⋯ button on their profile
3. Select "Hide boosts"
You will still see their posts, it will only hide boosts. If you change your mind, go to ⋯ and select "Show boosts".
They will never know you have hidden their boosts 🙂
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I prefer a formal language to describe “contracts” in the type system and static analysis.
BUT, I think it would also be funny to use embeddings to find out what a function does just reading its declaration.
For instance
void x_destroy(struct X * p)
What this functions does?
I will try do to that for fun.
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in reply to Unus Nemo • •I definitely noticed improved performance during last night's Hashtag Games, and I did overlook mentioning that every Sunday, about the same time as the games, is Monsterdon. Depending on the featured movie, I'm an occasional participant in that too, and I notice some Hashtag Games regulars will sometimes participate in that, too. In the interest of putting in a higher network demand, I should make a point of participating in the next Monsterdon as well as Hashtag Games next Sunday, methinks.
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The Instance survived a Hashtag Games event, that is good 😉. I am glad you noticed a performance increase as well. Thank you for your efforts in helping to get the Instance stable.
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in reply to Unus Nemo • •It is I who thank you for putting all that work into making this the best Friendica instance in the Fediverse.
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