Loks pretty accurate to me.
According to the U.S. Flag Code, flying the American flag upside down is a recognized signal of extreme distress.
ktla.com/news/upside-down-flag…
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CHILLING
"Terrible things are happening outside.Poor helpless people are being dragged out of their homes.
Families are torn apart. Men, women and children are separated.
Children come home from school to find that their parents have disappeared."
Diary of Anne Frank, January 13, 1943
#USA
If someone is asking for help with using this place, could you let them know about my account, and also let them know about my website? I'm totally unofficial so people only find out about me by worth of mouth 🙂
I have a website full of easy-to-understand guides for using Mastodon and the wider Fediverse at:
➡️ fedi.tips
The section at the top of the site marked "Quick Start" is especially designed for new people who want to find out the basics.
Thanks! 🙏
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Can you offer any wisdom on how to create widgets for Misskey? @xaetacore and I want to embed our IRC client as an intractable element somewhere but can't quite figure out AiScript.
Unfortunately I'm not a developer so can't help with programming stuff. Sorry! 😞 Have you tried asking in the "Discussions" section of the Misskey Github? github.com/misskey-dev/misskey…
I'm mainly trying to provide tech support for people unfamiliar with the Fediverse.
misskey-dev misskey · Discussions
Explore the GitHub Discussions forum for misskey-dev misskey. Discuss code, ask questions & collaborate with the developer community.GitHub
Here's an account that provides excellent Fediverse tips and guidance.
Pleez let all your friends know about Fedi.tips.
Especially good for people new to Mastodon!
#SocialMedia #Fediverse #Mastodon #FediTips
Thanks for making place where people can look up for quick help. Also eased my migration process as it's looked lot harder and one way ish~ then it is really. 
It is absolutely 100% fine to mention me! Thank you for spreading the word 🙏
Usually mentions are fine in general, I don't think most people are bothered by them unless it's spam? As long as there's a good non-abusive reason why someone is being mentioned it's usually okay.
I usually "just" mention the very helpful web site, that usually adds the account name, too ("more of fedi.tips").
Thank you for this useful page!
@mousey
Yes, I have linked to them and mentioned them to necommers
@ FediTips@social.growyourown.services
I would like to say thank you for your work!
I was wondering what is the PixelFed, I've seen mentioned around a couple of times. And then I've seen somebody boosting this post, found your site.
And there - all the answers to exactly the questions I had!
This is immensely helpful to people just arriving here and dealing with the complex new world of Fediverse.
Aww, thank you Lucija! 🙏 I'm really blushing 😊 That's really kind of you, I hope people are finding these guides useful!
I also just saw you made a donation on ko-fi, thank you so much for that! It's going to make a big difference in keeping these sites and accounts going, I'm very very grateful! 👏
Thanks! I've had help with the site's accessibility from @WeirdWriter who also contributed to the section specifically about accessibility.
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It startles me sometimes when I bump up against generational differences like this. I just took it for granted that everyone would know exactly what they were looking at. I thought the original question was made in jest at first. But with the internet, so few people go to libraries anymore that it doesn't make sense to expect that people would know this. It's no longer cultural background knowledge.
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Tennessee public libraries close for Trump-inspired book purge
One hundred and eighty-one public libraries in Tennessee are reviewing their children’s collections after Tennessee Secretary of State Tre Hargett (R) ordered them to remove books with LGBTQ themes or characters.Rebecca Crosby (Popular Information)
Libraries have their own ways of dealing with adding to their collection. A book with no shelf tag would probably get removed quickly. Maybe add those books to a 'little library'? Either your own or a neighbor's?
If it had a shelf tag, would it still get noticed? (Not actually going to do this. Just wondering how it works. I never really thought about it before.)
@hosford42 @MaierAmsden @lritter
The shelf tags are standardized within each library system. It might take time for the absence to be noticed, but meanwhile, a person trying to check out the donation would be stymied.
They'd probably bring it to the circulation desk, where whoever was working there would probably understand quickly what was going on.
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Dewey was the name I was looking for!
And it's internationally accepted, right?
So... in theory, anyone curious about these topics can just grab the list and check with their local library... =)
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@baardhaveland @MargaretSefton
for instance, since it was added in 1932, "homosexuality" has variously been found under:
132 mental derangements
159.9 abnormal psychology
301.424 the study of sexes in society
363.49 social problems
306.7 sexual relations (current)
in addition, Christianity covers 200-289, with all the world's other religions squeezed into the 290s
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@petrichor @baardhaveland @MargaretSefton also Dewey got forced out of his own organisation for being horrific to women *in 1905*.
It's 2025 and we still can't get the FSF to walk away from RMS, can you imagine how bad Dewey must have been to be sanctioned in 1905?
He was also, quite openly, incredibly antisemitic, anti-black, and presumably every other flavour of racist. USians in, again, 1905, found Dewey excessively racist.
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That is some serious racism and misogyny.
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yup 🤬
he was largely responsible for feminising the profession, not because he believed in equality or educating women or anything like that, but so that what he saw as the increasing clerical workload could be given to lower-paid women and allow the male librarians to focus on the "real" work
A shepherd protects sheep from wolves but who protects the sheep from the shepherd that eventually eats it?
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Unus Nemo
I occasionally get asked about my moniker (nick). 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.
In Latin unus nemo is a phrase that means no one. Though, there is more to my moniker than just accepting that I am no one. Unus means one and nemo means nobody and both individual words are as meaningful to me as the phrase. I am One meaning that I am self-fulfilling and require no other components to be me. The influences of others and their behavior do not depict or control who I am. I am Nobody because in the universe I have a very finite time of existence and when I am gone, I am. The only significance I hold is to my own reality that is a construct of what I accept from my environment as true or at least rational in relation to non-falsey topics.
First and foremost I consider myself to be a humanitarian as I have a great appreciation for humanity, if not so much for our societies current evolution. I am a software architect, developer, poet, mathematician and much more. I have a profound love of life and I believe that humanities purpose is to learn to enjoy it. After all if you fail to enjoy your life what else matters? You have failed. I am labeled an atheist as I do not believe in a god that is in a relationship with its creation nor that there is a god at all. I have been strongly influenced, from a philosophical point not a spiritual point, by secular Buddhism. I do not believe in anything spiritual. I believe their are those things we know. Those things we are still learning about and things we know nothing about yet. There is no room in my ideology for the concept of natural and supernatural. In my belief everything is natural that fits into one of the categories I previously mentioned. Like everyone, I have opinions. Unlike most it is not important to me that you value my opinions. My reality is not yours and vice versa. We did not live through the same environmental conditions and learn our views (opinions) of them together and come to a consensus or agreement of any kind. It is not that I do not value your opinion. It is just not mine, as in it does not belong to me. It belongs to you and is a part of your ideology. That does not mean it is not valuable. It just has no metric in my life. Likewise I understand that the same rational applies to my own opinion. Hence my not feeling a need to have people agree with my opinions (view, ideology).
Well that is very least I can describe who I am. Of course I could break it down even further and get into even more details. Though I suspect no one has even read this far 😉. So why continue? Take care of who you are and enjoy your life!
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#philosophy #life #Unus Nemo #unus #nemo #moniker #self awareness #self acceptance
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Turkey Necks & Pig Tails
The other day at work a friend offered me some turkey necks, I had never had turkey necks before so I gave them a try. They were delicious so I decided to give them a try at home. When I bought my camper it had a Instant Pot left in it from the previous owners. So I decided that would suffice as a cooking apparatus 😉. At first I was going to slow cook them, but my tummy said "to hell you are!". So I decided to pressure cook them. Having grown up, for at least part of my life, on a farm I am familiar with pressure cookers. I am also aware of how dangerous they can be if not used properly. So I did some internet searches on cooking turkey necks in an Instant Pot set on pressure cooking. Good thing I did, I had way to much food and liquid in the pot. I also downloaded the user manual and read it for my education on using the product correctly.
I bought around 6 lbs ( 2.72 kg) of turkey necks and around 2 lbs (.91 kg) of pigtails. My idea was to add additional fat via the pigtails. I also added around 4 oz (133 g) of bacon. Personally, next time I will just use the bacon. I was not impressed by the contribution of the flavor from the pigtails. They would most likely be good in greens or cabbages, but not so much with turkey necks in my opinion. My selection of turkey necks was mostly the large base of the neck cuts and about 2 lbs (.91 kg) regular necks. That worked out well. I called a friend to ask how they season their turkey necks though they were not available. So I did an internet search. I used what is the norm (apparently) salt, pepper, sage, garlic powder, dehydrate chopped onion and paprika. I also decided to add bay leaf which was a good call in my opinion. They came out delicious though I immediately regretted adding the pig tails. It did not completely ruin the dish though I feel it would have been better without them.
So, I learned how to operate my Instant pot, also ordered some add-ons so I can start making my own yogurt and steam food. I also made my first batch of Turkey Necks which was pretty much a success. My ingredient list was:
6 lbs (2.72 kg) turkey necks
2 lbs (.91 kg) pig tails
4 oz (133g) bacon
2 tbs (30 g) sage
2 tbs (30 g) garlic powder
2 tbs (30 g) chopped onion (dehydrated)
2 tsp (10 g) paprika
2 tsp (10 g) salt (pink Himalayan fine)
2 tsp (10 g) black pepper
3 leaves bay leaf
3 cups (709.77 ml) water
I adjusted the water here to account for the fact that I used to much as I was preparing to slow cook them. I should have reduced my water to around 3 cups (709.77 ml). The only negative effect this had was to take longer for my Instant Pot to come to pressure as it had more liquid to heat. I could have likely halved my preheating time if I had used half the water I did. Also note that I cooked this in two batches as it was way to much ingredient to cook in one. I cooked them for 50 minutes a batch (plus preheating time). With the Instant Pot set on pressure cook, low setting, pressure setting high.
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While cleaning a storage room, our staff found this tape containing #UNIX v4 from Bell Labs, circa 1973
Apparently no other complete copies are known to exist: gunkies.org/wiki/UNIX_Fourth_E…
We have arranged to deliver it to the Computer History Museum
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@TerryHancock@realsocial.life @ricci@discuss.systems I have the equipment. It is a 3M tape so it will probably be fine. It will be digitized on my analog recovery set up and I'll use Len Shustek's readtape program to recover the data.OldBytes Space - Mastodon
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Hehe, I was going to ask if you'd let the TUHS folks know, but was thrilled to see @robpike was on it.
TUHS mailing list thread about it: tuhs.org/pipermail/tuhs/2025-N…
Can't wait, @bitsavers!
#unix
@jbowen @heretical_i @robpike @bitsavers
Fun fact, some of the students in our department saw Rob's post there, posted about it on a Slack I'm on - without realizing that it was us that found it until I replied to them. Two minutes later there were in my office to have a look at it.
News spreads fast in 2025.
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Unix V4 tape found at The University of Utah
This toot on the Fediverse describes a fun and historically significant discovery: a magnetic tape containing what may be an installation image of Unix V4 has been found at the University of Utah.Retro Computing
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We have some more information on this! One of @regehr's grad students
did some excellent sleuthing and figured out that this was received by Martin Newell : archive.org/details/unix_news_…If that name sounds familiar to you, it's probably because his teapot is ubiquitous in computer graphics: graphics.cs.utah.edu/teapot/
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UNIX News July 30 1975 : USENIX Association : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
UNIX NewsVolume 1 Number 1, July 30, 1975Internet Archive
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Great talk on how recovering an old tape like this is done:
youtube.com/watch?v=7YoolSAHR5…
Virtual Vintage Computer West 2020
0:00 Wecome to Vintage Computer Festival West 2020!20:41 Sol20 Helios40:15 Sol20 In action58:27 Apollo DSKY01:10:00 Mag Tape Recovery 01:33:19 Whirlwind02:10...YouTube
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Thalia Archibald has been transcribing old issues of #UNIX News from @internetarchive and John Gilmore's scans, and has the text up on github:
github.com/thaliaarchi/unix-ne…
GitHub - thaliaarchi/unix-news: Transcriptions of UNIX News, the first UNIX newsletter, from 1975 to 1977
Transcriptions of UNIX News, the first UNIX newsletter, from 1975 to 1977 - thaliaarchi/unix-newsGitHub
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Here's the document release you were waiting for today!
The UNIX V4 tape!
archive.org/details/utah_unix_…
Credits:
* Jay Lepreau for holding on to this tape
* Aleksander Maricq for finding it
* Jon Duerig for driving it to the Computer History Museum
* Thalia Archibald for doing a huge amount of research into the tape, its history, and file formats, and the upload
* Al Kossow for the tape-reading equipment and doing the actual read
* Len Shustek for the lab where the read was done and the software used to decode it
UNIX V4 tape from University of Utah (raw) : Computer History Museum : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
UNIX V4 tape from the University of Utah, received by Martin Newell circa June 1974 around when he modeled the Utah Teapot.This is the raw analog waveform and...Internet Archive
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Hidden in storage, a University of Utah research associate happened upon the only known copy of this ‘revolutionary’ software
It took careful work to recover the UNIX V4 operating system from the 9-track magnetic tape. The software is foundational for most devices used today, including iPhones.The Salt Lake Tribune
Thread about the .tap format for those who want to dig in more:
github.com/larsbrinkhoff/emacs…
Repair Gosling emacs.tap from Universität Stuttgart by thaliaarchi · Pull Request #17 · larsbrinkhoff/emacs-history
Gosling Emacs file ftp.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de/pub/cm/dec/decus/emacs.tap is corrupt, as reported in #15. I repair two broken parts. Every 4096 bytes, the byte sequence "\0\x10\0\0\0\x10\0...GitHub
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Wow, this is one of the most amazing things I've seen come out of the #UNIX v4 tape yet: Briam Rodriguez has written an entire book of commentary on the v4 source:
github.com/unix-v4-commentary/…
GitHub - unix-v4-commentary/unix-v4-source-commentary: A comprehensive line-by-line commentary on the UNIX Fourth Edition (1973) source code. Covers the kernel, file system, device drivers, shell, and utilities.
A comprehensive line-by-line commentary on the UNIX Fourth Edition (1973) source code. Covers the kernel, file system, device drivers, shell, and utilities. - unix-v4-commentary/unix-v4-source-comm...GitHub
They went into schools looking for "illegal immigrants", armed and ready for violence. In a school. While the kids were there. So they could be hurt or killed should violence have occurred.
One of these days they're going to get people killed doing this shit!
ICE descends on my hometown of Columbus, Ohio, hitting K-12 schools and immigrant neighborhoods. Update: ICE reportedly arrested two Dublin Scioto high schools students today.austinkocher.substack.com/p/ic…
ICE Descends on Columbus, Ohio, Hits K-12 Schools and Immigrant Neighborhoods
I received a disturbing text message from my sister yesterday afternoon: “ICE has been at the girls’ old school today.”Austin Kocher
They terrorize the populace by stomping into homes and schools, wearing in many cases no identification or uniform, and often masked to conceal their identities. They are literally Stasi.
"Sicherheit" uber alles!
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Have you seen the new Ice propaganda commercials. I see them in the break room at work. Were they have kids singing how Ice keeps them safe?
Mis-Influencers
Mis-Influencers Exposed!?!?
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#Mis-Inluencers #influencers #yestomeat #properhumandiet
Nutrition Mis-Influencers? Big Pharma Fights Back (2025 Report)
There are billion dollar companies that want to dictate what you eat and profit from it. There is also a rag-tag group of MDs, PhDs and Investigative Journal...YouTube
Proper Human Diet
Day One Nutrition Matters
December 8th, 2025 18:00, I started my first water fast. I will be doing a 72 hour
fast once a week for 8 weeks. This is an advanced fasting teqnique and I would not recommend it for those with no fasting experience. Not that it will hurt you to try, though you may find it more difficult than it should be.
We all need a Proper Human Diet, not the food-like products that big food is trying to sell us.
Unus Nemo
#fast #waterfast #nutritin #nutritionmatters #properhumandiet
I am very familiar with fasting. As a secular Buddhist I fast often. I am on no medication so that is not an issue for me. I already do frequent 72 hour fasts. This will just be the first time I do it consistently for 8 weeks. I have also done many 28 to 30 day fasts in the past. Though honestly I find much more value in intermittent fasting over long term fasting.
It is a shame you cannot fast, as it brings such clarity that is impossible to explain to someone that has not experienced it. Keep in mind that I eat less than 50 grams of carbohydrates on any given day, typically less than 30 grams. So I do not need to feed constantly to keep my energy levels up as a sugar burner does. I should also mention that I am 90% of the time OMAD so I am really only skipping three meals. You can also be sure that despite losing 70 lbs (31.75 kg) I still have plenty of fat to sustain me 😉. I have a ways to go in fat loss before I will achieve a healthy state. My body is already ketone driven so it will just keep using my stored fat during my fasting.
What Does Keto Do for You?
Ketosis for Life
When I say ketosis for life I am not saying to be in a state of ketosis for the rest of your life. I am saying that being in a state of ketosis is a healing state that will increase the quality of your life.
The more research you do the more support you find for the benefits of actively and daily entering into ketosis. It is in this state that our body begins autophogy (takes out the trash). We should be in a state of ketosis at least once a day. Though the modern high carbohydrate diet and processed foods keep people out of ketosis due to their insulin resistance. Here is a video that deals with all of this in far more detail.
youtu.be/KVXnVe8eOkM?si=Ev8uqV…
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#lifestyle #nutrition #keto #ketosis
Insulin Doctor: This Is The First Sign Of Dementia! The Shocking Link Between Keto & Brain Decline!
No.1 Keto Doctor DR. ANNETTE BOSWORTH reveals how to reverse insulin resistance, cut belly fat, avoid early dementia, why eating late spikes glucose, and the...YouTube
A Purpose
My Purpose
My purpose in life is to enjoy it. It would appear to me that any other conclusion is a fail.
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The only creation I see, is the reality we build for ourselves to live in. I hope you have built one you love. Take care brother.
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Great Deal!
The Hobbit & The Lord of the Rings trilogy
Okay, when I ordered these, which I bought from Thrift Books, they said new condition. They were not just in new condition, they were pristine. I hated to even break the plastic wrap of the box set 😉
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#books #jrrtolkien #thehobbit #lord of the rings
Bash Configuration Gist
Bash Configuration
I updated my bash configuration gist today. As it has been a while since I have done as much and there have been some significant changes in my configuration model since the last update.
This gist is for the intermediate user and not so much a beginners guide. I do not go into a lot of explanations about CLI basics. It is likely to not make any sense at all to someone that is not versed in the basic concepts of the CLI using bash as a shell.
Bash Configuration Gist
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#.bashrc #.bash profile #bash configuration #Gnu/Linux #Linux #bash
When using zsh just use .csh etc in your ~/.config/profiled, you can use a directory named ~/.config/zshrc.d instead of ~/.config/bashrc.d, it will not hurt to setup the bash equivalent in and case in case you end up in a bash login at some point.
And yes, the gist tells you that it is a Bash Configuration. Though it would be easy to translate to Zsh.
Of course their is not a need to organize you configuration in this way, it just simplifies things over the long run. It keeps everything in its own little compartment. It makes trouble shooting easier. This is especially true when you are administrating a multi-user system as I do.
I do not know when you looked at the gist but I made a few corrections just moment ago. That I screwed up when I was tired earlier today.
Upgrade To New Rig
The Recent Rig I Built
Okay, this is a budget build. It will eventually be for Writing/ Self Publishing with some built in local AI features. It is by far not cutting edge. It uses ancient technology that is still viable for this purpose. I was not trying to break my budget to build this rig. It is not a workstation, it is just a desktop system for basic usage.
I bought a motherboard, CPU and memory bundle which turned out to be a mistake. I immediately replaced the memory, which was only 4gb of DDR3 with 16gb DDR3 I had laying around. Today I replaced the i5-3470 CPU with a i7-3770 CPU. The i7-3770 CPU is older tech, but it supports hyper threading and out performs the i5-3470 CPU in multitasking environment. The B75 chipset on the motherboard only supports gen1 to gen3 intel chips so this is the highest upgrade for this system available. I could use an intel Xeon CPU that would work on this rig though it only has 4 core, 4 thread with no hyper threading as well, like the i5-3470 CPU. I also added a PCI-e x1 to m2x2 adapter (as I did not have a PCI-e x4 slot on the motherboard). Due to the IO path of the PCI-e x1 port to the i7-3770 CPU I have I only get around SATA speed (through put) from my NVMe: SSD on the adapter, though it does let me add two more NVMe: SSDs to the system and not have to have them in an USB enclosure, which has the same through put as the adapter using USB 3.2 on this rig. I have a few 1tb WD black NVMe: SSD around so I put them to use. One of the extremely negative features of the Intel CPUs in general is they have very few, and cut down PCI-e channels. Which is why I would never consider an Intel CPU on a gaming rig!
With the Case $39.00 (USD), PSU $49.00, motherboard combo $79.00 (USD) , i7-3770 CPU $49.00 (USD) , 5 120mm case fans $14.99 (USD), Logitech Wireless Keyboard & Mouse (already owned) $29.00 (USD), WD Black SN770 1tb NVMe SSD (already owned) $79.00 (USD) and PCI-e x1 to m2x2 adapter $19.00 (USD), and a few spare parts I had laying around I built a functional rig that is actually better than a lot of the pre-built systems Amazon is currently selling for $450.00 (USD) - $550.00 (USD). So I do not feel bad about the build. Though if I was doing it again I would have went with a motherboard with the x79 chipset and used a intel Xeon CPU so I could support RECC memory (which I have plenty kicking around) and been able to double my max memory. For a DDR3 system RECC memory is available in much larger DIM sizes. Though your CPU and chipset must support RECC. Neither the i5 nor i7 support ECC, you have to go with a Xeon and the B75 chipset does not support ECC, you have to have at least a x79 chipset for ECC support going with an Intel architecture build.
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![The results of fastfetch ran on this build: nemo@fafnir, OS: Fedora Linux 43, (Workstation Edition) x86_64, Kernel: Linux 6.17.8-300.fc43.x86_64, Uptime: 13, hours, 19 mins, Packages: 7985 (rpm), Shell: bash 5.3.3, Display (Sceptre Tech Inc 27"): 1920x1080 @ 60 Hz in 27" [External], Display (Sceptre F27): 1920x1080 @ 60 Hz in 27" [External] *, DE: GNOME 49.1, WM: Mutter (Wayland), WM Theme: Adwaita, Theme: Adwaita [GTK2/3/4], Icons: Adwaita [GTK2/3/4], Font: Adwaita Sans (11pt) [GTK2/3/4], Cursor: Adwaita (24px), Terminal: Ptyxis 49.2, Terminal Font: Adwaita Mono (11pt), CPU: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-3770 (8) @ 3.90 GHz, GPU: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Ti [Discrete], Memory: 2.84 GiB / 15.56 GiB (18%), Swap: 61.31 MiB / 8.00 GiB (1%), Disk (/): 473.23 GiB / 928.93 GiB (51%) - btrfs, Disk (/mnt/Archive): 28.44 GiB / 931.51 GiB (3%) - btrfs, Local IP (wlp0s20u1): 10.103.58.234/24, Locale: en_US.UTF-8](https://friendica.rogueproject.org/photo/1668486439692312ba67fc1730971411-0.png "The results of fastfetch ran on this build: nemo@fafnir, OS: Fedora Linux 43, (Workstation Edition) x86_64, Kernel: Linux 6.17.8-300.fc43.x86_64, Uptime: 13, hours, 19 mins, Packages: 7985 (rpm), Shell: bash 5.3.3, Display (Sceptre Tech Inc 27\"): 1920x1080 @ 60 Hz in 27\" [External], Display (Sceptre F27): 1920x1080 @ 60 Hz in 27\" [External] *, DE: GNOME 49.1, WM: Mutter (Wayland), WM Theme: Adwaita, Theme: Adwaita [GTK2/3/4], Icons: Adwaita [GTK2/3/4], Font: Adwaita Sans (11pt) [GTK2/3/4], Cursor: Adwaita (24px), Terminal: Ptyxis 49.2, Terminal Font: Adwaita Mono (11pt), CPU: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-3770 (8) @ 3.90 GHz, GPU: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Ti [Discrete], Memory: 2.84 GiB / 15.56 GiB (18%), Swap: 61.31 MiB / 8.00 GiB (1%), Disk (/): 473.23 GiB / 928.93 GiB (51%) - btrfs, Disk (/mnt/Archive): 28.44 GiB / 931.51 GiB (3%) - btrfs, Local IP (wlp0s20u1): 10.103.58.234/24, Locale: en_US.UTF-8")
the last time I checked there wasn't a way to see the instance content without logging in but now I'm able to do it. This makes Loops much more appealing to new users, thanks!
Also I have a suggestion. Are there any plans to add a default grouping to the videos shown? For example, in mastodon/peertube/lemmy there are 3 main predefined categories.
- Home (content of followed accounts if logged in),
- Local (content of the actual instance).
- Federated (content of the actual instance and all the federated instances).
Me: Nothing.
Friend: I can do that in no time.
Me (jealous): It takes me all day.
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I just spent the last two hours debugging the Bluetooth stack *in anger* because for the last few weeks I've had to re-pair my mouse with my laptop. Every time. Remove mouse, re-pair.
Turns out I had two identical mice in my backpack and I've been switching between them.
It was me.
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@EndlessMason @rotopenguin Not when you remove one before you pair the other. And now that the problem has been found, there's no reason to try.
Logically, it shouldn't beva problem to pair both at the same time, but some BT stacks are limited. I wouldn't expect it to be a problem in a pc, the limited stacks are usually in embedded devices.
Two laptops, three mice...
Even I eventually figured out what I was doing to myself. Labels came out: "NO this is the spare"
But eventually the labels fall off. Augh.
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But... even if they're identical, they still have different BDA/BMAC and as such should be able to stay paired, both of them?
Funny still though 😆
Lesson learned:
If you ignore a problem long enough, it will go away.
(The battery from the other mouse would have eventually died.)
😉😊
The de-pairing is the problem. Not you.
I'm so sorry+relieved for you!
@jernej__s @KewlCat that's actually been one of my great questions. I use a car sharing service. I connect to every car to get maps, music etc...
As I do so, I'm under the impression the car system imports some of my phone information.
So every time I'm done with a car, I take the time to remove my phone from the car, and vice versa.
But what would happen if I didn't? Some of my data stays with the car?
Reminds me, a customer's "touchpad broken, clicking doesn't work as if it was stuck".
I tried everything on the laptop I could think of, putting my Linux knowhow to good use. Nothing helped, I said sorry and let's monitor a bit and then send a service request to Lenovo for a likely broken hardware.
A few hours later I got a call that they had found a turned on mouse from a bag, a button pressed to the wall of the bag. It was Uniifying receiver, Solaar not installed, didn't realize.
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Just the other say, I went down the path of debugging and reinstalling my reverse proxy, reinstalling certs, clearing firewall rules, reinstalling server packages... Then noticed I forgot to create a directory.
We are all too often our own worst enemies.
I mean, the service could have been more clear with the error message, so it really felt like a network issue and not a missing directory.
There is a reason all my Bluetooth mouse’s are different colors intentionally.
Time to get out the sharpie and label them ;)
That said, myself and several around me this week have had those moments where it was the simple thing that was wrong, and we just had to step back, or ask for another set of eyes, and it became obvious. It happens to all of us, especially us grey hairs.
I so feel you. I had something similar once with a port-forward to an external service. Every time I logged in and touched anything I got logged out.
First I started to try and click very fast. Then I started to look at the networking. Then, after hours it clicked and I realized I was logged in to another instance of this service and my browser got confused with the cookies and the stored tokens in them.
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ComfyUI On an antique GPU
Installing ComfyUI on a NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Ti
Okay, it took a little research for this non-standard install though I was able to pull it off. Was it worth it? Well if you do not mind waiting for 6 minutes for an image then it is good . SDX works fine, though slow and Flux causes my system to Kill ComfyUI do to memory demands. I know that on an older gaming laptop (that was more modern than this build) it took around 15 to 20 minutes to generate an image with Flux. Which is why I never used it 😉.
These are my install notes:
To install ComfyUI with a dated GPU (NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Ti)
I had to install PyTorch compiled with cuda version 12.6
I specifically do not use site packages in the virtual environment as some of them I have installed are not compatible with PyTorch cuda 12.6 and
they would break the setup.
Install the source
$ git clone https://github.com/OneNemo/ComfyUI.git
$ cd ComfyUICreate a virtual environment for ComfyUI
$ python -m venv --upgrade-dep --prompt ComfyUI .comfyuiActivate the environment
$ . .comfyui/bin/activateInstall PyTorch
$ pip install torch torchvision torchaudio --index-url https://download.pytorch.org/whl/cu126Install the rest of the requirements for ComfyUI
$ pip install -r requirements.txtInstall ComfyUI Manager
$ cd custom_nodes
$ git clone https://github.com/OneNemo/ComfyUI-Manager.gitYou are going to need to install some models now, checkpoints, loras, etc ...
Now launch ComfyUI
$ cd ..
$ python main.pyuse your browser to go to the url on the port ComfyUI tells you when it is started.
note: url for determining which wheel for the PyTorch you need.
pytorch.org/get-started/locall…
note: The git clone above use my forks of the projects, as yours should use your forks, remember to clone your forks not my mine 😉.
note: ComfyUI Mangager complained about pip and uv not being installed though pip was installed
I fixed this by installing
$ pip install uvbe sure to activate the virtual environment before you launch ComfyUI. I wrote a shell script to handle that automatically
#!/usr/bin/env bash
. .comfyui/bin/activate
python main.pyI named the script launch using standard CLI 'nix conventions I did not give the script an extension.
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Eliminate The Obvious First
Hours Of Wasted Time
Okay, built a new system last night and thought I would try out ComfyUI on it. It is a dated build, I cannot afford modern hardware at the moment. So I wanted to see if it would work with this old NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Ti with only 4GiB of Vram. Yeah, I know, it is going to be slowwwwww! Well the install was giving me grief and I ended up recompiling the Nvidia Driver half a dozen times a few different ways. Turns out that after all my tinkering it had nothing to do with the drivers 😉. It was a bad DP cable 😀
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Upgrades and Updates ...
Server Upgrade
I have not set a precise time though I have decided to upgrade the server used for the Rouge Project Friendica Instance. It will be month or so as I have to get things in order. My VPS provider is having a sale that is very reasonable on a significant upgrade. The only caveat is that I have to pay 3 years in advance to get the deep discounts. So I will be juggling some expenses around to make it happen. Hopefully sooner rather than later
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#Instance Update #Maintenance #Upgrade
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Great presentation, i do not eat potatoes but it looks great. Did you consider roasted new potatoes with rosemary?
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after a while the fat is gone and it is clear as you can look trough it.
Actually, it is quite the opposite. The milk solids are gone and the only thing that is left is the fat. Ghee (clarified butter) is actually pure unadulterated butter fat. Which is why it is clear. 😉 I also went to culinary school 😉.
bobonthenet wrote:
I eat potatoes a lot since they are one of my favorite foods.
I have never been a potato person, always preferring rice dishes. Though after swelling up to around 270 lbs (122.47 kg) I refactored my knowledge on nutritional needs 😉. I eat a Keto/ Carnivore like diet eating only none starchy vegetables that are low in carbs. I have lost weight over the last 4 months and now weigh in at around 210 lbs (95.2544 kg). My new nutrition plan is a lifetime commitment so even though I will include more carbs once I have reached a more healthy weight, I will never consume carbs at the rate I used to prior to my new lifestyle. I just find it unhealthy. I use the way I feel as my greatest metric.
There are many factors to ones fitness plan. Each plan must be individualized as there is not a one size fits all solution. The solution you maintain in your life must be sustainable. So we have to choose something that we can live with 😀.
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I'll keep sharing the things I make.
Awesome! another foodie on the instance 😀. I think I was the only one sharing food posts before. I particularly like posts with lots of details and recipes 😀.
bobonthenet wrote:
I'm not formally trained in cooking, but it has become my greatest passion in recent years.
I cooked in kitchens while attending the Uni for my Masters in Computer Science. I eventually went to the Culinary Institute of America in Boston. I was a chef for a while but disdain professional cooking now. Though cooking at home will always be a passion of mine.
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If you were going to learn just one genus of ants, you'd want to do Camponotus, which includes the familiar carpenter ants of the northern hemisphere, but many others too.
Abundant on every continent, diverse, and ecologically important.
#Ants #Insects #Photography #Camponotus
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Camponotus - Alex Wild
is abundant and diverse nearly everywhere in the world. This ubiquitous formicine genus contains our familiar carpenter ants, as well as some tropical weaver ants and desert honeypot ants.www.alexanderwild.com
If you were feeling perky and wanted to learn a second genus, the obvious choice is Crematogaster, the acrobat ants. They're also found worldwide and are instantly identifiable for their unique, heart-shaped butts.
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Crematogaster - Alex Wild
is an abundant, ecologically diverse myrmicine genus found worldwide. These ants- sometimes called "Acrobat Ants"- are easily recognized by their unusual heart-shaped gasters.www.alexanderwild.com
I once mistook a female Dasymutilla occidentalis for an ant 😉. Fortunately I did not have to find out the hard way that it was not one.
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Mathjax Test
Just enclose your equations in $$...$$ pairs like e.g.
$$f_c(x)=ax+b$$Renders as:
$$f_c(x)=ax+b$$
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I am thrilled that you are now using alt text. Though in this case I believe I would have put what Noam Chomsky was saying in that text. It seems far more relevant than a description of the picture itself. For the visually impaired:
"The smart way to keep people
passive and obediant is to strictly
limit the spectrum of acceptable
opinion, but allow ver lively
debate within that spectrum -
even encourage the more critical
and dissident views. That gives
people the sense that there's free
thinking going on, while all the
time the presuppositions of the
system are being reinforced by
the limits put on the range of the
debate." ~Noam Chomsky
means a lot more than a description of the the image.
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in reply to Alex • • •Crystal_Fish_Caves
in reply to Vee • • •I can only imagine the distortions this is getting on Faux news;
Rogue Radical Left Postoffice desecrates American Flag this is a hanging offense!!!
(maga mob arrives and torches the post office burning up their own mai; all are arrested procecuted convicted, and then pardoned.)
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in reply to Vee • • •Using it that way is disrespectful! As with many of our Laws it's use being twisted. In this case, the Supreme Court held that flying it upside down is an expression of "free speech".
However the actual Law says (without being taken from context):
"U.S. Flag Code (4 U.S.C. § 8(a)), the flag should never be displayed with the union (the stars) down "except as a signal of dire distress in instances of extreme danger to life or property".
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I did my tours and I know what the flag means. Please indulge me for a moment? So far it is only a dozen directly, a lot more indirectly. How many people does ICE have to murder in cold blood before we can consider our country in dire distress? Just so I know when it will be appropriate of course.
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in reply to Unus Nemo • • •@unusnemo I'm not only talking about ICE! I'm talking about the inhumanity of letting USAID food and supplies rot on the docks and people dying. The lawlessness of deporting people and breaking up families. To say nothing about blowing up boats and killing people with no evidence of their criminality, or destroying medical research, firing thousands of government workers who helped people.
We are in EXTREME distress NOW! A felon, a thief is robbing us blind and destroying our culture!
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I agree completely on all accounts, thanks for the clarification for others that may read these comments.
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in reply to Unus Nemo • • •@unusnemo Unus ... laws and rules are made up of words and have meaning. Some people think it's cute to pervert the meaning to show how cute or clever they are. U.S. Flag Code (4 U.S.C. § 8(a)) is not difficult to read and figure out what it means.
SC Justice Alito "allowed his wife" to fly our flag upside down at their house. It is their right but it is disrespectful.
It's the same for others who think flying the flag upside down is clever. It's not!
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You misunderstand me completely. I do not think it is clever or cute at all. I think it is entirely appropriate. As I believe our country is in dire distress. I am prepared to agree to disagree. I am good with that. I hope you are as well.
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Do not get me wrong. I believe all the points you have outlined are serious. Though when I see the Spanish taking on the roles of the Jews, and I feel like I am living in Anne Frank's diary. I get very disturbed. Just what was I fight for? Certainly not this.
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Not my flag but flying on fire seems appropriate.