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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.
Vegan Cardiologist Goes Carnivore! with Dr. Jami Dulaney
Vegan Cardiologist Goes Carnivore! with Dr. Jami Dulaney
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Most people think open source just means “free software.”
That’s completely wrong.
Why Every Tech Company That Survives Goes Open Source
Why Every Tech Company That Survives Goes Open Source
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#FOSS #Open Source #Linux #GNU #GNU Linux
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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.
How Linux Took Over the World: 35 Years in 35 Facts
How Linux Took Over the World: 35 Years in 35 Facts
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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.
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#ScribesAndMakers 13/9: How pedantic are you?
I just looked up pedantic. It doesn't mean exactly what I thought. I am not pedantic but perhaps people might think I am. I do not care about arbitrary rules or trivial knowledge, but I do care about language and communication. It bugs me when language is used imprecisely so that the meaning of words and phrases becomes less clear/useful. This is not pedantic.
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I do not care about arbitrary rules or trivial knowledge, but I do care about language and communication. It bugs me when language is used imprecisely so that the meaning of words and phrases becomes less clear/useful.
Some of our global dialects are influenced by a change in the underlying cultures they are derived from. That is not to say that a lot of changes are not instrumental in the dumbing down of the great unwashed as our governments and corporations see it. I think this type of manipulation is described very well in 1984 by George Orwell.
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.
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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.
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The problem with LLM is the foolish call it AI and that these foolish are designing on them and their wants
This isn't for the great good
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I have been working on AI and Machine Learning (ML) since the early 1980's. In 2017 there was an absolute break through in ML in the area of Artificial Neural Networks that we called Large Language Model (LLM). LLM is a form of AI though not the only application of it.
I work on both Expert Engines and train my own local domain specific LLMs. It is one of the greatest breakthroughs in modern Computer Science. So if it is a fool that I am then it is a fool that I will be .
A few things that are regrettable in today's society is that:
1) People do not know what AI is and appear to believe that AI is entirely Chatbots.
2) People get upset at corporations having no regulations and point to AI as a problem when in reality it is that these corporations have no regulations. AI is not doing anything wrong the corporations are. Put the blame where it belongs if you ever expect this issue to be corrected.
3) People assume AI should be perfect, yet Natural Intelligence is far from perfect so why conclude that something developed from Natural Intelligence is going to fix all the issues with it when it was designed to work on the same principles?
I understand the hate of AI Data Centers and the issues with them. It makes sense. Though the fact that the masses have been lead to believe AI is entirely chatbots, that they require massive Data Centers to operate and that AI is intrinsically evil is a failing of society not AI.
All of my work is done on a local server that uses less resources than the average gaming rig. No one is calling for the take down of people's personal gaming machines and making them illegal. Until they are I am not going to even consider their issues with my AI development. The idea that AI can only be done with these massive data centers is a leading issue with the Anti AI society. If they would focus on the real issues such as corporations having zero regulations and address that issue then the data center issues would go away.
All in all it means nothing to AI because AI does not require nor will it ever require these data centers. What requires these data centers are chatbots that can interface with million of users. That is not AI. That is a corporate product built with AI.
When we debate the ethics of AI we need to also debate the ethics of fire. If you think that is ridiculous then you are starting to get my point.
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Cool ... I think LLM are magic ... You know that and have for decades, since one read my MIR with the MIR expert, and I was amazed how many the human missed and the LLM missed ..But together it's nearly 100%
And I have a little LLM on an esp32 for meter reading ... Truly amazing this day and age
And yes, as I said in 1988, information is the new currency and the ones that control will win, these days a LLM {AI} is controlled by people that say one thing and want another
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@unusnemo My main issues with LLMs are that the way they're trained is impacting everything else on the Internet (because of the onslaught of poorly-written crawler bots that have led to all sorts of half-assed mitigations that they now work to get around) and the ethics of using models that are trained based on data that was obtained in this way and without regard for copyright or consent.
AI as a field is great, but LLMs and diffusion models and their ilk deeply bother me.
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The models I use are trained on my home server with well vetted public resources that do not violate anyone's license and my own research. So, I have that in mind already.
Keep in mind that many LLMs are local work and not corporate RAG systems. Your concerns are real but again not related to AI or LLMs. They are related to how corporations are not regulated, down right break laws and are not held accountable. Yes, I have these same issues. I just put the blame on corporations not AI.
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As far as I am concerned there is no replacement for human creativity. We would not even be able to build LLMs and teach them if it were not for human creativity. And I am certainly not looking to see humans replaced. Artificial Intelligence (AI) is a tool that we can use to augment Natural Intelligence (NI). Neither are infallible and there are certain aspects AI does not extend to. I am a poet. Can AI be taught to write poetry, most certainly. Though an AI does not have feelings. It can imitate a great poet but it cannot write original work inspired by its own emotions as humans do. The same extends to all arts. That does not mean I cannot use ComfyUI to create some banners for my website. I might even generated some textures. But it is no replacement for Boris Vallejo.
Augment human creativity and ability yes, replace absolutely not. It could not even if we wanted to. We created an Artificial Neural Network and we can teach it. Though how does one teach emotion? That has always been the largest caveat of AI. You cannot have genuine art without genuine feeling. An artist that never experienced pain could not use their art form to express it. Neither can an AI.
There are a lot of responsible researchers and developers in AI. They do not get the press though. The corporations that are destroying ecosystems get the attention of the Media ( I refuse to call it news anymore). The problem that we are experiencing with the AI phenomenon is not intrinsically related to AI itself. It is related to human greed expressed by corporations that continue to go without regulation or consequence. And as long as the Anti-AI advocates keep focusing on LLMs and AI in general and not the the lack of regulations for corporations and the fact that our governments are bought out and letting these corporations blatantly violate the law. Then the issue will continue. As people are not focused on the problem, they are focused on a symptom of the problem. AI Data Centers are built to facilitate the general public with interfaces that let millions of users simultaneously interface with their General Purpose LLMs. This product of corporations is devastating our environment due to lack of regulations and or enforcing said regulations.
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AI datacenters are a cancer.
People need to run AI locally, on their own hardware.
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By the way, I advise people all of the time to not consult AI about something they know nothing about. As they will have no way to vet the information they receive. AI is great to parse large data sets that would take humans months to years. Though like humans it can make mistakes, especially if there is an issue with the data set. RAG systems that parse social media for answers is just as unreliable as the information they parse.
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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.
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How dare you compare our political leaders to UU, its a disgrace!
There is a number of fine upstanding members who have been serving their positions reliably for years.
And then there are UK politicians.
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.
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Some things are hard today (& so will be the next few days), but my belly is full, the next two days' lunch is taken care of & my kitchen is full of the wonderful smell of spinach & cheese strata by the amazing Deb Perelmann:
▶️ smittenkitchen.com/2009/12/spi…
Makes enough for 6 meals. I use 1200g fresh spinach & frozen stale bread. No, it's not too much spinach, believe me - you put it into a pan (not all at once!) & it cooks down just into the right amount.
#ViciCooks #recipe #rezept #vegetarian
This is my go-to foolproof workhorse of a brunch dish, just bread, milk, eggs, spinach and all the cheese your heart desires.deb (smitten kitchen)
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A Ternary expression is an expression that has 3 terms, where a binary expression has two terms an unary expression has one term and a boolean expression has only two states, 1 or 0, yes or no, true of false.
For logic circuits boolean is usually expressed as 1 or 0. On or Off though for performance variances are typically used in reality versus theory.
The C programming languages accept 0 as false and non zero value as true.
In Python True is an Instance of the bool class and so is False eg:
# Checking the type of the objects
print(type(True)) # Output: <class 'bool'>
print(type(False)) # Output: <class 'bool'>
# Checking if they are instances of the bool class
print(isinstance(True, bool)) # Output: TrueThe concept of boolean logic is that there are two states and only two states. Boolean does not deal with maybes or possibilities. Not that a possibility could not be narrowed down by a chain of boolean states though no one boolean expression can consider more than true or false, yes or no, 0 or 1, etc ...
a binary operator is one that deals with two expression or in mathematics two terms. For instance 4 + 4 is where + is a binary operator with two terms or what we call operands. A = 5 is a binary expression. Now do not get confused because an expression may also in some cases be called a term. Though it really is not that complicated. If an operator has one operand it is unary such as -1 or +1 or ++sum, etc. If it has two operands it is binary 1+2 or A+6 or abs(A) / 2, yes in many languages and in math a function's return value would be used in this expression as one of the terms for this binary expression. Ternary expressions are operators that have 3 operands, in this case it typically takes a combination of operators to define the expression such as:
C code:
int isGreater = 0;
/* condition ? value_if_true : value_if_false; */
isGeater = A > B ? 1 : 0Python code:
# value_if_true if condition else value_if_false
is_greater = 1 if A > B else 0In python the if operator will cause is_greater to be True or False unlike C's convention of 0 false any non zero value is true.
These are trivial examples meant for explanation and certainly not how you would code it in real life. The C code could be reduced to a simple binary expression isGreater = A > B; and would be preferred in production code but that would not illustrate a ternary operator in its simplest form either .
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Yes as explained in python boolean values are True and False which are an Instance of the bool class. This is actually significantly more powerful and less error prone than the C invocation of boolean logic.
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After about 8 hours or more of work I have finally gotten the Instance back online. Unfortunately there was some data loss. Though all user accounts are still available and everything appears to be up and running smoothly now.
One huge hurdle I have had is that the developers of Friendica use Ubuntu by Canonical. I will not use anything from Canonical personally. I prefer the RHEL side of the spectrum. My workstations are Fedora which is RHEL upstream. My VPS for this Instance is Rocky Linux 9. The issue here is that Debian based distro's such as Ubuntu use AppArmor which is arguably less secure or at least less configurable than SELinux. So Friendica upstream has no concern for SELinux (to be fair they do warn that this is their position and only support Ubuntu so it is what it is) and how it effects a server using this heightened approach to security. It usually leaves me with headaches after every upgrade of Friendica. Not only because of their updates, but because of the updates Rocky Linux makes to SELinux Context causing me to have to mass re-label and configure files and directories. The changes are needed for security and not just designed to give me a headache .
To any of my users that may have bumped into my Maintenance page the answer is no. No, I am not going to scrap Rogue Project's Friendica. Though it was tempting earlier today when I was looking at the hours of work I had to make sense of what was going on. The losses were minimal and I hope no one is to disappointed. At least this go around I did not lose the entire site and have to build over from scratch.
I have made some changes that I hope to be worth the effort. I have gone away from using worker.php from the cron and now use daemon.php via systemd. This should help with the SELinux issues if nothing else because the context issue will not be so wide spread. Hopefully this also helps with the memory leak issues of the worker.php. It will show just how much of a change good or bad it will have in the future. As usual time will tell.
I hope everyone has a great day! Take Care!
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Still having issues, but i am spent, I will have look into it more later, but at least the Instance is back up.
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At least at this point I have the db corruption and its cause sorted out. I have fixed the big issue, and db bloat seems to have dwindles away as the db is now less than half its size in two days. There are still some SELinux context issues but I will sort them out soon. Then all will be smooth riding. I have learned a lot today as I usually do when the Instance goes down.
For right now it is just a matter of watching for SELinux alerts and seeing if they are valid or if I have to edit yet another context ...
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A man dressed as Darth Vader used a Public Safety and Livable Neighborhoods Committee meeting in San Diego to mock the city's use of Flock surveillance cameras, sarcastically arguing that the technology would help the "emperor" track "rebel scum" and…yro.slashdot.org
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Easy Keto Philly Cheesesteak Roll-Ups | Easy Low Carb Meal recipe with simple ingredients and step-by-step instructions for perfect results every time!Patricia Jannet (optimal recipes)
Make this keto cheesy ground beef skillet with broccoli in 30 mins! A low-carb dinner favorite—creamy, easy, and satisfying.Patricia Jannet (optimal recipes)
Egremont— Some years ago, 1964 to be exact, before the Hamptons became the haven for the rich and fancy, I was invited by an army buddy to drive out to meetDining And Cooking (Dining and Cooking)
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Welcome to our Instance. Please be sure to read the TOS and Rules.
As a WebDev be sure to follow our DevShack group (you can find it in the local directory). Following a group is how you join it on Friendica.
I found this Instance when I deployed it. I am the administrator. I have stayed because well ... It seemed like a good idea at the time
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