Okay, I am going to order one of these and design a few t-shirts to go with it, maybe even a jacket! 
#Custom Hoodie #Custom Clothing
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I hope you feel better soon! Most people tell me that not reading my verbose comments helps ease their headaches!
Most of the bugs that AI finds in analysts of my code are related to poor contract inherence (I forgot to include required properties for an object) or refinement issues. Algorithms that do not take into consideration modern capabilities of the resources used etc. I rarely have an issue with spelling that is not resolved at compile time.
Yes, we can as a species be focused on self. This is not specific to our species. It has yet to be demonstrated, to my knowledge, that any other species has an awareness of a global ecosystem or how other species fit in other than their concept of food (self preservation). The fact that we have developed a vocabulary that allows us to discuss the global ecosystem demonstrates that there is concern on this matter. Perhaps someday we will even develop a sense of our Universal ecosystem though today we are too uneducated, due to lack of data to parse in a meaningful way, to even grasp most of what that relationship would involve.
I am a humanitarian so my major concerns are for our species. That is not to say I am not concerned about the rest of the ecosystem it is just how I prioritize my concerns with humanity first.
I do understand the need for concern over the big picture. Though it is not natural as self preservation is demanding on us all the time. When you feel threatened do you first consider the threat you pose to your perceived assailant? Or do you consider your safety? In an existence that I do not exist then what concern do I have of it? If I have no concern for self what value will I have to others? This is a very complex philosophical topic and I absolutely adore investigating it. Yet, I understand it will take many far out of their comfort zone. I believe that overcoming the ideology of self-first is key to evolving societies in a positive direction. Others might argue that one is not even able to perceive an existence where they are not first as that is the foundation of their existence, or as some like to put it reality. Reality, in my opine, is what we accept of what we perceive in our environment. This of course is our personal reality. We can conceive of a reality that is the consensus of how we should perceive our environment yet I wonder if that is even possible? What do you think?
One of my favorite languages. The fourth I learned to program in. I was in my 4th year of programming (at age 13) when a teacher of mine handed me a copy of Algorithms + Data Structures = Programs by Niklaus Wirth Still one of my favorites, and yes, I still own a copy! Today I program in over 40+ languages, I can never resist learning a new one.
Your dad has taught you a very important lesson in critical thinking. The moment a person starts rebutting your points with ad hominem attacks bow out gracefully. This person has not desire to learn or argue reasonably. They just want to shove their ideas down your throat and you are not to question. It is one thing to use colorful adjective such as conservitard or libtard in a statement or joke. It is entirely different when one uses it as a rebuttal to a point in discussion. Typically such usage in either case will leave your more educated audience considering your content to be inferior. One should be able to discuss, argue or discourse any topic without resorting to insult. If one is educated in that topic.
A Republic is any country ruled by the people by any political ideology that does not involve a king, dictator or monarchy period. It is not very descriptive. It could be a Communist Republic, Socialist Republic, Democratic Republic etc. The fact is that just referring to a country as a Republic only states two points, it does not have a king or dictator. It is not very revealing at all. If we were to discuss the political ideology embraced by America then it would have to be far more informative than merely labeling it a Republic or Democracy. It has elements of both and is a Democratic Republic. Though Republicans love the word Republic because they literally used it in their name and Democrats like Democracy for the same reason. And their propaganda tends to lean into the label that emphasizes their brand. It is more about marketing than political theory. But, many will continue to follow their parties propaganda and abandon political science all together.
petelumer wrote:
Democrat candidates seem there primariliy to make a mockery of The Republic.
So was it Plato, or Xenophon's The Republic that they keep mocking? You realize that China is a Republic? Hence The Republic of China. Are you sure you understand what a Republic is and why it alone cannot describe a governances political ideology? It is a bit more complicated than that statement would imply.
Please note that I would not give a rodents behind for either of the parties.
But... Trump is just getting started... If we just repeal that Roosevelt thingy and give him and his compatriots more time they can do all those Great Things to Make America Great Again... Obviously we (America) needs Trump as our dictator, to hell with democracy...
Lol, you might as well be talking to a brick. You will not convince the Trumpettes that their god has done wrong. You can use my stamp if you would like?
SLUGGO’S TUESDAYP1- WE SEE SLUGGO HAPPILY GOING UP THE STAIRS TO THE ATTIC
SLUGGO:
I'LL SPEND THE DAY UP IN THE ATTIC READING OLD COMIC BOOKS
You should get acquainted with Breaking Benjamin it truly is an awesome band. This is an interesting backstory that I did not know about, thanks for sharing!
Bem-vindo(a) à Friendica do Rogue Project. Por favor, leia os Termos de Serviço e as Regras. Espero que aproveite a nossa instância.
Como utilizo apenas software de código aberto, não me preocupo com as licenças. Se ainda utilizam o MS/Windows, pessoalmente não consideraria os vossos serviços, pois não gostaria que as minhas contas fossem capturadas pela IA do MS/Windows e enviadas para os servidores da Microsoft. Pessoalmente, não farei negócios com nenhuma empresa que se recuse a migrar para o GNU/Linux.
It will always be a mystery to me why they are referred to as Indigenous when they clearly are not, by the very fact that they migrated to the America in the first place. The word Indigenous means originating naturally in a particular place, rather than arriving from somewhere else. Unless we are talking about people? Then it means Refers to the earliest known inhabitants of a region, especially groups who lived there before colonization or state expansion (such as Native Americans or First Nations) in my opine this definition was merely tacked on to correct an err made centuries ago, so life goes. Yet we already have perfectly fine word for that which is Aboriginal which means relating to the original or earliest known inhabitants, plants, or animals of a place. So we totally twist the meaning of a word for a special case and ignore a perfectly good word that literally means what we are trying to say with our twisted connotation. Sorry for the rant. I have no idea why this bothers me. Good share though, interesting article.
If you prefer a version that can autoname the ripped files by song name and clean up after itself I can share that with you too.
This is the script I use, it requires cdparanoia and opus-tools to work. I may have added a few comments for your benefit.
#!/usr/bin/env bash
# Name this file cd_rip with no file extension
# Then chmod +x cd_rip make sure to put it in a directory that is in your
# default path such as $HOME/bin which your shell startup files
# will usually put in the path if it exist, if it does not
# mkdir -p ~/bin will create it.
set -euo pipefail
# Default device and target output directory
DRIVE="${1:-/dev/sr0}"
OUTPUT_DIR="${2:-./cd_rip_$(date +%Y%m%d_%H%M%S)}"
BITRATE="160"
READ_SPEED="24"
# Dependencies check
for cmd in cdparanoia opusenc; do
if ! command -v "$cmd" &>/dev/null; then
echo "[-] Error: Required utility '$cmd' not found." >&2
exit 1
fi
done
echo "[*] Target Optical Drive: $DRIVE"
echo "[*] Destination Folder: $OUTPUT_DIR"
mkdir -p "$OUTPUT_DIR"
cd "$OUTPUT_DIR"
echo "[*] Initiating high-speed batch extraction (-Z -S $READ_SPEED)..."
if cdparanoia -d "$DRIVE" -Z -S "$READ_SPEED" -B; then
echo "[+] Raw extraction successful."
else
echo "[-] Error: Extraction failed or interrupted." >&2
exit 2
fi
# Locate generated WAV files
shopt -s nullglob
wav_files=( *.wav )
shopt -u nullglob
if [ ${#wav_files[@]} -eq 0 ]; then
echo "[-] Error: No WAV files detected in $OUTPUT_DIR" >&2
exit 3
fi
echo "[*] Found ${#wav_files[@]} tracks. Transcoding to Opus (${BITRATE} kbps VBR) in parallel..."
# Parallel transcode using available CPU threads
printf "%s\0" "${wav_files[@]}" | xargs -0 -P "$(nproc)" -I {} bash -c '
src="$1"
dst="${src%.wav}.opus"
echo " -> Encoding: $src to $dst"
opusenc --quiet --bitrate 160 "$src" "$dst"
' _ {}
echo "[*] Cleaning up scratch WAV files..."
rm -f *.wav
# Eject the disc tray
eject "$DRIVE" 2>/dev/null || true
echo "[+] Complete! Encoded ${#wav_files[@]} tracks to Opus in $OUTPUT_DIR"
When burning a CD it will all be transcoded to native bit stream. When ripping a CD if you transcode to Ogg/opus you will save a lot of space. To do this with K3b:
Just wondering, does your software require mp3? Ogg/opus is a lot more efficient, but hey if your software cannot use it ...
A follow up on last months federation post. Please remember that these statistics are relative to how Rogue Project's Friendica Instance federates and not of the entire Fediverse. I am also going to include a link to the entire report in pdf format here.
One disturbing thing to note is that we have nearly 2000 new Instances that we federate with, yet we have less active users. It is what it is, we will roll with it.
This is a point a lot of people just do not get. When I tell my coworkers that I would rather have gas prices go up then diesel very few of them get it.
Though I do write poetry my main creative outlet is programming. It is amazing how breaking problems down to the roots and deriving solutions can bring so much peace and contentment. 
LLMs will give a disclaimer right up front that they are not medical professionals and that you should see one if you are feeling suicidal or a need to harm yourself etc. Standard disclaimers that all sites give even if they are not AI. Even Influencers on YouTube that are actual Medical Doctors disclaim saying they are a doctor but not your doctor. So I am sure you got ample notice before their verdict .
Yes, the book is very helpful. I have my own Fediverse Instance, Rogue Project's Friendica I bought your book to help me understand what is going on under the hood. It would be nice to have DFRN references (hint hint) as well. If you get time check out my Instance I would be honored to have you aboard!
I just realize who you are! I have your book ActivityPub open on my desktop right now. I love it, hope you are planning a second edition. I bought my copy from ebooks.com
This is exactly the type of legislation America needs and it has no chance at all of passing. This is like clickbait for congressional hearings. It is great PR but no one in congress will take it seriously.
I am not anti-AI though this article is really low quality. I mean they have no idea of what a decent GPU Rack costs. I have attached some images that should tell the story of just how far fetched this article is. You could not even get 4 commercial grade GPUs for that price let alone a decent rack. I am not saying that University tuition is fair or even a good value at this point. I am just saying their argument is horrible, they should do some research before writing articles like this.
@drew
First, Welcome to Rogue Project's Friendica.
Yes, I am aware of Metcalfe’s law though I will take the millions of users that we federate with against Meta's Nefarious algorithm any day. I will always take quality over quantity. I am a Facebook refugee myself.
There is already an official Friendica Container available from the github if you want to go that route. Though of course you can design your own. If I was going to go that route I would, I am not fan of their setup at all.
You can of course run an Instance on your Home Server and if it is just a 1 person Instance with minimal federation (no relay) then you will do well. If however you want to run an Instance with the stats I show below then sorry, that is not going to happen. Neither can you run it from a shared web-server as they suggest in the documentation with that kind of federation involved. The problem is that even if you have a gigabit fiber connection at home the caps on a conventional ISP connection will break your Instance in seconds not minutes during peak federation periods. Due to the high volume of Server to Server communication. For the same reasons it will break a shared website like a standard GoDaddy subscription. To handle a high federation Instance you will need a VPS, I recommend IONOS. My VPS stats are Cpu:8 vCore, RAM:16 GB, Disk:320 GB NVMe SSD, though if you are only hosting a Friendica Instance you can likely do with half that.
I recommend going bare metal and skipping the latency of a kubernete distributed system as you do not need to worry about horizontal scaling, that will be handled by federating. You have no need of it and you will pay all the taxes of it. On a development server at home that you are not fully federating with then yes that would be fine, but I would not recommend it for a production Instance. You will notice that the other Friendica Instances that have constant 504 (database time out) issues are all container based Instances using S3 storage for their datastore.
Because horizontal scaling comes from the federation of many nodes on The Fediverse a Containerized setup pays no dividend for your investment. You can try it if you like and let the latency answer the questions for you . I know we have all been told to departmentalize everything and there is a lot of truth to that. In this scenario it just does not work well. I was thinking much along the lines you are when I first setup my Instance. The reality of actually administering this Instance for the last few years has showed me reality v ideology.
When you get your VPS and are setting up feel free to ask me questions. I will be glad to help you in all I can.
Rogue Project's Friendica Federation
I did not have a choice, if I wanted to stay employed, so yes I was jabbed. I can tell you it had no recognisable affect one way or the other for me. Nothing to regret or feel good about.
Covid 19 is dubious to say the least. The mortality rate based on US statistics was less than a percent. Keep in mind the US only tested people that were symptomatic and that skews the mortality rate. Especially when European studies that tested everyone period showed that 80% of those with covid 19 were asymptomatic which explains how it appeared to spread so quickly. If we take research done in EU seriously it brings the mortality rate down to a level of very little concern (if you were not one of the affected at least).
I am a computer scientist not a biologist or medical doctor. But when I look at the numbers and know that the real experts had these same numbers. I have to ask myself "what was covid 19 really about?" In America it did help put a bandaid on our Economic bubble that will burst eventually. But was that the real motive? Or was it to see just how much control a governance can take given a crisis? Even if it is not really a crisis but advertised as one. The numbers do not support the reaction that the world had to the covid 19 and we may never know if it was a social experiment or just something the governments managed to take advantage of for their gain.
Geo-Jigsaw wrote:
I'm definitely glad I hit Tibet, which I still consider its own country, no matter what China says.]
Tibet agrees with you!
Fair enough, I never contracted COVID or if I did I was never aware of it as 80% (based on our most accurate studies done in EU where testing was holistic) of those that contracted COVID were asymptomatic. Though before writing off all diseases that are currently not explainable I would like to remind us that at one time the atom was considered fictional and unscientific along with bacteria. Vitamins were a gimmick (which some are). Though I hope most of us understand that vitamins are real, so are bacteria and atoms. Though never believe an atom, they make up everything!
I do not currently have any of these diseases so I have no dog in the race. Though when I see people off handedly dismiss issues when they themselves have no science to bring to the table as to why they are not real I have to wonder. Who is scamming, those that want us to believe or those that want us to not believe. They both are really speaking from their emotions rather than evaluation of evidence. The narrator put on a good show but his data did not support either side. It is just the way you want to look at it. It is okay to have an opinion, I do, and I am sure most people do. This issue becomes a real problem when people believe their opinion is more than just that. When we believe our opinion is a fact.
Hashtags (the octothorpe) is really big on the Fediverse. It can be used on Mastodon to follow a certain topic. It can be used on Friendica the same way but you do a search on that hashtag and then save it. I would expect BookWyrm to have all kinds of hashtags that make no sense to me. I would just use the tags that you are familiar with and not worry about the rest. Those that are of value to you will eventually make sense.
I have never used or seen the BookWyrm UI (User Interface) so I have no idea about that. I know I hate the Mastodon UI and love the Friendica UI. And that is probably why I administer an Instance in the first place.
America is not a tree, it is a country. In the case of a tree the roots are a living part of the whole. In a country when it revolts it is literally severing itself from the governance of the territory it is trying to take possession of. It is not a part of that past. They did not revolt because they agreed with the former governance. Comparing a country or society to a tree is an extremely poor analogy.
We are not talking about origins we are talking about accountability, or at least I am. I have origins. My family were nobility in France that were revolted against and my direct ancestors managed to escape. Should we include that in my accountability? Am I responsible for what happened before I existed? What the article starts with is mentioning things that England, Spain and France did wrong in this territory, which is fine, yet it goes on to find accountability in a Governance that did not exist at that time.
You think that is a good and accurate metric. You want me to accept it as accurate due to it being the roots? I do not find that reasonable no more than I accept accountability for what my family did before I was born, or even in my lifetime as far as that goes. Thus I find your correlation of a society and a tree to be meaningless.
Please, do not get me wrong. I am not suggesting these things are good. I am stating that it is impossible for America to be accountable for anything before there was an America. To me, this just make sense, it does not to you? Now, there are plenty of issues that could be brought up that are meaningful and America is accountable for. Yet, credibility is immediately in question as soon as false accusations are issued. That is what that propaganda does. It suggests that somehow America should be held accountable for things that happened before it existed. Not just a short time but centuries. Get rid of those parts and it might be worth reading.
The thing is, I agree with the idea that America never was and is not all that great. We should not be trying to revert to how we were we should be trying to improve. I just find this argument (presented in the article) to be ridiculous.