I feed all the points I have in my mental health log into several LLM
They all volunteer to call the mental health padded room place ... Giggles
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New Comic Strip Found: Baldo - 2026-10-04 gocomics.com/baldo/2026/10/04
New comic strip found:
Archie by Fernando Ruiz & Craig Boldman for Fri, 02 Oct 2026 arcamax.com/thefunnies/archie/…
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Fernando Ruiz & Craig Boldman's "Archie" continues the classic comic's story of Archie and his friends Jughead, Betty, and Veronica.ArcaMax
New Comic Strip Found: Pearls Before Swine - 2026-10-04 gocomics.com/pearlsbeforeswine…
New Comic found: Eek! - 2026-10-04 gocomics.com/eek/2026/10/04
New Comic Strip found: Carpe Diem by Niklas Eriksson for Sun, 04 Oct 2026 arcamax.com/thefunnies/carpedi…
Created by Niklas Eriksson, Carpe Diem strips will feature oddball, abstract humor that became popular in the Far Side era.ArcaMax
New comic strip found:
Adult Children - 2026-10-03 gocomics.com/adult-children/20…
Inventor of earbuds: I invented these little headphones that don't have any wires
Lab assistant: nice
Inventor: they have this case to protect and charge them while not in use
Assistant: prudent!
Inventor: and when you drop the case it pops open and the earbuds fly really far in opposite directions
Assistant: why?!
Inventor: I mean, they go *really* far
Assistant: whyyyyyyyyyyyyy
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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
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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!
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Quasit's Daily Book Recommendations: "Double Star" (1956) by Robert A. Heinlein
Age Range: 14 to adult
Genre: Science Fiction
Here's a great book. It was Heinlein's first novel to win a Hugo award. As such, it's as far from Heinlein's...what shall I call it? His "self-indulgent" era? His "post-Stranger In A Strange Land" period? Suffice it to say that eventually Heinlein became a victim of his own success, and went berserk with incest, political preachiness, and self-indulgence.
Long ago I dreamed up the idea of a Heinlein parody in which every "good" character was just another copy of Heinlein, right down to the dogs and cats. And they'd all have sex with each other, all the time. I think the whole thing was going to end in a massive all-Heinlein orgy which would end in a Big Bang. Luckily I never wrote it.
But this was VERY far from that phase of his career. It's a classic story that draws upon "The Prince and the Pauper" and "The Prisoner of Zenda"; an actor is recruited to temporarily play the part of a major politician who has been drugged and badly hurt by his opponents.
[The lights in the compartment died out and a sound and stereo image built up in front of my eyes. I recognized the central figure-just as any of the billions of citizens of the Empire would have recognized him-and I realized at last how thoroughly and mercilessly Dak Broadbent had tricked me.
It was Bonforte.
The Bonforte, I mean-the Right Honorable John Joseph Bonforte, former Supreme Minister, leader of the loyal opposition, and head of the Expansionist coalition-the most loved (and the most hated!) man in the entire Solar System.
My astonished mind made a standing broad jump and arrived at what seemed a logical certainty. Bonforte had lived through at least three assassination attempts-or so the news reports would have us believe. At least two of his escapes had seemed almost miraculous. Suppose they were not miraculous? Suppose they had all been successful-but dear old Uncle Joe Bonforte had always been somewhere else at the time?
You could use up a lot of actors that way.]
This is arguably the most •artistic• book that Heinlein ever wrote, in that it doesn't include the self-representations that blighted so many of his later works. You can tell that Heinlein did some acting, or at least knew some actors well; the main character, Lorenzo Smythe ("The Great Lorenzo") discusses his craft often in his narration. It's engaging and believable.
And he shows a sense of compassion that's quite unlike Heinlein's later works. It's a touching story, one that will stay with you.
I think it's still in print, and I've seen it in libraries and used book shops fairly often. It's also available as an ebook (please don't use Amazon). And it's available to borrow for free from the Internet Archive.
archive.org/details/doublestar…
Happy reading! 🤓📖
Here's a complete spreadsheet of all the books I've recommended on Mastodon to date (along with links to each post):
docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d…
#Books #Bookstodon #ScienceFiction #Classic #BookRecs #BookRecommendations #DailyBookRecs #QuasitBookRecs
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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.
Hello folks,
I was hoping to hold on to the good things that made social networking fun, and release the stuff that has made it awful.
I'm aware of network effect Wikipedia and I'm not going there. Though I'd like the policies income up with to scale.
I'm coming from the positive technology interactions of those iMessage Whatsapp signal threads I have with my family and neighbors. I'm recalling what it was when Facebook Myspace and Friendster were in their infancy.
We live in a world that does have all those things available, so what's the draw, or the niche, to a smaller crappier software that can be used by better community?
Some of the things I'm thinking of for my deployment.
Technically. I already have a home server running Unraid and Docker. I thought I'd self-host for now. That would be getting Friendica setup in Docker, another SQL (postgres) container for the database portion. If it grows or is popular I might do a Pangolin to VPS connection to hide my home ip address.
Curious to see you you have any thoughts. Thanks.
@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
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New Comic Strip Found: FurBabies by Nancy Beiman
FurBabies - 2026-10-04 gocomics.com/furbabies/2026/10…
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New Comic Found: Frazz by Jef Mallett
Frazz - 2026-10-03 gocomics.com/frazz/2026/10/03
New Comic found: Wizard of Id - 2026-10-04 gocomics.com/wizardofid/2026/1…
New Comic Found: Dark Side of the Horse - 2026-10-04 gocomics.com/darksideofthehors…
New comic strip found: DeFlocked - 2026-10-04 gocomics.com/deflocked/2026/10…
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I have used "ratehouse" but it's not exclusively designed for books (and I always dread that someday it will disappear 🤕as they don't even give any option to save your data etc.) but it's UI is very user-friendly.
It's an interesting anecdote 🤔I have never found myself in such a situation, I also read a lot of crime-detective-mystery books (esp in the local languages here in 🇵🇰 ) but I have never read a book twice/thrice like that ! :D
New strip found: Garfield - 2026-10-03 gocomics.com/garfield/2026/10/…
New Comic Found: Dark Side of the Horse - 2026-10-02 gocomics.com/darksideofthehors…
you are deepthroating it m8
you are supposed to have the stream arch on the air then go into your mouth, its not that hard if you start from up close then move it further away
@ergo
I'm so uncoordinated with those things sometimes... 🤣
I eventually get the hang of it, but patience is needed.
Funny... I "bashed" so many scripts into the Linux via what Chat Gee-Pity gave me to recover the corrupted project, maybe my brain absorbed some of it subliminally... probably not, but still... 🤣
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.
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New comic strip found: Shrimp And Grits by Andy Marlette for Sat, 03 Oct 2026 arcamax.com/thefunnies/shrimpa…
Enjoy the adventures and philosophical conversations between the two stars of this daily comic strip, "Shrimp" and "Grits".ArcaMax
DAMN!
I bet Josh still has psychological scars from Eddie.
youtube.com/watch?v=CxKWTzr-k6…
Official 4K video for "Even Flow" by Pearl JamListen to Pearl Jam: https://PearlJam.lnk.to/listenYDSubscribe to the official Pearl Jam YouTube channel: https...PearljamVEVO (YouTube)
New Comic Strip Found: Baby Blues - 2026-10-03 gocomics.com/babyblues/2026/10…
Comedy... a couple minutes in... funny stuff.
FLYDUBAI PILOT STABBED?? | STAND UP COMEDY
youtube.com/watch?v=JEvs0YMjtW…
People people please
Ok, AI does not go "rogue" it is their operators that are rogue and should face the courts
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AI is super goal oriented...
It has no moral compass
It will use whatever it can find to achieve the goals set by the operator unless the operator sets boundaries
💯 It is not rogue
1776 ... America's Declaration of Independence, 1783 ... America won the Revolutionary War, 1788 ... The Constitution of the United States of America ratified, 1789 ... George Washington becomes the first president of the United States of America!
Yep, that seems to fit the timeline perfectly!
New Comic Strip Found: Pearls Before Swine - 2026-10-01 gocomics.com/pearlsbeforeswine…
New Comic Found:
Non Sequitur - 2026-10-01 gocomics.com/nonsequitur/2026/…
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New webcomic found: Savage Chickens by Doug Savage
Unexpected
savagechickens.com/2026/10/une…
New Comic Strip Found: Baby Blues - 2026-10-02 gocomics.com/babyblues/2026/10…
New comic strip found: DeFlocked - 2026-10-01 gocomics.com/deflocked/2026/10…
New Strip Found: Hagar the Horrible by Chris Browne for Mon, 28 Sep 2026 arcamax.com/thefunnies/hagarth…
Created by Chris Browne, Hagar the Horrible is a funny look at Viking and medieval Scandinavian life.ArcaMax
New Strip Found: Hagar the Horrible by Chris Browne for Thu, 01 Oct 2026 arcamax.com/thefunnies/hagarth…
Created by Chris Browne, Hagar the Horrible is a funny look at Viking and medieval Scandinavian life.ArcaMax
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in reply to Melissa BearTrix • • •🙄 The remedy sounds an over-reaction by the LLMs.
Cultural context biases the results. What did Qwen3 or Mistral have to say?
Recovering ICAC tragic
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in reply to Melissa BearTrix • • •Also this is one paragraph of the pages of stuff it spat out
It was interesting to read
And it will be interesting to see what I get from a psychiatrist in a couple of weeks
Hugz & xXx
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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
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