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This Instance Is Not For Commercial Use


This is a small Instance intended for family and friends to communicate. This Instance is not for Marketing your services or products. I do not mind if you mention your product or service though you may not make constant mention of it spamming other users.


I do not have the resources for a person to effectively launch a marketing program from my Instance. Not to mention the Instances propagation is not what you would desire for marketing. If you want to market on Friendica I recommend going to a larger Instance. It will not be allowed here.


Please refer to the TOS & Rules regarding this behavior

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Announcement


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@Unus Nemo
The important thing is that you give notice. THE most important thing. Not sure how to back up my account, but now that you're letting us know in advance I have the ability to look into it before the outage. I appreciate you.
in reply to Radio Free Trumpistan

@Radio Free Trumpistan

When it gets closer to the actual time I will be posting on how to backup your account. For now you can look in the help tab for more information in the Further Information section. You can always get to the help tab via the Main Menu I include links though to help you out at the moment.



Markdown & Mathjax


Just to let users on the Instance know. I have Markdown and Mathjax Addons enabled. Though to use them you have to enable them in your settings. I have provided a few screenshots to show where the settings are.


PHP-FPM


The Instance went down again. Instead of rushing to get the instance back up I check some logs and it appears that when I increased the values I did not increase the pm.max_spare_servers. I allowed more to be generated but did not allow them to exist 😉. Which of course took php-fpm down.

I increased pm.max_spare_server so hopefully this time I have enough to handle the load. As you can see in the screenshot below as soon as more spare servers were added that brought it above 100, the whole service shutdown bringing the site down.

The setting still may need massaging. Time will show.

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@Radio Free Trumpistan

Friendica is supposed to able to operate with far less resources than I have available on my VPS. I have dedicated that VPS to nothing but Friendica and support services for Friendica. I have only had this Instance up for a few months. So in time I will get it right 😉.


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That's unbelievably fast.

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HTTP 500 Errors Again


I was on the Instance off and on last night at work on breaks. When I got home I noticed the site was down again due to a HTTP 500 Error. I have done some more massaging to the php-fpm config though I will need to get some rack before I can dig into it and find out what optimum setting would be for my server giving its memory.

Sorry for any inconveniences still trying to tune the server. I am not sure at all how long the server has been down.

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Unus Nemo

@plan-A

I know you have the best of intentions though there is noway you can know that. You do not have access to the server side were the faults are. This is not a failing script issue as I initially thought it might be. It is the PHP-FPM configuration.

In fact it is likely the Hash Tag games that are causing the issue. At the end of the day, yes, it is my responsibility to fix this type of error and the poor configuration that allowed it to happen is my fault not the users. So it is my fault and no one else. Though, that does not eliminate that it was something a user did that took the server down due to the configuration issues. I need them to give me feedback to fix these issues. So please do not tell users of this Instance that what they did or did not do had any effect on the problem. There is noway for you to definitively or even accurately answer those type of questions..

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@Unus Nemo
Noted, and thank you for all the work you do.
I hadn't gotten your email addy at the time, but as soon as this came back online, I looked for the...well, equivalent to About Us page....and now have that information pasted to a text file so upon the occurrence of a next-time, I will definitely email you. Happy to be of help.


The secret of how fries are really made is out!

Not for the faint of heart or those that lack a sense of humor 😉

Reveal/hide


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Fedora Targets 99% Package Reproducibility by October linux.slashdot.org/story/25/04…

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It was obvious for decades and you just NOW notice?? What took so damn long????

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When people talk about Chinese overcapacity in solar and battery manufacturing, I sometimes wonder if the real problem is underdeployment. Like, what if they built an amount of capacity appropriate for getting the world to net zero by 2050, and we're just refusing to use it?

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Odd, how no one seem to talk about the "overcapacity" of fossil carbon extraction... now why is that...?

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To Americans, pharmaceutical healthcare is nothing but dollars. Eliminating human need is an attack on US billionaires and their exploitive profits.

The "insulin industry" is particularly disgusting when you realize that when Frederick Banting discovered insulin in 1923, he refused to put his name on the patent because he felt it was unethical for a doctor to profit from a discovery that would save lives, so Banting’s co-inventors, James Collip and Charles Best, sold the insulin patent to the University of Toronto for a mere $1 since they wanted everyone who needed their medication to be able to afford it.

Americans profiteers then went on to patent every method of manufacturing this "free invention" for their own profit.

#healthcare #uspol

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Server Update


PHP-FPM ISSUES


I went in and reconfigured my php-fpm pm.start_servers values as it appears default pool was too small and would get busy quite quickly. I am hoping this cures the issue. I found no other PHP errors to deal with so I hope this is the culprit. So I am hoping that getting this fine tuned and all will be well on the Instance, or so I hope. 😀

note: The default is really low which is 50. If I can exceed that limit with only 3 active users I am sure it will have to be much higher. I will have to do more research to see what a good value should be.


in reply to Unus Nemo

@Unus Nemo
I am delighted to discover that this instance is working in time for 9 O'Clock Hashtag Games! Now if only rapid interaction was possible. Still, good show!
in reply to Unus Nemo

@Unus Nemo
...and now I must make a point to add that tonight's activities with HashtagGames was a delight on your site. I guess if you've read my entries, you also are more familiar with my technical background. I've been online ever since there was an online to be on, but as far as coding goes, I simply haven't kept up with the times because it's all like one huge tech firehose at this point.


Server Down


I woke up today to find my Instance was down. I am not sure why at this point. It is a work day today and I will be busy this weekend so not sure when I will be able to investigate further as to why this is happening. I have my suspensions though there will be no easy fixes for this I am afraid.

note: The VPS was still up and running so it was not the issue. Restarting httpd & MariaDB only brought it from a 500 to a 503. So I will have to rummage through the logs to see what is going on.

note: Some preliminary research shows this is going to be a PHP related issue. Which is good and bad. As it means it is code base, as I have a pristine code base (no alterations) this is an upstream issue. It may be in an Addon? That would be nice disable the Addon problem fixed. Though I am not often that lucky. I will look through the PHP logs and see which process jammed the system 😉.

Sorry for the inconvenience this has caused.




Instance Stability


in reply to Radio Free Trumpistan

in reply to Unus Nemo

@Unus Nemo
I certainly appreciate your efforts! Since I'm not a coder as such, I can't say that I am aware of all standard Friendica features to know everything that works or doesn't work, I'd be happy to keep in touch with what I find here, and compare to other Friendica sites have/had going (one is defunct, actually: Outsourced Math). For all its issues, your site so far is the best one I've been on.


Reality


It does not make you special because you like the right people and hate the wrong people. It just make you the same as your enemy.


Terms Of Service & Rules


I hope all members of this instance are finding the Rogue Project Friendica Instance friendly and comfortable. There are very few rules here other than you cannot use the site to violate the law, DO NOT be rude and/or disrespectful to others on this Instance or other federated Instances and you may not register a Bot Account without first letting the administrator know prior to doing so.

note: TOS and Rules are subject to change at any time. It is your responsibility to keep up with the TOS and Rules. I will post when I make changes as they occur.

TOS & RULES
New Member Check List


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Trump promises and delivers. Just not what you'd expect.

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The 7 largest Dow Jones drops in American history:

1. Trump, 3/16/20
-2,997.10

2. Trump, 3/12/20
-2,352.60

3. Trump, 3/9/20
-2,013.76

4. Trump, 6/11/20
-1,861.82

5. Trump, 4/3/25
-1,679.39

6. Trump, 3/11/20
-1,464.94

7. Trump, 03/18/20
-1,338.46

Tired of winning yet?

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in reply to Andrea Junker

as much as I love dunking on this incredible asshole, the market was going to tank at the onset of COVID regardless of which jackass sat in the white house
in reply to Jon Williams

Agreed that covid was a giant inescapable excruciatingly slow moving storm. We coulda handled it better, maybe a lot better ... but ... anyway .... So also, most of the largest gains were also in 2020 ... bouncing back after one of those big losses -- a very volatile period. If Trump is actually right about everything, then the market should bounce right back, and next week at this time we will all be better off than ever. I'm not seeing that path myself, but I live a sheltered life with a very narrow slice of information arriving at my sensor systems. Edit: if you look at % change, that puts Trump more in historical context (maybe?) along with events like 1987 and 1929, 1899, 1907, 2008 ....
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🚨 Let’s Encrypt at risk from Trump cuts to OTF: “Let’s Encrypt received around $800,000 in funding from the OTF”

Dear @EUCommission, get your heads out of your arses and let’s find @letsencrypt €1M/year (a rounding error in EU finances) and have them move to the EU.

If Let’s Encrypt is fucked, the web is fucked, and the Small Web is fucked too. So how about we don’t let that happen, yeah?

(In the meanwhile, if the Let’s Encrypt folks want to make a point about how essential they are, it might be an idea to refuse certificates to republican politicians. See how they like their donation systems breaking in real time…)

CC @nlnet @NGIZero@mastodon.xyz

#USA #fascism #OpenTechFund #LetsEncrypt #SSL #TLS #encryption #EU #web #tech #SmallWeb #SmallTech mastodon.social/@publictorsten…

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in reply to Alexandre Dulaunoy

@a None of that is insurmountable or even hard. Could be done in a week if the political will was there. It’s such a low hanging fruit.
in reply to Aral Balkan

I really would like to share your optimism too.

If I can help in some ways, let me know. I was tracking the RFA budget withdraw and wondering how long OTF can survive without the funding.

@EUCommission @letsencrypt @nlnet


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I will no longer
Tend the fire for
Those who
Would use it
To burn me.

#Poetry

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There is a really good privacy feature on Mastodon and the rest of the Fediverse:

When you post a link on Mastodon etc, it remains exactly as you posted it. There is no analytics or tracking going on, no one is monitoring clicks on links.

By contrast, on Twitter/X and Bluesky the links people post are redirected so clicks can be monitored. We don't know exactly what Musk or Bluesky do with this info, but they do it by redirecting all links to sites they control (t.co & go.bsky.app).

#FediTips

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in reply to Fedi.Tips

I didn’t mean that direct links don’t show your profile to websites, of course that would happen if following a link from someone’s profile (at least on the web).

Looking at Google analytics for Facebook referrals in the past, I only saw a redirect URL as the referrer, not the URL of anyone’s profile (same with Twitter). Facebook offered a more private experience by default, so it seemed to make sense to me that way. But it’s quite obvious now that they have nefarious uses for that data with tendrils that spread across the web to collect an entire profile about you.

in reply to Cecelia

Ahhh gotcha, now I understand what you mean 🙂 Thanks!
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When you add new features to your legacy code

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I made this meme to contribute to the public dialogue.

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Cuba, who we have placed sanctions on for 60 years, has a higher life expectancy than the United States.

Why?

Healthcare.

#Healthcare #MedicareForAll #UnitedStates #Cuba

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in reply to mute8582

Well, you're full of yourself, since Wikipedia is the source, but I'll even provide screenshots, along with URLs.

Cuba's life expectancy at birth is 79.87 years
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuba#Hea…
American life expectancy at birth was 78.4
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_S…
Healthcare make a difference.

in reply to MOVED to: @Linux@mastodon.au

Doesn't surprise me. I've actually been to Cuba where my daughter was an exchange student under Obama. Because of the longstanding US embargo, Cuba has an abundance of educated citizens, many of whom have medical degrees. But because there are so few jobs, those qualified doctors and nurses have other jobs like public sanitation. I kid you not.

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The Trump Administration Accidentally Texted Me Its War Plans


U.S. national-security leaders included me in a group chat about upcoming military strikes in Yemen. I didn’t think it could be real. Then the bombs started falling.

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in reply to GreyAlien

This is one of those things where if the left had the capacity to practice messaging discipline and media coordination they could repeat everyday for the next two months with brutal consequences for the right-wing administration.

But this will be forgotten about by tomorrow


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Yes, my SRAM adapter for the C128 works!
Seems I've ran out of 'HCT00s... Will have to search for one to validate the board with it.

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in reply to hkz

I just released the files for my #Commodore #C128 #SRAM adapter, as it seems to work well with everything I threw at it.

Have fun with it, you can order it from PCBWay or from anywhere you like:
github.com/hkzlab/C128_310381r…

I guess this can be adapter to newer boards with 4x 4464 DRAMs. As I have a motherboard for a C128DCR around, I suspect I'll get around to that too.


in reply to George Takei 🏳️‍🌈🖖🏽

Had to check this, as it's just a screengrab with no attribution, but apparently this is real, initially spotted in 2024, and not the first time people from the state cannot spell the state's name correctly: abovethelaw.com/2024/10/the-vi…
in reply to George Takei 🏳️‍🌈🖖🏽

Can't even spell properly the name of their own State : LouisianaNA

Is there still a Department of Education in LouisianaNA ?

Sigh, Red States 🤢🤮

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Is there an account you follow that boosts other people too much? Do you like reading their own posts, but you don't want to see their boosts?

In Mastodon you can hide an account's boosts by doing the following:

1. Go to their profile page
2. Click the ⋯ button on their profile
3. Select "Hide boosts"

You will still see their posts, it will only hide boosts. If you change your mind, go to ⋯ and select "Show boosts".

They will never know you have hidden their boosts 🙂

#FediTips #Mastodon

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this is super helpful. Right now I am blocking all boosts from all accounts I’m following, thanks to @ivory but boosts are also helpful to find interesting new accounts to follow.

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I prefer a formal language to describe “contracts” in the type system and static analysis.

BUT, I think it would also be funny to use embeddings to find out what a function does just reading its declaration.

For instance
void x_destroy(struct X * p)
What this functions does?

I will try do to that for fun.

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Cloudflare turns AI against itself with endless maze of irrelevant facts
New approach punishes AI companies that ignore "no crawl" directives.
arstechnica.com/ai/2025/03/clo…

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in reply to Ars Technica

Interesting to see AI fighting AI - only one losing the battle is humans. This might just be an unnecessary burden to society overall.
in reply to Ars Technica

I have conflicting feelings about this. On one side: fuck AI companies and abusive bots DDOSing random websites and git repos. On the other, there are now hundreds of thousands, if not millions of computers wasting energy for literally nothing. Some generating shit, and others eating it. A lot of expensive nothing



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Hydrogen-powered semi

Sensitive content

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"Graphite" software from Paragon, which has sold its high-end phone spyware to the U.S. government and holds itself out as more ethical than peers, has been found in the devices of Italian migrant rescuers close to the Pope, according to Citizen Lab and WhatsApp. Gift link: wapo.st/3Y2t8KK

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