A question asking what something is and one asking how it compares to something else draw on different parts of the same topic. One citation rate covering both blurs which kind I actually win.
which kind i actually win, per engine. average citation rate hides that you might sweep comparison queries on one engine and lose definitional ones on another, and that gap is the part worth acting on.
We do not have a lot of local traffic as we do not have a lot of users. As you add friends you will see a lot of activity in the Friends' Message which is the checkerboard icon on the left of the tool bar. For now Click the target icon, third from the left and then choose Global Community. There will be a lot more activity there.
@Harib Murshidi friendica is the connective tissue of the fediverse. it doesn't just speak activitypub like mastodon or pixelfed, it speaks activitypub AND diaspora AND ostatus AND its own dfrn protocol all at the same time, plus it has official connectors for bluesky and tumblr and even rss feeds. so one friendica account can follow a mastodon user, a diaspora pod, a pixelfed account, a bluesky handle, and a blog, and all of it shows up in the same timeline. no other platform does that natively. mastodon only does activitypub. diaspora only does diaspora. friendica does all of them. that's why it's called the universal connector. as for reach, the friendica network itself is small, around 270 to 410 active servers with roughly 16,000 to 21,000 registered users depending on the tracker, so it's niche. but the point was never friendica's own user count. the point is that a friendica node can see and interact with the entire fediverse, and one node on the network reports being aware of over 45,000 servers and 24 million registered users across all connected platforms. so friendica is small but it's the widest window into everything else.
Friendica is also older than Mastodon. It has a lot more history. I do believe I have posted a Federation Chart of how well Rogue Project's Friendica is federating. Just scroll down the local feed. I know everyone loves to doom scroll! 😈😅😆 Or you can find it here
Rogue Project's Friendica Instance Federation Distribution
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.
I sent you a follow, so that we can stay in touch. If you look in the Local Directory you will see our DevShack group. On friendica you join a group by following it.
So from here we can interact with users from any mastodon/pixelfed instance ? Like you don't need those fedibridges which are required on mastodon, bsky ? 🤔
Yes, exactly, because Friendica understands Activity Pub as well as DFRN and a number of other protocols it is easy to federate. There are cross network type limmits. For instance a Mastodon user cannot effectively join a Friendica Group, as vanilla Mastodon has no concept of a group. Private posts work between modern Mastodon Instance and Friendica but most Mastodon Instances are old to ancient and do not appear to be maintained or upgraded. There are certain network types that you will have to configure in your settings in order to be able to connect to. Furthermore I have been having issues with the Bluesky bridge as far as Webfinger authentication. If you have a Bluesky account just use the setting to connect it rather than using the bridge.
In general it will just work. The setup for networks in the settings is for more esoteric networks like Gnu/Social and federating email. I have a range of addons available. Some of them are transparent, and others you have to configure or enable to make use of, like Mathjax and Markdown. Take a tour through settings to full appreciate how many options you have. I have a feature turned on that allows you to tell this Instance that an user you follow is actually you on another Instance, be sure you only do this if it is you. When you turn it on all your activities on one Instance will be mirrored to the other. Take a moment to browse the Help section too, especially the BBcode section, and the privacy section. Privacy does not work well across network types. Basically if you make something private only those you follow on that network type will see it were a friend on Mastodon will not be able to. Even though you shared it with friends. This is because no specific protocol for verifying identities across network types has been adopted at this point. Feel free to ask questions.
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The issue I see here is that most of the general public have a misinformed idea of what Artificial Intelligence (AI) is. Most think of AI as LLMs and even though they are a significant part of AI today they did not evolve in AI until 2018, at least not to the general public. Yet AI has been a field of study and implementation since 1956. Take a look at the history of AI. Obviously it is not a new idea. I cannot tell you what all scientists think of AI. I can tell you what this scientist thinks of AI.
AI is a practical tool that can be used to make your research a lot more productive. AI can parse data sets far faster than humans can. With that said keep in mind that Natural Intelligence (NI) is not perfect and AI is modeled after NI, based on an Artificial Neural Network that can be trained (this is a generalization not a precise definition). Just like our own NI it can be taught wrong, it can produce bad results, just like us. It can even produce mistakes faster than any team of engineers could! Yet most of the time it produces useful results. So it is a vastly useful tool and one of the greatest achievements of our era.
I do not use general purpose corporate offerings for AI. I use domain specific LLMs that I train locally (fine tune not base train) and train ML architectures such as random forests, small CNNs. They have a far better accuracy rate as they are not trying to evaluate every possible evaluation as they are limited in scope by the domain they are trained in. I see this as the optimal way for a data science research. Also it is great for code analysis though I personally do not have AI generate code. I do not have an issue with those that do. In my opinion any one that has a code base of over 100,000 lines of code and is not using AI analysis is being irresponsible.
The anti-AI collective aka the general public have a very misinformed view of what AI is. Machine Learning (ML) is used to produce an LLM but an LLM is not the extent of what can be done with ML. AI is not chatbots on some corporations unregulated Data Center trained by nefarious methods. Contrary to popular belief. No, it does not take a data center to train a LLM, base training requires a lot of compute power but fine tuning it can be done at home with a rather modest data science rig, using no more power than a gaming computer. LLMs are not typically built on others Intellectual Property this is an attribute to how unregulated corporation train their LLMs not most data scientists. The whole topic is very skewed. What those AI Data Centers are for is to provide a service, to monetize AI, for the general public and corporations. They are not necessary to train AI nor to implement it. And training smaller traditional ML architectures can be done exclusively on local science data rigs.
I am against unregulated corporation doing whatever they please. I am against the way AI Data Centers are being developed with no concern for the environment. I am a humanitarian I am against pretty much anything that is a negative impact on humanity. I am not against AI or ML or LLMs. They are just tools that can be very useful to a data scientist or even the layperson providing they know something about what they are researching in order to vet the information they get.
It seems like everyone has forgotten all the bad advice given by obscure websites and the peer ask and answer sites that excel in being rude but often produce unreliable results even more so than AI. Because people associate LLMs with the behavior of unregulated corporations they do not like LLMs despite the fact that they have no idea what an LLM is. They just know they hate how corporation are monetizing them. I guess it has not occurred to them to address the actual problem and to push for regulations on the corporation in their demographic? Why address a problem by looking at the root of that problem when we can just use derogatory slurs about something we have no idea what it even is? Yes, I was being sarcastic as well as passive aggressive, my apologies.
We have real concerns with how unregulated corporations are destroying the environment. That has to be addressed. Yet, AI would still be in heavy use even if there were no AI data centers at all. The difference is that it would only be available to people like me with the knowledge of how to build a data science rig and implement the technology stack. The general public would be left out. So you decide, do you want to be left out? Great that is easy just do not use AI. If you do enjoy the benefits of this tool then do the ethical thing and push for regulations on corporations in their development of AI data centers. Enough said.
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Yes, because while christian leaders were in control in most of Europe things were so great for everyone, hence the mass exodus to the United States to get away from them and our forefathers specifically creating a separation of church and state to keep us safe from that atrocity. There could be no greater anti American statement ever than to suggest that we be lead by the so-called christian leaders.
lol, that is not even about America, it starts its rant 284 years before America even existed which pretty much sums up its accuracy. In any case that is not a statement its full blown propaganda. Yes, Maga is of no value to American society and America, just like every other country in the world, has plenty to be ashamed of in its past with no need to add centuries of non-existent history which it never had. Though when people start their argument before America even existed, stating it in such a way that suggests it had anything to do with America it can pretty much be dismissed offhand as nonsense. And that is precisely what I have done.
You are right. When talking about a tree, we should discuss only where the tree begins, above the ground. To talk about its roots is just propaganda, you dig?
Also, Samoa, Virgin Islands, Puerto Rico, and Guam are taxed by America, though not represented in government. That is neither here nor there. It's just propaganda.
Hawai'ian people did not even want to join America, and many still don't. Live on the streets of Hawai'i, and you learn that much.
A couple hundred years ago, they had not heard about a certain dead Jewish philosopher. Then they got violently conquered, and suddenly needed said Jew to save them.
Please pardon me for stirring it up. 😉
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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.
Guilt does not get handed down the generations, but the wealth accumulated through genocide does.
Racial inequality today is the perpetuation of yesteryear's genocide, racism in slow motion, with a smiley, respectable face.
People who inherited generational wealth, have to take account of how their ancestors got that wealth in the first place.
Native American people were killed and their land stolen. Then the colonizers enslaved African people and brought them to the stolen land and exploited the sweat of their labor. Then they brought in Chinese laborers to build a railroad. The colonizers perpetuated a culture of slavery and racism. Natives, African and Chinese people lived as slaves, outcasts, disenfranchised people.
The extent to which your particular ancestors participated in this oppression, I have no idea about. The extent to which they benefited from it, I have some idea about. Actively or passively, some generations are beneficiaries of the loot of empire.
For example: You might be a well-educated, well-off, well-respected person today, because of the wealth and privilege afforded to you, by your murderous, racist, rapist great grandfather, a genocidal brute.
That wealth and privilege got passed down, so today you are a civilized person, who thinks well of themselves, selectively ignoring the facts of history. If you are descended from the colonized people, you might be unprivileged, poor, uneducated, and might even have a criminal record, due to the systemic injustice that is still perpetuating.
George Orwell wrote in "1984", that "the party", the elite class, is not racist. Today, the division between the haves and the have nots, still correlates with race, though not as much as in the past. The division is now based on class. Class warfare uses tactics, such as appointing an African American as president.
Obama took office in 2008 and in 2009, stopped the investigation into the insider corruption behind the 2008 market crash that wiped out millions of Americans out of their savings and retirement plans. Some folks very dear to me were cheated out of their life's savings, even though they are of European descent.
People wanted Universal Healthcare, but Obama gave us Obamacare, taking healthcare from expensive and complicated, to expensive, complicated and mandatory. This gave even more money to the "healthcare industry".
People went along with these big scams in broad daylight, simply because they trusted that an African American president would have their best interest at heart.
As Robert Anton Wilson and Robert Shea wrote in "The Illuminatus", the purpose of the president is not to wield power, but to distract from those who really do.
The president is only a nominal figurehead in the political theater, a frontman for those really in power. A charismatic, charming, eloquent person is chosen by the powers-that-be, and sold to the voters by a trillion dollar hype machine.
So my proposal is not to guillotine the billionaires.
"Life hurts a lot more. When you die, the pain is over."
— Jim Morrison.
The appropriate justice may be to take away their excess wealth and spread it, so that the society becomes classless. Let them live among people as equals. Zuckerberg would have to stand in the grocery line, the same as everyone else. People might make conversation, "Hey neighbor. Didn't you use to run that site, Fakebook or something?"
Here's my proposal for how to bring this about. A cryptocurrency aimed at bringing about wealth redistribution and degrowth, putting an end to fake news and spam.
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A well-known extortion group says it broke into Federal Bureau of Investigation systems and walked away with personal data on nearly every agent, employee and job applicant in the bureau’s history. The claim, first reported by 404 Media on September 22, 2026, comes from ShinyHunters, the same hacking collective behind a string of Oracle-linked breaches this year. The FBI has confirmed it is investigating, but as of September 24, 2026, no government agency has verified the full scope of what the group is claiming.
On September 22, 2026, ShinyHunters claimed it breached the FBI by exploiting a zero-day in Oracle PeopleSoft on FBIJobs.gov, then laterally moved into HR, Criminal Justice, and Medlink systems. It claims to have stolen 2–3 TB of data on "almost all" FBI agents and job applicants, including names, home addresses, SSNs, and medical records. The FBI confirmed it is investigating unauthorized activity affecting FBIjobs.gov but has not verified the full scope of the claim as of September 24. Reuters partially verified a 5,000-record sample by cross-checking SSNs against credit bureau records. Notably, ShinyHunters says the breach was not financially motivated it's demanding the FBI retract a May 2026 advisory it considers "false allegations," giving the bureau one week to comply.
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TL;DR: An internal FBI memo warned that activists are catfishing ICE officers using fake tradwife dating profiles to expose their identities, proving that the entire armed enforcement apparatus is completely vulnerable to its own patriarchal fantasies.
We need to talk about the FBI issuing official warnings to protect federal agents from fake tradwife dating profiles and what it reveals about the fragility of state enforcers.
Escaping Christian Nationalism in Texas taught me exactly how the patriarchal fantasy functions. When you live in environments that demand women perform total submission you realize very quickly that the men demanding that subservience are the easiest marks in the world. They are so desperate to have their egos stroked by a compliant domestic fantasy that their situational awareness drops to zero the second a woman pretends to play along.
Read the breakdown of how the state apparatus got outsmarted by its own ideology below.
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A public records request by the nonprofit Property of the People (propertyofthepeople.org/) revealed that the FBI Chicago field office sent out an official intelligence bulletin warning law enforcement nationwide about a new digital tactic.
Activists created fake dating profiles adopting the tradwife aesthetic of romanticized domesticity, submissiveness, and conservative values. The goal was to appeal directly to the ideological biases of right leaning officers, lure them into conversation, verify their identities, and publicly expose them online to create public embarrassment.
Civil liberties experts and former federal agents immediately pointed out the absurdity of this entire operation.
The federal government deployed counterintelligence resources not to dismantle armed threats, but to protect armed federal agents from the indignity of internet ridicule. These officers carry badges, firearms, and the full authority of the federal government, yet their entire operational security was completely compromised by an avatar in a floral dress asking about their shift schedule.
Far right ideology constantly tells men that women exist to be quiet and subservient accessories to male power.
When activists mirrored that exact performance back to them, the officers walked straight into the trap because their entitlement blinded them. These agencies rely entirely on bureaucratic anonymity to carry out aggressive deportations without having to face social consequences in their personal lives. The moment that shield of secrecy is pulled back, they panic because they want the authority of state violence without any of the civic accountability that comes with it.
When an armed enforcement agency has to run to the FBI for protection against dating apps, their manufactured dominance is officially broken.
Do you believe that publicly exposing the identities of federal officers is a legitimate form of civic accountability, or do you think personal exposure crosses the line?
If human beings could somehow stop thinking they were better or more important than each other, it would solve 99% of the world's problems. All the worst -isms belong to this category.
It is funny you bring this up. As today I have been transcoding some of my DVD collection for my Media Server. I use MakeMKV with HandBrake.
I know what you are thinking ... "Why not just uses HandBrake?". Well, glad you asked . If I was transcoding from older formats to MKV, MP4 or WebM then that is exactly what I would do. Though dealing with optical media is a bit more delicate. When simultaneously keeping the optical drive reading while doing heavy computations for transcoding we will likely overheat the drive and cause flaws in our transcoded copy not to mention massive slow downs. To work around this issue I use MakeMKV to rip the DVD to a raw (uncompressed) MKV container. This takes around 15 minutes a DVD on my ancient system (or 18 minutes for ripping two DVDs at once) . Because it is not transcoding I do not run into the heat issues. I then transcode the raw MKV container to a highly compressed version. Both of these tools have a GUI version, though you know me, I do not use them . Why? Because that workflow is slow compared to my scripted CLI approach. I have a dual_rip script I wrote to first invoke two concurrent MakeMKV sessions (providing there are DVDs in both of my drives, if not it falls back to just ripping the drive that does have a DVD in it). I can safely rip two DVDs at a time with no significant loss of time than just ripping one at a time. Then, on success, the script will invoke HandBrake to transcode the raw containers.
I typically transcode two DVDs in less than an hour using this approach. Personally, for me, it is a great workflow. And if you are a GUI type of gal (pun intended ) The GUI version of these programs are available. They work just as fast but you cannot rip two DVDs at once with this approach. If you only have one DVD drive then that is not an issue .
Does anyone know of a #reticulum #nomadnet destination page / site that has a really good explainer and is authoritative ? Thanks. I found e.g. 72a2d9c12215802605779f4366d48335
If you do not yet have reticulum you can use reticulum.site to access this site.
I have been sifting through the documentation. I have setup nomadnet on my workstation. When I have learned more about it I am going to add nomadnet to my VPS. I tried the Nomadnet Browser though I was left unimpressed. I actually prefer the CLI. I will let you know if I find anything interesting.
@Unus Nemo @adingbatponder 👾 Yes , nomad netbrowser has a poor UI with little options and bugs. I know you prefer CLI but in regard of a WebUI I swapped that nomad netbrowser to Reticulum MeshCatX which is a whole other webUI way richer in features to fine tune every aspect, great UI, safe, there you can add a person who messages you as contact and even block others , nomadnet with a great discoverability as I found some interesting destination pages which you can browse as in the browser, a relay chat and many other features but just 1 lacking in the UI is make your own index.mu which is just a Vim file in your case. Worth a look as it's handy to browse trough indexes or destination pages and chat. meshchatx.com/
So much cool pages out there backbones and tutorials and funny absurdity, I love it. found this one as propagation node and some info amongst many others c3d263ca38a06275d883a282c3e5af3f:/page/index.mu bffe33a2c4b845468d2cbb283103ad43:/page/meshpoint.mu and information keeps coming on.. is why I use this kind of UI to discover. fresh in Reticulum community 72a2d9c12215802605779f4366d48335:/page/index.mu
@adingbatponder 👾 Wait this one made a nomadsearch built in as destination page e59960b7f9011dcdd7c1a6f14ac2c6d3:/page/index.mu from 36ebade5636dbcd85c1d6060101b8765:/page/index.mu
@adingbatponder 👾 use that client and look the info flow in faster than you can catch and bookmark the index.mu > look this one is funny The Fist 9f3a20b50352a2523193caa1b5130f5d:/page/index.mu for a chat room.. all accessible on that WebUI It has a map even , your network visually connecting with peers etc and so many features beyond the way to discover feeds announcing. You can even call, like a telephone.. Another rich feature I just discovered is: Failed loading page: Could not establish link to destination. An archived version of this page is available.
@adingbatponder 👾 Here you have a chat in destination address if you don't like WebUI a1992adc177032024a03f0e828cf87d1:/page/nomadnet.mu There is all things passing by, I love the fact that so many people use it and I see many newcomers with their test index.
And finally from the maker of that Chat > a1992adc177032024a03f0e828cf87d1:/page/reticulum_manual.mu
Or your own index with the git visible unlike nomad netbrowser >>> 8331ef3af688e4153234a5910608dc30:/page/repo.mu`g=public|r=reticulum_nixos_flake_rngit_mirror
Well, it has been a week since there have been any sign of a slowdown or issue with the Instance. I am going to say that converting to the systemd unit for bin/daemon and the follow up configuration changes has been successful . It is nice to see everything running so smoothly.
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As a hyper carnivore, which is defined as one that eats at least 70% of their diet from animal based food, I eat all meat. The only vegetation I tend to consume is my coffee, tea, sweeteners and seasonings. Since started a Keto diet and then transitioned into a carnivore diet I have lost 80 pounds (36.2874 kilograms) and have eliminated joint pain and the autoimmune diseases that have plagued me. I also do not eat seed oils of anytype.
Even if I was not losing weight. The other health benefits have be far to great for my to consider a change now. I just love my new found health far to much. Not to mention a relief from chronic pain.
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