Retired Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman announced his campaign to oust GOP Sen. Ashley Moody, who was appointed to replace former Sen. Marco Rubio last year.
This is my updated coffee area, just some sign changes, the ones on the shelf? Yeah, those were tossed wherever there was space because they had no way to be hung. So, put up a cheap picture ledge I wasn't using after moving the rise and shine sign up and the coffee sign over… Really should've mounted that one up there in the first place, looks great over there. Addicted to coffee? Nahh, not at all… Its not like there's a hanging basket of coffee pods out of the frame, nor a drawer with another basket of them, coffee pouches and a small amount of already ground coffee.
So on my third try of selling Vik's comic collection, and this one might happen, yay. That'll make some room, and once @RS, Author, Novelist, Prosaist chooses any books he wants, that'll start going, and we'll get some space.
Its a little frustrating how much stuff there is to clear, but there's a story there. We had some low points in Phoenix, I'm undoubtedly somewhat to blame for that, I've never been great at sticking to a job, and I tend to create chaos. That said, I would work more if'n I could, sell off anything I could, I mean I really have never been attached to things, people, etc, particularly things since my bankruptcy, resulting in a house where maybe 20% of the stuff here is mine. Yeah, really, and that was before his mom passed, and he pulled in a lot of her stuff. Need to get someone from the family to come get a lot of this stuff, between just photos, quilts and her birds, I'll prolly have enough to fill a minivan
With that in mind, lots to sell here, and a great desire, a very great desire, to down size. Still considering the future, both location, likely Illinois, though there's a slim chance of Maryland, and likely building a house, maybe a tiny home, I mean I already know I don't need more than 900 sq ft, and could do as little as 600. An estate sale isn't really an option, companies like that really expect volume and/or stuff people want to buy... A few collectibles, no antiques, and Ikea furniture at best isn't really their thing. So, we'll be at the first three flea markets at Sunset Hills community center, those are... March, April and May I think, I've already paid for my spaces, but I do need to touch base as I haven't received an info packet or anything like that, but it might be too soon, we'll see.
So yeah, really clearing a lot out of here, not because I didn't love him, but because I need some space. Honestly, we were two train wrecks holding each other up, I started taking care of the finances because he just basically operated on a make and spend model, I made things work while he did what he wanted, on the other hand, I couldn't be trusted to stay at a job which didn't help, so he was the breadwinner.
I will say I'm loving this day and age, I do the type of work I like, without the constraints of a typical job, which fits my instability well. These days I basically do the same job as UPS, but using my phone, my car, and a gig app, and come and go as I please, if'n I get tired of deliveries, there's plenty of remote work out there. Or I'm thinking of getting a 3D printer and making things, find an artist so I can start a series of cryptid traffic signs, lots of ways to make money out there thanks to tech.
Ok, been trying a few new social medias out, and have very quickly come to decisions. Holos isn't for me, Loops is a great idea, and Wafrn is awesome. So, if'n you're following me here...
This place for the foreseeable future will be where I post my long blog entries, as well as where I follow Diaspora users ( @Andrew Pam any chance you have an AP account?) as well as my RSS feed reader.
@Vextaur will stick around, and hopefully the upload problems will be fixed so I can post my short videos, usually commentary on something work related
The specialty accounts here ( @The Taur Nation and @Recalls ) as well as the Admin account, @Kāpitan until I get my own hosted Wafrn instance. ——— So why's Holos going so soon? Really as I've mentioned, its not for me. I really recommend it for those whose social media is done through their phone, only one device is supported, and your phone/device is the server, you connect to the rest of the Fediverse via a relay so the only data that's anywhere other than your phone is the boosts, likes and friend requests from the Fediverse that came in while you were offline.
Why Wafrn? Amazingly enough despite being so young, its very polished, and somehow manages to have a lot of that Tumblr feel. Plus I love how posts are displayed there, along with the silly extras. Once I figure out how to link people to just post groups like I do categories here, I'll likely pack this place up, but that could be a while.
@mʕ•ﻌ•ʔm jesuiSatire .. ᘛ⁐̤ᕐᐷ Hosted, I'm rather clueless with computers, @GoFedi took over when SpaceHost shut down. Not sure for my Wafrn, no one really offers it yet, but I do have a lead on someone that might.
I don't have anything that speaks ActivityPub yet... but I plan to set up Friendica, and after your positive reviews I am interested in looking at Wafrn.
@Andrew Pam If'n you like Diaspora, I'd say give Wafrn a try, maybe jump on a instance like bark.wolp.chat where I am and take it for a test drive.
Friendica is pretty cool albeit a bit weird, I think its strong suit is if'n you like to do long text posts, images there's lots of other choices. Oh, and it doesn't do sound or video files.
The new stable release is out @Andrew Pam. You might wait a week or two to see if some last minute updates role in because of servers updating to the new release. The changelog states some fix in the installer so it might\should work again.
We are very happy to announce the availability of the new stable release of Friendica “Blutwurz” 2026.01. In addition to several improvements and new features, this release contains fixes for security problems that Hrizi Bilel has notified us about. Thanks for your report! It also contains the first results of a accessibility review by Casey Kreer.
Some highlight of Friendica 2026.01 are
we overhauled the embedding of media from various sources and improved several aspects,
users can now sort widgets and channels,
the performance of system and user defined channels has improved,
admins can now export and import contact block lists and block access for non-logged in visitors to media included in posting.
If you have developed your own addons for Friendica note that we reworked our hook system and introduced a new AddonHelper class.
For details, please the CHANGELOG file in the repository.
What is Friendica
Friendica is a decentralised communications platform, you can use to host your own social media server that integrates with independent social networking platforms (like the Fediverse or Diaspora*) but also some commercial ones like Tumblr and BlueSky.
Ensure that the last backup of your Friendica installation was done recently.
Using Git
Updating from the git repositories should only involve a pull from the Friendica core repository and addons repository, regardless of the branch (stable or develop) you are using. Remember to update the dependencies with composer as well. So, assuming that you are on the stable branch, the commands to update your installation to the 2026.01 release would be cd friendica git pull bin/composer.phar run install:prod cd addon git pull If you want to use a different branch than the stable one, you need to fetch and checkout the branch before your perform the git pull.
Pulling in the dependencies with composer will show some deprecation warning, we will be working on that in the upcoming release.
As many files got deleted or moved around, please upload the unpacked files to a new directory on your server (say friendica_new) and copy over your existing configuration (config/local.config.php and config/addon.config.php) and .htaccess files. Afterwards rename your current Friendica directory (e.g. friendica) to friendica_old and friendica_new to friendica.
The files of the dependencies are included in the archive (make sure you are using the friendica-full-2026.01 archive), so you don’t have to worry about them.
Post Update Tasks
The database update should be applied automatically, but sometimes it gets stuck. If you encounter this, please initiate the DB update manually from the command line by running the script bin/console dbstructure update from the base of your Friendica installation. If the output contains any error message, please let us know using the channels mentioned below.
Please note, that some of the changes to the database structure will take some time to be applied, depending on the size of your Friendica database this update might run for days.
If you are using the daemon for your background worker, note that we have moved the functionality into the console. Adopt your setup to use the new bin/console daemon command.
Known Issues
At the time of writing this, none with 2026.01
How to Contribute
If you want to contribute to the project, you don’t need to have coding experience. There are a number of tasks listed in the issue tracker with the label “Junior Jobs” we think are good for new contributors. But you are by no means limited to these – if you find a solution to a problem (even a new one) please make a pull request at github or let us know in the development forum.
Contribution to Friendica is also not limited to coding. Any contribution to the documentation, the translation or advertisement materials is welcome or reporting a problem. You don’t need to deal with Git(Hub) or Transifex if you don’t like to. Just get in touch with us and we will get the materials to the appropriate places.
Thanks everyone who helped making this release possible, and especially to all the new contributors to Friendica, and have fun!
We are very happy to announce the availability of the new stable release of Friendica “Blutwurz” 2026.01. In addition to several improvements and new features, this release contains fixes for security problems that Hrizi Bilel has notified us about. Thanks for your report! It also contains the first results of a accessibility review by Casey Kreer.
Some highlight of Friendica 2026.01 are
we overhauled the embedding of media from various sources and improved several aspects,
users can now sort widgets and channels,
the performance of system and user defined channels has improved,
admins can now export and import contact block lists and block access for non-logged in visitors to media included in posting.
If you have developed your own addons for Friendica note that we reworked our hook system and introduced a new AddonHelper class.
For details, please the CHANGELOG file in the repository.
What is Friendica
Friendica is a decentralised communications platform, you can use to host your own social media server that integrates with independent social networking platforms (like the Fediverse or Diaspora*) but also some commercial ones like Tumblr and BlueSky.
Ensure that the last backup of your Friendica installation was done recently.
Using Git
Updating from the git repositories should only involve a pull from the Friendica core repository and addons repository, regardless of the branch (stable or develop) you are using. Remember to update the dependencies with composer as well. So, assuming that you are on the stable branch, the commands to update your installation to the 2026.01 release would be cd friendica git pull bin/composer.phar run install:prod cd addon git pull If you want to use a different branch than the stable one, you need to fetch and checkout the branch before your perform the git pull.
Pulling in the dependencies with composer will show some deprecation warning, we will be working on that in the upcoming release.
As many files got deleted or moved around, please upload the unpacked files to a new directory on your server (say friendica_new) and copy over your existing configuration (config/local.config.php and config/addon.config.php) and .htaccess files. Afterwards rename your current Friendica directory (e.g. friendica) to friendica_old and friendica_new to friendica.
The files of the dependencies are included in the archive (make sure you are using the friendica-full-2026.01 archive), so you don’t have to worry about them.
Post Update Tasks
The database update should be applied automatically, but sometimes it gets stuck. If you encounter this, please initiate the DB update manually from the command line by running the script bin/console dbstructure update from the base of your Friendica installation. If the output contains any error message, please let us know using the channels mentioned below.
Please note, that some of the changes to the database structure will take some time to be applied, depending on the size of your Friendica database this update might run for days.
If you are using the daemon for your background worker, note that we have moved the functionality into the console. Adopt your setup to use the new bin/console daemon command.
Known Issues
At the time of writing this, none with 2026.01
How to Contribute
If you want to contribute to the project, you don’t need to have coding experience. There are a number of tasks listed in the issue tracker with the label “Junior Jobs” we think are good for new contributors. But you are by no means limited to these – if you find a solution to a problem (even a new one) please make a pull request at github or let us know in the development forum.
Contribution to Friendica is also not limited to coding. Any contribution to the documentation, the translation or advertisement materials is welcome or reporting a problem. You don’t need to deal with Git(Hub) or Transifex if you don’t like to. Just get in touch with us and we will get the materials to the appropriate places.
Thanks everyone who helped making this release possible, and especially to all the new contributors to Friendica, and have fun!
@🌴 Seph 💭 👾 Hi! I discovered Wafrn thanks to you. I've created an account and I find it absolutely fun. I'm still figuring out how the "bite" function works, but otherwise I like everything.
Besides Diaspora, I also use Mastodon, and in the past I've used other free social networks like GNUSocial.
By the way, my Wafrn username is @diegoch.at.app.wafrn.net
@Diego* (diaspora social) Bite I think is just their poke system, something silly. From what I hear Sharkey I think it is lets you unleash a swarm of bees.
Video. How to wash teargas out of someone's eyes. Use water only. Have them kneel and put their head back. Keep their hands out of their eyes. Use a squeeze bottle and wash from the inside by the nose outwards.
Video. Hong Kong protesters carry a waterproof bag filled partway with water. They pick up tear gas canisters with thickly gloved hands (tear gas canisters get hot) and put them in the bag and shake to neutralize the tear gas.
Short term, Tim Cook’s been terrific in creating gazillions in shareholder value for Apple and squeezing every penny out of its customers. In the long term, he’s been inflicting massive damage to their reputation for years now. Think different indeed.
“Apple’s Tim Cook is among a group of CEOs being eviscerated for traveling to the White House on the same day Border Patrol agents killed a Veterans Affairs nurse in Minneapolis.
"Cook, who gifted President Donald Trump a 24-karat gold desk ornament on his last White House visit, returned on Saturday to attend a dinner and screening of the first lady’s new documentary, ‘Melania.’”
When we look back on his leadership in the future, let this be Tim Cook's legacy.
“An insane encapsulation:🚨”The same day Trump’s agents kill a VA ICU nurse in broad daylight, the CEOs of Apple & Amazon join Trump to watch a private screening of a film about his wife directed by an alleged sexual abuser *was seen shirtless in the Epstein Files.” -P Thakker “If you’re a CEO🚨willing to sit in the co of this regime, your “shareholder value” excuse feels pretty🩸blood-soaked tonight.” -R Wilson #NoMoralCompass#Murder#AlexPretti#TimCook#Jassy#USPol thedailybeast.com/billionaire-…
We knew this was coming, but now the clock is running. From Privacy International:
"Yesterday the Trump Administration announced a proposed change in policy for travellers to the U.S. It applies to the powers of data collection by the Customs and Border Police (CBP)."
"If the proposed changes are adopted after the 60-day consultation, then millions of travellers to the U.S. will be forced to use a U.S. government mobile phone app, submit their social media from the last five years and email addresses used in the last ten years, including of family members. They’re also proposing the collection of DNA."
PI linked to and summarized a Federal Register entry describing the proposed requirements:
-All visitors must submit ‘their social media from the last 5 years’
-ESTA (Electronic System for Travel Authorization) applications will include ‘high value data fields’, ‘when feasible’ ‘telephone numbers used in the last five years’ -‘email addresses used in the last ten years’ -‘family number telephone numbers (sic) used in the last five years’ -biometrics – face, fingerprint, DNA, and iris -business telephone numbers used in the last five years -business email addresses used in the last ten years.
We cannot speak for all Africans, but in various countries of Africa, we think it is fine, and we hope Europe copies USA. The reason is that we believe there is a brain drain and capital flight from Africa to the West. So this kind of thing the USA is doing will stop, or at least reduce it.
Moreover, China and South America (Brazil) plus BRICS+ countries are a better association for Africans.
In any case, even if Africans still want to study in USA universities, there is e-learning. That can be the case too for those who want European universities.
But overall, many in Africa think it is good for #Africa.
I really need some help with some specialist knowledge. Please boost for reach.
Does anyone have a detailed comparison of the carbon footprint of composting foodwaste as opposed to an anerobic digestor with the gas being collected and burnt for fuel?
Background and more info.
Tomorrow I'm going to be asking a question at my local District Council (UK) about their new food waste initiative.
They are going to provide a new weekly food waste collection with the rollout providing new bins but also plastic bags to put food waste into. The plastic bag is be removed at the disposal facility which will be incinerated.
Food waste, after the plastic bag removal will be put in an anerobic digestor with the aim to syphon off the gases for "energy use" which I'm pretty sure means burning them.
Our current system is the food waste goes in our green bin and goes to a large composting facility.
I'm pretty sure of my assertion that providing single use plastic bags that will be burnt will increase rather than reduce their carbon footprint.
My question I can't find the answer is the following:
Is it more carbon friendly to hot compost food waste or to use an anerobic digester which harvests the gases to be burnt as fuel.
Does anyone have a detailed, nuanced, comparison of the carbon footprint of composting foodwaste as opposed to an anerobic digestor.
Deadline to question is 20hrs (sorry for short timeframe got the original date wrong). However if you miss the deadline but have useful info I'm sure this is the first round.
Please boost for reach and thank you for taking to time read this long post.
I just found out that Tim Cook attended a private screening of "Melania" with Donald Trump at the White House the night after ICE killed Alex Pretti. Where the fuck even are we, as a country? As a society? No, I will not forgive and I will not forget. Apple was already pretty much dead to me, but if I ever needed a reminder as to why I'll never buy another Apple product, this was it.
The White House held an advance screening of Amazon's new Melania Trump documentary that included guests Mike Tyson, Erika Kirk, and Brett Ratner, the film's director.
I get "but but but, I have to look out for my company!" as an excuse, I can rationally see why someone would think that. But it's an unforgivable position. I'd rather fucking resign. Show a little goddamn backbone, for fuck's sake.
I will add this though: I'm NOT going to be upset at anyone who buys Apple stuff, or anyone who works at Apple, none of that. Totally 100% don't care, not my beef at all. I'm mad at Tim Cook and Tim Cook alone.
You've got to pick your battles. Me yelling at someone for buying an iPhone is going to accomplish nothing but making them resentful toward me. I view it like telling people to use paper straws instead of going after the oil industry. I would politely suggest that they not support Apple, but beyond that, no.
@keirFox @bigtuffal Fairphone offers a murena /e/os version. De-googled, european companies. My iPhone is quite new so I don’t want to e-waste it just yet, but when the time comes to replace it, I will probably be looking in that direction. I’m still picking the walled-garden-vines off my legs and getting my data self-hosted first. I foolishly started using sign-in-with-apple and you can’t export passkeys
@bigtuffal @Truffles Have patience with others with regard to this. Many want to change but it isn’t immediately obvious to most consumers what to change to or how to go about it. It’s better to show alternatives to others and assist them in their efforts than to call people out for a purchase choice they might not even have known had an alternative much less how to go about that shift.
@keirFox @bigtuffal The good news is that GrapheneOS has said they’re going to announce a partnership with an unnamed non-Google hardware vendor early this year, to be available some time late 2026 or 2027. That’ll be my next phone.
See now THIS - THIS I could get on board with. If it's a built from the ground up "I can just buy it and be DONE" phone. I'd absolutely consider it. Because it wouldn't be the whole "Buy [insert random generic well known android phone here]" and then flush too much time down the crapper rooting it / wiping the vanilla OS and installing Graphene or whatever your flavor of custom ROM is." Just...not an experience I want. I just want to buy the phone, set it up and be done. I don't want a project.
"We are opening an investigation into Grok because we believe that X may have breached the DSA. We have seen antisemitic content, non-consensual deepfakes of women, and child sexual abuse material. In Europe, no company will make money by violating our fundamental rights." announced the European Commission.
An investigation published by Declassified UK revealed that the Israeli government is funding an online advertising campaign appearing in search results in Britain targeting Doctors Without Borders, a humanitarian medical organization providing essential services in Gaza and other areas.
Google transparency data shows that the Israeli government advertising agency pays to display the ad when searching for terms such as “Doctors Without Borders” and “MSF,” directing users to an official Israeli report accusing the organization of “serious misconduct” and aiming to undermine Israel’s legitimacy internationally.
This comes in the context of Israel opposing the organization’s use of terms such as “war of extermination” and “genocide” to describe events in Gaza.
Gotta say, as I expand into Wafrn... Spread like mold? I keep finding stuff I like, from being able to bite people, after all pokes are boring, or the barking and confetti when I woot, yes, woot not toot, and other cute things, then there's the little details...
Believe strongly in alt text? Its default required in the settings, you have to go and turn it off, or your media posts won't send without having something in there.
Sharing links? Sure, it sucks that you can't see the preview until after you post, but things like GoComics which never shows a thumbnail or synopsis here on Friendica works perfectly.
I think @gabboman the wafrn dev could prolly use some help on the project, but so far, what it does have works really nicely.
So, I've started migrating the people I follow over to my Wafrn account, @Chuff , following them there and unfollowing them here... And got into the B's and realized something, Wafrn doesn't give me any way to see my followers list nor migrate it far as I know which means I have no idea who I'm following over there.
Eh heh, heh, oops.
Well, no problem, just downloaded the list here, so at least I'll be able to recover the rest of them if needed, I do expect to switch to my own hosted Wafrn in the future if'n I'm lucky, poked one hosting service abotu it already even though I'm not remotely ready to do it.
Why my own? To avoid some of the stupidities I've had to deal with on other people's instances, once got warned about not CW'd a picture of a cowtaur (cow person upper body, cow lower body), not because of sex, not because she was topless, but because you could see her udder. Yeah, that was the straw that broke my back and why I just have my own instance. Currently here I have... 5 accounts? Not sock puppets, this one, Admin, Recalls, Taurs and the newest, my porn account. Yeah, that's enough to justify my own instance.
EDIT Eww, that is one ugly and barely useful CSV file, only exports two things, user account names and whether I can see their posts or not. Following, follower or mutual status not included, nor is the profile name. Bleah.
We the People demand Justice for cold-blooded murders & executions of Alex Pretti, Renee Good & every single person & child harmed by the #TrumpRegime ABOLISH ICE DEFUND DHS IMPEACH NOEM #REMOVE TRUMP open.substack.com/pub/america/… #RIPAlexPretti
Does anyone know of a fail2ban type service that I can run on a linux *router*, not the host itself?
I want to be able to handle excessive traffic both in the "failed to login via SSH" sense, but also the "sent a squillion boring HTTP requests over a time period".
I know that encryption will make this awkward, but there are certain fingerprints I suspect could make this somewhat functional (e.g: many short-lived connections).
You can set up nftables to do rate limiting; I suspect you can then get it to log when rate limiting has happened; so I think you could then feed that to fail2ban - all on the router??
Hi, Im Jude (he/him) I’ll post a fanart once in a while but im mostly a hypeman for other creators ! I’m here because I like to accumulate and discover fandoms and creative interests ~
I listen to a bunch of Kpop but I’m definitely going to yap about #Ateez and #Xlov 🤩 Probably other musicians will come up too.
Otherwise im always into queer fantasy in general, dnd and real play shows specifically ( #dimension20 and #criticalrole ). Any queer rewriting or interpretation of lotr is 10/10. I’m also going through the mdzs books and saw tgcf animated recently :)
Daniel DiDonato, 18, drafted new state senate districts at home on free software – and a judge picked his map ahead of professionals’ efforts to remedy voting rights violations
democracydocket.com/news-alert… The fascists have limited resources to consolidate power in the remaining free US states right now. They want states to make it easy for them to kick down doors and continue terrorizing, disappearing, and murdering good Minnesotan citizens for no reason other than to act on their indoctrination and training over 12 years of public education to remain loyal to the nation and continue to vote their conscience in free elections.
The fascists aren't fucking around. Lots of Minnesota soccer moms, my fellow good citizens bless them, are learning this right now in their volunteer civic training and on the street.
The Big Beautiful Bill provides the funds and institutions for the fascists to build the necessary human transportation networks, the slums to concentrate the overflow of good, decent, everyday folks who voted a certain way, and the work camps, death camps, and battlefields where they will be transported to and exterminated.
The fascists will use voter rolls obtained via violent coercion or flat out theft to decide who best to terrorize, who to disappear, who to murder first. Once the people on the list are taken care of the fascists will continue to terrorize, disappear, and murder us - at will, without provocation, without justification.
Regardless of whether it stays non-violent or turns into a pointless war of attrition (that no one except the very few fascists in power want) plan for terror, plan for detention, plan for death, in fact, expect it. When it happens to one of yours you will be as ready as you can be to set aside emotional paralysis, follow your training to do the right thing which includes setting aside time to morn.
And that my fellow humans of the world, is this tiny insignificant laborer and Minnesotan nobody's current take on what's going on outside, right now.
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