I remember I used to think I knew what love was when I was younger in my teens, only to realize when I got older it wasn't love, but infatuation, and it made me realize that I never really knew what it's actually like to romantically love someone or for someone to romantically love me.

And now, I stopped caring about relationships cause I just think they're a waste of time and who the hell would honestly want to truly get to know me anyways?

Do not kill the part of you that is cringe... kill the part that cringes.

“Just because you’re paranoid doesn’t mean they aren’t after you.”

– Joseph Heller, Catch-22

I remember being 14 and being really attracted to her, and seeing shinji and thinking "he's me. I'm him".

At thirty I'm rewatching it, and man they're just kids. Children. My heart breaks for them.

I'm rambling, but man it's weird to see your teenage crush stay 14. while you grow up, get a job, fall in love and get married, etc.

Here's the deal, request a GDPR download from reddit to get all of your comments with links, then scrape the parent chains before subs go private in protest. 2 days remaining.

This is my worst nightmare when it comes to relationships. Marrying someone who is still hung up on a previous partner and wishing it was them when they look at you.

This video has an actual priest talking about that stuff. Give it a watch

https://www.reddit.com/r/OkCupid/comments/5i6m5y/women_have_unrealistic_views_of_how_men_look/

Probably this one.

local adaptation

My list is usually fast, as I directly check hf almost daily

I'm not sure if this belongs here or in r/learnmachinelearning, but I have a question about what is and isn't possible.

My husband's best friend passed several years ago and he has copious chats, forum posts as well as the stories they wrote together. Right now, we have created a bot in Character.AI that kinda sounds like him, but obviously not one that contains any of his knowledge since the definition window is small and the bots' memory is... imprecise at best.

So I got to wondering: it seems like it should be possible to fine-tune/create a LoRA of one of the LLMs so that it does contain the friend's knowledge and can be used as a chatbot. From my research it seems like Vicuna would be a good fit as it has already been tweaked to act as a chatbot. I'm currently working through tutorials, including the "How to Fine Tune an LLM" that exists on Colab that tweaks GPT2 (I think) with wikipedia data. I know I have a huge learning curve ahead of me.

I would be looking at doing the training using Google Colab, but ideally he'd run the end result locally. He can run stable diffusion on his machine using his NVidia GPU. Sadly, my video card is AMD so while I can technically run the Vicuna 4 bit model (13B, I think?) in CPU mode, it's too painfully slow to do anything with.

The data is currently unstructured. Obviously we will need to format it properly, but it is in the form of blocks of text rather than the Prompt/Input/Output format I've seen in various Github projects.

As for me, I am a former C# Windows/Web/SQL developer so I'm not starting from absolute scratch, but obviously I'll need to learn a lot. I'm prepared for this to be an ongoing project for the new few months.

I would welcome any feedback as to what is or isn't possible, whether I'm setting my sights too high, or even if I'm simply in the wrong forum. Thanks all!

EDIT: I've received many words of warning about whether this is a good idea, for my husband's sake at least. After thinking about it, I'm not sure I'm at the point where I agree yet but I'll at least give this a lot of thought before attempting something like this. I know it's not the most emotionally healthy thing, to cling to the echoes of someone gone. He has not found interacting with the Character.AI version of his friend to be difficult but while their bots are fun to interact 2i5h and can still sound startingly human, an LLM fine tuned on the friend's text has every chance of being more so to the point of being damaging. So thank you everyone, you've given me a lot to think about.

When it comes to typography and design, which fonts do you readily keep in your arsenal and which you would consider "staples"?

Are these fonts more established and widely adopted in the typography and design communities and are you reluctant to add "newer" fonts into the mix?

Which fonts did you once keep in your collection, but have since parted with and why?

Great advertisement, but for an incomplete supplement. Porn actors do some version of the following,

Masteron 300mg week for libido
Proviron 75mg week for volume
Cabergoline .25mg every three days for shorter recovery time between orgasms (Mike Adriano says hi)
Testo Enanthate 300mg week for volume and thickness
Tadalafil ?mg on filming days
Tribulus 6g day for semen production
Can add Macca, Epimedium, Long Jack, and Ashwaghanda as natural support.

Edit: spacing for clarity and substance functions.
Edit 2: This has blown out of proportion and I'm getting requests for PED orientation. Yes, you guys are crazy. So let me clear it up.

This is a blasting cycle, not a cruise. Do this a bit too long or overdosed and you will fuck with your natural hormone axis on top of most certanly developing gynecomasty and a jelly dick.

The breakdown of how this cycle affect the body goes as follow,
1. A high dose of testosterone enanthate for slow absorption compared to other forms of synthetizing would aromatize and increase estradiol which in men, creates sex drive and produce sperm. HOWEVER, aromatizing also means the organism recognizes testosterone levels too high and will lower production. 2. Masteron and Proviron are DHT to SHBG hormones. They would be responsible for facilitating production of the different fluids that compose semen while being essential for erectile fuction. HOWEVER, even though DHT family hormones capture free-testosterone and put it to use, it inhibits natural testosterone production in the process. 3. Cabergoline lowers prolactin levels, which in turn reduce refractory period. HOWEVER, It may mess up dopamine receptors.
4. Three to six grams of Tribulus are required for substantial effect in male reprodutory tract. HOWEVER, long term use of this dosage can lead to hypoglycemia.
5. Do your own research on cruising Tadalafil. This is easy enough to find and read. 6. This is not a bodybuilding protocol and most likely would not work stacked with/as one.

Finally, I didn't mean to stir shit up, nor did I intend to discuss the male role in porn industry. I post while sipping my tea.

basically this

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ibPCLMH1NM4

edited by user using PowerDeleteSuite.

Hi I read on r/privacy that people recommend not deleting one's Google account and to instead make the data unusable so big tech cannot separate what is true and what is not.

How would I go about doing that?

Do I just need to sign up for random websites and give the same false information across all of them?

Also, how long does it take to make my data unusable?

As much information about how to make my data unusable as possible would be great.

Thank you in advance.

Thanks to the help of a fellow anonymous Redditor I've released a new version of RedditScrape. This new version now uses the push shift API to gather gigantic levels of data for you to download. This means we no longer need to provide any form of reddit credentials.

While the previous version was hard capped at 1,000 posts using the Reddit API, this new version has no limits at all, other than what resources and disk space you have.

For example, if you're brave enough to try and scrape something like gonewild, you'll find it takes DAYS just to get all of the data back from push shift. The JSON text alone is over 9 gigs (3.3 million posts) and climbing.

Running this is now a two step process, but results in a substantially larger set of media from your favorite subs.

Instructions can be found here. I hope I've fixed a few of the problems that people had with the first iteration along the way.

Unironically I get it.

I stumbled upon Cowboy Bebop at a very low point in my life and I got a lot of life lessons from it.

But I do disagree with the main point of the story, which is also the main point of every western ever made, that you can't escape from your past.

In cowboy bebop, all 4 characters at some point are either forced to or force themselves to confront their past selves in the form of either facing the consequences of their past actions or being haunted by people in their past. In other words, the show coveys the message that you can't escape from who you were.

I disagree with that. A long time ago I was a major cunt, I was a completely different person. One day I simply made the decision to change for the better and I burned all bridges to my old self and now, almost 10 years later, I have no strings pulling me back towards it. Some people from my past showed up and I just ignored them.

The broken people that comprise the crew of the Bebop are choosing to look at their past instead of moving on. Fae is the only one that gets it, she is the one that broke the cycle. Jet is a walking zombie, unable to save his own friend, stuck inside his own sorrow for his past life. Spike is literally incapable of moving on, he chooses to go after Vicious, he chooses to kill himself in the way he did.

Fae managed to save herself but couldn't save the other two.

Mastodon is a reformulation of Twitter so that it can be controlled by the community, not a single corporation. Instead of a single site you go to, it is a "Federation" of different sites. When you post in one, that post gets transported to any other sites that has someone who follows you. If you just want to browse around, by default and without following anyone, you'll see the posts on the site that is your home. Thus, it can be useful to find a home site that matches your interests.

I have an interest in Free/Open Source software, so I've got my teeks99 account on the fosstodon.org server. If you want to follow/mention/etc me, you can use the address @teeks99@fosstodon.org, but if you just want to see my account, you can browse to https://fosstodon.org/@teeks99.

• A beginner's guide to Mastodon
• Official Project Site

FLOSSing for lent 40/40 - Follow the rest here

Yeah it is a remix by Muppet dj link

Without leaving traces behind. What options are there exactly? Do I have any options on the normal web or do I have to start considering the deep web? It’s super important for me that the domain doesn’t lead back to me, so I need an option that doesn't leave breadcrumbs.

Large Language Models like ChatGPT or GPT-4 act as a sort of Rosetta Stone for transforming human text into machine readable object formats. I cannot stress how much of a key problem this solved for software engineers like me. This allows us to take any arbitrary human text and transform it into easily usable data.

While this acts as a major boon for some 'good' industries (for example, parsing resumes into objects should be majorly improved... thank god) , it will also help actors which do not have your best interests in mind. For example, say police department x wants to monitor the forum posts of every resident in area y, and get notified if a post meets their criteria for 'dangerous to society', or 'dangerous to others', they now easily can. In fact it'd be excessively cheap to do so. This post for example, would only be around 0.1 cents to parse on ChatGPT's API.

Why do I assert this will happen? Three reasons. One, is that this will be easy to implement. I'm a fairly average software engineer, and I could guarantee you that I could make a simple application that implements my previous example in less than a month (assuming I had a preexisting database of users linked to their location, and the forum site had a usable unlimited API). Two, is that it's cheap. It's extremely cheap. It's hard to justify for large actors to NOT do this because of how cheap it is. Three is that AI-enabled surveillance is already happening to some degree: https://jjccihr.medium.com/role-of-ai-in-mass-surveillance-of-uyghurs-ea3d9b624927

Note: How I calculated this post's price to parse:

This post has \~2200 chars. At \~4 chars per token, it's 550 tokens.
550 /1000 = 0.55 (percent of the baseline of 1k tokens)
0.55 * 0.002 (dollars per 1k tokens) = 0.0011 dollars.

https://openai.com/pricing
https://help.openai.com/en/articles/4936856-what-are-tokens-and-how-to-count-them

Why YSK: This capability is brand new. In the coming years, this will be implemented into existing monitoring solutions for large actors. You can also guarantee these models will be run on past data. Be careful with privacy and what you say online, because it will be analyzed by these models.

Hi!

I'm hoping you can help me out on finding and old project (opensource or creative commons) I recall from at least 10-15 years ago, but failed to archive it.

It was a shared, community driven (open source or licensed using creative commons templates, that is my strongest lead) effort to create a set of know-how for building a sustainable community or home from scratch. Workshop tools, farming/gardening tools, electricity, water pump systems, simple vehicles...

I think it was alive around 2007-2012, at least a decade old now. It was an ongoing effort with some content ready, some during creation.

It involved, among other things, multiple tools you could build yourself. Like, a plow you can make using a frame you made in previous step. Then it used the tools you created to make more complex tools. I think it was guiding through things like creating a workbench for metal work. Then it gave options to create a plow, then it helped creating a small tractor that could be used with that plow, then it provided other attachments for the tractor and so on.

All options were designed in a way you can use most parts of each design in other designs. Focus was for you to be able to learn how to produce a part and use same bracket, frame, tractor in other more elaborate designs.

Some content was just "in planning", being only brief table of contents mention, but many were already created and tested. There was a community around it that wrote the whole thing, designed the machines, made them and tested on their own workshops and homes.

I am certain this was a project with focus on open source (as in software programming, sharing code of the books/how-to and so on) and or it was very focused on creative commons licensing.

If that thing survived, it would be a gem here, but so far I failed to find it.

Hello selfhosted community,

A few weeks ago I searched for selfhosted task management applications, but couldn't find any that fully satisfies my needs. Some of them are too bloated, some are clunky, and some are simply too difficult to install, so I decided to create my own. It's still in early development, but I'm very happy with the few features it currently has.

Tasks.md is a task management application that uses markdown files as cards and can be installed easily with a single Docker container.

Features:

• Create cards, lists and tags in a modern and responsive interface;
• Write cards as Markdown files (also relaying in markdown files makes it easier to bakcup);
• Easy to install with a single Docker image;
• Light and dark themes synced with operating system settings;
• Heavy customizable with 3 default color themes (Adwaita, Nord and Catppuccin);
• Support for subpath based reverse-proxy with a environment variable for base path.

I hope this can be useful for someone!

https://i.redd.it/dgjd67ly54na1.gif

Hello fellow selfhosters!

I am looking for a tool that automatically scans my network, lists connected devices in a nice manner (like the topology overview in ubiquiti devices for example) and ideally also does periodic speed tests to each device.

Does such a selfhosted tool exist?

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Thank you in advance :)

http://www.coding2learn.org/blog/2013/07/29/kids-cant-use-computers/

Can't believe this article is 10 years old now, but still applicable to this day.

Last time I checked the awesome-selfhosted Github page, it didn't list self-hosted AI systems; so I decided to bring this topic up, because it's fairly interesting :)

Using certain models and AIs remotely is fun and interesting, if only just for poking around and being amazed by what it can do. But running it on your own system - where the only boundaries are your hardware and maybe some in-model tweaks - is something else and quite fun.

As of late, I have been playing around with these two in particular: - InvokeAI - Stable Diffusion based toolkit to generate images on your own system. It has grown quite a lot and has some intriguing features - they are even working on streamlining the training process with Dreambooth, which ought to be super interesting! - KoboldAI runs GPT2 and GPT-J based models. Its like a "primitive version" of ChatGPT (GPT3). But, its not incapable either. Model selection is great and you can load your own too, meaning that you could find some interesting ones on HuggingFace.

What are some self-hosted AI systems you have seen so far? I may only have an AMD Ryzen 9 3900X and NVIDIA 2080 TI, but if I can run an AI myself, I'd love to try it :)

PS.: I didn't find a good flair for this one. Sorry!

this shit goes HARD

Dropping by to announce the v0.8.0 release of Homebox!

Homebox is the inventory and organization system built for the Home User! With a focus on simplicity and ease of use, Homebox is the perfect solution for your home inventory, organization, and management needs.

I've made lots of feature, usability, and UI updates in the last few months, if you haven't looked at it in a while, give it a look now and let me know what you think.

Links

• Documentation
• GitHub
• Demo Instance
• Discord - I regularly post new feature, or get feedback on in development features, this is a great place to come yell at me why my app sucks!

Here's what's new in this version!

New Tree View

New Tree View based on locations! It's in it's early state and now only supports browsing. In future releases we're looking at adding:

• Drag and Drop to move Items/Locations
• Delete Item/Location
• ?? What Ideas do you have?

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https://preview.redd.it/61d1gsb8p6ia1.png?width=1424&format=png&auto=webp&s=fb61a12344cd6fa66afec36a991369cf33025639

QR Code Label Generator

Best explained on the demo page! https://homebox.fly.dev/reports/label-generator

I've built a configurable interface for printable labels with QR Codes, It's still early does, and a little difficult to fit custom labels but does work by default for Avery 5260 sheet labels which is what I've tested with!

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New Bill of Materials Report

Export a summary of your inventory with basic information. More report types coming soon, including Import file compatible exports!

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Enhanced Search Functions

Previous search filters would not correctly apply filters to results. Search filters have been updated to use a more natural query result where Locations, Labels, and/Or Field/Value must all be matched in order for results to be returned. For example the query:

• Locations: Home, Garage
• Labels: IOT, Electronics

Would return items that contain the `Home` or `Garage` Location AND the have the `IOT` or `Electronics` labels.

Updated Search User Interface

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https://preview.redd.it/604u755dp6ia1.png?width=1432&format=png&auto=webp&s=f4c95879401dab6283eeb9ee2ef4a5ace404dbed

Custom Field/Value now Filterable

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Selectable Card/Table view for Items

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https://preview.redd.it/bl6m5fufp6ia1.png?width=1171&format=png&auto=webp&s=8c17faa1606a3057a19363591372010e7158457f

What's Next?

• New Import/Export format - https://github.com/hay-kot/homebox/issues/261
• Scheduled Maintenance Tasks - https://github.com/hay-kot/homebox/issues/266

It was a birthday present, I love it sm <3

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Pinterest is honestly really great if you want to organize collections of different media from all around the web, but it sadly is another closed source walled garden.

Heinlein was a libertarian, and no such thing. Between the lines of the book, you can catch glimpses of a world where the government basically doesn't exist.

People forget when the book was written, and how progressive it was for its time.

Literally every one of Heinlein's greats have that same problem.

In Starship Troopers:

Women became starship captains.

A Filipino (whose native tongue was Tagalog) faced zero racial bias, and became an officer.

In 1959, the publication date:

The military wasn't integrated. There were no non-white officers.

Women weren't soldiers, let alone commanders of naval vessels. And nurses were only officers in the medical corps.

You can see the same things with Stranger in a Strange Land, Farnham's Freehold, and The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress. His at the time progressiveness is at the beginning (or precedes) the shift of public acceptance. All of the issues they present (sexual liberation, nontraditional relationships, acceptance of blacks as equals, polyamorous marriage, absolute requirement of consent on several levels, and basic welfare) predate the drive for these in society as a whole.

We moved because people like him moved us.

"Heinlein was a fascist" is a braindead take. Starship Troopers was on the Marine Commandant's reading list since its publication until just a few years ago for a reason. It's an introspective study of why soldiers fight.

Nah, he was a social science fiction author that postulated quite a few different types of societies. At the same time he was writing Troopers he wrote Stranger in a Strange Land, which was a counter culture icon.

His future history was concerned with religion taking over America. This was the forward to his Revolt in 2100 short story collection, written in the early 50s:

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“Could it be otherwise here? Could any one (religious) sect obtain a working majority at the polls and take over the country? Perhaps not — but a combination of a dynamic evangelist, television, enough money, and modern techniques of advertising and propaganda might make Billy Sunday’s efforts look like a corner store compared to Sears Roebuck.

“Throw in a Depression for good measure, promise a material heaven here on earth, add a dash of anti-Semitism, anti-Catholicism, anti-Negrosim, and a good large dose of anti-“furriners” in general and anti-intellectuals here at home, and the result might be something quite frightening — particularly when one recalls that our voting system is such that a minority distributed as pluralities in enough states can constitute a working majority in Washington.”

Easy Solution

A bit morbid, sorry, but I sometimes wonder about this.

The majority of infamous serial killers were from the 70’s. This suggests that there was an increase in this sort of activity during this period, and this is a theory that I’ve heard repeated by others at times, and seems to be a popular concept.

My first question is; is this really the case? Or is it instead something like changes in law enforcement tactics or increased media focus made what already existed seemingly increase in frequency?

Secondly; if there was indeed an increase, are there any theories on what caused this?

Thanks

It's said that some, if not most, of Kurzgesagt's videos are influenced more or less by Bill Gate's controversial foundation (in which some said could have influenced Kurzgesagt's stance about climate change and poverty), and that they only disclose their sponsors at the very end of the video unlike most creators who does it at the very start. Here's some videos talking about Kurzgesagt being influenced by billionaires and having a controversial climate change agenda. Video 1 Video 2

Altho their astronomy and ant videos are still quite great, regardless, and they're also transparent about the fact that said science topics are just oversimplified tidbits. But in their other topics about disease and climate change, I presume we could just take them with a grain of salt

I really like this idea.. and it looks like it would run on a fanless rasp pi or similar single board computer, which could be left on 24/7/365 for relatively cheap, versus monthly hosting bills.

We need legislation to force residential serving ISPs to allow self hosting, for purposes exactly like this project, and no, not just for the pricey business service plans.

https://solidproject.org//self-hosting/css

reserved blocks. for ext4 you can see the current settings with sudo tune2fs -l <device>, it's called Reserved block count

Something like tune2fs -r <count> <device> to change the number of reserved blocks. A default format on ext4 will be 5%.

I do not remember the equivalent command for xfs, but I'm reasonably confident there is a 1:1 equivalent.

Note also that this isn't a true 1:1 to the OP, because root can write to reserved blocks, but that's kind of the point behind it: normal processes can't completely fill the disk and prevent root from doing admin tasks.

Anything that you self-hosted recently that provoked a thought like "hell, so simple, yet so useful. why haven't I found it before..."?

Lemme list a couple of things I "discovered" by myself:

- miniflux - the best self-hosted rss ever. fast (due to spartan UI), yet extensible via customized CSS and tons of extensions. Integrates nicely with Mac's Reeder and Reeder app on iOS (which is an essence of brilliant UX/UI for me).

- kanboard - extremely simple kanban board, still so powerful and elegant. An essence of extreme usefulness combined with almost no UI.

- flame - a simple dashboard. Hell, I wish I found it before - it would save me a lot of time setting up my family's bookmarks. Being able to see different set of bookmarks depending on whether you're "signed-in" or not was the game changer for me.

- metube - best tool to fetch YouTube music to feed your AzuraCast home radio

Hi all! We are proud to announce the newest major release of our self hosted website change detection and notification app, whats new? Browser steps - Interact with the browser (login to sites, accept cookies etc) before change-detection, Dark mode - because you love it Automatically follow LDJSON price data - on websites that support it, More notification hooks - not just messaging (slack/discord/telegram etc) but also post://, get:// and others to make driving other services easier Extract data as CSV for example, watch realestate websites and easily make a CSV of the number of houses for sale, or your favourite whiskey's price! enjoy! and please help spread this app :) https://github.com/dgtlmoon/changedetection.io

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It has been a few months since last posting here about progress happening with Tube Archivist, your self hosted YouTube media server. In case you have missed it, some recent notable additions and improvements:

• You can now archive and browse comments, wiki
• Every video has a similar videos section, showing a selection of related videos over your index, wiki
• There is LDAP authentication support with environment variables, as documented here
• You can filter videos in the download queue by channel, same with the channel pages, you can see pending videos of this channel
• Metadata snapshots, a new and better way of how to backup your metadata, deduplicated, significantly faster, and much more reliable, as documented here

And of course, let’s not forget the browser extension Tube Archivist Companion, which got basically a rewrite with v0.1.0. Download and subscribe buttons are now injected directly into the YouTube page, so very conveniently, you can send links from YouTube to Tube Archivist with just one click as you browse, see some screenshots and installation instructions here.

We have come a long way since our humble beginnings little over a year ago. Nonetheless, we aren't out of ideas on how to improve and extend this project. Your help is needed: Any development help is highly appreciated, we are very grateful to the many people here who have helped with bug reports, improvements, pull requests and just general emotional support for the success of this project.

The project: GitHub, help us reach 2k stars!
The documentation: wiki and FAQ
The browser extension: GitHub
The Discord server: Link

If you find this project useful, please donate.

Last month I deleted my Instagram.

Over the past couple of years I’ve been slowly minimizing my addictive digital life bit by bit. FaceBook, Snapchat and other apps were honestly very easy for me to let go of but there was always one app I couldn’t quite get rid of..and that was Instagram. I made every excuse to keep it, telling myself that somehow it contributed to my life. Instagram is a heavily image based experience which has always appealed to me, I would get sucked into the mindless scrolling. Using it as an escape mechanism.

I haven’t been without social media in 17 years (not including YT and Reddit) since I created a MySpace account in middle school. MySpace was this brand new world for me where after school you got to maintain interaction with all of the people you knew, it was incredible. You weren’t bombarded by ads, reels and other junk. At some point everyone left MySpace to explore the new world of FB which was equally awesome at the time. But.. we started to get ads, reels and things you didn’t even subscribe to popping up on your “feed”. Once FB bought Instagram the same thing happened. These platforms were turned into tools that use us, not the other way around.

Its been a weird few weeks following my departure from social media, being the first time since I was a kid in the 90’s where I haven’t had constant digital distraction. My brain was freaking out trying to replace it with some source of new stimulation. The best thing I’ve found is to convert that desire for stimulation into things you TRULY love doing in life and putting more time into your actual relationships. As soon as I deleted Instagram it’s like I woke from a deep slumber, confronted with so many things I had been avoiding. So many questions about myself that needed answers.

Since then I have been avidly learning a new instrument, reading lots of books, learning to cook Japanese food, exercising more, and got more focused on camping and hiking which is my favorite hobby. I wanted to write all of this because perhaps it’s something the right person needs to hear to take that scary step into the unknown and get rid of Instagram for good. Hope this helps!

I’ve been trying to spend a lot less money on things, and spend more on investing in myself and experiences & skills.

I’m wondering what the most interesting, useful and fun licenses & certifications are.

For example, getting a real estate license, a pilots license or a CPR/First aid certification.

What are some common/less common ones ones that add a lot of value to one’s life?

Thank you in advance!

Chicago is no longer in the top 10 for city gun violence

1 in 20 murders in the US happen in Chicago. It is still very much one of the worst gun violence cities. There just happen to be some cities worse than them..

https://heyjackass.com/

I mean, 26 people shot and 9 dead in the last 3 days.. 144 shot, 29 dead in 2 weeks. You can't just blow it off because it's not the worst anymore..

The company that I work for has a manager, her name is Alicia and she doesn't exist.

Alicia handles EVERYTHING.

She is accounts receivable, she is the owner of the company, she is the operations manager, warehouse manager, fleet manager, parts department. There is nothing Alicia can't handle.

She has her own direct line and email address.

Whenever an obvious solicitor that we have no business with calls, we transfer them to her voicemail (she's very busy and often out of town) and give them her email address.

She is our most valuable nonexistent employee. Everyone needs an Alicia.

I especially love when solicitors call a week or so after being given her contact information and lead with "I spoke with Alicia just the other day, wanted to follow up". Oh you did? Wow. Crazy.

Edit- it's important to note, someone at our company is responsible for monitoring her emails and voicemails to make sure that nothing actually important is missed

TLDR: instead of selling real M Discs, Verbatim now puts their cheap organic BD-Rs into M Disc cases and charges M Disc prices for them

In July, I bought 25GB Verbatim M Discs from Amazon. Even though I bought them directly from Amazon Europe, the discs I received were not real M Discs but regular Verbatim BD-Rs with an organic layer that were made to look like M Discs. I noticed right away because the MID of the discs was VERBAT-IMe-000, which is the code for their regular BD-Rs, instead of MILLEN-MR1-000 which is the MID that all 25GB M Discs have. At this point I assumed I'd been sold fakes, but 3 months later I again ordered Verbatim M Discs, this time from German retail chain Saturn, and once again received these discs that I assumed are fakes. I emailed Verbatim's customer service and prepared a bunch of images that show these fake M Discs next to real ones. But to my surprise, after a debate with customer service they told me that these are not fakes, and that these "are the only M Discs that are going to be sold from now on" (quote). What's insane is that these discs currently being sold are not M Discs at all, but regular organic layer Verbatim BD-Rs, yet Verbatim still calls these M Disc. When I tried calling them out on their lies by pointing out things such as the discs' MID being the same as that of regular BD-Rs and the discs having 6x burn speed despite real M Discs being 4x speed, they just chucked it up to "the discs being completely reworked, and we moved production facility hence the new DISC IDs". The most ridiculous part is, these "new M Discs" (as Verbatim support calls them) are writable in any standard Blu Ray drive, you don't even need a drive that supports M Disc burning! For those unaware, M Discs require an M Disc capable drive to be burned, because M Discs need a stronger laser than what is used for regular BDs. This stronger laser is only in M Disc drives and there is no way you could ever write a real M Disc in a non M Disc drive. Yet here we have customers being sold cheap organic layer BD-Rs and being deceived into thinking they're buying M Discs.

I find this absolutely insane as people burn hundreds of these discs a day, trusting them to reliably hold precious data, yet most people aren't aware they're not burning a real M Disc, but just a garden variety BD-R that has none of the M Disc advantages that you pay for. So far the only mention of this that I've found online is a German thread from August where somebody received these same VERBAT-IMe-000 discs as me and thinks they're fake, not aware that Verbatim themselves are behind these discs.

Some stores still have real M Discs in stock, but the majority of them (at least in Germany) now sell the new, fake kind, as I've ordered M Discs from various stores over the past few weeks and 90% of the time received the new fake kind which I returned. It probably also depends on region, I have no idea about discs in the US or other countries. Check the IDs of your discs people.

Quick check:

• A real M Disc has a copper/gold tint on the back, the new fake ones are silver

• A real M Disc (25GB) has the MID/DISC ID: MILLEN-MR1-000, no matter what brand

• A real M Disc only burns in a drive with M Disc support

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I was thinking if it would be worth hosting an instance of SearXNG, Invidous for Youtube and NextCloud for office and sync tasks in the same server an have them all in the page to make like an opensource alternative of what Google or major proprietary search engines do?

PS: For the email side I don't know which solutions would be good.

There needs to be a concerted effort by the entire privacy community towards data poisoning. Actual privacy is no longer attainable, but everything collected can still be made useless.

UPDATE2

TorrentFreak is covering this continuing story as new details come to light.

https://torrentfreak.com/tag/zlibrary/

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UPDATE ~

• Z-Library Aftermath Reveals The Feds Seized Dozens of Domain Names @ TorrentFreak

We'd also like to address some of the comments here asking "how do I extract a book from this data". r/DataHoader isn't a piracy supporting subreddit, a guide on how to extract books from these archives was purposefully left out. These torrents are presented as a preservation only archive and are not meant to aid book piracy or add books to your curated collections.

Once upon a time in this sub this explanation wouldn't have been necessary. The thread will be cleaned and comment locked.

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Original Thread

Millions woke up to news today that Z-Library domains have been seized, cries that z-lib is gone were heard from red core to black sky!... but that's not really the case so here is what you, a humble datahoarder can do about it.

In case you missed it a unique to z-lib (deduped against LibGen) backup was made and published by u/pilimi_anna a little over a month ago. While you did a great job with SciHub, there's still work be done to ensure the preservation of all written works and cultural heritage. So here is the 5,998,794 book 27.8TB z-lib archive for you to hold, hoard, preserve, seed and proliferate.

• Database | Mirror ~ (metadata, extensions)
• Torrents | TOR Mirror

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Related Reading

• U.S. Authorities Seize Z-Library Domain Names @ TorrentFreak
• TikTok Blocks Z-Library Hashtag @ TorrentFreak
• ZLibrary domains have been seized @ HackerNews
• ISBNdb Dump – How many books are preserved forever? @ Annas-Blog
• Mission to preserve SciHub @ r/DataHoarder

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Alternative Libraries / Free eBook Hosts

• OpenLibrary
• Library Genesis | IPFS
• PDF Drive
• Sci-Hub
• Gutenberg
• Obooko
• ManyBooks
• FreeBookSpot
• The Anarchist Library

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Closing

Support authors you love.. But abolish the strangle hold of DRM and licensing that kills ownership, seek to squash abuse of the DMCA, move to limit copyright terms and above all aim to ensure Alexandria doesn't burn twice.

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