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Truisms

If God wanted us to vote, he would have given us candidates.

~Jay Leno~

The problem with political jokes is they get elected.
~Henry Cate, VII~

We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office
~Aesop~

Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build a bridge even where there is no river.
~Nikita Khrushchev~

When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President; I'm beginning to believe it.
~Clarence Darrow~

Politicians are people who, when they see light at the end of the tunnel, go out and buy some more tunnel.
~John Quinton~

Why pay money to have your family tree traced; go into politics and your opponents will do it for you.
~Author unknown~

Politics is supposed to be the second-oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first.
~Ronald Reagan~

Politics is the gentle art of getting votes from the poor and campaign funds from the rich, by promising to protect each from the other.
~Oscar Ameringer~

I offer my opponents a bargain: if they will stop telling lies about us, I will stop telling the truth about them.
~Adlai Stevenson, 1952~

A politician is a fellow who will lay down your life for his country.
~ Tex Guinan~

Instead of giving a politician the keys to the city, it might be better to change the locks.
~Doug Larson~

Sadly, this last one.
We'd all like to vote for the best man, but he's never a candidate.

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Dwayne Parsons

One thing all of these new UFO stories have is, they are all just words spoken by people. Less evidence than the old UFO sightings.

Bob Lazar has been saying similar things for decades. But, his story is that they are secret craft. Including all of the latest pictures, still blurry af btw, that were all released at once a few years ago. He just reemerged lately also, and he said even the new 'tic-tacs', everything, built by people.

Like Project Blue Book turned out to be a pysop, to ascertain what the public knew about top secret aircraft they were developing. This is more of the same. But, now they don't care if you think it's aliens. Project Blue Book at least came up with asinine stories, like it was swamp gas. lol

Now this guy is taking the we don't know what they are tact. It all sounds like they want to say, that now, they have a higher authority that everyone should listen to, and they speak through me...the government. But, I may be paranoid.

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Nanook

@Dwayne Parsons Having seen a craft and it's occupants up close and in person back in 1968, there is no doubt in my mind that something not of this Earth, at least not of this Earth in this particular timeline at this particular time, is visiting us. Bob Lazar was an interesting character to be sure, but more from an entertainment than an informative perspective. David Grusch on the other hand, has been a member of the NRO among other things, seems to be well respected by his peers, and unlike Bob Lazar, his participation in these organizations can be verified. Tic-tac's being man made, well if they were they would be smart enough not to fly them where there are training missions in place, so I rather doubt it. Regardless, if such technology is in our possession, whether it be of human or alien origin, we should know about it and be putting it into service for our energy needs, and no point to spend billions for Elon to develop a star ship if we already have the technology. And these so called "orbs" that have been encountered all over the Earth, I even found on in Google satellite images, I have personally witnessed and photographed on three occasions, on two of those occasions just a single orb, on the third a whole fleet. I realize that my experience to you is "just words", but until we force an investigation where someone is actually able to go into where these things are allegedly stored, that's all they will be.
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Dwayne Parsons

That's my point also, there has not been any believable evidence. Not that I'm a skeptic of the concept, don't get me wrong.

I have a good friend that says he has seen a lot of very strange things in the sky also. I've personally seen, along with about five other people, ball lightning. A very odd sight, and sound.

I use to live in the Cayman Islands for a while, and my friends sightings are all from the southern end of the island. Where there is one of the biggest fault lines in the ocean. And electrical phenomenon always appears over areas like that. And other similar locations.

Tic-tac’s being man made, well if they were they would be smart enough not to fly them where there are training missions in place


On this one, Bob, was saying they are drones, under surveillance, not being 'spotted'.

I've always been aware that we can't possibly be alone in the galaxy, let alone the universe. Like with the Fermi Paradox, it's just not possible that we are alone, but there has been no compelling footage yet.

That doesn't make it less, or not possible. Where have you seen these sightings?

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School board meeting about a 6 year old forced to perform oral sex on classmates

In Plainview Texas. The school tried to cover it up. I noticed most of their website and contact information has been taken down. So I searched a little. We should all contact them regarding this don't you think? It says right on their website (on t…
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Tucker Carlson Hits 65M Views In 1st Show, CNN CEO OUT As Corporate Press COLLAPSING, WE'RE WINNING

Tucker Carlson Hits 65M Views In 1st Show, CNN CEO OUT As Corporate Press COLLAPSING, WE'RE WINNINGBUY CAST BREW COFFEE TO FIGHT BACK - https://castbrew.com/...
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Kernel Upgrade Tonight 11pm-12pm

Posted on June 10, 2023

I will be performing a kernel upgrade requiring reboot of all of our servers starting at 11PM. If all goes well we should finish by 11:30PM with boots and midnight by checks to make sure all services properly started, NIS bindings and NFS mounts properly completed, etc.

This will be to kernel 6.1.33. Barring the release of some substantial performance gain, I plan to stick with 6.1.x long term kernel release until at least the next LTR release. To date this has been the best performing long term release kernel we have experienced.

This one will be compiled somewhat differently, a kernel upgrade failed on our newest server before I could put it online because the nvram mod did not load, so now I am compiling the /dev/nvram support into the kernel rather than separately as a module to avoid the potential for a future recurrence.

This will affect both our paid services such as virtual private servers, web hosting, e-mail, and linux shell accounts, as well as our free services, friendica.eskimo.com/, hubzilla.eskimo.com/, nextcloud.eskimo.com/, and yacy.eskimo.com/.

Most services should be down for less than ten minutes save for yacy which takes about 40 minutes to rebuild an in memory database after reboot.

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Working on New Server

Working on a new server that will, among other things, run this friendica node, friendica.eskimo.com/. The existing machine is a virtual machine with 96G of RAM on a physical host with 128G of RAM, 6 4.1Ghz cores, 12 threads, and an WD-Black 1G nvme for the database.

The new server has two 1TB WD Black drives in a RAID 1, that has /, /boot, and /boot/efi on it, everything else is on a couple of 14TB 7200 RPM rotory drives which are also configured as a RAID 1 array. It also has a 10 core I9-10900X CPU clocked at 4.6 GHz all cores. I didn't think I was gonna have the heat budget to run it that fast but I won the silicon lottery on this one and got a chip that runs stable at .85 core volts, typical for this chip is 1.29-1.35v for 3.7 GHz and higher for overclock. So must have gotten one right out of the center of the wafer.

And this machine has 256GB of RAM, so more RAM to buffer disk I/O during busy spurts when a lot of messages are coming in from other servers.

The trick was getting the machine to boot off of a software RAID device. Other people have done it but with rotary drives. There is an automated tool to do it for those sata disks but it does not recognize nvme drives so had to do everything by hand, and since I've never done it before it took me several days to figure it out but tonight I finally got it working! Yea!

So soon, this node will get a lot faster. It's also going to be on bare metal rather than virtual machine to minimize the overhead, particularly with how intensively friendica can beat mariadb.

The old system maxed out at about 10,000 tps, this should do better between more core and a RAID nvme disk array.

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Plandemic
I hope these people follow the command chain all the way to the top and put to death the genocidal maniacs responsible for this rather than just punishing their slaves.

MAORI VS. PLANDEMIC W/ ATT. REINER FÜELLMICH & INTERNATIONAL ATTORNEYS

https://www.bitchute.com/video/GDKMKXFy8qHw/ Download video: https://seed126.bitchute.com/ohmhw0HHXAdK/GDKMKXFy8qHw.mp4 PeppiDiCa...
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What Is A Woman
With all the artificial shit in our food supply, soy and plastic products that mimic estrogen, it's no wonder people are confused about their sexuality, but still any attempt to bring clarity and sanity is suppressed. If you search for this you can find trailers on Google but they will not return search results where the movie is available free such as on Twitter or BitchUte.

WHAT IS A WOMAN?

Controversial documentary by Matt Walsh exposing the idiocy behind gender identification.
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My Home Town
This is my home town folks, where I was born 64 years ago and grew up. I'm only 13 miles removed from this shit hole now and it's spreading to where I am also. This is what DemonRats have brought us.

DOWNTOWN #seattle MADNESS CONTINUES

The warm weather is fueling a crush of illicit activity in the downtown #Seattle core. Weekends are the worst. Dealers are out peddling fentanyl for as littl...
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Today’s May Outage

Today’s May 30th between 1:45 PM Pacific Daylight Time and 4:10 PM Pacific Daylight Time, outage was caused by a circuit breaker failure at the co-location facility where our equipment is co-located. Our equipment did not lose power but their core routers did.

This affected all of our paid and free services, e-mail, web hosting, Linux shell accounts, virtual private servers, and our free services, nextcloud.eskimo.com/, friendica.eskimo.com/, hubzilla.eskimo.com/, and yacy.eskimo.com/.

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Kernel Upgrades and Other Happenings

Posted on May 25, 2023

Saturday evening starting at 11PM we will be performing a kernel upgrade of all of our servers to version 6.1.30. It has some significant fixes for bugs that, while they haven’t bitten us yet, could.

I expect reboots to be completed by 11:30PM, various services that don’t restart properly and NFS and NIS issues resolved by midnight provided everything works.

I do not expect downtime for any individual service, except for yacy.eskimo.com/, to exceed ten minutes but yacy will take 30-45 minutes to come back online owing to it’s keeping an index in memory that it needs to regenerate after each reboot.

This will affect all of Eskimo’s paid and free services including e-mail, Linux shells, Web hosting, virtual private servers, and free services such as friendica.eskimo.com, hubzilla.eskimo.com, nextcloud.eskimo.com/, and yacy.eskimo.com/.

Other positive news, I’ve got all the hardware for our new bigger server now. I am beginning assembly tonight. This will take some time to bring into fully operational mode as the thermal budget is rather tight and getting as much performance out of the i9-10900x as possible will take a lot of benchmarking and adjusting. Because this is used in a co-location facility, I do not wish to go with water cooling and the normal dissipation for this CPU is 160 watts and can double that with extreme overclocking.

Because this CPU is likely to be thermally limited before it is electrically limited, my plan is start with stock everything and increase the clock until it hits thermal limits under heavy load, then reduce the voltage and try to find the point where thermal limits and electrical stability are limiting at approximately the same point so that I’ve got as much performance out of the chip as possible.

This chip is a very hot chip but it’s the only chip capable of addressing more than 128GB of RAM in the Intel lineup except Xeon chips, and I don’t like Xeon because the memory controllers tend to be on the slow side so you can not get as much performance as the clock speed would indicate. I don’t like AMD chips because they tend to suffer worse CPU rot and also their thermal protection generally consists of exploding holes in the die. I’ve had some Intel chips arrive dead, but I’ve never had any fail in service, but my experience with AMD has been less pleasant which is unfortunate as they do tend to make more clock cycles / watt of heat than Intel, but the thermal protection is just inadequate.

This new machine eventually will replace Iglulik as the main web server, as well as holding home directories, the large amount of RAM will allow it to cache more of the files as well as allowing yacy to run more smoothly. I plan on running the web server on bare metal to get as much performance as I possibly can. Iglulik will then primarily serve to host virtual private servers and some file systems like /misc. Between having four memory channels and 48 PCIe lanes, this will have horrendous I/O capabilities which should lend itself well to this application. The OS and web server software will sit on a couple of Western Digital nvme SSD’s in a RAID0 configuration and the user files and other non-speed critical system files and also a swap partition will go on a couple of 14TB 7200 RPM rotary drives. Though the write speed of these high density drives isn’t great, with 256GB of RAM there will be plenty of RAM to buffer writes so it will not negatively impact overall system performance.

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Spam Filtering Change

Posted on May 25, 2023

The majority of spam filters here put spam in a folder named “spam” rather than rejecting it outright.

However, there are two types of spam that I manually block when discovered, virii and phishing scams. Virii are various computer viruses, especially ransomware. When I find a server is infected, I block mail from that server until there is some indication this has been fixed. The same is true of phishing scams, where people try to social engineer to get your authentication information here or elsewhere.

There are a few really bad players in this area, an outfit called Sendgrid is the absolute worst. I have had more than 30 of their servers blocked for ongoing malicious content and I’ve never gotten a response from them beyond a form letter and I’ve never seen the abuse actually stop. Unfortunately they are also used by major corporations to contact their customers. Therefore, I try to be very selective about servers blocked and limit only to clearly infected servers, but, occasionally I get overly broad. And these actions are manual which also make them less effective than they could be because often the scammer or spammer has already dumped his entire list when I notice and take action.

Yesterday I made a significant change in the way this is handled. I am no longer blocking servers and address space manually. Rather, I have created a fail2ban jail that recognizes many of these things, also things like a lot of mails sent to non-existent addresses, mail forged as being from eskimo.com but is coming from external sources, etc, and I’m now using it to block these sites.

After the first night of this being implemented, my spambox had about one third as much spam as it did previously. I believe this is because it’s acting much faster than I would do manually, but an additional plus, there will be less legitimate mail blocked because this is ALWAYS done on a per server basis never entire address blocks as I often did for some bad players and because these blocks are automatically removed after two days but if the abuse is repeated from the same server then it will be blocked on a longer basis.

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9 Days
We're nine days away from a possible federal debt default and what does ByDone do? He sends yet more Billions to the Ukraine. Would someone please charge this fucker with treason and send him to the gallows where he belongs?

Biden sends BILLIONS more to Ukraine as Putin warns of nuclear war | Redacted with Clayton Morris

The united states just “found” an additional $3 billion to send to Ukraine. They say that it was an accounting error that happened when they “overestimated t...
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January 6 Blown Wide Open As the Truth About Undercover Agents and Informants Comes Out - RightWingHeadlines

The events of January 6, 2021 have been an obsession of the left ever since they happened. The entire Biden regime has gone out of its way to chase down, identify, and jail as many people as possible tied to that day.
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SpAmazon Abuse

Spamazon is listing the following contact number for tech and abuse for their address blocks with ARIN:

OrgTechHandle: ANO24-ARIN
OrgTechName: Amazon EC2 Network Operations
OrgTechPhone: +1-206-555-0000
OrgTechEmail: amzn-noc-contact@amazon.com
OrgTechRef: rdap.arin.net/registry/entity/…

Since 206-555-0000 only gets you directory information, this is false. Since listing false contact info is against ARIN's policy, this should be delisted and Amazon shouldn't get to route. Please take a moment to write to abuse@arin.net about this net block: NET-54-144-0-0-1 and perhaps we can force valid contact info or at least slow down the abuse from their IP space.

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