in reply to Nanook

It doesn’t seem to matter that much anymore what your form of government was supposed to be. COVID turned the world into one big communist/fascist/authoritarian state.

It’s hard to say which one exactly. It seems to be a combination of the worst of all of those ideas. On a Global scale. An all new hybrid form of tyranny.

Nothing protected people. I only avoided it thru carefully planned unemployment! 😁 Most were coerced by their employers, by way of their government, which is not supposed to happen, according to the Bill of Rights.

But that has been watered down to the point of irrelevance due to additional, pointless, amendments that only did one thing, water down the original ten.

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Pipewire SHIT


Just when I thought Ubuntu's audio couldn't be any more fucked with pulse but I'd pretty much worked out the quirks in pulse audio, they come out with 23.04 and a new piece of shit called pipewire.

I had audio working smoothly under virtually any load situation and with virtually any source, now running WinAmp under wine on an i7-9900k system running at 4.9ghz with hardly anything else going on and it skips like hell.

FUCK the ASSHOLES at CANONICAL for introducing this piece of shit!

Does anyone know how to adjust buffer size so as to avoid buffer underruns
on this thing?

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Kernel Upgrades May 13 11pm PDT (GMT-0700)


Posted on May 13, 2023

I am planning a kernel upgrade tonight Saturday May 13th starting at 11PM.

This will affect all of Eskimo North’s services: web hosting, shell accounts, e-mail, virtual private servers, and our free Fediverse services friendica.eskimo.com/, hubzilla.eskimo.com/, nextcloud.eskimo.com/, and yacy.eskimo.com/.

Provided all servers boot correctly no service with the exception of yacy should be down for more than about ten minutes. Yacy takes up to 45 minutes to re-index it’s database upon startup.

Also, I will be slow for a day or so to get payment receipts out. Processing them requires cut-n-paste and the middle button (necessary for pasting) of my Logitech G 203 mouse has bitten the dust. Actually I can cut-n-paste in Firefox without that using a pull-down menu, but not on my Xterms.

I must say I am deeply saddened as I’ve never had a Logitech anything die on me before, I thought they were invincible, even inputting cans of Diet Coke into the keyboard has only resulted in temporary non-functioning until it dried. I really can’t complain though, it has served me loyally for many years and a new one is on order.

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I personally favor the molten salt designs over liquid metals even though it may be more corrosive, sodium metal is also very corrosive and this has caused plumbing failures and subsequent fires in nearly every reactor that has incorporated it, where as the Oakridge molten salt reactor ran almost five years (from January 1965 to December 1969), 13,000 of those hours at full power, and they even did an experiment where they shut off cooling and pulled out the control rods, and all that happened was the salt expanded slowing the nuclear reaction and the reactor self-regulated, they let it do this for 24 hours. We really need to have absolutely safe reactors like this, not semi-safe reactors that occasionally catch fire and spread radioactivity into the environment.

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Nextcloud Upgrade Experiment


This potentially impacts friendica.eskimo.com, hubzilla.eskimo.com, nextcloud.eskimo.com, and yacy.eskimo.com for a brief period after midnight tonight.

Posted on May 6, 2023

I am going to take the web server database offline briefly later this evening to make a backup before trying an experiment with Nextcloud. In the past I have gotten the external_authentication module to work for versions it was not designed simply by altering the definitions file associated with it. I am going to see if I can get NextCloud HUB 4 to work this way. By backing everything prior, I will have a way to return to NextCloud Hub 3 if it does not work. I will do this after midnight so as not to interrupt much normal use.

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Global Economic Crisis - Brough To You by the Rockefuckers


This global economic crisis is brought to you by the Rockefuckers, who control Klaus Schwab and the WEF and the UN and the WHO and pretty much every other non-elected world tyrant agency.

It was brought about by a contrived climate crisis which is utter bullshit but brought about in order to create artificial scarcity to increase the value of the Rockefucker oil empire so they can fuck us all harder longer.

Let's STOP THIS SHIT NOW, and PUT THESE FUCKERS TO DEATH because that is what they've already done to several million of us via the Covid bio-weapons, both the engineered virus and the clot-shots, and they will put another seven billion to death through the lack of energy and food IF WE LET THEM. LETS NOT LET THEM.

in reply to Nanook

If we spend $50 trillion to become carbon neutral in the U.S. by 2050, you’re the Deputy Secretary of Energy, give me your estimate of how much that is going to reduce world temperatures.”


A legitimate question. Tying money to climate change is a con. Reducing pollution, like the giant oceanic garbage patches is one thing, and doable with the effort of money. The temperature of the earth is not.

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Either Learn from History and the Suffering of Others, or RELIVE History and Suffer Yourself.


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Vicuna Open Source AI


I heard about an open source AI called Vicuna that supposedly manages about 93% the quality of chatgpt with FAR fewer resources. I tried to go to the website but it won't load, vicuna.lmsys.org/Does anyone know what's going on?

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in reply to Nanook

This video is made by a group of people I watch regarding the Forgotten Civilization hypothesis. The end of the last ice age, and what caused it, are the main topics they are concerned with. So tracking climate is an integral part of that idea, and they weighed in on the climate change thing. Pretty much what this video says, they just get into greater detail.

Temperature Variability - Tracking Recent Climate History | Randall Carlson-Kosmographia

in reply to Nanook

The reason Rockefucker Foundation wants to focus on global warming is simple, Create artificial scarcity for their primary business product, oil, drives prices up, produce less but sell it for more, means more profits over a longer period of time. Good business strategy if you have zero ethics and don't care about how you affect the global population, and if there is one family on this planet that defines psychopathy it is the Rockefuckers.

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Linux Audio Skipping


If you're running Ubuntu 22.10 or later and experience skipping of audio under wine, this issue is something fuxored with pipewire. Removing it and letting pulse do everything returns the system to operational audio. I've got 8 core i7-9900k clocked at 4.9Ghz and 32G of RAM on this box and audio was skipping with only Firefux, a few ssh and mate terminal sessions and wine running Winamp. This was a problem both after upgrading from Ubuntu 22.04 to 22.10 and again from 22.10 to 23.04, and in both cases removing everything pipewire and then rebooting fixed.

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A Small Victory


Kaiser Permanente, which currently is my medical provider, has been requiring masks even though the law here no longer requires it.

I stated, the best studies show masks, and then only the N95 ventilator types, not your common cloth or painters masks, are at best 1-2% effective at preventing the spread of covid-19.

I stated the studies show that masks also INCREASE the risks of bacterial infection.

I got a letter today stating that they had considered my arguments and have elected to drop mask requirements except in the cases where local jurisdictions require them by law.

It's a small victory to be sure, but it IS a victory and one I wanted to post to encourage you, to fight for what you know is right and bring an end to this tyranny.

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See about 7 minutes into this video.


Many of our supposed elected officials and some appointed have not taken the appropriate oath of office and sworn allegiance to the constitution and therefore are unqualified for the positions they hold. This is a non-trivial portion of our government.

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BRICS and the so-called death of the US Dollar IS BULLSHIT, Here is data, and here is why!


The dollar has fallen about 30% against the Brazilian real but only about 1% against the Indian Rupee, has remained essentially steady (within 1% over 25 years) against the Chinese Yuan,and has gained 4% over the Russian Ruble, so the data does not at all support the conjecture of a doomed US dollar. I assume you are some investor asshole trying to pump your gold and silver assets up. The reason it can fall against Brazil is because the Brazilian economy was fuxored and is gradually recovering.

The reason it hasn't fallen or changed significantly with India or China is because we are their largest export market by a factor of about 400% over their next largest trading partner in both cases and it isn't in their financial interest to let it fall.

The reason it's gained against the Ruble is that our economy is larger than Russia's so while both are hurt by this stupid proxy war in the Ukraine, the Russian economy has been hurt ever so slightly more.

So while DemonRat spending has undoubtedly not been a good thing for our economy, there is NO real world evidence that the dollar is in immediate danger of collapse. China and and India are the worlds two largest economies after ours and we are their largest export market for both, consisting approximately of 80% of their exports in both cases, and if they allow the dollar to slip much relative to their own currencies, they lose 80% of their export market, they aren't likely to allow that to happen.