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Friendica.Eskimo.Com Upgraded to Friendica 'Giant Rhubarb' 2023.03-dev - 1503


A couple of notables with regards to this upgrade.

If you upgrade, it does NOT put the site into maintenance mode during the upgrade, and if you try to access the admin page before it has completed, it will tell you the upgrade failed, but this is not the case, it just hasn't finished the database update yet.

A notable change to the user interface is that they've separated the Moderator and Administrative functions into two distinct interfaces now.

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Kernel Upgrade Christmas Eve 11pm-Midnight


Barring large amounts of snow on the roads, I will be doing a kernel upgrade this Christmas Eve starting at 11pm. Not really the thing I want to be doing on Christmas Eve but the present kernel has shown some instability that lead to one machine locking up.

This will impact all of Eskimo North’s paid and free services, including virtual private servers, shell servers, web hosting, e-mail, and our fediverse instances, friendica.eskimo.com/, hubzilla.eskimo.com/, nextcloud.eskimo.com/, and yacy.eskimo.com/.

With the exception of Yacy which always takes longer because it rebuilds the index at start-up, the rest of the services should be not down for more than about ten minutes unless a server fails to shut down properly.

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Fuel from Seawater (carbon dioxide in Seawater)


Again, why can't we do this for non-naval transportation fuels? And I wonder if this would work on demand, i.e., can you use it with renewable but intermittent sources such as solar and wind when it is producing surplus?

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I do not like this particular design because they are not continuously removing fission products. This means the drain tank must be able to dissipate large amounts of heat from decaying fission products in the event of an emergency shutdown. Much better to use a fuel cycle where you are continuously removing the fission products. Also requires active cooling rather than just a melt plug for emergency shut down. This leaves you open to Fukashima type failures.

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Global Warming My Ass


Here in Shitline (just seven miles North of Libtardsville Seattle), we're experiencing another round of "global warming". The last snow hasn't melted, I haven't gotten the tree branch that penetrated my roof out and the hole it made repaired, and yet we've just started on a second round of snow. I hear they are expecting snow in Texas again as well. Yep, all that CO2 is really heating the planet. Me thinks the only heat is the hot air coming out of the WEF and all of their shills.

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Only problem with this episode of Atlantis is that the visual cortex, otherwise known as the occipital lobe, is in the back of the brain and where they are cutting is the prefrontal cortex responsible for higher reasoning not vision but Atlantis was always a bit heavy on the "Fi" and not so heavy on the "Sci".

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LGBTQ+


I've got this conundrum I'm trying to reason through regarding the LGBTQ+ community. I've got some friends from childhood that have come out as gay late in life (in 60's), I am also in my 60's. It is my believe that we're all a part of God and that God isn't going to condemn a part of himself to hell, but I also know God wants us to love each other and I know family is incredibly important. And there is where my conundrum lies.

At the same time I want to be forgiving to those who live this lifestyle, and God knows I've done plenty of sinning of my own kind myself, I do NOT want them pushing their agenda because I believe it is destroying the nuclear family and the end result of that can only be the destruction of humanity.

When I was a teenager, we had some neighbors who were openly gay, but they were not trying to force their lifestyle on anyone else the way everyone seems to be doing today. I don't understand why things can't return to a live and let live situation like we used to have. It isn't going to destroy humanity if 3% of the population decides to live a non-productive life style, but when the majority do and those that do opt to reproduce don't do it in a responsible manner, then it is a problem.

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Tentative Maintenance Work Friday 12/9 11pm-2am


Depending upon weather and other factors, I am planning to upgrade the kernel 6.0.11, however this depends upon the roads being clear of snow. And then after the kernel upgrade, I am planning to go to the co-location facility and will be making some adjustments to the server that is serving the majority of virtual private servers. It is currently slightly unstable so I am going to adjust the clock down from 4.3 Ghz to 4.2 Ghz to provide improved stability. This will probably happen around 1AM.

The kernel upgrades will affect all services, and should be completed by around 11:30PM. The server clock adjustment will affect only virtual private servers and should be relatively brief at around 1AM. This will just be changing a multiplier from 43 to 42, so just need to take it down, adjust, and reboot.

The services affected by the kernel upgrade will include all of Eskimo’s paid services including shell accounts, e-mail, web hosting, etc, and free federated services including friendica.eskimo.com/, hubzilla.eskiimo.com/, and nextcloud.eskimo.com/ and yacy.eskimo.com/.

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Electric Flame


I love this device but I would have made ONE major design change and that is to configure the coil as a Hartley oscillator, that is put the current from the tube thru the cathode circuit rather than plate, that way the coil would be at a DC potential of ground and while one would still get a serious RF burn if they touched the plasma, it wouldn't conduct 3000 volts at some huge current through the body causing instant death.

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Genadi Tkachenko


I've never heard of him prior to stumbling across this performance of "Earth Song" on youtube, but his voice brings sheer bliss for me, don't know if you will share my experience or not but on the off chance you may here he is.
in reply to Nanook

Isn't that where the Clinton's and other criminals took over the coast after the earth quakes to build 5 star hotels etc while the people got nothing and Hildibeast absconded with billions as well as the Red Cross. Just a thought but maybe the locals are catching on to all the human trafficking etc. Russia has put a real dent in the cash flow of the Banks and Blackrocks of the world by disrupting the Ukraine operations. This is causing a liquidity crisis. You put in military to protect corporate interests or secrets.

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I think this spam was misdirected, it seems to have been meant for Hunter Biden.


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To: nanook@eskimo.com
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Australia needs to move from ‘fear to facts’ on small nuclear modules


I do think nuclear is the way we need to go but not small modular reactors, or at least not the designs I am familiar with that tend to use fuel pellets encapsulating U-235 fuel in silicon-carbide modules. The advantage of this approach is it's cheap. The disadvantage is that it is not scalable and creates a SEVERE long term nuclear waste problem because silicon carbon has a very high melting point AND is chemically very stable making reprocessing of spent fuel basically impossible. Because U-235 is only .7% of the natural Uranium and because Uranium is only one third as plentiful as Thorium, it is a poor fuel choice. In my view, LFTR's or liquid fluoride molten salt breeder reactors are a MUCH more sane long term solution because they initially need a fissile fuel to get them going such as U-235 but after start-up they can breed their own fuel from U-238, Thorium-233, or various actinides that constitute the long life nuclear waste problem from today's reactors. Further, because they aren't pressurized they don't need expensive containment buildings and because they are passively safe, that is their reaction rate is self-limiting and even if they were to overheat, they melt a melt plug and the fuel simply drains into a larger melt tank where it is in a large enough area that the reaction stops. Because in such reactors, fission products are continuously removed, there are no substantial amounts of fission products in the fuel so the fuel does not continue to generate heat in that state. Thus these reactors are inherently safe. Lastly their fuel cycle produces neither waste suitable for bomb material (which is why the US government has for so long made licensing of them difficult) nor long lived actinides, but rather only short lived fission products that decay to a level of radioactivity no higher than the ores they originated from within 300 years. These are advantages that SMR's do not have.

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in reply to Nanook

This was just the start, it dumped about 7" in the evening followed by 50MPH wind.
I've got a tree limb through my roof, another limb fell on my car and dented the roof, and another fell on the mail box cluster and flattened it. I've been here for 40 years and never seen this much damage in one night, and none of it was heat related, rather the lack of it, not even after a freak windstorm with 130 MPH winds. I was out of power for three days which tied the longest outage I have experienced here about 30 years ago after a snow storm that dumped about two feet.

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China is the Model


Well if China is the model, then COAL it is and BURN BABY BURN because that is what the Chinese are doing.

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in reply to cranston

@cranston I don't disagree with that assessment, I find what IS observable to be promising if it's used against the deep-staters, but I don't dismiss the possibility that the deep-staters might be intending to put me there. None the less I see no value in taking such a pessimistic viewpoint, if it happens well I'm old enough that I won't be spending a substantial portion of my life there because simply I don't have that much left and while I am here I'm going to keep fighting for the future I want for my children if not myself.
in reply to Nanook

agree. i doubt any of us are prominent opponents to them, from their point of view. still, we do what we can.

there are many many positive signs.

the envelopes at the bush sr funeral are my number one. i can't find any part of that that means the globalists won. another is robert kennedy jr touching his nose, quite deliberately, when asked a question about jfk jr. there is no way he was just playing. the next is the body doubles. there are maybe four hillarys and three bidens.

the timing of the so-called white hats is beyond my logic, assuming they are still patiently waiting. i only hope that i live long enough to see their victory.

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WEF Trying To Kill Us Any Way They Can


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in reply to Nanook

The Netherlands government has announced its intention to Initiate Force against its own citizens.

Argentinian had a response to THEIR governments tyranny
diaspora.psyco.fr/posts/929067…

The French have THEIR national emblem: Madame Guillotine.

And Americans have the mundane but effective Rope Noose.

Now that the Dutch people have few alternatives, what will they choose to do?