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Re:We should be more ambitious with the software we build on Sunday October 25, 2026 @12:44AM (#50228400)
Though, I am an "Ultra Noob," light years behind most people here, I am actually in the process of making a couple or four Vibe Coded apps, starting with a Markdown editor, a couple of training suites that target the areas where my knowledge is weakest, which turns out to be every area apparently. I am also working on an app for Linux that Microsoft has had for a few years that Ubuntu users--the noobs--are in desperate need of, and should have, but sadly has been missing from most Linux distros, in my view. Of course, this is using free tier AIs and not locally hosted agents. None-of these apps are rust-based a the moment, but I try to instruct the AI to make it as fast as possible for the given platform.

It's really challenging to do this, especially creating the AppImages locally so I can test them when the apps do not not work correctly, having to alter the files manually. Yup, I'm not an avid GitHub pusher, just more of a cloner.

I'm having to use multiple free-tier AI agents to help me do this and record the steps and commands I use in markdown files so I don't forget them the next time I try to improve the app.

If I am successful in making these apps work without hosing my system, I'm hopeful that this will become a game changer, for those Noobs that using Ubuntu, or myself at least.

The hardest part is when the AI does not follow my instructions such as requests to generate markdown README.md files with instructions on how to create AppImages, Flatpak, deb files, etc. Have to ask other AIs for help with that while dealing with the frustrating Free-tier cutoff periods :(

Darn!

;)

Awesome simulation!

You should launch it and have it meet up with the Tesla heading to Mars :)

Re:Gnome OS Preview on Friday October 16, 2026 @07:22PM (#50126098)
Hmm, tried to install via QEMU/KVM and Oracle VM in an Ubuntu host and can't get the ISO come up. I chose BIOS/UEFI (all available options) without success?

Got the following message on KVM:

GNOME 3.14 on QEMU/KVM 2 File Virtual Machine View Send Key

50 »mo . E

SeaBIOS (version 1.16.3-debian-1.16.3-2) Machine UUID 616b29f9-c84f-4e48-97224-9f df 00225378

iPXE (https://ipxe.org) 01:00.0 CAGE PCIZ.10 PnP PMM+7EFCASEO+7EFOASEO CAOO

Booting from DUD/CD...

Boot failed: Could not read from CDROM (code 0009) Booting from Hard Disk...

Boot failed: not a bootable disk

No bootable device.

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Is the ISO bootable via a VM?

Home page should probably add VM install instructions :)

Sigh, no medical cures :(
Well, I speak from experience after living in a blue state most of my life, and feeling trapped in it and unable to move forward in it or out of it.

In my view, preference rarely equals outcome.

>> >>This is such a weird phrasing. "We prefer to tax our residents".

No, blue states generally prefer:

- better educational outcomes (8 of the top 10 states are blue)

---> After working in K-12 and Post Secondary Ed, I can tell you that I've not seen better education outcomes. In my view that does not exist. Degrees offered rarely equate to jobs, unless you know somebody that can give you a leg up. Jobs have been steadily declining for decades. In post-secondary, giving out degrees, to fulfill a quota is the norm, from what I have seen. Basically, getting a college degrees allows you to get a job in an education setting, which again puts you back into the same system that gave you the unmarketable degree in the first place. Its a never ending, self-defeating cycle of financial obsolescence. This will probably become more serious as AI begins to take hold of traditional human roles.

- healthcare access (10 of 10)

---> I see no instance where healthcare access has actually cured a single person. All I have noticed is the management of conditions and the requirement that you must have insurance to comply with a law that benefited the legacy of a party, president and the pockets of certain medical companies and officers. Most people that have lived for more than 50 years will have some idea of what I mean. The system is designed to ignore cures in favor of medical treatments i.e., manage the condition, fill you full of pills, put the needle in take out the money. Young people will naturally not have an idea. They are just full of idealism.

- lower crime (7 of 10)

---> You should check out the slums e.g., skid row, in my blue state, which I will not mention. They are crime-ridden. Even people who have jobs and see the homeless want them gone from their neighborhoods for fear that they will assault them. State officials prefer to remove or transplant them rather than solve the issue. If the issue is solved, there won't be any issues to debate in the general elections.

- better rehab outcomes and resulting lower incarceration (10 of 10)

---> Why not design a cure for this, rather than sending them to rehab? Design hangover injection to fix the them issue. Nobody wants to do it for the same reasons as mentioned above. It's just not profitable to cure someone.

- wellbeing/QOL/happiness (7 of 10)

---> Blue state have the highest poverty rates, cause there are no jobs. In the real world money = happiness because you don't have to worry where the next meal comes from, where the rent money is coming from, and of course paying for the medical bills for conditions that need to be managed and not cured.

- average income (9 of 10)

---> Again, raising the average minimum wage, when the cost of living is high due to unemployment and other reasons, equates to no change at all.

>>> Look, I'm sure tax is theft or something, or people need to get back to debating what the right type of barbed wire is to put on a fence to keep out the roving migrant caravans that show up in the news three months before every election and who all turn around in the days following. But yeah, interesting that that's what you take out of it.

---> You seem to be quoting stuff that gets played over and over on television. I don't watch television, but actually live on a blue state where voters tend to rise from their graves along with their dead pets and vote in general elections.

Hopefully, all that "ghost-voting" will be lessened by recent voter database court decisions, at least in the US.

But, “My tongue runs too freely and knows not when to hold its peace.” :(

Re:Hot Flashing Guide Rev. 2.0 (2004) on Monday October 05, 2026 @06:52PM (#49971900)
When I worked in the PC hardware industry, I used to do this all the time with certain machines of the small form factor variety where the chips were removable, replaceable. I still have one of those machines, e.g. Socket AM2+ compatible, though have not turned her on in over 12+ years.
You have a point. The article clearly states who'd get the tax cut, the Florida residents with homesteaded homes and the loss of revenue would fall on local governments. I don't see any where mention where the replacement for the $11 or so billion a year in revenues the local government could lose will come from, whether federal or state. Leaves one to wonder the worse.

This article seems to focus on Canadians as a politically convenient example of those residents who might pay more but the design of the mechanism as described applies to non-homestead properties in general, no just Canadian-owned ones.

Election cycles are the worse. I see the same back and forth fights dealing with budget cuts and cutting services. Sigh! Mainstream Press, no matter the country behave the same during election cycles :(

By definition, blue states prefer taxation of its residents. This belief will be part of blue state policies whether Florida taxes or does not tax Canadians.
Where's the Linux/macOS version?
That's actually funny. I was going to add Gipsy Danger being analog, but it's a totally different scenario.
Point proven for the world to see :)
Yup, with just enough of an unmistakable ideological slant to force posts with differing views to take a Kharma nose dive. It seems that the addition of Kharma is proportional to posts that align with the overall narrative of the board post sentiment. In my case, I've noticed that some of my posts don't appear as originally created. Can't really confirm if this is inherent to the algorithm or just internal interference. The latter would be my guess. :(
Re:Coyote v. Acme (1990) on Wednesday September 09, 2026 @09:44PM (#49637282)
Excellent Movie. Wish it had more publicity.
Re:Resources to Get Good at Soldering? on Saturday September 05, 2026 @04:13PM (#49580244)
You might want to try this: https://appliedinspirations.com
Re:Pause AI Development Now on Thursday September 03, 2026 @02:03PM (#49554067)
RESISTANCE IS FUTILE ~~THE TRAIN HAS LEFT THE STATION~~

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Re:Paint.net 5.2 alpha now runs on Linux on Wednesday September 02, 2026 @05:16PM (#49542686)
That's awesome news. Many good free apps that run on Win/MacOS should be ported to Linux.
Re:Run macOS Software on Linux on Monday August 31, 2026 @08:41PM (#49516567)
Would be nice to run Final Cut Pro on Linux without having to pay an arm and a leg for the actual machine. It's a really expensive toy :(
Re:The Sloppification of Peptides on Monday August 24, 2026 @11:33PM (#49428790)
Keep in mind that the term "Snake Oil Salesman," was a twisting of the truth. Yes, it originated with Chinese immigrants from the 1800s. Among the items the Chinese railroad workers brought with them to the States were various medicines, including snake oil. Made from the oil of the Chinese water snake, which is rich in the omega-3 acids that help reduce inflammation, snake oil in its original form really was effective, especially when used to treat arthritis and bursitis. The workers would rub the oil, used for centuries in China, on their joints after a long hard day at work. The story goes that the Chinese workers began sharing the oil with some American counterparts, who marveled at the effects.

It is these American counterparts that dissembled the truth by creating ineffective variations of the formulas hence the twisting of the term, "Snake Oil Salesmen."

NRP Article on History of Snake oil Salesmen https://www.npr.org/sections/codeswitch/2013/08/26/215761377...

Re:The Sloppification of Peptides on Monday August 24, 2026 @11:30PM (#49428777)
Correct :)
Re:The Sloppification of Peptides on Monday August 24, 2026 @11:18PM (#49428720)
I have tried many forms of snake oil, have yet to find one that totally cures my pain. Oddly enough, I have found no modern medicine that totally heals my issues thus my reasons to focus on holistic solutions and non-traditional methods. Native Americans used natural remedies to heal and alleviate conditions. Who's to say their remedies are not effective. Same deal with acupuncture. Chinese have used it for centuries. I personally tried it a few years ago, when I had the money and it helped me. I find that holistic, non-traditional methods are helpful, especially when compared to opioids, pill-popping, etc.
Re:The Sloppification of Peptides on Monday August 24, 2026 @11:12PM (#49428677)
Not really spamming, just in need of a solution. I've spend decades researching different literature for the many issues that I have. Not afraid to admit that I suffer from many issues, most of which are painful, uncomfortable, and limit my productivity as well as ability to make a living. Employers, it turns out, are clearly very hesitant to hire somebody with medical conditions. Suffice to say, that reading about a possible solution, new medications, treatment, has yielded little results, most things only promise pain management, no cures, at least for me hence my lack of patience with reading mainstream medical, journals that don't seem to cure anything, thus my preference for AI-based research, to the dismay of many here.
Somebody should probably let him know about this site:

tftc.io

I'd be educational for him, I would think :)

Re:The Sloppification of Peptides on Sunday August 23, 2026 @11:20PM (#49414873)
This person does talk about it and actually uses them: https://shorturl.at/KdH1z
Re:The Sloppification of Peptides on Sunday August 23, 2026 @11:01PM (#49414773)
I was researching this topic to see if any peptides existed that were isolated from Ratfish-aka Chimaera monstrosa- Liver to help rejuvinate the pineal gland via decalcification. As I understand it, ratfish liver oil is a lipid-based supplement though I've read that bioactive peptides could theoretically be isolated from the liver tissue itself (the solid matter left after oil extraction) through enzymatic hydrolysis. Thus far, I've researched a couple of sites that carry peptides but don't see any Ratfish Liver-based products. Ratfish liver oil is hard to come by, expensive due to the fish being endangered.
Re:A Friendly Introduction to Racket on Saturday August 22, 2026 @05:40PM (#49404130)
Thanks for sharing. It's been bookmarked :)

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Lawmakers should do more than ban them, they should require companies to notify the applicants of their final decision. I'm still waiting for dozens of companies to let me off the hook, one way or the other. That is the worse aspect of this practice in my view, that and the nasty practice Job posters have of listing the number of applicants, typically more than 100, next to the job Ads, knowing full well they'll never respond, because those jobs have been reposted, over and over.
Re:Jackie the bald eagle dead at 14 on Tuesday August 11, 2026 @11:58AM (#49260300)
Jackie the bald eagle dead at 14: 'Soar free, Jackie.'

https://www.popsci.com/environment/jackie-bald-eagle-dies/

Some people want that. I personally would like to see the nightmare to end, even if it means that the slave-owners leave for parts unknown, so the island starts prospering, again even if I never get to see it.

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