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Battlestar Galactica: True Story?
9/25/2025 6:17:18 AM
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šŸš€ Battlestar Galactica and the Forgotten History of Ancient Humanity: An Investigative Analysis
Abstract
The 1978 television series Battlestar Galactica has long been dismissed as a derivative space opera. Yet its narrative structure, mythological motifs, and thematic resonance suggest somethingā€¦
Skinwalker Ranch: Where Science Goes to Die
9/25/2025 6:09:43 AM
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šŸ“° Skinwalker Ranch: Where Science Goes to Die (But Ratings Go to Heaven)
By Our Intrepid Reporter Who Definitely Isnā€™t Being Paid in Cattle
Utahā€™s Skinwalker Ranch has been called many things: a paranormal hotspot, a UFO gateway, a cursed land of shapeshifters. But after decades of ā€œresearch,ā€ oneā€¦
Blazor Makes You Happy
9/23/2025 8:00:03 AM
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Literally every time I use an EventCallback in Blazor, I stop and think "What if I was still using Web Forms?" Then I look at the sun shining, listen to the birds singing outside my window, and understand what it means when people say life is good. :D
Repeated Auth Prompts in Linux Mint 22.2 (and Linux Mint 22.1)
9/21/2025 7:08:16 PM
Topic: Linux
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Recently did a new install of Linux Mint 22.2 (Zara) and was annoyed by getting prompted for authorization (Alternating between prompting for 'Authentication is required to update information about software' and 'Authentication required to modify a system repository'.) every time it checked forā€¦
A Simplified Explanation of How an LLM Works, using Ducks as an Example
9/17/2025 8:07:22 AM
Topic: Reference
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How a Large Language Model (LLM) Works
(A duckā€‘tastic tour for a bachelorā€‘level reader)
1. The ā€œBig Brainā€ in a nutshell
Imagine a giant, superā€‘smart brain that sits in a server room. That brain is made of layers of mathematical ā€œcellsā€ calledneural networks. An LLM (Large Language Model) is just aā€¦
Understandable Explanation of How an LLM Works
9/17/2025 8:04:21 AM
Topic: Reference
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Overview
Largeā€‘Language Models (LLMs) are transformerā€‘based neural nets trained on terabytes of text to learn a contextual distribution over tokens.
The training pipeline is a blend of data engineering, deepā€‘learning research, and largeā€‘scale distributed systems.
Below is a ā€œfull stackā€ā€¦
The Death of Social Networking: How AI is Reshaping Online Communities
9/17/2025 6:42:10 AM
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Introduction: A Crossroads for Connection
Social networking platforms have revolutionized the way we communicate, share ideas, and build relationships. Theyā€™ve become digital town squares, where voices from every corner of the globe converge. Yet, as we stand on the precipice of a new technologicalā€¦
Nextcloud 31 OCC not working
9/16/2025 8:06:42 AM
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If you get:
Error: Call to undefined function simplexml_load_string() in /var/www/html/nextcloud/lib/private/App/InfoParser.php
Check and see if thephp-xmlmodule is still present.
Simply trying to install it should work:
sudo apt install php-xml
Comparing and Contrasting the Great Black Swamp with the Old Swamps of Council Bluffs, Iowa
8/24/2025 6:40:11 AM
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The Great Black Swamp and the old swamps that once dotted the floodplain of Council Bluffs, Iowa, are both emblematic of the United Statesā€™ wetland history. While they share a common identity as wetlands that were once abundant across the Midwest, they diverge markedly in size, ecological legacy,ā€¦
Hamster Chased by Elephants
2/23/2025 11:14:34 AM
Topic: Memes
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Do they think I'm one of them?!
Oligarchs are getting scary
2/7/2025 6:48:05 AM
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Regulations are written in blood. You can't just start slashing them and then pack the courts full of pro-corporate sycophants and not have consequences. But those consequences take a while to hit and since the media is controlled by billionaires it's easy to shift to blame around and confuse theā€¦
Come and play!
2/5/2025 7:45:53 PM
Posted By: Test Dude 2
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Almost a year of bug fixes and enhancements, come join in the fun!
React & JavaScript Spread Operator (Three dots syntax)
2/5/2025 2:30:20 PM
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1. Combine Arrays (Concatenate Arrays)
There are a variety of ways to combine arrays , but the spread operator allows you to place this at any place in an array. If you'd like to combine two arrays and place elements at any point within the array, you can do as follows:
var arr1 = ['two', 'three'];ā€¦
Is Donald Trump a Threat to Open Source?
2/2/2025 10:51:28 PM
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Donald Trumpā€™s return to the White House has reignited debates about the balance of power in the tech industry. With legislations like the CLOUD Act and ongoing discussions around data sovereignty, open source faces significant challenges. These dynamics highlight the difficulty of navigating aā€¦
Weird answers from AI
1/9/2025 5:33:32 PM
Posted By: Test Dude 2
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Q: How do I protect myself from Roko's Basilisk?
A: The "Roko's Basilisk" thought experiment is a hypothetical scenario that explores the potential consequences of an advanced artificial intelligence (AI) that is motivated to incentivize the advancement of its own capabilities. It is not aā€¦
Nicko McBrain (Iron Maiden Drummer) Announces Retirement
12/15/2024 8:10:35 AM
Topic: Music
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Wow, lot of time has passed since I first started listening to him and his band. We're all getting old. Thanks for all the music!!
From Nicko:
After much consideration, it is with both sorrow and joy, I announce my decision to take a step back from the grind of the extensive touring lifestyle.ā€¦
Transsexuals haunt the Republican Party
12/13/2024 3:08:45 PM
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Sen. Graham (R. of S. Carolina): We are here holding this hearing to hear evidence of transsexuals taking over America. Our witness is Dr. Hoo Me of NiH.
Sen. Blackburn (R. of Tenn.): Okay, Dr. Hoo, what can you tell us about the homosexuals taking over America?
Dr. Hoo: Uh. I thought we wereā€¦
Final Report: Commission on the National Defense Strategy
9/24/2024 8:47:53 PM
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Release in July 2024, this detailed report goes over the threats against the United States as well as the strategic readiness to reply to those threats. This is the most detailed non-classified information available and is a very interesting and somewhat frightening report.
It starts out with thisā€¦
Rancher skip-verify not working to disable verification of self-signed certs
8/7/2024 6:29:52 PM
Topic: Linux
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For many releases, Rancher rejects self-signed certs, which makes it impossible to use from the command line. Here is finally a workaround!
If you're getting something like:
# rancher --version
rancher version v2.9.0
# rancher login https://rancher..sslip.io --token token---skip-verify
FATA[0000]ā€¦
Farm Animal Band
7/12/2024 5:18:54 PM
Topic: Humor
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On this farm, there's a cow, a chicken, and a horse, and the three of them are best friends.
They do just about everything together. And one day, they're sitting at the window of the house, and the farmer's kid is watching MTV, and they're watching it, and they hear the music, and the horse saysā€¦
TRS-80 (All models, including CoCo) Emulator
6/4/2024 11:07:05 PM
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This is pretty cool. Can see if I can get my old technical memories of TRS-80 Model III to come back. All the stuff I learned in Mr Zeliff's programming class, which was just fantastic. Doubly fantastic considering it was in a small farm town in South Central Nebraska!
Here's the link to downloadā€¦
Real Programmers Don't Use Java
5/14/2024 2:04:49 PM
Topic: Humor
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Back in the good old days -- the "Golden Era" of computers, it was easy to separate the men from the boys (sometimes called "Real Men" and "Quiche Eaters" in the literature). During this period, the Real Men were the ones that understood computer programming, and the Quiche Eaters were the onesā€¦
Nebraska rebuilding from Tornadoes
5/7/2024 1:03:32 PM
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FEMA teams are speaking with homeowners and renters, encouraging them to apply with them or do so online. The federal agency often provides money for needs not covered by insurance, like home repairs or paying for a place to live.
Nebraska tornadoes: FEMA starts canvassing hardest hit areasā€¦
Gas prices are affected by rabbit hues
4/3/2024 5:55:51 AM
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Once upon a time, in a whimsical world where gas prices danced with bunny hues, theEaster Bunnybecame an unlikely economist. His fluffy tail twitched as he analyzed the correlation between carrot futures and unleaded gasoline. šŸ°šŸ“ˆ
ThePink Bunny Indexsoared when tulips bloomed, signaling higher gasā€¦
Weird
3/24/2024 6:19:08 PM
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Not sure what this is all about, but interesting.
https://youtu.be/tpOVDeQ_wwE
ROTFOH2 is now live!
3/9/2024 10:18:18 PM
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Finally, all the rewrites and re-rewrites are done! (Converting from Blazor 7 to Blazor 8 got a bit tricky)
MessageBase 6 is finally live, so that's what we've been waiting on.
Click the GameZone link to start playing!
MessageBase 6.0 is now live!
3/8/2024 3:55:31 AM
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Finally, after 3 years of planning and development, LLabmik Software Development is happy (and relieved!) to announce the latest iteration of MessageBase.net!
Amazing that it's already 26 years since the original MessageBase Version 1.0!
The new version is written with advanced architecture,ā€¦
Newest things added to LINQ
2/4/2024 9:46:42 PM
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Some pretty cool new stuff.
See details here .
All the new stuff in the Visual Studio 2022 debugger
2/4/2024 9:44:05 PM
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Lots of good stuff to make your life as a developer more easy:
In the Debugger's Spotlight: A Year in Review - Visual Studio Blog (microsoft.com)
Sharing authentication between multiple Blazor apps
12/21/2023 5:08:16 PM
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Just got done putting together a demo of how to share authentication between multiple .NET 8 Blazor apps so that users do not need to re-log-in to each app as they move between them.
See the GitHub source here: Blazor Shared Authentication
Note that this will only work with .NET 8, previousā€¦

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