@paco what you describe would for me be the stuff of nightmares. I'm really sorry to hear about your weekend struggles with your NAS recovery. It's tough when technology lets us down, especially when it's something you rely on. Hang in there—hopefully, you'll get it sorted soon! #NASrecovery #TechStruggles #DataRecovery #HomeLab #DIYTech #TechFail #ZFS #TrueNAS #NVMe #SASdrives #KernelPanic #SelfHostingLife #TechWoes #Rebuilding #Persistence
Visualização de Espaços Educacionais para os Cegos: o Asilo-Escola António Feliciano de Castilho (1888-1996)

Per aspera ad astra. If #AI, #openscience, and #persistence now allow anyone to contribute to research, will future science be defined more by credentials … or by the willingness to let ideas face reality? doi.org/10.5281/zeno... 🖖

From Exploration to Reduction:...
From Exploration to Reduction: Observation Constraints, Scientific Self-Correction, and the Emergence of a Robust Research Core

This record contains two complementary documents summarizing the final state of a three-year independent research program (2024–2026) on critical transitions, observability, detectability, and scientific self-correction in complex systems.   The Research Statement provides a condensed synthesis of the program after extensive adversarial evaluation, hostile reduction, empirical stress testing, and methodological critique. The Executive Summary offers a one-page overview of the surviving scientific core.   Rather than presenting a new theory of complex systems, the documents focus on the methodological outcomes that remained robust after repeated attempts at falsification and reduction. These outcomes include:   • Failure-Mode Maps• Observation Constraints• Benchmark Infrastructure• Adversarial Audit Protocols• Empirical Adjudication Limits   The documents aim to illustrate how a large exploratory research program can be systematically reduced to a smaller set of transferable methodological insights through scientific self-correction.   Keywords (English)   scientific self-correction, observability, detectability, observation constraints, empirical adjudication, adversarial evaluation, hostile reduction, benchmark infrastructure, failure modes, early warning signals, critical transitions, complex systems, reproducibility, scientific methodology, research synthesis   Beschreibung (Deutsch)   Dieser Datensatz enthält zwei komplementäre Dokumente, welche den Endstand eines dreijährigen unabhängigen Forschungsprogramms (2024–2026) zu kritischen Übergängen, Beobachtbarkeit, Detektierbarkeit und wissenschaftlicher Selbstkorrektur in komplexen Systemen zusammenfassen.   Das Research Statement stellt eine verdichtete Synthese des Forschungsprogramms nach umfangreicher adversarieller Evaluation, Hostile Reduction, empirischen Belastungstests und methodologischer Kritik dar. Die Executive Summary bietet zusätzlich eine einseitige Übersicht über den verbleibenden wissenschaftlichen Kern.   Im Mittelpunkt steht nicht die Vorstellung einer neuen Theorie komplexer Systeme, sondern die Dokumentation jener methodischen Ergebnisse, die wiederholte Falsifikations- und Reduktionsversuche überstanden haben. Dazu gehören insbesondere:   • Failure-Mode Maps• Observation Constraints• Benchmark Infrastructure• Adversarial Audit Protocols• Empirical Adjudication Limits   Die Dokumente zeigen, wie ein umfangreiches exploratives Forschungsprogramm durch wissenschaftliche Selbstkorrektur auf einen kleinen Satz robuster und übertragbarer methodischer Einsichten reduziert werden kann.   Schlüsselwörter (Deutsch)   wissenschaftliche Selbstkorrektur, Beobachtbarkeit, Detektierbarkeit, Beobachtungsgrenzen, empirische Adjudikation, adversarielle Evaluation, Hostile Reduction, Benchmark-Infrastruktur, Fehlermodi, Frühwarnsignale, kritische Übergänge, komplexe Systeme, Reproduzierbarkeit, Wissenschaftsmethodik, Forschungssynthese

Zenodo

Dear Friends lost in #cyberspace,

1) Metoo or is that meow2. I dunno if I am coming or going...
2) I am posting from #TOR running on #EasyOS 7.4. #Finally!
3) Does everything formally known as 'easy' take an hour to set up? I mean #imagine taking an hour to set up and use a #browser... Ay carumba!

In other words the LLM, tech bros, #security nerds are the asylum keepers and I need to break the straight (if you will pardon the term) jacket. Luckily I have a plan. #Persistence. Full #disclosure. #Open efforts.

For example:
1) The people who hide the most are either the leisured elite OR the roving, roaming, #anarchic friends of the revolting.
2) Shine a light on the murky, swampy, golden turd and their endorsing laxatives
3) Tax your brain, the greedy and all with stolen/inherited 'wealth'

I use TOR, #Signal and #Mastodon. As I find better. I implement. Safe in sharing the best I know how...

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An Encouraging Thought

No effort is wasted. — Wyna Liu

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Photo by Massimo Sartirana on Unsplash #365Ways #365Ways2026 #Keepwriting #creativity #persistence #Thoughts #Writers #writing

In a beautifully sunny #Southampton for the UK/IE Digital Humanities Association Conference. Speaking with colleagues later on the topic of 'The Persistence of Infrastructure' -- or perhaps the lack thereof? Let's see what mood we're in! Cracking poster session being enjoyed as I type to you now....

https://digitalhumanities-uk-ie.org/2026-annual-event/ #DigitalHumanities #persistence #DigitalLibraries #DigitalArchives

Why Persistence Matters

The persistent ant\!

📖 Read more: https://sajalchoudhary.net/blog/why-persistence-matters/

#blog #life #persistence

Why Persistence Matters - Blog

A personal digital garden and blog

Every expert was once a beginner who refused to give up. #Learning #Persistence

A quotation from Orwell

When one considers how things have gone since 1930 or thereabouts, it is not easy to believe in the survival of civilization. I do not argue from this that the only thing to do is to adjure practical politics, retire to some remote place and concentrate either on individual salvation or on building up self-supporting communities against the day when the atom bombs have done their work. I think one must continue the political struggle, just as a doctor must try to save the life of a patient who is probably going to die. But I do suggest that we shall get nowhere unless we start by recognizing that political behaviour is largely non-rational, that the world is suffering from some kind of mental disease which must be diagnosed before it can be cured.

George Orwell (1903-1950) English journalist, essayist, writer [pseud. of Eric Arthur Blair]
Essay (1946-11-29), “As I Please” column, Tribune Newspaper

More about this quote: wist.info/orwell-george/49725/

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #orwell #georgeorwell #civilization #humancondition #irrationality #madness #persistence #politics #struggle #surrender #rootcause

Orwell, George - Essay (1946-11-29), "As I Please" column, Tribune Newspaper | WIST Quotations

When one considers how things have gone since 1930 or thereabouts, it is not easy to believe in the survival of civilization. I do not argue from this that the only thing to do is to adjure practical politics, retire to some remote place and concentrate either on individual salvation…

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A quotation from Josh Billings

I aint no disgrace for a man to fall, but to lay thare, and grunt, iz.
 
[It ain’t no disgrace for a man to fall, but to lay there, and grunt, is.]

Josh Billings (1818-1885) American humorist, aphorist [pseud. of Henry Wheeler Shaw]
Josh Billings’ Farmer’s Allminax, 1876-06 (1876 ed.)

More about this quote: wist.info/billings-josh/84412/

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #joshbillings #capitulate #concede #error #failure #falling #getbackup #givingup #inaction #mistake #persistence #recover #resign #resignation #resolve #retry #surrender #tenacity #yielding

Billings, Josh - Josh Billings' Farmer's Allminax, 1876-06 (1876 ed.) | WIST Quotations

It aint no disgrace for a man to fall, but to lay thare, and grunt, iz. [It ain't no disgrace for a man to fall, but to lay there, and grunt, is.]

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