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How your body repairs DNA. How can anyone see this and think it wasn't designed? This is God's Creation.
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Only 2GB RAM is enough to run Linux. Yet most people still choose Windows.
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Exactly!
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The NSA spent billions trying to break encryption. One German programmer beat them. He earned only $25k a year. 🤯 Meet Werner Koch 🇩🇪 > German free software developer. Born 1961 in Düsseldorf. > 1997 ~ Richard Stallman called for a free encryption tool. > Only option then: closed-source, US-restricted PGP. > Werner answered. He built GnuPG (GPG) alone ~ free software to encrypt files, sign software, and verify identity. > 1999 ~ Released GPG 1.0. Fully open source. No restrictions. > Today his code verifies every Linux server update, every Debian package, every Tor Browser download on this Earth. > Every signed Linux release depends on it. > Used by activists, dissidents, and security pros worldwide to stay untracked. > Edward Snowden used GPG in 2013 to leak NSA documents. It held up against the world’s most powerful spy agency. 🚀 > 2001 ~ Founded g10code with his brother to work full-time on GPG. > Earned only $25,000/year for 14 years while supporting his wife and daughter. > 2012 ~ Funding ended. He had to let go of his only programmer. > 2013 ~ He was the sole maintainer and nearly quit. > 2015 ~ ProPublica story dropped. Internet donated $137k in 24 hours. > Facebook Stripe pledged $50k/year each. Linux Foundation gave $60k > Won FSF Award for the Advancement of Free Software. > Today he still maintains GPG from home in Erkrath, Germany. This one man kept the internet’s secrets, secret. The world almost lost him in 2013. His code still protects yours. Privacy Legend. 🐐
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The man who killed the $10,000 GPU myth. He did it alone, from Bulgaria, with one C file. 🤯 >Meet Georgi Gerganov. >Bulgarian developer. Nobody had heard of him. >In March 2023, Meta’s LLaMA model leaked online >Within days he wrote a single C file >Called it llama.cpp >It ran a full AI model on a MacBook. No GPU. No cloud. >The entire AI industry said you needed $10,000 GPUs to run LLMs 🔥 >He proved you didn’t. On a laptop. Alone. >Also built whisper.cpp ~ same thing for voice AI > His code is the foundation of Ollama, LM Studio, and GPT4All >107,000 GitHub stars. Fastest open-source Ai project to hit 100K ever. 🚀 >In 2026 Hugging Face hired his entire team >Still ships code. Still open source. Still free. Whenever you run AI locally, you’re running his work. Absolute Legend 🐐
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This looks accurate 😂😀
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A reminder that most of what we worry about never actually happens

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WHISTLEBLOWER Gail Macrae: "I am a registered nurse with years on the front lines...ZERO patients died FROM COVID. They were KILLED by Remdesivir and ventilators. Hospitals were half-empty the entire time. But the deadly protocols, forced isolation from family, and experimental drugs kept rolling — because every “COVID label” meant massive government bonuses. This wasn’t medicine. This was MURDER FOR MONEY. Patients came in with the flu or pneumonia. They left in body bags after being poisoned and suffocated by hospital policy. I saw it with my own eyes. I watched it happen day after day. Demand justice. Demand the truth. Demand the names of every administrator, doctor, and politician who profited while our loved ones were slaughtered. The COVID hospital scam was one of the greatest crimes in history.
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Linus Torvalds could have been richer than Elon Musk. He chose not to be. In 2005 his team lost access to the tool they used to manage Linux code overnight. A developer had reverse-engineered it and the company behind it cut them off without warning. Thousands of developers. No way to collaborate. No backup plan. Torvalds did not panic. He sat down and built his own version control system from scratch. In 10 days. He called it Git. On day one it was already tracking its own source code. Within weeks it was managing the entire Linux project. By end of 2005 Git 1.0 was officially released. Then he gave it away for free. Open source. No company. No patents. No monetization. He handed the project off after a few months and went back to working on Linux like nothing happened. Other people saw what he left on the table. GitHub built on top of it. 100 million developers. Microsoft bought it in 2018 for $7.5 billion. GitLab went public in 2021 at nearly $12 billion. Today Git controls over 85% of the version control market. Every app on your phone. Every website you visit. Built using Git. Torvalds made $0 from any of it. He built the most used developer tool in history because he was annoyed. Then gave it away because he believed it should be free for everyone. And he has never once said he regrets it.
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FISA Section 702 expires on Friday. It is a valuable tool to monitor foreign threats, but it should not be used as a blank check to spy on Americans. Fix FISA. Require warrants. Uphold the Fourth Amendment.
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There are 8 days until FISA expires. Americans deserve the freedoms endowed by our Creator and protected by the United States Constitution. DON’T SPY ON ME.
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BİR STARTUP, BULUT KİRASINDAN KURTULMAK İÇİN 1.000 MAC MINI'Yİ TEK BİR VERİ MERKEZİNE DİZDİ BİR GELİŞTİRİCİ, yapay zeka girişimi için bulutta h100 sunucu kiralamaya aylık 14K DOLAR ödüyordu. kalite muhteşemdi ama bu yakış hızı şirketin ömrünü bitiriyordu. oturup hesabı yaptı ve 1.000 TANE MAC MINI M4 aldı. hepsini tek bir tesise dizdi. bu kurgu, tek bir nvidia sunucusundan daha az güç çekiyor ama aynı işi çıkarıyor. rakam şu: MAC MINI M4 tek seferlik 599 DOLAR, 24 saat çalışırken 10-20 watt çekiyor, aylık 3 DOLAR elektrik. aynı işi yapan windows makinesi sadece açık kalmak için ayda 30-50 dolar yiyor. ollama OCAK 2026'da anthropic messages api desteği ekledi. yani claude code lokal mac mini'ne TEK BİR ortam değişkeniyle bağlanıyor, aynı arayüz, SIFIR api maliyeti. mantık şu: bulut kirası ASLA bitmez, donanım BİR KERE alınır. 2026'da demiri masasına dizen, 2028'de çok önde olacak. KAYDET. büyük olan kazanmıyor, SAHİBİ OLAN kazanıyor.
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Quote of the day
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People say Linux is very secure and rarely gets viruses. Why? -Users don’t have full admin access by default -Apps come from trusted official sources -Open-source code is checked by many developers -Different Linux versions make viruses harder to spread -Built-in security tools limit damage -Fewer desktop users = less target for hackers -Fast security updates fix issues quickly -System actions are more transparent Linux is not 100% safe, but its design makes it much harder to attack than most systems.
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LibreOffice might be the greatest revenge fork in open source history. In 2010, Oracle bought Sun Microsystems and inherited OpenOffice, the free office suite millions of people depended on every day. Oracle had a well-known reputation for acquiring software and squeezing it dry, and the developer community was not going to let that happen to a tool they had built their workflows around. They created the Document Foundation, forked the entire codebase, and launched LibreOffice. Same software. Zero Oracle. Oracle told contributors to resign from the OpenOffice council. Nobody listened. The community kept building, as if Oracle did not exist. Every update, every bug fix, every feature shipped without asking anyone for permission. By 2011, Oracle gave up and handed OpenOffice to the Apache Foundation like a kid returning a toy they broke. LibreOffice kept shipping. Today, it runs on millions of computers, and entire governments across Germany, Italy, and France have officially ditched Microsoft Office for it. OpenOffice still exists under Apache. It just hasn't had a major release in years. Microsoft charges you $99 a year for Office. Google charges you $12 a month for Workspace. LibreOffice charges you nothing. The most interesting part of this story is that Oracle technically owned the code. What they couldn't own was the community.
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RFK Jr: None of the 72 vaccines mandated for American children underwent a SINGLE pre-licensing placebo-controlled safety trial. "These are zero-liability vaccines."
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