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Christian Valour: Official Account.

Build confidence in your faith.

@DryLabRebel - sole owner, editor and chief procrastinator.

[ChristianValour @ChristianValour]

https://t.co/k9LhSOWsSM

- What is a Christian (and what is not)?
- How many denominations are there?
- What about cults?
- Ever wondered where all the denominations came from?

All this and more.

[ChristianValour @ChristianValour]

@sysxplore My macbook battery eventually died, and I couldn't afford a new macbook pro. So I grabbed a used dell, and now ubuntu is my daily driver.

[ChristianValour @ChristianValour]

@JackRhysider @Evil_Mog Preach Brother.

[Tuta @TutaPrivacy]

Stop saying stupid stuff like:
"If you have nothing to hide, you have nothing to fear."

Start saying:
"A free country doesn't track innocent citizens."

[ChristianValour @ChristianValour]

@creationnews YT Video is blowing up:

https://t.co/K2IOMsrHGQ

Praise God!

[ChristianValour @ChristianValour]

@JackRhysider This chicanery! He's done worse!

[ChristianValour @ChristianValour]

I've used this site for a large number of downloads, including games. It's very legit.

[Randy/Deanna-OlderGeeks.com @GeekOnTheLoose]

To the ScamAdviser Team,

I am the owner of https://t.co/jjIXdASeVS, a freeware download website that has been operating since 2008.

I am contacting you regarding the information ScamAdviser currently publishes about https://t.co/jjIXdASeVS. Your automated assessment contains multiple statements and classifications about our website that are simply false.

Among other things, your system associates https://t.co/jjIXdASeVS with cryptocurrency services, movie downloads, and other activities that do not accurately describe our website or our business.

https://t.co/jjIXdASeVS is a freeware download site. We personally review the software we host, do not bundle advertising software with downloads, and have spent many years building a reputation around providing clean software downloads.

This is precisely why websites should not be assigned damaging reputational labels solely through automated classification without meaningful human verification.

Your conclusions are being presented publicly to people specifically trying to determine whether https://t.co/jjIXdASeVS is trustworthy. Incorrect information in that context can directly damage our reputation and discourage people from visiting or downloading from our website.

I am therefore formally requesting:

A human review of https://t.co/jjIXdASeVS rather than another automated scan or automated reassessment.
Identification of the specific evidence supporting your claims regarding cryptocurrency services, movie downloads, or any other questionable activity attributed to https://t.co/jjIXdASeVS.
Correction or removal of every classification that cannot be substantiated.
Reconsideration of the trust score after an actual human review of the website.
Confirmation when these corrections have been completed.

If ScamAdviser believes any of these claims are accurate, please provide the specific URLs, content, or other evidence on https://t.co/jjIXdASeVS upon which those claims are based.

Publishing inaccurate information about a business, particularly information that implies involvement in suspicious or unsafe activities, is a serious matter. Continuing to publish demonstrably false claims after being notified of their inaccuracy may raise significant reputational and legal concerns.

Please have a member of your staff actually visit and review https://t.co/jjIXdASeVS before responding.

I would appreciate a substantive response rather than the results of another automated reputation scan.

Sincerely,

Randy
Owner, https://t.co/jjIXdASeVS

@scamadviser

[internet hall of fame @InternetH0F]

We're asking kids to handle things most adults can't

[ChristianValour @ChristianValour]

@Thebestfigen Completely diabolical, and yet... somehow...

I still love it.

[Matt Walsh @MattWalshBlog]

I used to be entirely in the camp that said you should kick your kids out at 18 and force them to live independently and make their own way in the world. I don’t feel that way at all anymore. I want all my kids to live with us until they get married. Even after they’re married, if they want to live on our property, or close by, my wife and I would love that.

The important thing is to teach your kids responsibility, which we’re doing. They need to contribute and help around the house, which all of our kids do from a very young age. Provided you aren’t raising ungrateful useless moochers, why kick them out? Why drive them away from your family home? I don’t see the point in it anymore. I actually like my kids and like being around them.

Maybe they’ll all end up scattered to the wind. But I’d prefer to keep the family together. Why wouldn’t I?

[ChristianValour @ChristianValour]

@MattWalshBlog I used to be entirely in a lot of camps until I had children too.

[𝕊𝕠𝕝𝕒 ℂ𝕙𝕒𝕕 🎚️ @sola_chad]

The fool says in his heart, “There is no God.”

-Psalm 14:1

[ChristianValour @ChristianValour]

@sysxplore `history | grep *ls* | tail -10`

Also `ctrl-R`

[Nav Toor @heynavtoor]

🚨 Someone compiled every "build it from scratch" tutorial on the internet into one place.

It's called build-your-own-x and it's the most starred repo in GitHub history.

466,000 stars. More than React. More than TensorFlow. More than any tool ever built.

And it's not code. It's a curated collection of step-by-step tutorials that teach you how to rebuild the technologies you use every day. From scratch.

Richard Feynman said: "What I cannot create, I do not understand."

That's the entire philosophy.

Here's what's inside:

→ Build your own Database from B+Trees to a full Redis clone
→ Build your own Docker containers in 500 lines of C
→ Build your own Git finally understand what a commit actually is
→ Build your own Neural Network not import tensorflow, real backpropagation from scratch
→ Build your own Operating System write a kernel in C
→ Build your own Programming Language interpreters, compilers, garbage collection
→ Build your own 3D Renderer ray tracing, pixel by pixel
→ Build your own Web Server, Web Browser, Search Engine, Shell, Regex Engine, Game, Blockchain, BitTorrent Client, Physics Engine, and more

Every category has multiple tutorials in multiple languages. C, C++, Python, Go, Rust, JavaScript, Java, Ruby, Haskell, TypeScript, and more.

Here's the part most people miss:

This isn't a beginner resource. This is the most advanced learning material that exists for software engineers. Because rebuilding something from scratch forces you to confront every design decision the original creators made.

You can't skip anything. You can't hide behind a library.

In the age of AI-generated code, this is the knowledge that becomes MORE valuable, not less. AI can import libraries. AI cannot replace an engineer who understands WHY systems work the way they do.

466K stars. 43.7K forks. Every tutorial is free. No paywalls. No sign-ups.

The best way to learn how something works is to build it yourself.

100% free. 100% Open Source.

GitHub link in the comments 👇

[ChristianValour @ChristianValour]

@creationnews It will be really interesting to see if this provides insight into the history and Chronology of Egyptian history and its overlap with Israel's.

[trish @TrisH0x2A]

i swear 90% of debugging is just realizing your own stupidity in slow motion

[Peter Girnus 🦅 @gothburz]

Last quarter I rolled out Microsoft Copilot to 4,000 employees.

$30 per seat per month.

$1.4 million annually.

I called it "digital transformation."

The board loved that phrase.

They approved it in eleven minutes.

No one asked what it would actually do.

Including me.

I told everyone it would "10x productivity."

That's not a real number.

But it sounds like one.

HR asked how we'd measure the 10x.

I said we'd "leverage analytics dashboards."

They stopped asking.

Three months later I checked the usage reports.

47 people had opened it.

12 had used it more than once.

One of them was me.

I used it to summarize an email I could have read in 30 seconds.

It took 45 seconds.

Plus the time it took to fix the hallucinations.

But I called it a "pilot success."

Success means the pilot didn't visibly fail.

The CFO asked about ROI.

I showed him a graph.

The graph went up and to the right.

It measured "AI enablement."

I made that metric up.

He nodded approvingly.

We're "AI-enabled" now.

I don't know what that means.

But it's in our investor deck.

A senior developer asked why we didn't use Claude or ChatGPT.

I said we needed "enterprise-grade security."

He asked what that meant.

I said "compliance."

He asked which compliance.

I said "all of them."

He looked skeptical.

I scheduled him for a "career development conversation."

He stopped asking questions.

Microsoft sent a case study team.

They wanted to feature us as a success story.

I told them we "saved 40,000 hours."

I calculated that number by multiplying employees by a number I made up.

They didn't verify it.

They never do.

Now we're on Microsoft's website.

"Global enterprise achieves 40,000 hours of productivity gains with Copilot."

The CEO shared it on LinkedIn.

He got 3,000 likes.

He's never used Copilot.

None of the executives have.

We have an exemption.

"Strategic focus requires minimal digital distraction."

I wrote that policy.

The licenses renew next month.

I'm requesting an expansion.

5,000 more seats.

We haven't used the first 4,000.

But this time we'll "drive adoption."

Adoption means mandatory training.

Training means a 45-minute webinar no one watches.

But completion will be tracked.

Completion is a metric.

Metrics go in dashboards.

Dashboards go in board presentations.

Board presentations get me promoted.

I'll be SVP by Q3.

I still don't know what Copilot does.

But I know what it's for.

It's for showing we're "investing in AI."

Investment means spending.

Spending means commitment.

Commitment means we're serious about the future.

The future is whatever I say it is.

As long as the graph goes up and to the right.

[ChristianValour @ChristianValour]

@JackRhysider Guilty.

[ChristianValour @ChristianValour]

@GeekOnTheLoose I found your website earlier this year and downloaded a few hundred old shareware games for Dosbox.

Love your work!