I would love to see more theological formation have this as part of its goal!
“Theology is conceived as an art directed toward the cultivation of an ideal disposition of the soul, a disposition that may be called virtue, wisdom, or holiness.”
- Rev. Dr. Greg Peters
So much Christian theological training is far too cerebral, and needs to rediscover the traditional doxological and ascetic principles that have gotten lost in modern Christianity.
#PacificPower's grid is broken in NE PDX, something in a substation broke. It was something big, since 15,000 people don't have service, probably one of those bus-sized transformers.
Incidentally, most of the substations on the west coast are really old, like 50 years or more. They last a long time, but they don't get replaced if they aren't broken.
Unfortunately all of the electricity price increases lately have gone into wildfire insurance, not grid maintenance, so expect more outages.
> They last a long time, but they don't get replaced if they aren't broken.
DoE has reports about our aging transformers. They're supposed to be getting replaced like *NOW* but they're not. They can cause a regional outage from 6 months to 5 years if we can't reconfigure the grid in that area.
>> It is estimated that over 90 percent of the nation’s consumed power passes through an LPT (Office of Electricity, 2021). The average age of installed LPTs in the Unites States is ~40 years (U.S. Department of Energy, 2014), which is the end of their expected life time. Aging LPTs cause higher failure risk. This fact combined with challenges in the LPT supply chain and potential bottlenecks to rapid grid expansion raised concern about the vulnerability of the domestic electric grid.
I want to explain a few things and then it might be clearer why UK trans people are upset.
In 2001 I married my wife, Sylvia.
In 2005 I started medical transition. For the state to recognise this I had to submit to standards of "care" which were humiliating, degrading and which placed me at risk of violence.
But I did it "by the book"
As I did it "by the book", the NHS agreed to reregister me as female, which makes sense because my anatomy now is.
In 2007 I had sex reassignment surgery. This had to be signed off by two mental health professionals, "by the book", and it was.
In 2008 I applied for gender recognition. This involved signing a statutory obligation, stating that I promised, BY LAW, to live fully as female for the rest of my life. As this was done, "by the book", the government promised that it would treat me as such.
Its first act as treating me as female was to annul our marriage because it was a same sex marriage and those were not allowed.
The state then reissued my birth certificate, correcting the "mistake" it had originally made when it recorded me as male, "by the book".
In 2009 Sylvia and I married for the second time, in a same sex civil partnership, which was done "by the book", because the state regarded me as female and I was bound by law to be female.
In 2013 we married again, because the state decided that same sex marriage was in fact allowed after all. This was done, "by the book". Despite having been married for 12 years, we had to submit ourselves to individual questioning to prove our relationship was genuine, "by the book".
In April of 2025 the state turned round and told me that I had been mistaken. That it never regarded me as female. That I was male the whole time. That the marriage it annulled because it was a same sex marriage was never a same sex marriage (but it stays annulled). That the civil partnership in 2009 never really happened because "opposite sex" civil partnerships were not allowed in 2009.
And that the legal obligation I have to live as female for the rest of my life, which I signed and gave up my marriage for, is still in effect but also if I keep following it, I am breaking the law and subject to arrest. As it's still valid, presumably if I don't keep following it, I am also breaking the law and subject to arrest.
The law of the land simultaneously requires me to be both a man and a woman and if I do either then I am breaking the law and subject to arrest.
At every stage I did what the state asked me to, even though it was humiliating, degrading and cruel.
And it kept moving the goalposts, and reneging on the agreements it made, whilst continuing to hold me to them even when they are now mutually contradictory.
Apparently this is "all my fault" and I should have known that this would be the consequences of my actions when I started medical transition 2 decades ago.
Perhaps you can now appreciate why we are upset?
everything in FreeBSD runs in a jail. By default it's JID=0
So I don't see why it's not possible as long as you provide all the allow.* things it needs
my wife said Gen Alpha is obsessed with the word "nonchalant"
I don't have any inside information about this. Where'd they learn it? What did they consume where this word was used frequently enough that it has become a part of their standard vocabulary?
There is no official Wireguard or OpenVPN client for AppleTV and this is just absolutely batshit bonkers
I was going to use one app last night but they hid an an-app payment. When you try to enable the VPN they want an $85 license fee haha
One of my favorite programs for the Mac is from a company called Objective Development -- Little Snitch -- and it's a host-based firewall that alerts you anytime something on your computer tries to reach the Internet for the first time (or you can set to always ask all the time, which I wouldn't recommend just because of the alert volume). I personally like to know what programs and apps are doing and with whom they are communicating, and this app is a useful if imperfect way of doing that.
The most jarring aspect of Little Snitch is how some programs suddenly phone home but you have no idea what's going on because the requested IP is some shared Amazon cloud server or something. Even after spending a few minutes digging on the IP, you probably still won't find a hostname and you're no closer to gauging whether you should allow the connection or not. But most of the time the program is silent, operating the background to block or allow various connections that you have specified previously.
Anyway, what I wanted to share that's neat about Little Snitch is when you install an app that you've had on your phone or iPad onto your Mac, suddenly you have a much better idea of where (if not who) your apps are communicating with, and maybe even a little more info about what these apps are actually doing in the background.
I have the European CD so I didn't know about the radio edit for prude people until I reached this side of the atlantic.
Fak. this song is 30+ year old.
the Omada SDN controller's HTML has comments like this
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Ich überlege, kleine Software-Tools anzubieten gegen Spende. Gibt es eine Plattform oder einen Anbieter, über den ich die Spenden direkt an einen e.V. ausliefern könnte? Also dass das Geld nicht erst bei mir eintrudelt, und ich dann weiter überweisen muss?
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Me: "hey, any interest in switching this [SMS thread] over to Signal?"
Other class parent: "I would prefer not to add another service I'm not currently using. But we could do WhatsApp."
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we fucking deserve the surveillance capitalism that we have
everything having its own complete app is so incredibly Western and capitalist so you can see why China's embrace of the superapp concept is so compatible with their culture/society.
that said, I don't know how we can break people free from the "app fatigue" problem we've created. People just have zero motivation to try anything that will require they spend 30 seconds learning a new app layout.
But they'll spend 6 hours in 30 second increments watching Tiktoks
whole thing sucks and people are not learning from their mistakes because it takes years before their app finally becomes so unusable, intrusive, or finally shutdown. They won't change until they're forced to change, so these companies just boil-the-frog over time.
i hate it
someone should create a bot that harvests all kinds of metadata about the chat members, logs all the conversations, etc for analysis and starts cross referencing it with any other data that can be scraped off the internet.
Invite the bot to the chat under an unassuming name.
Wait a while, and then have it start publishing reports about people exposing their lives and habits and stuff. Then when they are shocked about what they're seeing you can say "this is what Facebook/Meta is learning about you but you choose to keep giving them this information instead of switching to a more private communications app"
Perhaps THAT would wake them up.
(probably not though)
pre-Elon takeover I think Twitter could have evolved into that if they really wanted to.
You can't do it if half the world hates you though.
Amazon at one point could have pulled this off. I'm not sure anyone else in the West could do it at this point. We'd need a universally trusted brand and it's not Big MegaCorp, it's not Social Media Behemoth, and it's definitely not Fintech Banking Startup.
Who is left that is not universally hated?
Walmart and Costco?
@feld I think Google probably had the most chance of success, but they can't design a good UX to save their life. If they could, they've have locked down search (and the web in general), messaging, social media, phones (both the physical devices, voip/SMS, and the OS), shopping, etc. But instead they created weird, confusing (and competing) products that with horrible UIs that they then canceled.
Even Android's UI was pretty bad (imho) for the first decade+.
you're right, but I discount Google because they stopped adhering to the "don't be evil" mantra so long ago...
Around 2012 they could have done this. It should have been a key part of their Android launch actually...
nobody's boycotting Walmart.
If you have to choose between America being dominated by Amazon or Walmart who do you choose?
Everyone picks Walmart. Every time. And Walmart is winning the long game anyway. They have a far superior logistics and supply chain, plus brick and mortar presence.
This doesn't dismiss the very righteous hatred for how they've destroyed small businesses in communities.
But nobody's going after Walmart (or Costco) in the same way they attack other corporations for their behavior. It's just not palatable. They like shopping there too much.
the polls don't agree. One from March 2025 put Walmart at the top and it was universally selected across all age groups
Men - 61.6%
Women - 64.6%
Gen Z - 63.2%
Millennials - 62.8%
Gen X - 64%
Baby Boomers - 63.3%
commercial.yougov.com/rs/464-V…
edit: if Walmart could run for President, it would win in a landslide. Simple as that.
With email we expect a small subset of features. With social media and instant messaging there are so many ways to do things that an open protocol isn't sufficient because you just end up with massive fragmentation. This is why proprietary apps thrive. They can tightly control the user experience and ensure equity across supported platforms.
XMPP tried this and failed. The XEPs and design-by-committee did not work. Inevitably this led to iMessage and WhatsApp being proprietary XMPP implementations.
The same thing is happening on the Fediverse. Sure, ActivityPub is an open protocol, but you can't view the new Pixelfed Stories on Mastodon or Pleroma; many implementations have emoji reactions but Mastodon does not.
How does an open protocol solve this issue on its own?
see also: Mastodon limitations on polls and post length
@feld @mcv I'm not sure that I agree that a) embrace & extend is a feature, and that b) open standards can't define a minimum featureset or result in fragmentation. Xmpp being a good example here - fragmentation is huge not due to committee, but by the very idea of a tiny core with a million extensions.
Every jabber server has optional extensions. Every client has a mix of supported extensions. A boon for proprietary users, who use it as a base for their closed systems (googlechat, zoom...)
I'm not saying it's a feature, only that if you have the capability to control the clients on all platforms and the server you can guarantee people have a good experience and never run into weird compatibility issues. You also get the same app/branding on each platform too, so there's no confusion.
Somehow people can figure out that "Outook", "Mail.app", "Gmail" etc are all "email" and compatible with each other, but once you try to get them to use some other open source service where the clients on each device they own are completely different in design and features they just can't figure it out.
"Why can't Flupple on my Mac make a video call to Dogwag on my friend's Android? It says something about incompatible encryption? Why are we bothering with this, why can't we just use Whatsapp" is essentially what you end up with
I will say though, this is why I think DeltaChat will persevere and has a high chance of wide adoption vs other open source secure messengers.
They've made a cross-platform Rust core that implements ALL the core functionality and you just have to put a UI on top of it. So they did, and they have 99% feature compatibility across Mac, Windows, Linux, Android, iPhone, Ubuntu Touch, cli/terminal.... there's even a feature phone (flip phone!) implementation, but it needs to be refreshed as it was mostly just an experiment...
Matrix has so many weird issues people don't even realize, like first party clients that have existed for years not implementing all the crypto.
And yes, the server is a dog. It's basically a git repo or a blockchain. The data will grow and grow forever. Deletes don't actually exist; they just get hidden from users with tombstones. And this has a whole nest of other problems from a security perspective: if your Matrix server has open registrations someone can make an account and join a room from another server which imports ALL the data.
Like illegal data. Images and videos you never want to be associated with. But now your server has a permanent copy of them in its database. Forever, or until you nuke the entire server and make a new one.
Good luck trying to explain that one to the Feds doing a no-knock raid on you at 3am.
Matrix IMHO is suitable only for situations where you *need* the data to be permanently stored as an audit trail // immutable, like corporate and government internal communications.
It doesn't make sense for IoT like they tried to advertise. And it is not a good fit for regular people's needs.
Another cool nextcloud data loss issue closed with the remark that it is the "responsibility of the user" to prevent that case from happening.
I'm being responsible by telling you to avoid using nextcloud unless you're in a fully managed computing environment. 👍
github.com/nextcloud/desktop/i…
Different cloud file sharing services fight for control over files I provided nextcloud services for a few ad-hoc groups that needed to collaborate for a limited time on a project. These groups wer...despens (GitHub)
what is your preferred abbreviation of/keyword for "function" (in a programming language context)?
(unfortunately i can't make a poll with more than 4 choices so if you like `def` or something else feel free to reply)
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Yo computer touchers: there's a history of Black invention and ingenuity you may or may not know about, *and* a history of Black inventors' ingenuity being denied at a systemic level
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I HATE PDF!
That is all.
Estoy metido en una idea un poco rara. Hacer tutoriales de mates accesibles a personas ciegas. Los principios:
Notación en ASCII lo más puro posible.
Explicaciones desde el principio, y desde los principios, magia mínima, todo lo que se pueda probar se prueba.
Una guía de notación en cada página donde venga toda la notación que se usa.
Accesible. Libre. Gratis. Para siempre.
De momento solo tengo configurada la plataforma para hacerlo realidad, pero tengo curiosidad por saber si a alguien más le puede interesar, como usuario, contribuyente, o ambas cosas.
Mi primer ejemplo: definición de límite a que converge una secuencia: mates.isonomia.net/conceptos/l…
Se admite, y aprecia, cualquier tipo de crítica.
Pues encantado. Procuraré ir metiendo más guías. Si tienes algún área de interés específico coméntame y trataré de tirar por ahí si la conozco.
Lo próximo que voy a hacer es secuencias divergentes.
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So, I later learned that posts don't transfer, which is unfortunate. We had some banger posts on there.
Anyway, I just want to make some observations upon setting up our homepage:
I'm sure we'll get used to it, but this is definitely a change, but hopefully a good one.
@talon Yeah, it's really weird. For example, on the federated timeline, this person's post contains one of those half-loaded images: wandering.shop/@silvermoon82/1…
But if I go on their page, the image loads just fine, but even that's not 100% consistent.
I tried clicking a specific account with these half-loaded images and it seems like they're still not loaded, but it's not consistent. One image that was partially loaded then became blurred when I refreshed the page while another half-loaded image stayed half-loaded. It's really weird.
“If our DNSSEC expert leaves, we’d have no idea how to keep it running.”
When continuity depends on one person, that isn’t resilience — it’s fragility.
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