No, I’m not a Christian. I’m sorry, now I think I should have lead with that, or not failed to recognize you were under the assumption I was… I have such an upbringing, I’ve been part of the church. But I myself don’t have the belief in me, that what’s in the Bible are factual truths. Still, that doesn’t stop me from being interested in Jesus, his life and teachings. And to some degree the scripture itself.

And thanks for the good conversation and your perspective. I learned a lot of things. And I looked some up. My intention was basically that, not proclaim you were wrong. That’d be very hypocritical if I were to try to prove you wrong on the basis of scripture, which I don’t even have as the basis for my own morals. I still think these things matter, though. And I follow how the catholic (and protestant) church around me has started blessing same sex couples, they have campaigns now for plurality and welcome such people amongst themselves. And the attached youth organizations sometimes take part in rainbow events like pride month. At least where I live. And from what I get from our conversation, we’re likely on the same page here, when I say I welcome that and I think it’s a “good” advancement the church made. (It wasn’t always like this.)

I think with “the act” itself, we can’t settle our differences. I think the entire limitation of sex to procreation isn’t right, and I don’t base that on scripture. You gave me quite some insight about your perspective, and I still struggle with the translation and the context it is in and its interpretation, but I think I have at least some understanding now.

God cannot be evil.

Yes, I’m wrong here. I think it’s a bit of a technicality. He created evil (Isiah 45:7) and no matter if he commits the same thing as evil, per definition that never makes him be evil.

What about the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ, or the many miracles He performed?

I think it’s a metaphor. And not even the most important one (to me). I think the important part is that he died for us. And then they added some more fluff to the story. It really brings it home and sets him apart as the messiah if there’s an added resurrection. And well, I think performing miracles was quite common for prophets back then and paranormal things happened often. Muhammad also performed many miracles including similar ones like providing supernatural food. Various other people did supernatural acts. And people split the sea and did all kinds of things in the Old Testament.

I’m still very unconvinced about the entire homosexuality thing. I mean the Romans text is kind of the God of the Old Testament, needy for valudation and full of wrath. And then he was pissed and gave humans sexual desires contrary to nature. And that and the “shameless acts” are a bit unclear. Whatever that is supposed to mean if I’m not allowed to interpret it. I’d say men loving each other in a genuine way surely can’t be that, there’s no shame or harm in that.
The Corinthian thing is more it. Still needs context though, since it requires knowledge about sex practices back then and what has been considered immoral by society back then, because it mostly refers to that. And then we have the translation in the way.

My big issue, if that’s not concerned with pederasty… What part of the New Testament is? Or is age just not the problematic part of it, …that’d be completely fine to do for Christians…, just the same gender needs clarification?

You aren’t in any position to condemn the inspired word of God.

If it promotes adult men sleeping with underage boys, or is indecisive about it, I’ll just refuse that kind of “inspiration”. I think it’s immoral. God can strike me down for that if he likes, and if he’s in a position to do that, still doesn’t change my mind about the subject.

The “although” I placed there was because […]

Yes, you were talking about something else. People just tend to lose me when talking about God’s unconditional love and then following the sentence up with a “but” or “although”. I think we agree here. I have reason to believe the New Testament is about unconditional love. And that’s reflected at many places in it. Most people add a “but”, or “although”, an we’re immediately in dangerous territory. And the people calling themselves Christians and waving signs with “God hates fags” didn’t understand the core of that the New Testament stands for. They’re simply wrong. But that’s not what you said.

In the old times God was kind of evil. He send plagues, told people to kill each other including all women and children, just the young girls are okay to keep. Nonchalantly drowned pretty much all animals which were pretty much innocent in mankinds wrongdoings. Or he casually dropped them on their heads. It’s not like that any more for Christians. That’s replaced by Gods unconditional love for his children. And the way of Jesus isn’t to blame them and lecture them on how they’re wrong all the time. But specifically omit that and show them just(!) the love, and that gets them where they need to be. So that’s why I think we should never follow up such sentences with a “but”. (And you lost me, which was due to me.)

Are you talking about the plagues of Moses? If that’s the case, then what do you propose happened?

I propose it’s part of the supposed origin story of a tribe. And the hardships they had to endure. I have no reason to believe superstitious things happen and physics can be contradicted. Plague of locusts exist and all kind of other things. But not random frog droppings in the way portrayed there.

Btw that’s also the source for the (6000 years) young earth theory, because as part of the origin story, it includes a family tree and you can add the numbers up.

You are drawing a huge and dangerous brush over here. […] It is obvious then that stuff like that is up for interpretation. But then when you get to Paul’s epistles […]

I think my main issue is that I completely fail to understand how I’m supposed to know which is open up to interpretation and what’s meant to be taken literally. Am I supposed to use reason and my deductive skills here? But that’s kind of interpretation again. So I can’t do that. And to my knowledge the Bible doesn’t really come with an instruction manual what’s true and what’s over exaggerated or just a nice (but false) story. Or do I just take what some other human said as word for it?

why do you grant homosexuality an exception?

I tried to explain that before. Because it’s not there. The text doesn’t use the word homosexuality, but “Arsenokoitai”. And the passages regularly add constraining adjectives. Which just isn’t the case for adultery. The translation is way more forward for that one. And we have more occurrences in the Bible which make it very clear that that one isn’t just meant within a certain context, or comes with exceptions. Also Jesus talks about other important issues himself, but for homosexuality that’s all in parts added by other people. So that’s why I treat that differently.

I mean we have a bit more of an issue here. I started with “depends on whether you ask the church or Jesus”. So I’m not really bothered by what Paul thought or wrote down, or covenant theology tells me. If homosexuality were to be important to Jesus, I’d expect it to show up in the Sermon of the Mount or something, and him clearly addressing that big issue. Or I’d like to read some nice parable on how he went to the gay club. But curiously enough, these passages don’t exist.

[…] Arsenokoitai

Yeah, I read some 3 page essay on how that word was used. I know “every reputable translation of the Bible translates it along those lines” but that doesn’t make it correct to translate it to a different word in and view it from a different perspective / a different context 2000 years later. I think it’s ambiguous at best. And skipping the 3 pages and making it about todays homosexuals is an oversimplicifaction and simply wrong.

[…] Eisegesis, not Exegesis

I’m not that educated on church doctrine, but do we even have access to exegesis? I mean sure technically the scripture is the meaning by definition. But isn’t what Paul writes already something like eisegesis? I mean he’s a human and he interpreted and spread the teachings for us.

no evidence in the text anywhere that it could be indicating pederasty

Well, I think pederasty is very wrong. If that part of the Bible fails to recognize or even mention that, I condemn the scripture for that.

Romans 1:26-27

Again, that’s Paul’s summary of Hellenistic legalism. That’s the entire context of that part of Romans.

Trying to claim that Jesus fits in any secular political viewpoint (leftism, conservatism) is a very shallow view and completely incorrect.

I know. The entire left/right spectrum is completely incorrect. But I gave some examples of what kind of person Jesus was and if he advocated for the people and the weak, or for the strong ones and the establishment. He happens to have quite some overlap there with core leftist ideology.

you’d have dinner with the adulterers […]

And I think here, you’re absolutely right. Although […]

There is no “although”. He clearly left out picking on their “sinful state” the way the other people did. He went there and all he had was love. It’s not super straightforward but I’m pretty sure we can skip lecturing them on those kinds of “sins”.

By reinterpreting the Bible in your own way […] Essentially, if I disagree with the Bible, then I’m the one who’s wrong. Not the Bible.

Yeah I mean good luck with that. It’s full of contradictions, stuff that was written after Jesus. You need to believe the earth is 6000 years old and rectancular with angels in the four corners playing the trumpet on doomsday. (Which should have happened a long time ago, but it didn’t.) And you can’t even tell whether it’s okay to eat Shrimp or a cheeseburger unless you do Eisegesis. Slavery and a lot of things we view as wrong today aren’t technically outlawed by the Bible and it really depends on what part of it you refer to when judging. Then we have weird parts especially in the old scripture like you can’t go to church if you’re missing a testicle or you’re asian. And I’m pretty sure all the raining frogs and so on is made up and not meant to be taken literally.

I think pretty much any mosfet / h-bridge / motor control board with pwm should do.
If you have those 4-wire fans with a pwm input that accepts 3V3 logic, you might even be able to attach them directly to the ESP:

• https://github.com/KlausMu/esp32-fan-controller#wiring-diagram-for-fan-and-bme280

But that’s not all fans, I had some mixed results with that.

Uh, that’s mainly your opinion. I’m pretty sure both passages you gave remain contested. It’s likely about male pederasty or prostitution while sex between men in general might be completely fine. And we know for example what Paul’s role was, and that was to do politics, not quote Jesus verbatim. So you have to look at the context. That part in Romans is mainly a summary of Hellenistic Jewish legalism, not anything new, not even really about Jesus. It’s the customs of the jewish people.

Corinthans again doesn’t condemn homosexuality, but you need to read several paragraphs on ancient greek and history to even understand what the word even means. It’s not as easy as “homosexuality” to which it has been wrongfully translated.

I don’t see a strong argument why male homosexuality should be wrong. Most other passages also talk about it in the context of violence or abuse. And we can all agree that’s wrong. But a loving homosexual relationship is a different thing. And then someone still needs to quote some bible verses to me regarding lesbians, trans-people, … They’re obviously accepted and loved by the Christian community, are they?

Jesus taught us not to accept man-made bullshit like right-wing politics or hate. He’s figuratively come to earth to oppose conservatism. He taught us to use our own brains instead and try love and understanding towards other creatures. And have respect before God’s creation. Which includes a variety of sexual preference and identity. Especially being the underdog and caring for the weak people is what he did and central to leftist-liberal ideology. And opposed by the right.

And I think if your objective were to be to follow the footsteps of Jesus, you’d have dinner with the adulterers, go visit the prostitutes and embrace them, let them wash and perfume your feet. And have everyone give money to the poor. Not do anything else, especially not shit on them. Because that’s what he did.

And he wasn’t super fond of the Church either. I mean he went there and yelled at people for what they did to his father’s place. Opposed the clerics…

So how does that suddenly translate into nazis, slaveowners etc? That’s clearly wrong by his teachings. On the contrary, he came to abolish exactly these kinds of things.

Likely depends on whether you ask the church or Jesus. We don’t really have any reliable information, but if he really was a hippie preacher, telling how god loves all of his creatures, and how you can’t hate on each other… He must have been pro Lgbtq+

But that’s just my take on it. Most people who call themselves Christians might disagree.

I came here thinking they want to launch the next right-wing “free speech” platform. But now I’m not so sure any more. Maybe they genuinely think the marketplace of ideas works. And it’ll be the right idea coming out victorious… Which might actually happen if we indeed were to do rational and logical arguments.

I’d say be aware they might just not know, how people get targeted for identity. Or face more than moderate disagreements on technology and politics, because it’s not part of their life… This is all my speculation but to me it sounds like the genuine perspective of someone who doesn’t have a clue of the reality of the community you answer for. (And generally what people tend to do online.)

Generally, you’re going to get targeted on a personal level. There are enough people out there who turn factual conversations into a personal level. Either they’re offended by your perspective or fundamentally opposed or just a*holes. And they’ll call you names, yell at you, gather their friends to do the same and follow you around and try to make your life miserable… And then you’re going to stop sharing your opinion openly. That’s what they mean with »it’s censorship« (as well). Because you’re going to be systematically silenced by that kind of behaviour. It’s bread and butter on the internet. Especially on platforms which include anonymity or pseudonymous accounts.

I’m pretty sure something like that has in fact been tried before. I can’t remember the details, but we had some peer to peer platforms and other forums trying to establish full free speech with no censorship and no moderation. And turns out they’re quickly crowded by trolls, nazis and generally angry and hateful people who feel they’re censored and they’re looking for people who side with then online. And then we have things like 4chan or 8chan. Or platforms who claim to be free speech, but they’re just far-right. Like Gab, Parler and so on.

I’m not entirely sure what you’re looking for. If you want something that’s not an echo chamber and meaningful conversations, you’re looking at heavy content moderation, and enforcing those rules. If you don’t want hate, you need to crack down on it.

I’m looking forward to read the details on how exactly you’re planning to achieve it. Especially echo chambers / filter bubbles and misinformation are tough, and almost impossible to prevent or teach people about the truth after they’ve internalized them.

And I’d like to learn more about the planned technology and how it’s different from Lemmy (this place).

So. Are you going to post something or is it just a place holder?

Is SELinux really that important for the average desktop user? I mean we have a lot of concepts like different system user accounts which run services, namespaces…

And I feel we’d need more sandboxing and a permission system for desktop apps so they have to ask before reading your Documents directory and access the webcam. That’d do way more than SELinux as is… And we kind of have none of that to begin with. (…except software installed as Flatpaks, to some degree.)

I don’t have good first hand experience, but i know the Awesome Selfhosted list has a plethora of them.

I did some wardriving a long time ago but never used those internet connections. And I shared my connection before and had a Freifunk router. With the neighbours not so much. I’m mostly nice to them and ask before borrowing their stuff.

I’ve been using the Gnome desktop as well on my Yoga convertible. Has some Android vibes with the menus and the app picker etc. And it works well since Firefox doesn’t need any patches for scrolling anymore.

I think that’s a size where it’s a bit more than a good autocomplete. Could be part of a chain for retrieval augmented generation. Maybe some specific tasks. And there are small machine learning models that can do translation or sentiment analysis, though I don’t think those are your regular LLM chatbots… And well, you can ask basic questions and write dialogue. Something like “What is an Alpaca?” will work. But they don’t have much knowledge under 8B parameters and they regularly struggle to apply their knowledge to a given task at smaller sizes. At least that’s my experience. They’ve become way better at smaller sizes during the last year or so. But they’re very limited.

I’m not sure what you intend to do. If you have some specific thing you’d like an LLM to do, you need to pick the correct one. If you don’t have any use-case… just run an arbitrary one and tinker around?

Thanks! I’ve updated the link. I always just use Batocera or something like that, which has Emulationstation and Kodi set up for me. So I don’t pay a lot of attention to the included projects and their development state…

I didn’t include this, since OP wasn’t mentioning retro-gaming. But Batocera, Recalbox, Lakka, RetroPie are quite nice. I picked one which includes both Kodi and Emulationstation and I can switch between the interfaces with the gamecontroller. I get all the TV and streaming stuff in Kodi, and Emulationstaation launches the games. And I believe it can do Flatpaks and other applications as well.

https://plasma-bigscreen.org/ from KDE? I’m not sure if they’ve replaced that since. Wikipedia says it’s unmaintained. Depending on your use-case, you might want to have a look at Emulationstation, Steam Big Picture and Kodi Plugins, as well.

Maybe LocalAI? It doesn’t do python code execution, but pretty much all of the rest.

You’ll want to look up the QNAP as well. I’ve seen reports with quite some variety on the power consumption. Depending on the exact model, it could be somewhere in the range from 25W to 55W… So could be less, could be the same. And have a look at the amount of RAM if you want to run services on it.