If you have a personal music library and want to be able to easily listen to it remotely, then give PearTune a try. Just install the host app on the computer with your library (available for Umbrel, too), point it at your Music directory, then scan a QR code with the Pear Tune app on your phone, and you're done. No opening ports, no VPS and reverse proxy, and no need to use Tailscale or similar VPN. Just scan and you are connected P2P to your home computer's media library from anywhere. View quoted note →

Race Realism and modern psychology make the very same error: They attribute moral failings to physiological conditions. The result is also the same: They remove both hope of gospel-transformation and responsibility to repent, since no man can change his biology, and regeneration and sanctification are spiritual works on a man's soul, not on his body.

View quoted note → Reformed folks should naturally understand this. We already know how to distinguish between God's descriptive and prescriptive wills. How God has providentially ordered history must never be taken as warrant for establishing morally binding duties without explicit instruction in Scripture.

Made a friend today at work:

If any small collection of entities can delete your voice it was never yours. View quoted note →

Where do I find the new highlight feature in #Amethyst? This is what I get when I long press in a long-form note: And this is what I get when I select text in the built-in web browser: These are the areas I would have expected to find the option to create a highlight.

#Boris is looking really good on a tablet @Gigi.

This was easily the best article I have read on the subject of #Kinism to date. Tomes does a fantastic job of acknowledging its legitimate concerns and placing them within their proper context, while also criticizing its excesses and where it goes astray, lacking a more robust moral and theological framework. It's a long read, but well worth the time spent, because it has application outside of the Kinist controversy, too.

After Kinism

Retrieval, Correction, and the Reformed Order of Particular Loves

I apologize for the highlight spam tonight. Trying out Boris with a particularly good, and long, article on the errors and legitimate concerns of Kinism. I am 85% of the way through. Hang in there, and I hope you have a client that allows you to filter your feed by note kind. If not, you should.

And with that, BIP110 chain looks to be dead in the water. Two whole blocks, both by the same sub-pool of miners under OCEAN, until they saw the writing on the wall and called it quits, though "not defeat" somehow. Sorry guys. I was sympathetic with the idea of placing reasonable limits on spam on Bitcoin, but you failed hard at winning hearts and minds to your cause, and then stubbornly decided "we're going to do it anyway, because game theory!" It didn't work out. Changing Bitcoin is hard, and should be. 20% of nodes is not consensus. 80% of nodes not doing anything is not "indifference." Many of us stayed on Core or pre-RDTS versions of Knots as a specific choice against changing what is considered a valid block, and mining pools went with that majority. Heck, even many OCEAN miners went with that majority, as evidenced by block 961634. OCEAN couldn't even achieve consensus among its "own ranks" and yet expected to game-theory it into existence among the rest of node-runners and miners? That was some next-level optimism.

This used to be the castle stables. Now it's a photo gallery. View quoted note →

My home away from home for the week: