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๐จโ๐ป๐ New #blost - "Weeknotes - W21-2026"
R.L. Dane 
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New #blog #post: Don't Go Back There
https://rldane.space/dont-go-back-there.html
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(I will happily add/remove you from the chorus upon request! :)
Was gonna write a #blost about the horrendous abuses that have been coming to light in the #Christian world recently, and I've been watching several videos that did a post-mortem on several ministries in the #Charismatic / #Pentecostal world and how we should respond to it.
I was going to title it "The Doctrine of the Nicolaitans" and draw a line between the "sexual immorality of leaders" interpretation of that phrase and the "dominance of clergy over laity" ("Nicholas" literally interpreted as "conqueror of people") interpretation.
But the more I read about it, the more I felt that "unction" fade, and I had to drop it. :P
Sometimes you just have to know when you don't have the depth of understanding and experience to tackle a really hard subject.
But I will continue talking about it in person with folks.
This garbage has to end. I'm sick of hearing about abuses from sexually-predatory behavior to affairs down to just people mishandling money and treating their flock like a wolf would.
And man, oh, man am I ever so freaking tired of the lame-butt, flaccid, pie-in-the-sky-by-and-by kind of reasoning I get from people. "Well, these are trying times, but God has a plan."
No. Shut the fork up. YOU ARE THE PLAN. DO SOMETHING, NIMROD!!!
thedoctorI wrote a #blost, this time about something we all know well: water. But do we really?
New #blog #post: A New Socratic Sign, or: Writer's Block as a Work of Grace
https://rldane.space/a-new-socratic-sign-or-writers-block-as-a-work-of-grace.html
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(I will happily add/remove you from the chorus upon request! :)
#rlDaneWriting #blost #ADHD #WritersBlock #Writing #Blogging
New #blog #post: Mind the Shards
https://rldane.space/mind-the-shards.html
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Mild #CW: I'm discussing mental health, and briefly, faith.
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(I will happily add/remove you from the chorus upon request! :)
#rlDaneWriting #blost #podcasts #MentalHealth #MandyPatinkin #frailty
Jak2k ๐ณ๏ธโ๐Where did the term blost come from? I know it somehow related to one of my fedi bubblesโฆ I think it came from @amin, but I'm not sure and can't find the post.
edit: I found it! https://alpha.polymaths.social/@amin/statuses/01HW9D7JDTZK4HH6SCB4JAS2DW
Amin Hollon ๐ณ (@[email protected])
Just almost typed "blog posts" as "blosts". We could make this a thing. #tpyos
OrbitalMartian
@peteorrall @joel @dm @sotolf @thedoctor @pixx @orbitalmartian @adamsdesk @krafter @roguefoam @clayton @giantspacesquid @Twizzay @stfn
Yeah, I wonder if Hombrew is used much at all on Linux.
Oh, I just remembered I was going to include cygwin's SETUP.EXE as a package manager (as it technically IS!) XD
Of course, this #blost was 1 hour's work, not 10, so it's pretty off the cuff and subjective ;)
I did skew heavily towards installation speed, and not just download speed, though. I wouldn't criticize an OS for not being able to afford crazy fast mirrors.
I posted the number of available packages for Debian (#RasPiOS), Arch (#CachyOS), and FreeBSD in this thread: https://polymaths.social/@rl_dane/statuses/01KRDSHN77A1505JP0VRXFC5BR
Package rollbacks would be a filesystem and OS-level feature, no? Like snapper on Linux and the boot environment selector (with ZFS) in #FreeBSD.
R.L. Dane ๐ต (@[email protected])
More thoughts on #CachyOS... - btrfs has some noticeable hesitancy at times, even on a fairly fast (8th gen i5) machine - if you're (understandably) avoiding the AUR, the proper pacman archives feel a bit slim at times: rld@prometheus:~$ pacman -Ss |grep "^[^ ]" |cut -f1 -d' ' |cut -f2 -d/ |sort -u |wc -l 16057 -- compare with #Debian (actually RasPiOS, in this case) -- $ for x in {a..z}; do apt-cache search $x; done |cut -f1 -d' ' |sort -u |wc -l 74416 (Not sure if that's accurate, but #DistroWatch says Debian has over 50,000, and Wikipedia says almost 70,000) - I've had to come up with a couple bespoke "daemons," one to refresh the xrdb every 10 seconds (NO idea why xrdb forgets everything so often on this box), and one to refresh the keyboard brightness (I use symlinks in my home directory for this) every two seconds, so that it retains the setting after resuming from sleep. UID PID PPID C STIME TTY TIME CMD rld 8035 1 0 May11 ? 00:00:00 sh -c while xrdb < ~/.Xdefaults; do sleep 10; done rld 25572 1 0 04:19 ? 00:00:01 sh -c while grep -om1 [0-9] .kbd_backlight |tr -dc 0-9 > ~/.kbd_backlight-sys; do sleep 2; done rld@prometheus:~$ file .kbd* .kbd_backlight: ASCII text .kbd_backlight-sys: symbolic link to /sys/class/leds/tpacpi::kbd_backlight/brightness rld@prometheus:~$ grep . .kbd* .kbd_backlight:2 .kbd_backlight-sys:2 rld@prometheus:~$
New #blog #post: Package Manager Tier List
https://rldane.space/package-manager-tier-list.html
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Note: this is a very off-the-cuff tier list, using speed as the main qualifier, but the article explains exceptions to that as it goes on.
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(I will happily add/remove you from the chorus upon request! :)
#rlDaneWriting #blost #DeadLikeMe #Linux #BSD #RunBSD #FreeBSD #OpenBSD #NetBSD #Debian #Arch #pacman #AUR #Fedora #homebrew #flatpak #snap #OpenSuSE #RPM