COVID declared a pandemic on 11/3 (11*3=33) 2020. On 11/3 2026, the IEA wrote _"The IEA Secretariat will provide further details of how this collective action will be implemented in due course. It will also continue to closely monitor global oil and gas markets and to provide recommendations to Member governments, as needed."_
This is an image by ChatGPT showing roughly how the Bible describes the earth:  Unfortunately, it's not showing the four corners. This image is based on, Isaiah 40:22 “It is he that sitteth upon the circle of the earth, and the inhabitants thereof are as grasshoppers…” Job 26:10 “He hath compassed the waters with bounds, until the day and night come to an end.” Job 26:7 “He stretcheth out the north over the empty place, and hangeth the earth upon nothing.” Proverbs 8:27 “When he prepared the heavens, I was there: when he set a...
Say there is a file, `openui/open-webui/webui.db`, and you want to have write access to it without using `sudo`. The most reliable way is to not use various `chown` and `chmod` commands, but instead use `setfacl`, which is available on Debian via `apt install acl`. To first check the permissions, run `namei`, ```text $ namei -mo openui/open-webui/webui.db f: openui/open-webui/webui.db drwxrwxr-x rik rik openui drwxrwxr-x 777 rik open-webui webui.db - Permission denied ``` It looks like permissions to enter the `openui/open-webui` dir are missing. This can be fixed by...
I came across a video of a Purim celebration in Tel Aviv on Mar 14 2025. The party looks like any generic non-religious party you would expect. To my surprise, however, the crowd was singing something _messiach_ (messiah) around 0:32. After a bit of searching, it turns out the crowd is most likely singing the _Ani Ma'amin_ (1915) song by Simeon Singer. The lyrics that the crowd sing between 0:37 and 0:49 are _Ani ma'amin \ b'e munah sh'leimah \ b'viat ha mashiach, \ Ani ma'amin. \ mashiach, mashiach, mashiach_ where the first three lines mean: _I believe with perfect faith in the coming...
I have been using OpenAI's whisper for a while to convert audio files to text. For example, to generate subtitles for a file, I used ```bash whisper "$INPUT_FILE" -f srt --model turbo --language en ``` Especially on long files, this would sometimes over time change it's behavior leading to either extremely long or extremely short sentences (run away). Also, `whisper` took a long time to run. Luckily, there is whisper-cpp. On my system with an M2 Pro chip, this can now run speech recognition on a 40 minute audio file in a few minutes instead of half an hour. Also, thanks to a tip from whisp...
I have been running services myself for a few years on Linux servers. It took a while to figure out what works best. Here's what I've learned. First of all, all maintenance is done on headless servers via SSH. Learning this might seem daunting for some at first, but it is truly unbeatable in terms of productivity and speed. To easily log in via SSH, add the SSH keys to the server and then add the server to your `~/.ssh/config`. For example, ``` Host arnold Hostname 123.456.789.012 User rik IdentityFile ~/.ssh/arnold ``` Now you can log in via `ssh arnold` instead of having to ma...
Install via the APT instructions. Next (source): ``` useradd -u 1010 -c "Syncthing Service" -d /var/syncthing -s /usr/sbin/nologin syncthing mkdir /var/syncthing chown -R syncthing:syncthing /var/syncthing chmod 700 /var/syncthing systemctl enable [email protected] systemctl start [email protected] systemctl status [email protected] ``` Then you should be able to connect to the web GUI at `localhost:8385`. To allow this user to read files outside it's own directories, use ``` getfacl /some/other/dir ``` from `acl` (`apt-get install acl`) to view the permission...
In my instructions on how to setup [Forgejo with a runner](/posts/55), I used a Hetzner server for the runner. This costs roughly 5 euros per month, so 60 euro annually. A full Hetzner server might be a bit overkill for a simple runner. Especially if you are just running Shell scripts or static site generation. The Hetzner server supports things like high bandwidth, low latency, unique IPv4 address, high uptime guarantees. Most of these are not necessary for your own runner. Therefore, in many cases it's probably a good idea to run the Runner on your own hardware. What I have tested and work...
“There is more power in praying than there is in voting.” Source: “Put not your trust in princes, nor in the son of man, in whom there is no help.” (Psalm 146:3)
Here are up-to-date installation instructions for running Deezer's Spleeter on `Ubuntu 24.04`. Minimum requirements are around 16 GB of RAM. (During the processing, it uses around 11 GB at the peak.) I ran this on a temporary Hetzner server because my Apple Silicon system, after lots of fiddling with version, ran into AVX issues. Install Conda. ``` conda create -n spleeter_env python=3.8 -y ``` ``` conda activate spleeter_env ``` ``` conda install -c conda-forge ffmpeg libsndfile numpy=1.19 -y ``` ``` pip install spleeter ``` ``` spleeter separate -o audio_output input.mp3 ``` If your a...
At a shooting on a high school in Tumbler Ridge, Canada, 10 people were shot, as reported at 03:30 in Dutch national media. There are two suspect names going around, however. For example, on Feb 11, 2026, 7:25 PM IST the _Hindustan Times_ reported the name Jesse Strang. A few hours later, however, the name was suddenly reported as Jesse Van Rootselaar without mention of the previous name. For Jesse Strang, there is the following YouTube video posted on the 18th of March 2019. Screensh...
A picture of Jeffrey Epstein eating a cake with what seems to be the Talmud visible behind him. Seems to have been released a few weeks ago. Source. 
I just setup a castopod instance to self-host some audio files, and so far it seems to work. To get it to work, I used tweaked the default configuration a bit as follows. On a server, make a new folder called `castopod` and added a new `docker-compose.yml` file: ```yml services: castopod: image: 'castopod/castopod:1.14.0' container_name: 'castopod' volumes: - './media:/var/www/castopod/public/media' environment: MYSQL_DATABASE: 'castopod' MYSQL_USER: 'castopod' CP_BASEURL: 'https:// ' CP_ANALYTICS_SALT: ' ' CP_REDIS_HOST...
After having been in academia for many years and having obtained a PhD, I agree with Dr. Peter Ruckman's opinion (starting 9:52): > [...] > Always correct the Greek with English. > Oh how they hate that. Oh my God how they hate that. > Every professor in America just "Oh oh... Ah! Heresy!" > You say, "Why?" > They want you to come to them, can't you figure that mess out? > > **Now listen, never let scholarship intimidate you no matter how stupid you are.** > If the scholarship says one thing and you read in your Bible that it doesn't say that, don't let them intimidate you. > Say, "Well, I do...
This is an English translation of the 95 Leitsätze zum Reformationsfest 1917. These theses were meant to bring the church up-to-date to the new ideas of national socialism. Like all man-made doctrines, it is probably best ignored, but it may be useful for research purposes. The translation below is created by feeding the images to Google Gemini. This means the translation is probably far from perfect, but it should still be sufficient to get a rough idea of the main messages of the text. The 95 theses are as follows: ## I 1. The necessity to make clear to the German people what Christiani...
Old Testament quotes from Brenton’s Septuagint and New Testament quotes from KJV. David would today be called a “conspiracy theorist”: “Thou hast sheltered me from the conspiracy of them that do wickedly;” (Psalm 63) “It is better to hope in the Lord, than to hope in princes.” (Psalm 117:9) “I was peaceful among them that hated peace; when I spoke to them, they warred against me without a cause.” (Psalm 119:7) “Lying lips are an abomination to the Lord; but he that deals faithfully is accepted with him.” (Proverbs 12:22) This re-emphasizes that the Old Testament is al...
Pastor Adam Fannin of Law of Liberty church had a good description of the news. He calls it the “bad news” because there is nothing good in it. Source: .
Op Reddit kwam er een grappige en interessante tekst voorbij over politieke voorkeuren. De tekst is helaas weggehaald door een admin. Ik heb geen idee waarom. Hierbij de tekst: > Ik heb een openbaring gehad na het lezen van de 47e discussie deze week over "is deze uitspraak nou links of rechts?". Het kwartje viel: politiek is een spectrum. En door iedereen in twee vakjes te proppen (links/rechts) pleeg je eigenlijk symbolisch geweld. Ja, echt. Het is polariserend, reducerend en ronduit gewelddadig tegenover de nuance van de menselijke politieke identiteit. > > Denk er eens over na: > > Stel j...
On December 9, 2009, a spiral appeared into the sky in Norway,   The official explanation is that a Baluva missle test had failed. They say that the missile went into a spin. This theory makes no sense. How would a rocket spin around to create this and especially that blue trail going towards the circles? More likely is that it was created by EISCAT, a powerful High Frequency Active Auroral Research Program (HAARP) facility located where the blue beam emanates from.
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