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.
An interesting blog post talks about how system are getting too big and that it could be countered by, - local-level decisions, that is, moving decisions locally instead of centrally, - allow us to have exit rights, that is, to opt-out of a system, - have contestable architecture, that is, to have auditable governance, - simplicity and intuitive, that is, to keep the system as simple as possible.
At Bondi Beach, 12 people have been reported dead due to an alledged terrorist attack. While the BBC at the time of writing are still unsure whether it is a terrorist attack or not: "More than two dozen others were injured in the attack, which police say they are treating as a terrorist incident." (archive). Meanwhile, Wikipedia apparently has better sources than the BBC because they write "On 14 December 2025, a terrorist mass shooting occurred at Bondi Beach in Sydney, Australia, during a large Hanukkah celebration hosted by the Chabad of Bondi." More surprisingly, Wikipedia within less tha...
Given the funny ending, I'll repost a interesting Answers.com answer to the question whether Frederick T. Gates is related to Bill Gates. This was published 11 years ago (2014): > To the unpaid Snopes intern/Gates family PR slave above me : Frederick Taylor Gates just happened to be present in the Greater Seattle area in 1891, THE SAME YEAR Bill Gates Grandfather was born, the supposed furniture store owner. What are the odds of that? Get out your Snopes calculator. Furthermore there are ZERO public explanations as to why Bill Gates has III for a Suffix, and his father II, when there are clea...
EU According to Our World in Data, China's CO₂ emissions per capita have already passed those of people in the European Union and the UK, and will surpass those of the US and Canada roughly around 2028: 
The Dutch Raad van State in 2019 has argued that a nitrogen deposition of 5.09 mol per acre per year is damaging De Heide (Heath) too much. This is the same as putting down about one one grain of fertilizer the size of a sugar grain per two square meters per week. How ridiculous this may sound, this verdict has blocked thousands of farmers and builders from expanding their business or homes, and even caused many farms to close down. Furthermore, many farmers in the Netherlands, which have often been farmers for many generations, are not sure whether they will be allowed to continue farming.
Harari in his own words: > Truth was never the highest priority of human society. > It was the highest priority of some individuals, but never of society as a whole because society as a whole does not function on the basis of truth. > And if you take two of the most powerful institutions of humankind, let's think about science and the scientific community, and let's think about religion and churches and so forth. > I think none of them has truth as their chief value. > As individuals yes, but as institutions know, > I think the chief value of science is power and the chief value of religion i...
For years it has been a common theme among programmers that Google's search results have changed for the worse. It feels like the suggestions are becoming less and less applicable over time. Today, I spotted one of the worst cases that I have seen so far when searching for a documentary called "Flatten the Curve Flat Earth" (2022). This documentary is about flattening the curve of the earth and has nothing to do with medicine. However, Google automatically interprets it as a kind of medical statement:  Notice especially the second search result where "m...
In some cases, Wikipedia feels the need to "clarify" a certain video, which a commenter aptly called the "the blue box of gaslighting":  Now X community notes was promised to be something else, but to me it does look very similar. The note posts some helpful "context":  The reason that I'm critical is that especially on a topic like this, the note doesn't add any information. People who believe that the moon landing was staged will still believe that a...
Interesting quote from below a YouTube video: > When the punishment for committing a crime is a fine, then it is a punishment only for the poor .
Gergely Orosz on X: > Amusing: Google does not allow its devs to use its newly launched IDE, Antigravity, for development. > > Classic example of “externalisation” at Google: they have an *internal* (increasingly different!) version of it, but they won’t use what they launched to everyone else > > (Devs with a @google .com address cannot sign up, and it was communicated internally as well to not use it)
After a few hours of fiddling, this site is now properly accessible via IPv6. My configuration uses Caddy as the reverse proxy meaning that it forwards the requests to the right service based on the `Host` that the browser specifies. Thanks to this, one server can host hundreds if not thousands of websites from one IP. In my Caddyfile, I had specified the following ```caddyfile www.huijzer.xyz { redir https://huijzer.xyz permanent } huijzer.xyz { reverse_proxy 127.0.0.1:3000 } ``` And then I thought that for IPv6 maybe this last part should have been ```caddyfile huijzer.xyz { reverse_p...
At the time of writing 12:43 UTC on Tue 18 Nov, Cloudflare has taken many sites down. I'm trying to browse the web, but about half of the sites show an error:  Most of these sites are not even that big. I expect maybe a few thousand visitors per month. This demonstrates again a simple fact: if you put your site behind a centralized service, then this service is a single point of failure. Even large established companies make mistakes and can go down. Most people use Cloudflare because they have been scared into the idea that you need DDoS protecti...
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