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Building My Home Server | Kev Quirk ( kevquirk.com )

I came across this blog today while searching and I'm finding it very detailed, human, and instructive. For a beginner like me, this kind of resource is invaluable. What does a server failure feel like at a personal level? How do you make decisions about cost or utilizing existing hardware? These kind of thoughtful reflections...

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What are some important things that have changed in the past five years that would change some if the choices?

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Thanks, this is one of the few truly beginner-friendly blogs I've found (not just this post, but the entire blog). It would be great for people to suggest some other more up-to-date resources for someone starting out. Specifically, this blog talks about trying and comparing different setups, factoring in costs, time commitments, dealing with setbacks, preparing for different use cases, etc.

There are lots of resources that share technical details, how-tos, system specs, etc., but not many that I've found walking through the decision making process including what worked and what didn't and why.

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Don't worry everyone, I'm sure all the voice data will be anonymized.

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Domestic violence is one of the best researched, least acted upon social problems. We could literally fix 99% of the problem, and we know how to do it, and it would not be that expensive. But we don't implement it because the people who are most in need of public help are predominantly poor black women.

FTC bans most noncompete agreements between employers and workers ( www.npr.org )

The FTC estimates about 30 million people, or one in five American workers, from minimum wage earners to CEOs, are bound by noncompetes. It says the policy change could lead to increased wages totaling nearly $300 billion per year by encouraging people to swap jobs freely.

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I don't mean to be paranoid but sometimes I think about who benefits most from conflict and division on the American Left, and whether they have the resources to artificially sow mistrust of reliable news and advance an agenda that benefits Russian interests.

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There are quite a few community protests against space X down there, but there local government only sees the tax revenue. Hopefully they can use the income to improve schools an services, but who's to say?

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Some commenters don't understand why this is significant. They think it only has to do with who has been positively identified (which is important ongoing work).

Rather, it is cause to revise our understanding of the "indiscriminate killing" narrative. Since Hamas does not incorporate women in their primary fighting forces, the high proportion of men is a strong indication that Israel has been much more precise in targeting militants than previously reported.

War is always a tragedy and I hope that Hamas and Israel can come to an agreement that releases the hostages and ends this conflict so no more civilians have to die.

‘My whole library is wiped out’: what it means to own movies and TV in the age of streaming services ( www.theguardian.com )

*What rights do you have to the digital movies, TV shows and music you buy online? That question was on the minds of Telstra TV Box Office customers this month after the company announced it would shut down the service in June. Customers were told that unless they moved over to another service, Fetch, they would no longer be...

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How do you change that without completely stripping property rights away from artists though? Not just corporate IP, but all artists?

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Is it fine for a billion dollar company to ripoff smaller artists? It's a form of piracy, so this would be allowed, too.

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Who on earth chose to build a church behind this beautiful Samsung™ 4K screen?

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When there is peace and cooperation between Jews, Arabs,and Persians.

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I refuse to believe that is the forehead of an actual human being...

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It's the opposite of what happened to the Klingons

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I thought the whole thing is that they are not part of the US bureaucracy and don't recognize the authority. Yet they always seem to be looking for some special documents to submit to the government.

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But how many is it if you add up all of the fractions of planes that have also fallen?

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Sodastream was always such a strange target. It's a niche product, and hasn't been relevant for a decade. Closing their original factory put 100s of Palestinians out of work; it was one of the companies that fostered cooperation between Israelis and Palestinians.

Why not post about a major company like Intel or Apple? They have core products and development in Israel.

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"I hate to day I told you so..."

-literally everyone

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This is a revisionist view that requires ignoring a lot of historical facts. Almost a million Jews were expelled from MENA countries in the 20th century, many of whom survived only by escaping to Israel. The Palestinian Authoriry has never accepted any status for Jews. Christians, Muslims, Druze, yes, but no Jews.

Meanwhile, there are about 2 million Arab citizens (mostly Muslim) of Israel who are entitled to equal rights, including government subsidized Churches and Mosques.

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This guy:

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/44a2a274-9166-4055-b9e9-e8d4b690c3a1.jpeg

How Counterprotesters at U.C.L.A. Provoked Violence, Unchecked for Hours - (NYT Gift Link) ( www.nytimes.com )

A New York Times examination of more than 100 videos from clashes at the University of California, Los Angeles, found that violence ebbed and flowed for nearly five hours, mostly with little or no police intervention. The violence had been instigated by dozens of people who are seen in videos counterprotesting the encampment....

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It was always just propaganda to discredit the NYT, which is not only the paper of record for the nation, but also has a history of championing high journalistic ethics.

That said, this behavior is heartbreaking and deplorable. It seems clear that this violence was initiated by people who stand opposed to terrorism and in solidarity for the return of hostages. This should never have happened and I hope that those who led this charge are brought to justice.

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But this is actually a good thing? They will be targeting wealthy enterprises to pay what they owe.

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Any word yet on who bought all those matching tents and construction materials for the pro-Palestine encampments?

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Trying to distract people from the fact that Colombia is in shambles due to poor leadership?

gedaliyah ,
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I don't think this is true - at least not in the Hebrew Bible (I don't know much about the Greek/Christian parts). What verse/ passage are you thinking of?

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Somehow conservative Christians never seem to apply this logic to Leviticus 18:22.

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Well, that's the difference. This is just Daniel Whedon's personal interpretation. It's not included in the list above because those are all explicit - not just one person's interpretation. Obviously a commentary is subjective by nature. Why open up a solid argument to debate by introducing a lower quality argument based on a subjective opinion?

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Here are a few examples of arguments that this entire line of thinking opens you up to:

  1. "keep" is a mistranslation - the original text says הַחֲי֖וּ, which means "let live."
  2. "young girls" is a mistranslation: "young girls" would be ילדות, but instead this says הַטַּ֣ף, which could mean "children" or "families,"
  3. According to BDB (one of the most widely used English biblical lexicons), sometimes the "word includes (or implies) women as well as children"
  4. Other commentaries say that they were taken not as wives, but as slave workers.

Why do you want to mess around with all that nonsense? Just use the unambiguous examples from OP's infographic.

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The entire idea that any of this has to do with being "saved" is a Christian invention anyway. The Hebrew Bible uses the exact same wording regarding eating pork. These were clearly a code of behavior that were intended to apply to one particular group of people, and possibly only a subgroup of that group.

Additionally, many scholars consider this passage not a condemnation of homosexual sex, but relating to inappropriate sexual domination. Of course it's extremely problematic that heterosexual sex would be considered a dominating act, but that's more than we should really get into right now.

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How do I learn this mystical skill?

ChatGPT provides false information about people, and OpenAI can’t correct it ( noyb.eu )

It’s clear that companies are currently unable to make chatbots like ChatGPT comply with EU law, when processing data about individuals. If a system cannot produce accurate and transparent results, it cannot be used to generate data about individuals. The technology has to follow the legal requirements, not the other way...

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Yeah, Vine (now defunct) is probably the originator. YouTube has Shorts, Instagram has Stories, and it's the same in WhatsApp. Snapchat has one, Facebook has one, X has one (or used to? I'm not sure)... They are a part of most social media at this point, almost as ubiquitous as posts, shares, and links. Of course, TikTok is king right now their main innovation is inclusion of licensed music and removing most of the interface so that one video just flows into the next.

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Are you suggesting that someone from the Ministry of Truth would LIE?

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This site reads like a creepy Ayn Rand fesish tribute page:

As mentioned previously, railroads were the first large scale industry. The railroad revolution brought with it tremendous improvements in standard of living and a fall in the cost of transportation of goods and people. However, as is the case with most revolutions of industry, the government intervened heavily with subsidy and regulation.

Some railroads (for example The Great Northern) were indeed built in this Libertarian fashion, as purely free market enterprises which competed on the marketplace of transportation (coincidentally these were usually the few that did not go bankrupt) and productive land ownership.

Why is replacement for home device controls so complicated?

I recently learned about Home Assistant here on Lemmy. It looks like a replacement for Google Home, etc. However, it requires an entire hardware installation. Proprietary products just use a simple app to manage and control devices, so can someone explain why a pretty robust dedicated device is necessary as a replacement? The...

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In my case it was a specific use case in that I have a number of outdoor lights that I want to control without needing to go back in the house every time. Folks here have given a few options that would work well for this without relying on the internet, but I already have the setup installed at this point

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