thanks and will get to that stuff at some point, but I’ve got a few games to play atm

I’m a big fan of the tiny local models, it’s an interesting space and even stuff that can run on an rpi in reasonable time is vastly improving rather fast while getting more efficient.

Some small local models would seem rather basic for any novel post apocalyptic prepping.

Again, that’s not really up to you. Saying “period” doesn’t matter as it’s easier to dismantle a monster of your making.

Maybe read some early stuff that never made the canons as you would an novel anime, may be easier as they carrier less weird baggage and are often just as good, if not better, than those that did. Harry Potter is the new virgin magus messiah touching death to save the world for the masses that don’t want to go to masses, it’s fine but it’s far worse than the OG stuff imr.

I gather you are not aiming to, but you are playing the game and fervently evangelizing for some novel, likely US protestant strain of the Nicene machine, on the socials as the true Christianity and everything else as heresy. Consider not doing that.

Consider the dead Christians, the heretics, those that were tortured and burned or had their works condemned and names dragged though the mud for coming on 2000yrs now. Basildes was pushing some cool Christian memes long before ‘believe in the bible’ would go viral for example and they had to start burning Diatesserons by the hundreds, but this kinda stuff has always been there.

Calling the bible ‘an insane book’ makes me think you are not overly well versed here, at basic ‘the bible’ is a rather vast and varied collection of texts that have been in flux for millennia and how one works with these traditions is very much open to interpretation, and inspiration . The Tewahedo canon or the First New Testament might be worth a peek for a gentle intro.

Assuming you are somewhat familiar with the scriptures I suppose the big question is what did you expect when heading into, presumably modern re-imaginings in English, sacred histories, theology, philosophy and scripture from ~3rd century BCE to 3rd century CE? Is the entire period of literature insane in your reading or just the few scraps that made into the protestant canon that stand out, or…?

There is no ‘doctrine of Christianity’ and it’s not clearly laid out in any insane book I’m aware of.

The Christian tradition is vast, wide and ancient.

You don’t get to decide what Christianity is or who identifies with the term.

‘The bible is bad’ seems profoundly confused and perhaps more a ragequit of some novel protestant style 66 book idol worshiping.

Misinformation on both Tik-Tok and Insta is news, really?

I appreciate absolutely any way possible to spin AI=bad is meme’ing hard on the clickbaits but this is bottom of the barrel stuff.

Next up: The Grave Danger of Books Upon Stupid People.

Did they run out of superheroes?

The witch hunt vibes seems apt, the maleficarum got really grim in the wake of the printing press and we’ve got new meme makers now and the pitchforks are being sharpened.

The article kinda hits it home, it’s generic hysterical slop and a solid treatment of the matter will likely be available to the public for £300 from an academic press in a year or three if they promise not to share it. Then an llm will eat it and I will be able to get a summary, mixed in with lemmy comments, for my daily token ration from China: the circle of life.

Afaiu it’s somewhat easier to wreck the book and one would imagine there’s a few books cutting about that whilst not yet fully digital are also not on the endangered species list.

Sharing the knowledge for the greater good is a no go I think, especially in the USA. Me or you can do it on slsk but if a rich corp tries to do it they’ll get shafted fast & hard and the massive academic presses will not tolerate upskilling the poor.

I don’t think they are devouring the Garima Gospels, Cuneiform tablets and deleting hieroglyphs from granite but the worry is if we don’t stop them now it’s a slippery slope and the VHS tapes will be next.

Jesus being readied for the cross by the sinful woman seems kinda 4-6th century 50 Shades of Hyssop and worth a peek, Jacob of Serugh & co.

‘Harry Potter publisher’ seems more the clickbait:

“Bloomsbury, which is home to the bestselling novelists Sarah J Maas and Susanna Clarke as well as JK Rowling, said it had 14,087 titles listed within the settlement, with a proposed compensation of about $3,000 a title.”

You wouldn’t download a pdf…

This seems a riot, trying to sneak in invisible copyright really does seem like the copyright system is well and truly fucked.

It arrived to try and help with the deluge of slop from Guttenberg nonsense but the whole idea, and copyleft, seems to be imploding at the moment.

Henk’s few part pdf series on grinding and honing might be worth a peek if you have an interest in the old ways, dude was a rich seam of dense info on the matter

https://www.scribd.com/document/520966974/Grinding-and-Honing-Part-1

Prepare for mess, you can try and go in the back but it’s likely clogged with shite beyond what sanitize mode can deal with.

Either is fine.

I tend towards ubuntu lts pro with automatic upgrades and reboots. Much like the guide you mention pretty much everything targets ubuntu lts.

Is there a form to ask to be included in the next stack? they seem to have missed me this time

Decentralization may help, and not profiting off targeted advertising too I think.

The reason we lost a big chunk of the old forums over the past few years is due to much of this stuff too, but I think the fediverse may be a little more malleable to weather storms.

One can migrate accounts across servers, move to different jurisdictions, roll your own server and the interact across different fediverse platforms.

Afair Mastodon were looking to integrate email as a way to both get content and post content which could also help accessibility.

Corporate LAN party

Yeah, I’m not about to rush in but I suspect over the next year or so I’ll be letting an llm loose on my old crates to see what happens and MacGyver some sort of Dread Pirate Robot that can run locally and is a frankenstein of beets, plugins and other projects that will eat music and shit albums.

I’d be sourcing a crate or 3, a broken cctv camera and a few airsoft guns asap.