ERR: 0CK5 @everlastingrocks@librem.one

If you’re using F-Droid, you won’t need to root #Android 12 to get automatic updates for your apps. #google’s monopoly is finally loosening up.

https://www.xda-developers.com/android-12-alternative-app-stores-update-apps-background/

I got a taste of the sheer volume of rubbish that makes up 80 or 90% of the fediverse on friday - lewds and worse down to stuff that is liable to get you arrested. I nearly quit, but I've simmered down a bit.

It made me realise that while i strongly like decentralisation of powers - nations not UN, states not federal ... I don't think I believe in "Freedom of Speech" as a virtue in it's own right. We earn the right to speak, nobody is born with it.

I hate what "Free Speech has been twisted into - once, it meant the right to maturely present a case and be heard, but now it means the right to publicly pursue all kinds of perverse and twisted things. To promote abuse of others, and speak about things that are shameful even to mention.

It made me realise how much rubbish @josias moderates too - mate, you're a champion and you are carrying a heavy responsibility in the work you do, creating a safe-harbour for the rest of us to hang out in. Thankyou for your perseverance and willingness to do what others won't. It makes this server the sanctuary it is, and I so, so appreciate it.

4/ actually, it's a lot like religious *repentance*. True repentance for a wiccan means things like burning all your craft books and getting rid of the stuff - to stop eating sugar i basically had to not have it in the house, put away the junk food cookbooks, and go looking for 'real' food to eat instead.

It was really hard to quit, but as i cleaned sugar out of the house and learnt new ways to eat, it felt like repentance a bit - except I didn't get any real reward, at least not yet... i just have no crutch at 3pm when i'm tired and have low blood sugar. hmph

Also then our family have literally been throwing wrapped chocolates into our front yard, handing chocolate eggs to the kids, bringing us cake, and offering us biscuits with icing on top.

They mean well and are just trying to meet social obligations but i wonder if it's a bit like that with unbelieving family in a faith context - you're invited to watch shows you've decided not to anymore, or drink more than you were going to, or whatever your convictions are

Despite threats and withdrawal of support from former and current corporate patrons, FSF has reaffirmed their commitment to keep RMS on the Board of Directors. I hate to admit I was dragging my feet on renewing my FSF membership to financially support their cause -- because of the anti-FSF FUD -- but this settles it for me. I'm donating later today after I'm done with work.

https://www.fsf.org/news/statement-of-fsf-board-on-election-of-richard-stallman

RMS's statement: "I'm working on being less tone-deaf."
https://www.fsf.org/news/rms-addresses-the-free-software-community

@everlastingrocks @rose_myrtle there are multiple issues with MMS support, one of the major ones being that MMS is geographically in another area as most developers are. I can't work on it because it just isn't a thing here.

The other issue is that the technical implementation of mms is kinda horrible. Some people have made implementations that work though and currently in the slow process of upstreaming it to the 10 projects in the tech stack to glue it all together

@masterofthetiger unclear. we suspect that both will be about the same - probably two years ish based on similar sars cases. but we can't possibly know until we actually see serum antibody tests start coming up negative. and there's some talk in immunology circles about memory T cell immunity being created that doesn't show up on serum tests. shrug! we'll know more in the future.

@madchuck @Mummabear
My conspiracy free reasons for not getting the vax, if someone asks:

Haven’t been offered one yet.

Provisional emergency FDA approval sounds like a clinical trial. I don’t participate in clinical trials.

The scientific experts keep changing the recommendations and tend to equivocate. I’m not convinced that they know what they are doing.

Sing, O People of God

Sing, O people of God!
His glory’s in the cloud;
Your sins thrown in the deepest sea,
He gave you purity.

Sing and shout for joy,
Return to God and know
His grace and goodness know no end;
And all your prayers ascend.

Life in Christ is yours,
From flowing grace he pours
All blessing into your open heart;
In love you’ve been redeemed.

#smallpoems #poetry

Sen. Rand Paul:

"No Democrat will honestly ask whether Bernie Sanders incited the shooter that nearly killed Steve Scalise."

"No Democrat will ask whether Maxine Waters incited violence when she literally told her supporters" to confront Trump officials in public.

https://babylonbee.com/news/amazoncom-thrown-off-aws-for-selling-trumps-art-of-the-deal

Just deactivated two more Twitter accounts. I have several for each of our websites.

@progo I know that it would be a big risk to install KDE/Qt on my computer as I expected exactly this to happen.I only didn't expect it to happen two weeks after installing it already 😲 Let's see if KDE will make a open source fork.Well,they have to,otherwise KDE would be dead.

Looks like Qt is over.

> The Qt Company has followed up on its plan to make long-term support releases commercial-only by closing the source for 5.15 today, earning protests from open-source contributors who say that the 6.0 release, which remains open, is not yet usable.

https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=21/01/06/1338223

I updated a devotional thought.

> Now, this is what the Lord says,
the one who created you, O Jacob, and formed you, O Israel: “Don’t be afraid, for I will protect you. I call you by name, you are mine. When you pass through the waters, I am with you; when you pass through the streams, they will not overwhelm you. When you walk through the fire, you will not be burned; the flames will not harm you. Isaiah 43.1-2 NET.

Listen carefully, O children of faith, to the voice of the Lord. For He has paid the price to free you. He brought you to where you could receive such a great salvation! Through fire, famine, and flood—through all earthly perils—the Lord is with you, protecting and sustaining you. Know this and be comforted!

The original is here:
https://www.blueletterbible.org/devotionals/promises/index.cfm?doy=364

#devotional #salvation #Isaiah

My cashiers have decided to refuse service to anyone who complains about other customers who are not wearing masks.

How quickly does the virtue signalling (or is it raw fear implanted by the MSM) devolve into threats of crime, such as:

- Well then I'm just going to steal this!
- Well then I'm going to kick your ass!
- Well then I'm not going to leave private property!
- Etc.