James Walters @iamjameswalters@librem.one

Does anyone have any experience or thoughts with this?

I'm honestly asking because, though I'm a student of the #Bible and I have no shortage of resources for understanding it at the academic level, I'm not terribly familiar with children's bibles. Are there any good ones?

Though this is from the fellow at VeggieTales, it sounds like he's at least trying to integrate some basic biblical theology, which is an extremely valuable contribution if so.

https://www.christianpost.com/news/veggietales-creator-launches-new-bible-for-kids.html

Shoutout to this guy for writing a script to add a per-user dark mode toggle to Rocket.Chat.

It's a bummer that there's no native dark mode yet, but since this is open source software, I was able to add one, that somebody else wrote! I didn't even know you could add custom scripts to Rocket.Chat till I came across this.

https://gist.github.com/chall8908/c03dd6cc443cdb9cbb7034d441a1350d

Wow, what an awesome night! Let our first discussion through Plummer's 40 Questions on Interpreting the Bible tonight. I had everyone read the first four questions, hoping that will be enough food for thought. We spent all our time (and went late) on the first two questions: what is the #Bible, and how is it organized. It's great to be surrounded by such curiosity and wonder at God's Word!

@masterofthetiger@theres.life https://religionnews.com skews left, but comments on matters of faith nonetheless

@masterofthetiger@theres.life if you're not aware, http://christiandailyreporter.com/ is a great resource for general/national news curated from a Christian perspective, might be useful to your project.

@masterofthetiger@theres.life Yeah, Stallman's pretty rigorous about his principles. But I imagine he was strongly encouraged to resign by MIT. As for the SFC/FSF, I think he probably understood he would be fighting a losing battle.

@danielst I got what you meant. My comments about rape were merely to illustrate my own point.

I would agree to age of consent as an ethical category--I think children are too young to give informed consent in several cases. I just agree (along what you're saying) that it involves an arbitrary number, which is problematic. Other criteria, such as post-pubescence, could be more helpful.

@danielst to the third point, I would say 1) contra Mt. 10:8, I didn't say that it's ethical to hoard code. Sharing code is certainly the most ethical way to develop. But compelling people to share code constitutes something unethical too.

Most certainly the GPL is not a burden on users. But I would disagree with the notion that the GPL made Linux thrive--Linux thrived in spite of the GPL. The decline in Linux Foundation lawsuits prosecuting GPL violations shows this.

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@danielst @masterofthetiger@theres.life With regard to the first point, certainly. Age of consent is a culturally flexible concept. I think it's an important one, but not one that we have a dogmatic answer for. So, I don't find RMS's assertions here to be profoundly problematic. I'll happily concede the second point also: it's absurd to suggest that an arbitrary distinction of geography or chronology renders an act unethical. Raping someone is reprehensible no matter where or when it's done.

@masterofthetiger@theres.life @billstclair Hmm... so to keep people free we have to restrict their freedom? 🤔

@billstclair @masterofthetiger@theres.life

Yes, if we must license our software (a notion that I dissent from), then let us choose the most permissive license possible, which is quite often the MIT.

It's even better however when projects like SQLite can publish everything public domain.

@masterofthetiger@theres.life I disagree with the Free Software movement's ideas of free software. 😉 I think open source code is great, I think claims that people or companies "own" code are absurd, and any license which restricts what I can do with my software (whether it's a EULA or the GPL) under threat of violence is immoral.

#anarchy

@masterofthetiger@theres.life Indeed, even more disturbing to me is the thought that not only is source code open, but it _must_ be open, and anyone who refuses to share it will be compelled under force of law to do so (this is what the GPL does). The code is "free" perhaps, but the users and developers are not, which leads me to think that someone has put the cart before the horse with regard to what freedom in software means (or at least ought to mean).

@masterofthetiger@theres.life To the contrary, I think his standard of morality is clear (if incomplete): freedom, which is to be enjoyed up to the point that it coerces someone else's. What's less clear is the principle that leads someone to affirm that someone is free to view source code but not free to view pornography (even though you and I may find this to be an immoral thing to do).

@masterofthetiger@theres.life I'll use content flags just in case, as we get into the nitty-gritty here. RMS is consistent in applying a philosophy of liberty to both software and pornography, etc. It seems inconsistent to demand freedom in one place, but reject it in another

That is to say: whatever we make of Stallman's views, he's got a point. Those who claim to espouse a philosophy of liberty but insist that certain behaviors should be illegal must account for themselves

@masterofthetiger@theres.life That's actually the very quagmire I'm cautioning against. The fact that so many people are surprised about Stallman's views on these other issues shows that they haven't given more than five minutes' thought to the actual philosophy that undergirds the Free Software movement. Stallman is being consistent. It's his fans who are suddenly surprised by his views that are not.

If you don't believe in #freedom in one place, perhaps you don't really believe in #freedom in another.