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rentar42, to unpopularopinion in Religious and superstitious beliefs should not be respected.

That's a silly idea. I can definitely come up with a definition of an immeasurable entity that has no powers, no effects and no way of being detected and call that thing "god". it would be unfalsifiable and thus irrelevant to scientific inquiry, but it wouldn't be "logically inconsistent".

rentar42, to unpopularopinion in Religious and superstitious beliefs should not be respected.

Well. it has to be based on some value system and science doesn't provide one.

I for one think that human life has some value and so does freedom to choose many aspects of your life. but I can't "scientifically" argue why those values are correct.

To be able to make any value judgement at all, one has to have some "non-science input", some subjective choice.

What I'm saying is that basing those values on some fiction is no more or less "correct" than any other choice, because they are fundamentally subjective choices.

rentar42, (edited ) to unpopularopinion in Religious and superstitious beliefs should not be respected.

Science doesn't make value judgements. Science doesn't tell you what's good and what's bad in the sense that it makes no moral judgement.

So whenever someone says "X is morally bad, because science says so", they either don't understand science or they have some agenda.

Science explains the world, but doesn't give instructions on what to do with that information. The decision what to do with it will be necessarily have to be based on something other than science.

rentar42, (edited ) to unpopularopinion in Religious and superstitious beliefs should not be respected.

“All right," said Susan. "I'm not stupid. You're saying humans need... fantasies to make life bearable."

REALLY? AS IF IT WAS SOME KIND OF PINK PILL? NO. HUMANS NEED FANTASY TO BE HUMAN. TO BE THE PLACE WHERE THE FALLING ANGEL MEETS THE RISING APE.

"Tooth fairies? Hogfathers? Little—"

YES. AS PRACTICE. YOU HAVE TO START OUT LEARNING TO BELIEVE THE LITTLE LIES.

"So we can believe the big ones?"

YES. JUSTICE. MERCY. DUTY. THAT SORT OF THING.

"They're not the same at all!"

YOU THINK SO? THEN TAKE THE UNIVERSE AND GRIND IT DOWN TO THE FINEST POWDER AND SIEVE IT THROUGH THE FINEST SIEVE AND THEN SHOW ME ONE ATOM OF JUSTICE, ONE MOLECULE OF MERCY. AND YET—Death waved a hand. AND YET YOU ACT AS IF THERE IS SOME IDEAL ORDER IN THE WORLD, AS IF THERE IS SOME...SOME RIGHTNESS IN THE UNIVERSE BY WHICH IT MAY BE JUDGED.

"Yes, but people have got to believe that, or what's the point—"

MY POINT EXACTLY.

With all the deserving credits to the late and great Terry Pratchett.

rentar42, to selfhosted in Raspberry Pi 1 B projects?

Realistically the best bang-for-the-buck is maybe to sell it to some collector and get a new one ;-)

Mostly tongue-in-cheek, though. I don't know if anyone is actually willing to pay for it, but I know some people are quite happy when they find their old Pi 1.

rentar42, (edited ) to selfhosted in Are there any good self hosted software that can create subtitles for videos?

Android does on-device transcription of any Audio source as well in recent versions!

The issue with providing this with open-source software is that it tends to require deep integration into the OS, which needs pretty much the same kinds of APIs that spyware also needs, so they get locked down a lot ...

For example on Android I'm pretty sure that a 3rd party play store app could not provide the same feature without requiring the user to click through some unavoidable, scary sounding warnings from the OS (if at all).

rentar42, to selfhosted in Getting in a pickle over hardware

I'm far from an expert in HBAs and never used one myself. but it is my understanding that the major advantage is that you're extremely unlikely to get a janky one whereas Sata controllers could be bad (they are often cheaply made non brand products). if they work either one is fine in a hone lab setting.

rentar42, (edited ) to selfhosted in Getting in a pickle over hardware

as it has SATA ports

More. PCIe SATA controllers are cheap (even though you'll often hear "get a HBA and flash it", it's not absolutely necessary).

rentar42, to selfhosted in Any good alternatives to Home Assistant?

I used OpenHab a few years ago and remember it being way more fiddly with very varying integration quality. it didn't help that it was based on OSGi packages (the complex mess that Eclipse IDE is also based on), which I don't much care for.

i only recently starte with HA and found it much easier to use and tweak.

But I also saw some stubbornness by the devs. In my case related to oauth/third party authentication, which they claimed was "enterprise interests trying to corrupt a community project" (I'm paraphrasing) instead of good security practice of centralising the authentication in a homelab.

rentar42, to selfhosted in Simple guide to self hosted authentication?

I don't have a simple guide, but it's probably a good idea to reduce the number of moving parts if you're trying to keep stuff simple. So pick something that has all the features in-one (user management, authentication, authorization, ...). They might not be the best at ever single thing (they almost certainly won't), but doing it all usually means that it's easier to configure and you don't need to wire multiple things together.

I've recently moved from Authelia to Authentik due to some features that I was missing/wishing for, but between those two I'd definitely say Authenlia is easier to get running initially (and you don't need external LDAP for it, as others have mentioned).

You'll probably still need a proxy that can do proxy auth because not all services can do OICD/OAuth2. I'm using Traefik, but heard that Caddy is easier to set up initially (can't compare myself).

rentar42, (edited ) to dach in Priester feiern Sexparty – Polens Kirche in Erklärungsnot

Traurig dass man das schon als Erfolg sehen muss, ja.

Aber der Rettung den Weg zu dem bewusstsen Sexarbeiter zu versperren ist auch grottenschlecht.

Was die Priester untereinander (freiwillig) machen ist mir ja im Prinzip ganz egal und nur ein Problem für die Kirche. Aber wen die Scham dann verhindert dass sie jemandem Hilfe zukommen lassen interessiert es mich wieder.

rentar42, to selfhosted in New to NAS - What are the recommended solutions?

That's an extremely silly reason not to use a specific tool: Tool A provides an alternative way to do X, but I want to do X with some other tool B (that'll also work with tool A), so I won't be using tool A.

Send/receive may or may not be the right answer for backing up even on ZFS, depending on what exactly you want to achieve. It's really nice when it is what you want, but it's no panacea (and certainly no reason to avoid ZFS, since its use it 100% optional).

rentar42, to selfhosted in New to NAS - What are the recommended solutions?

I just thought that if all storage can easily be "passed through" to a VM then it should in theory be very simple to boot the existing installation in a VM directly.

Regarding the extra storage: sharing disk space between proxmox and my current installation would imply that I have to pass-through "half of a drive" which I don't think works like that. Also, I'm using ZFS for my OS disk and I don't feel comformtable trying to figure out if I can easily resize those partitions without breaking anything ;-)

rentar42, to selfhosted in How to store backups?

These kinds of issues are what drove me to use RaidZ2 (I went over board with using 6-disks): When during resilvering after a broken disk a second disk fails, it'll still keep the data.

rentar42, to selfhosted in How to store backups?

One thing that RAID doesn't do is verify the integrity of your data on read. In other words: if you have silent data corruption somewhere you won't notice.

For many use cases that's acceptable, since it doesn't handle often, but personally I don't like it for any kind or achival/backups. That's why I picked ZFS, which stores and verifies checksums even on non-mirrored/non-raid storage. I've added RaidZ2 (similar to RAID 5 with 2 parity disks) on top of it to be able to recover from checksum errors.

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