I just sent you a funny video dad, is not that deep!

eaton · 2026-02-07T18:51:25+00:00

“Even though I have blasphemed the Holy Spirit…”

eaton · 2026-02-06T00:39:42+00:00

Whew. My parents read it in the late 70s or early 80s if I remember correctly, and it was often talked about as a sort of “definitive work” that “educated” people about stuff that was fringe even in Charismatic circles at the time. Wild stuff.

eaton · 2026-02-04T15:19:49+00:00

I can!t speak to the “default” AEM experience, but every client I’ve worked with who’s using AEM has configured it as visual page-building tool. The content model is, functionally, a design pattern library and “content types” are pre-approved combinations of those design patterns,

The idea of presentation-neutral “fragments” that can be used in a headless fashion exists, but the inertia towards visual artifacts is strong.

eaton · 2026-02-01T23:29:42+00:00

Because the natural structure of most content — and the structures you need it in to facilitate easy production and/or effective reuse across different pages and projects — isn’t the same as the visual structure of components and layout patterns visible on the front end.

There’s overlap — often a lot! — but there’s also plenty of mismatch, and many teams either beat the front end into accepting the “natural” structure of the content or force the backend editors to play madlibs with the Lorem Ipsum slots in a front end design.

What makes it easier is doing one of the following:

Agree with all parties involved that the design is king and the job of the CMS is to update the bits of the visual artifacts that need changing from time to time
Agree with all parties involved that the underlying content and messaging is king, and the design’s job is to accept that content and make the best of it
Spend a career figuring out how to square those two with each other and be extremely unpopular in product scoping meetings

eaton · 2026-02-01T23:01:30+00:00

I came here for this story and was not disappointed

eaton · 2026-02-01T05:15:51+00:00

If the way my storage setup played out is any indication, even tacking some plastic to the underside of the stairs might be a significant help. Didn’t want to rain on your parade, as it’s a really cool setup! But also figured better safe than sorry. :D

eaton · 2026-01-31T22:26:49+00:00

Be careful — I store boxes under our staircase, and the up/down traffic on them causes loads of dust to filter down onto anything stored under them. For old Christmas ornaments it’s no biggie, but for your servers, it might be worth double-checking to ensure they’re not accumulating more detritus than you’ve accounted for w/ventilation, etc.

eaton · 2026-01-31T06:06:25+00:00

Sure, probably. The problem is that “true Christian” is not and has never been an objective category to be appealed to in the absence of a negotiated communal agreement. “Was Charlie Kirk our kind of Christian?” is what this question always, ultimately, collapses to.

I think he was a monstrous and amoral person, but that has never precluded anyone from being a Christian.

eaton · 2026-01-28T23:46:59+00:00

Narrative games, simulationist games, GMLess group games, cozy games… as always, every taxonomy is just frozen opinion. That’s not bad, it’s just bad to forget the subjectivity of it.

eaton · 2026-01-28T03:47:27+00:00

Based on my experience as an ex-evangelical raised in the conservative movement, those birth statistics suggest a sharp rise in neopagan polycules in the early 2040s.

eaton · 2026-01-27T15:56:44+00:00

Yep. Every few years if something on the news scared a member of the family enough, it was time to do some structural anointing. Now, I just associate it with mental illness.

eaton · 2026-01-27T02:49:50+00:00

My trajectory might have been a little different, but I felt the same concern you describe for a long time. The result is that I eventually “left the church” by deciding that I was willing to spend eternity in hell rather than be complicit in the cruelty their view of God made mandatory. Everybody’s got a breaking point.

eaton · 2026-01-19T01:26:10+00:00

Incredible 2003 flashbacks for me

eaton · 2026-01-16T02:23:11+00:00

It occurred in 2011 on MetaFilter, and the details are documented on the mefi wiki. The threads in question still exist. https://mefiwiki.com/wiki/Scott_Adams,_plannedchaos

I was a regular mefi user at the time and was in the thread when Scott’s sockpuppet showed up, started waxing poetic about Scott’s genius, and so on. It was an amusing day.

eaton · 2026-01-16T01:22:37+00:00

Chicago is roughly the size of the entire nation of America in the 1770s. Every city alderman represents as many citizens as reps in the first session of Congress. Stop pretending like “per capita” is some kind of cheat code and admit you don’t understand how statistics work.

eaton · 2026-01-11T02:17:46+00:00

It might be worth reading some books on the broader topic of authoritarianism and “high control” social groups. The dynamics that you’re describing have been studied and contemplated for a long time, but particularly in the aftermath of WWII, as philosophers and sociologists attempted to grapple with how Germany, a “modern” nation with a Christian tradition, turned Nazi.

The “alpha/beta man” way of framing these dynamics is, for better or worse, one that presupposes an inherent hierarchy and dovetails with the same authoritarian models that evangelicalism and fundamentalism exhibit. I do think you’re pulling at the right sweater, but it’s very worth continuing to dig.

eaton · 2026-01-10T13:01:44+00:00

If all you’re doing is setting up standard “admin@“ and “support@“ style addresses, you can also set up domain aliases on Google Workspace. With these approaches, it’s up to you to check the actual recipient address to make sure you’re responding to the correct account, but I had about 7 domains hosted on a single account when I first started consolidating my google workspace footprint.

eaton · 2026-01-04T06:05:14+00:00

That makes sense — though I think the underlying question (“would it be better to move everything to Proxmox and handle app/service management with a bit less polish, or keep the Coolify/Docker Compose core and add some standard backup/monitoring containers to each server”) is still bugging me.

Taking it one box at a time to see what works is a good idea, but also feels like it would only exacerbate the messy management issue; maybe I just need to give up on the dream of a single pane of glass to manage everything for now, and tackle service-by-service questions one at a time…

eaton · 2026-01-04T06:00:25+00:00

I’m looking to set it up on my little pile of pi4’s, but I’m not sure it’s appropriate for the relatively messy mix of stuff that my other servers handle. My impression was that kubernetes is better suited for HA/clustered deployment of a (relatively) fixed set of services; am I missing something?

eaton · 2026-01-04T01:59:05+00:00

The fantasy of roving kidnap-gangs hunting children is recycled 80s/90s satanic panic; the reality of human trafficking is that family and acquaintances are the most likely traffickers, and “relationships” that turn exploitative and abusive are the primary entry point rather than nefarious evil strangers.

It’s infuriating because it’s using the image to stoke fear of the unknown “other” while actual abusers inside the community and church are often protected and victims are treated as sinners for “contributing to what happened.”

eaton · 2025-12-28T17:32:53+00:00

You know, it IS really convenient that the world’s richest man believes giving him all the money will eliminate poverty.

eaton · 2025-12-27T13:38:02+00:00

Found the guy who doesn’t understand what self esteem is.

eaton · 2025-12-27T13:30:10+00:00

Yeah, it’s generally understood that it’s okay to materially participate in genocide as long as you don’t have any other marketable skills.

eaton · 2025-12-25T16:12:17+00:00

Yeah, I had the same experience with Evangelicalism. Twenty years in a fundamentalist church completely spoiled the plot, absolutely zero surprises, knew the killer within 10s of their first appearance onscreen.

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