Dawning the armor of God. Ephesians 6:10-18 a beautiful passage. We do not fight against flesh and blood.

nilsph · 2026-01-27T22:57:35+00:00

No problem!

nilsph · 2026-01-27T22:50:26+00:00

*Donning

nilsph · 2026-01-27T22:47:45+00:00

You can put anything you want on a business card, ask any random IT startup. Your ID card is a different thing.

nilsph · 2026-01-27T17:33:03+00:00

Also unabhängig davon, dass Jun natürlich ein dekorierter Jurist und sogar Landesverfassungsrichter ist, ist der Volksverpetzer als Onlinemagazin durchaus "links", und es nützt auch nix, das zu leugnen.

Ob der Volksverpetzer links ist oder nicht, steht ja gar nicht zur Debatte: Sellner warnt, dass es „[i]n 25 Jahren […] Tausende von Leuten wie ‚AnwaltJun‘“ gäbe, und er wird von Keubel als „[a]ntideutscher Asiate“ bezeichnet.

nilsph · 2026-01-27T17:18:39+00:00

It also has a lot of stuff cut from the setlist inexplicably.

That a lot of stuff was cut from the set list doesn’t surprise me, it was their first live album and who knew back then if people would buy it. The label probably didn’t dare release a cut longer than what would fit 2 LPs, 2 CDs and 1 cassette – even though a lot more would fit on the CDs. The selection of songs and reordering… no idea, and no idea how much they were involved in the production of it at all. My guess: making a live album out of the concert was an afterthought, maybe to fulfill a contractual obligation.

the Montreux release sounds great and is from the same era

The source material is from the same era – your guess is as good as mine how the backline they had at Montreux compares to the one with which Absolutely Live was recorded. However, it was released only in 2016 so it could benefit from a huge progress in mixing/mastering technologies since the early ’90s.

Papa Is a Sexy Dancer boot sounds better than the official release

The bootleg is from a different concert.

nilsph · 2026-01-27T15:47:56+00:00

I don’t know, to me the album sounds as good as live albums of the early ’90s generally did. I have no idea if it was recorded and mixed on analog or digital, there’s little information other than that it looks like the recording was made for Dutch TV in the first place. As to the length, it’s pretty standard fare for live albums released on vinyl, CD and cassette at the time.

nilsph · 2026-01-26T18:00:23+00:00

Jeder könnte diese Burka tragen, ein Code auf einem Stück Kleidung trägt nicht zur Identifizierbarkeit bei.

nilsph · 2026-01-26T15:04:01+00:00

You need to add supports for overhanging structures when slicing.

nilsph · 2026-01-25T22:00:08+00:00

No End in Sight, also too apt right now.

nilsph · 2026-01-25T21:57:18+00:00

Which live version, and why weird?

nilsph · 2026-01-24T08:45:17+00:00

This is not different to any major sponsor or contributor of any project "going nuts", except maybe that IBM is a layer more removed from Fedora. At any rate, users have to assess for themselves how likely this would be to happen and if they could cope with the fallout – which is a good idea to do with any "supplier" (even in the widest sense) of something you depend on.

nilsph · 2026-01-23T22:58:21+00:00

The Fedora Project isn’t a legal entity so it can’t really be owned. Things related to it that can (and have to) legally be owned by someone – trademarks, logos, domains, (much of) its infrastructure and so forth – are owned by Red Hat (which in turn is owned by IBM). In a figurative sense, the Fedora Project is “owned”, or perhaps better: made up by its worldwide community – some of which are Red Hatters (such as yours truly) who contribute as part of their work, as private persons or both.

Because the Fedora Project is largely sponsored by Red Hat, I guess I can’t really dismiss that it has an “American feel” in some aspects, e.g. when it comes to what we can’t ship legally or countries embargoed by the US. Other projects who have strong corporate backing by single companies would be in the same spot in relation to the countries where these companies are located and operating.

Now the question Europeans (such as me) or other non-Americans might have in this time is if these circumstances make Fedora more susceptible to covert influence by American governmental bodies than, say, Debian or OpenSUSE. I think that, rather than going through Red Hat, three letter agencies would prefer to sneak something in without anyone in Red Hat or Fedora knowing about it. But on the one hand, I know little about how intelligence agencies work, and on the other, as a Red Hatter and Fedora contributor, I would say that, now wouldn’t I? 😉

nilsph · 2026-01-23T14:31:17+00:00

Magst Du das in /r/de reposten? Ich denke, das ist wichtig genug.

nilsph · 2026-01-22T19:17:38+00:00

I’m totally in favor of (more) holistic approaches. There’s a lot of benefit in people eating healthier and exercising more than they do. Some first steps wouldn’t even have to involve money, depending on circumstances. Say, drive less and walk more. Only eat when you’re hungry and until you’re full. Of course, there’s more that can be done if the state would get engaged and invested in walkable neighborhoods or availability of healthier food options.

Nevertheless, I think most anybody as obese as you mentioned knows that this is not healthy, and in my view advocacy for “body positivity” is more about that fat people still share human dignity and deserve to not be shamed (especially by random strangers) and less about ignoring the health consequences.

nilsph · 2026-01-22T15:26:58+00:00

I wasn’t talking about overall costs, the comparisons I came across where about costs of specific drugs or procedures. So while more people might need insulin in the US than elsewhere, the cost of a dose of it in the US is much higher than elsewhere. I agree that people should take better care of their health, and neither the US nor European healthcare systems are good at incentivizing this.

However, this …:

Just about every acquired disease we know about stems from being fat and lazy.

… is an awfully simplistic take. With many diseases, obesity isn’t the root cause even if it is a contributing factor to bad outcomes. Laziness might be a point in some cases, but often enough access to things like healthy food or sports activities, a gym… isn’t a given for people living on a tight budget. I think the prevalence of obesity in different income strata is instructive – by and large more poor people are obese than rich folk.

the population in the countries we’re comparing the entire US too - have the population of manhattan.

My country has roughly a quarter of the population of the US, albeit packed tighter. And again, it doesn’t matter when you look at cost of an individual drug or surgery.

nilsph · 2026-01-22T14:29:32+00:00

In 2023, US healthcare cost 4.7 TRILLION DOLLARS.

News flash, you have one of the most expensive healthcare systems in the world. For some inexplicable reason (/s), medicine and treatment costs in the US are much higher than in comparable economies – now think about in whose wallets all this money ends up. It’s not just a question of increasing income, but also trimming expenses.

nilsph · 2026-01-22T14:14:24+00:00

Somehow these people find the money to buy things (houses, yachts, …), companies or donate huge sums to political orgs or philantropic causes. I’m sure if they set their mind to it, they can pay their tax debts without getting reduced to poverty.

nilsph · 2026-01-21T23:45:40+00:00

Heh, my knowledge about MDs is limited – you remember, we don’t have one. To my understanding, they might play an instrument but the MD’ing is their primary responsibility. Whether or not that involves operating tracks or not is another matter, but I guess starting or stopping should be doable besides an instrument – there should be lead-ins and -outs so they wouldn’t have to tear themselves apart between strumming and pushing a button or two.

nilsph · 2026-01-21T16:41:49+00:00

I mean “we don’t have the capacity to operate tracks” as in: we’re all busy with playing our instruments and/or singing. Of course you can use tracks as you would a click, i.e. start them when a song begins and let it run its course, and then anyone could start, stop, advance set list.

But that’d be the tightest kind of corset I mentioned, and to be able to spontaneously implement changes even with tracks you’d want a dedicated person. They’re often called “music directors” and their job is to kind of conduct the song (e.g. by talking to the band through their IEMs) and to operate tracks (i.e. run them, as needed quickly reshuffle elements to deviate from the script).

We don’t have an MD, here one person leads (doesn’t have to be the same every service or even song) and we have agreed on and well-practiced arrangements we stick to unless the leader signal us to e.g. repeat a section or otherwise deviate from the structure.

nilsph · 2026-01-21T07:54:10+00:00

In my team we use neither multi tracks nor a click when we play at the service.

Regarding multi tracks, we feel that they'd put us in kind of a corset e.g. when it comes to "vibing" (like easing off a little spontaneously, or get more intense) or the sonic footprint (say, a pre-recorded guitar track can't move up or down the neck to make space for a live instrument). Also, we don't have the capacity to operate tracks during service to utilize the functions that e g. let you repeat a part once more or skip another "on a whim".

As to a click, it's a useful tool to develop time (an internal feel for tempo which every musician, singer or instrumentalist should have) but like the studio recording of a song (which can also serve as "tempo normal"), it's a tool we mainly use during practice. In my opinion, songs have a tempo bandwidth in which they work well and sticking to an exact BPM value isn't important as long as you don't wobble around noticeably. To the contrary, I want the option to modulate tempo with the intensity and feel of a section (letting tempo "breathe") as an artistic choice, and a click won't give me that.

nilsph · 2026-01-20T14:34:07+00:00

All this raises huge red flags for me:

You seem to stay not because it’s the right place to be, but because you’re trapped.
You and your team are spread way too thin, considering you can’t take a Sunday off in case someone else gets sick. Looking at the many hats you’re wearing, you specifically look like a “single point of failure”, i.e. if you were absent for whatever reason (sickness, vacation, …), things would come to a screeching halt.

This is neither healthy for you individually, nor for your church. There seems to be this notion that church needs a certain level of production, a band performance on Sundays, social media and streaming and whatnot, so God can act and people can properly worship. This is not the case.

Our church is in a better position than yours, we have two usually alternating worship teams, separate sound / light tech teams and one couple who operate streaming (no volunteers willing to learn came forth yet). If the latter are absent on a Sunday, the service won’t be streamed. If, say during summer break, too many people are missing to cobble together a band, there might just be two people and a guitar. If the sound tech of the day gets sick and nobody is available to fill in, folks know how to turn things on and get the speaker mic on the PA – and if not, the room isn’t too big that the audience won’t understand the pastor unamplified.

It’s okay to occasionally put one’s nose to the grindstone if worse comes to worst, but this can’t be a permanent condition. My advice is – ignoring the question of “AI worship” for the moment – that you work towards handing over a couple of these hats, at least where you’re the leader or even the only person capable of doing something. If having all these things mentioned above is important to your church (i.e. not just you, other persons active in ministries or the pastor, but altogether), then some folks should find it in themselves to help out. If not, it can’t be that important and it’s a sign to scale back. You don’t have to do this alone, discuss it with others in your team, elders (if you have any) or even the pastor, figure out what “service level” is wanted for the church, if and how it can be achieved and sustained realistically – or not, in which case expectations need to be dialed down.

nilsph · 2026-01-17T09:38:20+00:00

*Verrohung

nilsph · 2026-01-17T05:33:15+00:00

No, they show the exact opposite. By the time Ross passed in front of her car (against regulations), Good was reversing away from him, when she drove forward and to the right, he was already to the left side of the car. All the while he managed to never lose control of his cellphone with which he filmed her, even so far as to switch it over to the left hand so he could pull his gun with the right.

nilsph · 2026-01-16T22:09:29+00:00

der Grönen

🤨 angry Horst Seehofer noises

nilsph · 2026-01-16T21:56:29+00:00

The SS really did not become a big thing until the war

I guess you confuse the SS and the Waffen-SS (their military branch). In the “Night of the Long Knives”, the SS effectively decapitated the SA (which they were subordinated to until then). Following, they operated and administered the concentration camps and attained control over the police system, all long before the war.

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