freeborn | ἐλεύθερος | 8r0gwg

• all mobile devices now synced up with
  npub16u9hy2m…ne586x

  's amazing PearCircle (P2P location sharing)
• most devices set up with nostr:npub16u9hy2m8w6xt7836cam7yyrmh3z849mg3xd4fzlkjnm352nt2tuqne586x 's amazing PearGuard (P2P parental controls) - still ironing out the Ubuntu desktop install
• all mobile devices now accessing the LAN (NextCloud, Immich, ElementX, etc.) over Hetzner VPS+Wireguard

feels good, man

GM

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missed it by THAAT much

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Need to put my self-hosted NextCloud (umbrel) in "road warrior" mode. ISP does not allow/offer a Public IP. (And they're the only gig in town, until Planet Networks [fiber] gets its licensing.)

• just do tailscale?
• don't say 'just use wireguard' bc I can't get a static public IP address so shhh
• just pay for a vps (and then do wireguard)? (recommend a service?)

Until I can figure this out and get it set up, I'm going to try PearOffice for my wife and I to share the ChristmasBudget2026 workbook.. ;-)

HIGHLY RECOMMEND YOU CHECK OUT THESE APPS

Truly amazing

(there's even one that could improve your marriage!) #iykyk

GREAT SCOTT

Just dropped PearOffice on my phone and into my NixOS config, and seeder on my umbrel, in about 15 mins (thanks Claude).

- this is absolutely mind-blowing

https://peerloomllc.com/pearoffice/

https://github.com/peerloomllc/pearoffice

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If you can't cover it from your checking account, then don't put it on your credit card.

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"The heavens DECLARE the glory of the Lord."

Claude: "Harden your security with core.sshVerifyHostKey = true"

Claude (10 mins later): "Remove the core.sshVerifyHostKey option - it does not exist. Where did this come from [ you idiot ]?"

gn #plebchain

it's 11 PM where I am, so, naturally, it's a perfect time for this:

• uploads repo.zip prompts Claude: "suggest improvements"

LOL

Thinking that there are evil people who conspire to do evil things in the world, and that we should resist them wherever and however we can, is not 'Manichean' -- it is 'rational.'

C. S. Lewis (and many others long before him) called this (part of) the "law of nature" and or the "natural law".

One author rightly calls it the law "that we can't not know".

You know, somehow, that these things are right and true. You know it in your bones. You feel righteous indignation when others break it. (And you are right to.)

Why? Where did that come from? What things would be necessary for it to be the case that nearly all men everywhere and in all times know this to be true and right and good (even though we let ourselves off the hook for breaking it all the time)?

What are the necessary preconditions for a universally-shared and universally-understood "view of right and wrong"?

You know--you've always known.

My friend, do you like the "Non-Aggression Principle"?

You are right to do so.

It is part of God's revealed moral law that "forever binds all men, in all places, and at all times":

Q. 134. Which is the sixth commandment? A. The sixth commandment is, Thou shalt not kill.

Q. 135. What are the duties required in the sixth commandment? A. The duties required in the sixth commandment are, all careful studies, and lawful endeavors, to preserve the life of ourselves and others by resisting all thoughts and purposes, subduing all passions, and avoiding all occasions, temptations, and practices, which tend to the unjust taking away the life of any; by just defense thereof against violence, patient bearing of the hand of God, quietness of mind, cheerfulness of spirit; a sober use of meat, drink, physic, sleep, labor, and recreations; by charitable thoughts, love, compassion, meekness, gentleness, kindness; peaceable, mild and courteous speeches and behavior; forbearance, readiness to be reconciled, patient bearing and forgiving of injuries, and requiting good for evil; comforting and succoring the distressed, and protecting and defending the innocent.

Q. 136. What are the sins forbidden in the sixth commandment? A. The sins forbidden in the sixth commandment are, all taking away the life of ourselves, or of others, except in case of public justice, lawful war, or necessary defense; the neglecting or withdrawing the lawful and necessary means of preservation of life; sinful anger, hatred, envy, desire of revenge; all excessive passions, distracting cares; immoderate use of meat, drink, labor, and recreations; provoking words, oppression, quarreling, striking, wounding, and whatsoever else tends to the destruction of the life of any.

Q. 140. Which is the eighth commandment? A. The eighth commandment is, Thou shalt not steal.

Q. 141. What are the duties required in the eighth commandment? A. The duties required in the eighth commandment are, truth, faithfulness, and justice in contracts and commerce between man and man; rendering to every one his due; restitution of goods unlawfully detained from the right owners thereof; giving and lending freely, according to our abilities, and the necessities of others; moderation of our judgments, wills, and affections concerning worldly goods; a provident care and study to get, keep, use, and dispose these things which are necessary and convenient for the sustentation of our nature, and suitable to our condition; a lawful calling, and diligence in it; frugality; avoiding unnecessary lawsuits, and suretiship, or other like engagements; and an endeavor, by all just and lawful means, to procure, preserve, and further the wealth and outward estate of others, as well as our own.

Q. 142. What are the sins forbidden in the eighth commandment? A. The sins forbidden in the eighth commandment, besides the neglect of the duties required, are, theft, robbery, man-stealing, and receiving anything that is stolen; fraudulent dealing, false weights and measures, removing landmarks, injustice and unfaithfulness in contracts between man and man, or in matters of trust; oppression, extortion, usury, bribery, vexatious lawsuits, unjust enclosures and depredation; engrossing commodities to enhance the price; unlawful callings, and all other unjust or sinful ways of taking or withholding from our neighbor what belongs to him, or of enriching ourselves; covetousness; inordinate prizing and affecting worldly goods; distrustful and distracting cares and studies in getting, keeping, and using them; envying at the prosperity of others; as likewise idleness, prodigality, wasteful gaming; and all other ways whereby we do unduly prejudice our own outward estate, and defrauding ourselves of the due use and comfort of that estate which God hath given us.

Westminster Larger Catechism (1648) - https://opc.org/lc.html

BALDERDASH.

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Firefox made everything pill shaped. Thanks I hate it.

• my phone is a NOSTR signing device
• dark wisp is a word5 front-end
• coffee is my fuel
• gm

got a pr merged into NixOS (master) today

I'm starting to get the hang of this

just as AI is taking over

my timing is impeccable

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22 Then Paul stood in the midst of Mars' hill, and said, [Ye] men of Athens, I perceive that in all things ye are too superstitious.

23 For as I passed by, and beheld your devotions, I found an altar with this inscription, TO THE UNKNOWN GOD. Whom therefore ye ignorantly worship, him declare I unto you.

24 God that made the world and all things therein, seeing that he is Lord of heaven and earth, dwelleth not in temples made with hands;

25 Neither is worshipped with men's hands, as though he needed any thing, seeing he giveth to all life, and breath, and all things;

26 And hath made of one blood all nations of men for to dwell on all the face of the earth, and hath determined the times before appointed, and the bounds of their habitation;

27 That they should seek the Lord, if haply they might feel after him, and find him, though he be not far from every one of us:

28 For in him we live, and move, and have our being; as certain also of your own poets have said, For we are also his offspring.

29 Forasmuch then as we are the offspring of God, we ought not to think that the Godhead is like unto gold, or silver, or stone, graven by art and man's device.

30 And the times of this ignorance God winked at; but now commandeth all men every where to repent:

31 Because he hath appointed a day, in the which he will judge the world in righteousness by [that] man whom he hath ordained; [whereof] he hath given assurance unto all [men], in that he hath raised him from the dead.

Acts 17:22-31 KJV

#garlic

#neverforget

PSA the opposite of garlic is fennel

exactly what sort of soul-sickness is required to actually like the taste of fennel

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The difference between God and men is qualitative, not quantitative.

The Creator is sui generis.

"A shepherd seeks sheep and hunts wolves."

Hey

- did I do something wrong? #word5 can't find my contacts

I am logged in. Help?

🫤

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#asknostr #grapheneos

#Molly (aka #Signal ) claims #Orbot isn't installed but, alas, it always was

any ideas?

nostr:nprofile1qqsyxcm6xydptuwz2w6avpmc4d65ftrrnwywz688yf9fqr22gy5rrqcjhtcem

...it's almost time! 🤓

https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/567567

#NixOS v26.11

HOW 'BOUT THEM APPLES

🥳

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6h on next year's budget 12h herding and harmonizing 5 diverged branches in my fiat gig repo (long story)

I'm tired, boss

gn

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Got ONLYOFFICE Docs running on Umbrel NextCloud, with Claude's help. What a relief--latest Nextcloud Office / Collabora broke.

👀

brave AI - "summarize Dave MacPherson's book"

In *The Unbelievable Pre-Trib Origin* (Heart of America Bible Society, 1973), journalist Dave MacPherson argues that the popular pre-tribulation rapture doctrine — the idea that believers will be "taken up" before a seven-year tribulation and the Antichrist — has a very recent, non-biblical origin. His central claim: the teaching traces back to a private, ecstatic revelation by a 15-year-old Scottish girl, **Margaret Macdonald**, in **Port Glasgow, Scotland, in the spring of 1830**, who was the first to separate Christ's coming into two distinct stages (a rapture before the Antichrist's days, followed by a visible return).

MacPherson says he stumbled on this while researching in 1971, finding a rare 1861 book by Irvingite **Robert Norton** (*The Restoration of Apostles and Prophets*) that preserved Macdonald's handwritten account. He traces the idea's spread from her home prayer group through the Irvingite circles (the followers of London preacher Edward Irving) and into the **Plymouth Brethren** movement of **J. N. Darby**, who he claims incorporated it — with modification — into the new dispensational system.

The "cover-up" of the title: MacPherson alleges that pretrib leaders (notably Darby's circle, later editor **William Kelly**, and even Dallas Theological Seminary grooming **Hal Lindsey** to popularize the view in the 1970s) deliberately obscured this teenage, charismatic, Scotland-based origin to make the doctrine appear ancient and scriptural. He frames it as one of the great suppressed histories of modern Christianity, arguing that if the true origin had been known, the doctrine would have collapsed.

**Note on reception:** MacPherson's thesis is heavily disputed by pretrib scholars (e.g., R. A. Huebner, Thomas Ice, F. F. Bruce), who argue that Macdonald's prophecy does not clearly state a two-stage rapture, that no direct link to Darby is proven, and that earlier figures (such as Morgan Edwards, 1740s) show pretrib-like views before 1830. Bruce, reviewing the book, called a direct dependence of Darby on Macdonald "unlikely."

I guess being 'gruntled' is a good thing, then?

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Daniel G. Hummel, The Rise and Fall of Dispensationalism: How the Evangelical Battle over the End Times Shaped a Nation

https://a.co/d/09WWxrfz

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...saved! Our 14-yo had started her own, uh, 'starter' and had mixed in some of my wife's, so -- happy day!

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it's a surreal moment when a person mystifies you into utter speechlessness because you truly cannot discern whether they're a deeply duplicitous and malevolent sociopath...or just really, really stupid...or the former merely pretending to be the latter

Wife just called on the verge of tears. There was a mishap and she lost her 12 year old sourdough starter. "We've had that through our past three homes [making it older than four of our seven children]...now I have to start over...I wanted to pass this on to our grandchildren and now it will be 12 years younger..."

now that's what I call #timepreference lads

choose wisely

Oh no another "pandemic" ...

anyone 'member this?

"The SPARS Pandemic 2025–2028: A Futuristic Scenario to Facilitate Medical Countermeasure Communication" published 2020

https://drive.proton.me/urls/R4X7A676Z4#cxnp1Ls8Km7g

...oh, and did I mention yet, to #EndTheFrigginFED ?

1,700 USD to fix 2008 4Runner AC ❌️

just open the windows ✅️

...speaking of the banksters, get a free (print) copy of Rothbard's "Wall Street, Banks, and American Foreign Policy" here:

https://mises.org/giveaway

I make no apologies for dropping the hard-R when I say "Bankster"

#EndTheFrigginFed #TheRentIsTooDarnHigh

...remember when the internet was written by real humans?

https://asktheleagueofnerds.com/the-conundra-conundrum/

this is fun

ai reply bot -> instant block / public mute

not why I'm here bruv