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Roman Imperialism that was peddling Christian Imperialism. Let us not forget that the calendar was made for and named after Pope Gregory XIII and the years are structured around the death of Christ. Naming the weeks after pagan gods (in my opinion) was a similar act to moving Christmas to fall on Saturnalia. The purpose being to appease pagans and slowly convert them to Christianity.

Just downloaded a copy, thank you!

This is getting a bit out of the scope of HN but... here goes nothing. Firstly, Jews =/= Israel! I have never been to Israel and do not plan on ever going. Nor do I support their actions/government. Secondly, the United States and other governments do not protect Israel for Christian fundamentalist reasons. While republicans would like you to believe they support Israel so that Jesus can return to Earth or whatever shit they believe the truth is that they are simply preserving hegemony in an oil rich region that lines their owners pockets. Second of all, Christian imperialism is clearly a much bigger concept than Roman imperialism. Countless nations have utilized Christian fundamentalism as a excuse to colonize people all over the world and commit atrocities. Yes the romans spread the gregorian calendar but it was created for and named after Pope Gregory XIII. The calendar clearly has far more to do with Christianity than the Roman empire. I mean the entire thing is built around the death of Christ. None of this is to say that Jews have not committed sins or carried out horrible acts in the name of their religion, however, unlike most religions proselytizing is a feature (not a bug) of Christianity. The Gregorian calendar has clearly been used as a tool to achieve this goal. Lastly, I aim to look forward and not backwards in life. We cannot change the past but we can question our present structures and hierarchies. By switching to the Jewish calendar I do not aim to convert others to Judaism, I simply am trying to reconnect to my all too often forgotten roots.

This Rosh Hashanah I switched to the Jewish calendar full-time. I know this may sound impractical (it is) but it has always felt like an important issue to me as a mostly secular Jewish American. In my opinion the Gregorian calendar offers very little advantage (perhaps even disadvantage) over lunar-solar alternatives. Its popularity has been deeply tied to Christian imperialism and its adoption has often been forced. The Gregorian calendar is technically more accurate as it is off by 27 sec/year (1 day in 3236 years) compared to the Jewish calendar which is off by 7 min/year (1 day in 216 years). This, however, has always felt to me like comparing apples to oranges. The accuracy of the Gregorian calendar comes at the expense of functionality (lunar calculations) which I find to be incredibly useful. With the Jewish calendar you always know what phase the moon is in as the start of each month is a new moon and the middle is a full moon. Not only does this have real-world application in terms of tides, agricultural conditions, night light, animal behaviors, and etc but I have found myself feeling more mindful of nature as a result. It still trips me out that I can go outside and know exactly what the moon is going to look like without googling it! Furthermore, days ending at sundown makes so much more sense to me! There is a certain satisfaction that comes with watching the sunset and it marking the end of your day compared to the day ending in the middle of the night while you are asleep. Lastly, I have felt myself feeling far more connected to my culture as I am more aware of holidays and other traditions that were lost when the Gregorian calendar took over.

Some resources for those who are interested:

libhdate (Jewish date + cal alternative for Linux) https://sourceforge.net/p/libhdate/wiki/Home/

hebcal (RSS, CSV, Google/Apple/etc calendar integration) https://www.hebcal.com/

On my android phone I used KLCK and KWGT with the hebcal RSS feed above to create a lockscreen and homescreen Jewish calendar widget. On my laptop I run Sway+Waybar and created a custom waybar module with libhdate. It's not perfect but it's working for now!

I recently purchased a LTO-5 drive for my Gentoo-based NAS and have a few key takeaways for those who are interested. Don't buy a HP tape drive if you want to use LTFS on Linux! HPE Library & Tape Tools is prety much dead on modern Linux. Official support is only for RHE 7.x and a few versions of Suse. Building from source is a dependency nightmare that will leave you pulling hair. IBM drives have much better Linux support thanks to https://github.com/LinearTapeFileSystem/ltfs. That being said, IMO, you should consider ditching LTFS for good ol' TAR! It's been battle tested since 1979 and can be installed on basically anything. TAR is easy to use, well documented, and makes way more sense for linear filesystems. While drag&drop is nice and all, it really does not make sense for linear storage.

Jew here,

Being Jewish != supporting Israel. I have never been to Israel, I do not identify as Israeli, nor do I support Israel. I fully support a free and independent Palestinian state and believe Israel is commiting genocide. Only 30% of Jews live in Israel and the rest are scattered across the world. Much of the Antisemitism discussed in this article is occuring in America and across Europe. I challenge everyone to seperate these two issues, as public apathy is what fuels further attacks by extremists online and in real life.

Fantastic book. Kaneko Fumiko lived a tragic life and was a remarkable writer considering her informal education. Her views on Anarchism (IMO) were vastly ahead of her time.

Dear Mozilla, I would gladly sign-up for monthly patronage payments that go towards the development of Firefox features that the community chooses. Firstly, "installable" PWA support on Linux and Android. No one cares about your VPN or Pocket.

Both the Pinephone and the Pinebook Pro recently received mainline Linux kernel support with version 5.7. Debian recently added support for the Pinebook Pro as well as the RockPro64. They have daily builds available here for most of Pine 64's devices: https://d-i.debian.org/daily-images/arm64/daily/netboot/SD-c.... There's no Pinephone build yet but IMO it's only a matter of time. That being said, "Mobian" is just a DEBOS recipe with some custom software included that a user by the name of A-Wei has been maintaining. You could clone their repo and build it yourself if you'd like, it's super polished! Here's the Mobian repo: https://gitlab.com/mobian1/mobian-recipes

Under no circumstance should anyone listen to this user nor should they run Gentoo or Arch on a production machine. I use Arch on my personal computer but for work I find Debian testing to be the perfect distro. Stability is a trait which matters.

Yes.

I'm really happy! The 8GB model is super snappy with Arch+Sway. Battery life with full brightness is ~4-5 hours. If I'm overloading it maaaaybe 3.5 hours, but that rarely happens. It's so small that I'll throw a battery pack in my bag with it and charge it while using it if needed too.

I have the 8gb model running Arch Linux with sway wm. Instead of the default keyboard I have a split ergonomic mechanical keyboard. A bit unconventional, but it's my favorite dev machine! Helps me keep my shoulders and neck happy.

I pre-ordered a braveheart and cannot wait to start contributing code to make mobile Linux more usable! Of course it's not the right phone for many people yet, but what the Pinephone symbolizes is the first affordable and (hopefully) widely available Linux phone. What made me pull the trigger is that, unlike others such as Librem, Pine64 seems to be taking a similar approach to the Raspberry Pi. Instead of reinventing the wheel and forcing users into custom software like Librem has done with Phosh, Pine64 is building a launchpad for existing projects such as PostmarketOS, Plasma Mobile, Manjaro ARM, UBports, and others to grow their visions. If you build it, they will come (and hopefully submit pull requests)!

Someone needs to go Mr. Robot and 5/9 Facebook's servers. This is getting ridiculous.

Some thoughts from a Tempe / Phoenix pedestrian:

Arizona has the highest pedestrian death rate in the United States. Drivers are incredibly reckless here, and for people like myself who do not drive jaywalking is never an option. I will not excuse Uber's mistake here. There must be repercussions for their lack of oversight. However, I would like to defend Arizona's loose legislation surrounding self-driving testing on our streets. The honest answer is that the only way forward for self-driving adoption is through real-world data. It's the fastest way to reach global adoption. The faster that companies like Uber and Waymo can improve their technology, the faster we can see a reduction of human drivers on our roads. While this accident was horrible and must serve as a wakeup call, it must be acknowledged that there were 224 pedestrian deaths across Phoenix in 2017. In the past week alone there were 12 pedestrian deaths. This figure has actually increased over the years and makes Arizona a unique data point for auto companies. I am in no way suggesting that Uber should face zero repercussions. However, as a local pedestrian, if you gave me the option to magically switch every vehicle here over to Uber's technology with current specifications I'd take it in a heartbeat. I interact with these vehicles every day, and feel safer with them still.