itchingsphynx
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Comment · 1 month ago
Comment · 1 month ago
It’s worth recalling that mass literacy is only about 300 years old, so the modern culture of private reading is only slightly older than the United States, which is probably itself a consequence of mass literacy - sparked by Luther, Gutenberg, etc. Ironically, today the USA is also probably leading the decline in mass literacy woth a “post-literate president.” Maybe book-reading will eventually become an anachronistic hobby, although even Thomas Jefferson made this dire prophecy too about fiction [1].
“Acoustic representations activated in silent reading are best characterized as inner speech rather than as abstract phonological codes.” [2]
1. https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/2026/08/reading-crisis-...
Comment · 1 month ago
I hope they show details of their audio recording and speaker set up.
Comment · 1 month ago
Note, this article is from 2013.
>We do well to remember that “scripture” and “canon” are different things, and of course we should never make the mistake of thinking that early Christians had Bibles like our own.
Reading any of this ancient text is like tourism.
Comment · 1 month ago
What a crazy dickover. I think I was told I could “consent to or reject individual data processing operations” for every 193 partners. See ya!
Comment · 1 month ago
Nothing special - just a homelab. It's not so much the precision that matters at home as for planning when the home becomes an island, in 'orphan mode' as chrony calls it [1], without a time reference at all. Time really is a 'sovereign function' per Telstra's report [2], especially if you have internal HTTPS, etc.
Last summer an 8+ hour mains power outage drained my home CWWK OPNsense router's UPS then internal battery (it must have been losing voltage). When mains power came up the router was unable to connect to the ISP because the internal time was completely wrong and I had to manually set it via console. However, the internal batteries and clocks on other home network infrastructure (HP NAS and Lenovo Tiny) were fine.
The chrony.conf orphan mode:
server 192.168.1.1
server 192.168.1.2
local stratum X orphan (higher X determines who is master in orphan mode, usually minimum 10)
Annoyingly, the OPNsense chronyd plug-in does not (yet) implement the "local orphan" mode [3], so I have not yet confirmed that it does accept the non-reference master orphan time to bootstrap itself... should test before the summer storms start again.
1. <https://chrony-project.org/doc/latest/chrony.conf.html>
2. <https://www.telstra.com.au/exchange/what-we-ve-learned-from-...>
Comment · 1 month ago
After the Telstra NTS issue and preparing for the upcoming summer storms and power outages, I set up a chrony mesh on three devices, each with a different upstream stratum 1 NTS. I seriously considered a GPS reference too, but I live on the bottom floor of apartment blocks so reception is probably quite poor. After blocking the firewall ports, the mesh stays linked and drift is well within sensible boundaries for the typical length of internet and power outages of a few hours. Although, a man with a watch knows the time but man with two watches cannot be certain.
Comment · 2 months ago
When TrueNAS CORE died I decided it was time to learn FreeBSD myself properly and have gone CLI only without ever looking back. I hope this project helps others to ease into FreeBSD and CLI like it for me. It’s really great for NAS.
Comment · 2 months ago
Nice. Not so much a FreeBSD as a ZFS feature?
Comment · 3 months ago
Instantly recognisable as Tufte
Comment · 3 months ago
I agree on most points, except perhaps for the expectation of compute and RAM since NAS = ‘network attached storage.’
I’ve had a HP N40L for 15 years and every time I see the current offerings I hope I don’t have to look for hardware soon; it’s been such a great homelab server. After FreeNAS > TrueNAS Core, I now roll my own FreeBSD. It felt like a great leap into the deep end going from GUI to CLI, but I haven’t once looked back.
A first century explicit example of private reading aloud is Acts 8:28–30 Philip runs up and "heard him reading" (ἤκουσεν αὐτοῦ ἀναγινώσκοντος).
Ten minutes of Claude searching the Hebrew and Greek scriptural texts came up with no examples that are explicitly private silent reading of text.