Hot on the heels of my Weakness post, i have come across this video which is presenting a thesis about ordinary people being evil.
i could watch it till the end and make an opinion then, but I’m choosing to deal with parts of it as it unfolds and see where it goes.
Contributing to charity as an ordinary everyday person is Obligatory and not Supererogatory – Here’s where i have a problem: i don’t believe in charity. i don’t believe in charity because it removes the human connection and you have an imbalanced relationship.
The way i see charity and charity organizations is funds being funneled into them, then they are sitting on top, being so kind to the people below. it’s not a level relationship most of the time and how could it be? The people are trying to solve the problems which seem to be water or food or whatever problems seem important at that time, but wouldn’t it be different if funds weren’t funneled into this organization where people have to work for it? What if funds were spread among people that can make a connection with specific people, and each person just helps one person? Wouldn’t that be enough if the effort was focused? Wouldn’t it be a superior approach to actually forge a relationship with the persons in need? How can you know globally as an organization what people need? You definitely don’t Each person has different needs, and people don’t just need to survive, maybe they also want to live.
i see charity as this enormous hamster wheel that’s training people to be obeying and under a wheel and just getting them to survive. Is life worth living if we’re only just surviving? Is life worth living if all we have is just basic necessities and work?
If it is in our power to prevent something very bad from happening, without thereby sacrificing anything of moral significance, then we must, morally do it.
Hunger, disease and other sources of suffering, disability and death, are very bad.
The luxuries on which we spend money are not of moral significance
By donating money to relief agencies, we could prevent hunger, disease and other sources of suffering, disability and death.
Therefore we must, morally donate the money that we spend on luxuries to relief agencies.
The above seems very short-sighted. Maybe i need coffee in order to write. Maybe i need to drive around in a specific car so i can clear my head and be able to write. Maybe i don’t need to just survive in order to help other people to just survive. What would my motivation be then to do anything great if there’s nothing in this life worth living for because i have to give up on all the perceived luxuries? Maybe there should be a definition of what luxury means and a ceiling, that moves up as the whole world moves up. Maybe that would give a new meaning to “we rise together”.
i have been aware of this, but i consider this a weakness because i have been wrong so many times. i’d watch something and about 1-2-5-10 minutes in, when some part of the content happens to click, I’ll formulate an opinion and do something stupid about it, like writing something, and then by the time it reaches the end, something has changed and what i initially believed becomes irrelevant and i change my mind, but i already did that stupid thing 😅
i know about this, but i keep doing it over and over again 😅 so it’s one of those things i know i have to improve but it seems i’m unsuccessful at.
When i was in the supermarket, had the impulse that i’d like to cook something with aubergines. My mom makes a killer stuffed aubergines with minced meat, so i thought i’d give it a go. So i bought 2 aubergines and a pack of beef and pork minced meat.
When i came home, i had a pan in which i fried some meat the other day, so i obviously reused that to flavor the minced meat even more, which after it was done, i took to the side.
i then chopped a couple of onions and a couple of cayenne peppers, left the seeds in there for heat, and some garlic and put it in the pan on medium heat, so they went frying slowly, while i started carving the insides of the aubergines and chopping them to add them to the fried onions and garlic. i added one big red pepper too, and then i realized that the whole thing was getting too big for the 2 aubergines, so i came up with another idea.
Whipped up my dutch oven, grabbed a zucchini and 4 carrots, chopped them round, and put them at the bottom. Then on top of them, i drizzled half the meat. Then i took the carved aubergines, and i sliced them sideways into pieces and made 2 black suns on top of the meat, and put whatever was left around them. Then dropped in the onion/garlic/peppers mixture on top of the rest of the meat.
Now, i needed some moisture inside the dutch oven but didn’t have any chicken or beef stock at home, so i just filled the frying pan with water, and let it boil a bit, deglazing everything from the bottom, and once it was close to boiling i threw that on top of the layers in the dutch oven, covered it up and put it in the oven at 180 degrees Celsius for 1 hour.
Once that was finished, i took a whole bunch of parsley and generously put it on top.
For lunch, i made a quick saffron risotto to go along with it. Came out fantastic.
Apparently, the newest setup of cPanel servers comes in with MySQL8 by default. i have tried migrating a customer but there are some database incompatibilities, therefore we just put up another box with AlmaLinux 8 and here are the steps for performing a MySQL swap to MariaDB:
Now, this works on brand new servers, where maybe you forgot to setup MariaDB right in the beginning as per the cPanel tutorial here. If you have databases/users on the server and you still wish to downgrade, make sure to back them up beforehand, as we’re removing the SQL Server and the data.
Disable MySQL monitor in WHM >> Service Manager (we don’t want MySQL attempts to restart the service while we are working)
i cannot live without this: dnf install bash-completion
Stop MySQL: systemctl stop mysqld
mv /var/lib/mysql /var/lib/mysql-old
mv /etc/my.cnf /etc/my.cnf-old
Remove the MySQL rpm’s: yum remove mysql-community-client-8.0.32-1.el8.x86_64 mysql-community-common-8.0.32-1.el8.x86_64 mysql-community-libs-8.0.32-1.el8.x86_64 mysql-community-server-8.0.32-1.el8.x86_64 mysql-community-icu-data-files-8.0.32-1.el8.x86_64 mysql80-community-release-el8-4.noarch mysql-community-client-plugins-8.0.32-1.el8.x86_64
Add the MariaDB repo. i am adding the 10.3 – feel free to change for whatever version you need.
Under a different name, and after having scrapped 512kbps.com, but it’s been a long time and i have missed this. i have missed writing. i have done a bunch of reading meanwhile, and hopefully, this all comes down to be something better.
i realized that i missed writing. i missed a spot for the daily and the stuff i wanted to say. it was always nice to just let the fingers run across the keyboard and put out whatever came through. So there it is. i probably wish i had more to say right off the bat, but i am sure things will come just fine, since i just spent most of the time setting everything up and I’m not fully done.
Looking forward to seeing a new journey and whoever decides to tag along, I’m glad to see you.
Here’s a quick script that will allow you to update your OpenVPN SSL Certificate, in case it expired. Please keep in mind to update the “SERVER” variable, to the actual server string that’s in your installation, located in the folder: /etc/openvpn/easy-rsa/pki/reqs/
