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"When #author Kelsey Osgood listens to the #Book of Ruth on #Shavuot, the #biblical narrative has a special resonance for her.

Osgood, like Ruth, is a #convert to #Judaism — and like her ancient predecessor, Osgood’s decision to adopt the #Jewish faith makes for a great story, which she recounts along with six other narratives in her new book, “Godstruck: Seven #Women’s Unexpected Journeys to #Religious #Conversion.”

"Especially in my late 20s, in the lead-up to my conversion, I maintained a very romantic view of Ruth’s choice to pledge fealty to Naomi and to journey to #Israel; this seemed to me to embody faith in its purest form,” Osgood told The Times of Israel, referring to the famous lines from Ruth 1:16, “Wherever you go, I will follow; wherever you dwell, I will reside. Your people will be my people and your God, my God.”

But,” she added, “at the same time, I am now and have always been able to read this text with critical/historical perspectives..."

timesofisrael.com/with-echoes-

I have been making progress with my color converter/creation application built with PyQt. I just added a 4 point gradient tool this morning. This application will allow you to create, convert and manage all your colors in one place.

#Linux#Python#PyQt

I am looking for a #text #formatting #tool, #Office #Plugin or magical website that will #convert a fairly normal text format, to a more usable format.

I have old #Books of 72 character wrapped lines, with a newline after each. Paragraphs are single blank lines.

Words may be hyphenated to wrap nicely.

Office would want each block-line -> one single line, with a paragraph break in between.

It doesn't seem hard and it seems common enough problem!

"No, I don't #convert fractions into decimals," Molly said firmly. "It's dangerous magic. And who needs it? Look how neat and helpful this fraction is: one-third: number one sitting nicely on top of number three. Cut a sandwich into threes, easy peasy! Fill a cup one-third full--no problem. But just try to convert that to a decimal: there's not paper enough in the world to do the math, or time--the task is infinite. No, I'll stick to the finite, thanks very much!"

ai: OpenWebUI Missing Mac Manual with Ollama and ComfyUI notes
Well, Open WebUI is an incredible project that provides a nice graphical front end for local AI development, but the documentation is really lacking. You can figure some things out by looking the documentation, but mainly it is trial and error.

So here are my notes
tongfamily.com/2025/01/04/ai-o
#ai #comfyui #Geek #ollama #openwebui #Convert #https #Quantize

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Because Iinstead of paying hundreds of $ for vintage hardware of limited use, why not #upcycle and #convert existing #COTS hardware like #ThinClients and turn them into something #secure that can still be used to some degree, even when they are too slow to run any decent #Desktop #Linux like @tails_live / @tails / #Tails or #BunsenLabs or whatever...

eBayDigital DEC VT525 Multi-Session Boundless Color Computer Terminal Base VT525-A6 | eBayUsed, tested working. Good shape for age.

Mastodon Backup Viewer Tool - View Your Post Archives in Browser Offline !!
🚀 Amazing - Boost 🚀

bovine.social/mastodon/

(JSON archive file to human readable HTML style page)

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Why this tool is needed ?
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⚠️ Mastodon DOES NOT HAVE it's own way to show your own posts archive OFFLINE in a HUMAN READABLE format!
(LOL!)

⚠️ YOU CANNOT MOVE YOUR MASTODON POSTS FROM ONE PUBLIC SERVER TO ANY ANOTHER!! ⚠️

⚠️ ONLY YOUR SERVER SHOWS NATIVELY THE OLD POSTS SO IG SERVER GOES, SO DOES YOUR POSTS !!! ⚠️

If you delete your profile / move / admin quits server / servers corrupts then you don't have your own posts in a way you can read!!

LOOOOOL....

What kind of micro-blogger doesn't have already a tool or format you can read yourself in the same way online? Mastodon !

Your backup (if you save it) is 1 big text file, with lines of code parameters + text of posts mixed between it all (all stuck together) - so 1 long line of code and post text, which isn't great as a backup!
No images just hyperlinks to the offline image files if you have them !! :picardfacepalm: :facepalm: :picardwtf:

⚠️ YOU ALSO *CANNOT* MOVE YOUR POSTS FROM ONE PUBLIC MASTODON-COMPATIBLE SERVER TO ANOTHER!! ⚠️

So if you ever move.... YOU CANNOT IMPORT BACK TO PUBLIC SERVER!! LOOOOOL

NO PAST POSTS IN NEW PROFILE !!!

This tool helps see them offline at least if you're going to move or lose your online server:

bovine.social/mastodon/

CREDIT TO helge:

codeberg.org/helge/fediverse-p

#FreeSchool #Fediverse Solutions + Answers

#Mastodon #Export #Backup
#Tool #Convert

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Quick How-To....
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Go to "Edit profile"
...then Import / Export...
Data Export
Download TAR.GZ Archive file
Extract OUTBOX.JSON file
Open file at bovine.social/mastodon/
READ POSTS LIKE YOU DO NOW !!

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Longer How-To... / Step-by-step
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1. "Edit profile" page (while logged in)

2. Import / Export > Data Export

e.g. you should end up at
https://YOURSERVER..COM/settings/export

3. Create Export / Backup (export takes a bit of time)

3. Download the export file (a TAR.GZ file - need a zip-like program to open)

4. Extract OUTBOX.JSON file out of this downloaded TAR.GZ file

5. Use bovine.social/mastodon/ to open!

6. Save (print / export to PDF / PNG / MP4 scrolling capture)

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