Raspberry Pi as Forgejo Runner

In my instructions on how to setup Forgejo with a runner, I used a Hetzner server for the runner. This costs roughly 5 euros per month, so 60 euro annually.

A full Hetzner server might be a bit overkill for a simple runner. Especially if you are just running Shell scripts or static site generation. The Hetzner server supports things like high bandwidth, low latency, unique IPv4 address, high uptime guarantees. Most of these are not necessary for your own runner.

Therefore, in many cases it's probably a good idea to run the Runner on your own hardware. What I have tested and works for me is to use a Raspberry Pi 4 with 1 GB RAM and a 32 GB Class A MicroSD. At the time of writing, the price for these was €44 for the Pi and €10 for the MicroSD card.

22 hours ago

Adam Fannin on Voting

“There is more power in praying than there is in voting.”

Source: https://youtu.be/3Ltwhq-UpPg

“Put not your trust in princes, nor in the son of man, in whom there is no help.” (Psalm 146:3)

2026-02-15

Installing and running Spleeter to separate audio files

Here are up-to-date installation instructions for running Deezer's Spleeter on Ubuntu 24.04. Minimum requirements are around 16 GB of RAM. (During the processing, it uses around 11 GB at the peak.) I ran this on a temporary Hetzner server because my Apple Silicon system, after lots of fiddling with version, ran into AVX issues.

Install Conda.

conda create -n spleeter_env python=3.8 -y

conda activate spleeter_env

2026-02-12

Jesse Strang in 2019

At a shooting on a high school in Tumbler Ridge, Canada, 10 people were shot, as reported at 03:30 in Dutch national media.

There are two suspect names going around, however. For example, on Feb 11, 2026, 7:25 PM IST the Hindustan Times reported the name Jesse Strang. A few hours later, however, the name was suddenly reported as Jesse Van Rootselaar without mention of the previous name.

2026-02-03

Picture of Epstein Eating Cake

A picture of Jeffrey Epstein eating a cake with what seems to be the Talmud visible behind him. Seems to have been released a few weeks ago. Source.

Epstein eating cake with Talmud behind him

2026-01-29

Castopod configuration

I just setup a castopod instance to self-host some audio files, and so far it seems to work. To get it to work, I used tweaked the default configuration a bit as follows.

On a server, make a new folder called castopod and added a new docker-compose.yml file:

services:
  castopod:
    image: 'castopod/castopod:1.14.0'
    container_name: 'castopod'
    volumes:
      - './media:/var/www/castopod/public/media'
    environment:
      MYSQL_DATABASE: 'castopod'
      MYSQL_USER: 'castopod'
      CP_BASEURL: 'https://'
      CP_ANALYTICS_SALT: ''
      CP_REDIS_HOST: 'redis'
      MYSQL_PASSWORD: ''
      CP_REDIS_PASSWORD: ''
    networks:
      - castopod
      - castopod-db
    ports:
      - '3005:8000'
    restart: unless-stopped

  mariadb:
    image: 'mariadb:11.2'
    container_name: 'castopod-mariadb'
    networks:
      - 'castopod-db'
    volumes:
      - './mariadb:/var/lib/mysql'
    environment:
      MYSQL_DATABASE: 'castopod'
      MYSQL_USER: 'castopod'
      MYSQL_PASSWORD: ''
      MYSQL_ROOT_PASSWORD: ''
    restart: 'unless-stopped'

  redis:
    image: 'redis:7.2-alpine'
    container_name: 'castopod-redis'
    command: --requirepass ''
    volumes:
      - './cache:/data'
    networks:
      - 'castopod'

networks:
  castopod:
  castopod-db:

2026-01-28

Peter Ruckman on Professors

After having been in academia for many years and having obtained a PhD, I agree with Dr. Peter Ruckman's opinion (starting 9:52):

[...] Always correct the Greek with English. Oh how they hate that. Oh my God how they hate that. Every professor in America just "Oh oh... Ah! Heresy!" You say, "Why?" They want you to come to them, can't you figure that mess out?
Now listen, never let scholarship intimidate you no matter how stupid you are. If the scholarship says one thing and you read in your Bible that it doesn't say that, don't let them intimidate you. Say, "Well, I don't understand it, but I'm sure the Bible is right and you are wrong." I don't care how many degrees they wave in your face, some men die by degrees. BA (Bachelor of Arts) is a Bunch of Apple sauce, MA (Master of Arts) is More Apple sauce, and PhD (Doctor of Philosophy) means Pile Higher and Deeper.

2026-01-26

The 95 Theses of the Reformationsfest (1917)

This is an English translation of the 95 Leitsätze zum Reformationsfest 1917. These theses were meant to bring the church up-to-date to the new ideas of national socialism. Like all man-made doctrines, it is probably best ignored, but it may be useful for research purposes.

The translation below is created by feeding the images to Google Gemini. This means the translation is probably far from perfect, but it should still be sufficient to get a rough idea of the main messages of the text.

2026-01-01

Noteworthy Bible Quotes

Old Testament quotes from Brenton’s Septuagint and New Testament quotes from KJV.

David would today be called a “conspiracy theorist”: “Thou hast sheltered me from the conspiracy of them that do wickedly;” (Psalm 63)

“It is better to hope in the Lord, than to hope in princes.” (Psalm 117:9)

“I was peaceful among them that hated peace; when I spoke to them, they warred against me without a cause.” (Psalm 119:7)

“Lying lips are an abomination to the Lord; but he that deals faithfully is accepted with him.” (Proverbs 12:22) This re-emphasizes that the Old Testament is already firmly opposed to liars.

2025-12-20

The Bad News

Pastor Adam Fannin of Law of Liberty church had a good description of the news. He calls it the “bad news” because there is nothing good in it. Source: https://youtu.be/VmcIYcEbLVk.