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@sbb@c.im

Ajahn Subharo
Theravada Buddhist Monk

Here's a story-telling-style Dhamma Talk Video, which shows many photos along with narrations, serving as a good biography:

https://bhikkhu.ca/buddhism/video/2021/04/11/Dhamma_Talk_062.html

This profile is from a federated server and may be incomplete. Browse more on the original instance.

sbb, to Malaysia

There's this "Threatened" (as in, Endangered species), rare stork I've been starting to see in the local park here (Raintree Walk in Taiping, ): a "Milky Stork":
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milky_stork
It's tall! Beak is menacing, looks like it could snip off an arm or something

sbb, to ai

It strikes me as ironic that everyone flocking to Social Media by-and-large sought to gain influence, but as they de-facto gave away their Copyright ownership of everything they posted - guess what - that influence will be absconded with by the AI that came along afterwards, using their posts for training, with no fair attribution to speak of.

sbb, to Malaysia

One of the best-loved vehicles on the road here in seems to be the Toyota "Lite Ace GXL" minivan (which apparently can be fixed up forever, and pretty much never dies). They often have stylized 90's decalling on the side saying "Vanette".

It sort of makes my day when I see one.

A nice example of "Re-use" in "Reduce, re-use, recycle".

Toyota Lite Ace GXL minivan 2
Toyota Lite Ace GXL minivan 3
Toyota Lite Ace GXL minivan 4

ChrisMayLA6, to bookstodon
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Defend our

(from @tomgauld)

@bookstodon

sbb,

@ChrisMayLA6 @tomgauld @bookstodon I, for one, am a fan of digital libraries that you need WireGuard to access.

sbb, to buddhism

I'll be doing a live-stream Dhamma Talk soon entitled "Spiritual Community - Kalyana Mittas".

Visible here, ad-free, live-streamed (starting in 30 minutes from the time of this post):
https://bhikkhu.ca/video_dhamma_talks/

Sincere questions are also invited; DM me (there is also a live chat server explained at the above link), for perhaps answering on a future livestream.

The recorded video will be posted later (non-live) here:
https://bhikkhu.ca/

#Buddhist #Buddhism #Dhamma #Dharma #Theravada

sbb,

...said #Dhamma Talk video "Spiritual Community - Kalyana Mittas"​:
https://bhikkhu.ca/buddhism/video/2024/01/15/Dhamma_Talk_135.html

#Buddhist #dharma #Theravada

Topics: Kalyāṇa mittatā, Kalyāṇa mittas, Kalyāna mittas, Kalyana mitta, admirable #friendship, good #friends, qualities of the Arhant disciples of the #Buddha, Sāriputta, Mahā Moggallāna, Mahā Kassapa, Anuruddha, Revata, Ānanda, dhutangas, personalities, #talents, Buddha's #leadership, #diversity, #tolerance

sbb, to buddhism

I'll be doing a live-stream Dhamma Talk soon entitled "A Beauty So Deep that it Touches the Soul".

Visible here, ad-free, live-streamed (starting in 1 hr from the time of this post):
https://bhikkhu.ca/video_dhamma_talks/

Sincere questions are also invited (there is a live chat server), or DM me, for perhaps answering on a future livestream.

The recorded video will be posted later (non-live) here:
https://bhikkhu.ca/

sbb,

...said Talk video "A Beauty So Deep that it Touches the Soul"​:
https://bhikkhu.ca/buddhism/video/2024/01/08/Dhamma_Talk_133.html

Topics: suffering, , dukkha, sukka, bliss, samsara, citta, , , soul, comparison, relativity, worldy vs “unconditioned” happiness, survivalism, monastic , modularity, minimizing one’s belongings, , versatility

sbb, to KindActions

If your kids are ungrateful about anything this season - and they could use some assistance building up their - perhaps have them listen to my most recent Talk:
https://bhikkhu.ca/buddhism/video/2023/12/25/Dhamma_Talk_131.html

It contains a true story about an unfortunate monk who had to sleep sideways on a marble stair on the stairs leading up to a large building - one side-ways-laying monk per stair (like dominoes). He additionally had to have his appendix out, and had to have all his toenails pulled out (among other difficulties).

Further Topics:
chanting, Myanmar, , appreciation, Sri Lanka, culture, facing difficulties and hardships, listening to advice, trusting our teachers, - student relationship, ideal practice environments

sbb, to random

I've been using a "static content generator" self-publishing web platform for over 5 years now, called "Jekyll". It's still holding up well to posting my video Talks (as well as photos, and the occasional longer-format essay), and I can host it inexpensively on a $5US/month VPS hosting plan.

is quite no-frills (still no dark mode in its default theme, called "Minima"):

https://github.com/jekyll/minima

...but on a day like today - where there is a lot of unrest and commotion around abandoning Substack - I'm glad to just let my content just sit mellow in one place.

shines as having been worth it, when time and time again, some "too-good-to-be-true" platform doesn't remain a good option.

sbb, to random

I'll be doing a live-stream Dhamma Talk in 15 minutes, entitled "My Favorite Buddhist Chant"

Visible here, ad-free, live-streamed:
https://bhikkhu.ca/video_dhamma_talks/

Sincere questions are also invited (DM me), for a future livestream.

The recorded video will be posted later (non-live) here:
https://bhikkhu.ca/

sbb,

...said Talk video "My Favorite Buddhist Chant"​:
https://bhikkhu.ca/buddhism/video/2023/12/18/Dhamma_Talk_129.html

Topics: Pali/Pāḷi, cosmology, religion, distinctions between Buddhism, Hinduism, and Christianity, doctrine, translation, , verse, big picture, rebirth, seeking, striving, death, future lives, heaven, hell, ghost realm, from sin, salvation, removal of defilements, eternal life, devas; extremely long, yet not quite eternal life

is of Taiping's central park ()

Taiping, Malaysia's central park has a pond with tropical birds and hills in the distance, with many mature Raintrees

sbb, to threads

There's a parable (one of Aesop's fables) sometimes told in monasteries, relevant to the debate of federating with :

"The story concerns a farmer who finds a viper freezing in the snow. Taking pity on it, he picks it up and places it within his coat. The viper, revived by the warmth, bites his rescuer, who dies realizing that it is his own fault."

"The Farmer and the Viper":
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Farmer_and_the_Viper

Gargron, to random
@Gargron@mastodon.social avatar

My wife is looking forward to deleting her Instagram account once she can connect with the same folks from her Mastodon account. Being able to remain in touch with over 100M people who still use Meta products out of the comfort of an ad-free, privacy-friendly platform like Mastodon is a game changer.

sbb,

@andynoelker @gersande @Gargron Here's the worst case scenario I foresee: the existing Mastodon instance admins burn out and quit - badly damaging the Federation - because it's just too hard to maintain the smooth federating, on top of all the other duties of runing an instance.

There's no magic forcefield that ensures a smooth course for the instance admins, should Meta introduce stress on the instance admins - intentionally or unintentionally caused on Meta's side.

It's foolhardy to take the instance admins' labour for granted; effectively abusing it when it could have been smoother sailing without a huge giant "rolling over in bed", as it were.

davidrevoy, to threads
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The recent excitement surrounding Thread's arrival on the Fediverse is concerning. To understand why this is not a good idea, consider their economic interest in harvesting data, their poor moderation, and their manipulations. Nothing good can come from their federation. Don't roll out the red carpet for them.

sbb,

@davidrevoy Your artwork is great! How about one from Aesop's fables, featuring the lion taking his "lion's share"?

https://read.gov/aesop/141.html

Those who don't see any problem with Threads joining the Fediverse apparently seem to think that functioning-by-goodwill internet Federations grow on trees, and they aren't any sort of considerable loss if sidelined and subverted by the lions who know everything there is to know about taking their "lion's share".

sbb, to buddhism

Great video on the topic of loneliness:

"Are We the Loneliest Generation?"
https://youtu.be/I19btmIBhx0?si=gCp2C-8tZCX_RNgQ&t=159

I liked the part where the narrator distinguishes between loneliness - an unpleasant feeling of not being emotionally understood, or socially connected to - and being physically alone (not being around other people).

Solitude is not necessarily a bad thing, while on the flip-side, you can feel lonely even though you are around other people.

Compassion - karuna - has built into it a deep sense of acceptance and understanding directed towards the recipient, despite their flaws and foibles. It's possible to direct compassion towards oneself, and have a deep, heavenly peacefulness, whereby this need for being understood is quenched with that acceptance and understanding.

Compassion towards oneself is a powerful antidote to . Don't wait for others to be compassionate and empathetic towards you, should you not have enough of those people in your life. Fulfill your own need to be understood, by knowing and accepting yourself, all snug and cozy and warm in the glow of Brahmaviharic-grade compassion. It's tremendously therapeutic.

sbb, to Malaysia

There's a nice walk around a large pond here in Taiping . It's called the "Raintree Walk", and there are birds who frequent the park, such as the "Intermediate Egret" (a white, crane-like bird), and just today, I saw two purple herons.

One of the locals tells me that the purple herons are a rare sighting.

Codeberg, to random
@Codeberg@social.anoxinon.de avatar

Sorry for decreasing average uptime from 99.97% to 99.64%.

We are still investigating the root cause for the downtime. It looks like it started within our file system.

sbb,

@Codeberg Are your servers Debian bookworm? With an ext4 filesystem? If so, please have a look at this:
https://fulda.social/@Ganneff/111551628003050712

sbb, to Malaysia

Today I went to a Kathina in Penang at Sitavana forest monastery, which is a steep uphill 4x4 truck ride waaay up; would take a gruelling ~1 or 1.5 hours to walk up. The view at the stop was stunning. There were hundreds of attendees.

Licensing on the photos: Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/

Permission to use these photos are hereby expressly prohibited, for the purposes of training Artificial Intelligence models in any way, shape or form.

Buddhist monks sitting at the Kathina celebration, 2023, at Sitavana forest Monastery, Penang, Malaysia

nixCraft, to random
@nixCraft@mastodon.social avatar

I don't know who wants to hear, but please test your backup. Restore files. How much time did it take? Did you succeed in getting back your data? You are welcome 🤗

sbb,

@nixCraft 30 min to restore my laptop. Yes, worked again as expected. zstd is my good buddy for full-dusk backups/restores. :bl69:

sbb, to Malaysia

Over here in there are these female vampire monsters called "Pontianak".

"Pontianak: The Vengeful, Violent Vampiric Ghost of Southeast Asia":
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u-n4ws9EzUU

MeanwhileinCanada, to random
@MeanwhileinCanada@ohai.social avatar

An owl stole a child's stick horse and flew around with it.

Photos by Eric Lind

sbb,

@MeanwhileinCanada "Horse spotted flying over the cuckoo's nest".

veloren, to random

We are thinking of potentially moving development from Discord to another platform (Discord would remain as a community platform).

Do you have any recommendations for platforms and reasons why?

Examples of potential options are Discourse and Mattermost

sbb, (edited )

@veloren I've used Mattermost and Discourse a lot myself.

Mattermost makes sense when you want to use it like Slack - the thing it's a clone of. It's best used when you have little teams/subgroups of people tackling certain medium- to long-persisting areas of development or work, which are organized into "channels". Channels are sort of like "mega-threads." Each of these channels/mega-threads has a system of permissions on it as to who's allowed in, "pinned" posts, etc. The included "Boards" (kanban board feature) is additionally like Trello - great for making todo lists and tracking tasks, with comments, etc.

Discourse makes sense when it's a bunch of disjoint, random little questions about anything and everything (you know, "threads"), and there isn't any sense of coordinated teamwork.

Of the two, I prefer team server, because it's more lightweight (written in , will run even on a 4), and has a decent App with push notifications. has a less likeable mobile experience, IMHO.

Mattermost is for people who need to get a larger project (comprised of many sub-projects) done. Discourse is just for bantering forever on some broad, wide-open area of discussion, never converging on anything.

jacqueline, to random
@jacqueline@chaos.social avatar

hey check this out https://www.crowdsupply.com/cool-tech-zone/tangara

sbb,

@jacqueline This is reminiscent of a Sandisk Sansa e280 I used to have, with Rockbox on it. I used it for like 10 years until it died. It even had a user-replaceable battery.

Please bring Rockbox back.

arstechnica, to random
@arstechnica@mastodon.social avatar

AI chatbots can infer an alarming amount of info about you from your responses

This troubling ability could be used by scammers or to target ads.

https://arstechnica.com/ai/2023/10/ai-chatbots-can-infer-an-alarming-amount-of-info-about-you-from-your-responses/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

sbb,

@arstechnica This occurred to me from the very start - by using , it isn't a one-way street of being a user. One is likely being used, by using it.

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