Wolf’s Notes

• Wozu dienen TV-Debatten? 2022-09-21
  Daß sich Bundespräsident Van der Bellen auf keine Fernseh-Debatten mit seinen Konkurrenten einlassen will, halte ich für eine kluge Entscheidung.
• DAFÜR ist das Militär da! 2022-09-19
  DAS, sowie die Verteidigung des Vaterlandes, ist es, wofür das Militär legitimer Weise eingesetzt wird. Das, wofür Schlächter Putin das russischen Militär einsetzt, nämlich ein Nachbarland zu überfallen und dort grausam zu wüten, ist illegitimer Mißbrauch.
• THIS is, what the military is for! 2022-09-19
  THIS, and defending their country, is the proper role and use of the military, not the attack of a neighbour and the crimes and atrocities “Butcher” Putin has his military performing.
• Red Mittens for the Queen 2022-09-15
  How it came about that in 1970 Queen Elizabeth II visited a Hutterite colony in Manitoba, Canada.
• Rote Fäustlinge für die Königin 2022-09-15
  Wie es dazu kam, daß Königin Elizabeth II im Jahr 1970 eine hutterische Kolonie in Manitoba, Kanada besuchte.
• How Serious Are We About Truth? 2022-09-14
  As Christians, are we about truth, or about touching stories, even when they are untrue or inaccurate? Can we really give people hope with “fake news”? Is a concern for truth and accuracy in Christians’ communications evidence of an “international, cynical deconstruction of hope”?
• On Today’s Free Speech Crisis 2022-09-14
  Simon Calvert of the Christian Institute, talks to Toby Young, British journalist and founder of the Free Speech Union, about the new “woke” public morality (i.e. normalization of homosexuality and transgenderism, unrestricted abortion rights, etc.).
• Ein unerwarteter Held: Wolodymyr Selenskyj 2022-09-13
  «Der ukrainsche Präsident Wolodymyr Selenskyj ist ein nobler, jedoch unerwarteter Held. Er ist der ehemalige TV-Star, dessen Bühnenpräsenz und Courage in seinem in seinem Widerstand gegen Moskau zusammengekommen. Ich stimme David Ignatius’ Einschätzung des ukrainischen Präsidenten voll zu.
• An Unlikely Hero: Volodymyr Zelensky 2022-09-13
  «Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky is the sublime if unlikely hero. He is the ex-television star whose stage presence and guts merged as he stood his ground against Moscow.» I fully agree with Daniel Ignatius’ assessment of the Iranian president.
• Ehre der Ukraine und Sieg ihren Verteidigern! 2022-09-12
  In den letzten sechs Monaten wurde absoluter Pazifismus für mich unhaltbar. Das Opfer eines brutalen und illegalen Angriffs hat das Recht, vor Gott und den Menschen, sich zu verteidigen, und ich bete für seinen Sieg.

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• Hinweise für das Vorlesen der Heiligen Schrift im Gottesdienst 2016-01-18
  Dieser Artikel hat mir sehr gut gefallen und wichtige Hinweise für die öffentliche Schriftlesung geboten. Damit auch andere davon profitieren können, habe ich ihn mit Erlaubnis des Autors übersetzt. Wolf Hinweise für das Vorlesen der Heiligen Schrift im Gottesdienst von Russell E. Saltzman Nur weil ich gerade daran denke: hier sind einige Hinweise für Lektoren, die irgendwie das falsche ...

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• Backing up GMAIL with GMvault 2022-03-21
  In addition to wanting a local backup of my Gmail data, Google is terminating the free edition of Google Workspace (previously Google Apps, then G Suite) this spring which means I need to migrate my family’s e-mail accounts to other providers. After some research I settled on the Python script GMVAULT.
• Pastor, What Were You Thinking? 2022-03-18
  I am borrowing the title for this post from an article by Joe McKeever in Christianity Today’s ChurchLeaders website which I read yesterday. He lists a number of missteps by unidentified pastors which reflect well publicized real-life events of recent months and years, and which resulted in an end to the ministry, career, and often ...
• Consecration to the “Immaculate Heart of Mary”? 2022-03-16
  The Catholic News Agency reports that on March 25 Pope Francis will consecrate the Ukraine and Russia to the Immaculate Heart of Mary,  and in another article explains what exactly this means. As an Evangelical open to reconciliation with other Christian traditions this saddens me.
• “The Russians” are not the enemy! 2022-03-03
  On social media, in addition to many positive posts and comments of support for Ukraine, and the rather annoying comments from Putin’s defenders, there are unfortunately also comments which condemn and castigate “the Russians” and hold them responsible for the disaster happening in Ukraine.
• Ukraine Invasion: Idle Speculation 2022-03-03
  In the days since the beginning of Putin’s invasion of the Ukraine I have come across some comments from fellow Christians which leave me scratching my head. I want to address two ideas from these comments.
• “Complete” Creedal Formulae? 2022-02-05
  The suggestion that creedal formulae must be complete implies that theology is valid only insofar as it penetrates every mystery, or to the extent that nothing remains hidden from it so  it can come up with complete formulations of truth. A brief caveat to an article by Peter Leithart.
• Censorship? 2022-02-04
  Every now and then, accusations of censorship are tossed around, recently with regard to a video clip from a John McArthur sermon on “biblical sexuality”, and currently with regard to several prominent artists removing their material from Spotify over the presence of the “Joe Rogan Experience” podcast on the streaming service. But what is censorship?
• Christians persecuted in Germany … 2022-02-02
  … just as in Romania under Communism! Child Protective Services without advance warning removes a Romanian Pentecostal family’s seven children because their religious upbringing is “out of step with the values of the majority society” — a blatant disregard of religious freedom!
• “Diversity and Inclusion” — a Biblical Value? 2022-02-01
  I find it somewhat disturbing when leaders of a heretofore biblically orthodox Christian organization list diversity and inclusion among the aspects under which they plan “our future together”.
• Pope Benedict does not deserve this mud-slinging campaign 2022-01-31
  In view of the public outrage about Pope emeritus Benedict on the occasion of the recently published Munich Report on Clerical Abuse[1] I find this  Statement by  Bishops Stefan Oster of Passau[1] very helpful and fair. Of course Pope Benedict / Joseph Ratzinger has to be held accountable for what he did ...

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Hier werde ich, nach Maßgabe der verfügbaren Zeit, meine Facebook-Beiträge sammeln, damit sie leichter zugänglich sind.
Here I will collect, as time allows, my Facebook posts, to have them more accessible.

• Feindliche Übernahme: Mein Facebook-Konto wurde von Hackern geklaut! 2024-06-12
  Mein Facebook-Konto wurde Opfer einer feindlichen Übernahme — es wurde von Hackern geklaut! Was habe ich daraus gelernt?
• Hostile Take-Over! My old FB account is now in enemy hands … 2024-06-12
  My old FB account fell victim to a hostile take-over and is now in enemy hands . What did I learn from this?
• Wolfabschuß in Kärnten 2023-06-02
  Bin ich froh, daß ich nicht in Kärnten wohn’ — ich halt’ mich nämlich auch unmittelbar neben, und sogar in, von Menschen genutzten Gebäuden auf …
• Social Engineering in Fernsehserien 2023-06-02
  Ich kann gut verstehen, daß viele Christen ein Problem haben mit den heutigen Fernsehangeboten. Ich hab mich hier ja schon öfters auf die deutschen Fernsehserien bezogen, die ich an sich recht interessant finde. Mir ist schon öfter aufgefallen, daß diese Serien “social engineering” betreiben, und zwar im Sinne einer progressiven Sexualmoral (oder -unmoral): Homosexualität ist o.k., ...
• Lies vs Bullshit 2023-06-02
  In 2016, during the pesidential contest between Hilary Clinton and Donald Trump, in which both candidates were caught making untrue statements, I characterized the difference between them as follows: When Clinton tells untruths she knows what the truth is and is consciously saying something else — just like most of us when we lie. Trump, on the ...
• On the subject of ChatGPT 2023-05-31
  “Language models are trained to predict the next word,” said Yilun Du, a researcher at MIT who was previously a research fellow at OpenAI, and one of the paper’s authors. “They are not trained to tell people they don’t know what they’re doing.” The result is bots that act like precocious people-pleasers, making up answers ...
• Mentalitätsunterschiede? 2023-05-29
  “24h Polizei im Einsatz”, eine aktuelle Serie auf puls24 TV die Grazer Polizisten auf ihren Einsätzen begleitet, ist genauso interessant, wie die deutschen Serien “Auf Streife” und “Ruhrpottwache” — aber auf ganz andere Weise. Teilweise liegt das sicher am Ansatz (die Deutschen stellen Einsätze mit teilweise tatsächlichen Polizisten und anderen Ersthelfern nach, die Grazer begleiten ...
• USA: Problems with super long trains 2023-05-28
  When we were living in Plano, TX in 1984-1989 trains would regularly cut the town in half; as soon as the sound of a train whistle was heard, cars started racing along Avenue K to get to a crossing before the train blocked all crossings for half an hour. And this was not rural Texas, ...
• Russell Moore on Tim Keller, and other stuff. 2023-05-25
  Russell Moore is editor of Christianity Today. This is his weekly newsletter. Link to sign up to it is at the bottom. Moore to the Point
• Salzburger Katastrophen-Koalition 2023-05-24
  Wie man hört plant Wilhelm Haslauer in Salzburg eine Koalition mit der FPÖ — wohl ein Vorbote dessen, was uns im Fall einer Doskozil-SPÖ auf Bundesebene bevorsteht. Man sieht daß, wenn es um Machterhalt geht, Schwarze (bzw Türkise) und Rote ziemlich gleich agieren und nicht den gebührenden Abstand zur ausländerfeindlichen Kickl-Partie halten.

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Hier gibt es gelegentlich eher technisch orientierte Beiträge, vor allem auf Englisch, da dies meine „Technik-Sprache“ ist.
Here I will post the occasional technical note, mostly in English since that is the language I mostly work in.

• Proxmox on a Raspberry Pi 5 2024-06-24
  I am starting a project to install Proxmox on a Raspberry Pi 5.
• Through Theology In One Year 2024-06-24
  I am just starting to watch a video podcast series called “Through Theology In One Year”, and found a way to reverse the playlist to watch the episodes in the correct order.
• Hostile Take-Over! My old FB account is now in enemy hands … 2024-06-12
  My old FB account fell victim to a hostile take-over and is now in enemy hands . What did I learn from this?
• Upgrade Windows 11 Home to Pro using an OEM key 2023-10-18
  Using an OEM key to upgrade Windows Home to Pro is not as straightforward as using a Retail key, but it can be done, and at least in Europe is perfectly legal.
• Forgetting Backups can be Disastrous 2023-10-16
  With hard disks / SSDs now frequently soldered to the mainboard you can’t take them with you when your computer breaks. All the more important is is to consider and implement some sort of backup.
• Linux Mint Mate: Menu Scripting 2023-07-07
  I have been playing around with the Mate menus.
• Google Translate has become almost usable 2023-05-19
  I am really impressed with the progress Google Translate has made. After a disppointing experiment a few years ago, yesterday it produced a passable translation of a theological article.
• Google Translate ist ziemlich brauchbar geworden 2023-05-19
  Ich bin schwer beeindruckt von den Fortschritten, die Google Translate gemacht hat. Nach einem enttäuschenden Versuch vor ein paar Jahren habe ich gestern eine ziemlich brauchbare Übersetzung erhalten.
• Is Artificial Superintelligence Dangerous? 2022-09-04
  Yes, Artificial Superintelligence is dangerous but not just because of the risk of accidents but because it will inevitably be abused by malevolent actors. We should be on our guard but not despair, because Christ’s ultimate victory is assured.
• Backing up GMAIL with GMvault 2022-03-21
  In addition to wanting a local backup of my Gmail data, Google is terminating the free edition of Google Workspace (previously Google Apps, then G Suite) this spring which means I need to migrate my family’s e-mail accounts to other providers. After some research I settled on the Python script GMVAULT.

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