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nucleartacoson How Did Christianity Manage to Grow into 3 Continents?

Christianity spread around the middle east and southern Europe before English existed, but not to the degree it is now.

nucleartacoson How Did Christianity Manage to Grow into 3 Continents?

https://www.thoughtco.com/who-is-the-holy-spirit-701504

nucleartacoson How Did Christianity Manage to Grow into 3 Continents?

Missionaries spreading the Gospel of Jesus Christ. They were and are fulfilling the Great Commission:

Matthew 28:16-20

16 Then the eleven disciples went to Galilee, to the mountain where Jesus had told them to go. 17 When they saw him, they worshiped him; but some doubted. 18 Then Jesus came to them and said, “All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. 19 Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, 20 and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you. And surely I am with you always, to the very end of the age.”

nucleartacoson When Gas Masks Were an Inescapable Part of Everyday Life

Shalom. The mask itself would not be expired, but the filters would be. The mask itself is only subject to dry rot unless it's stored in it's bag out in the elements. If you have it in a trunk or a closet, it's likely still good. You can order filters online.

nucleartacoson Why Did ProtonMail Vanish from Google Search Results? (2016)

Nothing at all wrong with the IDF or Israel. I happily support my Jewish brothers and sisters buy buying Israeli-made goods.

nucleartacoson Joplin – A note-taking and to-do app with builds for desktop, mobile, terminal

If you're working in a terminal, all you need to take notes is vi or emacs. No need to complicate things.

nucleartacoson Net neutrality: Google, FB, Netflix stocks drop sharply as Comcast, Verizon gain

Not that it's much, but just yesterday I shucked my freshly-paid-for Verizon iPhone 7 Plus for a T-Mobile iPhone 8. I realize it doesn't make a dent in the issue, but Verizon has become bad news for consumers who care about the issue.

nucleartacoson Three quarters of Android apps track users with third party tools

I've long thought about setting up a service that people can connect to with their mobiles or other devices (who don't want or can't root) that basically sanitizes their connection: strips out ads, beacons, tracking cookies, etc.

Or, set up virtual desktops that people can connect to that also use VPNs that could allow people to originate their traffic from a given region.

I'm primarily interested in created a sanitized stream more than anything. People have a right to surf without being tracked.

nucleartacoson Three quarters of Android apps track users with third party tools

I don't get it. If you're in IT in any role, you know this is happening. I install zero apps on my iPhone. I don't need them. Banking and other secure things are more properly done on a desktop or laptop running some form of nix with proper security in place.
I would never access my bank or other secure website with crucial information via a mobile phone. Call me an anachronism should you wish, but I've never had the tracking worries or data leak worries others do.

On my nix desktops, I block all ads, all tracking cookies, no third-party cookies, I whitelist my bank and Fastmail account for cookies, and I block coin mining, HTML canvassing, HTTP/S referrer, CSS history lookups, and so much more. In addition, I surf through a VPN. Why risk it?

nucleartacoson Who uses Free/Net/OpenBSD and for what?

No one using the BSDs? I'm considering moving some servers over to run FreeBSD because of ZFS and just overall better documentation and OS consistency.