Not so fast. A solitary example of it happening once in Roman times and people writing about how they didn’t like it seems to show the opposite – it didn’t happen as a rule, with the Romans at least. Compare this to the Aztecs.

The gladiators certainly resulted in human death and if you wanted to count it as that, I’d certainly agree. Although it is interesting that the Romans didn’t consider it sacrifice, and it differs in character from directly sacrificing someone.

I am more curious about Pliny the Elder being sure that the pagans in Gaul and Britain practicing human sacrifice. Was that real, or invented? How about Carthage?

What about Greece? Is that where we get the trope of virgins sacrificed to a volcano (or the Oracle?) I don’t know the history.

I combed through the article and found this small section,

Human sacrifice

Human sacrifice in ancient Rome was rare but documented. After the Roman defeat at Cannae two Gauls and two Greeks were buried under the Forum Boarium, in a stone chamber “which had on a previous occasion [228 BC] also been polluted by human victims, a practice most repulsive to Roman feelings”.[^[119]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sacrifice_in_ancient_Roman_religion#cite_note-120) Livy avoids the word “sacrifice” in connection with this bloodless human life-offering; Plutarch does not. The rite was apparently repeated in 113 BC, preparatory to an invasion of Gaul. Its religious dimensions and purpose remain uncertain.[^[120]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sacrifice_in_ancient_Roman_religion#cite_note-121)

In the early stages of the First Punic War (264 BC) the first known Roman gladiatorial munus was held, described as a funeral blood-rite to the *manes of a Roman military aristocrat.[^[121]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sacrifice_in_ancient_Roman_religion#cite_note-122) The gladiator *munus* was never explicitly acknowledged as a human sacrifice, probably because death was not its inevitable outcome or purpose. Even so, the gladiators swore their lives to the gods, and the combat was dedicated as an offering to the Di Manes* or the revered souls of deceased human beings. The event was therefore a sacrificium in the strict sense of the term, and Christian writers later condemned it as human sacrifice.[^[122]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sacrifice_in_ancient_Roman_religion#cite_note-123)

The small woolen dolls called Maniae, hung on the Compitalia shrines, were thought a symbolic replacement for child-sacrifice to Mania, as Mother of the Lares. The Junii took credit for its abolition by their ancestor L. Junius Brutus, traditionally Rome’s Republican founder and first consul.[^[123]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sacrifice_in_ancient_Roman_religion#cite_note-124) Political or military executions were sometimes conducted in such a way that they evoked human sacrifice, whether deliberately or in the perception of witnesses; Marcus Marius Gratidianus was a gruesome example.

Officially, human sacrifice was obnoxious “to the laws of gods and men”. The practice was a mark of the barbarians and thus associated with Rome’s traditional enemies such as the Carthaginians and Gauls. Rome banned it on several occasions under extreme penalty. A law passed in 81 BC characterized human sacrifice as murder committed for magical purposes. Pliny the Elder saw the ending of human sacrifice conducted by the druids as a positive consequence of the conquest of Gaul and Britain. Despite an empire-wide ban under Hadrian, human sacrifice may have continued covertly in North Africa and elsewhere.[^[124]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sacrifice_in_ancient_Roman_religion#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBeardNorthPrice1998233%E2%80%93234,_385-125)

That last source is ++Beard, Mary++; North, John; Price, S. (1998), Religions of Rome, vol. I, Cambridge University Press, ISBN 978-0-521-31682-8

So far what you’ve presented here is that the ancient Romans believed that barbarians in Gaul, Britain,and Carthage practiced human sacrifice, but you have not presented any historical evidence of it actually happening.

I’m no historian and i don’t feel like putting work into researching this, but your Wikipedia article doesn’t appear to be a slam dunk.

Piggyback to share what I’ve tried:

YouTube plugin for Kodi on rpi 4B - great when it worked, often had breaking bugs for a long time (cat and mouse development), somewhat difficult to keep up to date. Had to manually install releases from github.

“Play on Kodi” add on, which uses ytdlp to download and send the video. Fiddly, could never get it to work seamlessly or smoothly.

YouTube in firefox on RaspberryOS, with keyboard and mouse: firefox was too heavy for the rpi to work consistently.

I eventually bought one of those beelink mini pcs, which has enough power to run Firefox, to watch YouTube. It doesn’t have CEC built in, which is a huge downgrade, but the YouTube experience is great, and it can easily watch videos on other Web sites too.

Where did you apply for the free course? That’s awesome!

What does netbird do? What is your use case?

Yes, i would never work on computers for a job. I am too strongly a PEBKAC.

Do you know any open source efforts who will train you how to write documentation in exchange for committing to volunteerimg a certain amount? I would be interested.

For the benefit of others:

Review the license!!

You may not use BirdNET-Pi to develop a commercial product!!!!

BirdNET-Pi

A realtime acoustic bird classification system for the Raspberry Pi 5, 4B, 400, 3B+, and 0W2

Image

Icon made by Freepik from www.flaticon.com

About this fork:

I’ve been building on mcguirepr89’s most excellent work to further update and improve BirdNET-Pi. Maybe someone will find it useful.

[…]

Introduction

BirdNET-Pi is built on the BirdNET framework by @kahst Image using pre-built TFLite binaries by @PINTO0309 . It is able to recognize bird sounds from a USB microphone or sound card in realtime and share its data with the rest of the world.

Check out birds from around the world

• BirdWeather

Features

• 24/7 recording and automatic identification of bird songs, chirps, and peeps using BirdNET machine learning
• Automatic extraction and cataloguing of bird clips from full-length recordings
• Tools to visualize your recorded bird data and analyze trends
• Live audio stream and spectrogram
• Automatic disk space management that periodically purges old audio files
• BirdWeather integration – you can request a BirdWeather ID from BirdNET-Pi’s “Tools” > “Settings” page
• Web interface access to all data and logs provided by Caddy
• GoTTY and GoTTY x86 Web Terminal
• Tiny File Manager
• FTP server included
• SQLite3 Database
• Adminer database maintenance
• phpSysInfo
• Apprise Notifications supporting 90+ notification platforms
• Localization supported

The disappearing images are the worst. Often makes me rethink how bad i want to visit their website

Ah thanks i thought yoi were talking about the optiplex

How is it $24 ?

I am learning about bookstack, it looks nice!

I don’t have a good system.

I keep a spreadsheet of the different important servers, their ip addresses, and notes in my nextcloud.

In each of my admin home folders, i have an info.txt where I write notes to myself.

Someday I’ll create a network diagram…

For me it’s more like i see old friends that I’ve moved away from, but if they have a wedding or other life event, i could see it on IG, along with daily stuff from other old friends.

I haven’t been on ig for years though. I could dance, if i wanted to. I could leave my friends behind!

Ive experienced more failed prints, spaghettification, etc, with knock-off filament

Misaligned interests is ironically the main reason i don’t use them.

It just makes that shit up. I’ve wasted so much time with trying to not give me fake answers and verifying the answers it gives me.

Elsewhere in thread it talks about kagi giving money to Russia and Musk which is not something I’d support

I also pay $0 to kagi. I use ddg for most stuff and kagi only when it can’t find something. The free tier is plenty for this.

As stated elsewhere in thread, i would not want to support Kagi with money. They are a shitty company.

We didn’t like that either.

That was the beginning of the end for websites.

I took a class at a local library, and while most of it was basic, it was really interesting seeing what they felt was the most important to teach (how to shrink a design in the slicer software and minimize print durations), and also really cool to see all their abandoned projects people made and left behind, or half built with the infill structure visible.

I found it really interesting to learn about all the types of infill patterns and when to use them.