Wed, May 23, 2018
Cellphones make available large amounts of personal information about you in public airspace. I propose building a metadata petting zoo to raise awareness for this issue and some possible solutions.
This broadcasting of metadata is a necessity for you using your phone. It cannot be disabled until cellphone technology is recreated from the ground up with privacy in mind. It doesn’t require hidden surveillance technology but makes use of the most common network systems such as Wifi, LTE, GSM and Bluetooth.
Mon, May 14, 2018
Everyone should have a button on their computer that reads “make a new website”. This is one of the things that the Dat project is working on with the Beaker browser: Making it easy to self-publish content on the web without using centralized infrastructure services from the likes of Google and Amazon.
As I create this blog using Hugo, a static site generator, I thought it should be pretty easy to make it available on Dat.
Tue, Apr 24, 2018
Vincent Bernat writes about the replacements he used to make his blog more privacy aware instead of relying on an abundance of external services. Whatever.
read A more privacy-friendly blog
Thu, Apr 12, 2018
Cal Newport beschreib Silicon Valley’s tiefen Glauben daran, dass man die Menschheit mithilfe von Technologie verbessern kann. Dabei geht es nicht nur darum, Leiden aus der Welt zu schaffen, sondern auch darum, das Gute im Menschen zu vervielfachen. Wenn Menschen Bekanntschaften knüpfen und sich vernetzen um gute Dinge zu tun, dann könne es nur gut sein, wenn man dieses ins Extreme katapultiert und alle Menschen miteinander verbindet. Er bezieht sich dabei auf ein Memo eines Facebook-Ingenieurs, in welchem dieser seine Beobachtung beschreibt, das genau dies Facebooks DNA ist, das undiskrimierende Vernetzen aller Menschen überhaupt.
Tue, Feb 20, 2018
It takes a lot of effort to explain how [an old game’s graphic art] is better than [a recent one’s]. However, it is easy to explain that the [recent game’s art] has a higher level of technology. To the average person, I’m sure it’s self-evident.
http://www.dinofarmgames.com/a-pixel-artist-renounces-pixel-art/
Sat, Jan 13, 2018
Bedtime worry, including worrying about incomplete future tasks, is a significant contributor to difficulty falling asleep. Previous research showed that writing about one’s worries can help individuals fall asleep.
We investigated whether the temporal focus of bedtime writing—writing a to-do list versus journaling about completed activities—affected sleep onset latency. Fifty-seven healthy young adults (18–30) completed a writing assignment for 5 min prior to overnight polysomnography recording in a controlled sleep laboratory.
Mon, Oct 9, 2017
Der Konsens-o-Mat POC von Felix Bolte zeigt, dass der Fragenkatalog des Wahl-o-Mat nicht nur Kontroversen, sondern auch Übereinstimmungen der Parteien zeigen kann. Ich fand das interessant und habe eine Variation des Konzepts gebaut um zu sehen, welche Fragen zur Bundestagswahl 2017 besonders Kontrovers waren und in welchen die Parteien übereinstimmen.
Es gibt drei Thesen, in denen alle großen Parteien (Union, SPD, AfD, FDP, Linke und Grüne) übereinstimmen:
Kindergeld soll nur an deutsche Familien ausgezahlt werden.
Tue, Jul 25, 2017
Pseudo-public space – squares and parks that seem public but are actually owned by corporations – has quietly spread across cities worldwide. As the Guardian maps its full extent in London for the first time, Jack Shenker reports on a new culture of secrecy and control, where private security guards can remove you for protesting, taking photos … or just looking scruffy
The insidious creep of pseudo-public space in London in the Guardian
Sat, Apr 15, 2017
Arthur Carabott writes about his experiments to improve the user interfaces of software for making music:
The goal is to re-think many of the ways in which audio software is designed. […] The project is driven by these two design principles:
If I weren’t interacting with a computer, how would I express this musical idea? As I am interacting with a computer, what can it do for me that traditional equipment can’t?
Tue, Mar 28, 2017
Auf mietlimbo.de gibt es jetzt die Anfänge dieses Projekts zu sehen, in dem ich in den nächsten sechs Monaten daran arbeiten werde, Mietsenkungen mit der Mietpreisbremse in Berlin einfacher zu machen.
Thu, Mar 16, 2017
Trying to be as open as possible and ready to debate is exhausting, and often leaves one tired and misunderstood. I can see how the ‘big picture’ reward isn’t worth the day-to-day depression and anxiety.
– cmehdy
Carnegie Mellon News on Information Avoidance:
We live in an unprecedented “age of information,” but we use very little of it. Dieters prefer not to look at the calories in their tasty desert, people at high risk for disease avoid screenings and people choose the news source that aligns with their political ideology.
Sun, Feb 12, 2017
… many of us aren’t Narrative in this sense. We’re naturally – deeply – non-Narrative. We’re anti-Narrative by fundamental constitution. It’s not just that the deliverances of memory are, for us, hopelessly piecemeal and disordered, even when we’re trying to remember a temporally extended sequence of events. The point is more general. It concerns all parts of life, life’s ‘great shambles’, in the American novelist Henry James’s expression. This seems a much better characterisation of the large-scale structure of human existence as we find it.
Sun, Feb 12, 2017
“I had a 15-minute short-term memory, like Dory the fish in Finding Nemo,” Lee wrote in a Buzzfeed essay chronicling her experience. “My doctors instructed me to log happenings with timestamps in my Moleskine journal. That, they said, would be my working short-term memory. My memento to my mori.”
Lee used those journals to reconstruct her experience in a new memoir called Tell Me Everything You Don’t Remember. She talks with NPR’s Scott Simon about the silver linings of memory loss and the unexpected grief that came with her recovery.
Mon, Feb 6, 2017
It’s pretty shocking how tech-illiterate the “digital native” generation is. They’re no better than previous generations with computers. They don’t understand computers better for having grown up with them, they take them for granted. They can snapchat and tweet, but if something breaks they’re as clueless as your grandmother. – Asmor
I agree with this sentiment. As technology advances we interface less with the core programming of the technology.
Mon, Feb 6, 2017
the operatives use their phones to record about two dozen spins on a game they aim to cheat. They upload that footage to a technical staff in St. Petersburg, who analyze the video and calculate the machine’s pattern based on what they know about the model’s pseudorandom number generator. Finally, the St. Petersburg team transmits a list of timing markers to a custom app on the operative’s phone; those markers cause the handset to vibrate roughly 0.
Wed, Jan 11, 2017
For a long time I wanted to setup a Raspberry Pi in our flat’s living room. I wanted it to show a looping playlist of GIFs and then maybe extend it to other functionality that is cool to have in a shared flat. This christmas I finally got around to building this thing and it has been so much fun!
I started developing in Jupyter Notebook and below you can read the results of that.
Fri, Dec 30, 2016
Our computers are secure for a bunch of reasons. The engineers at Google, Apple, Microsoft spent a lot of time on this. But that doesn’t happen for these cheaper devices. … These devices are a lower price margin, they’re offshore, there’s no teams. And a lot of them cannot be patched. Those DVRs are going to be vulnerable until someone throws them away. And that takes a while. We get security [for phones] because I get a new one every 18 months.
Fri, Dec 30, 2016
Das meiste, was hier empfohlen wird, um Code besser zu verstehen ist offensichtlich und bekannt. Trotzdem nett, das mal in einer Liste zu sehen.
Insbesondere lässt es mich wünschen, es gäbe ein Tool, das Code grafisch aufbereitet, so dass eine Visualisierung entsteht, die sowohl hübsch aussieht, als auch tatsächlich beim Verständnis hilft.
However, most of us have to read lots of code that does not meet the above standards. What are the best ways to make sense out of those huge, unstructured, maintained-by-dozens-of-people, internally-inconsistent, undocumented code bases that we must understand and absorb?
Tue, Dec 27, 2016
Jay MacDonald is a professional writer and frequent contributor to CreditCards.com. His off-the-beaten-path feature stories explore the religious, astrological, psychological, aromatic and hygienic aspects of credit cards as well as their cultural significance in film, fashion and popular song. His one-on-one interviews include TV stars, a hip-hop mogul, bestselling authors, a championship boxer, an etiquette expert, a secret agent and a meteor hunter. Of course he lives in Florida.
Mon, Dec 26, 2016
Most developers think that the work they do at work belongs to their employer, but anything they work on at home or on their own time is theirs. This is wrong enough to be dangerous.
For legal reasons, tech companies need to own everything that their employees create, even in their own time.
Developer’s Side Projects by Joel Spolsky
Wed, Dec 7, 2016
Southerns have an accent. New Jerseyans have an accent. British have an accent. Can’t computers have an accent, too?
rckclmbr about Amazon’s new speech synthesis web service, which has a distinctly robotic voice.
Tue, Nov 29, 2016
Mitfahrgelegenheit.de Daten inkl IBAN,Telefon,etc. wurden erhackt. Bei einer kostenlosen Hotline kann man erfragen, ob eigene Kontodaten betroffen sind. Was ist die Lösung? Datenchaos!
Why act like a fool when you can really be one?
Macht euch genau so viele Bankkonten, Email-Accounts, Pseudonyme, etc., dass ihr gerade noch selber den Überblick behaltet (je 5). Benutzt Whatsapp, Facebook, IRC, Telegram, Signal und alles durcheinander, jeweils unter verschiedenen Benutzernamen. Gebt eure alten Telefonnummern an Freunde weiter, wenn ihr sie nicht mehr braucht.
Tue, Nov 29, 2016
Bosco Verticale (Vertical Forest) is a pair of residential towers in the Porta Nuova district of Milan, Italy. It is called Bosco Verticale because each tower houses trees between three and six meters which help mitigate smog and produce oxygen. It is also used to moderate temperatures in the building in the winter and summer. The plants also attenuate noise. The design was tested in a wind tunnel to ensure the trees would not topple from gusts of wind.
Tue, Nov 29, 2016
Fascism became an all-purpose term because one can eliminate from a fascist regime one or more features, and it will still be recognizable as fascist. […] I think it is possible to outline a list of features that are typical of what I would like to call Ur-Fascism, or Eternal Fascism. […]
Umberto Eco: Ur-Fascism
The Nazi gnosis was nourished by traditionalist, syncretistic, occult elements. […] Both Fascists and Nazis worshiped technology, while traditionalist thinkers usually reject it as a negation of traditional spiritual values.
Wed, Nov 16, 2016
Schöne, gerade abgeschnittene Scheiben Brot.
Keine Krumen an der Kante, ein glatter, geschliffener Schnitt. Nicht so dünn, dass beim Butter streichen die Löcher kommen und nicht so dick, dass man beim Zeitung lesen merkt, dass man kräftig kauen muss.
Keine schiefe Kante,
keine Auswölbung
und keine abgebrochene Ecke.
Nur eine schöne, gerade abgeschnittene Scheibe Brot.
Dazu auch Bread and Other Edible Agents of Mental Disease by Paola Bressan and Peter Kramer:
Tue, Nov 15, 2016
> Professional online content moderation has more power over the boundaries of free speech “than any Supreme Court justice, any king or any president”. With online media as the people’s well of information, “whether online content stays or goes has the power to shape movements and revolutions, as well as the sweeping policy reforms and cultural shifts they spawn.”. Yet, nobody is watching, moderation happens in silence.
THE SECRET RULES OF THE INTERNET
Fri, Nov 11, 2016
Deine Beine, die sich wie auf märchenhafte Weise
lang und lang die ganzen Weiten
bis ich deine weißen Augen mit dem blauen
und mir Küsse von dir nehme.
Gib mir auf liebe, warme Weise
deinen Atem, wie er ohne mich zu sehen
unter den Saum, und leicht und leichter
meine Beine hebt und schmiegt an deine.
Wed, Nov 9, 2016
The globalisation project has been rejected by a majority of the population. […] people seem to care a LOT about immigration and preserving their culture. Instead of patronising these people it’s time we tried to understand their concerns and try to assuage them.
Mon, Nov 7, 2016
Lasst uns streiten, bis wir uns die Augen auskratzen wollen, und dann zusammen Wein trinken und darüber lachen, statt es wirklich zu tun.
Das Ziel besteht nicht darin, dass wir über alles einig sind – das wäre eine ausgebleichte und verdorrte Geisteswelt – , sondern dass wir uns darüber einigen, wie wir miteinander streiten. Wenn wir alle Tabus aller Religionen, Kulturen, Klassen, ethnischen Gruppen, sexuellen Orientierungen zusammenrechnen und sagen, darüber können wir nicht reden, dann bleibt herzlich wenig übrig, worüber wir reden können.
Thu, Sep 22, 2016
Sind die Kernwerte des freien Internets und der Demokratie unvereinbar? Freie Netze, freie Innovation haben uns ein Feudalsystem gebracht, in dem nicht demokratisch entschieden wird, sondern nach Gusto der neuen Lehnherren, argumentiert Morozov in der FAZ.
In der Praxis bedeutet das, Gesetze zu verabschieden, die den freien Fluss der Daten über die Grenzen hinweg einschränken […] Die Alternative - ein neofeudales Regime, in dem Unternehmen die Regierungen zur Geisel nehmen und Bürgerrechte auf willkürliche Entscheidungen von den Betreibern der Plattformen reduziert werden - ist bei weitem unangenehmer.
Thu, Sep 22, 2016
Statt dieser klamaukigen Namen sollte ein Friseur-Salon einfach “I’m here if you need to talk” heißen.
Tue, Sep 20, 2016
Let’s ban all advertising in public space. Why?
People are taking the piss out of you everyday. They butt into your life, take a cheap shot at you and then disappear. They leer at you from tall buildings and make you feel small. They make flippant comments from buses that imply you’re not sexy enough and that all the fun is happening somewhere else. They are on TV making your girlfriend feel inadequate.
Wed, Sep 14, 2016
Weißt du eigentlich, was du mit deiner ganzen Zeit so machst? Eine Woche hat 168 Stunden. Bei (theoretischen) 8 Stunden Schlaf bleiben 112 Stunden. Wieviel davon sind Freizeit und wieviel bist du mit irgendwelchen Sachen beschäftigt? Wie viel davon ist Uni oder Arbeit und wieviel sauber machen, Erledigungen, etc.?
Habe gerade diesen Blog gelesen mit einer Musterrechnung (die ich ein bisschen übertrieben finde), bei der der Autor darauf kommt, dass er bei einem 40 Stunden Job auf 10 Stunden freie Zeit kommt.
Mon, Jun 6, 2016
Als ein Junge einen Ast von einem Pflaumenbaum abbricht, rennt er ihm hinterher, bis er ihn eingefangen hat, und schreit: »Du kannst doch nicht die Hand abreißen, die dir einen Bonbon gibt!« […] Mit der Großmäuligkeit der Jugendlichen kann er umgehen. Aber an der Selbstverständlichkeit, mit der die Neuen sich breitmachen, verzweifelt er.
SZ Magazin
Mon, May 30, 2016
Diary Peter is an awareness coach. By asking you short questions from time to time, he writes a diary and thereby increases your awareness of everyday life, which helps you establish healthy habits.
You can also ask him to remind you about things you would like to do regularly, but always forget about, like meditating, flossing or being silly :)
Peter helps you: Conscious eating Workout regularly Track weight Write a diary Record what books and articles you read Meditate More conscious sleeping (sleep early&plenty) Dream diary Media usage (How much time on computer/tv) Stretching Progress ~~ User stories ~~ ~~ App Skeleton ~~ ~~ Prototype ~~ Bugfixing Project on Github
Thu, May 26, 2016
Really insightful article on the development of user interfaces, chat bots and conversational UIs given the background of WeChat’s success in China (title threw me off first, but it’s a good read).
Alhough some apps are indeed mini-desktop apps that make full use of the supercomputer I carry in my pocket, well over half fall into another category. These apps are just a vessel for a steady stream of news, notifications, messages, and other timely info ultimately residing in a backend service somewhere.
Fri, May 20, 2016
the group falls for the illusion that Yelp’s menu represents a complete set of choices for where to go [with their friends for the evening]. While looking down at their phones, they don’t see the park across the street with a band playing live music. They miss the pop-up gallery on the other side of the street serving crepes and coffee. Neither of those show up on Yelp’s menu.
Tue, May 3, 2016
The challenge with “magic” is that much of what we read in fantasy is so, well, fantastical that we develop a definition of magic that is roughly translated as: “magic is the ability to do things you can’t do in real life.” This is my least favorite definition, and I love encouraging people to shift to another one. This one is a dead end.
StackExchange
Thu, Apr 14, 2016
I’d fantasized about really understanding other people’s emotional world. I imagined a world of sweetness and light — emotions I’d been missing all my life. But when it happened, the reality showed me what a fool I’d been. Now, I could look at a person and sense all their emotions. And most were downers. Maybe they were upset about whether they could afford to fix their car. Maybe they had kids in college and tuition was choking them.
Wed, Apr 13, 2016
Rezept für einen Sinn
Tannenzapfen aus Zinn, ein Gedicht von einer Goldammer vorgetragen, ein Tropfen Honigtau im Morgenspaziergang.
Das Sommerkleid einer fernmütigen Graugans, ein Augenblick ohne Zeit, der letzte Tropfen Wein auf deiner Oberlippe.
Fäden deines verlorenen Lieblingskleids, Mauersegler gekleidet in Morgenrot, die einzige Faser einer vergangenen Kiefer.
Spuren einer gefallenen Waldbeere, Schatten von Weberknechten in den Wipfeln der Eichen, ein letzter Blick aus deinen Augen.
Sun, Feb 28, 2016
This is the most fasinating and inspiring story about lucid dreaming that I have ever heard of. Please read if you are even just tangentially interested in the topic. I discovered it as a comment in an Internet forum two years ago and have not stopped thinking about it since. While I don’t know whether it’s wholly true or partially imagined, the mere possibility seems to draw a picture of incredible opportunities in psychoanalysis, self-awareness and even just mere pastime.
Mon, Feb 1, 2016
Ohne ein Ende in Sicht
schließen sich Sätze
und wie sich deine Haut
Es wird dunkel
Wir verbinden uns die Augen
um ohne Licht sehend
Glühen meine Füße
Unter meinem Tanz
An mir liegst du
Und ohne Musik
Leuchten alle Farben blau in einem Glas
Ohne deine Augen leuchten still
Liegen Sätze aneinander ohne Ende
Wie mein Blick auf deinen Lidern
Wirf mir deine Küsse
Leg dich Hals an Hals in meine
Wed, Jan 13, 2016
“Ich verstehe nicht, warum du deinen Dickkopf nicht einfach ins Wasser steckst, wo du so versessen darauf bist, dass du alles machen könntest, was du willst.”
“Weil ich es nicht will.”
“Und woher weißt du das? Vielleicht wurde dir nur beigebracht, dass es so super angenehm ist, weiterhin Sauerstoff zu atmen und eigentlich bist du ein Wassertier. Dir wachsen Kiemen wenn du eintauchst in den See. Und schleimige Adern wachsen dir und pulsieren, wie deine Fischglubschaugen.
Mon, Dec 7, 2015
A Social Network For Groups Rktik is an online community that allows like-minded people to collect and publish content together. Rktik is set apart from similar online services by its distinct modeling of individual user and group identity.
This thesis describes Rktik’s conceptualization and software architecture and how it fulfills its development goals.
Thu, Sep 17, 2015
Bis zum Ende höre ich den faserigen Klang
Ich leg mein Ohr an einen Ast ohne Adern
Wilde Brüche ziehen sich durch seine Venen
Frauen singen still vom anderen Ufer
Und sie singen
Früh im Morgen, wenn die Vögel klingen
Und das Wasser knirschend friert und sich verzieht
Vom dem Abend ohne Himmel, ohne Sinn
Ihre Füße blau im Wind
Wie von Schatten still umschlungen
Fliegen einsam ihre Blicke
Über Regentropfenfluten
Sat, Aug 29, 2015
Am Rand des kargen Weges lagen gelegentlich Coca-Cola Dosen. Sie waren nicht einmal verrostet, so trocken war diese Gegend. Nach einigen Kilometern gelangten wir in ein Dorf, von dem uns ein anderer Reisender erzählt hatte. Man konnte spüren, was es für ein Ort war. An der Art, wie die Menschen einen betrachteten, wenn man den langen Weg entlang der einzigen Straße auf sich nahm. Eine alte Frau in schwarzen Kleidern und einem schwarzen Hut mit einer darum gewickelten, bunten Federboa stand am Straßenrand und winkte.
Wed, Jun 3, 2015
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Lightning strikes flashing pixels up into the trees. The air is lit with sirring, whirring sounds. Amid the silent forrest on a clearing, wide and dry, stands a shadow, upright in the wind.
And Friedrich lets his gaze trace moths that spin across the meadow. Bones of branches sticking up among the grasses. Friedrich’s feet draw moist stalks, that slip cool along his thighs as he moves along.
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Wed, Feb 18, 2015
Hinter mir schließe ich die schwere Eichentür. Mit einem dumpfen Klacken fällt sie in ihre Zarge und mit meinem Atem verspüre ich den Dunst von Reinigungsmitteln im Flur des mehrstöckigen Hauses. Die Tür gegenüber nur leicht angelehnt, dahinter leere Räume. Das Haus ist frisch saniert und noch nicht alle künftigen Bewohner haben ihre Wohnungen bezogen. Beim Gedanken an meine neuen Nachbarn wird mir unmutig, zu viele Menschen in diesen Straßen, denen ich nicht traue.
Wed, Dec 10, 2014
[This video] was filmed shortly after the [nuclear] bomb was created and he knew exponentially more powerful bombs would be invented. He lived through the second world war and witnessed Europe bombed over and over again. He had every reason to believe the next war, a nuclear war, was fast approaching and his creation would usher in the total annihilation of life on earth. This man literally felt he would be the cause of the annihilation of our species.
Sun, Nov 9, 2014
A decade after the release of “Strangelove,” the Soviet Union began work on the Perimeter system — a network of sensors and computers that could allow junior military officials to launch missiles without oversight from the Soviet leadership. Perhaps nobody at the Kremlin had seen the film.
Completed in 1985, the system was known as the Dead Hand. Once it was activated, Perimeter would order the launch of long-range missiles at the United States if it detected nuclear detonations on Soviet soil and Soviet leaders couldn’t be reached.
Tue, Sep 30, 2014
Wenn wir einen Menschen hassen, so hassen wir in seinem Bild etwas, was in uns selber sitzt. Was nicht in uns selber ist, das regt uns nicht auf.
— H.H
Mon, Sep 29, 2014
I sometimes wonder about people who wake up and spend almost the whole day online. When they go to bed at night, they’ll have almost no organic memories of their own. If they do this for a long time, you can begin to say that their intelligence is, in a true sense, artificial.
Everybody on Earth Is Feeling the Exact Same Thing as You: Notes on Relationships in the Twenty-First Century
Mon, Sep 1, 2014
Entgegen menschlicher Intuition und weit verbreitetem Glauben, sprechen alle Beweise dafür, dass das Leben gar nicht Ernst gemeint ist.
Fri, Aug 29, 2014
The 52-hertz whale is an individual of unidentified whale species, which has been regularly detected in many locations since the 1980s, calling at the very unusual frequency of 52 Hz. This pitch is a much higher frequency than that of the Blue Whale (15-20Hz) or Fin Whale (20Hz), whose migration patterns it is most similar to. It appears to be the only individual with this call, and has hence been described as the world’s loneliest whale.
Sat, Aug 23, 2014
Stadtstraße. Windstille. Kaugummiflecken. Tanzende Menschen auf leeren Kreuzungen, weit in der Ferne.
„Weißt du, was komisch ist?“ — „Ja.“
Ein Blumenladen an einer Straßenecke. Weiß gestrichene Fenster, in Holz gerahmt. Vor dem Geschäft stehen Pflanzen in Tonkübeln, und große Blumensträuße. Ein Strahl Sonne trifft die kalten Bäume, Frühling. Die Luft ist trocken. Ein Mann in einem Ledermantel geht die Straße hinab, er hat den Kopf in seinen Schal eingezogen, und wirkt in Gedanken vertieft.
Thu, Aug 14, 2014
Ich lasse immer gerne das Leben auf mich regnen, aber heute soll die Sonne scheinen.
Thu, Aug 7, 2014
For the sake of understanding, try to drop any preconceived metaphysical or theoretical ideas of how reality is. Focus purely on your direct sensuous awareness of reality, your conscious experience.
“I know you.” Consider, in the context of your direct conscious experience, the meaning of that sentence. What you are really saying is “I know what I think of you, my thought of you, my image of you.” So in terms of sheer intuitive understanding, who you know, or perhaps what you know, is an expression of yourself–you know your own interpretation/compartmentalization of your conscious experience.
Tue, Jul 22, 2014
An den Tagen, an denen wir beisammen waren, gab es keinen Schimmer von Dunkel am Himmel. Wir würden uns am späten Nachmittag treffen, so spät, dass wir keinen Kaffee mehr trinken konnten, aber so früh, dass wir uns noch nicht nach dem Abendbrot sehnten. Meistens waren wir zu viert oder zu fünft. Es gab keinen harten Kern, jeder der einmal bei uns war, würde ein andermal fragen, was er verpasst hatte.
Tue, May 27, 2014
Anyone who works with computers learns to fear their capacity to forget. Like so many things with computers, memory is strictly binary. There is either perfect recall or total oblivion, with nothing in between. It doesn’t matter how important or trivial the information is. The computer can forget anything in an instant. If it remembers, it remembers for keeps.
This doesn’t map well onto human experience of memory, which is fuzzy.
Thu, May 22, 2014
Last year I started reading Meditations by Marcus Aurelius. While I was reading it, I was struck at how many of the entries were just simple reminders to himself. Don’t get mad at people unnecessarily. Remember that you are just one of many. Don’t get distracted.
He was making the same mistakes over and over, just like I was.
I thought that writing down what I learned would help it stick.
Wed, Apr 9, 2014
Hugo is a static site engine written in Go.
It makes use of a variety of open source projects including:
Cobra Viper J Walter Weatherman Cast Learn more and contribute on GitHub.
Tue, Dec 3, 2013
We must not mistake the “computer revolution” for anything like a political revolution as various leftist traditions have understood it. The only way to achieve the political ends we pursue is to be absolutely clear about what those ends are. Putting the technological means for achieving them ahead of clear consideration of the ends is not merely putting the cart before the horse; it is trusting in a technological determinism that has never been and will never be conducive to the pursuit of true human freedom.
Thu, Nov 21, 2013
The person that lives solely in emotions and information from the outside, the person that never pulls itself out of this messy reality and gives itself over to a mental spa, a time of healing and processing, a time of reflecting, feeling, thinking, seeing, worrying, planning, smiling, that person doesn’t live.
Take a walk. Leave the iPod and your phone at home. Find some trees or a place with a nice view.
Fri, Nov 8, 2013
When you watch TV or see a film, you are looking at things happening to other people. Prose fiction is something you build up from 26 letters and a handful of punctuation marks, and you, and you alone, using your imagination, create a world and people it and look out through other eyes. You get to feel things, visit places and worlds you would never otherwise know. You learn that everyone else out there is a me, as well.
Sun, Oct 27, 2013
Es geht nicht nur um Typisierung, sondern vor allem um Prognose. Wir unterliegen einem sagenhaften Glauben an die Quantifizierbarkeit, mit anderen Worten: An die Vorhersagbarkeit der Zukunft (bzw zukünftigen Verhaltens) aufgrund von Datenauswertung.
Die ultimative Bedrohung der Freiheit liegt in einem Ummünzen des Sicherheitsbegriffs von einer repressiven (= Verbrechen werden bestraft) in eine präventive (= Verbrechen werden verhindert) Idee. Das Gleiche ereignet sich im Gesundheitssektor (Krankheiten müssen nicht geheilt, sondern verhindert werden).
Tue, Oct 15, 2013
Das Geheimnis ist ein toter Winkel, in dem ohne ständige Analyse und Kritik gearbeitet werden kann. Damit Neues entstehen kann, müssen Fehler ohne Konsequenzen erlaubt sein. Das wahrhaft Neue darf nicht durch äußere Einflüsse verhindert werden. Und eine Vision muss manchmal geheim bleiben, bis sie mit Selbstvertrauen vertreten werden kann. In jedem kreativen Prozess gibt es eine solche Phase, in der zu viele Köche den Brei verderben.
Dazu: Unter einer Decke stecken
Tue, Oct 8, 2013
Das Olf (lat. olfactus ‚Geruchssinn‘) ist eine Maßeinheit zur Bewertung der Stärke einer Geruchsquelle. Ein Olf ist die Geruchsbelastung, die von einem Normmenschen (erwachsene Person mit einem Hygienestandard von 0,7 Bädern pro Tag, 1,8 m² Hautoberfläche und bei sitzender Tätigkeit) ausgeht. Erfasst werden jedoch nicht nur Gerüche von Lebewesen (Menschen, Tiere, Pflanzen), sondern auch Ausdünstungen von Baustoffen u. ä. (vgl. Sick-Building-Syndrom). Gemessen wird die Geruchstärke durch speziell geschulte Testpersonen, die die Intensität des Geruchs im Vergleich zu genormten Geruchsquellen erschnüffeln.