Should Ethiopian philosophy be universalist or Africanist?
The essential question is this: should Ethiopian philosophy be practised from a universalist perspective – therefore taking Ethiopian philosophy to be part of the universal quest for wisdom – or from an Africanist perspective that sees Ethiopian philosophy as a means of cultural reaffirmation?
This project generated around 30 Billion individual 4kB files of random data. These files were winnowed down to about 10,000 through some heuristics gleaned from the complete collection of Atari ROM files. Finally, a classifier system scanned them using an Atari 2600 emulator to see if any of these random files were actually an Atari game. This project answers a question no one asked, no one wanted, and is a massive waste of resources: What if I shove a billion monkeys in a GPU and asked them to write a game for the Atari 2600?
$uck it, Zuck!
Covert Web-to-App Tracking via Localhost on Android (via zeropartydata.es).
We disclose a novel tracking method by Meta and Yandex potentially affecting billions of Android users. We found that native Android apps—including Facebook, Instagram, and several Yandex apps including Maps and Browser—silently listen on fixed local ports for tracking purposes. (…) This web-to-app ID sharing method bypasses typical privacy protections such as clearing cookies, Incognito Mode and Android's permission controls. Worse, it opens the door for potentially malicious apps eavesdropping on users’ web activity.
The History of the Acid House Sound of Mumbai!
Ten Ragas to a Disco Beat (via youtube.com).
Relevant: Charanjit Singh.
Moved my RSS feeds from Fraidycat to Newsboat, quite happy to see this working so well in the Terminal.
Relevant: Dracula – One theme. All platforms.
I would love to do something with RSS feeds again… I think Parss (written for Helma) was quite a solid RSS aggregator and I shouldn’t have abandoned it when Google was eating RSS (first by promoting Reader, then by burying it). But fetching, parsing and caching RSS feeds requires jumping through a lot of hoops, and I’d pretty much leave this up to an external tool like Newsboat. It maintains the feed data in a SQLite database, so I have some ideas of simply interfacing that from a Helma application. Just ideas, though, motivational energy is a whole other issue.
Relevant: RFC 5005 – Feed Paging and Archiving.
Using translate-shell from mutt et al (via github.com).
xargs | trans --view --brief :de
Es prickelte, so über die Sehnsucht der Bürger zu spotten, über das, was sie Liebe nannten, über ihre Gier, stets der erste zu sein… Sie waren beide nicht unerfahren.
Kommt ein Patient zur Schriftstellerin beim Zahnarzt…
»Emotionbomb« von Silvia Lausmann.
Not with a bang but a link.
A Hypertext Version of T.S. Eliot's "The Hollow Men".
Du bist wie moderne Lyrik (Daniela Chana).
Deine Arme wissen noch
Wie man früher Wärme gab