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
PLATO: How an educational computer system from the ’60s shaped the future.
This line printer was incapable of shifted characters, so the
^indicated a shift (^7would be apostrophe on the common non-Selectric keyboards of the day, for example, and^/would be a question mark). Infamously, PLATO Notes even inspired early consternation over network censorship during Watergate when the NSF got wind of a Notes discussion about President Nixon's possible impeachment and promptly called Bitzer (“We just got a call from Nixon’s office. The White House says that our money will disappear if this goes ahead, and we know you’ll disappear...”). Bitzer required the student who started the discussion to post a disclaimer that “it is not permissible in the classroom or on PLATO to organize political mobilization.”
Relevant: Paul Tenczar and TUTOR.
The one who brought you the expert opinion about Franz Fuchs, brings you…
Der renommierte Psychologe Dr. Reinhard Haller klärt über das Wesen der Kränkung und ihre Wirkungsmechanismen auf. Er gibt konkrete Tipps, wie wir eigene seelische Verletzungen verarbeiten können, und zeigt, wie wir zu einem achtsamen und empathischen Umgang mit unseren Mitmenschen gelangen.
A thought on JavaScript "proof of work" anti-scraper systems.
Letting your scraper run JavaScript means that it can also run JavaScript for other purposes, for example for people who would like to exploit your scraper's CPU to do some cryptocurrency mining, or simply have you run JavaScript for as long as you'll let it keep going (perhaps because they've recognized you as a LLM scraper and want to waste as much of your CPU as possible).
Relevant: Arsen und Spitzenhäubchen.