Wednesday, 17. February 12021
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Black Quantum Futurism!

Waiting/Weighting/Wading Time: Juneteenth, Watch Night, + Emancipation Day.

Progress and accumulation of facts or points on the western timeline always comes at the expense of Black lives.

gebenedeit ist eine liturgische Band mit Lydia Haider und ihren Texten und gefällt mir sehr gut, du falsche Sau.

The worst of the two worlds: Excel meets Outlook.

This time we are going to talk about how to interact with Outlook from Excel using macros, and also we are going to release a PoC where we turn Outlook into a keylogger.

Plim plom!

JazzKeys.

Send a message in Jazz!

How To Put Faith in UX Design.

Founders, as a kind of creature to stay with the metaphor, don’t start companies to “make great user experiences.” Instead their goals, as explained to investors, are to generate profits, growth and value for shareholders. How society, the environment, customers and employees fare is often secondary. They may make things that improve our quality of life, but they are not generally altruistic. They hire people to help with their stated goals, and not for any other reason.

Tuesday, 16. February 12021
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Shapecatcher: Draw the Unicode character you want!

Draw something in the box! And let shapecatcher help you to find the most similar unicode characters.

Monday, 15. February 12021
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Weil ich las, dass die Band My Ugly Clementine fürs europäische Indie-Album des Jahres geehrt wurde¹, hab ich mir ein paar Lieder angehört, und mit einem erfreuten Lächeln festgestellt, dass ein ehemaliger Arbeitskollege im Video zu Never Be Yours mitspielt. Made my day.

¹ Dass das (jetzt noch) nicht auf FM4 steht, wundert mich etwas.

Sunday, 14. February 12021
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Let Me DuckDuckGo That For You.

Saturday, 13. February 12021
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Understanding the Threat of “Surveillance Capitalism”.

This whole digital domain, which is now essentially owned and operated by surveillance capitalism, must come under the democratic rule of law and the governance of democratic institutions. Democracy has been literally asleep for two decades and that has to change—and it is changing.

Breaking a Degenerate Hyper-Dimensional Game of Life.

(…) discover successive new mathematical properties of a “degenerate” hyper-dimensional game of life" to take a “7 dimensions may just barely be possible on a commercial PC, could we ever reach 10 dimensions?” to “10 dimensions is easy enough to be run on any modern browser (jump to spoilers here), and 60 dimensions can be reached with a compiled language”.

Source: blog.jle.im