Saturday, 19. August 12023
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Petrosexual psychoanalysis.

Freud’s model for the mind was the steam engine, meaning containment, pressure, and release.

— “The Ministry of the Future” by Kim Stanley Robinson.

Wednesday, 9. August 12023
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Started with chezmoi… not looking great, needs too much effort, as soon as I worked on another machine 🙄

Also evaluated some alternatives but it’s all same-same but different:

Source: akkartik.name

Relevant: Using computers more freely and safely. (Found the meme there.)

You heard it on the news, recently – I heard it for the first time: skiplagged.com.

Earlier this week, an unaccompanied minor departing Gainesville Regional Airport in Florida found himself in headlines after he was denied boarding to an American Airlines flight. He hadn’t committed a crime, nor was he accused of being unruly.

His offense? Attempting to make use of a money-saving hack that gutsy fliers use every year.

TIL you can use Kermit – a protocol and software package from the 1980s – as an interesting SSH wrapper:

$ kermit -C 'ssh user@host'
$ kermit -Iis some-file.ext

It will send a special byte sequence that your local kermit will pick up on, and enter transfer mode. The file will be transferred, complete with integrity checking. Then you’ll be right back at your shell.

Relevant: Try the last Internet Kermit server.

Couchsurfing is 🧟

Long live bewelcome.org.

What is Connascence? (Via vimeo.com.)

All code is subject to change. As the real world changes, so too must our code. Connascence gives us an insight into the long-term impact our code will have on flexibility, as we write it. Maintaining a flexible codebase is essential for maintaining long-term development velocity.

Ada Kaleh: Die vergessene »Insel des Islam« (via de.wikipedia.org and twitter.com).

Die Österreichisch-Ungarische Monarchie annektierte vor hundert Jahren die osmanische Donauinsel Ada Kaleh, die 1971 in den Fluten des Donaukraftwerks am Eisernen Tor versank.

Sunday, 6. August 12023
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Amazingly amazing.

Just noticed my really old script to retrieve iTunes album covers works perfectly with Apple Music links, too!

I copied an arbitrary URL from the music.apple.com website (via “Share” drop-down), entered it into the iCover form, and voilà!

Mac Miller: The Star Room (OG Version) from Danaé Gosset.

Monday, 31. July 12023
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I assume we are close to running Java and Flash in the browser again…?

WordPress Playground – Experience a WordPress that runs entirely in your browser.