Günter Hack: „Der Staat hat mit seiner ungehemmten Gier nach persönlichen Daten selbst die Anforderungen dafür, was eigentlich Privatsphäre im öffentlichen Raum bedeutet, so weit heruntergefahren, dass heute eigentlich jeder Richter jedes Foto jeder Person im öffentlichen Raum automatisch zur Publikation freigeben müsste.”

(Not so) secret Star Codes for Android phones and some more USSD Codes in German.

So Android can be configured for Internet calls using a free SIP account, and it’s actually pretty easy!?

Well, at least all I had to do is register an account at a SIP provider (I chose www.getonsip.com just by chance) and then I configured my phone accordingly using one of the many how-tos out there:

1. Open the dialer app
2. Open its settings
3. Tap “Internet Call”
4. Tick the checkbox for “Use Internet calling”
5. Tap “Accounts”
6. Tap “Add Account”
7. Enter the credentials from your SIP provider and save
8. Optionally, tick the checkbox for “Receive incoming calls” (if your battery allows it)

And now I am obviously reachable via p3k@getonsip.com – or even via URL from within your browser: www.getonsip.com (Dare to try it?)

However, I could not figure out, yet, how to call an SIP account using the dialer app – even after I added an address to the corresponding “Internet call” field in the contacts app.

This took about 5 minutes.

And I waited some hours emptying a trash packed with approx. 50.000 files… Is this Yosemite’s fault? Or am I the only one having such an issue?

The movie Robot & Frank actually tells me much more about my potential future – and what society could be like then – than any of those other sci-fi flicks so far.

Thanks for the hint, Charlie Jane Anders! (Via getpocket.com.)

I wish you an exciting Academy Awards Night – I’m gonna choose the bed for a dream factory.

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Let’s Write Fast JavaScript.

“I understand your point that the author is the greatest authority on their own work […] but we require secondary sources.”

nlp_compromise, a natural language processing library in javascript (via reddit.com).

Pattern in Islamic Art.

Teachers are cool, teachers are mean.

Gendered Language in Teacher Reviews.