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I’ve always felt Mahāyāna Buddhism’s influence on unorthodox western beliefs. But Kotyk’s book shows the other half of the interrelation, using primary sources.
"Sino-Iranian and Sino-Arabian Relations in Late Antiquity" by Jeffrey Kotyk
After an insightful talk, Steve Jobs gets a question from the audience about “probable privacy issues”. Although he was laying out a vision about future problems and solutions, he simply evades the question by saying “I haven’t heard a ton of issues concerning these giant databases knowing everything about us”.
Talk at Aspen (June 15, 1983). Full video at the bottom of the page, question at 29:45.
It’s clear that the current clustering criteria do not produce a fair competition. The whole professional sports is optimised for the sponsors and broadcasters, even the gender controversies and the resulting enmity among groups with different viewpoints.
I didn’t watch any of the games except for the Turkey-Serbia air pistol mixed team event. Şevval İlayda Tarhan was as cool as her teammate.
Spent the day learning how to read in Hebrew alephbet. If I can find time to practice couple of words per week, it might stick. Still need to find about the intricacies of the letters that sound the same in modern Hebrew, but got tired of the clickbait YouTube videos.
יְהִי אוֹר
Pythagorean akousmata compiled by A. Izdebska
Formatting in gemtext was a challenge, the popular Lagrange browser cannot render the Arabic parts properly and with a TUI it’s mostly at the mercy of the terminal emulator.
Apart from the legends attributed to them, i think these are the only remnants from the Pythagoreans.
Later, people used these for utilitarian purposes like teaching rhetoric – as is the case with their mathematics, acoustics and philosophy.
As a side note, it reminded me of the Greek Anthology from Brautigan’s “Willard and His Bowling Trophies”.
Why wasn’t this opt-in-by-default feature ‘advertised’ better, Firefox?
https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/privacy-preserving-attribution
Edit (2024-08-09): Gems from 2017 Google ad strategy document
X (Twitter) thread by @jason_kint
Remembrance
When a pair of doves take wing
When roasted cloves smelling
Not something to remember, but
Out of blue, comes to mind
It was almost sunrise
You too, like all, would rise
Still drowsy perhaps
Your night comes to mind
Like the names of flowers I love
Like the names of streets I love
Like the names of all my loved ones
Your names come to mind
Hence the shame of comfy mattress
Hence the pensiveness of kisses
Meeting through holes of trellis
Your fingers come to mind
I've seen many loves, friendships
I've read historical heroisms
Solemn, simple, and befitting our times
Your behaviour comes to mind
When a pair of doves take wing
When roasted cloves smelling
Not something to forget, but
Can't help, comes to mind
— Melih Cevdet Anday (translation: sy)
They look the same, but their functional difference can be understood from word origins. One is from from German Umlaut, from um ‘about’ + Laut ‘sound’. The other is via Latin (denoting the division of one syllable into two) from Greek diairesis (διαίρεσης) ‘separation’, from diairein ‘take apart’, from dia ‘apart’ + hairein ‘take’.
An anecdote on The New Yorker’s diaeresis:
[S]he used to pester the style editor, Hobie Weekes, who had been at the magazine since 1928, to get rid of the diaeresis. She found it fussy. She said that once, in the elevator, he told her he was on the verge of changing that style and would be sending out a memo soon. And then he died.
This was in 1978. No one has had the nerve to raise the subject since.
https://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/the-curse-of-the-diaeresis
I like how Gramsci’s “Quaderni del Carcere” resemble tinylogs.
Unelaborate in style, yet with a broad scope and a multitude of references to what others have written.
I’m so not-a-gamer that I didn’t know that 3D Super Mario was even a thing until recently. Curious about the recent news, I’ve learnt enough to appreciate what they have been doing.
And that’s crazy! Not just half-a-button crazy, but four-parallel-universes crazy!
Apple removed the calendar data from /usr/share/calendar with the previous release of their OS. Unless people download and put it in $HOME/.calendar from BSD repository, they wouldn’t know that on this day in 1813 Wagner was born in Leipzig or in 1973 Ethernet was first described.
https://github.com/freebsd/calendar-data
I wouldn’t bet on them to provide a CLI for their DictionaryServices either. Here’s a binary that I use daily – from the shell with various aliases, and from vim based on 'spelllang's.
$ dictionary -d arab -d simplified -d german -d greek gemini
Greek - English (Stavropoulos Oxford Greek-English Learners Dictionary)
┄ Gemini | ˈdʒemɪnaɪ | n C (αστρολ.) Δίδυμοι.
German - English (Oxford German Dictionary)
┄ Gemini | BrE ˈdʒɛmɪniː, AmE ˈdʒɛməˌnaɪ | noun (Astrology, Astronomy) Zwillinge Pl.; Gemini Pl. see also Aries
Simplified Chinese - English (牛津英汉汉英词典)
┄ Gemini | BrE ˈdʒɛmɪniː, AmE ˈdʒɛməˌnaɪ | noun
① uncountable Astronomy 双子（星）座 shuāngzǐ(xīng)zuò
② uncountable Astrology (sign) 双子宫 shuāngzǐgōng [黄道第三宫]
③ countable plural Geminis Astrology (person) 属双子（星）座的人 shǔ shuāngzǐ(xīng)zuò de rén
Arabic - English (Oxford Arabic Dictionary - عربي-إنجليزي • إنجليزي-عربي)
┄ Gemini | BrE ˈdʒɛmɪniː, AmE ˈdʒɛməˌnaɪ | noun
⒈ (sign) بُرْج الجَوْزاءِ
⒉ (person) [من مَواليدِ بُرْجِ الجَوْزاءِ]
https://bsky.app/profile/doganov.bsky.social/post/3ksx6umra422w
Thasians had to demolish their walls at least twice: first, at the request of Darius I of Persia, and then by Athens. Empires do not like rich islands with strong defences.
Two simple things took me hours to sort out with rustls:
Tried to add a GUI for fun. Although documentation is sparse, I was amazed how easy it was with iced-rs¹. There are still rough edges; settings, menus, dialogs, copy-paste and disk persistance is missing. I also need to dig into async integration etc, but the rapidly-putting-together-a-gui experience was way better than other (mostly immediate mode) options.
¹ iced: A cross-platform GUI library for Rust
Surfing the small web more lately. Thought a little about the parallels between cinema and the web as media.
Benshi (弁士) were Japanese performers who provided live narration for silent films
Edit (2024-06-02): Related short video:
How silent movies give fried brains a break
I couldn’t find a good TUI gemini browser and installed kristall¹ browser. To build on macOS, you need to get the qt@6 libraries out of reach.
brew unlink qt make build/kristall brew link qt
¹ kristall.random-projects.net
Edit (2024-05-15): Also need this patch to render local gemtext
diff --git a/src/protocols/filehandler.cpp b/src/protocols/filehandler.cpp
index 32beeb0..55c8dac 100644
--- a/src/protocols/filehandler.cpp
+++ b/src/protocols/filehandler.cpp
@@ -28,6 +28,9 @@ bool FileHandler::startRequest(const QUrl &url, RequestOptions options)
QMimeDatabase db;
auto mime = db.mimeTypeForUrl(url).name();
auto data = file.readAll();
+ if (file.fileName().endsWith(".gmi")) {
+ mime = "text/gemini";
+ }
emit this->requestComplete(data, mime);
}
else if (QDir dir = QDir(url.path()); dir.exists())