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In der österreichischen politisch interessierten Szene ist Rudolf Fußi bekannt wie der sprichwörtliche bunte Hund. Kurz vor Beginn der Corona-Zeit startete er eine wöchentliche Sendung namens Bussi Fussi. Zuerst bei Puls4, dann die meiste Zeit eigenhändig per YouTube und zuletzt bei Okto.
Rudi, wie er oft genannt wird, ist kein Freund der feinen Klinge, um es mal so auszudrücken. Er spricht, wie ihm sein Maul (ich denke, er würde mir den Begriff nicht übel nehmen) gewachsen ist. Daher trägt er sein großes Herz oft auf der Zunge. Und das ist in der aktuellen politischen Welt eine mir willkommene Abwechslung. Kein Herumeiern, keine unnötige Political Correctness, keine Ausreden, eher eine Hand-on-Mentalität, wenn es um das Verbessern der Lebenssituation der in Österreich lebenden Menschen geht. Dabei spart er auch keinesfalls mit Kritik an allen Parteien inklusive der SPÖ, der er unter anderem auch mal zugehörig war.
In zahlreichen tollen Interviews mit heimischen Politikgrößen hat er das schon unter Beweis gestellt. Ich habe alle seine Episoden gesehen.
Nun ist das Format "Bussi Fussi" mit Folge 32 "Die Kanzlerrede" ausgelaufen. Dummerweise war die innenpolitische Situation am Donnerstag, dem Tag der Veröffentlichung, verständlicherweise aber auch gänzlich mit dem endgültigen Ausscheiden von Altkanzler Kurz beschäftigt. Daher möchte ich unbedingt auf diese Episode hinweisen.
The referred paper from Nature is called "Finger sweat analysis enables short interval metabolic biomonitoring in humans".
In short, researchers were able to analyze the actual material you have left in one of your fingerprints. They are able to tell what the person has eaten recently up to the level that they are able to tell if the banana was an organic banana or not.
This opens up a whole new set of possibilities. Not only in criminal defense but also related to issues around privacy and applications in health monitoring.
Here is the abstract:
Metabolic biomonitoring in humans is typically based on the sampling
of blood, plasma or urine. Although established in the clinical
routine, these sampling procedures are often associated with a variety
of compliance issues, which are impeding time-course studies. Here, we
show that the metabolic profiling of the minute amounts of sweat
sampled from fingertips addresses this challenge. Sweat sampling from
fingertips is non-invasive, robust and can be accomplished repeatedly
by untrained personnel. The sweat matrix represents a rich source for
metabolic phenotyping. We confirm the feasibility of short interval
sampling of sweat from the fingertips in time-course studies involving
the consumption of coffee or the ingestion of a caffeine capsule after
a fasting interval, in which we successfully monitor all known
caffeine metabolites as well as endogenous metabolic responses.
Fluctuations in the rate of sweat production are accounted for by
mathematical modelling to reveal individual rates of caffeine uptake,
metabolism and clearance. To conclude, metabotyping using sweat from
fingertips combined with mathematical network modelling shows promise
for broad applications in precision medicine by enabling the
assessment of dynamic metabolic patterns, which may overcome the
limitations of purely compositional biomarkers.
Der Anstoß war, dass Oliver eine mögliche Erklärung äußerte, wonach die Nichtbereitschaft zu Impfungen im deutschsprachigen Teil (Quellen: FAZ, SNund weitere) von Europa durch die Verbreitung von Schwurbel zu begründen sein könnte. Oliver Rautenberg kennt sich offenbar besonders gut mit der geistigen Welt des Okkultikers Rudolf Steiner aus, der Anfang des zwanzigsten Jahrhunderts die Anthroposophie gegründet hat. Leider wieder mal ein irregeleiteter österreichischer Landsmann.
Ich gebe hier nur ein paar "Schmankerl" wider, wo es mir die verbliebenen Haare nur so aufgestellt hat. Waldorfschulen und Demeter-Biobauern fand ich bislang maximal drollig. Doch nun muss ich meine Meinung wohl überdenken. Was ich hier hörte, geht eher in Richtung "das ist maximal gefährlich, wenn man denen seine Kinder im guten Glauben anvertraut". Immerhin gibt es eindeutig nachweisbare rassistische und wissenschaftsfeindliche Grundbausteine der Anthroposophie.
Was erfährt man unter anderem aus dem Interview im Podcast? Hier ein paar Ausschnitte, die ich gegebenenfalls mit weiteren Recherchen ergänzt habe.
Since the go-live, there has been some "interesting" development and I had some learning effects on community dynamics. In this article, I want to summarize my findings and provide some insight that reflects my personal situation now.
2018-04-06: Comments on the standardization argument
2019-04-12: Extended syntax examples, "Makes Sense Outside of Emacs", "Tool Support" and added more backlinks
2020-05-02: Comment by Ian Zimmerman
2021-05-24: more examples for AsciiDoc
2021-11-28: The birth of "Orgdown" - a new name for the Org mode syntax (see Summary)
Disclaimer: this is a very nerdy blog entry. It is about lightweight markup languages and why I think that Org mode is the best lightweight markup language for many use-cases. And with lightweight markup language, I do mean the syntax, the way you express headings, lists, font variations such as bold face or italic, and such things.
Please do note that this is not about Emacs at all. This is about Org mode syntax and its advantages even when used outside of Emacs. You can type Org mode in vim, notepad.exe, Atom, Notepad++, and all other text editors out there. And in my opinion it does have advantages compared to the other, common lightweight markup standards such as Markdown, AsciiDoc, Wikitext or reStructuredText.
Of course, Org mode is my favorite syntax. Despite my personal choice you will see that I've got some pretty convincing arguments that underline my statement as well. So this is not just a matter of personal taste.
If you already have a grin on your face because you don't have any clue what this is all about: keep on reading. It makes an excellent example for making fun of nerds at your next dinner party. ;-)
Here is a list of tasks I do on my computers and the software I am using for accomplishing these tasks. The first column also links corresponding workflow descriptions with further information on how I am doing things which should be our focus, not the tool. At the very bottom, there are links to more workflow descriptions.
For all the Emacs people visiting this page: here, I just list a few Emacs packages. For more details on which packages I'm using for my workflows, please do visit my online Emacs config and check out the first chapters explaining my setup.
2020-09-23: I found out that in contrast to the (now unmaintained) org-edna fork I was using until a few days ago, the original org-edna requires ids(foo bar) to have quotes like ids("foo"
"bar") unless uuidgen IDs are used. So I adapted the example project below to meet this syntax. Good news: with org-edna v1.1.2 you can also use ids("id:foo" "id:bar") and get navigatable IDs.
2020-09-26:
Comments from yantar92
Link to org-linker-edna
2021-09-20: org-linker-edna proves to solve the issue of linking headings
2021-11-21: reddit discussion on org-edna and visualization
So far, I was using task dependencies via org-depend, writing manual :TRIGGER: and :BLOCKER: properties. This works perfectly fine. However, when you want to use more advanced features, you need to look for something different. For example, I sometimes want to schedule a task on the day I finalize a related one. Or I want to schedule a follow-up task three working-days after marking a specific task as done. Org-depend only allows to set todo keywords and has no functionality to control scheduled dates or other advanced stuff.
With having defined task dependencies explicitly, a full-blown project management workflow is more than just a nice to have. For example, I generate all tasks related to organizing and conducting a lecture via a very long, complex and static yankpad template. This way, I only have to maintain the snippet template and get all tasks for a semester with all of their dependencies using a short keyboard command.
When you can not apply a static template to your project, you have to define the dependencies of the tasks manually. Using an advanced (and more complex) syntax, this is a tedious and error-prone task to do. Therefore, I want to automate and semi-automate as much as possible so that project management does not have to deal with manually write cumbersome property syntax.
Diese Woche kam ein Update der Android-App vom Magazin Falter auf mein Tablet. Ich muss dazusagen, dass ich kein gewöhnliches Tablet habe, sondern mit einem BOOX Note Air ein 10,2" e-Ink-Gerät habe. Es ist quasi wie geschaffen für aktives Lesen (annotieren, hervorheben, herumkritzeln) als auch normales Lesen (Webseiten, e-Books, Nachrichtenfeeds, ...). Daher genoss ich es, die Artikel vom Falter auf diesem tollen Gerät zu lesen. Bis vor dessen App-Update.
Das Update ist aus meiner Perspektive eine Verschlechterung auf fast allen Ebenen. Ich konnte nicht umhin, diese Zeilen hier zu schreiben, um eventuell auch Menschen in Entscheidungspositionen zu demonstrieren, was ihre Tätigkeiten für Auswirkungen haben, wenn der Benutzer nicht im Zentrum steht. Das beschränkt sich leider keinesfalls auf die Macher der Falter-App alleine.
2021-08-03 Comments by me for the Hacker News arguments I read.
2021-11-11 Similar Angles: added Cory Doctorow's article
If you're, for example, contributing to a reddit thread about something which is irrelevant or anything with only a short-term relevance, this article does not apply to you right now.
However, as soon as you're helping somebody solving an interesting issue, summarize your experiences with something or write anything that might be cool to be around in a couple of years as well, you do provide potential high-value content. My message to all those authors is: don't use web-based forums.
TL;DR: all of the content of closed, centralized services will be lost in the long run. Choose the platform you contribute to wisely now instead of learning through more large data loss events later-on.
Peter Sagal wrote a tweet that summarizes some rules I've probably read somewhere else before. However, I took his reminder as a waking call for myself to change my behavior on social media such as Mastodon or Twitter.
Peter posted his rules as an image, which is a pity because this is preventing people from searching for its content. Don't do that. I could not find a web page which had the rules in text, so I do a full-quote myself.
His tweet starts with:
In response to narrowly spread demand, here are my Rules of Twitter.
Note that each was learned by violating it repeatedly over the years,
so don't bother going back in my feed to find contradictions... trust
me, I know.
2019-11-15: ZIB2-Dateinamensergebnisse und Hinweis auf youtube-downloader
2020-05-14: Spendenmöglichkeit
2021-10-28: Aktualisierungen
Der ORF bietet ein gutes Programm. Gerade für Österreicher ist er wohl das Maß aller Dinge im Bereich des täglichen Bewegtbildes. An Qualität und Inhalten ist er den privaten Konkurrenten meiner Meinung nach haushoch überlegen - besonders im Nachrichtenbereich. Ich oute mich als großer Fan der ZIB2, die ich keinen Tag versäume.
Dieser Beitrag beschreibt, wie ich Sendungen vom ORF herunterlade, um sie am Handy anzusehen - oder meistens sogar nur nebenbei anzuhören.
Now that I have your attention, I'd like to write down my personal concerns about the Zettelkasten method which may not reflect your reality. I then would love to read about your arguments why my prejudice might not be valid in general.
My pile of Org mode data is huge. There are certain costs attached to migrating my data to a Zettelkasten method, even if this would only affect my notes.org file which contains my general knowledge base.
At this moment in time, I doubt that I will move to a Zettelkasten approach. Nevertheless, I'd love to read your comments that try to falsify (or confirm?) my worries on that topic.
Reading this article you will learn why the Zettelkasten method is not for everybody. Furthermore, I show you a nice Org mode extension to link headings with back-links.
Over the previous three years, I digitized almost all of my paper documents, converted them to PDF files, ran OCR so that I can find text via full text search, and threw away the paper. New paper artifacts like official letters are being digitized since then as well. This way, I can limit new paper to an absolute minimum.
With recycling most of the digitized paper, I got rid of a huge pile of paper I had to store, move, take care of.
However, my biggest motivation was that I had many paper artifacts which were not that important to store on the one hand but on the other hand also too valuable to dump. Further more, digital information can be linked, searched for (even coincidental), backup-ed, and so forth. Whereas a physical document only resides at one single place, not worth much if you don't grab it and look for its containing information.
Please do read the article before continuing here because I won't repeat its ideas or content. I would like to comment on this article from my point of view.
Linz has a very nice historic center, lots of shops and awesome restaurants. In recent time, their advertisement video caused some discussions within Austria. Many cultural events take place in Linz. The most famous is Ars Electronica. In 2009, Linz was European Capital of Culture just like Graz was in 2003.
One of the things they did in 2009 was Höhenrausch which might translates with "high-altitude euphoria". I visited Höhenrausch this week because it will be discontinued afterwards.
Wir waren gestern im Schauspielhaus Graz, besser gesagt im Haus 2 dahinter. Dies hat einen eher spröden Charme vom Gebäude her aber einen für mich sehr sympathischen Touch bezüglich der Atmosphäre. Es wirkt direkter an den Schauspielern und tatsächlich ist auch zwischen der Bühne und dem Publikum kaum mehr als ein Meter Platz. Die kleine Kantine hat sogar Studentenpreise, die Schließfächer spucken den Euro wieder aus, man teilt sich gefühlt sogar die Toiletten mit den Angestellten.
Die Handlung spielt in einer nicht allzu weit entfernten Zukunft, wo die Analyse der Erbanlagen auf Krankheiten zum guten Ton gehört. Die Ergebnisse werden auf einen einzigen Wert zwischen Null (quasi im Sterben) und zehn (gesundheitlicher Gott auf Erden) reduziert, der nun die gesamte Gesellschaft definiert. Für gewisse Jobs, Kredite und so weiter braucht man eine Mindestwert. Und auch im privaten Umfeld bestimmt dieser Wert unser Handeln und Denken.
Es gibt nur vier Rollen im Stück. Wenn man so möchte, brillierten in den Hauptrollen Daria von Loewenich und Frieder Langenberger. Nicht minder toll fanden wir Iman Tekle und Franz Solar in den Nebenrollen. Allerdings ist es hier schwer zwischen Haupt- und Nebenrollen zu unterscheiden, muss ich sagen.
Erwähnenswert sind auch die toll gemachten Zwischensequenzen im Stück. Wer die genialen Zwischensequenzen von Paul Verhoeven in Robocop (1987) mag, wird das hier auch toll finden.
To my surprise, it provides convincing arguments that the common theory on how the people of Easter Island (or Rapa nui) has destroyed the paradise they originally discovered centuries ago is wrong on so many levels. The reasoning those arguments imply shows a totally different picture and you will be not happy about it, I'm afraid.
Without spoiling too much here, I would like you to watch this video yourself, as its one hour and fourty three minutes are time well spent in my opinion.
Many people wonder how EmacsOrg mode is used in "the right way".
Here is my short answer to that: There isn't one right way for using Org mode features.
If this is obvious to you, you can skip the rest of this article. If not, you really should read this until the end. It may answer many questions you probably do have in your head. Especially when you're rather new with the Org mode universe.
Of course, the same rationale is true for all kind of advanced software solutions that offer a certain level of flexibility to its users. However, my examples here are based on Emacs Org mode.
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