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På grund av den förestående sugifieringen av Bitwarden har jag kollat på open source alternativet KeePassXC. Problemet är att den inte synkar lösenorden mellan enheter utan det får man sköta själv.

Vettiga personer lägger bara filen på Dropbox eller Google Drive, men korkskallar som jag som känner sig...

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Andrew Stokols on not understanding China.

Having just read Scott’s Seeing Like a State this article is fascinating on two levels, first the short discussion on the planned (in Scott’s sense) city Xiong’an. Second, the state legibility on display in the need to provide ID just to talk to people. https://sinoci...

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Andrew Stokols on not understanding China.

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Having just read Scott’s Seeing Like a State this article is fascinating on two levels, first the short discussion on the planned (in Scott’s sense) city Xiong’an. Second, the state legibility on display in the need to provide ID just to talk to people.

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Andrew Stokols on not understanding China.

Having just read Scott’s Seeing Like a State this article is fascinating on two levels, first the short discussion on the planned (in Scott’s sense) city Xiong’an. Second, the state legibility on display in the need to provide ID just to talk to people.

You Don't...

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I have a small #debian VPS I use occasionally and I've just spent more time than I care to admit troubleshooting why apt says everything is up to date when I haven't logged in for weeks.

Turns out I have enabled unattended upgrades (which is a rather involved process) and forgotten all about it, but it is...

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Jamen, vaffan, Bitwarden verkar sugifieras (riskkapitaltyper i ledningen, prisökningar och minskat fokus på jämställdhet och öppenhet).

Då är det väl KeePass som gäller, även om jag inte ser fram emot att själv-drifta en synklösning.

https://www.fastcompany.com/91542655/bitwarden-scrubs-always-free-and-inclusi...

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@aohsusometimesy.bsky.social Sigh, in trying to hit the 300 char limit I removed the actual point of the post: “The new machines, manned by unskilled labor, produced inferior castings at a higher price.”.

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Perhaps still not interesting but at least it kinda makes sense now…

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@aohsusometimesy.bsky.social In Winner “Do Artifacts Have Politics” (Deadalus, Winter 1980) he mentions a study where the employers introduced new machines that made “inferior castings at a higher cost [and were abandoned] after three years of use […] by that time they had served their purpose; the destruction of the union.”

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@bokane.org Perhaps I will, somewhere in my pile of old text files there’s a draft about this that I never got around to post.

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@bokane.org I’d pay good money to be able to use the Pleco dictionaries in the built-in dictionary on MacOS, just hover over a word and press Ctrl-Command-D or deep-click (whatever it is called these days) on the trackpad, and the definition pops up.

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The CAGE Research Centre at Uni of Warwick produces a podcast an series on The Great Divergence with prominent guests like Kenneth Pomeranz himself, Joel Mokyr, Robert Allen, Debin Ma, Bishupriya Gupta and Stephen Broadberry.

#history #sinology https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/economics/research/centres/cage/news...

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The CAGE Research Centre at Uni of Warwick produces a podcast an series on The Great Divergence with prominent guests like Kenneth Pomeranz himself, Joel Mokyr, Robert Allen, Debin Ma, Bishupriya Gupta and Stephen Broadberry.

#history #sinology

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The CAGE Research Centre at Uni of Warwick produces a podcast an series on The Great Divergence with prominent guests like Kenneth Pomeranz himself, Joel Mokyr, Robert Allen, Debin Ma, Bishupriya Gupta and Stephen Broadberry.

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#history #sinology

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Jag undrar om inte det här också har nåt att göra med det lite krampartade införandet av LLM:er i många verksamheter: de gör inte nödvändigtvis verksamheten effektivare men gör den lättare att kontrollera eftersom tidigare relativt självständiga yrkesutövare blir beroende av verktyg som tech-jättarna...

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@ciaota.bsky.social Well, I’m not ashamed to admit that I need a dictionary to read the HLM.

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I’m sorry to spam your timeline with boring political stuff but the public sphere so dependent on these services that this is a fundamental democratic issue.

”[The DMA should] First, prioritize privacy. Reforms should address harms driven by surveillance-based business models, alongside deceptive design...

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The free press relies on the ability to be pseudonymous, both for the journalists and their sources.

Don't undermine the foundation of our open societies by building infrastructure for ubiquitous online identity verification.
https://ec.social-network.europa.eu/@EUCommission/116509371063854487

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Independent journalism relies on the ability to be pseudonymous, both for the journalists and their sources.

Don't undermine the defenders of our open societies by building infrastructure for ubiquitous online identity verification.
https://ec.social-network.europa.eu/@HennaVirkkunen/116509609163637624

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@mrg.name Beats me, seems to be a hapax.

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Cheiros - hand, ago - to lead -> “hand-leading”? But my Greek is non-existent.

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@mrg.name I haven’t really dug into it yet, but that was one of the things that caught my mind.

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I wanted to read it because I argued elsewhere that an /interesting/ translation has to be somewhat opinionated, but then I it struck me that Boodberg probably aimed at being correct above all else.

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Hot Sinology take:

Boodberg's *entire* paper \"Philological Notes [...]\" is his translation of the incipit of the Daodejing just as the interlinear commentaries on many classical Chinese texts are as much a part of the tradition as the texts themselves.

www.jstor.org/stable/27183...

Philological Notes on...

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En sak som slår mig när jag läser kapitlet om jordbrukskollektiviseringen efter ryska revolutionen är hur många mjukvaruarkitekter har samma förhållningssätt till användare som Lenin hade till de ryska bönderna och, mindre förvånande, Le Corbusier och andra modernistiska fysiska arkitekter hade till...

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Häromdagen såg jag Enola Holmes (2020) med min 12-åriga dotter som haft den på repeat ett tag och den var förvånansvärt bra, jag är svag för Sherlock Holmes universumet (och Helena Bonham Carter).

Jag kan dock inte sluta tänka på att det hade varit en mycket intressantare film om Enola hade tillåtits vara...

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Kära #Stockholm #LatmansWebb,

nu i veckan kommer jag att promenera från Värtahamnen till Gamla stan och skulle bli glad om ni kunde rekommendera några bra kaféer på vägen. Jag kan tänka mig att ta en liten omväg för ett bra kafé.

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Nu finns äntligen Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon 臥虎藏龍 (2000) att streama i Sverige (Netflix). Ang Lees 李安 (Hulk, Brokeback Mountain, Life of Pi) kärleksbrev till den kineskiska wuxia 武俠 traditionen, hjältesagor med rötter i 1300-talet, med en stjärnspäckad rollista (Michelle Yeoh, Chow Yun Fat, Zhang Ziyi)...

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Jäkla pollen, jag måste nog gå och leta upp en näsduk.

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026/mar/24/man-who-talked-down-hospital-bomber-says-would-be-attacker-asked-for-a-cuddle

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OK, hur många domäner har ni registrerat för hobbyprojekt som förmodligen aldrig kommer att bli av?

Jag är uppe på sju nu...

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Uff, min instans är väldigt svajig nu, jag blir nog tvungen att byta snart.

Annars är the Super Dimensional Fortress : https://sdf.org/ ett ganska coolt pubnix/retrodata projekt.

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Move slowly and things brake.

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@jowolff.bsky.social Move slowly and things brake.

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Configuring the space bar to be ctrl when pressed together with another key has completely transformed my #emacs usage on modern keyboards where Control is a tiny awkwardly placed key. It changes e.g. C-x C-f into Space-x Space-f; much easier to type.

The next step would be to go full Home Row Modifiers, that...

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Språkbokhandeln (née Franska bokhandeln) i #Lund är en veritabel kulturinstitution. Fantastiskt att kunna bläddra i ett utbud av skön- och facklitteratur som är bättre än de flesta svenska bokhandlar, främst på #franska, men också #italienska, #tyska, #spanska, #portugisiska och #japanska. Tänk bara att...

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@sarahemclaugh.bsky.social Legendary CS professor Donald Knuth as he stopped reading email in 1990:

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”…15 years of email is plenty for one lifetime. Email is a wonderful thing for people whose role in life is to be on top of things. But…my role is to be on the bottom of things.”

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www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~knuth/email…

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Vilket är det bästa #falafel-stället i #Lund nuförtiden?

(Jag är Falafelkungen-låg-på-Kungsgatan år gammal…)

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@mikeygow.bsky.social One of my greatest achievements as a kid was to actually break the supposedly indestructible TAC-2

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en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TAC-2

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@samuelwa.de Ah, OK, I see now that LLSPI has an online version, perhaps that is more cost-effective, Legentibus is a bit pricey. My bottle neck isn’t money, though, so for me it’s worth it…

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@samuelwa.de I don’t want to be an enabler here but I’ve had the same thought lately (despise full-time work and full time-family) and I think you should check out Legentibus. Their course is based on LLPSI and seems, IMHO, perfect for false beginners.

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legentibus.com

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@jowolff.bsky.social There is no God and Christopher Hitchens is his messenger.

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@bokane.org Oooh, margin notes that also works on mobile! I’ve been fiddling with that for ages. What’s your setup?

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@garius.bsky.social What really boggles my mind is that intelligence agencies would buy a something named after a tool of deception.

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Wikipedia: ”The stones were an unreliable guide to action […] users with sufficient power could choose what to show and what to conceal to other stones”

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en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palant%…

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@sodrock.bsky.social This is an interesting article that discusses what it might mean to ”learn from China”

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madeinchinajournal.com/2025/11/13/s…

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Perhaps best read with Kuo’s original article (which IMHO more reflects US anxieties than ”the West”).

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www.theideasletter.org/essay/the-gr…

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@madpoli.bsky.social Back when I studied Chinese I had a French roommate for a while and when I got to a ’le’ or a ’de’ in either language there was a 1 in 10 chance I’d switch over to the other without noticing.

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@judah-grunstein.bsky.social Economists are like medieval scholastics, they produce truth using sophisticated formal methods but completely unrealistic axioms which leads to them to invent epicycle upon epicycle to explain the conjunctions.

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@cyborgchris.bsky.social ”En ekonom är en person som vet priset på allt men värdet av inget.”

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(Mina djupaste ursäkter till Oscar Wilde)

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@anguche.bsky.social …och lite hiragana till på köpet.

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(Att ta hand om papper med tecken på var tydligen något som gav hög status i lokalsamhället till den ofrivilligt obsolete konfucianska ämbetsmannen i Henrietta Harrisons väldigt intressanta ”The Man Awakened from Dreams”)

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www.sup.org/books/asian-…

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@samuelwa.de Well, they called it 辭海 because of the feeling of just barely being able to keep your head above water.

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en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cihai

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@aohsusometimesy.bsky.social Not really a lit review but I’ve had the papers from a symposium on Scott’s Against the Grain published in Cambridge Archaeological Journal. 2019; Vol 29(4) in my Zotero library forever, I haven’t read them but maybe there is some historiography in there?

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www.cambridge.org/core/journal…

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@samuelwa.de But there might an interesting essay in there somewhere on how the authors of articles like that are just rhapsodising set phrases until they hit their word limit instead of doing any real analysis.

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@samuelwa.de Oh, come now, he is also ‘lion-hearted’, ‘god-like’ and ‘the pelead’.

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(The actual subject of the thread (CLB, CDM) makes me so depressed I just had to go along with the tangent…)

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@taigdara.bsky.social Thanks for posting this.

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I’m revealing my ignorance here but I’d been vaguely aware about Jin and Liu and some of their works but not really connected the dots until I read the short bio at the top of the linked article.

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