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I have based this commentary on the original German text as published by Reclam. The translation is my own, created with the assistance of ChatGPT.
Please note that this is purely my personal interpretation of the sermon. I have no formal training in theology or medieval studies, so my reading should be taken with a grain of salt.
Read moreMarch 25, 2025A year ago, a friend of mine had the idea to visit Namibia—often referred to as the “Gems of Africa” because of its diversity of animals and biomes. I’m not entirely sure how he came up with the idea. Maybe it was due to the country’s connection to Germany during its colonial period, or perhaps some algorithmic push from the “machine gods” in his feed. Whatever the reason, he asked our friend group if we were up for joining him. Another friend said yes, but I couldn’t go because it overlapped with some exams I had to take at university. However, I promised him that next semester, I would choose modules that allowed me to have some free time, which would overlap with theirs.
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Jun. 03
FZF and Fish This is my third day on my journey of making FZF work with Fish and NixOS. Well, it does work by default, but I had some special additional requirements—namely, that I can open files found by FZF in their default application and that I have a nice preview of images, PDFs, and just files in general when searching with FZF. But whenever I fix one thing, another thing breaks. I’ve already reached at least three points where I thought to myself, “Finally, I’m done—only this tiny little thing left.” And then, after I fixed that tiny little thing, I was back at square one. Something else broke—either the preview stopped working, or it didn’t open the file correctly, or it didn’t close the terminal after opening the program, or pressing Enter didn’t work.Jun. 02
The Memelord Himself Do as Diogenes did: he was unwell on one occasion when someone gave him a shove and put him in a headlock. Instead of engaging the man in a wrestling match, he took a stand before him, showed him his penis, and said “Try, sir, to wrestle me to the ground by applying pressure to this.” ~ Teles, On Self-SufficencyJun. 01
The Eiffel Tower is NOT in Paris! Info The basis of this text is the paper summary What Is It Like to Be a Bat? and Heidegger’s concept of Dasein. I have not read any primary sources by Heidegger; therefore, if any argument here seems questionable, the fault lies with me and not with Heidegger. I recommend turning to his work Being and Time, where he elaborates on this concept far better and more accurately than I ever could.