Helge Rausch

I've learned so much from my mistakes,
I'm thinking of making a few more.

human (unverified), into lisp, emacs, vim, playing bass, drawing, board games, meditation

hypertext: https://rausch.io
go: https://online-go.com/player/818427/grundrauschen
location: Berlin, DE

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i_dabble_at_merveilles.town@momostr.pink

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2026-06-11 09:47:33 UTC

> Hundreds of millions of Pokémon Go players spent years filming the streets, parks, and buildings around them to earn in-game rewards. Those roughly 30 billion environmental scans are now owned by Niantic Spatial, and they helped train a camera-based navigation model that a U.S. defense contractor is preparing to put into drones and other military robots.
https://dronexl.co/2026/06/09/pokemon-go-scans-niantic-vantor-military-drone-navigation/

2026-03-26 16:00:49 UTC

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Wouldn't a hashtag work? #berlinKontrollettiWatch

2026-03-07 09:01:19 UTC

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That looks really clean! Simply inverting the colors when highlighting something seems like very good idea! I think I'm gonna try something like that in Emacs and see where it goes.

2026-03-06 11:55:42 UTC

I keep thinking that most editor color schemes are colorful in a way that is more distracting than helpful. Using low contrast schemes doesn't really change that. I found one that has almost no colors, but if you do something like search, it highlights the matches very prominently, making them really easy to find. This made me realize that, maybe, it's less about the colorscheme and more about it adapting to the context? Now I'm wondering what else a *modal* color scheme could be helpful with. But all I can come up with is just this. Highlight whatever you are currently doing, instead of everything, all at once.

2026-02-22 07:51:52 UTC

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I started a historical timeline in my notes as well. Very useful!

2026-02-13 14:41:40 UTC

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https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/feb/10/ireland-basic-income-for-the-arts-scheme-becomes-permanent

2026-01-18 09:50:06 UTC

Ireland has been trying a basic income for artists. Successfully, it seems: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=42f0OAeS_uU

2025-11-12 14:19:02 UTC

Is anybody else thinking the whole point of LLMs isn't to benefit humanity as much as it is meant to be an interface to harvest people's thoughts and fears, in order to sell them to data brokers? 👀 It doesn't exactly look like Silicon Valley is capable of envisioning any other business model at this point.

2025-10-16 07:31:49 UTC

The EU has a *housing commissioner* now and he had this to say:
> “If we don’t, as policymakers, take this problem seriously and acknowledge that this is a social problem and needs action, then … the anti-EU populists will win,” he said, adding that Brussels had so far “failed to deliver” on some of the key elements of the housing crisis.
I really hope something good will come out of this!
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/oct/15/eu-executive-short-term-rental-rules-affordable-housing-plan
#eu #housing

2025-09-26 06:23:02 UTC

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What do you not have a page about? :D I was thinking pellets. It really doesn't need to be perfect, just remove some of the limescale from our tap water. Thanks for the pointer!

2025-09-25 09:44:08 UTC

I need a water filter (to treat hard water for tea). Are there any options that don't produce a ton of plastic waste and don't require installation? I wonder if running the water through a coffee filter with activated charcoal works, which seems like it would be an easy to handle and sanitary option? 🤔🤷
#tea #coffee

2025-09-12 11:21:22 UTC

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Maybe it has to do with the press, missing no opportunity to platform these asshats and calling what they are doing "the right way"... Or with social media that keeps flushing the bottom of the barrel to the top, because it's a good way to create *engagement*... 🤷

2025-05-16 09:42:38 UTC

Why do we need more and more programming languages, when Common Lisp is already perfect? :neofox_peek:

2025-04-24 09:40:03 UTC

So... here is something mildly counter-intuitive: I disabled line-wrapping in my text editor (`set nowrap` in vim) and I found that I very rarely need to look at what gets cut off. If I do, I have a mapping to quickly toggle it. But the rest of the time, it's out of the way and I don't have to figure out what displayed line belongs to what actual line. For text, I have it automatically add actual line breaks anyway. Try it!

2025-03-24 15:28:10 UTC

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If the *vibe coder* discourse is any indication, the goal seems to be to replace all that nonsense involving thinking about problems and finding solutions with technical debt that keeps everything running until the exit.

2025-02-14 09:28:44 UTC

A Ton of Tea (Ai Weiwei, 2005)
https://assets.merveilles.town/media_attachments/files/114/001/517/574/831/849/original/8bb5271093ef7053.jpeg

2025-01-16 05:42:09 UTC

Look, mom! No types!

2025-01-14 16:47:39 UTC

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> https://wiki.xxiivv.com/site/paper_computing
Nice collection!

2025-01-14 07:42:57 UTC

Hit me with examples of *manual computing*! Let's define it as *computing without electricity*. The abacus is one example. Using dice as RNGs or counters is another. But there are more subtle ways, like in @npub1pve…9tda' post*, where there is some state and some knowledge required for a human to interpret that state. Board games are yet another example, where there is a set of rules, some changing state, represented by various game pieces, the players mutually observe that the rules are being followed, and the result is a winner. I keep wondering what other ends some board-game-like setup could be used for.
* https://merveilles.town/@tendigits/113822340665968899

2024-11-19 17:48:59 UTC

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Or... they deliberately generated some free PR by sparking some outrage. One person's invasion of privacy is another's ability to micromanage all their WFH subordinates.

2024-11-01 09:33:28 UTC

What do you do for *practicing* drawing?