Dennis Hackethal’s Blog
My blog about philosophy, coding, and anything else that interests me.
Tweets
An archive of my tweets and retweets through . They may be formatted slightly differently than on Twitter. API access has since gotten prohibitively expensive – I don't know whether or when I'll be able to update this archive.
But in case I will, you can subscribe via RSS – without a Twitter account. Rationale
RT @ClimateWarrior7:
“Would you liquify your dead loved ones and flush them down the sewer to help the planet?”
Do they really have to be…
Manchmal geht es auch umgekehrt nicht. Zum Beispiel gibt es zwar ‘Unwissenheit’, aber ‘Wissenheit’ gibt es nicht.
Why ascribe this to the brain when it could just be a matter of ideas?
Everybody wants to be Hans and Sophie Scholl in a country of Scholls.
The kind of thing that takes exactly zero courage at that location and makes no difference. But I bet they feel very brave. twitter.com/lporiginalg/st…
Has the royal society become a spineless leftist mouthpiece? twitter.com/royalsociety/s…
RT @ClimateWarrior7:
I’ll win. My EU funding covers 7.5 hours per day of this. pic.twitter.com/QD105yK29t
Ich vermute da eine Faustregel: Hinter faulen (oder hier fehlenden) Übersetzungen stecken oft faule Konzepte.
RT @ClimateWarrior7:
To save money on covid tests, I simply roll two dice instead. If I get double sixes, I self-isolate.
If you’re looking for a quick buck, you can easily find servers with arbitrary file-existence disclosure by googling specific files from node modules.
E.g. google.com/search?q=node_…
Contact the site owners and offer to fix the vulnerability.
(Don’t exploit the vulnerability)
RT @ClimateWarrior7:
I know what you’re wondering. How did we reprogram ALL the maskitarians, OVERNIGHT, into being Ukrainian nationalists?…
Blame government monopoly of roads for lack of innovation.
If there were competing, free-market road providers, which would customers choose – the one that makes them wait pointlessly or the one that gets them to their destination faster? twitter.com/OfficialABQ/st…
New blog post: ‘School Can’t Be about Learning’
RT @AlexEpstein:
“Arctic expert predicts final collapse of sea ice within four years” - The Guardian, 2012
RT @juliusboemmes:
Seit heute gibt’s in #Österreich keine #Maskenpflicht mehr - NIEMAND trägt sie mehr in Gondel, Hütte & Co. All die Umfra…
Nothing quite as satisfying as finding a vulnerability in your own code.
RT @VoCommunism:
Vladimir Lenin died 98 years ago.
Unfortunately, his communist legacy of mass murder, starvation, and oppression is stil…
RT @ClimateWarrior7:
A lot of white people have followed me recently. Please unfollow immediately. This account is for transgender PoCs, BA…
RT @ClimateWarrior7:
My climate models indicate the world will end on Tuesday 22nd November, 2045. At 6pm. pic.twitter.com/lQElX9eKK8
RT @PR0GRAMMERHUM0R:
The Best Apps I Have Developed reddit.com/r/programmerhu… pic.twitter.com/OEZJ1acSNZ
My theory: she likes Jimmy but is mostly a gold digger waiting for his pay day from the Sandpiper settlement. That’s the real reason she wanted to get married. Once paid she’ll divorce him, take her half (or all of it?) and leave him.
RT @nomadcapitalist:
We heard that #Canada now has fewer entrepreneurs than government workers for the first time since the 1960s. If true,…
Safari sends requests to websites just by autocompleting the URL bar to a URL you’ve visited before. Runs the site’s JS, too.
If this is done on purpose (eg to enhance performance) I say it’s a bad idea for privacy reasons. Also creates unnecessary traffic for servers.
RT @PR0GRAMMERHUM0R:
Found in mathmemes subreddit reddit.com/r/programmerhu… pic.twitter.com/ETfir7zoCG
RT @SJobs_Stories:
“People that might have been ham radio operators, people that might have, you know, worked with large computers were all…
One silver lining of the Russia-Ukraine conflict is that many of the people who have had their panties in a bunch over a mostly perceived domestic threat (covid) now focus their attention on a real foreign threat.
RT @postmelownn:
(½) Deutschland ist, wenn Menschen sofort in Massen gegen #Menschenrechtsverletzungen im fernen Ausland demonstrieren(#B…
No mention of how these women dress, of course.
RT @ClimateWarrior7:
It’s only imperialism when capitalists do it. When socialists do it it’s liberation. pic.twitter.com/ev3UKkRUc9
RT @VDS_weltweit:
Wie Kommunikation bei Gender-Fans aussieht oder: Wenn man mit Gegenwind nicht leben kann. pic.twitter.com/iitPewav6R
RT @SJobs_Stories:
“It works like magic ! You don’t need a stylus. It’s far more accurate than any touch display that’s ever been shipped.…
“If he who employs coercion against me could mould me to his purposes by argument, no doubt he would. He pretends to punish me because his argument is strong; but he really punishes me because his argument is weak.”
– William Godwin
This is why: blog.dennishackethal.com/posts/the-true…
RT @AVindman:
Pushkin Square, maybe less than 1000 meters from Red Square and the Kremlin, is the cite of a significant protest. These peop…
RT @theimoas:
@Hoellenaufsicht
Es geht um unseren Optimismus im Sinne von @DavidDeutschOxf pic.twitter.com/HhME7pgL7G
RT @ClimateWarrior7:
Some photos from historical climate protests. pic.twitter.com/7nStrRePgc
It’s possible and desirable to live together peaceably in society, without compromise or violence.
Most people will deny that they disagree with this statement. But very few actually, wholeheartedly agree.
RT @RepThomasMassie:
$58,000 per household. That’s how much money the federal government spent in the name of COVID.
Even if you consider…
RT @SJobs_Stories:
“The thing with focus is, it’s not a thing you’re inspired to - you decide on Monday, you know, I’m gonna be focused ! I…
RT @reitschuster:
Die viel zitierte “Umzingelung” Russlands durch die NATO – hier zu erkennen an den rot markierten Grenzen der Russischen…
Elizabeth Warren is a repeat liar: blog.dennishackethal.com/posts/lying-li…
Fear mongers
⚡️ “The pandemic isn’t over. Omicron won’t be the last coronavirus variant to haunt us” by @latimes twitter.com/i/events/14958…
There is not really a social-credit system in Canada (yet), but this article is still very good: bariweiss.substack.com/p/a-social-cre…
RT @libsoftiktok:
Imagine being this afraid pic.twitter.com/rmsj6CT44A
Found several typos. Also the link to Senator Tom Coburn’s page is broken.
Instead of “fiancée” that should say “future wife”.
RT @ClimateWarrior7:
Not only covid but flu and other infectious diseases. We can never stop wearing masks. That would be like stopping for…
RT @APompliano:
The Ontario Superior Court of Justice asked self-custody wallet provider @nunchuk_io to disclose user information and freez…
From Amazon’s homepage today 🤡
Racism is so rampant in America that black people get free advertising on the biggest retailer’s website. pic.twitter.com/4D2dUFl3bE
RT @SJobs_Stories:
“Steve showed no sign of disappointment in my reply. He didn’t know the word ‘no’. It never meant anything to him. No is…
RT @AlexEpstein:
A producer just asked me:
“What do you think is behind the media and Washington’s climate change hysteria?”
Here’s my ans…
Must read. The measures have already aged poorly. Imagine reading another two years down the road. twitter.com/wmdavis1109/st…
Das ist doch jetzt schon der Fall twitter.com/jreichelt/stat…
RT @ClimateWarrior7:
What a beauty. Watch towers and everything.
Biden being busy doing things no government should do. twitter.com/POTUS/status/1…
RT @PR0GRAMMERHUM0R:
The best way to indent your code, no more missing semicolons ever again. reddit.com/r/programmerhu… https://t.co/mfAllmeR…
@ThomasKakareko @Mulinarius @BVG_Kampagne @I_love_Berlin @visitberlin
Rosenthaler Platz?
RT @JesseNichols:
@sama
You are only learning the opposite of what AGI is and how to stunt the growth of knowledge.
See @DavidDeutschOxf’s…
RT @libsoftiktok:
New Zealand is fining people for not wanting to get tested for covid. If you don’t pay the fine you can get arrested, hav…
Meanwhile in response to the pandemic pic.twitter.com/wTHgS0jAN5
New blog post: ‘My Response to a Google Recruiter’
Neuer Blog-Post: ‘Neues Buch: Könnte das auch anders sein?’
RT @michaelmalice:
The Nazi slogan was “Gemeinnutz geht vor Eigennutz” (the common good before the individual good)
Mein neues Buch ‘Könnte das auch anders sein?’ (Co-Autorin Roswitha Kant) ist jetzt erhältlich. Es handelt von künstlicher Intelligenz, der Evolution, der deutschen Coronapolitik, der Nachhaltigkeit, Freiheit und vielem mehr.
Mehr Infos/hier kaufen:
RT @michaelmalice:
Politicians create emergencies and then invoke emergency powers when their power is threatened.
The biggest check on thi…
RT @libsoftiktok:
High school students throw out dozens of books written by white authors to “decolonize” the school library https://t.co/M…
@RobbLondon
Not surprising I guess given it’s funded by sorta blood money from what I understand.
Grade gesehen: Diese neue Fünf-Sterne-Rezension für @DavidDeutschOxf’s Buch Der Anfang der Unendlichkeit bietet einen guten (wenn auch m. E. nicht ganz fehlerfreien) Überblick über den Inhalt des Buches für Interessierte: amazon.de/gp/customer-re…
@jreichelt @Twitter @NancyFaeser
Wie muss man sich das Leben in Deutschland fuer Ungeimpfte vorstellen? (Wohne im Ausland.) Duerfen die noch existieren?
I’m genuinely curious: has the BBC always been a spineless left-wing propaganda arm or is this a recent development? twitter.com/BBCNews/status…
@blancmarc20 @jeremycorbyn @DAaronovitch @leftoutside
lol that’s exactly what i thought, only you put it better
Poop is organic matter, too – that doesn’t mean it “compliments” (sic) medicine. twitter.com/jeremycorbyn/s…
RT @cwt_news:
🤡🌎 Neil Young is back on Spotify after his ultimatum to Spotify to remove him or Joe Rogan led to his leaving of the platform…