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by cheshire_cat 9y ago
Nicolas Petton (maintainer of Indium) wrote a great blog post about his org-mode GTD workflow: https://emacs.cafe/emacs/orgmode/gtd/2017/06/30/orgmode-gtd....
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by cheshire_cat 9y ago
I'd definitely advise anyone thinking about this to do their research but the risk doesn't seem to be as large as often suggested. There was a large US study that showed no correlation between lifetime psychedelic use and mental h
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by cheshire_cat 9y ago
Have you had a look at GNU Ring? It's also decentralized (except the name server but you don't have to use it) and works better for me than tox. https://ring.cx/
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The right way to be introspective(ideas.ted.com)
2 points by cheshire_cat 9y ago|0 comments
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by cheshire_cat 9y ago
MediaGoblin is available through Sandstorm: https://apps.sandstorm.io/app/70awyqss6jq2gkz7dwzsnvumzr0725...
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by cheshire_cat 10y ago
We are already throwing massive amounts of food away. "Getting food from the farm to our fork eats up 10 percent of the total U.S. energy budget, uses 50 percent of U.S. land, and swallows 80 percent of all freshwater consumed in the U
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by cheshire_cat 10y ago
"The Genius and the Goddess" by Aldous Huxley. It's one of his lesser known works and also quite short (128 pp). I really like Huxleys way of waving thoughts on psychology and philosophy into a story and specially liked it in
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by cheshire_cat 10y ago
He said "[...] it is encouraged to think of it that way rather than calling functions." This is what Sandi Metz talks about when she speaks about message/responsibility centric design vs data-centric design in OOP. The concep
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by cheshire_cat 10y ago
have you had prior experiences with other functional programming languages?
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by cheshire_cat 10y ago
Thank you, do you have a link with more technical explanations?
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by cheshire_cat 10y ago
I was under the impression that they can't issue Sub-CAs because the pathlen of their Cert is set to 0. [0] They would have to give their private key to their clients to achieve a MITM attack, right? [0] https://crt.sh/
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by cheshire_cat 11y ago
There are already methods in place to get an anonymous SIM card even if this law gets passed. There is a SIM exchange service run by privacy activists. [0] There are also people that register hundreds of cards on their own name and resell t
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by cheshire_cat 11y ago
Some vendors require you to show an ID but right now you can get many SIM-Cards that can be registered online or via phone call and the data provided doesn't get verified. That's the thing they want to change.
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Douglas Rushkoff: The Internet Is the New Playing Field for Corporate Greed(youtube.com)
2 points by cheshire_cat 11y ago|0 comments
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by cheshire_cat 11y ago
I don't trust it that much either, but in the end jdownloader gets developed by a company registered in Germany. [0] If they ever did something really sinister they would be quickly out of business. [0] http://www.wemakeyour
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by cheshire_cat 11y ago
If you are looking for something to give your family members, almost everyone I know uses the open-source tool jdownloader [0] to download youtube videos. It's a ponderous java monster but it works great and comes with a huge plugin co
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by cheshire_cat 11y ago
Sorry for going slightly OT but I think more people should know this: xkcd style passwords are actually called diceware passwords [1], the wikipedia article [2] links to arstechnica that reported in 2014 [3] that the original author upped h
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by cheshire_cat 11y ago
Have you looked at https://hearthis.at already?
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by cheshire_cat 11y ago
The engine of the mmorpg Ryzom was released as open source: "Ryzom Core is the open-source project related to Ryzom Game. Written in C++, Ryzom Core contains the whole code (client, server, tools) used to make the commercial MMORPG Ryz
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by cheshire_cat 12y ago
It's common practice to tell addicts that they should move to another city after therapy and therapists are certainly right to do so but I think this is only a part of the truth. The soldiers in vietnam were under great stress from (wa
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by cheshire_cat 12y ago
Some people can do it. But don't take my words for it. I'd like to quote from a blog post of Nic Sheff: "Going into it, I figured that most of the stories would be like mine. But in interviewing these different addicts —addic
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by cheshire_cat 13y ago
My (quite oldschool) professor taught me about this top-down design. This kind of "write as if you have all the methods you want/need" style is sometimes called "Wishful Programming" http://blog.thesoftwa