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by wortelefant 7y ago
my Notion/Zettelkasten practice is inspired by this thread: https://forum.zettelkasten.de/discussion/404/moving-on I still don't completely trust the manual ordering of the entries to be persistent, but
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by wortelefant 7y ago
After trying several formats, I now keep my zettelasten-structured notes in https://Notion.so . you can use webclipper, search and internal links etc, previews can be seen as cards. This approach is well documented with many exam
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by wortelefant 7y ago
"the blank slate" or other texts from Stephen Pinker come to mind, though the connection to relationship insight from sociobiology is rather hazy
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by wortelefant 7y ago
Wikimedia is contributing a lot of time and resources to other Open/Commons projects as well, at least in Germany: Open Education, Open Science, Open Glam, Open Access, Open Government etc. They also invest in advocacy (lobbying for mo
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by wortelefant 7y ago
The"unauthorized access" argument is tainted by the ambiguity of these new document access rules, or that they were introduced after hiring a "union busting" company, this article claims: https://medium.com&#x
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by wortelefant 7y ago
I publish my email and phone number on my website. Spam is filtered and my phone is in flight mode whenever I'm busy. It is similar to still keeping a Facebook account, the upside of being found by the right people is bigger than the p
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by wortelefant 7y ago
'Obfuscation' - feeding fake data to privacy-violating apps - is a promising solution for everyone who does not want to miss out on apps like whatsapp, or become the digital equivalent of a prepper with only self-compiled OSS or h
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by wortelefant 7y ago
From my own writing I found that short blogposts have many advantages, it really helps to update the blog more regularly than my previous strategy of writing essays twice a year. The lack of pictures also keeps the time investment low, I am
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by wortelefant 7y ago
Agreed, I (grudgingly) understood the value of fb during volunteer work. Most grassroots refugee support initiatives were run by non tech savvy people. They created Facebook groups to communicate with people who wanted to help. As there som
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by wortelefant 7y ago
Some Hacker communities already have their own video platforms - I only know of CCC so far but I bet there are others: https://media.ccc.de/ This knowledge will become even more isolated and harder to find for beginners. Bu
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Climate impact research about the current heatwave(twitter.com)
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by wortelefant 7y ago
David Graeber describes this "fluff work" as "bullshit jobs", a sense of purpose in a job seems to be increasingly rare for many people. https://www.theguardian.com/books/2018/may/25/b
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by wortelefant 7y ago
I was only referring to the waiting line in my nearest supermarkets, people even used to push their cards into the feet of those in front of them, but now they are busy on candy crush or something else on their phomes. This is not to say it
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by wortelefant 7y ago
The article is quite optimistic about peoples' abilities to transform their newfound boredom into something creative, but as in the example with books, this digital minimalist "healthy" boredom also has its prerequisites to m
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by wortelefant 7y ago
Apparently the author also added phrases from the "non-notable" discussions to a website that autogenerates random T-shirt designs: http://zufallsshirt.de/non-notable/
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Dictionary of Non-Notable Artists(gregorweichbrodt.de)
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by wortelefant 7y ago
thanks to the bland taste of these factory-produced chicken, plant-based meat alternatives become more viable as an alternative. In asian dishes I started to replace chicken with seitan, the differences are too small to notice https:/
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by wortelefant 7y ago
the trend to "free-range" chicken reminds me of similar half-hearted efforts against the climate crisis; we can't decrease CO2 levels just by collecting plastic trash separately if it is shipped to the incinerator all the sam
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Moderately Motivated Gen-Xer for Hire(mcsweeneys.net)
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nice! Did you think about connecting it to spreadshirt or a similar T-shirt producer? There is a service with random text designs already, http://zufallsshirt.de - they even generate T-shirts from "non-notable" Wikiped
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by wortelefant 7y ago
> I see folks who are disciplined, are ruthless executors, are self-motivated,[...] On websites like hackernews, you'll only hear about successful projects most of the time - they might have been preceded by multiple Failures"
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by wortelefant 7y ago
A 2005 study observed this behavior in macaques; male monkeys would pay some amount of fruit juice to look at leaders' faces or females' hindquarters ("socially useful information"). https://www.nature.com&#x
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Berlin court: Google privacy policy violates data protection law(cio.com)
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by wortelefant 8y ago
Evil webdesign patterns on this site: After I opted out of all but "required" cookies, the popup kept me waiting for several minutes with "processing preferences", inviting users to cancel the opt-out. Shenanigans like t
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by wortelefant 8y ago
Berliner here as well, living near the Ring. I prefer the dogs head shape, with the ring shape visitors often travel around the longer (western) route of the ringbahn, causing delays. I guess public acceptance of the change will be mixed as
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The dog's head prevents longer travel times- when people assume it is a circle, they quickly find out the left half takes much longer to travel when you move from Tempelhof to Schönhauser Allee
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I like the look, however in the case of the circular line ("Ringbahn") it would lead to higher transit times: The left half takes much longer to travel (ca +25 minutes) than the right half, as a friend found out last month by acci
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by wortelefant 8y ago
After switching to a plant-based diet for health reasons at first, I started looking for alternatives to meat/dairy and found a wealth of tasty recipes - the vegan community is quite inventive, maybe due to the constraints. One of my n
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by wortelefant 8y ago
these little actions count; changing consumption patterns creates a signal to the market and to politics. a community of practice concerned about the environment, once set in motion, makes it easier to estimate the political gains of passin
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by wortelefant 8y ago
we use staticman for a static / jekyll site, it adds comments via forms and github pull requests. works well if you're not exactly drowning in comments and if only minimal moderation is required. some recent blog articles describe

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