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by cpbotha 1y ago
One more vote for miniflux, which I run on a "server" (old laptop with linux...) at my house and access from anywhere thanks to cloudflare tunnels.
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by cpbotha 1y ago
Large prospective cohort study (103 388 participants) showing that artificial sweeteners and specifically aspartame are associated with increased risk of cardiovascular disease: https://www.bmj.com/content/378/bmj-
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by cpbotha 4y ago
There is also Sébastien Dubois's Personal Knowledge Management slack [1] and the PKMs reddit [2]. [1] https://dsebastien.net/pkm-community [2] https://www.reddit.com/r/PKMS/
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by cpbotha 5y ago
I've been paying for the JetBrains toolbox for a few years now, I'm a huge fan. However, JetBrains unfortunately has nothing coming close to the transparency and speed of the VSCode remote connection, with your source living only
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The NumPy paper is out (Nature Open Access paper: NumPy's core role in SciPy)(twitter.com)
18 points by cpbotha 6y ago|0 comments
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by cpbotha 6y ago
I've been using xrdp more extensively with WSL2 recently. Because WSL2 often gets a new network interface assigned, X connections back to Windows are terminated, while rdesktop to xrdp running on the WSL2 instance does not. RemoteFX is
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by cpbotha 7y ago
Signal servers only know who talked to whom, but otherwise are physically not able to see even a smattering of the contents of the communication. Correction: The signal servers don't even have that bit of metadata. See [1], they only s
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by cpbotha 7y ago
The Signal private messaging app has a built-in dedicated "Note to Self" contact which you can text, send photos to, send voice notes to, or share anything with via your mobile OS of choice. I should have added: The idea is that y
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by cpbotha 7y ago
My whole system, minus the Apple Pencil bits, is described here: https://cpbotha.net/2019/09/21/note-taking-strategy-2019/ In short: - Emacs OrgMode with a specific setup as the core of everything. - I s
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by cpbotha 7y ago
I did this same experiment in September of last year. (just checked my orgmode notes) My conclusion then was that the speedometer 2.0 benchmark is dominated by page load, because it does that a zillion times as it goes through all the diffe
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by cpbotha 7y ago
This is the one blemish (in my view) on fastmail's record. I love them otherwise. I initially came to the same conclusion as you, but after receiving one too many badly quoted HTML emails (and after some lost hours unsuccessfully tryin
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by cpbotha 7y ago
If you do format=flowed correctly, then code is not mangled. However, there is a higher risk (than with hard-wrapped) that users can mangle code with format=flowed.
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by cpbotha 8y ago
This is exactly what the Brave company is setting up. New chromium-based but privacy-focused browser, also called Brave. You pledge a certain amount per month (this is opt-in). The time spent by all Brave users determines how much of that p
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by cpbotha 8y ago
I think what your OP was referring to is not adding a citation to a document that you're editing, but rather ingesting PDFs and bibliographic data from the web. I love Emacs (not as much as you do it seems ;) but Zotero is amazing for
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by cpbotha 10y ago
Make sure you get a laptop with a self-encrypting SSD that supports TCG OPal. This will give you maximum speed sector-level encryption. Read this post on my nerd-blog: https://vxlabs.com/2015/02/11/use-the-har
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by cpbotha 10y ago
I use emacs with org-mode (embedded syntax highlighted and executable source code blocks FTW) and org-download, the latter for embedding screenshots. Besides my daily lab journal (one org file per month), I have project-specific org files a
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by cpbotha 10y ago
I used to advise friends to stick to the 25 / 5 minute break, but more because I thought that this enabled one to sustain this rhythm for longer. However, currently I'm experimenting with longer pomodori, with the reasoning that i
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Deep Work: A welcome kick in the butt(cpbotha.net)
223 points by cpbotha 10y ago|65 comments
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PGP Never Gonna Give You Up(cpbotha.net)
28 points by cpbotha 10y ago|1 comments
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Android security in 2016 is a mess(cpbotha.net)
4 points by cpbotha 10y ago|0 comments
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by cpbotha 10y ago
You have clearly not read the links I posted. Doing so would contribute positively to your development. The fact that you're a HackerNews user, means that you're most probably white and male. That's not racist, it's stat
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by cpbotha 10y ago
I'm posting these links as someone else with an open mind might take the time to read and absorb them: * http://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/24/opinion/research-shows-whi... * http://everydayf
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by cpbotha 10y ago
Perhaps you should have spent the 5 seconds to look up where I live. You might have understood that my perspective is different from yours. Based on previous arguments with privilege deniers (invariably white middleclass guys who are unable
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by cpbotha 10y ago
There's a huge difference between criticism (good) and abuse (bad). You're most probably (I say that in the statistical sense) a white middleclass guy (I am too BTW). For us it's easy to airquote "twitter abuse" and
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by cpbotha 10y ago
This post by Yonatan Zunger (Head of Infrastructure for the Google Assistant, and a great thinker) on Google+ is insightful: https://plus.google.com/+YonatanZunger/posts/J8qrWvmhwNF?sfc... The conclusion says it b
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by cpbotha 10y ago
That's why the following section in the post is titled "what needs to happen" :) I have a good idea of the challenge involved. Because of that, I don't have that much hope that this will succeed, but, due to the fact tha
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by cpbotha 10y ago
It is a cunning plan!
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Let’s replace Twitter with something much better(cpbotha.net)
227 points by cpbotha 10y ago|182 comments
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Why it’s healthy that Microsoft and Google are eating Apple’s lunch(cpbotha.net)
15 points by cpbotha 10y ago|4 comments
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by cpbotha 10y ago
Wow, so many shared ideas! I know that so many people have worked on stuff like this before. I will be the 203409283th to try and get it out there. :D

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