38 entries from "Recife"

The Roads to Ruining Thanksgiving....

[Eat an elephant one bite at a time, starting with the youngest.]

Plausible: GDPR, CCPA and cookie law compliant site analytics

Old salts are deleted every 24 hours to avoid the possibility of linking visitor information from one day to the next. Forgetting used salts also removes the possibility of the original IP addresses being revealed in a brute-force attack.

How to make banana water!

[Chop banana peels and let sit in water for an hour or longer, then strain into a bottle. Use as fertilizer for plants.]

Is this something we have to agree on?

[Avoid getting into a heated argument by 1) asking if this is something we need to agree on, as often it's not the case; 2) pulling the brake of "well, maybe so" to acknowledge it's possible they're right, sometimes all they wanted to hear; 3) lowering your voice and slowing down your words if they do the opposite.]

push the eject button

[Politely end a conversation by: 1) acknowledging you need to interrupt; 2) moving to another room (like the bathroom); and 3) cuing an end with "thanks for sharing".]

A lot of us eat oranges and throw out the peels..

[Pack a jar with orange peels, fill with vinegar, and let sit in a cool dark place. After two weeks, strain into a spray bottle. The D-limonene combined with vinegar is a naturally powerful household cleaner.]

How to start a movement | Derek Sivers

[The first follower transforms someone else from lone nut to leader, thereby giving legitimacy to the movement. Have courage to be that follower, as it isn't always easy, but it can help set the wheels of change in motion.]

[Treat the first followers as equals so that the movement takes precedence over the leader.]

The more my practice is an own connection with body, the less I need to take classes or achieve a standard. In this sense I may never need to take another movement class. My progress can be personal and infinite, adapted to my context.

Embark - Dynamic documents for making plans

Travel-certified trip planning demo combining end-user programming and customization, spreadsheet-like formulas, text as super app.

ChatGPT as muse, not oracle

In rubber duck debugging, talking to a silent rubber duck helps a person figure out the problem by forcing them to put it into words. The Oblique Strategies card deck promotes creative ideas based on general loose strategies. ELIZA can ask super basic questions and cause people to feel a therapeutic relationship. In all these cases, a person gets a boost in the creative process from interacting with a tool that’s clearly far from intelligent. It seems like large language models could do at least as well as these tools, and have a much higher ceiling.

for the unwanted table talk

[Pass over unwanted conversation by saying 1) "that subject isn't for me", as with food you don't eat; 2) "good to know" and "that's interesting", to acknowledge without agreeing; and 3) "I typically avoid this discussion", to communicate it's not singling them out. Nobody can force you to talk about anything you don't want to talk about.]

So many of us throw these things out..

[Instead of wasting the ends of these veggies, grow something from them.]

[Lettuce and celery bottoms can be cut around two inches and half submerged with sticks in a cup of water (ideally filtered).]

[Take one stick of basil, remove the bottom leaves, cut the bottom of the stem at a forty-five degree angle, and place the top part in a shot glass for three days. When it grows roots, plant it in soil.]

[Green onions or scallions can be planted directly in soil to regrow in about six days.]

[Carrot tops can be cut to about an inch and planted directly in soil.]

Shyness about making mistakes robs others of perspective. Shyness about telling your story prevents the discovery of ideas and possibilities.

Offering is a way to make an experience non-exclusionary.

The engineering mindset of placing elements together because they are nearby vs the human mindset of the right place at the right time.

A feed full of demos, via positiva.

[Hydroelectricity and nuclear are considered green, but not often distinguished as centralized, as opposed to wind and solar which are decentralized. What are the consequences of losing a dam or a reactor versus a turbine or panel?]

Communications for All

Part I

[High prices for substandard services have made Canadian telcos one of the most profitable in the world, second to Portugal.]

[One way to create more access is to take advantage of unused fiber-optic infrastructure known as "dark fiber" that already exists in municipal buildings.]

[A communications scholar proposed merging the postal service and the public broadcaster to create a "communications corporation" that advances open access, public Wi-Fi, rural broadband, funding for public art and culture.]

[Chatanooga's electricity company incorporated fiber optic communications into their power grid and transformed themselves into an ISP that delivered faster speeds at half the cost of private companies, with the added benefit of generating revenue for the city and providing discounts to low-income residents.]

[After rapidly obtaining nearly half the marketshare in the area, their competitive offerings forced the other telcos to upgrade their infrastructure and lower costs.]

[Provincially-owned telecoms company SaskTel provides such competitive rates on mobile data in Saskatchewan that there is actually a black market in Ontario for plans from that province.]

Part II

[A group of carriers operating in the same way essentially functions as a monopoly, and should be dealt with as such.]

[Canada has] some of the highest levels of wireless investment coupled with the shabbiest coverage.

[When oligopolies control the industry, there is little pressure for them to innovate and develop the network. The UK has addressed this problem by regulating a separation between infrastructure providers and retail vendors, thereby enabling competition and more access.]

[Telus, Bell, and Vidéotron originated from publicly-owned telcos or large government investment.]

[Monopolistic actors like Google and Facebook provide insufficient control over how your personal data is collected, used and accessed. A regulated version of either would, for example, provide controls for data sharing to disallow military-related analysis and allow broadcasting one's location to improve public transport.]

[Neighbourhoods and cities should be able to set defaults for centralized services to better serve the interests of their communities.]

[There should be user-friendly tools that enable ordinary people to charge for or profit from the sharing of their data when it is used in for-profit applications.]