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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.

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-2022-071204

"...findings indicate that these food additives, consumed daily by millions of people and present in thousands of foods and beverages, should not be considered a healthy and safe alternative to sugar..."

Also, artificial sweeteners might not help with obesity: "Long-term aspartame and saccharin intakes are related to greater volumes of visceral, intermuscular, and subcutaneous adipose tissue: the CARDIA study" https://www.nature.com/articles/s41366-023-01336-y

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/

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 on the remote side.

In cases where being able to work on remote, for example very particular configurations, or docker containers, or WSL2, this makes a huge difference.

For me this is mostly Python and TypeScript these days, where VSCode has grown particularly strong in terms of IDE features.

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 active, but on my 2560x1440 display there is still a bit of sluggishness. However, it's fine to run PyCharm locally on the WSL2, which is my primary use case with this.

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 store the last time that a user connected to the server.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Signal_(software)#Servers

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 you use Signal only for quick low friction capturing.

In my case, I later process these messages during my daily input review, at which point they mostly end up somewhere in my Emacs orgmode-based system.

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 store interesting web-pages as PDFs on my local drive, currently synced using Dropbox.

- Academic articles go in Zotero, with PDFs on local drive, synced using Dropbox.

- On mobile, I use the Dropbox app to create and edit markdown files (I wish they would just treat .org files as normal text files!), and to save any web page to PDF.

- I sometimes draw flow charts, architecture diagrams and UI using an Apple Pencil and the Notability app on a 2018 entry-level iPad, which syncs these sketches as searchable PDFs to ... Dropbox.

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 different todomvc implementations.

The lastpass performance tax shows up mostly during page load.

The question is, how representative is the speedometer benchark of normal use?

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 trying to understand how fastmail web, gmail, thunderbird and ios mail.app do HTML quoting (hint: they're all subtly different)), I decided to double-down on format=flowed.

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.

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 pool of cash is distributed to all of the sites that they visit.

See https://brave.com/ -- they have just released their beta and it's pretty amazing. Payments in the new beta are not yet live though.

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 ingesting academic references including fulltext and bibliographic data from the web. One click of a button in your browser, and everything is ready to read and cite.

(Source: Wrote quite a number of papers and co-authored one textbook, all using Zotero. My workflow was Zotero for ingestion -> per-publication bibtex files for authoring)

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-hardware-based-full-di... (no ads, no referrals, really just info) which explains at a high level how SSD-based encryption works.

The open-source msed tool has now been renamed to sedutil see https://github.com/Drive-Trust-Alliance/sedutil but it still works the same way.

It would still be possible for a sufficiently advanced thief to secure erase the drive (they need to know how to use TCG Opal to do that), but they will never see your data.

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 also. This whole notes directory hierarchy is synced everywhere, also to my Android phone where I sometimes use emacs with termux to access these notes.

Searching is done using helm-projectile-ag, which is bound to `C-c p s s`

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 if I'm in the flow / deeply working, the value of that flow is too great to take the risk that I might break it because of an arbitrary break.

I think a better advice now would be to experiment, and see what suits you best in terms of sustainability, output and fulfilment.

Today I my pomodori were between 25 minutes and an hour. It's home time now, but I feel great due to a large part of the day filled with flow.

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 statistics, as I made clear from the very start.

So cocktailpeanuts, my username here is my real name. I connect my real identity to this whole discussion. Why don't you do so too?

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://everydayfeminism.com/2015/11/lessons-white-privilege-... * http://www.huffingtonpost.com/deborah-foster/a-guide-to-whit...

(there are many more good resources -- the bottom-line is that if you're white, you have been privileged by that fact. What you do with this knowledge is of course up to you.)

You can keep on insulting my person, but instead my suggestion is that you read as much as you can about this important topic.

P.S. here's more on women (another non-white-and-male group) having to suffer online abuse:

* http://theconversation.com/abuse-of-women-on-twitter-no-quic... * http://www.huffingtonpost.co.za/entry/twitter-harassment-wom... * https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/europe/twitter-apologiz...

Denying that online abuse is a massive problem is not defensible, especially when you are comfortably outside of the targeted groups.

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 to have this discussion without getting quite emotional), I know that this little discussion is not going anywhere.

One day either you or I might change our viewpoint with regard to this topic. I already did this once quite some time ago. I hope that one day you might too.

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 ask what the problem is. However, for a great number of non-white-middleclass-guy-people it's a huge and real problem that we should do our absolute best to help address.

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 best:

"Contrary to the Intercept article, this paper isn't a failure of ML ethics; it's a failure of ordinary academic ethics, dressed up as machine learning. The paper is bullshit, plain and simple."

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 that the building blocks have been available (and used) for so long, it's interesting to think about (and experiment with) how much effort would be required to make blogs+rss as slick as Twitter.

It is a cunning plan!

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

I hope to release TableTops next year.

It's a non-linear graphical (in two senses of the word) knowledge management software that stores universal links to all of your stuff, local and in the cloud. It also does notes, tags, and script nodes (which can for example be used as alarms / reminders) and represents EVERYTHING as a great big graph.

The main UI element is a TableTop, which is also just a node in the graph that acts as a visual slice through it. Nodes (normal and other TableTops) can live on any number of TableTops.

Non-nerd users can see the TableTops as an infinite number of large work tables with your de-duplicated documents on them.

I have to work on the TL;DR. I also have to work on not rewriting the prototype every few months. :)

Very cool that you've shipped! Are you doing this fulltime?

(re pinboard: I'm using pocket as my over-powered bookmark list. It reformats all pages for easier reading, also on mobile, and you get to tag everything. With the pro version it also does full-text indexing)

Author of the post reporting for duty!

That was written before TCG Opal arrived and greatly improved the situation. In any case, the post turned out to be a meeting point for SSD full disk encryption fans, so there's a whole lot of great discussion in the comments.

I did write a follow-up post in 2015 on getting TCG Opal working with your SSD using the open source MSED: https://vxlabs.com/2015/02/11/use-the-hardware-based-full-di...

(the author of MSED was super-helpful in the comments, which turned out to be an informal kind of msed helpdesk)

In this case it was less about gov tracking, and more about the depth of the machine learning profile GOOG builds of its users.

That being said, decentralising a bit to providers that don't specialise in user profiling but more in email handling, is a step in the right direction.

Thanks for writing this post.

I was happily using cloudflare on two of my sites on webfaction mostly for the easy SSL (I did this before let's encrypt). Your post motivated me to try out let's encrypt via the acme.sh script in webroot mode: It took me all of 10 minutes to get and install LE's SSL certificates and change authoritative nameservers away from cloudflare.

... but can it cure the apostrophe?