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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: ht…

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 VSCod…

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 …

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…

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 …

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 co…

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 i…

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…

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…

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 a…

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://vxla…

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 (…

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 experimenti…

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 whit…

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://ev…

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 privile…

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 e…

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/J8qrWvmhwN…