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I read to my two kids every day until they were 13-14 years old. They loved books. Every car ride was an opportunity to listen to an audiobook. The kids loved to write and make art…

Your comment is spot on. The support of a teacher and a group are essential to go along with the practice. They are called The Three Jewels for a reason.

Reviewing code becomes more arduous. Not only are the pull requests more bloated, the developer who pushed them doesn't always understand the implications of their changes. It's ha…

If you block Google, as much of it as possible anyway, on your firewall, does the device work/install? I tried /e/ and Lineage about a year ago, but neither of them worked when Goo…

Add Akamai to that list of ASNs and you cover everything. I did that experiment a couple of years ago and my Apple devices went unresponsive unless I disconnected them from the Int…

That would be a hard one. A book of appetizers without a main course. I read it when I was an undergrad wanting to get a broad sense of different areas in Math I could pursue. If I…

4 of those 5 books are some of my all-time favourites. Ones that I enjoy rereading but I’d be hard pressed to pick just one.

Last time I used macOS, 2-3 years ago, it was in constant communication with Akamai servers. Blocking some of those hosts to prevent it from doing so would render the system unresp…

> including switching away from polyester clothing to cotton, linen and wool where possible. I’ve been going through the same thing lately. My daughter had offered to show me how t…

Clothing is mostly plastic fibre nowadays. Upholstery fibres too. Walls are painted with acrylic paint. Flooring is often made of various plastics. I assume the dust in our homes t…

Bradbury covered the spectrum of from literal book burning to idea burning through his characters. In my opinion it's through Faber he hit the nail on the head. It's not just books…

Add The Road to Wigan Pier for the Orwell trifecta.

It depends on the scale. I still like the idea of harvesting bog iron and smelting in a homemade bloomery.

Social media have become Bradbury’s parlour walls.

Research Math is an inside joke between friends. The jokes fall flat unless you know the same people and attend the same parties.

I’ve been pro-nuclear for the past 20+ years and have echoed the same arguments and sentiments expressed here. However, I’ve started to waver. Is it naive idealism to expect a futu…

I mentioned this on another post: The Tor Browser without Tor. It’s Firefox with all the “extras” stripped away. The instructions on how to do so are easy to find on the web. It al…

The best version of Firefox is the Tor Browser with Tor disabled. Avoids the “features” Mozilla insists on.

It’s not just trust in media (or government). It’s most societal institutions that have lost trust. I’d argue even trusting one’s own neighbours is probably at an all-time low. Tru…

The warning from Huxley is regarding what happens when the choice of child rearing (and bearing) are removed by both government and social pressures. He explores this to the extrem…

> Cambridge Analytica was a good example of this as well. The press fell over themselves to characterise their technology as some sort of election tipping, mind controlling super t…

I think of that too. I also think about how some of the really great works have stood the test of time — like Plato’s. Then there are really great works that were once common and p…

The absence of physical labour, of meaningful work, and learning to work with your hands, are aspects of childhood development completely abandoned over the past half-century. Kids…

Find something to do with your hands: knitting, carving, whatever. bring it with you. if you’re sitting around bored, reach for that instead of your phone.

The Sun’s ability to function like an Earth-wide Eprom eraser might cause some catastrophic disruption given our reliance on the Internet and computing devices. A large enough geom…