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What about common nootropics people take to get into 'programmer flow', like nicotine, lions mane, choline, caffeine, theanine, etc Surely they're more effective than cannabis, whi…

My new hobby is Linux, and all that that entails. I've learned basic command line operations and have experimented with all the popular distros out there, usually in Virtual machin…

I used to run Nextcloud locally, and could open it up on phones, tablets, etc. But I recently stopped using it, since it's no different than SFTP (Nextcloud just has a web UI to ma…

There is a paradox with app stores in that they play the gatekeeper and can arbitrarily not allow certain apps, remove them, or enforce certain rules on what types of apps are allo…

I check this every week: https://www.zdnet.com/blog/security/ Don't be put off that it's ZDNet, they monitor the infosec landscape really well. The only personal blog that covers i…

I like the concept. There are even young people experimenting with retirement but for typically one year, also known as a 'gap year' where they don't work/study - they just explore…

For me, becoming famous is similar to selling your soul, in the sense that you trade in your privacy in return for being famous and also presumably being rich too. It's like Cypher…

> We want to take this work a step further by inviting and incentivizing the community to help identify potential harms of this algorithm beyond what we identified ourselves. What …

> The concept known as "worse is better" holds that in software making (and perhaps in other arenas as well) it is better to start with a minimal creation and grow it as needed. Or…