> Things to do while saving the human race. We are not facing an existential threat.
Oh, we very much are, but it's not the coronovirus.
The next pandemic? That might be worse. But rising ocean levels are pretty bad.
I built a website to occupy people during quarantine that updates midnight UTC
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Re: I built a website to occupy people during quarantine that updates midnight UTC
#22Earlier quoted context omitted.
It also might be illegal in some places right now
Where is it illegal to go out for exercise? Every stay-at-home order I've seen, at least in the democracies, carves out an exception for that. (On the other hand, I've hardly made a survey of them, so this is an honest question.)
Poland. It was the most criticised part of initial restrictions, fortunately it is being relaxed on Monday (going out for recreation is allowed, opened parks and forests, however masks mandatory when going outside).
Re: I built a website to occupy people during quarantine that updates midnight UTC
#23When sleep is a good way to boost the defences against infections [0], motivating people to stay up until midnight might not be the best idea. Perhaps change the update time to an earlier hour. [0] https://youtu.be/wlbM6VVkVZM
How does 7pm sound?
That's what midnight UTC is in my timezone (US Central).
Re: I built a website to occupy people during quarantine that updates midnight UTC
#24Your site doesn't appear to work in FireFox. I really like the concept though.
Re: I built a website to occupy people during quarantine that updates midnight UTC
#25When sleep is a good way to boost the defences against infections [0], motivating people to stay up until midnight might not be the best idea. Perhaps change the update time to an earlier hour. [0] https://youtu.be/wlbM6VVkVZM
How does 7pm sound? That's what midnight UTC is in my timezone (US Central).
i guess there's always someone on the other side of the globe. So a reasonable time for where the majority of your audience is is the best. Unless you wanna go all out and make it timezones dependent.
Re: I built a website to occupy people during quarantine that updates midnight UTC
#26This is a great way to spend time for me and explore interesting stuff.
I have a suggestion of having a link to previous days archives so i can re-visit and re-explore at a later date.
Thanks!
Re: I built a website to occupy people during quarantine that updates midnight UTC
#27A bit of a shameless plug, but sometime ago I built an aggregator for the videos posted on HN, which can be quite a time killer - https://hackerpixels.com/. It's just for fun, ignore the newsletter popup, haven't found the time to remove it.
Re: I built a website to occupy people during quarantine that updates midnight UTC
#28When sleep is a good way to boost the defences against infections [0], motivating people to stay up until midnight might not be the best idea. Perhaps change the update time to an earlier hour. [0] https://youtu.be/wlbM6VVkVZM
Given that the website updates once every 24 hours, there's no need to rush to consume the media.
Re: I built a website to occupy people during quarantine that updates midnight UTC
#29Really nice work, I'll share this around. One minor quibble..."Outbreak" is a terrible movie, bad enough that I'd say don't bother with it. Some good actors, but writing terrible enough that it doesn't help. "Contagion", on the other hand is very well researched, with better acting. It's also interesting how many of the sub-plots and terminology are happening in real life, right now.
I searched "criticism movie outbreak' but found nothing.
Would you feel like sharing more about why you dislike it? assuming you have some key/potent and useful examples from scenes.
Re: I built a website to occupy people during quarantine that updates midnight UTC
#30While the concept is timely, I remember when much of my browsing used to consist of visiting blogs like this. (It still does, but it used to too.)
Even during the heyday of LiveJournal or whatever, I loved having bookmarks where I could look in on whatever fun/interesting/amusing links people had shared recently. While there are some still kicking, it seems like most of that content has either gone to aggregators or meta-forums like reddit/HN and to the trickle-feeds of Facebook and its spawn.
There's something to be said for a list or RSS feed of these kinds of sites and I think it's a shame they're not as prominent as they once were. I'm glad when anyone decides to put up a new one.