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Best use of time ethically speaking. Goal is to develop ideas.
Sounds like hustle/grind/productivity/self-optimization. Many have gone through that and found they need more balance, and practicing non-thought is a good way (the best? Dunno) of getting that.
I like it a lot. I was hoping it would be installable as a PWA.
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I'm curious, best for what? Personally, I don't need any practice to think - but not thinking, that's very challenging! And practicing has been very rewarding.
Best use of time ethically speaking. Goal is to develop ideas.
It's best to do both for different purposes. It's kind of like biking and weight lifting. You could count both as "exercise" but they serve different purposes and can work in conjunction.
Not that anyone asked: I've long given up on meditation timers. I go to a room without any digital technology except for a Casio F91W. I have gotten good at gauging how long I've been concentrating for and if I have aversion to continued sitting I just peek at the watch to know how long it's been. This is a solved problem that costs $0 and I don't have to worry about receiving personalised ads because I'm into 'mindf…
I like the simple approach. And as a practical matter, just chillin' is safe. But still: [sitting] can get uncomfortable. But when you finish, for some strange reason you feel better Meditation requires some guidance appropriate to the person. Some people are attracted to meditation for the wrong reasons; encouraging them without proper direction can make things go badly for them. Zen shinkanzen in particular is cons…
Let's hear it. How are we going to hurt ourselves by waiting for a timer to tick for a minute or two without the safety blanket of scrolling Twitter?
Interesting project. One thing I noticed: when I clicked the button, a fullscreen window got spawned, without any prompt asking me if I should enter fullscreen (Latest Firefox). On a sidenote: this could be used for browser-in-the-browser attacks[0] where someone could present a mock browser UI with a fake URL. Other than that, it's a great project. Anything to just sit without distractions gives us an unfair advanta…
Browsers allow entering fullscreen as long as it's in response to user input, such as clicking a button. When entering fullscreen, browsers emit a prompt about exiting fullscreen, partly to make sure people know how to exit and partly to make sure entering fullscreen doesn't go unnoticed. So, it'd be hard to pull off such an attack.
I believe that fullscreen notification got implemented exactly because of people not noticing their browser went into fullscreen mode.
I agree with some other poster, that it's unreasonable to assume that a majority of people would actually read the message. Luckily, though, that's not actually necessary. It's enough for them to notice that there was something fading away. Something unexpected happened.
Now it gets interesting: Regardless of people actively reading "Press [Esc]", as long as it was within their vision, their brain would still process it anyway.
This means that, in the state of confusion caused by the fading text, they'd be wondering "what just happened?" and their brain would execute the command "press [Esc]" regardless of the text being actively read or not.
The state of confusion causes the input to go right through, getting it executed, causing the user to press Escape.
That's a really fucking neat confusion technique!
PS: I'm not good at linking to topics so people gain better understanding, but I'll just read through some until I find good ones.
Milton Erickson's confusion technique. ( https://www.scribd.com/document/179357099/Milton-Erickson-TH... )
Quora's ChatGPT ( https://www.quora.com/What-is-a-simple-pattern-interrupt-con... ) has a few good lines to write about a confusion technique called "pattern interrupt".
This one here ( https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/09/070912124017.h... ) is interesting. They either pretend, or are unaware of the fact, that they are using a confusion technique to program the client.
I like the simple approach. And as a practical matter, just chillin' is safe. But still: [sitting] can get uncomfortable. But when you finish, for some strange reason you feel better Meditation requires some guidance appropriate to the person. Some people are attracted to meditation for the wrong reasons; encouraging them without proper direction can make things go badly for them. Zen shinkanzen in particular is cons…
Like what?