What Does it Take for Us To Rethink Our Most Closely Held Ideas
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Today we look at why it’s hard to rethink our closely held ideas, and how to engage in the work needed to start thinking more critically about them. If you want to read this whole post become a member. Members get all my courses included..
How to Access Synology in Fedoras Terminal
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I had to move a bunch of files over from macOS to my Framework laptop, including a bunch of node stuff that just wasn’t copying via the standard file browser in Fedora 37. This means I turned to rsync which will just work to copy any amount of files, and can resume itself. Where is…
Publish from Obsidian to WordPress
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Back in early 2022 I covered an Obsidian plugin that let you publish to WordPress and at the time I wasn’t all that impressed. It felt hard to use, didn’t remember your password, and really didn’t save any time. Since then I had it on my list to write a better plugin that took advantage…
PKM Weekly March 19 2023 – Issue 061
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Welcome to the PKM weekly newsletter. My goal is to round up good resources in the PKM space so you don’t have to. If you get value out of this newsletter consider supporting it by becoming a member. You can either get my weekly thoughts or all my courses and my weekly thoughts. You could…
Excellent Look at why TikTok Bans are Economic not Privacy Related
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From Paris Marx Since the dawn of the internet era, the United States has been pushing the line that every company needed to allow unfettered access to the web, or else they were violating the rights of their citizens. Any country that dared limit access to the web was chastised for their supposedly authoritarian actions.…
Owning Books is Resistance
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In today’s member post we talk about owning books as an act of resistance to censorship. Specifically physical books. If you want to read the whole post become a member. Members also get my courses..
Security Recommendations from the NSA
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This is a great set of security recommendations from the NSA. Some of them are going to be hard for non-technical users, like having 3 different wireless networks. One for you, one for guests, one for IoT devices. Overall, if you can do a number of these recommendations, you’ll be in better shape than most…
The Impending US Ban on TikTok has little to do with Privacy
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Casey Newton from Platformer on what appears to be the impending banning of TikTok in the US. But I’m deeply uncomfortable about the implications of governments making one-off decisions to eliminate social apps on national security grounds, while at the same time taking a pass on national privacy legislation and other regulations that would take…
Obsidian Novel Word Count
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Depending on how you have your projects organized, you may want the word count of a folder. This is where Novel Word Count for Obsidian can help you. Novel Word Count does one thing, count the words of the items in the folders in your Obsidian vault. By default it will only show you the…
Don’t Trust Facebook’s Decentralized Social Network
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I recently read on Platformer that Facebook is trying to build a “next-generation” text-based social media platform to replace Twitter. I mean sure, Twitter is dying and its death is not happening nearly as slowly as I thought it would be1, but why on earth should we trust Facebook at all in this? Facebook uses…
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