'Organizers', 'wikis', 'note-taking apps', et c. - these apps are mostly Markdown with an attached GUI. Today, I'm trying each of them out for twenty minutes apiece. AnyType Site: anytype.io Size: 383 MB AnyType comes encrypted, meaning you can't easily grab the raw markdown notes and stick them in a Git, or do much …

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I feel an unstated agreement among disparate civil society that one shouldn't preach. Breaching the preaching rule quickly looks like hypocrisy, because everyone has more work to do on themselves. Easier Said than Done Someone - usually young - preaching about veganism, trans-rights, the effects of aeroplanes on …

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I once met a man who, having talked to some FOSS-enthusiast, felt moved, and told me he was sure to use 'free' software, but not that 'open source', software. His attempts, of course, would be futile, because the words refer to the same software. The Free Software Foundation (could they not at least have called …

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My favourite wikipedia article is called List of Missions to Venus. Nowadays we're all amazed that astronomers can send a rocket out, and expect it to fly around the planet three times, nip round the moon, change trajectory while passing Jupiter, and land on some asteroid like a cautious butterfly, so it can send …

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Shopping If you ask Google what to buy, it wants to show you the products from companies which have paid it the most, or products that it owns, such as Google's Office suite. Friends & Activities Someone posts up an event - skating, clubbing, or gardening - whatever it is, the algorithm correctly detects that this kind …

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Soft Serve is a git server for the command line. You can see the maintainers' version here, with ssh: 1ssh git.charm.sh It looks like this: 1 2 Soft Serve 3 4 • Repositories About 5 6 ┃ Bubble Tea 7 Updated 31 minutes ago 8 ┃ A powerful little TUI framework [mirror] 9 ┃ git clone git@git.charm.sh:bubbletea.git 10 11 …

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Deep Space 9, Season 6, Episode 9 - 'Statistical Probabilities' This episode introduces the ridiculous notion that clever people can predict the future with clever Maths, and it's very special. Most sci-fi relies on now-but-later ideas of how the world works, and fancy special effects, to entertain. This episode didn't …

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I find it bizarre how similar all schooling is, and how few alternatives people have tried. Of course some experiments exist, such as Summer Hill, run by Neil, which famously did not demand that pupils attend any classes, and showed why children would attend classes anyway. And of course different schools exist - …

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Fallacies and critical thinking are all the rage in some circles, but I hear a lot about (and occasionally experience) people making 'logic-noises' who clearly haven't studied the subject. In fact, they seem unaware one can take a University course in the subject, as they've missed the first lesson every student of …

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Once in a while I hear of someone who's decided to not have children because of bad ideas. I don't want to argue that anyone should or should not have children, but I do want to remove those bad ideas. The bad ideas usually go something like this: "I have this condition, and I don't think I should inflict that on …

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