#DailyBloggingChallenge (15/25)
The deep squat is probably one of the best positions to have in your arsenal of postures.
Other than giving a great resting position, it can accelerate your defecation time. Since it is the human biological best position to relieve oneself of bodily waste.
Though through the modernisation of the world, we have reduced the need to know the position. We have created toilets that are comfortable to sit on, though hinder the efficiency.
In lots of places in the world, toilets are just holes in the ground. Thereby they can do their business quite quickly. In other parts, the “potty stool” can aid you, though only if one is present. Thus finally one can attempt a balancing act on the rim of the toilet bowl or seat.
Once proficient enough, one can attempt the deed in public restrooms. Deep squatting on the toilette bowl rim might be a bizarre spectacle, though it will remove the prep time such as wiping down the toilette seat or making a toilette paper cushion.
#DailyBloggingChallenge (14/25)
For a very long time I was a proponent of #NewPipe, since I got a brief taste of it on my old phone. Though now on my new phone, I am not satisfied with my experience. For the couple of links that were shared into the app, they stopped playing quickly.
Luckily while exploring the new section on #FDroid, #Clipious (https://github.com/lamarios/clipious) caught my eye. Clipious is an Android client application for #invidious. This is a perfect fit with my daily desktop use using #PrivacyRedirect to do the same.
#DailyBloggingChallenge (13/25)
One of my favorite things to do is exploit the DOM (ethical concerns aside).
Lots learn early on if some pesky web component is blocking your view, just delete it in the developer’s tools.
This is usually the spark into what other configurations are possible.
As a #WebDeveloper by trade we are constantly in the developer’s tools trying to understand why certain elements are behaving the way they are - visually or in action. Though we have access to the code base, so it’s easier to understand.
The fun begins when you only have access to the website!
In the realm of heavy duty modifications, there are a couple of options:
Through these possibilities one will learn a lot about vanilla #WebDevelopment and #VanillaJS.
Those who follow scientific news have probably heard of #LK99, an hexagonal crystalline structure (CuO₂₅P₆Pb₉) manufactured at Korea University which would unlock the holy grail of superconductivity at room temperature and pressure.
My two reactions after reading the paper were:
1. Darn, the data collected in this research seems more convincing than other bollock claims of room temperature superconductivity I've read in the past.
2. Darn, the elements and the process used to create this wonder material are very common, and the experiment could be easily replicated by any physics lab with some lead, copper and an oven that can reach 1000 °C.
After a few days, we've finally got some data from other researchers around the world trying to replicate the same results of the original experiment.
And we may be up for a bit of a disappointment: none of those who repeated the experiment has managed so far to get the same results of the Korean researchers.
What surprises me is that these folks have come up with very different results - some experiments have resulted in a semiconductor, others in an insulator, others in a partial superconductor (either replicating levitation, or diamagnetism, but not both). Which is quite surprising for an experiment that was supposed to be straightforward, with off-the-shelf elements and processes.
Many experiments are still in progress and may still change the outcome, but so far it seems that the original research may (at the very least) require another round of refinement to explain how exactly this compound should be manufactured - or it may just join an increasing list of false claims around room temperature superconductivity.
Is any of the wonderful science folks on my contacts list currently in the process of replicating this experiment too? If so, feel free to share your findings!
p.s. How come gaming forums have become the main place to share a lot of important knowledge?
CISA: Preventing #Web Application Access Control Abuse
This is a piece from CISA with some good advice and excellent timing regarding all the #API abuses running rampant.
IDORs generally equal an access control problem. Access control issues mean threat actors could allow access to data that they otherwise *shouldn't* have to, or modify/delete objects/data where they should not be able to.
There's no universal one-size-secures-all approach, but conducting code reviews and testing code for #vulnerabilities are mitigations CISA recommends and mitigations I've seen recommended from industry before.
#cybersecurty #infosec #security
https://www.cisa.gov/news-events/cybersecurity-advisories/aa23-208a
#DailyBloggingChallenge (12/25)
Has anyone else notice how feature rich #microsoft #excel is? Like you take a picture of your data and it can evaluate it.
Though simple tasks like opening a CSV file feels like you need a rocket science degree.
On the #FOSS side, there exists #LibreOffice #calc, where you only need to open the file, choose the delimiters, and you are good to go.
#DailyBloggingChallenge (11/25)
The conclusion after the first 10 days:
#DailyBloggingChallenge (10/10)
Different levels different devils.
When doing a physical endurance team event each person will suffer differently. Some will be challenged by the cardio portions while others will struggle with the workouts and then there is the physiological and psychological suffering. This is all doable if you come into the event without preexisting injuries or damages e.g. a bad knee.
As long as either you or your team mates keep a positive outlook all is doable. Just because you are suffering in the moment doesn’t mean that others aren’t as well.
If you do not communicate your unbearable pains, the team will not be able to assist you in any fashion.
Remember it is a team event and one should rely on the team.
#DailyBloggingChallenge (09/10)
My top 5 things to take for an endurance #rucking event:
#DailyBloggingChallenge (08/10)
To learn something new one takes existing knowledge nodes and alters them.
This comes to the question can one learn a foreign language and a field of study at the same time. And what preliminary requirements are needed for this feat.
The challenge that I will try to tackle is to learn statistics in Russian.
This is what I bring to the table:
This list should provide enough knowledge nodes to tackle the challenge.
Goal:
(Preliminary action plan coming soon…)
#DailyBloggingChallenge (07/10)
Do you like to eat beans but find it annoying to patiently wait hours by the stove cooking them? Well did you know you can also bake them?
All you need is a casserole dish with a lid.
Hint: place either a baking sheet directly below the dish or a level deeper. Most likely the pressure in the encasement will make the water rise and seep through the cracks. This will then land on what ever is below it. So if one wants to ease the cleaning process, this is one’s best bet.
#DailyBloggingChallenge (06/10)
For the longest time, I have been cooking #gnocchi as described on the package.
Wait until the water in pot comes to a boil, then add the gnocchi, and wait the allotted time of 2-3min.
The issue with this method is that it is not lazy proof. (Yes, I am a #lazycook.)
First one needs to know exactly how water is necessary so that the amount of added gnocchi first doesn’t overflow the pot and second isn’t too little that it burns. Have had it in the past that I stepped away a bit too long and all the water evaporated away.
Instead first add the gnocchi, then the water so that it just covers the gnocchi. This way there is no guesstimating how much water is necessary. The only downside is that the gnocchi comes out on the bit more soggy side.
Next issue is waiting for the allotted time to pass. This means one needs to track the time with a secondary device. That is just too much work and there is a much more simpler way to estimate it.
Once it comes to a boil (put on highest heat to get the fastest results), just wait patiently, and eventually foam will be created and rise. Right before it is about to boil over remove it from the heat and the gnocchi is finished.
This method works good with pots of 1-4L assuming the gnocchi dry weight is 500g.
#DailyBloggingChallenge (05/10)
These are the first five apps to install on a new #android device or account:
After setting up these 5 apps, the rest is a breeze.
Hint: if one installs these apps in one’s #grapheneOS (@GrapheneOS) owner account, one can permit these apps to be pre-installed on all other accounts.
#DailyBloggingChallenge (04/10)
A topic that is quite dear to me is the question:
When should one map a separate sidewalk in #OpenStreetMap?
In general there are two schemas:
(A) one maps it directly with road by using the sidewalk
key, or
(B) one maps it as a separate way
For simple cases the (A) schema suffices, though for detail heavy cases, schema (B) is a better choice.
Examples of a simple case: the #sidewalk has the exact same surface and smoothness quality for the whole section.
It starts becoming problematic when either the surface and/or smoothness changes. Since each alteration will create an additional node onto the road. If it is one or two additions it might be acceptable but any more than that might question the sanity of throwing so much data onto the road. And this doesn’t even concern with how the surface, smoothness, lanes count, bicycle lanes, etc are dealt on the road. If one pulled this to the extremes one would have so many nodes that one would quickly lose the oversight of which way section belongs to which feature and would be more prone that the wrong section would be altered.
This problem didn’t mention how one would handle crossings or curb height or bus/tram stops or green spaces or any other amenity and POIs combinations between the sidewalk and road. The deeper one dives into all the potential possibilities that could exist, one quickly realized that schema (B) is the only sensible answer.
More responses/discussions about the topic can found here: https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/deptho/diary/401906
#DailyBloggingChallenge (03/10)
If you have ever been on a caffeine binge you might have experienced how certain bodily urges just dissipate like hunger, tiredness, or horniness. These coincide with the primal urges that alcohol increases.
These hindrances cause so many people to go bananas if their needs are not quickly met like being hangry.
On the flip side, not experiencing them regularly makes one life stale and dull. Thus, one should achieve a state where one does not become negatively charged and at the same time not blunt them to the point that one doesn’t anymore get euphoria satiating them.
#DailyBloggingChallenge (02/10)
After using #8pen for about two days, I came across some conclusions:
The theory claims once you are familiar with the layout, you won’t need the keys anymore. Once this state happens, one technically could keep one’s phone in one’s pocket and swipe away the next new novel or short story.
I am just imagining, you are swiping away in your pocket and onlookers think you are masturbating in public…
#DailyBloggingChallenge (001/10)
In the past I have been quite fruitful with daily challenges. Successfully achieved the 50 day #StatisticsChallenge and slowly creeping up on 365 day mark of the #MappingChallenge (@barefootstache) with less than a month to go. Thus, I will attempt the daily blogging challenge.
The requirements will be quite simple for the begining and might expand through time:
hashtag (XX/YY)
format. This has two benefits: This challenge was sparked after reading the article
https://www.yieldcode.blog/post/why-engineers-should-write/
written by @skwee357.
cognitive decline, changes in brain size and structure, depression and suicidal thinking, tremors, seizures, memory loss, and new or worsened dementia have all been linked to previous SARS-CoV-2 infections.
In some cases, these longer-term problems occur even in patients with relatively mild COVID-19.
#Time has an article entitled,
#Scientists Are Just Beginning to Understand #COVID-19's Effect On the #Brain
I am a strong proponent of leaving this planet better behind than when I arrived on it. Thus to get the most bang for a lifetime my key focus is #longevity which I attempt to achieve with #nutrition specifically #plantbased.
Longevity is good and all as long as you are not frail and weak. Ideally would be to die young at an old age. Thus I incorporate tactics from #biohacking and #primalfitness. Additionally I am an advocate of #wildcrafting, which is a super set of #herbalism.
Studied many fields of science like maths or statistics, though the constant was always computer science.
Currently working as a fullstack web developer, though prefer to call myself a #SoftwareCrafter.
The goal of my side projects is to practice #GreenDevelopement meaning to create mainly static websites. The way the internet was intended to be.
On the artistic side, to dub all content under the Creative Commons license. Thereby, ideally, only using tools and resources that are #FLOSS #OpenSource. #nobot