6/12/2023 0 Comments Taskpaper vs. workflowy![]() ![]() Mow lawn if I wanted to change the A.C. For example, if I wanted to mow my lawn every two weeks beginning on May 1st, 2015, this is how the task would look like: Recurring Syntax #Ī recurring task is assigned a tab indicating how frequently that task needs to be done in days, weeks, months or years. It makes use of a specific syntax and a python script that runs behind the scenes. I came up with a simple system to work with recurring tasks on Taskpaper files. So, for my user case, there is no point in creating reminders. Also, these tasks don’t necessarily have to have a specific time associated to them. However, I prefer having all tasks associated to a project in one place. Putting these tasks in the Reminders app or the Calendar app would be a solution. However, I’m more interested in the latter as I deal with recurring tasks for both personal and work projects. For the former, there are some scripts ( here and here) tackling the problem. However, that simplicity derives in some inherent limitations like the lack of a reminding system and the challenge that represents working with recurring tasks. The Taskpaper format is simple, yet effective. The beauty of this system is that it’s ubiquitous and tremendously flexible. Easy integration with other apps and services.Īfter much trial and error, I settled for one of the most basic systems: text files.Offline capabilities in both desktop and mobile versions.Capable of being accessed from mobile devices.Here are my requirements for the ideal task management system: It has been very difficult to find a service fitting my needs, which I thought were not that hard to begin with. I have also read many reviews, including this one by Gabe Weatherhead, which I consider the mother of all reviews when it comes to task management services. From web based to desktop applications in both Mac and Windows. It's not for everyone, but it works well for me since I may be on my Windows desktop, my Mac laptop, a Chromebook, or even using my Atari 800.I have tried not less than 20 project/task management applications and services. taskpaper file, it depends on the project. The daily.taskpaper file has repeatable tasks that occur every day. taskpaper format: daily.taskpaper and today.taskpaper. The je alias automatically appened the next argument to the Journal file using the correct date format: je "This is a journal entry".įor tasks I usually use two files in. I have a tips.markdown file that I use to store code snippets and other nuggets of help. I have a few aliases set up to launch Vim with particular files. Originally I relied on the editor, but then that limits what editors I can use. But, everything is in text, so I can use any editor.įor snippets and autoformatting of journal entry dates, I use text expansion through Espanso. My go to editor is Vim with the following plugins: vim-markdown, vim-pencil, Goyo, and taskpaper.vim. I get all of the niceties of version control while also being able to edit them on any device. They were in Dropbox, but now I keep them in a private Git repo. ![]() I think I'm going to combine Notion with GoodNotes "sketches" i.e. university or projects) - I'm also using it for personal planning stuff and ideas. I'm not only using Notion for note taking (e.g. So right now I'm in the middle of building my dream note-taking & TODO structure within Notion. I dislike the organization of the "notes" within GoodNotes since it's all about folders within folders - where you lose track of the "whole" easily. An iPad w/ pen works especially great for brainstorming since you can scribble shapes anywhere oh the canvas and combine them with hand-written text and screenshots.īut that's about. I've pretty much experienced the same journey as you regarding note keeping.Įxcept when I purchased an iPad (incl. Great conversation starter! Fun to read all the approaches and tools in this thread! Like comment: Like comment: 5 likes ![]() I don't mind it, however, because I still write down what I think was important on any given day, and if it was really important I have copied the note to a more permanent place closest to the context it was about by the end of the week. This just means that important notes that I wrote down from a meeting I have to put in a place closest to the context it was about - which is technically duplicate work. However, I have found I hardly ever go back to my personal notes for things from several years ago (even when I used Evernote) and instead go to the things like Wikis for a product, comments in a user story in Jira, etc. The downside is that it isn't searchable. Any meeting notes or things I need to remember I put in there. on it in the morning and carry it around with me all day. Honestly, I still stick to a notebook that I carry around with me all the time. ![]()
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6/12/2023 0 Comments Street smarts john mulaney![]() ![]() He also comments on his time writing for SNL, on attending church in his youth and on his wife and their spoiled French bulldog named Petunia, who they frequently push around New York City in a stroller. He shares wild stories from his past-such as one about a grade school guest speaker named Detective JJ Bittenbinder invited to teach “street smarts”-in ways that seem ridiculous and unfathomable but also incredibly relatable. “Kid Gorgeous” is everything a Mulaney fan could ask for, and then some. His humor isn’t G-rated, but it refreshingly doesn’t come close to the crudeness of other comedians today. He’s energetic, witty and self-deprecating in the best way, relying on physical and vocal comedy to supplement his clever punchlines and impeccable timing. Mulaney has a fairly particular sense of humor-one new and welcome in the world of comedy. ![]() He then takes the stage, met with thunderous applause, and begins what is potentially his best show yet. In true Mulaney fashion, the special began in a bizarrely theatrical way, with Mulaney awkwardly following an old woman behind the scenes at the desolate and supposedly haunted Radio City Music Hall. He has toured his newest show, “Kid Gorgeous,” in 20, and the live taping of it was recently released to Netflix for popular audiences. His resume boasts years of writing for “Saturday Night Live,” multiple stand-up specials, a short-lived Fox sitcom bearing his name, a successful adult animated comedy and more. Mulaney has been a rising star in recent years. Comedian, actor, writer and producer John Mulaney saw his fourth comedy special, “John Mulaney: Kid Gorgeous at Radio City,” hit Netflix on May 1. ![]() 6/12/2023 0 Comments Trisquel retroshare![]() Note that we use our own implementation of Chacha20, which passes all the tests from RFC7539 (Chacha20 is not complicated really). files can optionally be non search-able, which keeps their hash secretĬonsequently, files shared anonymously using private channels, forums, or securely sent using private chat are guarantied to reach destination using end-to-end encryption that is both anonymous and MITM-resistant, the secret pre-shared information being the hash of the file.The construction is exactly the AEAD described in the RFC7539. That key is derived by combining a 96-bits random initialisation vector with the actual hash of the file H(f). data packets are encrypted and authenticated using Chacha20+HMAC(sha256) with a random key for each packet.encrypted tunnels are opened through tunnels requests based on H(H(f)). ![]() Let H(f) represent a hash of the file to share: We found a middle ground strategy (Partly similar to what GnuNet does, without using asymmetric authentication keys). Safely encrypting file transfer along anonymous tunnels is of course a chicken-and-egg problem: you would require a pre-shared secret information from which the encryption key is derived, with someone you cannot identify (by design, since the tunnels are made to be strictly anonymous), so it sounds impossible to avoid a man-in-the-middle decryption (if you’re a troll, stop reading here and think for a while). There are however a number of situations where such a feature is wanted, which can be summarized as: files that are shared in private channels, private forums, or even privately sent using distant chat should not be possible to intercept by a node in the network who’s passively listening for the traffic. There has been a lot of discussion about both the possibility and the reason to encrypt anonymous file transfer tunnels, since anonymity guaranties that whatever the data is, it cannot be attributed to anyone in particular. There is one limitation however: the total number of shared files and directories should stay below 4,194,303 for a maximum number of friends of 1023, because of the storage encoding that has been designed for maximal efficiency (the new system removed all pointers so that Qt can access the hierarchy content both securely and rapidely). If needed, you can still rename this file to force Retroshare to import it again.Īll these lists are of course stored encrypted on your disk including friends’ lists, which wasn’t the case before. The previous hash cache “file_cache.bin” is still loaded when found, and renamed to “file_”, and then converted into the new one “file_sharing/hash_cache.bin”. So if you share the same directories, the hashing step should be very fast. hashes are recovered from the previous version.users will need to re-define their shared directories, which is a good opportunity to test the new share manager □ and does not take long.“Pictures” is accessible *and searchable* anonymously but not visible in the friend list for any friend node.īackward compatibility is not fully provided, mainly in order to avoid keeping complicated pieces of code, but an acceptable middle ground has been found. No anonymous access is permitted to these files. In the example above, “Private stuff” is only visible to friend nodes in the group “myself” and “Holiday rushes” is only visible to Friends and Family. The right column shows groups of nodes who can browse the data. ![]() A flag as been added to allow files to be searched anonymously (See end-to-end file encryption). ![]() Changes only take place when the “apply and close” button is hit: Most data (directories, virtual names, friend groups,…) can be changed in place by double clicking on it. The file sharing manager has been re-designed with less popup windows and more contextual handles. The whole hashing system has also been improved. Random IDs are used when publishing directories to neighbor nodes so that they cannot be used to figure out what a friend is not sharing with you. We have designed a new system where directories are synced independently using a passive/active system: now friend lists are both passively synchronized in the background at a rather slow speed while being interactively updated while browsing. The old system for sharing list of files had originally been designed for a totally different purpose, and was very inefficient for this particular job since it required sending the full list of files every time something changed. This release brings a few good things, including a new differential file lists sytem and end-to-end encryption for file transfer (thanks Mr.Alice for that!), and a greatly improved GUI. ![]() ![]() Some countries that export haddock are also cutting quotas this year. Fishers also harvest from Georges Bank, a fishing ground to the east where quotas were also reduced for this year, including adjoining areas overseen by Canadian officials who issued their own major cuts.Īmericans are still likely to find haddock available despite the cuts because most of it is imported, according to federal data from 2021. ![]() The change applies to fishers who harvest haddock from the Gulf of Maine, a body of water off Massachusetts, New Hampshire and Maine. The fishery management council mandated the 84% reduction in catch quotas for the current fishing year, which started May 1. “We seem to find plenty, but they can't,” said Terry Alexander, a Maine-based fisher who targets haddock and other species. And the warning from the federal government arrives as more New England fishers rely on haddock than in previous decades because of the collapse of other seafood species, such as Atlantic cod. ![]() However, numerous fishers said the assessment doesn't match what they're seeing on the water, where haddock appear to them to be plentiful. The New England Fishery Management Council, a regulatory board, has lowered catch limits of the fish in an attempt to halt the overfishing, said agency spokesperson Allison Ferreira. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration added the Gulf of Maine haddock stock to its overfishing list last month. A recent scientific assessment found that the Gulf of Maine haddock stock declined unexpectedly, and that meant the catch quotas for the fish were unsustainably high, federal fishing managers said. Haddock are one of the most popular Atlantic fish, and a favorite for fish and chips and other New England seafood dishes.īut fewer haddock will be caught in New England this year after regulators cut fishing quotas. PORTLAND, Maine – A staple seafood species caught by East Coast fishers for centuries is experiencing overfishing, and regulators have cut catch quotas by more than 80% to prevent the fish's population from collapse. ![]() ![]() Thanks to fellow gamers Trevor Lyons and Adam Daniels for their help in running through this game for review.įor a bonus game review head to where a review of the game Castle Siege Chess has been posted this week. The house rule would jump is closer to top-12. The house rule would increase the enjoyment of the game significantly for me.Īs it sits, the game is very much a middle of the pack deck builder, 21 of 34 on my personal list at the time of writing this. A quick house rule patch is to allow any combo of cards with a three gold value to be used to fend off a break-up card. Tanto Cuore Town Randomizer Include cards from set (s): Maid/butler chief pairs will be randomly selected from all chosen sets Tanto Cuore Expanding the House Romantic Vacation Oktoberfest Winter Romance Intl. The card is a ‘three-gold value money card’. You need a particular card in hand, a card that you need to buy, and the cost is high enough that it is not the first choice to grab. That is generally fine, but there are limited ways to protect your couple from being torn asunder. The goal is to create couples, but once a couple is matched your opponents have the ability to break them up to deny you points. The theme among deck builders and there are literally dozens, is rather unique, which is a plus, and the art sets it apart from most as well. There is definite irony here that two gamers in their 50s were playing Winter Romance, and generally enjoying it. “Get started on your own mansion full of maids and butlers.” For the purposes of this game, we will refer to maids and butlers as ‘maids’, although any reference to a maid, in this game or the previous sets, can be played or thought of as a reference to a butler as well. The only new type of cards are buildings, which can be purchased and offer victory points much like a maid without going into your deck. The game does not offer a huge expansion to the tactics. “Also, this time your maids and butlers can mingle with those of other players and form couples that earn you more VP. However, the makers of Tanto Cuore managed to maintain the level of play with Expanding the House. “When the game ends, the player who has the most victory points (YP) from the cards in their house is the “Ultimate Master” and the winner of the game. As a master of the house, you will employ maids – and the newly-introduced butlers – building up your mansion (deck) as they serve you,” notes the rule set. ![]() “Even in the cold of winter, burning love can bloom. Like many game expansions, Winter Romance can be played alone or with Tanto Cuore, Expanding the House, Romantic Vacation, Oktoberfest, or a mixture of them. ![]() Now I should add here that was played Tanto Cuore: Winter Romance which is a sequel to Tanto Cuore for two to four players. We tend to have fairly strong opinions on many game elements, but the art was not one of them. In general terms, I’d say our group was somewhat surprisingly in the middle of the spectrum. It is a style which tends to elicit fairly strong feelings one way or the other. The game relies heavily on the idea of Japanese-style manga or anime artwork, which out of the box will have players loving it, or turning their noses up at it. Tanto Cuore originally launched in 2009, and the deck builder has seen a number of additions since then, as well as making a move from Japan where it debuted to the English market. ![]() 6/11/2023 0 Comments Random person![]() ![]() ![]() On that pop-up, tap ‘ More,’ and then tap ‘ Block.’ Not only will this remove the person from being a friend, but it will also prevent them from adding themselves as a friend in the future. Open the Snapchat app, tap the profile icon at the top-left, scroll down, and tap ‘ My Friends.’ If there’s someone in the My Friends list that shouldn’t be there, hold down on their name until a pop-up appears at the bottom of the screen. As such, it’s recommended to go through the in-app friends list and make sure there aren’t any unwelcome users there. If anything will help minimize random friends/followers on Snapchat, this is it.ĭisabling Quick Add is a great way to stop new users from finding a person’s Snapchat account, but it doesn’t do anything to block people that have already added themselves as a friend. Creating a safe space for users to communicate with each other is a priority. After a Snapchat user has disabled this, their username will no longer appear in the Quick Add section on other people’s app. We work diligently to reduce any spam messages that come through our system. With the right AI face generator application, you can turn simple words into a plausible face of a person that doesnt exist. Tap the settings button at the top right, scroll down, tap ‘ See Me in Quick Add,’ and then tap the toggle on that page. This page allows you to randomize lists of strings using true randomness, which for many purposes is better than the pseudo-random number algorithms. To turn off Quick Add, open the app and tap the profile icon at the top-left of the screen. ![]() ![]() Seymour offers meat from the butcher as a safe alternative, but the plant refuses- “Must be blood… must be fresh!” The plant suggests murder as a source of fresh blood, a proposition that Seymour understandably balks at, even as the plant tempts him with further fame and fortune (“I have so many strong reservations!” he whines). Now, however, the plant has outgrown simply sucking on Seymour’s wounds and, for the first time, vocally demands food. As the plant grew, so did the success of Mushnik’s Skid-Row Florist, the flower shop where Seymour lived. Prior to this scene, Seymour maintained control over the plant by allowing it only to feed on his own blood. The conflict between the three forces begins during the song, “Feed Me (Git it)”. The plot of the film is Seymour attempting to navigate the demands of the plant while striving to be worthy of Audrey- the ego, attempting to satisfy the id and superego- and a harrowing reminder of what happens when our base instincts go unchecked. Its job is to fulfill the primal needs of the id in a way that doesn’t harm society and to implement the ideals of the superego in a practical way.These three traits correspond perfectly to the main three characters: the plant is a ravenous beast, constantly demanding food from Seymour while lecherously pawing at him and making bawdy comments about the carnal benefits of murder (“Think about a room at the Ritz/wrapped in velvet, covered in glitz/a little nookie gonna clean up your zits and you’ll get it!”), while Audrey is so perfectly pure and innocent, her picturesque fantasy of domestic suburban life with Seymour involves going to bed at 9:15… in separate beds, of course. The ego is the mediator between the id and superego. ![]() To contrast, the superego is the ideal: it’s an idea of an unattainable perfection that drives us to make moral decisions. The id is the animalistic part of the mind– it doesn’t care about society, morals, or much of anything aside from eating and mating. Before the original ending is seen in wide release, a revisit of the changed ending seems appropriate– as well as an examination of how it ultimately worked in the final film’s favor, by transforming the story from a moral against making a deal with the devil to a psychological fable.įirst, a pop psychology primer: Sigmund Freud argued that the human mind is essentially separated into three parts. ![]() Recently, rumors have begun to swirl regarding a rerelease of the film on Blu-ray for Halloween of this year, with the original ending reportedly restored. It has become ingrained in the public consciousness, with nearly every plant character since homaging Audrey II in mannerisms or design. ![]() Director Frank Oz lamented the change, as did fans of the original musical, claiming it undermined the original moral of the story.ĭespite the ending, however, the film garnered positive reviews and made a respectable sum at the box office. Test audiences balked en masse at this ending, and a happier one where Seymour manages to destroy the plant was filmed instead. Originally, the plant monster, Audrey II (voiced by Levi Stubbs), devoured Seymour Krelborn (Rick Moranis), the nebbish owner of the plant who had been enticed into feeding it human flesh, and Audrey (Ellen Greene), the love of Seymour’s life, before going on to conquer the world as the choir warned the audience against giving in to temptation in the song “Finale Ultimo (Don’t Feed the Plants)”. ![]() Little Shop of Horrors, the 1986 film version of Alan Menken’s cult musical hit, has gained a rather controversial reputation for its changed ending. ![]() 6/11/2023 0 Comments Barney rubble![]() Īs young adults, Betty and Wilma were employed as cigarette girls/waitresses at a resort. ![]() ![]() She also has a married sister with a baby son named Marblehead Sandstone. As a child, she lived with her parents who ran a convenience store and her older brother, Brad. This lack of protagonism (her continuous presence almost becoming a backdrop for supporting characters Pebbles, Bamm-Bamm and Dino) makes Betty less of the lead than the show's general concept might imply.īetty is a friend of Wilma since their childhood. Occasions when Betty leads the action are extremely scarce: one episode centers around her working undercover as a gentle old lady to earn money for a present for Barney in another, the plot focuses on her and Wilma's suspicions of Barney being involved with another woman (who turns out to be Fred in a disguise in order to attend a ball game free of charge). In spite of this, Betty is portrayed as having a distinctly emotional marriage with Barney, which often includes pet names and more obvious affection than the dynamic and energetic interaction between Fred and Wilma. Much like Trixie or Ethel, Betty spent a lot of her time socializing with Wilma, and the two would often end up working together to bail their husbands out of whatever scheme of Fred's had landed them in trouble, sometimes scheming with each other.īetty typically follows the lead of Barney or Wilma, so may appear to be the least developed character in the show. She speaks with a Midwestern accent.īetty's personality was based on the stock character of the lead character's best friend's wife, commonly seen in 1950s television (other prominent examples including Trixie Norton of The Honeymooners, which by conflicting accounts was a major inspiration for The Flintstones, and Ethel Mertz of I Love Lucy). Her best friend is her next-door neighbor Wilma Flintstone.īetty lives in the fictional prehistoric town of Bedrock, a world where dinosaurs coexist with cavepeople and the cavepeople enjoy primitive versions of modern conveniences such as telephones, automobiles and washing machines. She is the black-haired wife of caveman Barney Rubble and the adoptive mother of Bamm-Bamm Rubble. Pebbles Flintstone (goddaughter/daughter-in-law/niece)īetty Rubble is a fictional character in the television animated series The Flintstones and its spin-offs and live-action motion pictures. If you're looking for more minor Flintstones characters, then they should also be on this list, but if not feel free to add them below.Marblehead Sandstone Sr. ![]() This list of most well-known Flintstones characters can also be sorted alphabetically if you click the header at the top of the column labeled "Name." Share the list of the highly notable Flintstones characters by clicking the Facebook or Twitter icons. View the list of Flintstones character names as an info list or customize your view by switching to slideshow or blog mode. You can click each image for a larger picture of the character, and in some cases you can click the character's name for a more detailed description. Slate, and The Great Gazoo. This list answers the questions "what are the The Flintstones characters called?" and "who are all the characters in The Flintstones?" The Flintstones character roles from every season are included, along with the characters' gender, occupation and more.Įxamples include Fred Flintstone, his boss Mr. This Flintstones main character list includes pictures of Flintstones characters and features useful character information like the names of actors or actresses who play the characters. ![]() If you're looking for the most famous The Flintstones characters then you're in the right place. List contains all The Flintstones main character names. If you're confused on who are on The Flintstones, then this complete list of all Flintstones characters is for you. ![]() 6/11/2023 0 Comments Icedrive deals![]() While file sharing works well, it's not yet possible to collaborate on documents as you would with Microsoft 365 or Google’s G Suite. Since May 2022, we noted that Access Control had been introduced for files and folders.
6/11/2023 0 Comments Simon i may destroy you![]() ![]() This is reminiscent of the ways Black women’s trauma is often downplayed and not treated with the same respect or care as their white counterparts. Credit: BBCĪrabella is abused in other ways by both her publisher and literary agents who, upon hearing she was raped, tell her to sell her pain in order to make them money. With Simon, not only is he complicit in the abuse of Arabella, Coel gives us a snapshot into his personal life where he also violates his wife by being adulterous, and violates the woman he is seeing behind his wife’s back by feeding her lies while using her body for sexual pleasure.Īml Ameen plays Simon in ‘I May Destroy You’. Simon’s abandonment of Arabella presents a wider conversation about the ways in which cishet Black men are often involved in the abuse of Black women, either as enablers or perpetrators. Her friend Simon, a Black guy who she has been close to for years and is like family, abandons her while she is clearly in a poor state, which leaves her vulnerable to the abuse of strangers. While it is a white man and then an Asian man that sexually assault Arabella, they are not the only ones enacting violence against her. Coel highlights the multitude of ways Black women are exploited by those we love and hold dear within our communities as well as white individuals and white supremacy, highlighting how pervasive abuse can be. The show is like an onion each episode is a painful layer being pulled back and dissected with the intention of making us, the viewers, unpack the ways we and those around us harm Black women. Michaela Coel as Arabella in ‘I May Destroy You’ Credit: Natalie Seery Coel recentres Black women, reclaiming a movement that has been co-opted and colonised, and successfully shows the everyday violence we come up against. At this point, it is part of the western canon, from Black enslaved women being violated during the time of the trans-Atlantic slave trade to Henrietta Lacks’ cells being used without her consent to Breonna Taylor’s murder by police to Toyin Salau’s brutal slaying, and the abuse of millions more. The erasure of violence against Black women is not new. ![]() ![]() The Me Too movement has moved away from its initial purpose due to the erasure of the Black and Brown women for whom the movement was started, according to Black activist and founder Tarana Burke. Since the movement began receiving widespread coverage in 2017 as a result of the sexual assault allegations against Harvey Weinstein, the face of Me Too and of violence against women at large became white, as Black women and their stories of similar sexual violence were erased and buried. ‘I May Destroy You’ is streaming now on BBC iPlayer. But, most importantly, Coel’s writing exposes the gaping hole in the mainstream conversations about sexual assault, more specifically the Me Too Movement. Coel’s writing is blunt and unapologetic, from the way she writes her character’s dialogue to the portrayal of Hackney to the violence and its effects. Coel brings a fresh perspective to the conversation surrounding the way women are sexually exploited, specifically the unique ways Black women experience both sexual violence as well as physical and emotional abuse. The show centres Arabella, a young Black working class writer from Hackney in east London, who, upon the success of her self-published memoir Chronicles of a Fed-Up Millennial, is thrust into the world of traditional publishing, where she is surrounded by those unlike the people in her close circle – rich, white and powerful. Michaela Coel’s new show I May Destroy You, which premiered on BBC One and HBO Max on June 7, is an unflinching tale of the ongoing violence Black women are subjected to, as well as its lasting impact. ![]() |