I’m trying a dopamine detoxing this week. Mainly for e-devices and social technologies (including chats 😿)
I really need to concentrate on a course I’m giving about ‘Law for creators’
Let’s see how it works…

Does Dopamine Detoxing Actually Work? - Andrew Huberman
https://youtu.be/w8pg-4c0j3s

@prologic@twtxt.net quite like in ‘quiet 🤫’ ?

La fin d’un blog et la dernière version de ploum.net
https://ploum.net/2022-12-04-fin-du-blog-et-derniere-version.html

@prologic@twtxt.net really? You don’t know Air supply? 😶

@darch@neotxt.dk +1

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org Brrr 🥶

After sleeping like a bear 🐻 I’m feeling much better today. Thanks all for your messages.

This morning I had a routine blood test of like 6 tubes 💉🩸🤨 You know, on empty stomach and such…

So I’ll have a good #tea to start the morning and classes #chocolatePeppermintFTW

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@prologic@twtxt.net Saturday @ 1200 UTC or Sunday@1200?

It’s 6am for me. 🤔
Usually I wake up at 7 on Saturdays b/c I start classes at 10am. Hmm, if I’m out of bed early I’ll join!
Could you share the link again? I should bookmark it!

@prologic@twtxt.net @darch@neotxt.dk guys, today I’m not feeling well, I woke up at 5 am to take my wife to the airport, and after work I just came to die in bed, well, recovering from the flu and sleep a bit.
Care to try tomorrow? My Saturday night, Sunday morning in Europe 🌅 and an unknown time in AU 😛
I know it’s difficult on Sundays, but Saturday afternoons are my best moment 😅

@darch@neotxt.dk which is Fri 11pm for me (CT), why not?

@darch@neotxt.dk I’m not feeling amazing 😷, but I could try, I’m single this weekend so it’s easier for me.

BTW, What time?

@nmke-de@yarn.zn80.net TIL Conlangs

@tkanos@twtxt.net sounds more like a device farm for QA?

@prologic@twtxt.net why not!?

@bender@twtxt.net She’s only on the tiled floor, and a bit on cement in the ‘backyard’.
Nice catch! I thought I trimmed her nails a few weeks ago, but I’ll check this weekend. 😃

@kt84@twtxt.net hehe, she can’t stand hats and big costumes, but just the clothes are OK 🐶

Meet my Christmas dog 🐶 🤶

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@prologic@twtxt.net well, I use some 5 Ghz antenna (no idea what technologies or protocols it uses) since there wasn’t a pole for cables in the neighborhood. But the most possible thing is that they are using a modem at the end 💁‍♂️

@abucci@anthony.buc.ci this one?
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10846-017-0748-6

Being a fan of A*, I didn’t know that existed

@marado@tilde.pt that sounds way more accurate 😀

I haven’t used a modem in 20 years, I think

I’m not felling well today, there was an ‘contagious outbreak’ of influenza at college, and I think I have it now 😷, or perhaps a simple flu, no idea…

I guess I’ll stop early today, tomorrow will be a better day

I got to say that my computer was in a public hall from the house, so I was kind of supervised, but had chance to watch adult content (I’m not a fan), gore and some disturbing stuff for that age. I knew more about computers than my parents and grand-parents, so the risk was there. #anecdotalEvidence

As I have the discussion with my colleagues making games, we can’t say that violent games don’t influence kids, but neither we can say the opposite. I think the amount depends on the social context, and mainly on family foundations, so it’s an extremely hard problem to solve.

@xuu@txt.sour.is I started using Internet in 1993, but at home in 1996 if I remember correctly, with timed accounts from friends in college. Luckily dial up here was inexpensive and unlimited very soon, I can’t recall exact details but it started with 24 or 33kbps and quickly to 56k. Sadly DSL took a few years more than in USA to be available.

Great times!

It’s the similar to ‘I used Internet since I was 8 years old and I’m fine’… Well, we are not normal people

@abucci@anthony.buc.ci I disagree with your disagreement… How about that? Just joking… It’s OK to disagree

I think giving an e-device is worse than allowing a teenager to create a profile on social media. Finally they are having social profiles at school and in real life, not changing neurons and the brain itself. The interesting part is that teenagers reach to be ‘public’ figures earlier. But again, you have to cross some boundaries like sexual content or bullying, to be really dangerous. Other than that is similar exposure that teenagers have at school, and without some platform regulating content…
Yes, there are suicides, but not for every person, while every toddler is changing their brain and losing skills. (I need to find references here, for sure)
Is not black and white, both have risks. That’s why I say, it’s similar. Both require attention from parents, but taking e-devices away is less convenient as they take care of children.

What do you feel when you listen to something you didn’t believe it’s true?

I can’t say a lot, but it’s a good reading about your rational and your emotional sides of the brain 🧠.

https://theoatmeal.com/comics/believe

I meant, the course you were taking 😵‍💫

This is mind-blowing🤯
GPT solves Advent of Code Day 1

https://note89.github.io/the-advent-of-code-ai-edition/

@akoizumi@social.kyoko-project.wer.ee x2

@tkanos@twtxt.net damn! I don’t know what to say, I hope it’s only recoverable losses.

Reading your tweet, I remembered a joke from a local comedian. Something like “News by phone”.
It starts with a dead parrot 🦜, you can guess increasing tragedies are told, including a burnt house 🏠.

Sorry, I thought the PC was burnt due to the AoC somehow.

@mckinley@twtxt.net thanks !
One goal is not requiring JS (but helps with some automations like finding your current timezone, copying URLs and such)

Using details sounds great, I’ll take a look! https://www.w3schools.com/TAGS/tag_details.asp

You can find the raw repo here: https://github.com/eapl-gemugami/meetup-planner

https://poklegame.com

Wow, this puzzle game is extremely rewarding… How something ‘simple’ can be so satisfactory at the conclusion
#gameDesign

@movq@www.uninformativ.de I tried last year, but it’s complicated for me to program every day on vacations. I’d like more like a weekly challenge or something more relaxed.
That said I learned a lot… So I’ll try this year at least to look at the answers.

Here I found some open-sourced alternatives https://opensource.com/article/22/4/open-source-alternatives-doodle-polls for inspiration

Thank you for the feedback and your votes (Bananas, Søren Peter @darch@neotxt.dk, prologic) !

On the programming side, this problem is not that challenging (yet). Ask availability to your friends, and make some statistics with it, sum, sets. I think this will be done quickly.

On the product design and user interface sides, it has been challenging.
It’s different if you ask to decide between Tue 9pm, Wed 9pm or Thu 9pm. vs. deciding two days, vs a whole week (24 x 7 = 168 possible options)

We have discussed getting inspiration from Doodle and Framadate but I find that is difficult to make it accessible, and for a week’s view those are also confusing.

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Currently, I’m focusing on the use case of deciding on a Weekly call on Fridays and Saturdays in the mornings or afternoons (about 48 different options), but I’m trying to find a better strategy. Perhaps divide and conquer (Fri mornings, Fri afternoons, Sat mornings, Sat afternoons)

What do you think?

@bender@twtxt.net On chrome-based browsers, it’s getting your time zone automatically. I’m watching that on Firefox is not working, I’ll take a look, perhaps the JS function is different in other browsers.

For the next part

royally, and utterly, confusing
I laugh a bit at this one 😅
I agree. It’s confusing, you get dizzy watching so many options, I’ll explain in another twt. If anyone has some ideas on how to reduce that confusion, that would be great!

and

my two pence
hey, glad to receive pence instead of cents 😀

@darch@neotxt.dk you can watch current results here:
https://meet.gemugami.com/r/TJxRajE56MgFHFV

@abucci@anthony.buc.ci well, it’s similar to giving an e-device to a toddler or an early child (2-6 years old)
They are receiving permanent changes, yet to be discovered.

I’m with @prologic@twtxt.net on allowing to use some devices (not a toy) only with the supervision of a responsible parent, usually an adult. It’s like being alone outside the home, crossing the street, talking with strangers, and such. Has to be taught at home, but (citation needed) it’s not often done.

I share with you the first ‘public alpha’ of the tool to vote for the best time on an International Call.

UX needs to be improved a lot, but I’d like to start understanding if this is the right compromise between simplicity and effectiveness.

Help me to break it, and share your feedback or ideas!
https://meet.gemugami.com/e/TJxRajE56MgFHFV

@abucci@anthony.buc.ci and Steve Jobs, and Trump, and Sergey Brin.

Based on https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/36376918-ceo-society
People are not trusting anymore on politicians, religious leaders or elders, so they are looking for figures like ‘self-made billionaires’

We know that’s a romantic PoV, we can watch the amazing keynotes from Jobs and the beautiful products, but that’s only a thin slice of what’s behind a Public Relations team.

@movq@www.uninformativ.de Thanks for the catch-up. I live in that state, so I experienced firsthand the change.

Basically, our state had an ICANN region (Mexican Mountain Time/MT), but the government said “Forget that and follow Mexican Central Time”.
But as the state on the border, Texas, USA, stays with American MT, that made some trouble between companies and offices.
That has happened before, the municipalities/regions had different start and end for DST for 1 or 2 weeks, but now they have 1 hr offset all the year.

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tl;dr ICANN timezone America/Chihuahua is not gonna be used anymore. Some municipalities are going to switch to America/Mexico_City and some others to US/Mountain. In the future, when USA removes DST, those states are going to follow. Regions on the border will follow American regulations. #sovereigntyFTW

The maths of friendship (sort of)
https://scribe.citizen4.eu/your-friends-have-more-friends-than-you-e005796841bb

@prologic@twtxt.net time to make new friends ! 😀🧐

What’s behind the loved Windows 95 redesign from Win 3.11/NT

https://socket3.wordpress.com/2018/02/03/designing-windows-95s-user-interface/

@prologic@twtxt.net it’s easier to point out the problem than fixing it 😅

What I’ve seen is having a public figure promoting the service in their conferences, public events and such, a biz partner of mine promoted our games everywhere he went… So I think is a matter of finding that guy/gal

Interesting, but unlikely to get traction in practice; only interesting for people hosting their own domain.
(…)
Overall weighted score: 3.9 out of 7 (with 5.0 being the threshold). As is hopefully clear, we highly appreciate the mission of the project, but think it would need more thought and research to make an impact.

What I think is that the project needs traction. Some network effect and social validation. And that’s not solved with technology, but with social engineering.
I’d recommend inviting/hiring someone with experience growing networks 🤔

@prologic@twtxt.net Well… I’m in the middle here. It’s useful to have automagically some stats of your links (more for the vanity metrics) used a lot by brands and commercial usage.

For people wasting time on their favorite social media… I don’t know how useful is that. Aaaand, in free social media, where you are the product, well… It’s for granted that you’ll be tracked in exchange.

@saltyim@twtxt.net Interesting, thanks for sharing!

A nice puzzle game for fans of Poker Texas ♣ ♥ ♠ ♦
https://poklegame.com

@axodys@octobloc.xyz Where are you? Washington State, USA? ❄