Reading on Twitter (without an Account)
Twitter wants you to register when you read tweets of a user. But there are workarounds — with benefits.
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Other Programs
Interesting 30 Day Challenge with great links for Graphs/Charts
This #30DayChartChallenge looks pretty interesting. And it comes with brilliant links.
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Bypassing Country Restrictions with Tor
Seems like tips from the Reporters without Borders «Handbook for Bloggers and Cyber-Dissidents» become useful in Germany, too.
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Streisand Effect & Alternative Platforms
A ray of hope — the Streisand effect with censorship is still strong and alternative platforms seem to be ... flourishing?
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Fun with R: The Tarkin Effect
Saw it as a meme somewhere and recreated it with R.
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Presentation about Technology as Tool or Trap (in German)
I recently did a presentation on whether technology is a tool or a trap. It covers Attention Economy, Gamification, Persuasive Technology, Nudging, and Dark Patterns. Unfortunately it's in German, but perhaps it's interesting as well.
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Establishing a working infrastructure/meetings/etc vs Entropy
Why do so many attempts to improve organization fail? In part because continuous energy is needed.
Image from a cartoon about better not teaching children about entropy.
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Image from a cartoon about better not teaching children about entropy.
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Getting Exported Annotations (Highlights, Underlines, Notes, etc) from PDF Expert in the right order
A short process to sort notes by page number.
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Quickly Renaming Variables in R
Just some short code to make renaming variables in R less sucky.
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Downloading YouTube Videos (August 2021 Update)
Hmmm, I thought the YouTube Download Site y2mate.com was broken (got an out of business message), so I look for a working way to download YouTube Videos. Seems it works, but given that I found another way, here it is.
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