My advice is always use UASP with USB 3.0 devices on the Pi 4, otherwise you're missing out on a pretty substantial performance gain. Also, remember to plug USB 3.0 devices into the blue USB 3.0 ports, not into the black USB 2.0 ports, otherwise you won't see any of the performance difference.

Ein Wutausbruch, der verstört: US-Präsident Trump droht, manchen US-Staaten nicht in der Coronakrise zu helfen, weil sie seine Arbeit nicht genug wertschätzen.

A role for configuring Firefox, including addons, preferences and css styles.

Notes:

A Firefox profile named 'default' will be created if it doesn't already exist.
If any addon being installed is a 'complete theme' addon, it will be set as the selected theme (this is the default behaviour of the firefox-addon role dependency).

Requirements

Currently the role has only been tested against Fedora (23) hosts, but in theory should work for all Linux variants.

An Ansible Role that installs Firefox, the firefox addons mentioned in Firefox Kompendium, the user.js from Ghacks, some offline fonts so remote fonts are not required and some search keywords for the Url-Bar. The role is compatible with RHEL/CentOS, Fedora, Debian and Ubuntu. Be aware that while this config blocks a lot of tracking, which helps bot with privacy and security it give the user a very unique fingerprint aswell. Thats why it´s still recommended to use the TOR Browser for normal surfing and this firefox config for functions that websites that require a login (e.g. forums, social media, online banking or online shopping).

user_pref("accessibility.force_disabled", 1);
user_pref("accessibility.typeaheadfind.flashBar", 0);
user_pref("app.normandy.first_run", false);
user_pref("app.shield.optoutstudies.enabled", false);
user_pref("app.update.auto", false);
user_pref("app.update.checkInstallTime", false);
user_pref("app.update.doorhanger", false);
user_pref("browser.feeds.showFirstRunUI", false);
...

in thunderbird user profile folder in "chrome/userContent.css" I have this:

/ quote colors for message display / blockquote[type=cite] { color: PowderBlue ! important; } blockquote[type=cite] blockquote { color: LightBlue ! important; } blockquote[type=cite] blockquote blockquote { color: SkyBlue ! important; } blockquote[type=cite] blockquote blockquote blockquote { color: LightSkyBlue ! important; } blockquote[type=cite] blockquote blockquote blockquote blockquote { color: DeepSkyBlue ! important; }

/ quote color for message composing / span[_moz_quote=true] { color: PowderBlue ! important; }

Spiel 1
Das erste Spiel ist für 1-4 Spiele gedacht. Es handelt sich um ein Spiel indem man einen festen Punkt „fangen“ muss. Es gibt eine laufende und einen stehende LED. Man muß jetzt mit seinem Taster genau im richtigen Moment, wenn die laufende LED die stehenden LED kreuzt, seinen Taster betätigen.
Wenn man alleine spielt, bekommt man einen Punkt, wenn man daneben liegt, bekommt man zwei Punkte abgezogen.
Wenn man mit zwei, drei oder vier Spielen spielt, ist das Punktesystem das selbe, es bekommt aber nur der den Punkt der auch als erstes gedrückt hat. Sollte der erstgedrückte daneben liegen, bekommt er natürlich auch die zwei Punkte abgezogen.
Dies geht über 30 Runden, die immer etwas schneller werden. Wer am Ende die meisten Punkte hat, der hat das Spiel gewonnen.

Spiel 2:
Das zweite Spiel ist ein reines Spiel für zwei Personen. Dabei handelt es sich um eine Art Aufbauspiel. Man hat gegenüberliegend seines Knopfes einen seiner Farbe entsprechenden eine farbige LED. Rot oder Grün. Daneben ist jeweils ein Blauer Punkt und viele Weiße. Die Weißen markieren das jeweilige Spielfeld. Sobald man das Spiel startet, kommt ein weiteres Licht hinzu welches die ganze Zeit von links nach rechts und zurück läuft. Man muß jetzt immer im blauen Feld drücken um sein Rotes oder Grünes Feld weiter aufzubauen. Wenn man an der falschen Stelle drückt, bekommt der Gegner 5 Züge Vorsprung. Wer als erstes das Spielfeld voll hat, hat gewonnen.

Build a time tracking cube! Flip the cube to switch between tasks so you can automate your time sheets. An accelerometer tracks orientation and neopixels light up each task.

Use Adafruit IO to log data into a feed and store timestamps of each task. Setup triggers in Zapier and create an action to update a google spreadsheet. Get the Adafruit Feather HUZZAH and start building your IoT projects.

Work/life balance is at best an elusive ideal and at worst a complete myth, today’s senior executives will tell you. But by making deliberate choices about which opportunities they’ll pursue and which they’ll decline, rather than simply reacting to emergencies, leaders can and do engage meaningfully with work, family, and community. They’ve discovered through hard experience that prospering in the senior ranks is a matter of carefully combining work and home so as not to lose themselves, their loved ones, or their foothold on success.

Here's (via https://pluralistic.net/2020/06/30/deafhood/#diagnosis-cure) an admirably compact diagnosis of the malady afflicting capitalism and a suggestion for a cure from Yanis Varoufakis:

In 2008, we had an "endogenous" crash, caused by the finance sector itself. Governments gave them trillions, but "this liquidity did not turn into actual investment in the real economy."

"Banks recovered, the oligarchy found themselves with appreciating assets, the majority our there had to face harsh austerity. This boosted the disconnect between the world of money (that was doing well) and the world of the real economy (which was not)."

Now we face an "exogenous" crash, caused by the pandemic, but, "when Covid-19 arrived on the scene, it acted like a pin that bursts a gigantic bubble. Reflating this bubble, in the absence of public investment, will not be possible however much money Central Banks pump in."

But even today, TrackPoint fans across the internet still swear by their favorite input method and will broker no argument that it isn’t the superior form of computer navigation (the ThinkPad subreddit, for example, is full of appreciative posts). It’s like non-QWERTY keyboard layouts in that respect: well thought out, potentially better-to-use alternatives that exist only at the fringes of computing because other input methods are so much more popular, and it would take too much effort to switch.

it’s easy to see “where the money went:” It never existed in the first place. If my stock had a quoted price of $100 on an exchange, and that price fell to $75 per share, that means the forecast of the present value of future earnings for that company fell. The stock is a claim on the future stream of profits; the estimated value of the stream fell because of new taxes, new regulations, changes in consumer preferences, or the invention of a new competing product.

“Managers should provide employees working in demanding jobs more control, and in jobs where it is unfeasible to do so, a commensurate reduction in demands. For example, allowing employees to set their own goals or decide how to do their work, or reducing employees’ work hours, could improve health,” Gonzalez-Mulé says.

Former NSA contractor and whistleblower Edward Snowden says that tech workers need to think long and hard about how their labor is used by companies to amass power, surveil people, and fundamentally change society, and need to think about whether it is ethical to work at tech companies at all.

Inquiry and introspection may be a more meaningful use of your time and energy than buying up the last roll of toilet paper on the planet.

It was a public hearing held online. Billions of people crowded into the meeting room, in suits, in pajamas, on treadmills, on sofas, in groups in front of large screens suspended above busy streets, alone at home with VR headsets on. The host called for silence and their words were translated into myriad languages, in both sound and text. The audience held its collective breath and waited for the special guest to show. A face appeared, vague in detail, like billions of faces merged into one. The face began to talk, in an equally vague voice, in thousands of languages at the same time, alien but also familiar to everyone

Robert Auld, an audio engineer and former chair of the New York chapter of the Audio Engineers Society, is one of many in his trade who sees LRAD deployment as a military-style escalation of force.

“I would characterize it as a terror weapon, up there with tear gas and flash-bang grenades,” Auld tells Popular Mechanics. “The latter are supposed to be ‘non-lethal,’ but they can hurt you. Same for the LRAD.”

In 1687, Sir Isaac Newton published his groundbreaking book, The Principia: Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy, which described his three laws of motion. In the process, Newton laid the foundation for classical mechanics and redefined the way the world looked at physics and science.

What most people don't know, however, is that Newton's three laws of motion can be used as an interesting analogy for increasing your productivity, simplifying your work, and improving your life.

Allow me to present this analogy as Newton's Laws of Productivity.

ncdu (NCurses Disk Usage) is a disk utility for Unix systems. Its name refers to its similar purpose to the du utility, but ncdu uses a text-based user interface under the [n]curses programming library.[2] Users can navigate the list using the arrow keys and delete files that are taking up too much space by pressing the 'd' key. Version 1.09 and later can export the file listing in JSON format.