followup — Notes and Useful Info

https://sites.nationalacademies.org/DEPS/Astro2020/DEPS_192906 There is an opportunity to submit an activity, project, or state of the profession consideration (APC) white paper to the Astro2020 Decadal Survey. Note that the APC white papers are distinct from the science-focused white papers that were due March 11, 2019. For activities and projects, the white paper should include key science goals and objectives, a technical overview, technology drivers, organizations or partnerships and current status, schedule, and cost estimates, as applicable. For state of the profession considerations, the white paper should include the key issue and an overview of its impact on the field, a strategic plan, organizations or partnerships and current status, schedule, and cost estimates, as applicable. Bulletin of the AAS list with ADS Bibcode: https://baas.aas.org/community/astro2020-science-white-papers/

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https://gizmodo.com/update-your-dell-laptop-now-to-fix-a-critical-security-1835732883

Vera detective episodes rec Barbara G; Unforgotten

Ed Bott protect your online identity, security tips

https://libreho.st/ | https://talk.libreho.st/t/introductions-thread/29 | https://talk.libreho.st/g/network | https://snopyta.org/ |

Meher Baba's Bernice Ivory | Loose Ends video |

write.as API v1.9

Privacy Issue? GMail's usage log of all your purchases | ghacks bleachbit | techspot bleachbit | bleachbit vs ccleaner |

Lorna Byrne

Markdown and Visual Studio Code, markdown editing with VS Code | Shift-Alt-F for JSON formatted view | Consider Pervane as alt to VS Code online | MarkdownGuide.org

David Albert: The Profound Violence of Time The illusion that time moves and is distinct from space is a deep misconception about the natural world.

See jazzwhiz answers here | his SEP recommended article | How Classical Particles Emerge from the Quantum World, by Dieks and Lubberdink |

How to Backup Text Messages on Android without App | Root Moto G, 3rd gen |

LibreTexts QM

IMDb Freedive | Gilmore Girls on youtube |

https://news.berkeley.edu/2019/03/29/66-million-year-old-deathbed-linked-to-dinosaur-killing-meteor/

FinalCent: Here is imo the best starting point for someone with an academic level interest in interpretations. A good balance between detail/efficiency and all the different views: https://arxiv.org/abs/0712.0149 The Quantum Measurement Problem: State of Play, by David Wallace

The post-determined block universe [1903.07078]

NCAA tournament 2019: What to know about every team in the bracket

Stickeen, by John Muir: Archive.org illustrated | Gutenberg

USA Drought Monitor | NOAA western region climate data |

ShowdownJS A Markdown to HTML bidirectional converter written in Javascript | Parsedown, PHP markdown parser |

Reach for Markdown, not LaTeX, includes Pandoc starter and other LaTeX refs | Writing a Simple LaTeX document | Beginner's Guide to MultiMarkdown

CONVERTING TEXT FORMATS WITH PANDOC (Pandoc site) One of my favorite tools is Pandoc. I use Pandoc when I need to convert one text format to another. One of the really useful things Pandoc can do is turn HTML or Markdown into EPUB format. I frequently do this in order to turn a set of notes into a file I can read using iBooks on my iPad. I do this in order to have an easily accessible set of notes for my workshops or to turn lengthy documentation into an easy to read offline format to read on an airplane. Pandoc can convert from and to many different file formats. In addition to creating quick EPUB files, I also use it to convert copy from Word documents to Markdown or other useful formats. This can be very useful if you get some messy copy from a client that needs to be converted to enter into a CMS. from: https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2018/07/text-editing-tips-tricks/ Also see: Converting html to markdown using pandoc How to Use pandoc to Convert Files on the Linux Command Line

Scott Nesbitt's pinboard on plain text writing | Links page on The Plain Text Project | Tooling up for Plain Text Academic Writing in Markdown | The Lazy Person’s Guide to Text Wrangling

What could get more expensive due to tariffs

Standard Notes reviews: TechRepublic | plaintextproject | Operational-Security | medium | Plain text, no images, markup, or attachments in free version

Moon phase php program: https://github.com/solarissmoke/php-moon-phase/blob/master/Solaris/MoonPhase.php Successfully tested at http://phptester.net/ https://github.com/solarissmoke/php-moon-phase

New Moon and Full Moon UTC times | local time data | Days calculator: # days between 2 dates |

Heroic husky dog Nanook who saved injured and deaf hiker in Alaska https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/north/husky-rescue-deaf-woman-alaska-1.4734018 https://www.cbsnews.com/news/husky-saves-deaf-hiker-on-alaska-trail-others-come-forward-saying-he-rescued-them-too/ https://www.sacbee.com/news/nation-world/national/article214165854.html

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Fediverse Followup

Mon, 25 Feb 2019 17:28:13 +0000

Mastodon by default has an RSS feed of your account. Just add .rss to your profile address like this: https://fosstodon.org/@mike.rss

Awesome Activity Pub | Fediverse instances |

PeerTube Instances | PeerTube |

#MastoTips hashtag

Search Mastodon instances, case-sensitive Browse hashtags on a large Mastodon instance: (instance)/tags/(hashtag), e.g.: https://mastodon.social/tags/recipe (must use /tags not /t) Different instances show different combinations of posts, depending on who people follow on that instance (hence use a large instance). [source] This page includes public posts from the Fediverse using that hashtag. You don't need to be logged in to view the page.

Atom and RSS feeds: (is this instance specific? this works for qoto.org, I'll try to determine if this applies for all Mastodon instances): https://qoto.org/users/username.atom | https://qoto.org/users/username.rss |

Some Mastodon Instances: qoto.org for scholars in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) | Fosstodon dedicated to Free & Open Source Software, or FOSS as many call it |
How to follow multiple hashtags on Mastodon | Choosing the correct Mastodon instance | (https://hub.fosstodon.org/blog/five-things-to-do-after-you-join-fosstodon) Mastodon Project on Wikipedia | on Twitter | How Mastodon instances work | Activity Pub support: have blog posts show in Mastodon | Matt: Identity in the Fediverse | -—

Wikipedia articles: fediverse | ActivityPub |

Plume is a free open federated blogging platform for the Fediverse. Find out more at https://joinplu.me. Sign up at https://fediverse.blog or https://plume.mastodon.host or https://cafe.sunbeam.city ... and many other instances listed at https://joinplu.me It's powered by ActivityPub, so you can follow Plume blogs from Mastodon, Friendica

#fediverse #followup #mastodon

Tech Followup

Sun, 24 Feb 2019 05:09:10 +0000

Embed Interactive Jupyter Notebooks in Static Websites for Free, using gists | MyBinder | CoCalc online Jupyter notebooks | https://voila.readthedocs.io/en/stable/index.html From notebooks to standalone web applications and dashboards. Voilà allows you to convert a Jupyter Notebook into an interactive dashboard that allows you to share your work with others. Hosting Jupyter Notebook on GitHub with Binder

Internxt Drive (formerly X Cloud) client-side encrypts your files, and files are encrypted in transit and at rest. Only the user knows the decryption key of the files since his or her password is used to encrypt and decrypt the files, and is only known by the user. Additionally, unlike in any other service (eg Tresorit, pCloud, Sync), Internxt Drive breaks apart user files and a server only hosts file shards, never complete files. This adds an extra layer of security to the service against hackers or any other third-party. [source] | HN on Internxt | Internxt as alternative to Tresorit | Internxt X Cloud combines peer-to-peer filesharing, end-to-end encryption, and the blockchain to create a decentralized cloud storage platform. X Cloud is the user-facing part of Internxt’s service, while the backbone of the operation is X Core. This is a decentralized network of hosts, offering their computing and storage capacity to X Core and X Cloud. These hosts are incentivized to participate with the Internxt token, INXT. [source] What is decentralized cloud storage? Decentralization allows Drive to provide a completely unique cloud storage service, where files are encrypted, fragmented and each fragmnent is hosted in servers present all over the world. This allows us to provide higher levels of privacy, eco-friendlyness and reliability. These servers are ran by high-quality operators running our exclusive Internxt Core program. Internxt Core is ran on already existing hardware, leveraging unused storage space, and thus providing a highly green cloud storage service. Since we count with storage servers everywhere in the globe, we also leverage latency to reduce energy consumption when sending you your files. [source] HackerNoon article

40+ High Quality Free Resources for Web Development Note Carbon, among others Stavros quickly create a blog with new.css, lektor, and gitlab

Free Azure static web apps | Azure CosmosDB free tier | Azure free account/tier details | How to be sure you're on Azure Free Tier |

JavaScript Visualized: Promises & Async/Await | Fetching With Async/Await | How does async/await work? | bigskysoftware/htmx: htmx – high power tools for HTML

exim commands | php mail vs smtp |

wego: Use this open source tool to get your local weather forecast The wttr.in project is a web-based wrapper around wego. It provides some additional display options. One cool thing about wttr.in is that you can fetch one-line information about the weather with curl. I have a little shell function called get_wttr that fetches the current forecast in a shortened form. get_wttr() {curl -s "wttr.in/Pittsboro?format=3"}

tools for developers, many good followup ideas |

The HTTP headers you don't expect; strange header; curl -I https://techcrunch.com

Apache: Allow specified IP addresses but otherwise require username/password: Ref1 | Ref2 | Ref3 |

How to stack HTML elements

Feeds: SHIFT14 |

AWS Lightsail upgrade Ubuntu 16.04 LTS to 18.04 LTS – nixCraft Ubuntu Upgrades – Community Help Wiki How to Upgrade to Ubuntu 18.04 Bionic Beaver – CloudBooklet Manually Upgrade Ubuntu 16.04 | InMotion Hosting ubuntu – Is it safe to run do-release-upgrade on a cloud VM? – Server Fault Upgrading an End-of-Life Ubuntu Server 2 Ways to Upgrade Ubuntu 18.04 To Ubuntu 20.04 (Graphical & Terminal), has some very good points

UbuntuUpdates – PPAs & 3rd Party Repositories

Best Online Tools To Know Everything About a Website, by Labnol Personal security checklist | reddit thread | Good Devel Notes by Category

Web Scraping 101 with Javascript and NodeJS

Ubuntu: Creating a self-signed SAN certificate using OpenSSL – Fabian Lee Ubuntu: Creating an alias for common commands under bash – Fabian Lee

How to safely clean Ubuntu | CSS:visited selector | TLD-list.com best initial domain name registration prices, best renewal prices

Web Server Security Series | Web Server Security Handbook | other great security info |

google search: add external bootable hard drive to laptop linux or boot linux on laptop from external hard drive https://askubuntu.com/questions/16988/how-do-i-install-ubuntu-to-a-usb-key-without-using-startup-disk-creator#942312 https://www.tecmint.com/install-linux-os-on-usb-drive/ https://www.linux.org/threads/installing-linux-ubuntu-on-external-hdd.13070/ https://www.zachpfeffer.com/single-post/Install-Ubuntu-on-an-External-Hard-Drive

privatebin markdown test use rentry.co pw

HTTPS configuration test https://www.ssllabs.com/ssltest/ We recommend that servers have at least an A rating. If they have less, you might look for a better server. If they have A+ you are on a good site! https://securityheaders.io/. Here we also recommend an A rating or better. [from privatebin faq] privatebin hosted servers

observatory.mozilla.org Site safety and security checker. Options: Don't include my site in the public results, Force a rescan instead of returning cached results, and Don't scan with third-party scanners | https://securityheaders.com/ | Qualyx SSL test |

Other sites like privacytools.io

Tech blog: Ctrl.blog

raspberry pi ideas

Nextcloud dev manual Esp. see Security Guidelines section (XSS, etc)

Why You Should Own Your Own Domain, by Kev Quirk Note the caution about WhoIs privacy HN WhoIs privacy search | example info |

Append /api/nodeinfo or /api/nodeinfo/2.0.json to a domain name to get listing; example

Mobile switch: How I canceled Verizon and cut my phone bill in half

What is CORS? Complete Tutorial on Cross-Origin Resource Sharing Async functions, making promises friendly | Web Fundamentals | Using promises – JavaScript | MDN

Motorola Moto G7 and One lines are getting Google’s call screening feature Port # to Verizon FAQ | Switch to Verizon |

Vanilla JS toolkit

iDrive backup looks really good; Jon Watson rec Probably compare to Tresorit.

How to become a wikipedia editor

Q. How to check if remote repository has changed and I need to pull? A. First use git remote update, to bring your remote refs up to date. Then you can do git status -uno which will tell you whether the branch you are tracking is ahead, behind or has diverged. If it says nothing, the local and remote are the same. If local is behind remote, it will automatically do a pull to bring local up-to-date. [source]

Cleaning your GitHub profile with a simple Bash script

https://caniuse.com/ Shows browser version support for various CSS, HTML, Javascript, security, etc commands/features

https://httpbin.org/ request and response service

Build Your First Twitter App Using PHP in 8 Easy Steps | Twools | Twint, twitter scraper w/o API or login |

The Ultimate Superuser's Guide to uBlock Origin – Make Tech Easier

outline.com review bookmarklet: javascript:(function()%7Bwindow.location.href %3D 'https%3A%2F%2Foutline.com%2F' %2B window.location.href%7D)() https://genius.com/web-annotator | nice Genius example |

The 5 Best Rescue and Recovery Disks for a Windows System Restore The Essential Tools for Programmers, by Amit Agarwal How to Use Windows 10’s OpenSSH Client Instead of PuTTY How to create a group email in Gmail The 7 Best Windows Dark Themes for your Eyes

Regular expressions: https://edsaav.com/regular-expressions

Guide to Web Authentication 42 Privacy Tools and Products To Protect Your Data in 2019 Using uMatrix to replace NoScript https://fediverse.blog/~/LuftHans/using-u-matrix-to-replace-no-script Color scale generator, by Hayk https://hihayk.github.io/scale/ Panopticlick – browser tracking tester https://panopticlick.eff.org/ Services which support 2FA https://twofactorauth.org/ https://americanexpress.io/do-not-run-dockerized-applications-as-root/ https://ebookfoundation.github.io/free-programming-books/

Create animated GIFs from MP4 with FFmpeg | ffmpeg complete guide |

Cloud storage backup: Backblaze, 10gb free | appl w cloudflare |

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Priority To Do

Fri, 22 Feb 2019 19:02:42 +0000

Remove old windows and other files and do new Macrium backup

[1902.10778] Foundations of quantum physics I. A critique of the tradition, by Arnold Neumaier

An Introductory Guide to Fourier Transforms | Spaced Repetition |

The excellent sample pages in A First Course in LQG | Minovskyy high recommendation | @skdh review |

A Gallery of Interesting Jupyter Notebooks on a wide variety of fields

Inflationary Misconceptions and the Basics of Cosmological Horizons, Physics Forum tw10404

Papers to Re-read, check new citations, etc.

Halvorson/Clifton No place for relativistic particles? | Are Rindler quanta real? Inequivalent Particle Concepts in Quantum Field Theory | Reeh Schlieder defeats Newton Wigner | De Bievre Where's that Quantum? Doreen Fraser The fate of 'particles' in quantum field theories with interactions Arageorgis, Earman, and Ruetsche Fulling Non‐uniqueness and the Unruh Effect Hollands and Wald Quantum fields in curved spacetime Piazza, Modeling a Particle Detector in Field Theory | Volumes of space as susbsytems | Glimmers of a pregeometric perspective | David Wallace Emergence of particles from bosonic quantum field theory | Spacetime state realism | The Quantum Theory of Fields | David John Baker Against Field Interpreations of Quantum Field Theory | Identity, Superselection Theory and the Statistical Properties of Quantum Fields | The Philosophy of Quantum Field Theory | Jonathan Bain Against Particle/Field Duality, CPT Invariance | Spin Statistics connection | H. Nikolic Quantum Mechanics: Myths and Facts Rovelli What is a particle? Ranard An introduction to rigorous formulations of quantum field theory, PDF | another source Ruger, Complementarity meets General Relativity Decoherence, quantum Darwinism, and the generic emergence of our objective classical reality” [1811.09062] Bradford Benson's Hubble constant from the CMB, APS Apr 2018, https://meetings.aps.org/Meeting/APR18/Session/H07.3 Point particles and the electromagnetic field, PhysicsForum part of series: Is SpaceTime really a continuum?

Ideas: Panda RSS reader | Winds: you can add tags, notes, or highlights

Science Projects Ideas

https://www.lifewire.com/create-lamp-web-server-using-ubuntu-4135422

[1811.04083] Early Dark Energy Can Resolve The Hubble Tension They reference 2 papers with hints for such an increased expansion rate and/or reduced sound horizon: [1304.3724] New Constraints on the Early Expansion History The 2nd is the new Aylor, Millea paper | reddit thread on [1811.04083]

[1608.01309] Early dark energy, the Hubble-parameter tension, and the string axiverse, Kamionkowski [1809.00550] Decaying dark energy in light of the latest cosmological dataset [1804.03113] From quantum unstable systems to the decaying dark energy: Cosmological implications Expansion history with decaying vacuum: a complete cosmological scenario [1610.05192] Metastable Dark Energy with Radioactive-like Decay [1107.4610] Constraints from the CMB temperature and other common observational data-sets on variable dark energy density models [1007.2325] Limits on decaying dark energy density models from the CMB temperature-redshift relation [1807.06209] Planck 2018 results. VI. Cosmological parameters Dark Energy and the Preposterous Universe – S.M. Carroll

https://psa2018.philsci.org/en/74-program/program-schedule/program/53/what-if-anything-is-fundamental-about-physics

Cosmology 2018 https://indico.cern.ch/event/736594/timetable/#20181022.detailed

https://arxiv.org/abs/1807.06211 Planck 2018: Constraints on Inflation, note in relation to https://arxiv.org/abs/1810.05216 https://old.reddit.com/r/cosmology/comments/9ocvsv/bicep2_keck_array_x_constraints_on_primordial/

Windows Defender Ultra Secure Sandbox

David Deutsch video https://youtu.be/SDZ454K_lBY?t=517 txt and md files in bb tools etc should be put online Ed Bott: https://www.zdnet.com/pictures/what-to-expect-from-windows-10-october-2018-update/ https://www.zdnet.com/article/windows-10-october-2018-update-how-to-get-it-how-to-avoid-it/ https://www.pcworld.com/article/3304277/windows/windows-10-october-2018-update-best-features-everyday-use.html

check out the reddit AskScience FAQ reddit post about the Big Rip, especially reply by hikaruzero is in same context as Ethan Siegel's article about the Rejuvenated Universe, which is from a 2003 paper published in PRL:

Two articles by Ethan Siegel: Could the big rip lead to another big bang | Could dark recycle the universe? |

Eric Gawiser's paper: https://inspirehep.net/record/635765 | https://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0312440 | Gawiser has written many papers | Gawiser's Rutgers page |

Hikaruzero mentioned phantom energy – see Phantom Energy and Cosmic Doomsday and Sean Carroll's post on it.

Also see The Apparent (Gravitational) Horizon in Cosmology [1807.07587] which has 1537 citations on Inspire and A Sudden gravitational transition and The Physics of Cosmic Acceleration

Cosmic Mnemonics: a helpful paper for non-specialists on the parameters of the SM of cosmology https://arxiv.org/abs/1309.2381

Thoroughly read this great CMB series: https://www.physicsforums.com/insights/poor-mans-cmb-primer-part-0-orientation/

Read about the LCDM parameters at https://lambda.gsfc.nasa.gov/education/graphic_history/parameters.cfm including especially σ8

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Science Projects Ideas

Thu, 18 Oct 2018 21:08:18 +0000

The LOFAR radio telescope is recruiting citizen scientists to help locate supermassive black holes in distant galaxies. https://astron.nl/news-and-event

Zooniverse Physics projects | SciStarter | CosmoQuest | SciAm sciences |

Gravity Spy (gravitational wave glitch classification)

Galaxy Clusters | TClusters on Twitter |

GRB cosmology project | Mars mapping | Gamma & X-rays | Galaxy classifying | Black Hole radio zoo

Space Warps: blog | Talk

Higgs Hunters at Zooniverse https://www.higgshunters.org

Exotic Higgs Decays blog http://exotichiggs.physics.sunysb.edu/web/wopr/

Exotic Decays of the 125 GeV Higgs Boson https://arxiv.org/abs/1312.4992

Wikipedia list of Citizen Science projects: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_citizen_science_projects

#followup #notes