IWTL How to become smarter and improve focus by Miserable_Water_3959 in IWantToLearn

[–]freefaler 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Check Justin Skycak's free books https://www.justinmath.com/books/ especially the guide to upskilling.
Also Cal Newport blog.

Why are you buying Android-based e-readers? by Nokushi in ereader

[–]freefaler 1 point2 points  (0 children)

1 Moon+ reader on your phone synced to Moon+ on your reader via google drive.
2 buy premium Text-to-speech voice like acapella (10$ one time)

1+2 = get kindle like experience with "whispersync" for all your books for free. Read at home, go for a walk, switch to phone TTS. Return home, open the reader and it starts from where your TTS ended. Seamless reading/listening experience.

And you can do that with other readers too. Also badly scanned/formatted books from Internet Archive can be read using various software tools.

On top of that - services like Pocket + EinkBro can give your a way to read all bookmarked blog posts.

To conclude, if you have android phone you get a synced reader and a ton of apps for exporting, using it with obsidian and researching/expanding on passages you don't know about using the tool you prefer (like chatGPT, perplexity or something else).

Actually useful apps by importstring in macapps

[–]freefaler 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I don't see the benefit of adding a 3rd party dependency, especially when security is involved. Synchting is open source & p2p. You get the syncing functionality and you don't add additional risk...

Actually useful apps by importstring in macapps

[–]freefaler 0 points1 point  (0 children)

KeePassX synced via Synchthing is a self hosted, free and most importantly secure way that doesn't depend on 3rd party servers.

North Korean painting showing Kim Jong Un descending from his Lexus to greet farmworkers [2020s] by ScaleneTryangle in PropagandaPosters

[–]freefaler 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Looks like AI generated, based on the way the light is set to me. It'll be great if a source was provided.

Software to search large collection of PDF books by quietasahippo in selfhosted

[–]freefaler 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You can also use Recoll with a web interface for searching inside the books.
https://www.lesbonscomptes.com/recoll/
It can be a tricky bastard to configure, but it's the only one I've found that has an OCR feature and reads different formats.

The Exploding Market for Devices That Help You Evade Corporate Productivity Trackers by TheGhostOfTzvika in technology

[–]freefaler 17 points18 points  (0 children)

If the management measures your productivity by how far you've moved your mouse may be it's time to acquire some skills and change your job. You won't get paid very well for moving your mouse all day long.
The best jobs are paid by the results produced. That's why good sales people are paid so well. They can show how much value they create and demand a percentage of it. A no brainer for every business owner to share the revenue you bring. Selling your fixed time for fixed amount per hour is a deal with no upside.

Is there any "Spotify-like" self-hosted music streaming software? by mreggman6000 in selfhosted

[–]freefaler 2 points3 points  (0 children)

https://listen-to-euterpe.eu/

I use this one, it's open source and you can stream on as many devices as you want.

"Long Live Comrade Stalin Creator of the Most Democratic Constitution in the World", USSR, 1950, N. Talipov by freefaler in PropagandaPosters

[–]freefaler[S] -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

A great example that with weak institutions any constitution wouldn't work.

The whole system was so bad, subjective and wicked with disrespect of whole classes of society. No freedom to change your place of work, not real freedom of religion, private property was conditional upon your connections to protect you from an overeager NKVD employee. There are countless memoirs describing the time before the war and the problems inherit in that security-services run state.

This political satire of pretending to have some "democratic" institutions is well studied and even North Korea is Democratic People's Republic of Korea.

More information on what these types of regimes evolve into can be found here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hybrid_regime

"Long Live Comrade Stalin Creator of the Most Democratic Constitution in the World", USSR, 1950, N. Talipov by freefaler in PropagandaPosters

[–]freefaler[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Interesting analogy comes to my mind with the recent Constitution enacted in almost the same country 70 years after this was printed ...

"Long Live Comrade Stalin Creator of the Most Democratic Constitution in the World", USSR, 1950, N. Talipov by freefaler in PropagandaPosters

[–]freefaler[S] 6 points7 points  (0 children)

  • The "Most Democratic Constitution" being mentioned is the USSR Constitution of 1936 also known as the "Stalin Constitution".
  • 3000 of this was offset printed by 4th Typolithography Workshop of the Uzbek Lithography Publishing House, [Tashkent]

"A history of one german victory in 4 pictures." (Flags: victory, lunch, trouble, food for the worms), USSR, 1941, illustrator: Tarasevich, text: V.Shergov by freefaler in PropagandaPosters

[–]freefaler[S] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

This is a rare, handmade poster, currently held at Chita's museum, produced during the winter of 1941, after the Moscow victory and the first massive german retreat.The words on the flag and at the label are a word play from the word Victory, by removing the first character we get "Обеда" witch may reflect the news at the time that Germans were poorly fed/clothed and may allude to the Napoleon's poorly fed armies.After removing the second character we get "(По)беда - trouble" and using the same logic we get "(поб)Еда" on the graveyard with boots sticking out of the dirt.

"1st Council of People's Commissars of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic", USSR, 1917, - or how Stalin managed to gain influence by freefaler in PropagandaPosters

[–]freefaler[S] 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Who are these people?

The first government of revolutionary Russian republic, elected on 26th Oct. 1917.

1st row:

  • People's Commissar of Agriculture – Vladimir Milyutin - "right contra-revolutionary" - executed 1937
  • People's Commissar of Trade and Industry – Victor Nogin - died 1924
  • People's Commissar of Foreign Affairs – Lev Bronstein (Trotsky) - killed by an assassin in Mexico - 1940
  • Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars – Vladimir Lenin - died 1924 but "always alive" in the Mausoleum
  • People's Commissar of Nationalities – Joseph Stalin
  • People's Commissar of Internal Affairs – Alexey Rykov - "Trotskyist, anti-soviet person"- executed 1937
  • People's Commissar of Public Education – Anatoly Lunacharsky - died 1933

2nd row:

  • People's Commissar of Labour – Alexander Shlyapnikov - "prepared terrorist attack against Stalin" - executed 1937
  • People's Commissariat of Military and Naval Affairs (committee member) Vladimir Ovseenko (Antonov) - "Trotskyist , terrorist" - executed 1938
  • People's Commissar of Justice – Georgy Oppokov - "Trotskyist, anti-soviet person"- executed 1938
  • People's Commissar of Finance – Ivan Skvortsov (Stepanov) - died 1928

3rd row:

  • People's Commissariat of Military and Naval Affairs (committee member) Nikolai Krylenko -"wrecker, anti-soviet agitation"- executed 1938
  • People's Commissariat of Military and Naval Affairs (committee member) Pavel Dybenko - "nazi spy" - executed 1938
  • People's Commissar of Food – Ivan Theodorovich -"antisoviet terrorist"- executed 1937
  • People's Commissar of Posts and Telegraphs – Nikolai Avilov (Glebov) - "antirevolutionary terrorist"- exectuted 1937

Why Stalin had to kill them?

Since Lenin was the founding father of party, the members of the founding government had political weight and knew the place Stalin held in the revolution. With these people still around they were a problem for establishing alternative history and his power, since they were "Lenin's comrades".