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The Tyranny of the Ever-Present Smartphone: Reclaiming Our Autonomy

2025-02-26

The author recounts a visit to a friend's apartment building in Washington, D.C., where every aspect, from entry to elevators to apartment access, required a smartphone app. This experience highlights the pervasive nature of digital technology in modern life, creating inconveniences (for the author, an Orthodox Jew observing Shabbat) and raising concerns about digital addiction and its negative impact on mental and physical well-being. The author argues that over-reliance on smartphones blurs the lines between work and leisure and calls for a movement to provide analogue alternatives – physical membership cards, app-free services, etc. – to reclaim autonomy and resist technological dependence.

Ebenezer Clifford: Revolutionary War Veteran, Master Joiner, and Underwater Explorer

2025-03-05

Ebenezer Clifford, a remarkable 18th-century figure, was an architect, master joiner, bell diver, cabinetmaker, and quartermaster sergeant in the Revolutionary War. His exceptional woodworking skills are evident in surviving planes and buildings he designed or helped construct that still stand today. In his later years, he took up underwater salvage, using a diving bell to recover treasures from shipwrecks, adding another layer of adventure to his already extraordinary life.

System Informer: Your System Resource Monitoring and Debugging Swiss Army Knife

2025-01-23

System Informer is a free, powerful, multi-purpose tool that helps you monitor system resources, debug software, and detect malware. It provides graphs and statistics for quickly identifying resource-hogging processes, searches for file handles and DLLs, displays detailed system activity overviews, and shows real-time disk and network usage. Furthermore, it allows you to create, edit, and control services, monitors GPU usage, provides detailed stack traces, and offers light and dark theme support. A must-have for system administrators and developers.