YSK: You Need to Turn on Apple’s New Stolen iPhone Tool (www.wired.com)
cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/11099621...
YSK: Targeted Ads are a Cybersecurity Risk (avoidthehack.com)
cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/11049489...
YSK about the app Yuka which lets you scan food and cosmetics to identify harmful chemicals or additives (yuka.io)
The app gives a score out of 100 for each product scanned based on how healthy or harmful it may be and offers alternative products which may be healthier. The developers do not sell ads or user data and have a no influence policy which prevents brands from paying to place their products in the app. There is a premium version...
YSK: Android and iOS settings for better security and privacy (thenewoil.org)
The article lists settings to change on Android 14 and iOS 17....
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YSK : Moral values of being nice, forgiving and generosity are justified by game theory to be successful strategies (youtu.be)
Prisoner’s dilemma is a problem commonly featured in game theory. Each player is given an option to be either nice or nasty. Each combination of player plays multiple number of rounds. When tested against different strategies, it is found that the best performing strategies are :...
YSK: To prevent mashed potatoes from being gummy, boil the potatoes whole.
When a potato cooks, the starches contained in each cell are released as the cell walls break down. These starches absorb the potato’s internal moisture and swell and soften. These two processes are what transform a raw, hard potato into a cooked, softer potato fit for mashing....
YSK: Do You Really Need That Antibiotic? It’s antibiotic season. Brush up on how you should use them — and when to avoid them. (NYT, Dec 2023) (www.nytimes.com)
It’s refreshing to see a major news outlet discussing collateral damage and not just resistance. Over the past decade, 99% of the time antibiotic overuse is covered and warned about it’s always only in regards to resistance....
YSK: How to clean your wood-burning stove glass (external-content.duckduckgo.com)
Tldr; Wet newspaper dipped in ashes....
YSK: You can search (most of?) lemmy as a search engine
Due to the nature of fediverse, you can’t just do a “site:lemmy” search as you’d do with reddit (site:reddit.com). I was searching for ways to do it on my firefox browsers and I came to a solution that searches 21 different instances simultaneously, which I consider to be a big part of lemmy (I also include kbin...
YSK How to select or drag/drop text on Reddit when logged out, using a Ublock Origin filter
When I search for something and open a Reddit post with recommendations, I might select some text (ex. the name of a recommended thing) and drag/drop them into the new tab area to look each one up....
YSK that chiropractors are not medical doctors and "Systematic reviews... have found no evidence that chiropractic manipulation is effective" (en.wikipedia.org)
“Systematic reviews of controlled clinical studies of treatments used by chiropractors have found no evidence that chiropractic manipulation is effective, with the possible exception of treatment for back pain.[8] A 2011 critical evaluation of 45 systematic reviews concluded that the data included in the study “fail[ed] to...
YSK: The Wadsworth Constant of YouTube videos (sh.itjust.works)
YSK that if your turn signal is blinking unusually fast (like 3 or more times a second), it generally means you have a bulb out.
Why YSK: Your signals alert other drivers as to what you’re doing; a signal bulb costs a few bucks and is usually a quick and easy repair to do yourself (consult YouTube); and any place that regulates motor vehicles probably requires you to have working turn signals. So knowing when and how to replace a burned out signal bulb...
YSK about Sketch Toy (sketchtoy.com)
(the link again in case the clickable title doesn’t work on all instances: sketchtoy.com)...
YSK the difference between lead and led (and similar-sounding/looking words)
This drives me nuts when I see it done wrong, but it’s actually kind of complicated because English is orthographically deranged....
YSK that SLS, an ingredient added to most commercial toothpastes, causes canker sores (askthedentist.com)
I learned about this many years ago and the difference after I started using only SLS-free toothpaste was night and day. I used to get canker sores any time I would bite the inside of my cheek, hit my gums with the hard parts of my toothbrush, etc., and this completely stopped a while after I switched to SLS-free....
PSA: Upvote is not an upvote like you are used to (like Reddit) - "Boost" is the Reddit Upvote - /kbin meta - kbin.social (kbin.social)
YSK: Social media platforms attach trackers to the end of share URLs (which you can and should delete)
Why YSK: Trackers don’t do good for anyone except the platform, and they’re not necessary to view the content in the URL....
YSK: Pro Publica has a tool that lets you request documentation of why your health insurer denied your claim (projects.propublica.org)
cross-posted from: sh.itjust.works/post/9208209
YSK: All social and cultural groups are diverse and hold people of many different views
No nation in the world is a mono-culture, and often times, people repeat statements they saw specific folk from other cultures make and assume they speak for their entire culture....
YSK about the different “ways of knowing”
On these types of forums it’s easy to jump into an argument about the technicalities or a post or comment....
YSK that the free and not-for-profit meditation app Medito had a huge update and is even better now
Built by a dutch non-profit, Medito is a meditation app that is completely free without ads, supported by donations from the community. The new update brought a completely new interface and new content....
YSK that horses evolved in North America, migrated to Eurasia across the Bering land bridge, then went extinct in North America.
Interesting link nebraskapublicmedia.org/…/origins-of-the-horse/
YSK about the New York Times' Tor onion service (open.nytimes.com)
Why? In their words:...