Bhante Subharo ☸
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<p>Ajahn Subharo<br />Theravada Buddhist Monk</p><p>Here's a story-telling-style Dhamma Talk Video, which shows many photos along with narrations, serving as a good biography:<br /><a href="https://bhikkhu.ca/buddhism/video/2021/04/11/Dhamma_Talk_062.html" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">bhikkhu.ca/buddhism/video/2021</span><span class="invisible">/04/11/Dhamma_Talk_062.html</span></a></p>
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@rolle@mementomori.social "Masterbootion" is when you boost your own post. You are the master of your own posts, and you're boosting them.
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I&#39;ll be doing a live-stream video Dhamma Talk in 50 minutes from now, entitled &quot;The Difficulty of Moderating Screentime&quot; ☸️ It will be visible here, **ad-free**, live-streamed: https://bhikkhu.ca/video_dhamma_talks/ Sincere questions are also invited (DM me); for a future #livestream. The recorded #video will be posted later (non-live) at: https://bhikkhu.ca/ #Buddhist #Buddhism #Dhamma #Dharma #Theravada
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A Gould&#39;s Goanna (aka monitor lizard) visited today; about 4&#39;/1.3m long. #Malaysia #video #wildlife
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Great article: &quot;The Tyranny of the Marginal User - why consumer #software gets worse, not better, over time&quot; https://nothinghuman.substack.com/p/the-tyranny-of-the-marginal-user &quot;your business relies on network effects and even low value users can help you build a moat. So the north star metric for designers and engineers is typically something like Daily Active Users, or DAUs for short: the number of users who log into your app in a 24 hour period. ...in practice, t...
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#Dhamma Talk #audio recording &quot;Cornucopia&quot;: https://bhikkhu.ca/buddhism/audio/2023/09/14/Dhamma_Talk_audio_025.html #Buddhist #dharma #Theravada #religion #spirituality #Buddhism Topics: relatives who pass away, merit, #happiness, puñña, rebirth, favorable birth, heavenly rebirth, good kamma, vipaka, resultants, practice as a form of #investment, reframing our #worldview, battling depression, critique, dukkha, ignorance, #humanity, #ProblemSolving, #HumanNature, #cooperating...
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My Cellular provider (Maxis of #Malaysia) blocks access to this Mastodon server (mstdn.ca) sometimes - like right now - but then a VPN connection allows access again. This is standard &quot;Owl magic&quot;, indispensable in the wilder regions. 😅
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A baby house gecko, about 4cm long. Very tame. #Malaysia #photography #wildlife #wildlifephotography
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There is a lot of negativity around various platforms changing the terms of usage for their services - a privilege the platform owners trivially own. These platforms are like the Gingerbread House that Hansel &amp; Gretel just can&#39;t resist going inside of. Hansel &amp; Gretel might complain loudly on their way onto the oven/stewpot, but far more wise would be to avoid going into the Gingerbread House in the first place - if it can be avoided. Do parents read these storybooks to t...
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@JessTheUnstill It is unfortunately the case that security and convenience are often "allergic" to each other. The *more* you make a technology secure, the *less* convenient it (usually) gets to use it. Once in a while a nerd-Titan like Moxie Marlinspike comes along and defies this pattern by coding for WhatsApp or Signal. But the general pattern remains: convenience and security are usually allergic to each other. Please don't impute intention - that there was *necessarily* malice...