Vol.23 Elegy and common cause

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2023.08.29 Issue 23

The head image of this issue was generated by MidJourney, and the prompt is In a dreamlike meadow, fireflies dance amidst a vibrant tapestry of neon-hued flowers, creating a mesmerizing symphony of twinkling lights against an inky, star-studded sky
The following is the text of this issue, and the reading time is about N minutes.

1. Transportation Union Card

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I found out during the group chat that many people don’t know what a ” traffic union card ” is. To put it simply, the Transportation Union Card is a public transportation one-card interconnection system led by the Ministry of Transport. If your transportation has the sign of “Transportation Union”, then you can take this transportation card in 327 cities above the prefecture level (see the figure below) to take public transportation such as buses, subways, and ferries without Need to open the local traffic card again.
Now, although buses, subways, and ferries in many cities already support scanning codes for rides, some cities can only use Alipay, and some cities can only use WeChat; and the transportation card added to the mobile wallet uses NFC. There is almost no problem of non-support (except for Wuhan Metro). Therefore, apart from using the previous physical card to take the subway when I went to Wuhan, I have always used the transportation card in my mobile wallet to take the bus and subway when I went to other cities, and I almost never used the QR code. Sometimes in the morning and evening, when I see people looking for QR codes in front of the subway gates, I feel refreshed in my heart, “Look, I just touch it there with my phone.” ??? .
However, because the transportation cards issued in various places have local discounts, for example, the Beijing subway offers 20% off after spending 100 yuan in a natural month, and 50% off after spending 150 yuan in a natural month. Therefore, when opening a transportation union card on a mobile phone, it is better to choose a locally issued transportation union card as much as possible, otherwise you will not be able to enjoy local discounts.
No matter your device is iOS or Android, as long as it supports NFC function, you can find the option of transportation card in the mobile phone wallet that comes with the system . The difference is that the domestic brand Android mobile phone can choose the transportation card issued by almost all cities and transportation card), there are not many cities to choose from on iOS.
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When opening a card in the mobile wallet that comes with the system, be sure to pay attention to whether there is a “traffic union” logo on the card.
This form was last updated on October 17, 2022, from the official service account of China Transport Union (WeChat). This form was last updated on October 17, 2022, from the official service account (WeChat) of China Transportation Union.

2. Elegy and common cause

In the early morning of the 27th, after watching a few news and videos, I suddenly had a flash of thought:
The era is the greatest elegy, and the era is also the common cause of all people.
Since my country’s relevant departments released various economic data for July this year, the western media has started a new round of bad news. If you pay attention to your daily life, you may also find that the current economic situation is not optimistic. This will inevitably make people feel stressed, and even fall into a state of political depression .
Being in the crack of the turmoil of the times, it is easy to have the symptoms of “political depression”. Simply put, it is the sense of powerlessness that arises when confronting grand public events, and it seems that any personal efforts are meaningless.
According to the article “Political Depression” by Dr. Robert Lusson, political depression is more difficult to define. Depression induced by public events may precede the onset of pre-existing depressive symptoms, or may trigger or exacerbate pre-existing depressive states.
“In addition, on the basis of the original depressive symptoms, political depression may have an additional manifestation dimension, that is, individuals will feel that they have lost control over their own destiny . This cognition will make people think that hard work, education, It’s unimportant to keep your imagination and hold on to your beliefs, and think that one’s possibilities are limited.
“Young people may feel anxious, even angry, feel cheated or betrayed, and be reluctant to start re-examining their belief systems because the task is too overwhelming for them. And when we find ourselves and the original When values ​​are out of step, political depression can in turn lead to deeper crises about the meaning of life.”
We are currently living in an era of “great changes unseen in a century”. Naturally, what we need to experience, pay, endure, and gain will be different from those of our ancestors and future generations in other eras.
Maybe history is a cycle , but since our party has led the country and the people out of the cycle of history , we ordinary people should still have full confidence in it. The more strenuous it is, the more critical and important confidence becomes.
However, on the other hand, we should still make some preparations for the obstacles that may be encountered in the process of moving forward. For example, store some basic living materials at home, such as food, drinking water, etc.; exchange some property for the world’s hard currency such as gold; reduce unnecessary expenditures and ensure a stable cash flow… Individuals are like a grain of dust in the era. In the universe; no matter who they are, they all appear as small as ants in front of the wheel of history, it is nothing more than that some are bigger and some are smaller.
As for those news reports that sing bad news, or those news reports that sing praises, are they so important compared with our own real life? Make your own small preparations and keep up with the big steps of the times. Maybe we ordinary people can only do so much as we can.

3. Heptabase mobile app v2

On August 23, Heptabase finally launched mobile app v2 on TestFlight for iOS users. If you haven’t downloaded it yet, you can download it from this link .
In the latest mobile beta version, you can directly read past records and add new records in the Journal, view the card library, and enter the whiteboard through search. It can be said that the latest mobile app of Heptabase will greatly improve the user experience on the mobile terminal. Personally, the urge to document is now stronger than ever, to the point where I spend a whole day rearranging my card library, whiteboard library, and tag library.
In the past, it was inconvenient if you wanted to write notes on your mobile phone anytime, anywhere. For this I have tried many apps, such as Apple Notes, Notion, Tana, Obsidian, WorkFlowy, Bear, etc., none of them satisfied me. Because I still have to organize the above records into the Heptabase on the computer in the end, if I can’t do it every week, it basically means that I won’t organize it, and it also means losing some context and losing some. The inspiration that is easy to capture suddenly appears.
Now, I can finally use Heptabase’s Journal as a draft book, and I can record it when I open it, and the input experience is basically the same as that on the computer. On the computer, I just have to think about what can be organized into cards. Even if I don’t organize it, the records are still there, and I can search through keywords, AI, etc.

4. Night boat

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  • Tiago Forte pointed out in What’s Wrong with “Productivity” that the productivity industry urgently needs to be broken, and he listed seven reasons to illustrate the problems in this industry. In his view, productivity articles are clickbait, with tips and tricks that are simplified and linear. Furthermore, productivity is not systematically applied or quantified, its nature is top-down and authoritarian. The productivity industry was also seen as overpriced and unscalable, and it neglected technology implementation. Finally, Fote argues that productivity is inhuman and needs to be redefined in a more holistic way.
  • After reading The limits of our personal experience and the value of statistics , my feeling is:
    • The world is too big to rely on personal experience alone to understand it. We only know a small part of the world through direct experience, and the people we know are often not representative of the whole world.
    • The news media offer a mottled and fragmented view, leaving much of the world in darkness. To see what’s going on with everyone, we need to rely on global statistics that can illuminate the world in ways that individual experience and the news media can’t. However, no data is perfect, and a statistical understanding of the world needs to become more central to our culture.
  • No Gods, No Masters discusses the potential harms of technology and the internet, including shallow experiences and distractions, which can prevent people from thinking deeply about social issues. The authors suggest that a decentralized, open platform like Mastodon, which allows for dialogue and collaboration independent of corporate interests, may be the solution to these problems.
  • Jang said : I always want to send some “useful” information, and it’s boring all the time. I hope that I am a real person alive, even in the digital world.

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  • It’s been a long time since I saw the video of An Xu, a small carpenter in the mountain village who is the up master of station B. I searched it and found that he had already updated it. After An Xu returned to his hometown, he began to build his ideal wooden house, which is basically completed now. His video rhythm is well grasped, knowledge can be learned, and it is also very healing.

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5. Live elsewhere

  • I followed suit and created a new Telegram Chanel (Telegram channel). If you also use Telegram, you are welcome to pay attention. In this channel, I have configured n8n workflow to automatically push the latest update of my blog and the latest favorite song of Spotify. I also manually share some articles, notes, and content that didn’t make it to the blog or newsletter. The channel is also associated with a chat group, which can be viewed in the channel’s sticky announcement.
  • Although I vowed in “Blog Migration and Reorganization” that I might not toss the blog framework anymore, but because I am considering not using Notion next year, and the current blog framework Nobelium is also neglected to update, so it may happen again Toss once. At present, I am entangled among the five Zola, Hugo, Ghost, Typecho and Gridea. Let’s see when I will make up my mind. If you have good suggestions, please let me know, thank you.
  • On the afternoon of August 28, I wanted to find a file in a folder of Tencent Cloud COS Object Storage (Silicon Valley), but I couldn’t find it.
    • That folder is the backend of the File Gallery website I made before. Due to being maliciously swiped, I shut down that website urgently, but I thought it might be opened again after a while, so I never deleted that folder.
    • Therefore, I can only suspect that Tencent Cloud found a slightly sensitive ePub file in that folder, and deleted my entire folder.
    • Now, I can only export all the data in the Tencent Cloud COS object storage bit by bit and transfer it to Cloudflare R2. Data export and import are simple. The key is that the pictures of blog posts, notes, etc. are basically used as object storage as the picture bed, and now the addresses of these pictures have to be replaced one by one.
    • If you are also using object storage services provided by domestic cloud service providers, remember not to store any sensitive content.
    • It is best not to use domestic cloud service providers. There are many excellent overseas service providers for servers, object storage, domain name registration and hosting, and DNS resolution. The product services, prices, quality, security and reliability provided are much better than domestic ones.

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