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At long last, another #TipOfDay this for heavy duty floor cleaner. I mix it up in a gallon container and pour into a spray bottle as needed. Non toxic, not smelly. Great for small areas and using rags.
Ceramic Tile Floor Cleaner

• 1 gallon of warm water
• 1/2 cup white vinegar
• 1/2 cup Borax
• Spray bottle

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Wearing protective gloves, I wet each bundle and manually rubbed the abrasive powder into the strands. Once done, I set the bundle into a cup with water to sit overnight.

I did the same basic process on all the bundles so that they would be in the same condition at the end, but for the heavily-yellowed ones, used a large glass jar with extra water and #abrasive #cleaner that I would vigorously whisk with the bundle prior to leaving everything for another 24 hours to soak.

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@ai6yr nodds in agreement

I work as a #sysadmin and whilst this may not sound exciting, it's kinda necessary, as one's the #janitor, #cleaner, garbage collector, #maid and #librarian together.

So yeah, #documentation, #backup & #restore ain't exciting but they need to fucking work, so in the worst case one can just follow the checklist of instructions.

  • It's like firefighting: You learn, train and stay prepared so that there ain't casualties at all...

fromoldbooks.org/DasBuchFurAll

The washer-woman or maid has already put the violin through the tub or hot water and soap and is now orking on the viola. The owner rushes into the room in a panic!

An engraving from 1890.

The original painting was auctioned in 2021, as “Spring Cleaning, or, A Diligent Housekeeper.”

Amusing but strong classist undertones.

After a brutal 2023, the vibes around #self-#driving #cars are improving.

#Cruise, the industry leader whose vehicle was involved in a #horrific San Francisco #crash last fall, has #rebooted under new management,

while rival #Waymo is #expanding to serve broader swaths of the Bay Area and Los Angeles
and #Tesla is promising a new #robotaxi service.

Although Americans say they remain #wary of autonomous driving,
boosters insist there is nothing to fear.
In fact, they foresee roads full of self-driving cars that are both #safer and #cleaner than the status quo,
a tantalizing prospect in a country where transportation is the largest source of greenhouse gas emissions and residents are several times more likely to die in a crash than those living in other rich nations.

Enticing though they are, such arguments conceal a #logical #flaw.
As a classic 19th-century theory known as a #Jevons #paradox explains,
even if autonomous vehicles eventually work perfectly
— an enormous “if”
— they are🆘 likely to increase total #emissions and crash #deaths,
simply because ⭐️people will use them so much. 

theverge.com/2024/9/2/24232386

The Verge · What a 160-year-old theory about coal predicts about our self-driving futureBy David Zipper

After a hiatus I finally found some time to continue to work on my #URL #cleaner app #Leon for #Android.

The recent releases (v40, v41) contain these noteworthy changes:

* Cleaned URLs can optionally be opened in a browser custom tab

* Custom text selection action to clean URL directly via the system's text context menu.

Both features suggested by the community 🙌🏼

github.com/svenjacobs/leon

GitHubGitHub - svenjacobs/leon: Android app for removing tracking parameters from shared URLsAndroid app for removing tracking parameters from shared URLs - svenjacobs/leon

Africa's fight against #urban #air #pollution
"With #urbanization and #economic #development, there is more pollution of air in urban areas, which exposes people to diseases that are linked to this polluted air," Felix Assah, a member of the population #health #research group at the #University of #Yaounde, told #DW. Such diseases include #cardiovascular and #respiratory ailments, along with #cancer.

Experts and organizations working for #cleaner air in Africa recently met in Yaounde to discuss how they can cooperate to monitor air quality using #sensor #technology

English dw.com/en/africas-fight-agains

French www-dw-com.translate.goog/en/a

Deutsche Welle · Africa's fight against urban air pollutionBy Martina Schwikowski