Jones Koshy

[Jones Koshy @sselboj]

Ultimately, I recommend #JesusChrist

[🪶 Paola Bassarelli @bassarelli]

Lui è fantastico! 😂

[ᴀʀᴛ ᴏꜰ ᴘʜʏꜱɪQᴜᴇ @Artofphysique_]

Eating more colour is an easy way to make your diet less repetitive.

Greens, purples, yellows and other whole foods bring different vitamins, minerals, fibre and plant compounds.

You don’t need to chase every colour daily, just aim for variety across the week.

[James @jamescoder12]

A guy lives in an apartment building with 40 units. Every unit has a router. Every router shipped from the ISP on the same default Wi-Fi channel.

40 routers. One channel. All screaming over each other like 40 people trying to talk in the same room at the same volume.

He called Comcast 3 times complaining about slow internet. They upsold him from a 200 Mbps plan to a 500 Mbps plan $30/month more. His speeds didn't change. Because the problem was never the plan. It was the channel.

His neighbor, a network engineer who's spent 14 years designing and securing corporate networks for hospitals and data centers, heard him complaining through the wall one night during a dropped Zoom call.

"Can I look at your router for 2 minutes?"

He looked at the settings. He looked at the placement. He ran one speed test.

"You're paying for 500 Mbps and getting 74. Your ISP sold you a faster highway. The problem is your on-ramp. Your router is inside a cabinet, on a congested channel, running 3-year-old firmware, using the slowest DNS in the country, broadcasting on the wrong band, and secured with a password printed on a sticker anyone in this hallway could read. You don't need a faster plan. You need 15 minutes in your router settings."

He changed 9 things. The speed test went from 74 Mbps to 440 Mbps. Same plan. Same apartment. Same ISP.

He called Comcast the next day and downgraded back to the 200 Mbps plan. His Wi-Fi was still faster than it was on 500.

"Your ISP would rather sell you a faster plan than fix your settings. One makes them $30/month. The other costs them a 5-minute phone call they'll never make."

Here are the 9 things he changed 🧵

[Rufis | Carácter & Verdad. @Contexto_Visual]

El PADRE NUESTRO es probablemente la oración más conocida del cristianismo.

Pero hay algo que casi nadie nos enseñó:

Podemos repetirla durante años sin entender realmente lo que estamos diciendo.

Cada frase contiene una petición.
Una enseñanza.
Y una forma distinta de mirar la vida.

Cuando entiendes el Padre Nuestro, dejas de recitarlo de memoria.

Empiezas a vivirlo.

Te lo explico frase por frase:

Hilo. ↓↓↓

[Engineering Knowledge @DP0STS]

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[Doc  @DocAtCDI]

📅 August 27, 1883 — The Eruption of Krakatoa

#TodayInHistory #Limerick #History

[Archbishop of Canterbury @ArchbishopSarah]

I am praying for all those affected by the devastating flash floods in Nepal and Tibet.

I pray for those who are grieving, and for those who are still waiting for news of their missing loved ones. I pray for the emergency workers in the region, operating in immensely difficult conditions to rescue people and bring relief. I pray too for those who are injured, and for the doctors and nurses working tirelessly to bring healing and rebuild lives.

Into the hands of our loving God, and in the name of Jesus Christ, I place all those who watch, wait and weep. Lord in your mercy, hear our prayer.

[Grow Smarter @GrowSmarter_x]

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[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

"(Ghost) Riders in the Sky: A Cowboy Legend" is a cowboy-styled country/western song written in 1948 by American songwriter Stan Jones.

Lawrence Welk and His Orchestra released this unforgettable instrumental version in 1961.

[Aviator Anil Chopra @Chopsyturvey]

Many good people in India

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

Did you know?

The original Nokia ringtone, known as the Nokia tune, is derived from a piece of solo guitar music called Gran Vals, composed by Francisco Tárrega in 1902.

[Lee Kuan Yimby @LeeKuanYimby]

I was just in Mumbai, and I have to give them credit for the progress they’re making on infrastructure. The new Aqua Line metro is phenomenal. But the amount of work India still has to do on basic cleanliness and sanitation and it is hard to understand until you see it yourself. Would love for more westerners to go just to understand how wealthy they are, but that's a different point.

Mumbai is completely surrounded by water, yet there are almost no places where people can actually enjoy the water. The beaches are filled with trash, the water is badly contaminated, and almost nobody swims, even when it’s brutally hot outside. Walking on the beach is just mud and trash meeting filthy water on the horizon.

There are much poorer places around the world where people can still use the beaches. This is not just about money. India has gone decades without adequate trash collection, sewage treatment, or enforcement for a population of more than a billion people. At this point, the scale of the problem feels almost impossible, and the oceans around the world are paying the price for Indias garbage output as well.

I like the direction Modi is taking the country, but India needs to treat cleanup like a national emergency. Stop with the small campaigns and organize a full scale blitz.

Offer unemployed people paid work picking up trash, clearing drains and waterways, cleaning beaches, and maintaining public spaces. Give them proper equipment and supervision. Then build the collection and waste processing systems needed to stop everything from becoming filthy again a week later.

India has shown that it can build metros, airports, highways, and digital infrastructure. Clean streets and usable water should be treated as infrastructure too.

Mumbai should have one of the greatest waterfronts in the world. Instead, it's has basically an irrelevant feature of the city and feels surrendered to sewage and garbage.

[Sufyan Maan, M.Eng @sufyanmaan]

PAID VERSION → FREE ALTERNATIVE

1. ChatGPT Plus → Google Gemini
2. Netflix Premium → Tubi
3. Spotify Premium → SoundCloud
4. YouTube Premium → NewPipe
5. Canva Pro → Adobe Express
6. Microsoft 365 → LibreOffice
7. Adobe Photoshop → GIMP
8. Figma Pro → Penpot
9. Adobe Premiere Pro → DaVinci Resolve
10. Grammarly Premium → LanguageTool
11. Midjourney → Microsoft Designer
12. Notion AI → Obsidian
13. Claude Pro → Google Gemini
14. Adobe Illustrator → Inkscape
15. Zoom Pro → Google Meet
16. Slack Pro → Discord
17. Dropbox → Google Drive
18. Adobe Acrobat Pro → PDFgear
19. GitHub Copilot → Codeium
20. CapCut Pro → DaVinci Resolve
21. After Effects → Blender
22. Microsoft Visio → draw io
23. 1Password → Bitwarden
24. LastPass Premium → Bitwarden
25. Webflow → Framer
26. Trello Premium → ClickUp
27. Calendly Premium → Cal. com
28. Audible → LibriVox
29. Amazon Prime Video → Pluto TV
30. Disney+ → Tubi
31. Apple TV+ → Pluto TV
32. Xbox Game Pass → Epic Games Store
33. Final Cut Pro → DaVinci Resolve
34. Adobe Lightroom → Darktable
35. Loom → OBS Studio
36. Typeform → Google Forms
37. Mailchimp Premium → Brevo
38. Zapier → Make
39. Miro → FigJam
40. Google Workspace → Zoho Workplace
41. Perplexity Pro → You com
42. Cursor Pro → Continue
43. Evernote → Joplin
44. Todoist Pro → Microsoft To Do
45. NordVPN → Proton VPN
46. ExpressVPN → Windscribe
47. AutoCAD → FreeCAD
48. Salesforce → HubSpot
49. Shopify → WooCommerce
50. Jira Premium → Plane

AI + CREATOR TOOLS

51. Jasper AI → Writesonic
52. Synthesia → HeyGen
53. ElevenLabs → TTSMaker
54. Murf AI → TTSMaker
55. Runway → Kling AI
56. Pika → Luma Dream Machine
57. Leonardo AI → Playground AI
58. DALL·E → Craiyon
59. Ideogram → Microsoft Designer
60. Gamma → Google Slides
61. Beautiful ai → Google Slides
62. Tome → Google Slides
63. Otter ai Pro → Notta
64. Fireflies ai → Fathom
65. Krisp Pro → NVIDIA Broadcast
66. Descript → Audacity
67. Riverside → OBS Studio
68. VEED Pro → CapCut
69. InVideo Pro → CapCut
70. Camtasia → OBS Studio
71. ScreenFlow → OBS Studio
72. Snagit → ShareX
73. Screen Studio → OBS Studio
74. QuillBot Premium → LanguageTool
75. Hemingway Editor Plus → LanguageTool
76. Freepik Premium → unDraw
77. Envato Elements → Mixkit
78. Shutterstock → Unsplash
79. Adobe Stock → Pexels
80. Epidemic Sound → Pixabay Music
81. Artlist → Free Music Archive
82. Flaticon Premium → SVG Repo
83. Icons8 Pro → Lucide
84. Font Awesome Pro → Heroicons
85. Adobe Fonts → Google Fonts
86. Sketch → Penpot
87. Affinity Photo → GIMP
88. Affinity Designer → Inkscape
89. CorelDRAW → Inkscape
90. Adobe InDesign → Scribus
91. Affinity Publisher → Scribus
92. Adobe XD → Penpot
93. Cinema 4D → Blender
94. Autodesk Maya → Blender
95. Autodesk 3ds Max → Blender
96. ZBrush → Blender
97. Substance 3D Painter → ArmorPaint
98. Pro Tools → Audacity
99. FL Studio → LMMS
100. Ableton Live → LMMS
101. Logic Pro → GarageBand
102. Adobe Audition → Audacity
103. Motion → Blender
104. DaVinci Resolve Studio → Kdenlive
105. Final Cut Pro → Shotcut

MARKETING + BUSINESS

106. Semrush → Ubersuggest
107. Ahrefs → Google Search Console
108. Moz Pro → Google Search Console
109. Surfer SEO → Google Keyword Planner
110. Similarweb → Google Trends
111. BuzzSumo → Google Trends
112. Hotjar Pro → Microsoft Clarity
113. Hootsuite → Buffer
114. Sprout Social → Metricool
115. Later → Buffer
116. SocialBee → Buffer
117. ConvertKit → Substack
118. Beehiiv → Substack
119. HubSpot Marketing Hub → Mautic
120. Intercom → Tawk to
121. Zendesk → Zammad
122. Freshdesk → Zammad
123. DocuSign → SignWell
124. PandaDoc → Jotform
125. SurveyMonkey → Google Forms
126. Airtable → Baserow
127. Asana Premium → OpenProject
128. Monday com → Taiga
129. ClickUp → OpenProject
130. Microsoft Project → ProjectLibre
131. QuickBooks Online → Wave
132. FreshBooks → Wave
133. Xero → Wave
134. Dropbox Sign → SignWell
135. Nitro PDF Pro → PDF24
136. Smallpdf Pro → PDF24
137. CamScanner Premium → Microsoft Lens
138. TeamViewer → RustDesk
139. AnyDesk → RustDesk
140. Dashlane Premium → Bitwarden
141. NordPass Premium → Bitwarden
142. Squarespace → WordPress
143. Wix Premium → WordPress
144. BigCommerce → WooCommerce
145. Elementor Pro → Brizy
146. Divi → Brizy
147. WP Rocket → LiteSpeed Cache
148. Yoast SEO Premium → Rank Math
149. Rank Math Pro → The SEO Framework
150. WPForms Pro → Forminator
151. Gravity Forms → Forminator
152. MemberPress → Paid Memberships Pro
153. Google One → Proton Drive
154. Microsoft OneDrive → MEGA
155. Microsoft Teams → Jitsi Meet

DEVELOPER + TECH

156. Replit Core → StackBlitz
157. Postman Pro → Insomnia
158. Docker Desktop Pro → Podman
159. Datadog → Grafana
160. New Relic → Grafana
161. Sentry → GlitchTip
162. Firebase → Supabase
163. MongoDB Atlas → Supabase
164. Vercel Pro → Cloudflare Pages
165. Netlify Pro → Cloudflare Pages
166. Heroku → Render
167. AWS → Oracle Cloud Free Tier
168. Twilio → Telnyx
169. Algolia → Meilisearch
170. Pinecone → Qdrant
171. OpenAI API → Google AI Studio
172. Claude API → Gemini API
173. WebStorm → VS Code
174. PyCharm Professional → VS Code
175. DataGrip → DBeaver
176. IntelliJ IDEA Ultimate → Eclipse
177. Rider → Visual Studio Community
178. Visual Studio Professional → Eclipse
179. Sublime Text → Notepad++
180. UltraEdit → Notepad++
181. Charles Proxy → mitmproxy
182. Splunk → OpenSearch
183. Terraform Cloud → OpenTofu
184. GitHub Enterprise → Gitea
185. GitLab Premium → Gitea
186. Elasticsearch Cloud → OpenSearch
187. SendGrid → Brevo
188. Mailgun → Brevo
189. Make → n8n
190. PagerDuty → Grafana OnCall

DATA + ENGINEERING + PROFESSIONAL

191. MATLAB → GNU Octave
192. Mathematica → SageMath
193. SPSS → PSPP
194. Stata → Gretl
195. Tableau → Apache Superset
196. Power BI Pro → Looker Studio
197. Qlik Sense → Metabase
198. Alteryx → KNIME
199. Minitab → Jamovi
200. ArcGIS → QGIS
201. SolidWorks → FreeCAD
202. SketchUp Pro → Blender
203. Revit → FreeCAD
204. Fusion 360 → FreeCAD
205. Rhino 3D → Blender
206. MATLAB Simulink → Scilab Xcos
207. LabVIEW → GNU Radio
208. COMSOL → OpenFOAM
209. ANSYS → OpenFOAM
210. Wolfram Alpha Pro → GeoGebra
211. QuarkXPress → Scribus
212. Microsoft Project → ProjectLibre
213. Microsoft Visio → diagrams net
214. Tableau → Metabase
215. Power BI Pro → Apache Superset

MORE FREE ALTERNATIVES

216. Adobe Premiere Pro → Kdenlive
217. After Effects → Natron
218. Final Cut Pro → Kdenlive
219. Adobe Acrobat Pro → PDF24
220. Adobe Express Premium → VistaCreate
221. Canva Pro → VistaCreate
222. Figma Pro → Lunacy
223. Sketch → Lunacy
224. Photoshop → Photopea
225. Lightroom → RawTherapee
226. Illustrator → Vectr
227. InDesign → Scribus
228. Pro Tools → Cakewalk
229. Ableton Live → Cakewalk
230. ScreenFlow → OBS Studio
231. Loom Business → ScreenPal
232. Slack Pro → Mattermost
233. Zoom Pro → Jitsi Meet
234. Discord Nitro → Telegram
235. 1Password → KeePassXC
236. LastPass Premium → KeePassXC
237. Evernote → Standard Notes
238. Todoist Pro → Super Productivity
239. Notion → Anytype
240. Airtable → NocoDB
241. Jira → OpenProject
242. Monday com → OpenProject
243. Calendly → ZCal
244. Typeform → Tally
245. Mailchimp → MailerLite
246. Hootsuite → Publer
247. Sprout Social → Buffer
248. HubSpot → Bitrix24
249. Adobe Stock → Pixabay
250. Shutterstock → Pexels
251. Envato Elements → Pixabay
252. Freepik Premium → Pixabay
253. Epidemic Sound → Free Music Archive
254. Artlist → Pixabay Music
255. Dropbox → Proton Drive
256. Google Drive Storage → MEGA
257. NordVPN → Windscribe
258. ExpressVPN → Proton VPN
259. TeamViewer → RustDesk
260. AnyDesk → Chrome Remote Desktop
261. AutoCAD → LibreCAD
262. SolidWorks → SolveSpace
263. MATLAB → Scilab
264. SPSS → Jamovi
265. Tableau → Metabase
266. Power BI Pro → Metabase
267. ArcGIS → QGIS
268. WebStorm → VSCodium
269. PyCharm Professional → VSCodium
270. DataGrip → Beekeeper Studio
271. Postman Pro → Bruno
272. Docker Desktop Pro → Rancher Desktop
273. Datadog → Prometheus
274. New Relic → OpenTelemetry
275. Sentry → Highlight io
276. Firebase → Appwrite
277. MongoDB Atlas → Neon
278. Vercel Pro → GitHub Pages
279. Netlify Pro → GitHub Pages
280. Algolia → Typesense
281. Pinecone → Weaviate
282. Elasticsearch Cloud → OpenSearch
283. GitHub Copilot → Continue
284. Cursor Pro → VS Code + Continue
285. Zapier → n8n
286. Miro → Excalidraw
287. Trello Premium → Taiga
288. Asana Premium → Taiga
289. Adobe XD → Penpot
290. ProtoPie → Penpot
291. Zeplin → Storybook
292. Adobe Audition → Ocenaudio
293. Camtasia → ShareX + OBS Studio
294. Microsoft 365 → ONLYOFFICE
295. Google Workspace → ONLYOFFICE
296. Adobe Acrobat Pro → Stirling PDF
297. Microsoft Visio → yEd
298. Microsoft Project → GanttProject
299. QuickBooks → GnuCash
300. Xero → GnuCash

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Stop paying for subscriptions when free options exist.

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[Sann @san_x_m]

In 1954 a young professor in Madras walked to the leather institute down the road and asked them for a piece of kangaroo tail.

With it he worked out the structure of the most common protein in the human body.

Then Francis Crick, who had just cracked DNA, told the world he was wrong.

His name was Gopalasamudram Narayanan Ramachandran.

He was born on 8th October 1922 in Ernakulam. His father taught mathematics. He topped the physics honours course in the whole of the Madras Presidency, studied under C V Raman at the Indian Institute of Science, and took a second doctorate at Cambridge under Lawrence Bragg.

At 29 he was made a full professor and the founding head of the physics department at the University of Madras.

He decided to work on collagen. Collagen is the protein that holds you together. It is in your skin, your bones, your tendons and your muscles. It is the most abundant protein in the animal body. Nobody knew what shape it was.

The tools he had were not the tools of Cambridge or Caltech. He needed a sample rich in collagen, so he got kangaroo tail tendon from the Central Leather Research Institute nearby, and studied how X rays scattered off it.

In 1954, with Gopinath Kartha, he published a model in the journal Nature. 3 chains, twisted around each other. Europe and America started calling it the Madras Triple Helix.

In 1955 Francis Crick and Alexander Rich published a criticism. They said certain atoms in his model sat impossibly close together. Crick said the idea was basically correct but the actual structure was wrong.

He was competing against Cambridge, King's College London and Caltech, from a new department in Madras, and the most famous molecular biologist alive had just said he was mistaken.

He did not write a rebuttal.

He went back to first principles and asked a much bigger question. Forget collagen. What shapes can any protein chain physically take, and which are impossible because the atoms would collide.

In 1963, with C Ramakrishnan and V Sasisekharan, he published the answer. It is a simple graph, and it is now called the Ramachandran plot.

Every structural biologist alive uses it. When any new protein structure is published anywhere in the world, it is checked against that plot to see whether it is physically possible.

He turned an attack on one model into the rule that governs all of them. And his collagen model, in its essentials, is accepted today.

C V Raman nominated him for the Nobel Prize in Chemistry.

He never received it. He was never given the Bharat Ratna either.

He gave most of his prize money away. He funded a bed at the Adyar Cancer Institute in his parents' names and gave one award entirely to the Prime Minister's relief fund.

In his sixties he developed Parkinson's disease. He retired in 1989 and died on 7th April 2001.

A scientist writing in The Hindu called it the prize that missed the master.

The leather institute that gave him the kangaroo tail named its auditorium Triple Helix.

[Shashi Tharoor @ShashiTharoor]

These are disturbing reports. Kerala has long been host to a liberal, progressive practice of Islam, fully in tune with the coexistence and communal harmony prevalent across the state. Kerala is proud of its record of educating Muslim girls and women to the same levels as boys and men. The import of conservative and even reactionary attitudes and customs from abroad, as suggested by this report, is fundamentally at variance with what Kerala has long been about. This requires serious introspection and internal discussion within the Muslim community as well.

[Archaeo - Histories @archeohistories]

In June 323 BC, Alexander the Great fell ill in Babylon after a night of heavy drinking, suffering from a sudden onset of severe fever, joint pain, and progressive paralysis.

Over eleven days, his condition deteriorated until he lost the ability to speak and was ultimately pronounced dead at age 32. Ancient accounts record that despite hot summer conditions, his body showed no signs of decomposition for six days following his death.

Witnesses and followers interpreted this apparent lack of decay as proof of his divinity, solidifying the myth that Alexander was a living god whose mortal remains were immune to corruption.

Modern medical scholars propose that Alexander suffered from Guillain-Barré Syndrome (GBS), an autoimmune neurological disorder often triggered by a gastrointestinal infection like Campylobacter jejuni. GBS causes ascending paralysis, gradually stripping the body of muscle control while leaving cognitive function intact.

As the paralysis reached his diaphragm, his breathing would have become so shallow and faint that ancient physicians could not detect a heartbeat or pulse.

Because body temperature regulation would have also failed, his metabolic rate plummeted, significantly delaying visible decomposition. Consequently, Alexander was likely declared dead while still conscious, making it probable that he died of suffocation or was prepared for burial while technically still alive.

Beyond his death, the post-mortem fate of Alexander’s remains sparked an extraordinary series of geopolitical clashes and historical mysteries. After his passing, a two-year effort produced a magnificent, gold-laden rolling funerary temple meant to transport his body back to Macedonia; however, his general Ptolemy I hijacked the procession in Syria, stealing the corpse to legitimize his own rule over Egypt. Alexander’s body was initially entombed in Memphis before being moved to a grand mausoleum in Alexandria, known as the Soma, where it became an ancient tourist attraction visited by Roman figures like Julius Caesar and Augustus, the latter of whom accidentally broke off part of the mummy's nose while leaning in to kiss it. Over the centuries, the golden sarcophagus was melted down for currency during dynastic wars and replaced with glass or alabaster. By the late fourth century CE, amidst Christian riots and political upheaval in Alexandria, all historical mentions of the tomb abruptly ceased. Today, despite over 140 official archaeological expeditions, the exact location of Alexander's body remains completely unknown, giving rise to fringe historical theories that his remains were either hidden, destroyed, or misidentified in 828 CE as Saint Mark and smuggled to Venice.

#archaeohistories

[Jones Koshy @sselboj]

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[Rajeev Chandrasekhar 🇮🇳 @RajeevRC_X]

Little Karga Tinkle Gongo, it pains me to see that you had to experience this.

But your innocent and powerful appeal has made many Indians reflect on the ignorance and prejudice that have no place in our society.

India is a beautiful mosaic of many cultures, languages and faces, but we share one proud national identity - Indian.

I’m proud of you. Always remember, the nation stands with you. 🇮🇳

#EkBharatShreshthaBharat

[One hard Truth @one_hardTruth]

The 3 Rules of Adult Friendship🤝

[Dr. Kiran J Patel @kiranpatel1977]

As we grow older, we gain not only experience but a deeper understanding of life.