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by asveikau 6mo ago
In Spanish, it's "ajolote". In the Spanish of the 1490s and early 1500s, there was a "SH" sound, spelled with X, the same way there is today in other Iberian languages like Portuguese, Galician, Catalan, or Basque.
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by asveikau 6mo ago
The win9x kernel famously doesn't do very much, which seems like it can give you ample room to port some of Linux's low level functionality to it.
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by asveikau 6mo ago
Can you name a good open source one? I have spent many hours in the current decade correcting OCR errors. Mostly tesseract.
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by asveikau 6mo ago
Might depend on what you like to read. I haven't hit this a lot. There was one title my daughter wanted which was Kindle exclusive in the US but I was able to get as an Adobe epub from a European seller.
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by asveikau 6mo ago
I stopped doing Kindle purchases in the last few years because I sensed they were going in this direction. There are tons of vendors that will give you an epub of most titles. They often come with Adobe DRM but the UX of breaking that is ev
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by asveikau 6mo ago
What OCR do you guys use? I have only seen OCR that makes a lot of errors. Having it be usable requires tons of manual review. I probably wouldn't trust an LLM to do that review because it may introduce its own errors. Edit: downvoters
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by asveikau 6mo ago
I've always felt that having your keys tied to specific hardware will just lock you out when the hardware breaks. Maybe I'm overstating the risk. It's a good idea to have multiple methods and test the backups.
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by asveikau 6mo ago
I used to visit French speaking Canada when I was in college. I found it interesting to see people who could switch between an Anglo-Canadian accent and a French-Canadian accent, to my ear sounding native at both. This wasn't everyone
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by asveikau 6mo ago
I am the type of person to notice accents a lot, one interesting thing I've noticed is how much NYC AAVE has the vowels of other NYC accents, like the stereotypical "cawfee" vowels. A lot of AAVE across the country sounds kin
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by asveikau 6mo ago
It's kind of funny that people are talking about "home labs" as a new thing because I've been running some form of servers on consumer PC hardware in my home since around 1998. For me this was an inseparable part of gett
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by asveikau 7mo ago
Do you remember ndiswrapper? FreeBSD actually has a similar thing, you can run Linux wifi drivers inside a VM and pass through the adapter. There's a port called wifibox that does this. You can even forward the Unix domain socket for w
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by asveikau 7mo ago
> Mostly I'm just tired of people claiming BSD is this amazing new thing I don't think I've heard anybody claim BSD is new. > Netflix, and other FAANGs, except those corps don't contribute enough back because of th
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by asveikau 7mo ago
Apple is also somewhat responsible for the attitude shift with the introduction of iOS. 20-25 years ago a locked down bootloader and only permitting signed code would have been seen by techies as dystopian. It's now quite normalized. T
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by asveikau 7mo ago
I didn't see direct evidence that he was a predator, but he and Epstein appear chummy and he sought career and legal advice from him. His girlfriend goes way back with him.
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by asveikau 7mo ago
To be fair, closed source office suites also have drama. Did you know the VP who was responsible for the Office ribbon is in the Epstein files?
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by asveikau 7mo ago
I'm not following this, but having drama in an office suite dev team sounds funny to me. I just want to open an occasional word doc and sometimes make a spreadsheet.
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by asveikau 7mo ago
I got the failure message in San Francisco. Not sure if it makes a difference, but I had a T-Mobile SIM card I bought in Seattle in 2010 and was carrying from phone to phone for years, but I recently replaced the SIM because I heard newer t
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by asveikau 7mo ago
I thought Rogers was Canadian.
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by asveikau 7mo ago
I got a fail on T-Mobile USA. It seems in the full list that T-Mobile is listed as both passing and failing.
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by asveikau 7mo ago
> The real problem is how to trust that a "privacy-focused" app is actually privacy-focused I think the real problem is actually that legislative bodies will make privacy focused apps illegal. California AB 1043 is an example o
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by asveikau 7mo ago
> EV no longer skips smartscreen either nowadays. Not sure of the exact number, but the "nowadays" here is more than a decade.
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by asveikau 7mo ago
Last I checked they can still quarantine your binary if it's properly signed and they decided it hasn't gained traction.
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by asveikau 7mo ago
The heuristics powering this, as well as the Windows Defender whitelisting, are terrible. My understanding is that a specific binary needs to become popular for it to stop being flagged. This creates a chicken and egg problem. Users are not
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by asveikau 7mo ago
One possibility is to run its terminal emulation somewhere else. But of course terminal emulators are a dime a dozen on Linux.
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by asveikau 7mo ago
Even better. The Catalan word for Catalan is català. So catala-lang.org fits that too.
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by asveikau 7mo ago
The monetization of social media has always been about steering otherwise non paying users into making purchases elsewhere. So if the AI slop can make people spend money on other products that's accomplished the goal.
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by asveikau 7mo ago
> These days you'd implement cancellation by having one thread handle inbound messages and another thread do the actual work with shared memory to implement a cooperative cancellation mechanic. Doesn't necessarily need a thread
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by asveikau 7mo ago
> Were they so much smarter than the programers of today? Unironically the answer is yes. I've been watching this for at least 15 years. I think one inflection point is when everybody who was coming up became accustomed to GC langua
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by asveikau 7mo ago
> Am I a sucker? Maybe by your definition, but I don’t feel like one currently. Part of being a sucker is not thinking you're a sucker. > more about _how good you are at putting on a show_ of giving a shit. > If I need to put
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by asveikau 7mo ago
> worker who cares about the business being successful In most cases, this is a sucker mentality that makes you vulnerable to abusive employers. You will stress yourself out making your boss richer. They won't care or make reciproca

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