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by jdormit 10y ago
This is a side project of mine arising from my frustration that existing eBook readers for Linux are ugly as sin. It's not yet fully-featured, but it has enough functionality that I have switched to it as my default reader. Feedback an
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Show HN: Livre, a free, open-source eBook reader(github.com)
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Not at first. But if the tide turns enough, Apple with have to jump on board to avoid losing market share.
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Google still is! Progressive web apps now have the ability to be installed "natively" on Android devices [0], meaning they show up in the app drawer like any other app rather than being limited to a home screen icon. I think these
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by jdormit 10y ago
Totally agree with this. The concerning part for me is that ML is about making a "best guess" given some data. This means that your tests may pass one time and fail another - inconsistent tests aren't tests at all.
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Ah understood. In that case, I'll echo the comments below - I would choose SQLite to preserve data relationships with automated dumps to plain text (maybe JSON? Something parseable, anyway), since I can't imagine utf8-encoded text
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> Facial recognition software can only recognize you if your face is already in the database and identified as you. Right, which is exactly what would happen if law enforcement/governments could access FB's database.
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Your real problem isn't the data format, it's the host machine - you need to be sure that the computer where your files live is still around/working in 30 years. Either make frequent backups to multiple machines, or choose a
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by jdormit 10y ago
That's true. An alternative could simply be hosting on multiple platforms - at least that way you'll have a backup plan if a service deletes your content.
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by jdormit 10y ago
Gotcha. I'll have to look up some docs on that, sounds useful.
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These days, I'd be willing to bet that "ordinary street surveillance" uses facial recognition algorithms. It wouldn't be as effective as FB's, because FB has an enormous stream of training data coming in all the tim
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How do you persist sessions between reboots?
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by jdormit 10y ago
I was responding to the evidence cited in the article - to be honest, I didn't investigate it too carefully. My statement is probably premature.
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This is the problem with using any privately-owned server as your primary vehicle for hosting your content. By all means, post your videos to YouTube - but please, host secondary copies yourself, especially now that government censorship se
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Conkeror – Emacs-like web browser based on Firefox(conkeror.org)
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Agreed. "Satan's Daughter" had different priorities than the author, but nothing in the reprinted conversations suggested she had any malicious intent. In fact, I can understand why she accused the author of being paranoid.
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'xclip -selection clipboard' works fine for this use case. [Edit] Assuming you have SSH configured to forward to your local X server [0]. [0] http://unix.stackexchange.com/a/16697
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by jdormit 10y ago
Yeah, I tend to research docs and libraries on-the-go, so working mobile documentation really helps me out.
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The website is broken on mobile - elements overlap and content is not visible.
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by jdormit 10y ago
Why is Wire less secure than Signal?
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Have you built a SaaS? I mean this genuinely, not as a jab - it seems like many commenters here who have built a SaaS agree that it was life changing and/or gave them a sense of meaning, so I'm interested in hearing other viewpoin
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by jdormit 10y ago
> Thoroughly non-technical old men run our government. I took it as implying that old people tend to be less technically savvy (although as the hackers of last generation age this is increasingly untrue).
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by jdormit 10y ago
Agreed! One of my biggest gripes with 1-dev games is that the art is usually lacking. Low-poly, stylized models like these manage to feel artistic rather than cheap, while remaining attainable for side-project-sized games.
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I think I missed the thread of this discussion. What would the press releases say? Under what circumstances would someone not be able to press the button?
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by jdormit 10y ago
Yes. That's what courts are for.
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If the only reason you hate Chrome is being locked into the UI, you should switch to Vivaldi. Sure, it's a Chrome clone, but the UI is super configurable (and as far as I'm aware, it doesn't do any opt-out user tracking).
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Is the last paragraph a joke? If so, could someone explain it?
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Seems like a textbook case.
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I'm just starting out in my software career - hopefully I will be able to avoid these types of situations!
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Ah, I can see how that is useful. Way up in the web dev world I don't often have to think of things like that :)

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