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by pronoiac 3y ago
Does RFID allow for encryption? I'd thought they were too constrained re: power and cpu.
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by pronoiac 3y ago
I emailed the mods. I don't think they get notified for @'s.
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by pronoiac 3y ago
Using OCRmyPDF, I applied lossless JBIG2 compression to a scanned book, after some consideration. * the OCRmyPDF docs point to the JBIG2 Wikipedia page, and the Disadvantages section - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JBIG
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by pronoiac 3y ago
Looks like the line numbers were lost: https://github.com/mackyle/sqlite/blob/18cf47156abe94255ae14... It's because McAfee started using SQLite, angry users would stumble upon the files, do a minimum of
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by pronoiac 3y ago
Wayback Machine: https://web.archive.org/web/20230606170826/https://lemmy.ml/...
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by pronoiac 3y ago
The title here doesn't reflect the site's; I don't see anything about Spotify, iTunes, or YouTube there.
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by pronoiac 3y ago
I was trying to keep it short! I like grace periods and redemption periods, but they vary so widely by TLD and registrar, that I wanted to avoid that rabbit hole of conversation. I've been working on going from calendar reminders to,
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by pronoiac 3y ago
I think you hit reply to the wrong comment.
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by pronoiac 3y ago
I've been looking at the domain lifecycle lately, and it can take a couple of months after the expiration date for it to actually become available for registration. I'd check with whois on the command line.
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by pronoiac 3y ago
It's Ghost, so Markdown's available, and you could use a triple-backtick block, ``` before and after.
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by pronoiac 3y ago
Oh yeah! I had a laptop that booted Windows and Linux; the Linux side was non-journaling ext2 at the time. I forget how it got extensively scrambled, but I'd run AIDE on it, so I had many file checksums. By running AIDE again on /
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by pronoiac 4y ago
The previous chapter made me think of malicious compliance, and a monkey's paw slowly curling.
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by pronoiac 4y ago
It's a Twitter-to-Mastodon mirror. From their source page, https://sr.ht/~cloutier/bird.makeup/ - > Bird.makeup is a way to follow twitter user from any ActivityPub service. The aim is to make tweets appea
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by pronoiac 4y ago
The Manual has been floating around online for ages! I got annoyed with the typos and OCR issues, so I cleaned it up a bit: https://github.com/pronoiac/the-manual
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by pronoiac 4y ago
Here's the Joystik issue (and page) on the Internet Archive: https://archive.org/details/joystik_magazine-1983-10/page/n4...
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by pronoiac 4y ago
Their priority right now is the iOS client, still in beta. They'd expected to make it available in the App Store this month, though that was before Twitter blocked Tweetbot.
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by pronoiac 4y ago
There's ocrit, a CLI utility using Apple's Vision framework for OCR: https://github.com/insidegui/ocrit
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by pronoiac 4y ago
I'm fond of ddrescue, and I'll note pv could have replaced cat in one example.
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by pronoiac 4y ago
My mom's used one for years now, and seems content with it.
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by pronoiac 4y ago
For seniors, you might check out the Jitterbug smartphones. It's Android with a custom launcher, and from memory, piggybacking on the Verizon network.
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by pronoiac 4y ago
I'd avoid that trailing space. git will complain, a trailing doublespace can cause a linebreak, it's super inconspicuous, and that can trip people up.
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by pronoiac 4y ago
One benefit of a NAS: my data's robust against any single drive dying, which is something that's happened to me, friends, and family.
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by pronoiac 4y ago
I'm picking up Carrot Weather now. Its "Editors' Choice" description says it draws data from Dark Sky, though? Edit: disregard the source comment. It draws from multiple sources, like Foreca.
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by pronoiac 4y ago
Elizabeth Taylor outlived the major writer of her New York Times obituary: https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2011/03/23/134797518...
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by pronoiac 4y ago
Huh! It shows ebooks as one looong page.
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by pronoiac 4y ago
Michael Selvidge has a fun Twitter thread with Sneakers info: https://twitter.com/selviano/status/1568298272900673538 / https://nitter.net/selviano/status/1568298272900673538
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by pronoiac 4y ago
I think that would avoid the potential loophole I was worried about! I'd be careful with the periodicity of the RNG though. I was on a machine with limited user space. I used OpenSSL, no new binaries, reading and writing at close-to-wi
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by pronoiac 4y ago
Ooh, I just did something with this, and I should finish the draft blog post for it: * write encrypted zeroes * decrypt it and count the zeroes I think cbc mode is enough. I see a possible computational loophole, which I want to check bef
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by pronoiac 4y ago
I think that Intellectual Ventures started out as a defense against patent trolls, but after gathering enough of a patent portfolio, they started playing offense in a way that looks like patent trolling.
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by pronoiac 4y ago
I like ScanTailor! I've used ocrmypdf for the OCR and compression steps. It uses lossless JBIG2 by default, at 2 or 3k per page; I'm curious how that compares to DJVU. (And my mistake, pdf and DJVU are competing container formats.

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