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by sillystuff 2y ago
Maybe a little less hassle than using some web thingy. Ebook-convert is a cli application that comes with Calibre, and is probably what the online sites are using anyway. ebook-convert infilename.epub outfilename.epub If I get an eb
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by sillystuff 2y ago
> Campaign donations are a powerful motivator but they lose to real public pressure every time. It is actually exactly the opposite [1]. The US is a country controlled by oligarchs. "Multivariate analysis indicates that economic el
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by sillystuff 2y ago
> Cloudflare has become much worse over the last 3 years due to increased adoption and default deployments by government services like congress.gov and institutions like science.org. > These websites have been effectively blocked for
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by sillystuff 2y ago
Thanks for pointing me to that bug report. And, thanks for working on it :). Your initial fix of not disabling the entire app's functionality if it can't get TTS working sounds like a good one.
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by sillystuff 2y ago
After only reading the headline, I expected Poettering to be quoted saying, "Functioning as designed. Go pound sand." The response was as expected, but apparently Poettering's attitude has become contagious within the system
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by sillystuff 2y ago
Rurrenabaque is hundreds of miles north of where that wikipedia article is showing the language being spoken (in Bolivia). Speaking with one of the tribal members, he said that there were no other Quechuan speakers within hundreds of kilom
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by sillystuff 2y ago
FYI, After model download, I get an error: There was an error with the tts initialization Using LineageOS+Microg and eSpeak for TTS (equivalent android version = 13). This setup works fine for TTS with the commercial map application
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by sillystuff 2y ago
Bolivia was a high point in my trekking around S. America. I felt perfectly safe, and had no negative experiences. Beautiful kind people. In La Paz, I asked directions from a random passerby to their electronics market (I wanted to repla
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by sillystuff 2y ago
Looks neat. Is there a way to pass through build flags to llama.cpp to build the Vulkan version (LLAMA_VULKAN=1)? Llama.cpp using vulkan is great on laptop iGPUs.
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by sillystuff 2y ago
> It seems to me the the NYTimes is trying to be somewhat objective "Somewhat" is doing some heavy lifting here. The NY Times internal pro-Israeli editorial guidelines were leaked. NY Times is a pro-Israel biased source: htt
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by sillystuff 2y ago
> This is a long-dead thread and we need not keep it alive. Agreed. You haven't outright admitted it, but your technique of repeatedly accusing those criticizing Israeli policies/atrocities as being racist while never addressin
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by sillystuff 2y ago
Israeli children are taught to hate the people the Israelis violently ethnically cleansed, and are currently perpetrating a genocide against. Israeli children singing, “Within a year we will eliminate them all.” https://www.alja
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by sillystuff 2y ago
You should check out the text books the University of Nebraska and CIA made to radicalize Afghan schoolchildren against the Soviets. This link does not do the content justice-- math examples using "dead Russians" as the item count
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by sillystuff 2y ago
> 2. What text processing tasks do you consider absolutely essential to Unix command line proficiency? Learn regular expressions (REs). Every text processing tool including decent editors uses REs. And, you will never have mastered any
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by sillystuff 2y ago
The key word is "strong". This bill is the opposite of that. It would, however, eliminate the stronger protections currently enjoyed within many states. Unfortunately, with our bought and payed for auction we call "represen
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by sillystuff 2y ago
> from Morocco, Yemen, Iraq, Ethiopia, and other countries in the region. So, you agree with me. These are Jewish settlers from OUTSIDE Palestine. These followed after the initial European Jews had already engaged in violent ethnic cle
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by sillystuff 2y ago
A lot of states already have stronger to much stronger protections, including the two largest states, CA and (very recently) TX. A very large percentage of the population of the country would lose privacy protections if this bill is passed
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by sillystuff 2y ago
> the plurality of Israeli Jewish people who are from the region, and for whom Israel is --- like the Palestinians --- their only real home. All but a tiny population of pre-existing Jews in historic Palestine are settler colonialists li
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by sillystuff 2y ago
"[APRA] eliminates the existing patchwork of state comprehensive data privacy laws". Preemption of state privacy laws makes this look like it's real purpose is to gut much stronger privacy protections that already exist in ma
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by sillystuff 3y ago
Github and the other code forges should do some automated scanning for this pattern. This is almost identical to the thread where the xv maintainer is pressured to bring on the attacker as a co-maintainer.
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by sillystuff 3y ago
Apparently broken emergency calls is a common issue with Pixel phones spanning multiple versions: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que... But, at least, in one case, the issue was Microso
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by sillystuff 3y ago
I have them in my garden. The do great on the California central coast (with only water from natural rainfall except drought years). Someone else commented that the claim of having to harvest in early morning is silly-- can confirm; just p
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by sillystuff 3y ago
Careful what you wish for. Missile defense is going to be viewed as an offensive weapon by any adversaries (and probably most/all of the folks pushing for it domestically as well). If you can destroy most of your target's counter
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by sillystuff 3y ago
Freezing only the 3 major credit reporting agencies may not protect you from e.g., a bank account being opened in your name. There are _many_ consumer reporting agencies in the US: https://www.consumerlawfirm.com/credit-repo
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by sillystuff 3y ago
PEX pipe, used in most recently built houses instead of copper, is polyethylene.
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by sillystuff 3y ago
> We only have KVM virtualization on x86 today because Citrix meticulously developed an x86 instruction emulator (many thousand lines of dense code). > ...Linux’s copy but can do so from Xen —- even though it is the exact same code!!
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by sillystuff 3y ago
Yeah, should have been 900K. Can't edit.
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by sillystuff 3y ago
That is interesting. We traveled by minibus throughout our trip, so traveled through rural areas, and only in Afar encountered lots of men with guns (one group of whom wanted to hang out, and shared their Khat [a stimulant plant]). Even w
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by sillystuff 3y ago
Our ancestors may have almost gone extinct 900M years ago. Some researchers looking at genetic data believe we were down to 1280 individuals [1]. Those were pre-human ancestors, but humans aren't special, we are just animals that are
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by sillystuff 3y ago
I visited a little before the pandemic locked things down. At that time, we were required to have an armed guard on our visit to Dallol. There had been some shootings and abductions in the area, but it wasn't common (I believe these

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