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by exprez135 24d ago
According to Apple, you can have iCloud backup enabled while maintaining E2E encryption with their Advanced Data Protection option: https://support.apple.com/en-us/102651#advanced You do have to be sure to not enable w
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by exprez135 4mo ago
The Canvas instance at the nearby university is now down (May 7, 4 PM Eastern), but was briefly displaying the message in this screenshot (1). The ransom message implies that today's problem is the second wave in an attack on Instructu
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by exprez135 11mo ago
Stalwart currently does not support the NOTIFY extension to IMAP, needed for ImapGoose, though it is planned: https://github.com/stalwartlabs/stalwart/issues/484
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by exprez135 1y ago
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45027725
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Proposal: AI Content Disclosure Header(ietf.org)
74 points by exprez135 1y ago|48 comments
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by exprez135 1y ago
Only in recent years have I appreciated how familiarity with such material so enriches my experience of other, later literature. To use this example, the title of C.S. Lewis’s Till We Have Faces and its eponymous sentence (paraphrased): H
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by exprez135 1y ago
Not an insider, but I noticed that there is now a filter for using Whisper (C++) for audio transcription [1]. It looks like you provide the path to a model file [2]. [1]: https://github.com/ggml-org/whisper.cpp [2]: h
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by exprez135 1y ago
I recently had this idea about email servers. In addition to configuring my IMAP clients to normally fetch mail manually or more infrequently, I set up one mail server that “closes” from 7 p.m. till 7 a.m. my time. During that time, it retu
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by exprez135 2y ago
It is actually open source, though I'm not sure if it's linked directly on the site. (It is linked in his blog post.) The repository: https://github.com/capjamesg/web-reader
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by exprez135 2y ago
The tool actually is open source, so you could self-host it if you wish. MIT license, in Python. The repository [1] is linked in the blog post the author wrote about the project [2]. [1]: https://github.com/capjamesg/we
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by exprez135 2y ago
The problem you describe seems to be one targeted by the TerraPower project in Wyoming. It plans to operate at 100% capacity at all times (345 MWe), but makes itself more akin to other renewables by incorporating energy storage into its des
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by exprez135 4y ago
It's especially interesting to contrast this rise in the brutality, violence, and realistic physicality of western Christianity's art with traditional Byzantine iconography. My first thought goes to Myshkin in Dostoevsky's Th
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by exprez135 4y ago
Re: the off-topic comment: Same here, but I noticed that Firefox's reader button was still appearing. I was able to read with that without loading the scripts after all.
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by exprez135 4y ago
At last, a goodbye to Python 2. Otherwise, I'm excited to see the increased support for desktop use of Alpine with each release. This time, a new setup script is included to help set up a desktop environment automatically. For some rea
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by exprez135 4y ago
Though the free calls come at the cost of a 55-inch revolving advertisement outside my door and around every corner. I wish very often for the "humble" option to return.
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by exprez135 5y ago
The story has been picked up by Reuters as well [1]. From a quick look at DuckDuckGo and Ecosia, it seems their image results are similarly restricted because of their reliance on Bing. I am getting results, but they're entirely unrela
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by exprez135 5y ago
After the article was written, the Supreme Court of Indiana did end up ruling in favor of the car owner. From the ruling [1]: > To find a fair probability of unauthorized control here, we would need to conclude that Hoosiers don’t have t
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by exprez135 6y ago
"Kabuga’s trial, in contrast, promises to restore a modicum of accountability" I hope so. A trial before the IRMCT would renew my hope in such institutions, even as the US plainly attacks the ICC with Trump's recent executive
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by exprez135 6y ago
This really interests me. Do you have any specific essays/references you could point me to? I've managed to find a couple things online, but I would appreciate any recommendations you have.
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by exprez135 6y ago
Maybe not in today's form, but a world without copyright would be a different world, perhaps one in which people would work for free software because it's what they believe in. It would represent a fundamental shift in how the pub
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by exprez135 6y ago
My Catalina install broke the dictionary app for me, so there are no dictionaries other than Wikipedia. This was one of the most useful features of force touch for me :(
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by exprez135 6y ago
Yes! And it really is so easy to implement all of this validation and checking without it being too complicated. How is parsing some numbers and running a few math equations the source of so much trouble?
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by exprez135 6y ago
One note: the README lists one of the objectives as to "Remain open source for independent verification", but the project is licensed under the MIT license. Since it's being designed to be a turn-key solution for governments
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by exprez135 6y ago
Didn't even get the chance for a re-Captcha with me. It outright blocks me because I'm using a proxy.
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by exprez135 7y ago
Dealing with $130 in charges after the $1000 was used up because they sent absolutely no notification that the credits were almost gone. Didn't find out until the charge appeared on my card.