piaste

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by piaste 24d ago
Until a year ago, it was either Calibre/CalibreWeb, Audiobookshelf, or a few alternative readers heavily focused on comics. Late last year, a vibe-coded app called BookLore appeared and basically brought over everything Calibre did but
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by piaste 24d ago
> Multiple different XBMC forks. Multiples different Subsonic forks. Multiple different DNLA servers. Multitudes of web-based servers. CLI MP3 servers. Big difference between _audio_ streaming and _video_ streaming servers. Video streami
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by piaste 25d ago
I think it's just a pretty consolidated space? Kind of like ebook management, which was dominated by Calibre for so many years (this changed recently). But unlike ebooks, media centre management is a fair bit more complex since it invo
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by piaste 1mo ago
> Why not switch it around? Because a malicious human will gladly copy/paste LLM text and sign it with his "I, a human, definitely wrote this academic paper" key?
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by piaste 2mo ago
I tried to switch to nushell full-time but couldn't stick with it. Ironically, the main friction point were not old-fashioned tools (which `from ssv` usually handled nicely) but the 'new generation' of core CLI tools like eza
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by piaste 4mo ago
It doesn't stop Android Auto from doing whatever with the car data, but it's sandboxed to have no more default privileges than a regular app, so it can be denied access to your phone's data by default (apps, contacts, etc.).
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by piaste 4mo ago
> Beyond that, this is a laptop that is running a really shitty, 'apps only, no you cannot do anything useful with this' operating system. I have an awful lot of complaints about MacOS's relatively restrictive use cases, b
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by piaste 4mo ago
> It’s such an annoying question because the honest answer is I eat what the locals eat, which is to say the most authentic Japanese cuisine is what you find in a Japanese supermarket. That’s what the people of Japan are actually eating.
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by piaste 5mo ago
> so something that 95% of the users of Zed will end up doing? Will they? I downloaded it for a test run, and there was no pressure to create a Zed account. I got the impression that it's something you'd do if you wanted to use
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by piaste 5mo ago
By "release infrastructure" I didn't mean gain admin access to github.com, I meant gaining the credentials to push out a release of that particular package.
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by piaste 5mo ago
That's correct. In practice we would often rephrase to avoid the double 'la', not because it's grammatically incorrect but because it is awkward to read (less so in speech). Compare: French: C'est une citation de De
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by piaste 5mo ago
The cooldown is a defence against malicious actors compromising the release infrastructure. Having the forge control it half-defeats the point; the attackers who gained permission to push a malicious release, might well have also gained per
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by piaste 6mo ago
Even in that scenario, having the duress pin option does not make things worse. It's functionally equivalent to smashing the phone, just easier to do with one hand. i.e. whatever they do to you if you wiped the phone via duress PIN, th
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by piaste 7mo ago
> Other Email providers such as Tuta which also offer encrypted emails, were forced to install a backdoor. As soon as the police arrive, every future email sent to the account in question is copied unencrypted without the person being in
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by piaste 7mo ago
The enforcement isn't the issue, it's the scarcity.
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by piaste 8mo ago
Often it's to acquire the founders' knowledge and/or IP. But Gastown is MIT licensed, and Yegge is bragging about never having looked at the code at all.
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by piaste 9mo ago
> I always wonder why people bother with providing source under a source available license. [..] There's little to no benefit to outside users. Any work they do on the code is effectively free work they do for you that entitles them
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by piaste 10mo ago
> same crime as sellers of 'light' products which replace nutritious ingredients with water or air The analogy, in this case, would be replacing NON-nutritious ingredients with water or air.
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by piaste 10mo ago
There's nothing any UniversalBlue image tweaks that you couldn't tweak yourself. It's just adding/removing packages, adding/removing drivers, a few configuration scripts, and a bunch of tweaks to fix well-known gami
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by piaste 10mo ago
I want to bear witness that I did exactly that when I downmoted one of my computers from 'gaming machine' to 'closet server'. One `rpm-ostree rebase` from Bazzite to a server-oriented flavour of Fedora Silverblue and it&
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by piaste 11mo ago
It was a theoretical question. It's not the first time I hear the complaint '$previous_dev left a bunch of unmaintainable macro tricks in a C codebase' and I thought, since those macros get expanded as part of the compilation
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by piaste 11mo ago
Layman question: say you have a C codebase with a bunch of preprocessor macros and you want to get rid of a particular one that's too clever, and assume no other macros depend on it. Is it possible to command the preprocessor to take t
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by piaste 11mo ago
One quick improvement would be to style the number boxes to include decimal separators. For a few answers I was squinting to check if I had typed six or seven zeroes, for example.
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by piaste 1y ago
They work perfectly fine side-by-side, too.
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by piaste 1y ago
Austria has 9 million people. Scaled up in proportion to US population, that's the equivalent of ~940 academics. Still not huge, but a somewhat bigger drop.
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by piaste 1y ago
What if the bank abstained from evaluating your own stuff, and instead provided you with whatever they consider a 'good' device? Like a powered-up version of the TOTP hardware tokens they used to provide 15 years ago. Instead of n
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by piaste 1y ago
Umberto Eco once jokingly lamented the deprecation of the Index, writing that it was a "very handy canon of books one ought to read to call oneself an educated person".
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by piaste 1y ago
I'm sure you just linked the first google result you found, and it's not like the internet wasn't full of crappy 'quote' websites in the halcyon days of 2021, but it's incredibly depressing to click that link a
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by piaste 1y ago
> Work profiles are inferior to separate user profiles, which are built-in to GrapheneOS. Different use cases. User profiles are only active when you manually switch to them, while work profiles are active _alongside_ your main profile.
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by piaste 1y ago
Use the cross-eye trick to superimpose the two pictures, then it becomes quickly noticeable as it will appear to blink.

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