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Mostly a backup account for now, other @Deebsters are available.

  • haveibeenpwned alternatives / data?

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  • It's entirely possible that my best fix is just to delete my haveibeenpwned account and react when I get spam, but where's the fun in that?

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  • REUNION November 6, 2025

    I solved it in 2️⃣0️⃣ moves!⭐ ⭐ 🦊 🦔 🎉

    I struggled with this one and just couldn't see patio until I'd wasted several moves.

  • Clock but it's SELECT Digits FROM Numbers ORDER BY DigitName DESC

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  • Shouldn't 2 be where 1 normally is, etc and 8 be at the top?

    edit: I see you'd posted a similar one a few days ago and that had the same thing. Off by one, an evergreen programming error!

  • 03 November 1988

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  • I'm sure that it would turn out that the food contains whatever Stupendous Man's equivalent of kryptonite is.

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  • REUNION November 3, 2025

    I solved it in 1️⃣5️⃣ moves!⭐ ⭐ ⭐ 🦊 🦔 🎉

  • Issue with newlines

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  • This is a Markdown thing, which is what Lemmy uses for its comments.

    You can see what's supported in the Lemmy docs for Markdown.

    Something I didn't notice in the docs is a trick that markdown allows:Adding two spaces at the end of the line lets you make a new line instead of a new paragraph.Dunno who came up with that, but it generally works wherever Markdown is accepted.

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  • REUNION November 2, 2025

    I solved it in 1️⃣5️⃣ moves!⭐ ⭐ ⭐ 🦊 🦔 🎉

  • E Ink goes mobile with budget eye-friendly smartphone

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  • A friend used to have a phone case that had an e-ink display and it was great for handling notifications and of course reading webpages and ebooks. Something more integrated (it just mirrored the normal screen in e-ink) could be brilliant.

    I'm assuming that the reason the colour screen is lower resolution is the processing power required; the Kobo Clara's colour version has twice the processing power for the same resolution, but still isn't as crisp because of the grid necessary for how it works. The article says Bigme has some custom tech, so we'll have to wait to see what the reviews say about how it looks.

  • E Ink goes mobile with budget eye-friendly smartphone

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  • There is this paragraph:

    Bigme promises that the 3,300-mAh battery will "maintain a charge for a remarkably long time" – though doesn't actually specify how long that might be. You'll need to plug in more often if you make use of the 36-level front light when strong ambient light isn't available.

    Vague, but that's not the author's fault. Aside from GPS, games are the other thing that uses loads of battery and you won't be playing many graphically demanding games on that display - but we want numbers!

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  • REUNION October 31, 2025

    I solved it in 1️⃣6️⃣ moves!⭐ ⭐ ⭐ 🦊 🦔 🎉

  • Interactive Torus in JavaScript

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  • This creates a perspective effect where objects farther away (larger z) appear smaller:

    Oh, that's on purpose! Strange choice, I guess it's just to show you can...

  • Diptyx is an open source, dual-screen eReader (crowdfunding)

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  • Didn’t they recently removed that ability?, as well as the ability to sideload mobi file format?

    I don't keep up with Kindle news any more, but I just sent a book from Calibre over USB the same as before, and mobi was their own proprietary format* so good riddance to that (epub is the standard format outside the Amazon world).

    that they bought from someone else

  • Diptyx is an open source, dual-screen eReader (crowdfunding)

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  • When I still lived in the UK I preferred physical books and I still have three crates of them in a lockup. After looking at a screen all day at work, reading paper was a balm for my eyes and my brain.

    I only bought a Kindle when I moved to a different country since it was far cheaper than shipping the books.

    Not to sound like a Kobo ad, but I feel like I am the customer and not the product with my Kobo - I can install software, and even SSH into it as root, and I'm not tracked. Of course, that could change, unlike with good ol' books, and books also never run out of battery or get scratches on every page (the Kobo's screen is far from scratch resistant).

  • Diptyx is an open source, dual-screen eReader (crowdfunding)

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  • (not) owning and (not) controlling our ebooks

    Dunno about that; there's plenty of options to own and control your ebooks:

    Some books are available without DRM (e.g. some on Kobo.com) or you can strip the DRM, and then keep them on your own storage. You can file and manage metadata with calibre and you can make them available to download using calibre-web.

    A stock Kindle will allow adding books via USB or Amazon's by-email service. A rooted Kindle will let you install Koreader which can talk to calibre-web. A Kobo or many (most?) other ereaders will let you do these things without needing to jump through hoops.

  • A URL to respond with when your boss says "But ChatGPT Said "

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  • I'm definitely bookmarking this one.

  • Behind the scenes test shots just discovered

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  • pic 1: Dumb and Data

  • Venezuela Says CIA-Linked Mercenaries Caught During 'False-Flag Attack'

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  • Normally we could expect that there are at least records that will eventually come out, but we've seen the current administration use things like Signal to prevent any official records ever being created.

  • Red kites found nesting in forest for the first time

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  • You see absolutely loads of these around Oxford and Reading, and they're starting to become a problem because people are feeding them and they're becoming bold enough to steal food out of people's hands (like seagulls) (sorry, that's not good news).

    Kites from Spain were introduced to the Chiltern Hills back in the 90s when there were only 52 breeding pairs in Wales for the whole of the UK. Thirty years later there's 4000 breeding pairs in southern England alone and red kite chicks were being sent back to Spain to help with their numbers.

  • I ditched Linux for Windows 11 for one week - and found 9 big problems

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  • That's how I understood it, but you could read it as saying the author's experience with Win11 revealed problems with his previous setup (i.e. Linux).