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observantTrapezium

@ observantTrapezium @lemmy.ca

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  • What's slimy, has 4 legs, and is a house?

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  • I don't know, some turtles could be quite slimy. At the corner where it says turtle it should probably say tortoise, and at the "what goes here" corner you can put something like a softshell turtle.

  • Carney's staff say search is on for a local office that meets his security needs

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  • Ridiculous. Party leaders should run as list candidates in a mixed-member proportional system, not riding representatives.

  • OnePlus will limit bootloader unlocking

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  • How the mighty have fallen. I got my OnePlus One in 2015 with CyanogenMod preinstalled (although I reinstalled the vanilla OS after, and rooted it easily). Enshitification indeed, no brand is safe.

  • Five-star-ratings everywhere

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  • Absolutely right! To somehow make sense of the current system, I tried to do statistics of reviews and see how a product or a business fairs in comparison to equivalent products or nearby businesses. The problem is that now there are so many fake reviews in addition to unhelpful human review.

  • Wikipedia loses challenge against UK Online Safety Act rules

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  • No, I think they should ignore it and let the British government do what they will. Again, they are not bound by UK legislation. Similarly they don't block Chinese IPs because of censorship laws over there.

  • Wikipedia loses challenge against UK Online Safety Act rules

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  • I'm not an expert but I feel like organizations like Wikipedia that are not based in the UK and do not do business in the UK shouldn't fight or comply with this nonsense. If the British government instructs ISPs to block access to Wikipedia, let them, and see the uproar it generates.

  • Peak security

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  • Does it actually happen to people? All servers I worked with both had a back door (or two), and someone at the data centre (during work hours at least) you could contact in an emergency.

  • For people running a family chat in their #selfhosted #homelab: What is the system with the best mobile experience (both Android and iOS)? I've been using mattermost, but my family is not super

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  • Matrix, with the Element app on phones.

  • The Simpsons creator Matt Groening urges everyone to 'delete Fox News'

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  • Reminds me of Scoop Chang, Fox Quote Unquote News (Futurama: Decision 3012)

  • How to cook a chicken

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  • I confirm this as a physics PhD. I also understand exactly this thinking of assuming a system is in thermal equilibrium where it is far from it (like a chicken in am oven).

  • How to cook a chicken

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  • 205°C 😂😂😂

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  • Full disk encryption with LUKS. Don't really see much point in a TPM for booting my personal device, although it definitely has use cases and I don't know what's backdoorsy about it.

  • The WORST Toronto News Station

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  • Was that really on CP24? Kinda doubt.

  • Pdf to odt/docx conversion has me weeping!

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  • Interesting, I'll keep it in mind next time I have to deal with this problem (hopefully never but who knows).

    A few years ago I was in contact with researchers that were developing an AI tool to parse PDFs (I think they didn't care about converting to editable formats, but extracting data), from their material I got the impression that it's extremely difficult to do right using traditional algorithms.

  • Pdf to odt/docx conversion has me weeping!

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  • It's a curse because it's used for things other than what it's intended to. It's doing a good job representing printed material, but unfortunately people very commonly expect it to be something more akin to a word processor file.

  • Pdf to odt/docx conversion has me weeping!

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  • I know the pain. While there are definitely solutions that work sometimes, there's just no "one size fits all" that I'm aware of. PDFs can represent text very differently internally.

    What I did for one project where extracting the text produced a complete mess was to convert the PDF pages to images and then OCR them...

  • The hidden cost of self-hosting

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  • Hate? Digital decluttering feels really good, for me anyway.

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  • No. But funny how people interpret posts in their own cultural context. When reading the post just literally, it's clearly about polygamy.

  • "Together we'll make X great again!"

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  • Very typical projection ("I'm not political, you are"), but the reactions are unnecessary in my opinion (feeding the trolls as some would say). If you don't like the attitude of the maintainer, fork it if you like, ignore it if you don't.