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JamesAdir··on Wayback: Self-hosted archiving service integrated with Internet Archive
thanks, tried it, but it has a problem with Unicode URL's unless there is some setting I'm missing.
JamesAdir··on Wayback: Self-hosted archiving service integrated with Internet Archive
Any recommendation for a tool that can crawl and download an entire website complely and save it locally?
JamesAdir··on Ask Wirecutter: Can you recommend a not-smart TV for me?
I think that the answer is projector. It seems that none of them are "smart", they offer great quality and have a longer life. The downside is mounting them, but it's a one time job.
JamesAdir··on Amazon to close Book Depository online shop
At least to my country, BD shipped envelops with books and declared them as print media, it seems to have a international very low postage tariffs. When I get books from Amazon they are always shipped in boxes and that is packages and subjected to much higher tariff and customs fee if above a certain value.
JamesAdir··on Police relied on Clearview AI and put the wrong person in jail
The framing of the headline is wrong - Police failed to do their job properly. This isn't related to Clearview or the laptop they write their reports on. Putting the technology aspect in the headline is just to lure in more clicks. Would expected more from a publication like the NYT.
JamesAdir··on Gordon Moore has died
It takes time to understand who is the true giant. Robert Metcalfe just received the ACM Turing award last week and his contributions where from the 70's. It's the same with Nobel laureates, it takes year for your work to be recognized.
JamesAdir··on Framework announces AMD, new Intel gen, 16“ laptop and more
Also height of keys. I don't understand the rush towards thinner and thinner that killed the more reasonably higher-keys keyboards.I don't need a 1mm laptop, I need a laptop I can comfortably type in.
JamesAdir··on DPReview.com to close
This is not "panic" in tech just corporate politics. Some middle manager wanted to shutdown this site for several years and didn't have the approval of higher managers or consensus with others. It's the same with Amazon Smile program. It's meaningless for Amazon in terms of cost, and imho it causes much more harm in communities like non-for-profits in the case of Amazon Smile or photography hobbyists in the case of DPReview.
JamesAdir··on A $100B Bet on Semiconductors Hinges on Remaking Upstate New York’s Workforce
https://archive.md/AjhJu
JamesAdir··on American colleges in crisis with enrollment decline largest on record
The cycle is already known - good economy less enrollment for colleges. Bad economy more enrollment. Would better wait for 2023 data.
JamesAdir··on Windows Market Share Drops to 57% in the US
Why not link to the source? https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/desktop/united-st...
JamesAdir··on Anyone else witnessing a panic inside NLP orgs of big tech companies?
You are a founder of a startup. A notable VC wants to invest millions of dollars but insists that the contract will be in their language which is Finnish. Would you trust GPT to translate the contract or reach out to a professional human translator? We've got Google translate from 2006, and there are still millions of translators at work all around the world. I wouldn't be so quick to dismiss those jobs.
JamesAdir··on SVB Chief Sold $3.6M in Stock Days Before Bank’s Failure
https://archive.is/lUtFb
JamesAdir··on Andreessen Horowitz and 'zero interest rate phenomena'
As much as the thread is interesting, the author is mentioning the most important point in the end - VC's operated are looking for commission. They will get massive commission from the money already committed to them. and some commissions from startups. They can't lose.
JamesAdir··on Nextcloud and OpenBSD = <3
Yes. Cryptomator is better in this regard.
JamesAdir··on Self hosting in 2023
Is there a good guide that explains all the in and outs of building a server?
JamesAdir··on Nextcloud and OpenBSD = <3
The keys are stored in the a folder on the server. I don't think it's good enough.
JamesAdir··on Nextcloud and OpenBSD = <3
I'm not the OP but for me it's connectivity (my home connection can be flaky at times) and maintaining a server with all the updates. I'd rather do it on shared hosting.
JamesAdir··on Nextcloud and OpenBSD = <3
Thanks for the answer. So you've created a VeraCrypt file on your nextcloud folders?
JamesAdir··on Nextcloud and OpenBSD = <3
Hetzner are great but you can't encrypt Hetzner Storage boxes. How do you keep your setup secured?
JamesAdir··on Nextcloud and OpenBSD = <3
I would love a slimmed down version of nextcloud, as it's php base make it very easy to install on cheap shared hosting.
JamesAdir··on Nextcloud and OpenBSD = <3
How do you protect this setup? Have you used any kind of encryption?
JamesAdir··on Nextcloud and OpenBSD = <3
How do you deal with encryption? Did you encrypted the storage volume, using the Server Side encryption of nextcloud or any other way? Was just thinking about that and I'm thinking what's the best way to enjoy both security and usability.
JamesAdir··on Hundreds of changes made to latest editions of Roald Dahl's books
The Dahl estate owned the rights to the books until 2021, when Netflix bought them outright for a reported $686 million, building on an earlier rights deal. The American streaming service now has overall control over the book publishing, as well as various adaptation projects that are in the works. These are the first new editions since the deal, but the review began before the sale

Didn't know this, and why am I not surprised.

JamesAdir··on Unpacking the Benefits of Zero Trust Architecture as Defined by NIST
You will always need to trust someone. How did you trust your hardware such as laptops and network equipment so far? So either you trust the vendor, or you're trusting a 3rd party that checks the hardware for you and give you some form of approval.
JamesAdir··on Google Workspace increasing prices from April 11, 2023
Enterprises have long term contracts with deep discounts on official pricing and locked in pricing on many services.
JamesAdir··on Google Workspace increasing prices from April 11, 2023
+1 for Zoho. They offer a all the services needed at a very convenient pricing.
JamesAdir··on TikTok’s Parent Takes on Meta in Battle for Virtual-Reality Market
http://archive.today/C2KAk
JamesAdir··on Junkyard computing – repurposing discarded smartphones to minimize pollution
Many great ideas both in the paper and in the comments, but people forget that we don't own our devices any more, we just rent them. If we owned them we could have replaced the batteries ourselves, or change the bootloads or do anything we want. Contrary to what happened with TVs, were models are being sold at a lower pricce with the help of spyware installed on the TV, some phones are sold at full price and still we don't own them.
JamesAdir··on PhpBB 3.3.10
Algorithmic feed + moderators. This is what makes FB, twitter such horrible places for building a real community. Each thread in a FB group is valued but it's ability to create more traffic and more ads and not because of it's true value to the community. The result is that what comes in your feed is usually the feeds that generate extreme reactions from different sides. On forums if it's up you know it's a real discussion and people have add true value to it otherwise the moderators would have intervened. If something was asked and answered it saves as a reference for next time. In social media there is no such thing. The algorithms wants you to recreate the same threads again and again just to make sure more traffic will be generated. It's no coincidence that search is not useful in FB groups.
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