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frameset··on Pearson Says Blockchain Could Make It Money Every Time E-Books Change Hands
Surely this will just increase ebook piracy.
frameset··on Hardening SSH
What does he mean by ssh keys being "radioactive"?
frameset··on Bouvier Affair
It's hard to have sympathy for the people he's ripping off.
frameset··on New in Calibre 6.0
To clarify, I would be happy if it either used the Windows Store updater (essentially a windows package manager) or updated itself via a self downloading msi package or similar. Instead it has neither.
frameset··on New in Calibre 6.0
Other commenters have pointed out that the lack of a self replacing auto-updater in a modern desktop app is striking to put it mildly. It has a pretty bad UI, that seems to be getting worse especially with regard to the shades of grey. If you bring up these flaws the maintainer can react quite poorly, even when the subject is broached politely and in good faith.

And to add my complaints to those of other commenters, hosting the library on another computer or network share is not supported, and you can't use an external DB provider e.g. MySQL.

frameset··on New in Calibre 6.0
Yes it does, I use a reverse proxy with ssl and have CW on its own subdomain.

There's a plain text config file on the Kobo's memory and one of the config options is the store URL. CW generates you a new one tied to your local CW account in your instance and you replace the standard URL. You can do multi user stuff that way. You can also define a "shelf" and only books on that shelf will sync if you wish, handy if you have a large collection or a small memory Kobo.

The guide on setting up the Kobo sync feature is here: https://github.com/janeczku/calibre-web/wiki/Kobo-Integratio...

frameset··on New in Calibre 6.0
I pretty much have to use it for some things, but as sibling commenters have pointed out, there are some serious flaws with both it and its maintainer. I've mostly moved to using [Calibre Web](https://github.com/janeczku/calibre-web) which is a software intended as a companion, but I use it almost exclusively.

It has a web interface, and you can deploy it using a container. The killer feature for me that Calibre itself lacks is that has over the internet syncing with the native Kobo firmware. You essentially trick the Kobo into thinking it's calling home to get ebooks from their servers, but you're accessing your own instance of Calibre-web.

This makes my workflow of adding a new ebook as simple as uploading it to my hosted instance of calibre-web, and then next time I pick up my kobo it will automatically download it.

frameset··on 7-zip 22.00 – APFS, Posix TAR, high precision timestamps
You really think that they would have renamed it by now.
frameset··on Mail Merge returns to Pages after nine years
It can also do printed letters, filling in the physical address at the head of the letter. You can then print out the merged documents.
frameset··on Writing for distributed teams (2021)
The modern Sharepoint Online sites are very similar (or can be) to what she's describing.
frameset··on Inkscape 1.2 released
To add on to your well laid out points, many companies have "house styles" embedded into their templates that allow a consistent look and feel. GDocs lack of support for these makes it a non-starter.
frameset··on How many colors are too many colors for Windows Terminal?
I believe it's the default on Windows 11. At least it was on my installation.
frameset··on AltWinDirStat
Thanks for letting me know about this, what a handy utility.
frameset··on Paperless-NGX
I use Papermerge, which seems to be a very similar software. Does anyone have experience with both and prefer Paperless?
frameset··on Microsoft to build energy efficient, heat-producing data centre in Finland
Could you not just run `yes` once per CPU core?
frameset··on Cities should not pay for new stadiums
I get what you're saying, but you might not be realising that the top teams from the EPL _also_ play in the UCL. It's a "super league" made up of the top European soccer teams from the domestic leagues. There must surely be some kind of cumulative recognition effect from playing in both leagues.
frameset··on Reality by Consensus
I am reminded of the Phillip K Dick essay/speech "How to Build a Universe That Doesn’t Fall Apart Two Days Later". https://urbigenous.net/library/how_to_build.html

My particular favourite quote is:

One day a girl college student in Canada asked me to define reality for her, for a paper she was writing for her philosophy class. She wanted a one-sentence answer. I thought about it and finally said, “Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn’t go away.” That’s all I could come up with.

frameset··on Adblocking people and non-adblocking people experience a different web
SponsorBlock is one of the coolest extensions of recent times. It's also a great example of crowdsourcing actually working for the benefit of the commons.
frameset··on I got pwned by my cloud costs
But there is an option. In Azure you can "set a budget". He even goes over it in the post. Did you read the linked article?
frameset··on Kodi: An Open Source Home Theater System
Campaign to get ddate back on most distros?
frameset··on Instagram Is Facebook Now
This is my exact problem with it. I only follow comic book artists, friends, and local businesses. Yet my reels are full of semi nude women gyrating to music. I don't want that there.
frameset··on 'Arthur,' the longest-running kids animated series, is ending
That's interesting. Growing up in the UK as a child the equivalent of Sazae-san Syndrome was hearing the Antiques Roadshow theme. Even now when I hear that music it fills me with the Sunday night blues.
frameset··on QR Codes Are Here to Stay. So Is the Tracking They Allow
The device you scan the QR code with will ultimately deal with it, as it would if you had clicked a hyperlink in the build in web browser. So if your device blocks tracking tech (cookies etc) then you'd be fine. There's no difference here between a QR and clicking a link though.
frameset··on UK court clears post office staff convicted due to ‘corrupt data’
The typo of "Costumer" where they probably meant "Customer".
frameset··on Microsoft Is Dead (2007)
Slack worries about MS Teams in the same way you should worry if a person trying to kill you is in your house with a shotgun and you're barred in the bedroom.
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