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Does RFID allow for encryption? I'd thought they were too constrained re: power and cpu.

I emailed the mods. I don't think they get notified for @'s.

Using OCRmyPDF, I applied lossless JBIG2 compression to a scanned book, after some consideration.

* the OCRmyPDF docs point to the JBIG2 Wikipedia page, and the Disadvantages section - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JBIG2#Disadvantages - so it's easier to avoid this bug

* I'd hoped OCR would fall out of the process, but nope

* from the Wikipedia page, huh, the Pegasus malware exploited iOS's implementation of JBIG2

Looks like the line numbers were lost: https://github.com/mackyle/sqlite/blob/18cf47156abe94255ae14...

It's because McAfee started using SQLite, angry users would stumble upon the files, do a minimum of searching or thinking, and be furious at SQLite developers.

Wayback Machine: https://web.archive.org/web/20230606170826/https://lemmy.ml/...

The title here doesn't reflect the site's; I don't see anything about Spotify, iTunes, or YouTube there.

I was trying to keep it short! I like grace periods and redemption periods, but they vary so widely by TLD and registrar, that I wanted to avoid that rabbit hole of conversation.

I've been working on going from calendar reminders to, at least, semi-automating checking a list of expiration dates, and then checking regularly. I'm still making mistakes, I'm just trying to avoid repeating them and instead make exciting new mistakes.

I think you hit reply to the wrong comment.

I've been looking at the domain lifecycle lately, and it can take a couple of months after the expiration date for it to actually become available for registration. I'd check with whois on the command line.

It's Ghost, so Markdown's available, and you could use a triple-backtick block, ``` before and after.

Oh yeah! I had a laptop that booted Windows and Linux; the Linux side was non-journaling ext2 at the time. I forget how it got extensively scrambled, but I'd run AIDE on it, so I had many file checksums. By running AIDE again on /lost+found, and comparing checksums, I was able to put the vast majority of files back where they belonged.

The previous chapter made me think of malicious compliance, and a monkey's paw slowly curling.

It's a Twitter-to-Mastodon mirror. From their source page, https://sr.ht/~cloutier/bird.makeup/ -

> Bird.makeup is a way to follow twitter user from any ActivityPub service. The aim is to make tweets appear as native a possible to the fediverse, while being as scalable as possible. Unlike BirdsiteLive, bird.makeup doesn't use official twitter api, but the undocumented frontend api, just like nitter.net, which doesn't have rate limiting.

The Manual has been floating around online for ages! I got annoyed with the typos and OCR issues, so I cleaned it up a bit: https://github.com/pronoiac/the-manual

Here's the Joystik issue (and page) on the Internet Archive: https://archive.org/details/joystik_magazine-1983-10/page/n4...

Their priority right now is the iOS client, still in beta. They'd expected to make it available in the App Store this month, though that was before Twitter blocked Tweetbot.

There's ocrit, a CLI utility using Apple's Vision framework for OCR: https://github.com/insidegui/ocrit

I'm fond of ddrescue, and I'll note pv could have replaced cat in one example.

My mom's used one for years now, and seems content with it.

For seniors, you might check out the Jitterbug smartphones. It's Android with a custom launcher, and from memory, piggybacking on the Verizon network.

I'd avoid that trailing space. git will complain, a trailing doublespace can cause a linebreak, it's super inconspicuous, and that can trip people up.

One benefit of a NAS: my data's robust against any single drive dying, which is something that's happened to me, friends, and family.

I'm picking up Carrot Weather now. Its "Editors' Choice" description says it draws data from Dark Sky, though?

Edit: disregard the source comment. It draws from multiple sources, like Foreca.

Elizabeth Taylor outlived the major writer of her New York Times obituary: https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2011/03/23/134797518...

Huh! It shows ebooks as one looong page.

Michael Selvidge has a fun Twitter thread with Sneakers info: https://twitter.com/selviano/status/1568298272900673538 / https://nitter.net/selviano/status/1568298272900673538

I think that would avoid the potential loophole I was worried about! I'd be careful with the periodicity of the RNG though.

I was on a machine with limited user space. I used OpenSSL, no new binaries, reading and writing at close-to-wire speeds. "Counting zeroes" would track down where they don't match, doesn't it?

Ooh, I just did something with this, and I should finish the draft blog post for it:

* write encrypted zeroes

* decrypt it and count the zeroes

I think cbc mode is enough. I see a possible computational loophole, which I want to check before I post.

I think that Intellectual Ventures started out as a defense against patent trolls, but after gathering enough of a patent portfolio, they started playing offense in a way that looks like patent trolling.

I like ScanTailor! I've used ocrmypdf for the OCR and compression steps. It uses lossless JBIG2 by default, at 2 or 3k per page; I'm curious how that compares to DJVU. (And my mistake, pdf and DJVU are competing container formats.)