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| Edit | Post #296557 |
Post edited: Fix typo |
— | about 1 month ago |
| Edit | Post #296558 | Initial revision | — | about 1 month ago |
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A: Can spammers discover valid email addresses? If the local part isn't obvious,[^1] I'd say the likelihood is high that the service shared or sold its list or possibly even was hacked. If you use the name of the service in the local part (`[email protected]`), the spammer could infer that other services in the local part could also wo... (more) |
— | about 1 month ago |
| Suggested Edit | Post #296557 |
Suggested edit: Fix typo (more) |
helpful | about 1 month ago |
| Edit | Post #296198 |
Post edited: Clarify (and de-caps) the title |
— | 4 months ago |
| Comment | Post #296198 |
And if I got the "Send to/Send from" backwards, you can clarify. (more) |
— | 4 months ago |
| Suggested Edit | Post #296198 |
Suggested edit: Clarify (and de-caps) the title (more) |
helpful | 4 months ago |
| Comment | Post #295768 |
I'm not primarily a network admin, which is probably why I don't understand how the parts of your answer connect to each other and to the question.
I thought that a static IP was to keep a consistent address on that network. I don't understand how that helps you resolve DNS for outside connect... (more) |
— | 6 months ago |
| Edit | Post #295729 | Initial revision | — | 6 months ago |
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What is an Android Browser I can trust for everyday use? Akin to this question, but specifically for Android, what is a browser I can trust to load sites correctly and also work in my best interest?[^interest] I'm currently using Fennec, a sympathetic fork of Firefox Mobile, but I'm a little concerned about the direction of Mozilla. I want to be rea... (more) |
— | 6 months ago |
| Edit | Post #295523 |
Post edited: Improve grammar. Mint a new tag (instead of the existing single-use tag). |
— | 7 months ago |
| Suggested Edit | Post #295523 |
Suggested edit: Improve grammar. Mint a new tag (instead of the existing single-use tag). (more) |
helpful | 7 months ago |
| Edit | Post #294654 |
Post edited: "Keep Android Open" |
— | 7 months ago |
| Edit | Post #295416 | Initial revision | — | 7 months ago |
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A: chrome huge file weights.bin - can it be deleted It's an AI model, reportedly Gemini Nano. I haven't tried this (having moved away from Chrome before the AI-in-everything craze), but users have suggested that it can be deleted if you are willing to restart the browser afterwards. However, unless you set your computer's policy for Chrome n... (more) |
— | 7 months ago |
| Comment | Post #290624 |
- [Is Virtual Reality Bad for Our Health? Studies Point to Physical and Mental Impacts of VR Usage](https://communities.springernature.com/posts/is-virtual-reality-bad-for-our-health-studies-point-to-physical-and-mental-impacts-of-vr-usage) in Springer "News and Opinion"
- There is now [a whole ... (more) |
— | 9 months ago |
| Edit | Post #295188 | Initial revision | — | 9 months ago |
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A: How can I capture (with forethought) the final on-screen text of a command onto the clipboard? There's always ASCII Cinema where you can replay the session, including the timings, and you can just pause and copy the output of any particular part. (more) |
— | 9 months ago |
| Comment | Post #289845 |
I think there should be a non-answer space for browsers that have not reached the "Be Practical" requirement, but are on the way.
- **[Ladybird](https://ladybird.org/)** is making their own rendering engine in C++
- **[Servo](https://servo.org/)** is a Rust browser engine started by Mozilla a... (more) |
— | 9 months ago |
| Comment | Post #289846 |
Watch for big changes with the new CEO. He seems to intend for the browser to become "AI First," and joked about blocking adblock plugins. (more) |
— | 9 months ago |
| Comment | Post #289846 |
Floorp is another FF family member (that I have not used). I think it would be worthwhile to include a list of the whole Gecko family tree somewhere deemphasized in the post. It's sometimes hard on a particular browser's website to determine that it's a FF fork. (more) |
— | 9 months ago |
| Edit | Post #289845 |
Post edited: Bold the main words of the bulleted list. Make them all grammatically consistent with each other. |
— | 9 months ago |
| Suggested Edit | Post #289845 |
Suggested edit: Bold the main words of the bulleted list. Make them all grammatically consistent with each other. (more) |
helpful | 9 months ago |
| Edit | Post #293818 |
Post edited: XMPP.org has a list of software supporting each XEP. |
— | 10 months ago |
| Comment | Post #294991 |
Good idea. I like this. (more) |
— | 10 months ago |
| Comment | Post #294742 |
That does (for my skill level) eliminate direct piping, since `grep` won't know the file names. You could rig up a script, though, to
1. iterate through the files
1. make a local text file for each (foo.pdf.txt)
1. `grep` the text file
1. delete the text file (more) |
— | 11 months ago |
| Comment | Post #294742 |
- Do you need OCR, or is the plain text expected to be recognizable?
- Do you need links back to the content in the PDF, or would plaintext output with the context you specified be good enough?
If plain text is fine for both, I think anything people use for `textconvert` for PDFs in Git (or e... (more) |
— | 11 months ago |
| Edit | Post #294711 |
Post edited: |
— | 11 months ago |
| Edit | Post #294711 | Initial revision | — | 11 months ago |
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A: "File name too long" when printing a long base64 string. Why? You're not printing it; you're trying to invoke the Base64. And since there isn't a PATH command that matches, your system is trying to look for a script file with that nonsense name to run. Try this last line instead: ```sh echo "$IMGBASE64" ``` Or if you don't care about `output.jpg`... (more) |
— | 11 months ago |
| Edit | Post #294654 |
Post edited: Exposit a little, and mention the ADB workaround. |
— | 12 months ago |
| Edit | Post #294654 | Initial revision | — | 12 months ago |
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A: How does Google's Android developer registration affect sideloading and other stores? F-Droid has a blog post on the announced changes. It contains the excerpt below, emphasis mine: >If it were to be put into effect, the developer registration decree will end the F-Droid project and other free/open-source app distribution sources as we know them today, and the world will be dep... (more) |
— | 12 months ago |
| Comment | Post #294629 |
I don't understand. Are you saying your phone is actually on Wi-Fi and you want it to act as a Wi-Fi repeater to another device? I haven't encountered any phone-based Wi-Fi chips that can do that. There may be some that I don't know about. (more) |
— | 12 months ago |
| Comment | Post #294629 |
Are you implying that your phone has a wired connection and you want to make a hotspot with it? Or that you want a local-only network between the phone and the devices that connect to it? Or something else? (more) |
— | 12 months ago |
| Comment | Post #294557 |
MySQL dumps are indeed mostly text, but you end up with pretty long lines that are not ideal for deltas.
Also, the cache table (whose precise name I forget) can be a mess. Sometimes it can even prevent database restoration. (more) |
— | about 1 year ago |
| Comment | Post #294563 |
That's a neat idea, using the export format[^wxr] to record deltas. I once had to [reverse engineer](https://stackoverflow.com/a/51753994/241211) the format, and glancing back at it, it looks like it'd return results in a consistent order.
It might be annoying to have to run the export after e... (more) |
— | about 1 year ago |
| Comment | Post #294544 |
And the signature files will look like plaintext mostly-garbage characters. (more) |
— | about 1 year ago |
| Comment | Post #294543 |
F-Droid builds its own checkouts of applications. Can it get its own key? (more) |
— | about 1 year ago |
| Edit | Post #294541 | Initial revision | — | about 1 year ago |
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Is there an email client for Plasma Mobile? I've resurrected my Linux phone hardware, set to try it again as a defense against the further subversion of Android as a platform you own in any way. I figured I'd install Plasma Mobile, as I use KDE in general. One thing that surprised me a bit was the lack of an email client installed by de... (more) |
— | about 1 year ago |
| Edit | Post #294534 |
Post edited: Add APKs to the question body since it's in the title |
— | about 1 year ago |
| Edit | Post #294534 | Initial revision | — | about 1 year ago |
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How does Google's Android developer registration affect sideloading and other stores? Google has announced that > Starting next year, Android will require all apps to be registered by verified developers in order to be installed by users on certified Android devices. They claim (emphasis in original) > To be clear, developers will have the same freedom to distribute their... (more) |
— | about 1 year ago |
| Edit | Post #294524 | Initial revision | — | about 1 year ago |
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Why might a PGP-signed email be considered less secure than the same message without a signature? 1. I sent an email to a friend's work address. The email had an attachment, not a lot of text, and was signed (not encrypted) with my PGP signature. 1. They briefly received the email before it was removed from their inbox, presumably by the IT department's filtering. 1. I then sent ostensi... (more) |
— | about 1 year ago |
| Edit | Post #294417 |
Post edited: Footnotes. More MFA. Clarify remote commands. |
— | about 1 year ago |
| Comment | Post #294424 |
What did you mean with the last sentence? Like current versions seem not to get deleted by Windows? Or it works fine with the app deleted? (more) |
— | about 1 year ago |
| Edit | Post #294424 |
Post edited: Proofreading |
— | about 1 year ago |
| Suggested Edit | Post #294424 |
Suggested edit: Proofreading (more) |
helpful | about 1 year ago |