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amaccuish··on Abogen – Generate audiobooks from EPUBs, PDFs and text
Amazing, but I'm personally waiting for the one that generates a well formated ePub from a PDF.
amaccuish··on Cops say criminals use a Google Pixel with GrapheneOS – I say that's freedom
I'm a happy CalyxOS user for precisely this reason.
amaccuish··on Howdy – Windows Hello style facial authentication for Linux
That, and TPM integrated WebAuthN.
amaccuish··on Google is using AI to censor independent websites like mine
Ye, Apple just doesn't support PWAs fully because they're "pretty content with the money they may from the app store".
amaccuish··on The Awful German Language (1880)
> Curiously, saying “Die Mad” would be as uncommon – at least nowadays – as saying “Das Knäbchen”.

I liked that The Handmaids Tale in German is der Report der Magd.

amaccuish··on How Obama’s BlackBerry got secured (2013)
Quite agree, I find it really sad. The most that is out there was about the BlackBerry Enterprise Server, but the docs were always light on details. And yes that one BlackHat presentation about SRP.

I'd love to know more about the GPRS side of things, how their NOCs were connected to carriers, etc.

amaccuish··on LibreLingo – FOSS Alternative to Duolingo
Weirdly enough, a 3 year old kid is not the same as an adult. The same learning methods do not necessarily apply.
amaccuish··on Daily driving a Linux phone, but why?
It should be said though that only Pixel, Fairphone, and maybe some Motorolas support relocking the bootloader with a custom OS.

Without that ability, anyone can plug in to your phone and write whatever they want to the internal flash and your phone will be none the wiser.

amaccuish··on My Beancount books are 95% automatic after 3 years (2024)
Another Hibiscus fan.

I'm pretty sure FinTS/HBCI is a mostly only used here in Germany sadly. Which is a shame because all this "OpenBanking" stuff requires registering/paying/certificates etc.

amaccuish··on IPv6 Is Hard
My resolved in its default configuration will try appending .local and search via mDNS if no results are found via the DHCP provided server. I believe macOS does the same.

Ping foo on my machine results in foo.local being successfully pinged. Your mileage may vary.

> would potentially use mDNS if you have a ping that does such a thing

It's not a feature of ping, it's a feature of the name resolution setup on your machine (nsswitch and/or resolved on Linux).

> Rather, most routers add DHCP hostname requests to the local DNS routes

What do you mean?

amaccuish··on IPv6 Is Hard
>that's not mDNS that's just dhcp+dns

Actually mDNS does exactly what they said just fine. You’re confusing it with the ability of a DHCP server to make updates in DNS on behalf of clients. There is more than one way to skin the cat. Both achieve the same affect, just differently.

> nor do they necessarily ever consider your local DNS server.

Hardcoded DNS servers are just as equally a thing with IPv4.

amaccuish··on So you want to build your own data center
These reads like you learned one cloud platform and expected all others to be the same.
amaccuish··on A web app to read Latin texts with inline translations
Nice, and didn't realise Latin behaves like German by swapping the order of verbs at the end.
amaccuish··on Is Iceland getting ready to join the EU?
Switzerland is both a member of Schengen (meaning no border checks) and its nationals enjoy FoM (via bilateral arrangements). They don't need work visas.
amaccuish··on Ten Years of JMAP
The problem is that in IMAP the concept of labels doesn't exist. Thus they are implemented using folders, which is a concept in IMAP. But that issue is, a message is then in multiple folders (to reflect that it has multiple labels), but in the way this happens in IMAP, they are different messages, even if the content is the same. And thus I can imagine, automated programs, not aware of this, may for example see 2 invoices (because the email has 2 labels) rather than 1.
amaccuish··on Ten Years of JMAP
But there’s no calendar or contacts support with stalwart right?
amaccuish··on Kannel: Open-Source WAP and SMS Gateway
> The DOM might not even be based on HTML, not sure about that.

IIRC the page is loaded server side, javascript executed, and then essentially a screenshot taken, and some markup to show where the links and buttons are.

amaccuish··on Re: [PATCH 1/2 v2] bcachefs: do not use PF_MEMALLOC_NORECLAIM
Yes, would suggest something like "CoC Restricts Kent Overstreet's Linux Kernel Participation".
amaccuish··on TCP over TCP is a bad idea (2000)
Ye I think there's either more to the story or a misconfiguration. I've done WireGuard at Azure, Hetzner, and AWS. All work fine.
amaccuish··on Windows 11 24H2 hoards 8.63 GB of junk you can't delete
> We know MacOS is Unix.

We're obviously talking about Linux, not "Unix", and based on the whole conversation you should know that. Thanks for your input.

> If ChromeOS and Android

One is traditionally used on a laptop/desktop, one on a phone, not sure why you're conflating the two.

And the point is, if you are "just using a web browser", desktop linux has done this for decades. And Chrome OS is definitely a desktop linux distro, why do you not consider it to be one?

amaccuish··on Turkish language has a gossip tense
As the other commenter said, perfect is the aspect, so the internal structure of an event, very important e.g. in Slavic languages. Your confusion leaves the door open to doubt on your actual knowledge of linguistics.
amaccuish··on Turkish language has a gossip tense
What "Turkish schools" call it is irrelevant, it adds "colour" to an event. Just because the events happen to be in the past, does not make the Inferential Mood a tense. An event can be in the past but factual.
amaccuish··on Windows 11 24H2 hoards 8.63 GB of junk you can't delete
> If all you do is use a web browser, you might as well just use a chromebook.

Which is Linux.

amaccuish··on Windows 11 24H2 hoards 8.63 GB of junk you can't delete
Quite, not sure why american puritanism needs to be exported.
amaccuish··on FreeBSD: How Can We Make It More Attractive to New Users?
For some, but I like having the same thing run everywhere, there's less mental load.
amaccuish··on OS/2 TCPBEUI Name Resolution
OS/2 Museum is one of the few sites that can feed my weird fascination with Netware and the old NT domain stuff, it’s great for getting an insight like you said in to the pre TCP/IP world.
amaccuish··on 12 Months of Mandarin
But the idea of chinese becoming useful in our lifetimes has more to do with chinese speakers in PRC and not in the diaspora.
amaccuish··on Git Bash is my preferred Windows shell
> I literally just said he wasn’t just comparing Git Bash with Powershell though

That's great that you think that, maybe delta_p_delta_x had a different takeaway. Why do you believe your opinion about what the cornerstone of the article is to be fact?

> If there’s one thing I can’t stand in IT, it’s people who think their personal preferences (or opinions) are equivalent to impartial facts.

amaccuish··on Windows NT vs. Unix: A design comparison
> What happens if you have an extensible app, say Microsoft Office, which enumerated it's own subkeys to discover 3rd party plugins?

Then you have Microsoft Office/Plug-Ins/plugin-guid, whereby Plug-Ins is user writable

> What if an app provides COM services and needs to write that to a centralized location that is enumerated to discover available COM services?

If it is providing services it can write, if it enumerates it can read. You can also have multiple levels, like HKLM (machine) and HKLU (the user).

> What if your app happens to be a god-awful HP Print Center app with it's own print drivers and a Windows Service, where it needs to write to a central location that is enumerated for device drivers and Windows Services?

May God help you. No, but you would have, again like above, a central location you could write to. Up to the Admin if Joe can write to this location or only privileged processes.

It's just, a lot of this was not enforced, only partially (from the windows side when it looks for things), so for everyone else, it's a free for all.

The biggest disadvantage on the Linux side is that something like Group Policy is ridiculously difficult, because every app has it's own location and DSL, and sometimes you have one, central, config file, and sometimes the app is considerate with something like override.d.

amaccuish··on Windows NT vs. Unix: A design comparison
Everyone says, oh /etc is fine, but no registry. But let's be honest, on a user workstation, /etc is only one of many places where config can be found.
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