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frontrowseaton Z-Library Aftermath Reveals the Feds Seized Dozens of Domain Names

I heard there were backup / archives. Are they already backup under a new domain?

frontrowseaton Show HN: ReadToMyShoe – An offline-first web app for listening to your articles

> Notice: This is a demo server. Text to speech is expensive. You will be able to add new articles until I have spent $300. This server will be up for about a week.

If this is offline first, then why use a server at all? Why not use the native OS text-to-speech? MacOS has built in text-to-speech and so does Windows (Narrarator?)

frontrowseaton You must sign into a mailbox with Apple Mail to change the default Mac mail app

> You might be prompted to add an email account before you can change the setting in Mail. If you don't want to do that, check the preferences of the other email app. You might be able to set a default email app from there.

It says this, but Microsoft Outlook for Mac does not offer that setting. Apple Mail hides the 'Preferences' until you sign in to a mailbox, in which case it immediately downloads your email

frontrowseaton Two Years and over 700 Websites Later

My next side project, this gave me the goal/hope to keep it under 1mb just to be in this club! The internet is too bloated these days, and I swipe away if it takes even a few seconds to load a webpage. We can all do a little better for our users

frontrowseaton Torus-Earth (2014)

Is discworld worth reading? I've heard mixed reviews on it

frontrowseaton Pentester's Promiscuous Notebook

This is light on examples notably the password brute force & shodan examples