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m4lvin

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m4lvin··on KOReader
really, epub without conversion? Which kindle can do thay?
m4lvin··on Turn your site into a place people can bump into each other
How about these? - rate limit overall messages, maybe even percentage wise: if some ip sent more than 70% of all messages in the last minute, mute it. - let other users mark/report spam and if three others agree something is spam, block all slightly similar messages for 24 hours? - forbid sending the exact same message more than N times per M seconds. - rate limit color change and jump much more.
m4lvin··on Lean, Not Backpressure
Expected Lean 4, the programming language and proof assistant, but got the management philosophy ;-)
m4lvin··on Canvas online again as ShinyHunters threatens to leak schools’ data
As Wikipedia says, "some official plugins proprietary". So "can be" is doing a lot of work in that sentence. I would at most compare it to saying that VS Code is open-source.
m4lvin··on SPEAKE(a)R: Turn Speakers to Microphones for Fun and Profit [pdf] (2017)
Okay, but how do I use this as a replacement when the mic is not working on Linux?
m4lvin··on ReMarkable Paper Pro
I think one reason for the web interface is that the device stays usable. If it would export a block device then it would need to unmount the file system on itself or at least block changes. If I remember correctly in the old days before MTP, all Android did this, making storage on the device itself unavailable while making it available via USB.
m4lvin··on Terence Tao on proof checkers and AI programs
The trick is that the human only needs to read and understand the Lean statement of a theorem and agree that it (with all involved definitions) indeed represents the original mathematical statement, but not the proof. Because that the proof is indeed proving the statement is what Lean checks. We do not need to trust the LLM in any way.

So would I accept a proof made by GPT or whatever? Yes. But not a (re)definition.

The analogy for programming is that if someone manages to write a function with a certain input and output types, and the compiler accepts it, then we do know that indeed someone managed to write a function of that type. Of course we have no idea about the behaviour, but statements/theorems are types, not values :-)

m4lvin··on Apple unveils 'Passwords' manager app at WWDC 2024
pass is the best.

If your phone is android, I'd recommend https://passwordstore.app/ plus syncthing :-)

m4lvin··on Resistance Against Git Merge Hell (2015)
Thanks for making me look up rerere which I first thought would be a typo but actually seems like a really useful thing :-)

https://git-scm.com/book/en/v2/Git-Tools-Rerere

m4lvin··on Find My Device on Android
For anyone looking for a free alternative that works without google play services: https://f-droid.org/packages/de.nulide.findmydevice/
m4lvin··on The ReMarkable Streaming Tool v2: Elevating Remote Work Efficiency
No, but many ereaders at least provide a pin code lock which the rm2 does not.
m4lvin··on Firefox 115 can remotely disable any extension on any site
Once more I an happy to use the ESR version of Firefox where stuff like this tends to only land much later. Add on top of that the Debian patches and default settings and it's a fine user-agent again :-)

Edit: oops, looks like 115 is the next ESR version, does that mean it gets this "feature" but for a long time will not get proper UI go control it? :-(

m4lvin··on A Dutch Village Where Everyone Has Dementia (2014)
They also wrote Wheesp but it should be Weesp.
m4lvin··on The problem with federated web apps
Good point, but I think the feature that I can paste any fediverse URL into the search field on my own mastodon instance and view it there, solves around 40% of the problem.

There are also already browser extensions which automatically redirect you to your own instance I think, but those need access to all browsing :-/

m4lvin··on Everything that uses configuration files should report where they're located
Nice example, which opened a small rabbit hole for me: what does "first occurrence wins" mean for options that are meant to be used multiple times, such as "Port" in sshd_config. The man page only says "Multiple options of this type are permitted.", but now I wonder what happens when I put my own Port into /etc/ssh/sshd_config.d/whatever.conf but leave "Port 22" in sshd_config? Or is the (new since bookworm) default sshd_config commenting it out for this reason?

More generally, for multi-options do we maybe want "first file wins"?

m4lvin··on Manjaro is a free and open source Linux operating system that emphasizes privacy
Come to Debian, tomorrow is the perfect day in fact :-)
m4lvin··on Manjaro is a free and open source Linux operating system that emphasizes privacy
I think PureOS includes GUFW by default. Does that count or do you mean something else by application firewall?
m4lvin··on Manjaro is a free and open source Linux operating system that emphasizes privacy
Okay, but where is the comparison list for Manjaro? ;-)
m4lvin··on 27 years later and the Psion 3a is still wonderful (2020)
The pro1x from fxtec with lineageos plus termux is useful :-)
m4lvin··on Scrcpy: Display and control your Android devices connected over USB or TCP/IP
Cool, thank you!
m4lvin··on Nostr – Decentralized social network
Fun analogy, but I think a better match would be that Thunderbird immediately says that it is an email program.

From my first look I had no idea whether this is an app to connect to Nostr or a completely separate and iOS only network.

m4lvin··on Nostr – Decentralized social network
Can you explain why nostr is (apparently?) your favorite over scuttlebutt? Are the protocols similar?

https://scuttlebutt.nz/

m4lvin··on Nostr – Decentralized social network
How does damus relate to nostr? Your landing page does not explain this at all. Is this because already the concepts of (distinguishing) client and network would be considered too technical for your target audience?
m4lvin··on Scrcpy: Display and control your Android devices connected over USB or TCP/IP
This also solves remote-support problems for me! Afaik there is no VNC Server / TeamViewer / AnyDesk / etc (server!) for Android, but telling someone to plug their phone into some computer I can control is easy enough :-)
m4lvin··on Microsoft plugging more ads into Windows 11 Start Menu
Might as well jump to Nextcloud then :-)
m4lvin··on Pairing With GPT-4
Do you have some explicit examples?
m4lvin··on Ubuntu stops shipping Flatpak by default
But exactly this example got fixed! I maintained "inofficial" debian packages for quite some time, but since Debian bullseye came out `sudo apt install nextcloud-desktop` just works :-)
m4lvin··on Bicycle
Beautiful! Thank you for sharing :-)

(Just saw that you quoted the n+1 rule in the preface, hehe.)

m4lvin··on Bicycle
If I look at the first animation from the right angle and play with the slider then I can see countersteering.
m4lvin··on Lebanon Postpones DST Start 2023
Palestine too.

The changelog of tzdata is a fun read: https://metadata.ftp-master.debian.org/changelogs//main/t/tz...

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