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thinkmassiveon Ask HN: What is the best method for turning a scanned book as a PDF into text?

It’s unclear how this is related to the article, but I’m intrigued by your simple DIY bookbinding process.

It seems straightforward except for the canvas strip (I assume this is part of the binding?), and whether you add thicker pages/boards on each side as covers.

Do you have any photos of the process, or at least of a finished product? Thanks!

thinkmassiveon French police free kidnapped Ledger executive

It’s been implemented, for example: https://github.com/wizardsardine/liana

thinkmassiveon More than 140 Kenya Facebook moderators sue after diagnoses of PTSD

My guess is False Positive. Weird abbreviation to use though.

thinkmassiveon Two never-before-seen tools, from same group, infect air-gapped devices

Here’s some similar devices that already exist:

https://seedsigner.com/

https://foundation.xyz/passport/

https://store.blockstream.com/products/blockstream-jade-hard...

thinkmassiveon Helping wikis move away from Fandom

    s/cloudflare/a CDN/

thinkmassiveon Show HN: Oodle – serverless, fully-managed, drop-in replacement for Prometheus

I’m curious what you think it means to be "open source compatible"

thinkmassiveon U.S. court orders LibGen to pay $30M to publishers, issues broad injunction

> Why aren't … operating solely as an onion service on TOR?

> They’re not on TOR because

Any downsides to being available on many decentralized overlay networks in addition to plain https, other than (compute/net/human) resources?

thinkmassiveon Show HN: Oodle – serverless, fully-managed, drop-in replacement for Prometheus

The primary benefit of FOSS is the ability to inspect and patch the software yourself. Another important benefit for any large FOSS project is knowing it’s been heavily reviewed.

Protocol compatibility is a baseline requirement for a drop-in replacement. Without that, your product would need to be like 10x cheaper than Prometheus for anyone to consider devoting engineering resources to switching to it.

Existing FOSS solutions are reliable and inexpensive enough, not even considering the effort and unknowns involved with swapping out a major component of the observatory stack. Between that, your distorted view of open source, and your focus on checkbox compliance, I’m unlikely to ever consider trying your software. I wish you luck though, and I hope you learn more about the value of FOSS.

thinkmassiveon Show HN: Oodle – serverless, fully-managed, drop-in replacement for Prometheus

Is it SaaS-only?

thinkmassiveon Drift towards danger and the normalization of deviance (2017)

A flap disc is the more general solution for surface prep and grinding, as opposed to cutting.

thinkmassiveon Bitcoin puzzle #66 was solved: 6.6 BTC (~$400k) withdrawn

If electricity is being used to generate heat (for a house, hot tub, etc), and that heat happens to be generated by a bitcoin miner, is it more or less wasteful than only using the electricity to generate heat?

thinkmassiveon The "email is authentication" pattern

Collaborative custody multisig providers have been in business for years. Recently even Block (CashApp etc) has introduced a product with this feature.

By geographically distributing your signing devices you improve both security and reliability. One of those keys can be hosted by a third party to be used for recovery, without providing them any ability to touch your funds without your involvement.

thinkmassiveon Linus Torvalds talks AI, Rust, & why Linux is the only thing that matters

> He talks of a new memory safe kernel disrupting Linux the way Linux disrupted others.

So the next paragraph means:

> Maybe rust should have never been allowed in the [Linux] kernel in the first place.

thinkmassiveon Nitric Is Terraform for Developers

Ok that makes sense, it’s like an ORM for terraform for developers, cool

thinkmassiveon Nitric Is Terraform for Developers

CDK is literally terraform for developers:

https://www.terraform.io/cdktf

https://github.com/hashicorp/terraform-cdk

thinkmassiveon SREBench Competition

If only there were a software engineering discipline that focused on these types of issues /s

thinkmassiveon USPS text scammers duped his wife, so he hacked their operation

When a lawyer posts on a forum topic related to the law they usually tell you they’re a lawyer, but not your lawyer and it’s not legal advice.

Safe to assume everyone else is not a lawyer.

thinkmassiveon Judge Fines Ripple $125M, Bans Future Securities Law Violations

On top of the ICO there were some shenanigans with the early ledger (oops our servers ran out of memory), making the whole thing that exists today based on "trust us bro, we promise there’s exactly as many coins as we say there are"

It’s not really exciting, mostly just disappointing they’re still in business, but anyone who wants to learn more can look up: XRPL genesis block

thinkmassiveon Bring crypto back to currency

> Bitcoin was fundamentally flawed due to the built-in scarcity, so obviously the price would go up. The ideal currency has a constant, predictable 2-4% inflation to promote the velocity of money and prevent stagnation.

Bitcoin is open source, fork it with your preferred settings and convince others to join your network.

Bitcoin maximalists claim tail emission will never happen, but that’s just an opinion.

thinkmassiveon In the Beginning Was the Command Line (1999)

Tab completion can get you much of the way there.

thinkmassiveon L402: The Missing Piece in the Internet's Payment Infrastructure

Yes, the spec is open and contributed to by the main implementations, all open source.

https://github.com/lightning/bolts

https://github.com/lightningnetwork/lnd

https://github.com/ElementsProject/lightning

https://github.com/ACINQ/eclair

https://github.com/lightningdevkit/rust-lightning

thinkmassiveon Trump injured but ‘fine’ after attempted assassination at rally

You could own a fleet of ships all outfitted with many cannons

thinkmassiveon Maximizing Terraform modules for platform engineering

It’s an ad for a tool that claims to generate terraform IaC code based on analysis of application code. Sounds cool if it actually works, but I’m skeptical.

thinkmassiveon Nintendo leak:employee accessing private YouTube videos

Title is difficult to decipher, here’s what it’s about:

> A new report on old privacy incidents [2017] suggests that at least one Nintendo leak came from a Google employee showing off private YouTube videos to a friend.

thinkmassiveon Take a look at Traefik, even if you don't use containers

Caddy is primarily a web server like nginx and apache httpd. Traefik and HAproxy are primarily reverse proxies.

thinkmassiveon How to Use JSON Path

kubectl has JSON Path support built in, it’s very useful

https://kubernetes.io/docs/reference/kubectl/jsonpath/

thinkmassiveon IBM to buy HashiCorp in $6.4B deal

https://opentofu.org/

https://openbao.org/

Backed by the Linux Foundation

thinkmassiveon h5ai – modern HTTP web server index

> Initially h5ai was an acronym for HTML5 Apache Index but now it supports other web servers too.

The project was last updated 3 years ago. Seems like an unintentional naming collision.

thinkmassiveon Satoshi – Sirius emails 2009-2011

Digital Cash: The Unknown History of the Anarchists, Utopians, and Technologists Who Created Cryptocurrency

by Finn Brunton

thinkmassiveon Ask HN: Should open-source projects allow disabling telemetry?

Digger collects Github user and repository names. No attempt is made to obfuscate the data, these are sent in the clear.

This level of incompetence borders on malice, regardless of intent.