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I never thought I’d see the day that analyzing poems and other texts in my English lessons would have such drastic impact on doing computing (ref the discussion in the GitHub issues thread)
Re:Rack-mount hydroponics on Sunday March 15, 2026 @07:21AM (#47386311)
I found it pretty hard to read without the caps. I guess the punctuation mark is too small for my elderly eyes, and my brain sees it like one gigantic sentence. Perhaps the author of the blog is a fan of Kafka?
Microsoft security patches doesn’t protect you from doing that. Unsupported Win 10 behind firewall is perfectly fine, as long as you use an updated browser
Re:Ask HN: Best AI Code Assistant? on Saturday October 12, 2024 @10:53AM (#41819527)
ChatGPT has a new canvas mode that allows for editing code. I found it very good. Less copy paste than before
Re: on Saturday February 03, 2024 @04:22PM (#39244885)
Twitter user @ghidraninja has published a video where a key extraction attack of a TPM protected Bitlocker encrypted Windows install on a Lenovo laptop is demoed. Link to tweet: https://twitter.com/ghidraninja/status/1753843667003986024?s...
Re:Notcurses: Blingful character graphics/TUI library on Friday February 02, 2024 @07:30PM (#39236395)
There’s also a yt video showing a demo that can be run after installing notcurses: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dcjkezf1ARY

Pretty hefty.

Re:Unshackle: A tool to bypass windows password logins on Thursday July 20, 2023 @03:00PM (#36805152)
Where’s the source code for the binary file called “unshackle” which is used in the solution? (This one: https://github.com/Fadi002/unshackle/raw/main/unshackle)
Love Joplin! I love it so much, my lazy ass actually donated. I spent quite some time searching for open source alternatives that don’t have an ulterior motive. Currently using nextcloud sync and it works. Sometimes the iOS app and the Linux desktop app are out of sync, but a sync fixes that. Would love to see mTLS implemented at some point!
If you accept running Java, the Apache Tika is extremely good at parsing content (https://tika.apache.org/)
Re:BrowserBox Pro goes open-source on Sunday June 25, 2023 @07:56AM (#36467280)
Yeah, that website linked in the GitHub page really didn’t demonstrate the product. It showed the pricing model and that’s it (At least on mobile).