[0] https://native.live/ -- HN Discussion @ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32694668
Anyone know of any solutions that perform TTS on PDFs and the such?Basically something like https://speechify.com but open sourced. The motivation, if not already apparent, is to self-host and not pay for something that maybe easily bubblegum + taped together....maybe.
I'm interested in getting hands-on-experience on applying security exploits to my personal website. I'm a developer, but know an embarrassingly little amount of applied security exploits. I'm curious about this.From a previous post, it seems to me the suggestions for DDOS'ing (as a low-bar way to exploit) converge on hitting a expensive query/operation many times and this can be aided by...
Am curious about simulating cyber attacks (e.g. DDOS) on my own little website, for my curiosity. Am a software developer but know embarrassingly little about security and exploits.Should mention I have a few laptops (2020 Macbook Pros) at my disposal to act as DIY Botnets.
https://twitter.com/hides_minimally/status/13487046708820377...
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Aaron Swartz @aaronsw died by suicide eight years ago. He represents a kind of left-libertarian current that's lost among present technologists —our generation centers the debate on regulating the internet or, most radically, democratizing platforms.
After @aaronsw attempted to communize academic intellectual property, the state destroyed Aaron, while Bush administration officials, Wall Street, and British Petroleum executives walked with impunity.
And therefore, some have pointed out that, despite both MIT and JSTOR not wishing to press charges, the state slamming @aaronsw with 35 years in jail and $1M in fines was a prosecutorial overreach and a grotesque miscarriage of justice.
No,@aaronsw committed a transgression intolerable in capitalist society. The state brutalized him not on the basis of legal injustice but because what he did struck at the heart of our society and property relations. What he did was like the digital version of burning down Target
In a framework that is animated by capital, the state did the right thing: you can't just let people like @aaronsw vandalize and loot intellectual property. You have to go after him. If you don't, then there's nothing worth prosecuting.
For me a couple of interesting technology products that help me in my day-to-day job1. Hasura 2. Strapi 3. Forest Admin (super interesting although I cannot ever get it to connect to a hasura backend on Heroku ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ 4. Integromat 5. AppgyverThere are many others that I have my eye on such as NodeRed[6], but have yet to use. I do realise that these are all low-code related, however, I would...
> At Digg, one mentor gave me the savvy advice that the fastest path to financial success was working for four years at three different just-about-to-IPO companies. A surefire way to retire by forty. (This is, for the record, pretty good advice.)https://lethain.com/forty-year-career/What are other fastest paths to financial success? Currently am a software engineer, so looking for advice in...