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Re:The University of Minnesota spam filter might have just cost me Sum... on Saturday January 08, 2022 @08:43AM (#29851608)
Go for it. My name's at the bottom of the page and I'm on LinkedIn.
Re:The University of Minnesota spam filter might have just cost me Sum... on Friday January 07, 2022 @10:18PM (#29848297)
Working on it, actually. It's been very hard to find lawyers who will consider taking the job.
Re:The University of Minnesota spam filter might have just cost me Sum... on Friday January 07, 2022 @10:02PM (#29848196)
They were all sent to other umn email addresses of professors in my department. A few of them contained a URL, but many were plain text.

The University of Minnesota spam filter might have just cost me Summa Cum Laude

Posted by mZ6uYffk on Friday January 07, 2022 @08:40PM
from the self-post dept.

This takes the cake for the most damage any bug has ever caused me. You can find the full details here, https://letrosswrite.com/, but that mostly focuses on the bureaucratic side of things. I thought it might be interesting to discuss the technical aspect of the problem.For four months now, the UMN email system has sent most of my outgoing emails related to my honors thesis directly to spam,...

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Re:Chrome Apps are dead, as Google shuts down the Chrome Web Store sec... on Thursday December 07, 2017 @09:53AM (#15870421)
Yes. In chrome only:

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/File_and_Di...

It gives JavaScript access to its very own, empty, sand-boxed VFS. However, you can give the page access to directories manually with drag-n-drop or a directory selecting input tag. So if the app needs access to just one parent directory then you're good to go. If you need the app to have indiscriminate access to the entire filesystem then you might be able to give it C:/ (or whatever other root dir) but I have never actually tried it.