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LibreMonk

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  • Ways to reduce an image file size before posting to social media -- when quality loss is acceptable

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  • I was quite confused when I read your post because Tesseract is an OCR engine. Your link helped sort it out.

    I think I have come across various fedi web clients that do conversions. I think peertube shrinks videos, IIRC. The auto conversions are useful but they must be conservative in the extent of their changes. The posterizing that I do w/Imagemagick makes a dramatic change so it could not be done automatically by a client or server, as users need to review the output and decide. So I believe the best compression will always require manual effort in order to judge whether the quality loss is still acceptable for the application.

    Regarding Tesseract (the lemmy client) -- does that work offline? I’m always looking for a Lemmy client that can briefly connect to sync content and then support reading and writing messages when offline.

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    Dissolving this community, consolidating at programming.dev

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  • It’s important to realise that programming.dev is centralised in Cloudflare, a US-based gatekeeper who is antithetical to fedi principles. When someone looks for an alternative to #Reddit, I imagine they don’t want yet another tech giant. They are looking for a decentralised place that values balance of power.

    So I suggest directing people to !emacs@lemmy.sdf.org instead.

  • How to geocode a list of addresses to a GPX file (on linux or android), ideally without using a service

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  • In my case I need geocoding because I am starting with addresses, not coordinates.

    Nonetheless, I am amazed to hear that chatgpt can write software like that. I am getting out of touch because I boycott Cloudflare, Microsoft, Google, Amazon, Facebook, etc. So I appreciate the tip. Theoretically I could make use of that for my 2nd step of going from DB to GPX file, but I’ll be tempted to try something like gpsbabel first.

  • How to geocode a list of addresses to a GPX file (on linux or android), ideally without using a service

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  • thanks. Indeed I just checked and Nominatim is still viable. I may just do that.

    Though I must say it’s bizarre that such a common need has no software. Everytime I travel somewhere, reviews for interesting restaurants, beer, attractions, etc, only give addresses, not GPS coords. I would expect by now someone would have been driven mad by all the manual entry by hand.

  • Travel @hilariouschaos.com
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    How to geocode a list of addresses to a GPX file (on linux or android), ideally without using a service

  • Travel Tips @feddit.uk
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    How to geocode a list of addresses to a GPX file (on linux or android), ideally without using a service

  • UK Active Travel @feddit.uk
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    How to geocode a list of addresses to a GPX file (on linux or android), ideally without using a service

  • Openstreetmap @feddit.uk
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    How to geocode a list of addresses to a GPX file (on linux or android), ideally without using a service

  • Organic Maps (Unofficial) @sopuli.xyz
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    How to geocode a list of addresses to a GPX file (on linux or android), ideally without using a service

  • OpenStreetMap @fedia.io
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    How to geocode a list of addresses to a GPX file (on linux or android), ideally without using a service

  • Is there a threadiverse app that works offline?

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  • The phone has a 64gb sd card but I would have to cleanup to get a decent amount of space. Luckily text compresses very well. The app would ideally delete content that’s a year old or something so it doesn’t grow out of control.

    There would be no duplication though because a good app would use a proper DB on the disk, not cookies. Kensanada developed a PC app that synchronises with Mastodon. It has a way of only grabbing new content. Though I have no idea if the threadiverse API is as well designed. But isn’t Mastodon and Lemmy both based on the same ActivityPub API?

  • Right to be Offline / Analog / Unplugged 🔌📪📖📟📝 @sopuli.xyz
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    Is there a threadiverse app that works offline?

  • shell @discuss.tchncs.de
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    Can zsh expand short parameters to their long-forms?

  • man needs to evolve. I should be able to type something like “man --custom -- wget -E -H -k -K -p” and get docs on just select options

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  • Really? Zsh expands short parameters to long? My search comes up dry. This is apparently the most comprehensive treatment on the topic:

    https://thevaluable.dev/zsh-expansion-guide-example/

    I don’t see mention of tool options expanding.. just other parameters like variables.

  • man needs to evolve. I should be able to type something like “man --custom -- wget -E -H -k -K -p” and get docs on just select options

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  • Glad to verify my click bait worked. A doc once told me the pinky toe is getting increasingly smaller and will one day go away. So the next notable evolution may be 4 toes.. 2 toenails less to clip!

    I suppose UIs will evolve away from keyboards faster than we evolve to have more fingers.

  • Linux @discuss.tchncs.de
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    man needs to evolve. I should be able to type something like “man --custom -- wget -E -H -k -K -p” and get docs on just select options

  • Rock star died before I could publish his latest work in a liberated way due to CreativeCommons dependency on Cloudflare

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  • indeed that’s the other problem with using archive.org.. the CF dependency is not only still in play but some tech savvy users would still be licking Cloudflare’s boots.

  • The best use of QR codes

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  • A smart attack would be coupled with a clear message. Have the malware clobber them with anti-evil messages and just like that you have a sound free speech defense.

  • The best use of QR codes

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  • Consider florida, where if you are caught with shrooms that are wet, freshly picked, they cannot convict you for carrying contraband because you do not necessarily know what you picked.

    Laws are often based on intent. In some cases, penalties vary depending on intent. It would be an unacceptably brutally harsh law to judge someone under a presumption of harmful intent for something they might have no awareness of.

    QR codes can have icons on them. Certainly if I created such a t-shirt, I would put some cool looking icon in the center of it. Someone being dragged through the system might argue “i did not know that qr code was real.. i just liked the cat in the middle of it”.

  • The best use of QR codes

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  • “Malice” implies intent. Accidents are not malicious. Neglect in the worst case. So certainly any charges could not be based on malice.

  • The best use of QR codes

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  • Not sure but I think QR codes that hold wi-fi creds would more likely be automatically processed by phones. Seems like an adequate attack surface. Maybe dodgy creds could overflow or do some kind of DB attack. Or even legit creds could lead someone to connect to a malicious hot-spot captive portal that the attacker carries.

  • Rock star died before I could publish his latest work in a liberated way due to CreativeCommons dependency on Cloudflare

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  • It depends on which license you look at. E.g. from https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode.txt:

    c. BY-SA Compatible License means a license listed at creativecommons.org/compatiblelicenses, approved by Creative Commons as essentially the equivalent of this Public License.

    It was a while since I looked at this but IIRC the BY license was fine in its early versions but none of the others were. Then I vaguely recall seeing links in later versions of the BY license as well (but that may have been hasty reading on my part since i'm not seeing it in the BY 4.0 ATM). Anyway, it’s a mess.

  • Rock star died before I could publish his latest work in a liberated way due to CreativeCommons dependency on Cloudflare

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  • That doesn’t really work. The URL is an inherent part of the CC license. Archive.org might do link replacement but that does not change the license.. it merely corrupts/misrepresents the license. Users of CC-licensed work are still bound by the actual text of the license. IIRC the URL was to refer to something that changes over time, thus making the license dynamic when archive.org works off of snapshots.

  • Rock star died before I could publish his latest work in a liberated way due to CreativeCommons dependency on Cloudflare

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  • I vaguely recall Richard Stallman bad-mouthing public domain in favor of free licensing. I don’t recall the details but I imagine the artist would at least want attribution, which I doubt the public domain ensures.

    Of course if we could have predicted his death there are many trivial ways we could have ensured his will is expressed and executed. But it may not be a lost cause.. whoever controls the estate would likely know or believe that he wanted to liberate his work.

  • US Law (local/state/federal) ⚖ @lemmy.sdf.org
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    Rock star died before I could publish his latest work in a liberated way due to CreativeCommons dependency on Cloudflare

  • TeX typesetting @lemmy.sdf.org
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    (pdfpages) How to write code that only affects some select pages of a PDF document

  • Paperless office; document/image processing 📷🮕🖥🖻📠🗄🖼📥🧾 @sopuli.xyz
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    Expats: when you receive documents that are not in your language, how do you handle them? (PDF vs DjVu, Tesseract, Argos, etc)

  • It's 2024 and I'm posting this from a text console.

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  • Thanks for the tip. It seems to work but I have to say it’s a rough UX because the UI is really meant for a graphical browser. I could not even paste my UID and PW in to login.

  • It's 2024 and I'm posting this from a text console.

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  • For the same reason, I suppose you would love text adventure games like Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, where you have to come up with your action, as opposed to getting visual aids which come like a loaded question, steering you and somewhat robbing you of control.

  • It's 2024 and I'm posting this from a text console.

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  • indeed.. #NeonModemOverdrive failed for me too.

    So, how did you do post to lemmy.ml? Did you use cURL? If so, I would love to see the sample code.

  • When an EU-based bank forces you to buy a recent smartphone to access your account, what are your rights?

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  • It is exactly that.

    There are ~95 pages of rights and obligations covered in EU Directive 2015/2366, as well as EC Regulation 593/2008. Have you read them, or anything else to substantiate your claim?

    You’re trying to solve the wrong problem.

    There is no such thing as a “wrong problem”.

    You do you. This thread is not about your problems. Start your own thread if you want a different problem worked. In this thread, you can either help solve the problem at hand, or fuck off.