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Living Room / Re: Does anyone here use Bitcoins?
« Last post by wraith808 on July 12, 2019, 11:09 PM »
The largest argument against mining bitcoin: https://www.bbc.com/...logy-48853230?utm_ca
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General Software Discussion / Re: Looking for AsciiDoc editor
« Last post by wraith808 on July 10, 2019, 12:28 PM »
CommonMark had the potential of standardizing things until the creator of Markdown spoke against it.  Some people are avoiding it for just that reason.  I've created documentation in Markdown before and output it to different formats quite easily using Pandoc, or even just the converter in Sublime Text.

Though there are many variations that implement different things that the baseline Markdown don't, I find that much of it is just window dressing.
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That's a really cool idea!  We did something similar at one point, but didn't have the cool props!
1004
Look for the attribute window.top500.  That seems to have the whole thing in a JSON Array.

Formatted in JSON: https://cryptpad.fr/...OWmXWr2g5B7vWz4MVl0/
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Screenshot Captor / Re: Turn off automatic saving of screenshots
« Last post by wraith808 on July 01, 2019, 06:15 PM »
How are you pasting it?  I copy to the clipboard from the dialog that comes up, and never save to disk.
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Living Room / Re: Is it possible to change the buttons in Motorola G7?
« Last post by wraith808 on June 27, 2019, 03:07 PM »
Have you looked online for the reference manual?  It would answer the questions better than we could.
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Living Room / Re: Some of rock's greatest riffs may be up for grab
« Last post by wraith808 on June 24, 2019, 01:11 PM »
Interesting but it seems that there should be a simple legal way to amend this. IE resubmit the copyrights in their entirety, and the actual holder/creator gets first rights to copyright them within a certain time frame.

Nothing with IP/Copyright is ever simple, and I'm sure that someone would make it more difficult to push through.
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I mean in the bar at the bottom.  I'm not sure if SlimJet shows it's downloads in the bottom bar...
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Thought my screenshot via Screenshot Captor wasn't that bad!

So it's not working for you - well, my Brave sync code isn't registering on their service, so i guess we're even!

VirusTotal extension is a good addition for (Firefox and) Slimjet (or Chrome based clones):
https://chrome.googl...aegfbieplglfidafgoka



I don't use brave sync, or really _any_ sync.  And yeah, that screenshot illustrates what I meant; I didn't even realize that you had a download in the bar at the bottom; I thought you were talking about the popup!
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Living Room / Some of rock's greatest riffs may be up for grab
« Last post by wraith808 on June 24, 2019, 09:49 AM »
...because copyright laws are stupid.



Do you know what a deposit copy is?  I never knew until I read this article on Bloomberg.  from the article

<snip...> “deposit copy,” as it’s called, is a spare document handwritten by a record company scribe who listened to the record and then distilled it into only 124 notes of piano music. The reverse engineering was required to comply with U.S. law, which before 1978 allowed songs to be registered only via sheet music “deposited” in Washington.

deposit_copies.png
The first pages of the deposit copies of some songs you may know. Note the spareness; the courts are working out whether song elements that aren’t shown are copyright protected.
PHOTO: COURTESY LIBRARY OF CONGRESS

Let that sit for a second.  That spare amount for Stairway to Heaven, for example, doesn't include the most recognized portions of the song.

“You would agree that there’s no solo on the deposit copy … of Stairway to Heaven, which was deposited with the office?”

“Yeah, we—I agree with that. It’s not in there, no,” Page said.

Malofiy then pointed to the first measure. On the record, Stairway begins with a finger-picked introduction—one of the most recognizable musical passages of the past half-century, mimicked by millions of aspiring guitarists. That iconic intro, Malofiy said, “That’s not represented in the deposit copy?”

“No,” Page said. “You’re correct.”

That's just... mind-blowing.

more at https://www.bloomber...rock-riffs-loophole/
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I mean in the bar at the bottom.  I'm not sure if SlimJet shows it's downloads in the bottom bar like Chrome and Brave, but when it shows down there, I can't read the text with Material Pro.
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The brave theme just has the grey for the active tab, which I find noticeable enough.  I tried that dark material pro, and I see where it's the inverse of that.  But I can't read the downloads with that installed as easily.

But it's good that we have options so that everyone can get what they want!
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you are not the author of FB2Mate, so how can >you< be launching it on chrome's store?


Launching as in installing, I took it.  English might not be their native language?
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Living Room / Re: Interesting "stuff"
« Last post by wraith808 on June 20, 2019, 07:41 AM »
You can upgrade Windows 10 S to Windows 10 Pro easily enough:

https://pureinfotech...10-s-windows-10-pro/
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Finished Programs / Re: ZIP to PHP converter
« Last post by wraith808 on June 19, 2019, 01:05 PM »
I'm glad someone is still using it... I'd not seen this before!
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General Software Discussion / Re: Non automated time trackers
« Last post by wraith808 on June 18, 2019, 07:58 AM »
Anuran does this.  An old NANY entry, but I still use it because I'm terrible at tracking time.
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General Software Discussion / Re: Switching.social
« Last post by wraith808 on June 16, 2019, 06:57 PM »
Well, I use OneDrive for most of my heavy lifting.  It's just too good of a deal not to do so.  I was using Dropbox for more of the project-centric stuff that I want to access across devices and use with Apps.  That's what my primary negative reaction to the Dropbox thing is about- it's ubiquitous in apps now.  But they're limiting it to three devices total, which doesn't really work unless you just don't have devices.  I don't know of anything that's in as many apps as Dropbox is, unfortunately.
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General Software Discussion / Re: Switching.social
« Last post by wraith808 on June 15, 2019, 03:18 PM »
How many times do you have to get kicked before you realize that free services aren't free?

Dropbox has recently made a change so that you can only link to 3 devices on a free service.  And by link, that means use on a mobile device.  They spent all of that time getting people to buy into their API and share their service to get more space, and now in order to squeeze the last bit as they're entrenched are restricting the number of devices.

So how it relates to this thread... how are the sharing/syncing services here working out for everyone?  I'm definitely a lot more interested in this now.
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Note: Comment section on Dissenter is built on Gab.
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Living Room / Re: grabby mouse pad
« Last post by wraith808 on June 10, 2019, 10:26 PM »
Personally, I have had excellent experiences headphones from the brand Sennheiser. But those are hard to get here, and that was years ago. Sony's mid-tier or better headphones are good too.

That is the brand that I'm currently using, and they're readily available on Amazon.
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Living Room / Re: grabby mouse pad
« Last post by wraith808 on June 10, 2019, 06:33 PM »
You mean from the ones at your link?  Or just in general (just trying to relate the link to the question)
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General Software Discussion / Re: Looking for AsciiDoc editor
« Last post by wraith808 on June 09, 2019, 01:26 PM »
It's at times like this that we had a simple way to vote up.  Been a bit busy today, but planned to answer exactly the above.  :Thmbsup:
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Living Room / Re: Why do I need a router?
« Last post by wraith808 on June 07, 2019, 08:09 AM »
What IP Address did the ISP's router assign to your laptop? If it is a private range address (like 192.168.x.x) then you are fine. If it is a public range IP Address, then the above is quite dangerously true.

This.  And if you're connected directly, I have no question that it's a public range.  The router serves as a buffer between you and the internet, and most (all?) include a hardware firewall.  Don't trust your local one on this.  I'd not be surprised if something hasn't already hit your laptop if you don't have a firewall installed.  And if you do, I'd still not be surprised.  I did it one time because I didn't believe that the reports were true of just how much bad stuff was out there.  I took a decommissioned laptop and connected it directly.  It was amazing at how little time it took to be attacked. 

If you're reading this right now on that laptop, disconnect.  Wait until you get a router.  Then thoroughly check to make sure that nothing is on there.  You can also buy your own (they don't really tell you that) and skip the monthly fee in exchange an up-front cost.
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I've been able to find out what my problem was (it was the fact that I had Muon still installed), so though there are a few hiccups, Brave is now my main browser.  And I have 20 BAT for my ad earnings since that time.  It took me a while to figure out that I needed to set it to only contribute to sites that were verified, so I still have 43 BAT in outstanding pledges.  My contributions in addition to DC are to Brave, NPR, bleeping computer, and the friendica instance I'm on (which gets most of mine at 59%).
1024
Has she considered something like a Surface Pro? It has a small enough form factor that she can easily tuck it in her backpack and take it virtually everywhere, but it's still a powerful enough machine (if you're willing to spend the money for the higher tier models) to do most anything she'd want.


I considered offering that up as an option, as I have one and it's one of the best things in my toolbox.  But the price consideration was what held me back from offering that up.
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i5 or i7, 2.8GHz or faster processor, with 16GB RAM is not very high end on the specs department.  And I think he meant that the Thunderbolt requirement was a bit overkill, as most laptops that you'd find with it are a bit much.  I was going to suggest something like an Inspiron 5480.  It doesn't have the Thunderbolt, but does have a discrete NVidia card and is only $900 base with 16GB and i7.  Add on tax shipping and the requisite warranty and you're looking a little north of 1100.  Buying a laptop with the idea of adding an eGPU makes no sense to me for most uses.

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