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This is a really important article but just got flagged (why?) so I'm reposting it.

Original submission is at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47325280

https://archive.is/TEwfi

When I worked at IBM in ‘98 Lotus Notes was the default email client for all employees - we referred to it internally as “Bloatus Goats” such was the disdain we had for it.

Don't bother, I tried with a disposable email address and they make you subscribe to a mailing list before sending you the download link. When you do eventually get it, it's a 3 page puff marketing PDF.

I converted it to TXT and pulled out the only bit of interest here:

                  Collabora Office                              Collabora Office Classic
                  Fresh, modern UX                                Classic, established UX
  Javascript & CSS UI to match Collabora Online                    VCL-based classic UI
       Simpler settings / streamlined defaults           Very extensive options, menus & dialogs
                       No Java                       Java used for some features/wizards/DB drivers
                 No built-in Base app                                Includes Base UI
                     Runs macros                    Full macro editor & advanced BASIC/Python/UNO
      Modern web tech (Canvas, WebGL, CSS)                         Custom toolkit (VCL)
     Fast to iterate (edit JS, fewer recompiles)      Core/C++ changes typically require recompiles
   Initial release – Enterprise Support is coming            Long term Enterprise Supported
       Quick Start Guides and video tutorials                  Extensive manuals & books

It’s ok - The Winchester is within walking distance.

I live in the UK now, have done for 40+ years and there are (still) automated car washes everywhere.

Have you considered https://tiller.com/ ? They can pull feeds in and refresh automatically but have a big privacy play so that only you get to see your finances (and display and manage it in Excel or Google Sheets).

I'd recommend using Outline - it's a one click setup that lets you provision your own VPN on a cloud provider (or your own hardware).

Since you get to pick where the hardware is located and it is just you (or you and a small group of friends & family) using the VPN, blocking is more difficult.

If you don't want the hassle of using your own hardware you can rent a Digital Ocean droplet for <$5 per month.

https://getoutline.org/

The video is wild - Waymo support apparently struggles to remotely control the car.

https://archive.ph/AKASQ

Actually multi-focal contact lenses are a thing.

I was surprised to hear this too, since I wondered how they could work in practice - there’s a handy explainer here if you are interested:

https://www.warbyparker.com/learn/how-do-multifocal-contacts...

It's worse than that - an attacker on the same local network as the target machine can tie up the legitimate DHCP server by reserving all available addresses and then start advertising themselves as an alternate DHCP server (to inject the malicious routing to the target).

Clicky:

2023 → https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34482433

2022 → https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29995152

2021 → https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29667095

2020 → https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24947167

https://web.archive.org/web/20231122121846/https://www.washi...

https://archive.ph/wqONd

The original post did not come off as condescending to me, but instead just highlighted how BigCorp cloud marketing departments have an incentive to sell developers on “infrastructure is tough, just pay us”. (I say this as a consumer of AWS services and fan of their products).

“Assume good faith”[1]

[1]https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Currently OCR support is limited to PDF > TXT conversion but we're hoping to add support for other output formats at some point. Feel free to shoot me an email at chris [at] zamzar [dot] com if you'd like to chat further.

If you just need to convert the files have you thought about using Zamzar (https://dev.zamzar.com/)?

We have a file conversion API that supports DOC/DOCX/ODT/PDF/TEX to Markdown conversion in one line of cURL (or you programming language of choice).

(Disclaimer: I'm the product lead for the Zamzar API).

To avoid the hostile pop-over on the linked page: https://archive.ph/MhJGP

*Her

You can install "nyx" to check what's going on:

https://nyx.torproject.org/

There's a great 10 episode Podcast on this debacle on BBC Sounds:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/series/m000jf7j

It's really well paced and includes contributions from many of the sub-postmasters affected by this scandal.

TL;DR Lone Norwegian physician proclaims he’s pretty sure there’s no other link to blood clots, so it must be the AZ vaccine. Flying in the face of the European Medical Agency[1], the World Health Organisation and the UK’s medicines regulator.

[1]https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-56440139

Actually it’s possible for people to have opinions on matters where they are not a published author or academic.

Also “little mice noisily speculating about the state of the world” is a pretty good summary of a lot of academia.

You are looking at page 30. See the next slide. Title is “What best describes your company’s average Month-Over-Month (MOM) growth rate over the past 3 months?”

There is a slide on page 31 showing revenue growth expressed as a percentage.

Indeed. Fortunately for us free speech doesn't guarantee access to an active Twitter account.

“To date, no court has tried evidence, nor have any administrations publicly committed to audits”

Trump’s team has notched up over 60 losses in court so far.[1]

“They are being told by the other side that there is no evidence, but this is the same other side they think have been lying to them for years, so of course these people will not believe the other side.”

Actually at this point they are being told that by senior leaders from their own side - see the statements from Republicans Brad Raffensperger and Mitch McConnell this week.

[1]https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/zoetillman/trump-electi...

They were literally just given the right to exercise their voices in a democratic election. That’s the opposite of silence.

Estimated that >1% of the UK population (769K) were concurrently on the site before GA topped out.