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Hui, and more fancy open source software:

languagetool.org/

Advanced grammar help, sponsored by the European Union, published as free software. And free to use in the basic configuration, with some additional, more business focused tools which are available at a higher price tier.

Want to run it yourself? Here you go:

github.com/languagetool-org/la

#grammer #language #freesoftware #writing

@sheogorath There's no Norwegian, which is a Schengen country, but there's Russian and Persian. What?

During these times of quarantines and self-isolation, I'm challenging all my contacts with Apple Watch to a 7-day competition. Send me your iCloud e-mail address or phone number, and I will send you the invitation.

I have been struggling with this for a while, and can't manage to find an explanation or a fix for it. My Alpine machine isn't running crontabs for non-root users. Why does this happen? Also, how can I make a script in root's crontab be run as a different user?

@amolith@masto.nixnet.xyz I think I had that issue. I fixed i by signing up for Google Postmaster Tools (I believe that was its name).

@amolith@masto.nixnet.xyz you mean to say they're rejecting the IP? Odd.

@amolith@masto.nixnet.xyz I just realised something.

I also have an .xyz domain, and some online services reject me signing up with domains wih such TLD. Perhaps Google will never stop tagging your mail as spam.

I've noticed some of my .one domains failing to resolve intermittently. Has any of you experienced the same? It's pretty weird.

xda-developers.com/mediatek-su Huge, very easy to exploit MediaTek vulnerability leaves Android devices completely unprotected, and it is being used in the wild right now.

Crossposted from Twitter 

Success is not a good teacher, failure makes you humble. - Shah Rukh Khan

"The only Zen you can find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there."

-- Robert M. Pirsig

@quad The Motorola Atrix dock was fucking awesome tbh but ok

nasa.gov/content/hubbles-mirro

Did you know that, before being able to swap out the optical apparatus of the Hubble telescope, a temporary fix was applied using the Fourier Transform by means of modelling the image transformation on Earth, and just reversing it?

Computer Science is fascinating indeed.

Crossposted from Twitter 

“All men dream, but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds, wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act on their dreams with open eyes, to make them possible.” - T. E. Lawrence

@disroot Force e-mail to use TLS 1.2 for all clients using IMAP and authenticated SMTP, but allow weak ciphers and even plaintext on submission (port 25). Weak encryption is better than none and there are old, unmaintained mail servers.

Clients, however, can be told to upgrade. That's how it should be.

@amolith@masto.nixnet.xyz I have been, for the last 6 years, consistently saying that Computer Scientists / Engineers do NOT know how to code. And I have usually been met with extremely angry responses from undergrads who would then proceed to write the most hedious code as a counter-example to my claim. Funny :P

@null0x0 it's pretty good. Slightly obsolete OVH hardware with no technical support beyond the bare minimum and excellent pricing.

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