I’ve scanned a book with my phone and uploaded to Z-Library before when it was a book I couldn’t find online at all. Not a great quality pdf, but as someone who wanted to read the book for research and ended up having to buy a paper copy, I would’ve still preferred that pdf to nothing; it was still perfectly readable.

Like another commenter said, to get a good-quality pdf you’d have to take the spine off. Also note that it is really time-consuming and tedious to scan a book by hand (I assume there are machines that can automate it, but normal people don’t have those). Big respect to people who do it regularly, but you may not want to be one of those people.

Anna’s doesn’t take uploads. They just redistribute files uploaded to other platforms.

Then I don’t think that would be the most effective way because most people aren’t paying that much attention, independently of knowledge. What would tip me off to it being a scam would be other parts of the email.

The point schnurrito was making is that even if you know what an IP address is and what are valid or invalid IP addresses, a lot of people won’t read the IP address. They’ll just see numbers and skim over them. Even if you’re keeping eyes peeled for scams, most people don’t have their IP address memorised off the top of their heads so they wouldn’t be looking to check if the IP address looks right or not.

Most people who build software from source do it for reasons other than trust. Could be for fun (I imagine the main reason why people do Linux From Scratch), could be for the same reason that compels some people to use Gentoo lol. OP didn’t say what their motivation was.

edit: nvm, in other comments OP has said they’re concerned about an xz style of backdoor. In any case, I would still be interested to read about someone trying what OP is suggesting.

Except you can already download and run models on your local machine for free with ollama. Price raising might at least calm the AI craze with the normies though. Probably not with developers who know how to run LLMs locally.

I’ve found scans of books I’ve done myself on their search :)

That’s concerning. If it was “I generated a function with an LLM and reviewed it myself” I’d be much less concerned, but 14k added lines and 10k removed lines is crazy. We already know that LLMs don’t generate up to scratch code quality…

I won’t use PostgreSQL with ntfy, and keep an eye on it to see if they continue down this path for other parts of ntfy. If so I’ll have to switch to another UP provider.

This isn’t gen Z slang. It’s largely butchered AAVE (which is an entirely valid dialect with its own internally consistent grammar and vocabulary). Many such cases.

There are different server implementations. I run tuwunel and haven’t had problems. It seems about as performant on my VPS (8GB RAM, 4 CPUs at 2.4 GHz, hosting other services not just tuwunel) as matrix.org was when I used that.

It’s great to see a mainstream OEM work with GOS. I really hope Motorola will make phones with an actual headphone jack. That’s my no. 1 complaint about modern Pixel hardware.

I don’t. I don’t care how much AI “evolves”. I don’t need it so I don’t use it.

Restaurants exist and some of them are quite good. But I still have a home cooked meal for every meal. The existence of restaurants doesn’t make home cooking obsolete.

I have found that cast iron is quite easy to get nonstick. It isn’t as good as teflon but it does get functionally close, to the point where I don’t have any kind of sticking trouble with my cast iron. Give it one oven season when you first get it then just cook with it like normal. Don’t cook food particularly sensitive to sticking until you’ve cooked with it a few times, a month of regular usage should be more than enough. If you’re worried about sticking, use extra oil, has never done me wrong.

Having bought some novelty/artisan keycaps, I’d say my main problem is that they don’t match my other keycaps. They’ll be too tall, too short, the plane is at a slight angle compared to the other keycaps, etc. It’s a shame; if only they came in the exact same dimensions as my other keycaps they would look so cool. But to me they feel a little funny to type on when one of my keys is noticeably a different height/angle/etc to my other keys.

No. You’re the only one who’s ever liked a traditional dish.

It might not be autism, it might be just lacking context as to what they mean. The kid is likely very young so they might not know what alphabetical order means. It’s a reasonable guess given the lack of explanation in the worksheet.

I use SpamAssassin. It’s fine, but definitely needs training. I might look into migrating to rspamd as it seems better, but I don’t have time atm.

The key was published in the files. It’s not suspicious to use the key given that it’s public info; it’s not illegal to read the released files.

I think the point of the reddit screenshot is to show what Windows users are putting up with, not to share the meme itself.

This is just an archive. No different from using the wayback machine or any other archive of web content.