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  • Signal leaked random contacts to me!

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  • Interesting. Are there any other accounts on your phone that provide contacts? Maybe social media or other chat platforms? On Android you can see accounts in Settings > Passwords & Accounts (or somewhere similar; it varies a little between brands). You can also check inside your Contacts app by expanding the sidebar (again, varies by brand).

    Just a thought. I don't have any other contact providers on my phone so I can't test it myself.

    Please keep us posted if you get any official response or learn anything new!

  • Signal leaked random contacts to me!

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  • Has anyone else been able to reproduce this? I just tried and was not able to.

    OP, is it possible these people were in group chats you were part of?

  • New to Linux, have a few questions

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  • I used to run Tumbleweed with KDE on my Nvidia system. I found the rolling release structure of Tumbleweed to cause extra work for me, because kernel updates came frequently and occasionally broke the Nvidia drivers. As a workaround, I ended up pinning my kernel to an old version.

    Nvidia drivers have been at least a little troublesome on every distro I've used, particularly with the additional CUDA libraries.

    One nice thing about Suse is that it uses BTRFS by default, and you can use snapper to revert your whole system if something goes wrong. So if Nvidia shits the the bed after an update, it's easy to roll back. Most distros default to ext4 and do not have snapshot support by default, which feels like living in the stone age to me after using Suse and BTRFS.

    Of course you CAN set up BTRFS and snapshots in any distro, but that's a lot to ask for a beginner with Linux. I strongly recommend choosing a distro that does that for you, like Suse.

  • How to un-tiny scrollbars in Firefox

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  • Thanks! Do you know if there's a way to set it to use fixed high-contrast colors? Mine changes based on web page content and is almost always lower contrast than I'd like.

  • ChatGPT, how do I use OCR in Word?

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  • I prefer to convord ttp manually rather than use the trext tims.

  • Can you install thid 25 year old program?

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  • Carbon wasn't that prevalent 10 years ago. 15, maybe. 20, definitely.

    10 years ago, Carbon was already officially deprecated, and it had clearly been a second-class citizen for years before that. Most apps were already using Cocoa at that point.

  • Need to switch to Hanna Montana Linux now

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  • Debian Stable is an excellent replacement for Ubuntu LTS.

    Mint is an excellent replacement for mainline Ubuntu.

  • Microsoft was blindsided by OpenAI's ouster of CEO Sam Altman

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  • You replied as I was editing my previous comment.

    They don't support that statement in any way. It's not even attributed to anyone at MS. Where did it come from?

  • Microsoft was blindsided by OpenAI's ouster of CEO Sam Altman

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  • Nothing the linked blog post suggests Microsoft was "blindsided". Where did the Axios article get that "one minute" bit from?

  • Debian being insanely stable

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  • I would advise against any rolling distro if you use Nvidia drivers and CUDA. When I was using Tumbleweed it kept breaking with kernel updates. This was common in the forums. I had to pin my kernel to an older version to fix it. It was not ideal.

    I've come full circle back to Debian stable. I'm sure at some point I'll need a newer package and be frustrated again. When the time comes, perhaps I'll try distrobox if I can't easily backport it.

  • Proton Mail CEO Calls New Address Verification Feature 'Blockchain in a Very Pure Form'

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  • Key verification has been a real problem for decades, and AFAIK nobody's made a solution that is simple and effective.

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    Can I trust filen.io?

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  • I've been using the free version for a couple years now. If the app wasn't so janky I would have upgraded but now. Camera sync sort of works, but only if I manually open the app. It doesn't function in the background like FolderSync or most cloud storage apps, even when I disable battery optimization. I also can't manually upload large files easily; usually it fails halfway through.

    This is on Android and has been fairly consistent since Android 11.

    I'm still on the hunt for encrypted cloud storage that can sync arbitrary folders, like my camera and Signal backup folder.

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    Audile: Open source Shazam alternative for android

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  • The github page has more context than the F-Droid listing.

    API Key

    This application uses the AudD® service as a Music Recognition API. You need a special API token provided by AudD® to use the application. If you don't have one, you can sign up for a free API token. You can add the key on the onboarding or preferences screen, or just set it in local.properties.

    There is also the option to use the app without a token, but please note that this will restrict the number of daily recognitions that can be performed.

    The AudD web site says:

    Music recognition API for both content analysis and in-app music recognition costs from $2 to $5 per 1000 requests. First 300 requests for free.

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  • Electorialism (tempted to vote biden)

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  • Agreed. The time to push for third parties is every day except presidential election day. That's just the reality of the system right now.

    Change doesn't begin at the top. It begins at the bottom. Many state and local elections across the US already use ranked choice voting, which is the bare minimum we would need to have more than 2 viable candidates in the presidential election. We need to push for ranked choice voting (or something better; it's not the be-all-end-all of voting systems!) in federal elections as well.

    We have a generation of voters now who are literally too young to remember the 2000 election. If you're one of them, I urge you to look it up. I heard the same song back then. Look back and tell me if they were right or wrong, if you really believe that Gore would have been the same as Bush.

    Don't let perfect be the enemy of good.

  • The beauty of finished software

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  • I feel this.

    Back in the 90s, there was a fantastic paint program for Mac called ColorIt! (The exclamation point is part of the name, though this is the last time I will respect that because it's obnoxious; lookin' at you, Yahoo!*)

    It was a commercial product, but ColorIt 2.3 was eventually released as freeware after newer major versions were released for sale. 2.3 was everything I needed, and while I did try ColorIt 4.0, it didn't click with me the way 2.3 did. At the time I felt like they bowed to the pressure of Adobe's success and instead of playing to their unique strengths, they made ColorIt's UI a bit too much like Photoshop. So I stuck with version 2.3.

    By the time Mac OS X came around, ColorIt was no longer in active development. But OS X had the "Classic" environment, something akin to an OS 9 VM tightly integrated into OS X. Classic apps didn't look or feel like native OS X apps, and running Classic came with a heavy RAM burden. But I did it anyway, because ColorIt 2.3 was da bomb.

    I continued using ColorIt 2.3 up until Apple killed support for Classic in 10.6 Snow Leopard.

    At that point, the intrepid developers came out of hiding and created a Carbon port of ColorIt 4.5 that could run natively on OS X. It was Carbon-only, which meant that it it didn't run natively on Intel Macs, but it did run thanks to Apple's Rosetta compatibility layer — at least until Apple axed that as well.

    If I ever get into pixel art again, I'll probably run ColorIt 2.3 again in an OS 9 VM with Sheepshaver or whatever works best nowadays.

    *That exclamation point is strictly to emphasize my disdain for Yahoo.

  • Tsingtao: Video shows Chinese beer worker urinating into tank

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  • The city of Portland disagrees! Back in 2014, they dumped 38 million gallons of water from a reservoir because one stupid drunk peed in it. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-27069611

    On Wednesday, Mr Shaff said while animal waste often found its way into the reservoir without any public health risk, there was "at least a perceived difference from my perspective" on human waste.

    "I could be wrong on that, but the reality is our customers don't anticipate drinking water that's been contaminated by some yahoo who decided to pee into a reservoir," he said.

  • YouTube is cracking down on consumers’ favorite loophole - Adblockers

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  • Holy crap. I had no idea YouTube was that bad. I guess my ad blockers work better than I thought.

    It's going to be a never-ending cat-and-mouse game from here, I guess. And then eventually Google will make Chrome required with their trusted platform bs.

  • FreeBSD, GhostBSD, OpenBSD, Dragonfly BSD, Firefox Hardening - FOSS - git clone

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  • I've recently been looking into downloading offline copies of important data, since I don't expect that today's freely available information will continue to be freely available and accessible in perpetuity.

    One problem I quickly ran into was that e.g. wikipedia downloads are not in an easily browsable format.

    I found a project called Kiwix that packages datasets from a variety of free sources, like Wikipedia and Project Gutenberg, along with a reader application that can read these "zim" archives. The different data sources are available via torrents or direct downloads. https://wiki.kiwix.org/wiki/Content

    I'm particularly interested in freely downloadable archives of scientific papers. A lot seems to be paywalled, or at least free-account-walled, even though the papers themselves are theoretically open-access. I would love to know of any sources out there to download an entire database locally.