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observantTrapezium

@ observantTrapezium @lemmy.ca

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  • Pdf to odt/docx conversion has me weeping!

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  • I know the pain. While there are definitely solutions that work sometimes, there's just no "one size fits all" that I'm aware of. PDFs can represent text very differently internally.

    What I did for one project where extracting the text produced a complete mess was to convert the PDF pages to images and then OCR them...

  • The hidden cost of self-hosting

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  • Hate? Digital decluttering feels really good, for me anyway.

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  • No. But funny how people interpret posts in their own cultural context. When reading the post just literally, it's clearly about polygamy.

  • The cooler speed unit

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  • Ah, reminds me of high school physics and always trying to remember whether I needed to multiply or divide by 3.6.

  • Vaultwarden selfhosting, or bitwarden service?

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  • To my knowledge it's not supposed to differ.

    If you trust that the client (which is open source) is doing what it's supposed to do, security-wise I don't think there's a difference between self-hosting and using Bitwarden's service.

  • Vaultwarden selfhosting, or bitwarden service?

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  • No, you don't need to trust the VPS provider. The VaultaWarden password storage is encrypted, and the master password is never transmitted to the server. The passwords are decrypted only locally on your device.

  • NotJustBikes uses Linux!

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  • I read it in my head in his voice.

  • I don't get the love for Nextcloud - alternative for just files?

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  • For files I just use WebDAV that's built in to Apache. It's really not fancy, but does all I need.

  • Good self-hosted webmail client?

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  • I use RoundCube, I think it's one of the oldest solutions out there, and is pretty good (and not ugly as of a few years ago).

  • Just finished the new series

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  • Oh! 😅 Thanks.

  • Just finished the new series

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  • Can I be educated as to what Star Trek Returns is? Is it different to the 2013 to 2017 fan series Star Trek Continues?

  • 1,900-year-old papyrus 'best-documented Roman court case from Judaea apart from the trial of Jesus'

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  • So the document had been classified as written in Nabataean, but it's unclear if that turned out not to be the case in the end?

  • Nobody will question you

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  • Just saw the scatter plot and line and my mind immediately screamed "bullshit" without knowing what this was about at all. Only then I read the text.

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  • Not sure this statement is true if "more closely related" is understood as shorter combined time between the two species from their most recent common ancestor. Hummingbirds and brachiosaurs had a more recent common ancestor than brachiosaurs and triceratopses (albeit probably still quite close to the dawn of dinosaurs in the Late Triassic ), but the latter pair lived closer in time to the common ancestor of all dinosaurs (while hummingbirds are from the Oligocene).

  • It's an older code Sir, but it still checks out

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  • This song was released 21 years and 3 months ago, it's close in time to the TNG premier (15 years 10 months) that it is to now. Let it go.

  • TIL that Inuvik, NWT is the largest town in Canada whose antipodal point lies within Antarctica

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  • While 50 is north enough and the absolute majority of Canadians live south of it, "Northern Canada" generally refers to the three territories (as opposed to the ten provinces), that start at 60 (mostly, there are some islands south of that).

  • TIL about Sebastian Münster's 1540 map of the Americas, the first one to show that North and South America were connected by an isthmus and the first to call it 'The New World.'

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  • As it should be... Navigators could determine latitudes pretty accurately by using astronomy. It was the longitude that was a big problem (maybe that's part of the reason Japan is placed in the middle of the Pacific).

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  • Yep, you got it right. The accretion disk is actually really flat. Those images are produced in simulations that take into account the curved (and very complex) paths light takes in the vicinity of a black hole. These images really depend on the angle between the line of sight and the disk.

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  • Astrophysicist here. Yes, space is crazy, but interesting things to keep in mind:

    1. The size of a star is determined by something called the photosphere. With those extremely massive stars, you can be hundreds of millions of kilometres "inside" and not yet know it.
    2. Similar story with supermassive black holes, from the perspective of an astronaut falling in, they wouldn't really be able to tell when they cross the horizon because the tidal forces there are very small (they will inevitably fall towards the centre and get spaghettified at some point)