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Ebooks: I use Calibre locally and Calibre-web on the server (read-only metadata db, I overwrite with the Calibre version as tagging, etc is far easier on desktop).

You can connect Koreader to Calibre-web and until maybe a fortnight ago you could jailbreak a Kindle and use Koreader instead of the default software. Now you'll need to manually move files over, or use the email-to-Kindle option (probably a bad idea, but I expect Amazon can tell if you've side loaded pirated content anyway). Nowadays I buy from not-Amazon sources, strip any DRM and send it over.

Manga/comics/graphic novels: I use Kavita on the server and I use comictagger on desktop to fix the metadata.

I'm happy to use different set ups for the different types as they're quite different experiences and specialist tools work better.

I'm using a bunch simultaneously at this point. I need to script keeping them all in sync, or decide which one will be the winner.

Look at bottom centre

Edit: I'm getting upvotes but I'm not technically in the right here...

I found his paper: https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ad7fe6 (no paywall 😃)

From the intro:

VARnet leverages a one-dimensional wavelet decomposition in order to minimize the impact of spurious data on the analysis, and a novel modification to the discrete Fourier transform (DFT) to quickly detect periodicity and extract features of the time series. VARnet integrates these analyses into a type prediction for the source by leveraging machine learning, primarily CNN.

They start with some good old fashioned signal processing, before feeding the result into a neutral net. The NN was trained on synthetic data.

FC = Fully Connected layer, so they're mixing FC with mostly convolutional layers in their NN. I haven't read the whole paper, I'm happy to be corrected.

I think I'll wait for a better source than the Daily Mail before I consider it dead.

I wasn't entirely serious, but...

If memory serves, you just add lemmyverse.link/ after the https:// bit, so it'd be
https://lemmyverse.link/lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/40704282

It looks like lemsha.re works similarly:
https://lemsha.re/https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/40704282

It's a bit weird that it insists on the link being via https but then includes that in the url...

You missed a great opportunity to use lemshare/lemmyverse here

I use the Android skin, and am happy with it, despite it being marked as beta. I think that having the native feel is important, even if it's not quite as polished.

We're all getting invited.

I do if I can raise the laptop up so that the screen is where it should be for good ergonomics.

It's the meme version of a laugh track

I guess some people might go with f-s-tayb, but I wouldn't necessary recognise what they were saying.

True, most updates I don't actually care about. I haven't had any updates cause problems yet, but I like that I could choose to not enable updates on anything with a bad history (or critical stuff where I don't want to run the risk).

Yes, I still have it showing up in Windows/Android, and phone numbers show their cost per minute.

I have a load of credit on there still (got tricked by them deactivating my credit and topped up unnecessarily). I still use it for international calls at least once a month, I hope this news story is overblown.

This is one of my favourites, despite the lack of Hobbes.

autoupdate is something I wouldn’t use

Yup, I expect lots of people feel like that, maybe most (I'd be interested to see some stats). I value security over availability, but you can choose per-container, of course.

network

You can set Internal=true, which I use whenever possible, which means access is only to anything on same network (for me that's itself and Caddy) - no outgoing connections at all. Podman uses PASTA by default for rootless.

The docs say what they do and don't do - and they don't do that. Just actually read through them for yourself, you don't have to be a lawyer.

This is just a bit of corporate box-ticking, but the pitchfork brigade has read 2 + 2 and is now screaming about 5s.

In the advertising bit they say what data they use and it's all broad stuff like device type and location, as well as aggregate data on how many people click on the ads. Of course, you can just disable this, which surely most people do - tbh I forgot there was even this "sponsored content" there at all (it was added a while ago I think).

They don't say that your browsing habits, interactions or communications are used for anything besides doing what's required to actually do what you asked.

Yes, Mozilla does some AI, like the in-browser, privacy-respecting language translation. If you use the same feature in Chrome, the text is submitted to a Google server, but in Firefox it never leaves your browser. I don't see how this could be spun to count against Firefox/Mozilla.