The web service TurnItIn is a "plagiarism detector". Lots of universities use it to assess whether their students are copy-n-pasting content which they haven't written. I'm not a big fan of it. First, I'll explain how to opt-out your websites. Then I'll explain why I don't like the service.Block The...
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crystal (chicky · blog)No frogs were hurt in the writing of this post.
The area where I didn’t expect I would have to uncloud is books, but behold, it is happening. My kids addicted to books. They read all the time. They read in the car, they read in the evening…
Yeah, this happened to me before too: https://gergolippai.com/2021/08/29/the-one-where-i-spun-up-a-virtual-machine-to-dedrm-my-ebooks/
You bought a book, how wonderful! But you can only read it on our devices. Fuck portability. — gergolippai
And I scratched my itch in a similar way. Calibre ❤️
Marty McGuire (martymcgui.re)Some of us at MakerBot used to joke that this was inevitable. It only took ~10 years for it to happen! https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2021/08/23/whats-that-on-my-3d-printer-cloud-bug-lets-anyone-print-to-everyone/
By Josh Kew (Weald & Downland Living Museum)Work is progressing very well to reinstate those wattle and daub panels which had to be removed so that repairs could be carried out to a number of the structural timbers.
Die Linksammlung ist keine reguläre Kategorie dieses Blogs, aber ich übernehme das Format hier einmal von Dirk um ein paar interessante Fundstücke unterzubringen. Viel Spaß! Collections: The...
Huch, ich bin im Fernsehen 😀
Linux reaches 1% in the Steam hardware & software survey! Playstation emulator RPCS3 enables support for AMD FidelityFX Super Resolution (FSR), Back 4 Blood mysteriously works with ProtonGE, and a predictable end to the 3DFX announcement. Special thanks to: Linuxgnuru (mic arm form wishzone) BASIL (...
Auf die Meldung mehrerer Schwachstellen in einer Wahlkampf-App reagierte die CDU mit Strafantrag. Der CCC wird CDU-Schwachstellen künftig nicht mehr melden.
Derrr Rrrubikon ist überrrschritten.
> https://www.ccc.de/de/updates/2021/ccc-meldet-keine-sicherheitslucken-mehr-an-cdu
Himmel, Arsch und Zwirn, wie kann eine Partei sich nur an allen Fronten derart unwürdig und weltfremd aufführen? Erde an CDU: Ihr habt da ein Problem mit 9 Buchstaben beginnend mit _K_!
We took Daughter to the Experimentarium today. Lots of fun stuff to experiment with, like water basins, light, Olympic sports, soap bubbles and plenty more. So much so that it was a bit overwhelming at first. Nonetheless a fun afternoon.
(Written mostly to settle a good-natured disagreement.) One of the great advantages of HTML is that it can call on external resources. Your index.html can load a style.css and display a picture.jpg. But... it doesn't have to use external resources. (I know this isn't news to some of you - but everyo...