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Software >
(on Wikipedia)
Chocolatey: Ghostscript
https://ghostscript.com/
A suite of software for dealing with PDFs.
It’s a requirement for other software, and I only care about actually using it for repairing PDFs.
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Software >
Pale Moon > Pale Moon extensions >
was https://github.com/wsdfhjxc/expose-noisy-tabs, but I found a copy at https://github.com/adisib/expose-noisy-tabs
https://addons.palemoon.org/addon/expose-noisy-tabs/
Adds an icon to tabs to indicate which emanates sound and allow one to easily mute them.
- 2019-01-15 – Obsoleted when its functionality was implemented in Pale Moon 28.3.0.
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2018-03-31 – 1.1.0
there’s still more to add
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Internet >
(on Wikipedia)
https://steemit.com/
A blog/article website which uses the Steem cryptocurrency.
Money comes from nowhere, and the entire thing is run by bots who game the system. This isn’t just individual items and their income, but manipulating the entire “market” for large weekly buy-sell payouts.
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used by d.tube
(on Wikipedia)
https://www.hamrick.com/
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2018-03-03 – 9.6.06 on Windows 10 64bit
It really looks great.
VueScan supports the CanoScan LiDE 120, which I tested it with.
It watermarks what it scans, unless you buy it. It’s not worth $50 for something decent, because my scanner cost that. $100 to get OCR cooked-in also isn’t worth it.
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(on Wikipedia)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3663490/
was https://thelibrarianstnt.tumblr.com/
A librarian scours the world to preserve artifacts.
Campy and stupid.
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Music >
Research on music licensing, with a focus on legally streaming copyrighted music.
This is not about the equipment, the act of bring a DJ or any other practical thing. This is about the law, and particularly for someone in Canada.
I had tinkered with this as a project some time ago, but I misplaced those bookmarks before thinking to post them up here. I’m not presently that interested, but I will be if I pursue related endeavours in the future.
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(on Wikipedia)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4975856/
Time travelers recruit an everyman to help save their world.
Crude and un-funny.
- Apparently inspired by The Last Starfighter – (1984 movie)
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(on Wikipedia)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2261227/
https://www.netflix.com/title/80097140
Pseudo-immortality is reached when alien technology allows humans to save their consciousnesses to reusable disks, and a criminal’s disk is brought online from deep storage, for him to investigate the crime against an ancient and powerful man.
Finally, a science fiction show with real depth and darkness. Highly recommended.
I forgot season 1 and so it basically goes to confusing shit in season 2 so I gave up.
- Based on Altered Carbon – (2002 book), by Richard K. Morgan
- Altered Carbon – season 1 notes
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Entertainment > Reading >
A too-forgiving man and his stupid brute of a friend travel as farm hands to scrape together money for the dream of owning their own land.
A thriller, a gripping tale … that you will not set down until it is finished. Steinbeck has touched the quick.
— The New York Times, who are about as smart as Lenny.
An unforgivably-terrible book. Awful almost beyond reason. Plodding and boring, it’s only a “page turner” because it’s tauntingly short enough to tear through like ripping off a bandage. But on the plus side, although it’s littered with written-accents, it’s not difficult to read.. plus the ending is great!
2019-08-07 – Wow, this was so forgettable that I couldn’t actually remember reading it until I read the first few paragraphs..
- My edition published 1993
- ISBN-10 0-14-017739-6
