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Stopwatch1986

@ Stopwatch1986 @lemmy.ml

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  • Help with...Adobe Acrobat DC Pro

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  • Same situation here. For heavier editing I now use local Stirling PDF and BentoPDF. As I say above, both run in docker, but Stirling PDF also comes as Appimage. They are powerful but don't feel like integrated applications.

    But there is a surprising gap in Linux for PDF editing. Available tools are like toys for the task or geared towards techies. I would expect a PDF reader/editor to be a separate application in the LibreOffice suite. (No, Draw or Inkscape won't cut it, sorry)

  • Help with...Adobe Acrobat DC Pro

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  • I stopped recommending Master PDF Editor when I realised they were trying to lock me in with letting me know after the event that watermarks would be added.

    PDF4QT is aekward in many ways but the latest version has the best compression, even allowing you to select one-by-one which images will be compressed and how.

    Other options for editing are local Stirling PDF and BentoPDF. Both run in docker, but Stirling PDF also comes as Appimage. They are powerful but don't feel like integrated applications.

  • Help with...Adobe Acrobat DC Pro

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  • I agree it's great but I had issues running it under Wine. An alternative is Xodo for Linux which apparently is Qoppa PDF Studio revamped. These three look strangely very similar. But Xodo has other issues, including crashes.

  • Zero-trust services and web access

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  • The implication is that sending links to encrypted files with the decryption key added to the URL (eg Thunderbird Send, Mega etc) is not zero-trust. Decryption may take place locally and the key part of the URL may not be sent to the file hosting service, but when the recipient clicks on the link and is served one-off code by the web site, that code may be compromised.

    As we know, the best way to be sure is to do your own separate encryption but without secure-by-design most people will think you are very odd demanding that decryption is done separately and keys are shared through a different channel. Speaking from experience, no matter how much training they are given at work, most people, including HR, would rather you sent them sensitive documents (like passport scans) in the clear as email attachments or at least in a way that involves a single click (Wetransfer etc).

  • Privacy @lemmy.ml
    Stopwatch1986 @lemmy.ml

    Zero-trust services and web access

  • Google is cannibalizing the web to feed AI

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  • I thought it was Autonomy. You installed a program, instructed puppies agents, logged out, and while you were offline the puppies searched through several engines. Next time you logged in the findings waited for you. That was the time of 56k modems and metered connections.

  • Your doctor’s AI notetaker may be making things up, Ontario audit finds

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  • Yes, and you might also say that time-starved humans just reviewing LLM output may generate more accurate reports than having to write them from scratch in a rush. That's until humans get complacent or are expected to do even more per minute. But there is a fundamental difference. Unlike humans, LLMs don't understand context and don't do sanity checks. When they hallucinate they can do so wildly, without a sense of implications, but always with confidence.

  • Your doctor’s AI notetaker may be making things up, Ontario audit finds

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  • A policy I saw coming out of an NHS (UK) department mandated 'human-in-the-loop' which is essentially what the article mentions in the end. The risk is that over time clinicians may become complacent with 'good enough' and don't bother to review thoroughly. And it may be easy to spot mistakes, but not necessarily omissions unless you keep your own notes. More so after a long session, although medical appointments are typically short and focused.

    On a positive note, in my experience clinicians using LLMs do indeed spend more time engaging with service users. In an ideal world, they would be given time to engage and take notes, but this is not going to happen.

  • Looking for a scene

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  • At least something good came out of it. I've been asking friends, checked several AIs and search engines but nothing. I can see the scene in my head. I can't have dreamed it. It all resurfaced when a friend told me he uses one brace and I wanted to warn him about possible limping 😁

  • Movies & TV @hexbear.net
    Stopwatch1986 @lemmy.ml

    Looking for a scene

  • Walt: private alternative to Google Pay or Apple Pay

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  • EEA and UK apparently.

  • Colota 1.x - Open Source Android GPS Tracker with selfhosted backend support

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  • In addition to wifi, Bluetooth beacons would be good too.

    Seeing the same SSIDs (eg in a cinema) might also mean you are not moving, but then how can you tell you are not sitting near another train passenger with their hotspot on?

  • Privacy-conscious cycling computer / activity trackers?

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  • Jepster on Google Play was good but from v8.0 it won't start if, like me, you have Google Play Store disabled. Presumably, they need that for the optional in-app purchases but they never replied to my email so I don't know.

    From FLOSS, I am experimenting with FitoTrack which looks promising. Another one is AAT.

    Colota is great for general self-tracking.

  • Colota 1.x - Open Source Android GPS Tracker with selfhosted backend support

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  • I've been using this for a few weeks and it's great. In addition to offline-first, it would be nice to be able to ask Colota: List my trips between date1 and date2 when I was near (ie within x meters from) point y.

    I am planning to use this for a long time too, so an export/import data for when I change my phone would be nice. I see Export but not Import.

    Also, being able to delete trips between date1 and date2 would be useful. Currently, you can delete 1-by-1 or recent trips only.

  • Do you use tor for everyday things?

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  • I run a Tor proxy on my raspberry pi and all my browsers across all my household devices have foxyproxy installed. This way we access defined websites through Tor as standard eg when we query search engines and wikipedia. I try not to overburden Tor though. Never had a problem.

  • KDE & Plasma users @lemmy.ml
    Stopwatch1986 @lemmy.ml

    Clicking on the Scroll bar

  • Can you use Linux today without the terminal?

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  • Windows refugee here. I installed Debian 13 with KDE Plasma on my main machine four months ago and I am still ironing out issues. Eg CUPS was asking me to login all the time and didn't accept my credentials. After some days researching I discovered I had to log in as root. Then, I discovered I didn't have root credentials for some reason. I had to create them and then add my local user to a group! Just to be able to use my home printer.

    Or suddenly my clock was 62 minutes off. I discovered the NTP service was never set up properly and I had to install chrony.

    I don't see how I could have avoided using the terminal. These are only a couple of examples. No deal-breakers and on this occasion I had the time and determination to resolve them. I could have easily given up.

  • Window rule to close window?

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  • Thanks for the tip. Without kwindowprop I will have to wait though.

  • Window rule to close window?

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  • I am on Debian 13 KDE Plasma with Wayland. I tried kdotool as @Erwan suggests but as expected xprop doesn't return anything. Apparently, I will also have to use kwindowprop which will take a while to appear on Debian Stable.

    There used to be a thing in KDE where you could execute actions and macros based on window titles

    Now, that would be nice but unless there is another way it looks like I will have to wait.

    Thanks for the help.

  • KDE @lemmy.kde.social
    Stopwatch1986 @lemmy.ml

    Window rule to close window?

  • Different installation methods and system stability

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  • My understanding is that sandboxing is not mandatory for Snaps, but it is for flatpaks. Some of the Snap code not being open source, and generally the technology being centralised around Canonical apparently is off-putting for some.

  • Different installation methods and system stability

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  • I share your concerns about trust. With flatpaks we can still read the source and commits, but not many will or can do this every time they install and update software anyway. In this sense, we have little choice but to trust the verified developer and the community, who may of course be compromised too, regardless of distribution method. I suppose with flatpaks we have to check permissions and make them as restrictive as possible.

  • Different installation methods and system stability

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  • This ranking is very close to how I see this. Anything after Docker/Podman is out unless I absolutely need an application in which case keeping a record of dependencies is a good idea. But I want to know the work system will absolutely start in the morning hours from a deadline. Avoiding single points of failure is another way of course (ie multiple systems, OSes, backups, password managers etc).

  • Linux @lemmy.ml
    Stopwatch1986 @lemmy.ml

    Different installation methods and system stability

  • Linux @lemmy.ml
    Stopwatch1986 @lemmy.ml

    Is there a simple GUI application alerting the user when a process is not running?

  • Linux @lemmy.ml
    Stopwatch1986 @lemmy.ml

    SOLVED: Ethernet stopped working hours after installation. Wifi works OK.

  • KDE @lemmy.kde.social
    Stopwatch1986 @lemmy.ml

    Touchpad running out of surface and Back gesture