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Shut-in, keeper of weird hours

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I grow happier by the day for being a dedicated Firefox user.

Google Books downloader?

I used to be able to download the available pages from books on Google Books with pysheng(3) and/or getxbook, but neither of them seem to work any more. On Firefox I can go into “More Information>Media Info” and download page images one by one, but this is slow and cumbersome. Any recommendations for a replacement?

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Yeah, same here, unfortunately.

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I’m afraid that’s beyond my current skill set, but thank you anyway! 🙂

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Looks like I can get to reddit pages via Libreddit with Mullvad up and running, if that helps at all.

EDIT: And reddit via reddit too!

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One thing I’m not happy about, when I upgraded, was that to keep the email templates option from my earlier plan, I had to sign up for a much more expensive plan than what I had already. I don’t get bad vibes from Tuta, but I do feel that they are a relatively small company that doesn’t always think things through all the way.

EDIT: also, despite having upgraded and paid, it won’t let me register an @tuta.com address. 🙁

EDIT EDIT: Ok, now it did, but it took quite a while before I was able to do it.

EDIT³: Ok, well, so now I’m paying nearly three times as much as I was before (going from the “Business: Teams” plan to “Business: Unlimited” plan), just so I could keep using their email templates option. Had I paid a bit closer attention, I would not have upgraded just because I thought it would be cool to have a tuta.com address (or is it an alias?), although I’m assuming that they would have eventually switched me over anyway. I keep a very light inbox and so now I seem to be paying for a lot of features that I won’t be using. I’ll be sticking with them because it’s what I’m used to, but I’m not terribly happy with how things ended up as you can probably imagine.

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🙊

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🤔 “No Permissions Denied . . .”

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Thank you, done! 👍

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I’m on Fennec, searching DuckDuck from the address bar. Here’s another one: https://beehaw.org/pictrs/image/9a846ac3-a720-4261-8e22-bb2f7c71d267.webp

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True, but I don’t think those periodicals would normally (or ever) characterize themselves that way.

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Alas, not smart enough to know 🙁

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You’re not an asshole, no worries 🙂

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Interesting that allsides has The Atlantic as being on the liberal side of things; Mrs. Hedge describes it as “a make work project for unemployed neocons.” David Frum, the “axis of evil” guy, is a regular contributor there .

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That would explain it! I think I remember seeing Jacobin as being the same degree of liberal as The Atlantic, and there’s no way that could be right! Oops, I mean “correct.” 🙄

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Oops, sorry, forgot: archive.ph/ylJHc

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archive.ph/pfaRO

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Thanks to @ZickZack, @brie, & @bownage for their responses. I forgot that Tesseract is mainly used from the command line; something which, despite being a Linux person, I’m not super proficient with. It looks like gscan2pdf and Master PDF OCRs got different results despite, I think, both using the same version of Tesseract.

How exactly do Matrix bridges work? Are they secure?

What I’m looking for ultimately is a universal chat type app like Beeper that can handle Signal and SMS, however, reading this about it gives me pause. It would be nice if I could get all my peeps on matrix, but since it was so hard to get them on to Signal, I think the best I can hope for is something than can handle matrix,...

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