PaoloBarbolini

And unlike browser-based solutions, Typst can produce PDF/A, it can embed files into the PDF and it can produce charts and QR Codes on it's own without having to rely on an external solution.

A few years ago a service for which we had just implemented a scraper for (they had no API, and the customer needed info from 1000s of accounts) added a captcha right after we had implemented the scraper.

We quickly figured out that the server didn't validate the captcha challenge code with Google. It worked for 3 years until they changed the system to send a code via email to validate your login, and limiting you to 1 session at-a-time. Now we have different problems to deal with...

I don't get what they were trying to prove. An LLM on it's own, little time and money... what were they expecting it to do? Not that I expect that different conditions would necessarily improve the situation, but seriously they didn't even give it a chance.

"Make as much money as you can" sounds like the prompt someone out of school would give.

Meanwhile they spammed the internet, sent fake invoices and a bunch of other very annoying if not even possibly illegal things.

Why do we still put up with GNOME?

I've spent the last 10 years off and on from Linux. Had I used something other than GNOME, I believe my experience would have been better.

I've been on KDE for the last 3-4 years and things work so well I could never imagine going back to GNOME.

The repo link goes to a 404 page.

The image could have been encoded with a high compression ratio, or even something like OxiPNG. In that case, while re-encoding it wouldn't lose quality, it could still have the side-effect of making the file bigger.

A few years ago I convinced a friend to make their blog using Ghost 4. Very bad decision. I haven't kept up with it but at the time they supported only 1 mailing list service. What kind of open source project does that kind of vendor lock-in to their users.

I've had the same experience and I fixed part of the problem by writing my own Rust client, Watermelon. It's still missing a lot of features but at least I'm not blocked by weird decisions taken by upstream.