Software

Farewell buggy software! Welcome KOReader & Plato!

Posted on by Paolo Redaelli

Since the native software of my Kobo aura is so buggy that always crash with certain EPUBs, after reaching a specific page I finally decided to follow the One-Click Install Packages for KOReader & Plato. I installed both KOReader and Plato.

I started trying KOReader. Needless to say it works like a breeze, and as far as I can tell it is quite faster that the native, buggy, crashing KOBO Reader

Migliori applicazioni di messaggistica istantanea

Posted on by Paolo Redaelli

In questo articolo vediamo quali sono le migliori applicazioni di messaggistica istantanea disponibili al momento. Per ognuna di esse darò una valutazione soggettiva e personale in 3 categorie con …

Source: Migliori applicazioni di messaggistica istantanea

In sintesi, “vincono” SimpleX e Briar

Per una comparazione più approfondita consultare https://eylenburg.github.io/im_comparison.htm

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TOTP on Windows

Posted on by Paolo Redaelli

Recently I had to suggest a 2 factor authentication applicative for Windows. Of course I searched on alternativeto.net for a free-as-in-freedom program running on Windows founding this:

2fast (acronym for two factor authenticator supporting TOTP) is a free, open source, two factor authenticator for Windows and other platforms. 2fast has the ability to store the encrypted data at a place of your choice instead of a 3rd party cloud location.

They tried it and I can say it is well designed

Let’s hope that their IT departement will never enable TOTP for log in their desktops, otherwise they may be locked out. I suggested to save the QR-Code seed elsewhere.

SpaceFM

Posted on by Paolo Redaelli

Many years ago I tried PCManFM the grand-father of SpaceFM. I think I will try it.

sudo apt install spacefm and sudo apt -t testing install spacefm and sudo apt -t unstable install spacefm keep telling me that 

159 upgraded, 51 newly installed, 773 to remove and 887 not upgraded.
Need to get 597 MB/597 MB of archives.
After this operation, 6382 MB disk space will be freed.

Also installing from source would break many other things as the dependency libffmpegthumbnailer-dev that seems to be unanavoidable is broken on my system. Well, I’ll wait

How to wirelessly send docs and e-books to your Kobo

Posted on by Paolo Redaelli

As we are a family of avid readers, having the luck of having a public library very near our house, we also ended up having several Kobo ebook readers.

I’m a life-long user of free-as-in-freedom software and I like to meddle with “low level” thingies but I can’t ask my daughters and wife to do the same even if they are quite smart themselves (we do not have Windows or MacOS or iOS running here, just Gnu-Linux and Android), so today I asked on the Fediverse

“How to Wirelessly Send Docs and E-Books to Your #Kindle“
Is it possible with #Kobo?

See https://mastodon.uno/@paoloredaelli/112506334973250537

György Paksi kindly and quickly answered me to look at send.djazz.se 1that now seems to be offline which in turn uses https://github.com/daniel-j/send2ereader and https://github.com/pgaskin/kepubify. I shiftly copied that git repositories, now I “only” have to find some time to set it up.

Password Card Generator – Raphael

Password Card Generator. This website allows you to generate customized password cards in the spirit of Qwertycards.com. If you like the concept, please buy a card from their website. Generate a new card. Pick the characters you want to use. numbers lower case upper case symbols space other.

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Recently, I’ve been interested in the DuckDB project (like a SQLite geared towards data applications). And one of the amazing features is that it has many data importers included without requiring extra dependencies. This means it can natively read and parse JSON as a database table, among many other formats.

I work extensively with JSON day to day, and I often reach for jq when exploring documents. I love jq, but I find it hard to use. The syntax is super powerful, but I have to study the docs anytime I want to do anything beyond just selecting fields.

Once I learned DuckDB could read JSON files directly into memory, I realized that I could use it for many of the things where I’m currently using jq. In contrast to the complicated and custom jq syntax, I’m very familiar with SQL and use it almost daily.

Source: DuckDB as the New jq