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Game wise- a Scrabble that allows custom dictionaries made by the community to allow bilinguals to shine and use the findings for linguistics / sociology research (words removed vs words added, trends, measure new language acquisition from influencers, etc.).

Been a pet project idea of mine since the pandemic but never got around to it. I saw the new Rails framework is out and thought of starting this idea to learn Ruby.


They specifically stated a lack of documented concern by the engineers. First thing you learn as a contractor is CYA.

Why didn't you try a barebones AWS EC2 with their Arm offers as well? Last I checked nothing beat them, especially if you reserve capacity in advance.

Another option is buying a $5 Raspberry Pi Zero and hosting the ghost blog from there since the blogs don't have any traffic.


“Nothing beat them” in what regards?


Might be able to find services that publish posts from emails. Then it's just a matter of writing an email from your phone.


> Might be able to find services that publish posts from emails.

Posterous[0] used to do that and it was good. Then they sold their souls to Twitter and, obviously, all the good went away after a year.

(one of the founders then launched Posthaven[1] but a) fool me once, etc., and b) he's an intensely problematic lunatic.)

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posterous

[1] https://posthaven.com


Might not be a blog, but hxxps://daft.social posts are done by sending an e-mail.

P.S. Not affiliated


I didn't work with election data but I dealt with Data brokers and they worked both ways. They offered API as a service access or a single bulk download for special pricing. I was surprised how relatively cheap it was considering all the data they offered.


There is a CVE issued a week ago for all Apple OSs that are not on the latest update (Mac iOS, etc). Maybe you were affected.

https://www.cisa.gov/news-events/alerts/2024/09/18/apple-rel...


Thank you! Yes I’m still 2 OS versions back.


You are living very dangerously and running 2 whole major versions back. The only Apple Operating Systems (macOS, iOS, etc.) that have both the latest Platform Security features and get 100% of security patches is the very latest version.

This is well known within both the security community and Mac Sys Admin community.


Thanks, I’m realizing that now. It helps that you’re emphasizing the need to stay up to date.

I don’t upgrade to the latest version when it comes out thinking it may not be stable enough yet. And then I remember about it when I’m about to start working or in the flow. I know, silly excuses!


And for some reason I used to think security patches get back ported to all the supported versions and by not upgrading I was only missing out on new features.

Thanks for letting me know that’s not correct!


Linux should be able to port over files over USB, FTP or local lan using apps already mentioned. I think I've previously used Dolphin over USB and FTP (server on iphone) for backups.


FTP? how does that work? is it supported natively or thru an app?


There are free ftp server apps you can download and you access them using any ftp client on Linux.


Yeah? I’ll check them out. If you know of one which is free free then let me know.


This is eerily close to my situation several years back... I just want to say to you as I would say to past me: "you can do it", as I was able to climb the ladder and find success. 10 years after dropping of CS, I made it into a stable career after a lot of struggles, sketchy jobs, freelancing and life lessons. I finished school online and am working on my master's degree.

If you want to chat, feel free to reach out:contactme at myusername.com


Just to leave my data point, I couldn't find San Juan, Puerto Rico (city, state/country) in your list. That said, PR is so small that I don't care about searching by city, searching for users in the island is enough for a meetup. For privacy reasons, we should also be able to add our state/country without a city.


> I couldn't find San Juan, Puerto Rico (city, state/country) in your list

Someone is registered there now! https://meet.hn/city/18.465299,-66.116666/San-Juan

> For privacy reasons, we should also be able to add our state/country without a city.

You can now if you want to. But the UI isn't really made for this. You might end up with a "M" marker in the middle of nowhere in your country.


That's so cool! I had no idea about universal copy/paste and I struggle a lot with one time codes across devices since I don't have universal iMessage set up for privacy reasons. I usually just send them to myself via telegram for simplicity.

Thank you for posting all these tips.


You realize Telegram is less secure than iMessage?


Significantly less secure at that. I imagine GP has iMessage disabled on their computer because other people use their computer, and they don't want iMessages/SMS going anywhere other than their phone.


Given the fact that the most of zero click 0-day exploits were targeting iMessage, I'd disagree with your statement.


Well, Telegram is by definition not as a secure as iMessage. Telegram messages are by default not encrypted on the server. Even when it is encrypted on the server, telegram has the keys and can decrypt it.

They have the decryption keys

https://telegram.org/faq#:~:text=To%20protect%20the%20data%2....


Telegram isn't as private as iMessage, but that doesn't mean it's not as secure. Security-wise, exploiting iMessage is easier than exploiting telegram, since iMessages has some special privileged access. Security doesn't mean privacy.


The issue with parsing images in a process was fixed awhile back. If you are really paranoid, you can put your iPhone in “lockdown mode”.

https://support.apple.com/en-us/105120


You rebutted something GP didn't write.


This is true (one is talking about zero-click zero days, the other is talking about “privacy,” not sure if they mean privacy against Facebook or privacy against other users of their device).

But the comment that kicked off the thread was the one about privacy.


I think they mostly targeted font/image/url parsing which are used across the OS. iMessage was somewhat privileged at some point in the back but was compartmentalized later and media processing was the only escape, but that’s out of process now too I believe.


Most car crashes also happen near your house.


The stats understander is logged on and strapped in.


That's because telegram has 3000-day exploits.


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