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Editor’s note:<\/strong> This week issue arrives a little later and after a mistake that triggered last week’s sent over the newsletter. My apologies for that!<\/p>\n

I collect cool, interesting links spread all over the web and share them here every Thursday. Hope you enjoy! More of them in the archive<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe will not use an LLM to add a chatbot, a summarization solution or a suggestion engine to fill up forms for you, until more rigorous ways to do those things are available.\u201d<\/a> In a moment of euphoria in which even Mozilla \u2014 which would have the most to gain from caution around reckless adoption of generative AI \u2014 at least one web browser embraces that stance.<\/p>\n

The size of Adobe Reader installers over the years<\/a>. I would never have guessed the Adobe Reader installer is nearly 700 MB. (SumatraPDF\u2019s is ~8.2 MB.)<\/p>\n

Mavericks Forever<\/a>. This person loves macOS 10.9 \u201cMavericks\u201d so much they decided to modernize Apple\u2019s 2013 OS that was discontinued in 2016. (Don\u2019t try this at home.)<\/p>\n

doxx<\/a>. A Word document (*.docx<\/code>) viewer for the terminal.<\/p>\n

Drawmote<\/a>. I haven\u2019t tried it, but this site promises you can draw by waving your phone. (I think it only works in Chromium-based browsers.)<\/p>\n

MakeACopy<\/a>. An Android app that scans and transcribes documents (OCR). Private, offline, and open source.<\/p>\n

Karousel<\/a>. A script that turns KDE Plasma into a \u201cscrollable\u201d interface.<\/p>\n

dnsperftest<\/a>. A simple script that tests the speed of popular public DNS servers from your connection.<\/p>\n

Gamer Church<\/a>. I\u2019m not entirely sure whether this is a blog or a video-game directory. The layout is pretty cool. Tip from Juan.<\/p>\n

Instapaper integration with Kobo goes live<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Typepad is shutting down<\/a>. Everything will be deleted on September 30rd<\/sup>.<\/p>\n

SuperTuxKart Evolution<\/cite> promises a \u201cnew experience\u201d<\/a>, Omg! Ubuntu<\/cite>. Backstage disagreements over the most iconic Linux game resulted in a split. (They could\u2019ve settled it with a best-of-three match in STK<\/cite>, right?)<\/p>\n

Microsoft Copilot launches on Samsung TVs and monitors<\/a>. Is this what Cory Doctorow calls \u201censhittification\u201d?<\/p>\n

Koko Analytics 2.0<\/a>. A WordPress analytics plugin. The new version expands monitoring site-wide, not just for posts and pages.<\/p>\n

Essayist<\/a>. An academic writing editor. For iOS, iPadOS and macOS, about USD 5,99\/month.<\/p>\n

digitalsolitude<\/a>. A site that only works when a single person is accessing it.<\/p>\n

bookmarks.txt<\/a>. A concept for keeping URLs (bookmarks) in plain text files.<\/p>\n

TiledScreen<\/a>. If for any reason you want KDE Plasma 6 to look like Windows 8, this theme is all you need.<\/p>\n

A presentation app that works on your phone<\/a>. As long as your phone is an iPhone.<\/p>\n

SVG Crop<\/a>. A web tool that \u201ctrims\u201d whitespace around any *.svg<\/code> file.<\/p>\n

EPSON MX-80 Fonts<\/a>. A font that simulates dot-matrix printers.<\/p>\n

In \u2764\ufe0f with PDA<\/a>. A site that emulates an old PDA.<\/p>\n

The Useless Web<\/a>. A classic: press the button and go to a random \u201cuseless\u201d site.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Editor’s note: This week issue arrives a little later and after a mistake that triggered last week’s sent over the newsletter. My apologies for that! \u201cWe will not use an LLM to add a chatbot, a summarization solution or a suggestion engine to fill up forms for you, until more rigorous ways to do those […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","podmotor_file_id":"","podmotor_episode_id":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","filesize_raw":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","itunes_episode_number":"","itunes_title":"","itunes_season_number":"","itunes_episode_type":"","_locale":"en_US","_original_post":""},"categories":[1575],"tags":[2200],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/manualdousuario.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59676"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/manualdousuario.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/manualdousuario.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manualdousuario.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manualdousuario.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=59676"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/manualdousuario.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59676\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59679,"href":"https:\/\/manualdousuario.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59676\/revisions\/59679"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/manualdousuario.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59676"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manualdousuario.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59676"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manualdousuario.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59676"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}