Alas Poor Erinaceus
(Not as scary as I look, I promise)
. . . but sometimes I just trail off . . .
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Soccer, The World's Game•Ragged USA crash out of World Cup with last-16 defeat to BelgiumEnglish
1·1 month ago🇧🇪Lukaku⚽👍🏻
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World News•Celtic nations begin to plan for breakup of UK in event of Reform election winEnglish
6·1 month agoWould be somehow rather fitting if Charles III were the last king of the UK.
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Technology•How to deduplicate sentences in large .odt and .txt files?English
1·1 month agoWhat is different between uniq and awk?
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Technology•How to deduplicate sentences in large .odt and .txt files?English
2·1 month ago🙂👍
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Technology•How to deduplicate sentences in large .odt and .txt files?English
1·1 month agoYou are clearly on a higher level of consciousness than I will ever be (plus I’m old 👴).
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Technology•How to deduplicate sentences in large .odt and .txt files?English
1·1 month agoText, as far as I know (?) doesn’t take up that much space memory-wise, but on the other hand can you imagine the amount of server space that gets taken up by redundant text from people’s emails (just for starters)?
Some of my approaches to the apparently much-hated “Inbox Zero” are to be diligent about emptying the trash, not keeping copies of emails in my sent folder, and most importantly, to download messages, personal or professional ones (mostly the former) that I find personally valuable, and then delete the original email so it isn’t floating around forever in cyberspace. This leaves me with lots of txt files, which, as I said above, I then merge all together into one file and then edit. You’d think that there’d be a tool that cleans up the contents of email messages; there do appear to be some online ones, but I don’t trust them. While researching this problem, I found out about “(g)awk” and am now fiddling around with it to see if I can successfully clean up my files without completely messing them up, as in
awk '!seen[$0]++' input.txt > output.txtmaking sure that I experiment on a duplicated file and not on the original. I barely know what I’m doing here, but I’ll see what I can come up with . . .
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Technology•How to deduplicate sentences in large .odt and .txt files?English
1·1 month agoHi @pheonixdown@sh.itjust.works, thanks for your response. Unfortunately I have no knowledge of python and my coding abilities are essentially nonexistent 🙁 . . .
There’s also Thundermail, if they ever get around to actually opening it up . . .
Infomaniak may have changed since I tried making an account there, but when I did they asked for an address and phone number which I was not willing to provide.
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MST3K@lemmy.world•The Rifftrax Experiments: 🤔Does anyone know how they'll explain Mike being shot into space again?🚀English
1·2 months agoOk, but remember: TV’s Frank died and was assumed into 2nd Banana Heaven by Torgo the White and Dr. Forrester became a Starchild!
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United States | News & Politics•It’s Possible That SpaceX Could Collapse SpectacularlyEnglish
2·2 months agoYes please! But only as long as no astronauts get hurt.
May I suggest Master PDF Editor? It’s proprietary, and I think you may need to pay for some of the features, but I’ve used it for years and have generally been pretty happy with it. An open source alternative that I’m not as familiar with is PDF4QT, which is still a bit rough around the edges last time I checked.
As far as Wine goes, I have never gotten it to work with any Adobe product, ever, period. If you really need to use Adobe stuff, I suggest using it from a Virtual Machine with Windows.
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Piracy•Has anyone found a way to download checked out books from the Internet Archive . . . ?English
1·2 months agoThis is several years old, does it still work? Not sure that it does, but thanks nonetheless for posting.
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Piracy•Has anyone found a way to download checked out books from the Internet Archive . . . ?English
31·2 months ago😁👍
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Inventing Reality•Liberal-Zionist propaganda rag Jacobin launches smear article against Amazon union leader Chris Smalls for showing international solidarityEnglish
9·2 months agoKind of surprised that Jacobin would publish something like this (should I be?). For a very different view, have a look at this: https://www.currentaffairs.org/news/chris-smalls-is-still-fighting-the-bosses
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Asklemmy•How do you guys fill up the yearning of your soul?English
4·2 months agoLiterature 📚
Will do, thank you 👍. For the record, looks like ebooks purchased from Google Play Store still use crackable Adobe DRM. I’d prefer to buy from ebooks.com, but I refuse to be confined to one app or device by fucking DRM. I don’t like giving money to Google, but if you have GrapheneOS you’re already forking out big bucks to them for a Pixel phone, though hopefully in the future it’ll be able to run on Motorola . . .
Looks like ebooks purchased from Google Play Store still use crackable Adobe DRM. I’d prefer to buy from ebooks.com, but I refuse to be confined to one app or device by fucking DRM. I don’t like giving money to Google, but if you have GrapheneOS you’re already forking out big bucks to them for a Pixel phone, though hopefully in the future it’ll be able to run on Motorola . . .
























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