https://github.com/Override92/AiSList/blob/main/AiSList/aislist_blocklist.txt

Looks like this is their source.

https://snee.la/posts/the-workings-of-whatsapps-end-to-end-encrypted-backups/

This is my analysis of WhatsApp’s backup mechanisms. The best possible thing you can do from a privacy PoV is to enable end-to-end-encrypted backups, which is disabled by default.

As far as I know, WhatsApp’s backups don’t go to meta’s servers, but instead google cloud / icloud. If your wife logged into her google account before, had backups enabled (frequency is weekly afaik), and signed into the google account again on the new phone - WhatsApp will restore the backups from the cloud.

If you enable E2EE backups, then you’ll be asked to enter your password, which only you can have. If you fail to supply that, your backups are lost forever. The implantation is a bit scuffed IMO, but still better than nothing. Things may have changed since I analyzed it in 2022.

Just purchased a server license (for life). Not only is this update jam packed full of nice features, but a lot of their updates are. I’ve been self-hosting it (on a VPS) for the past year and it’s about time I supported them

My website’s the one linked in this post: https://snee.la/

My email is at the contact page: https://snee.la/contact/

sneela [at] tugraz [dot] at

I’ll be sure to reach out if I find myself being unable to replicate it.

No worries, and good luck! My email can be found on my website if you want it :D

I wasn’t even talking about tikzplotlib. It’s just that pgf backend is now supported by matplotlib and you can produce pgf files with.

Ah… I’ve think I’ve heard of it, but I never really registered that. Thanks for the info :D

I could give you the tikz source of Fig 2 if you’d like. The patterns and colors of the plots took me almost a day to choose. I wanted to go for a color-blind friendly pallette and keep it looking still snazzy. (https://github.com/simon-pfahler/colorblind)

I’m familiar with matplotlib -> PGFplots (using the Python tikzplotlib library). Unfortunately, I’ve decided against using it for the paper as it produces quite unmanageable outputs. Especially if I rerun experiments + with new data, and later want to change patterns, colors… It was always more of a hassle. I used it for my Master’s thesis.

Instead, Python program -> show plot -> if okay, generate CSV.

In LaTeX, have PGFplot code which reads CSV file and generates the data that way. Much, much easier to maintain.

Thanks for your words!

Yes! We use TikZ for the diagrams, which can be a nightmare sometimes… but it gets better the more I use it.

Regarding the plots, we use PGFplots. I often use matplotlib for quick plots while running experiments, but the paper itself uses PGFplots with the data in a CSV for that sweet, sweet scaling when you zoom in.

If the reports are somewhat technical (written with Latex for example), check out sioyek: https://sioyek.info/. It’s a PDF reader mainly for academic use.

Sioyek has made reading and reviewing papers SO much easier and it’s really, really convenient… once you get the hang of it. It takes a bit of time to get used to all the things, but it’s worth it. I also review students’ theses with it. Highlighting colors and adding comments is super easy (select text, h+g (green highlight), type comment).

If you have want to export your notes and comments, you will need this script though: https://github.com/ahrm/sioyek/blob/main/scripts/embedded_annotations.py

I can’t believe I didn’t know about it! Thanks :D

May I know what plugin you use in KDE? Sounds like it’s something I’d like to check out.

Quick searches show me Bismuth and kwin-tiling, and bismuth seems to be archived.

https://www.linuxjournal.com/article/10754

MINIX originally was developed in 1987 by Andrew S. Tanenbaum as a teaching tool for his textbook Operating Systems Design and Implementation. Today, it is a text-oriented operating system with a kernel of less than 6,000 lines of code. MINIX’s largest claim to fame is as an example of a microkernel, in which each device driver runs as an isolated user-mode process—a structure that not only increases security but also reliability, because it means a bug in a driver cannot bring down the entire system.

In its heyday during the early 1990s, MINIX was popular among hobbyists and developers because of its inexpensive proprietary license. However, by the time it was licensed under a BSD-style license in 2000, MINIX had been overshadowed by other free-licensed operating systems.

Today, MINIX is best known as a footnote in GNU/Linux history. It inspired Linus Torvalds to develop Linux, and some of his early work was written on MINIX. Probably too, Torvalds’ early decision to support the MINIX filesystem is responsible for the Linux kernel’s support of almost every filesystem imaginable.

Later, Torvalds and Tanenbaum had a frank e-mail debate about the relative merits of macrokernels (sic) and microkernels. This early history resurfaced in 2004 when Kenneth Brown of the Alexis de Tocqueville Institution prepared a book alleging that Torvalds borrowed code from MINIX—a charge that Tanenbaum, among others, so comprehensively debunked, and the book was never actually published (see Resources).

See also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tanenbaum–Torvalds_debate