> I really don't see how this is going to end well, there could be perfectly innocent photos on someone's phone of their own children doing perfectly normal things that kids do. Like a kid running butt naked around the house, or a photo of something like a rash that is sent to a nurse friend for advice on what it is etc.
These are still illegal in the US right now right? It's been a major criticism of these laws that they can hurt people accidentally.
It's super sad that the history of Senet is mostly unknown.
The texture we have of Chess history for example is part of the allure. That the rules have changed, we know how they changed, why they changed, how people played in the past, etc.
The problem is that 95% of users are awesome but 5% are VERY aggressive and angry.
The amount of people that personally attack you and accuse you of horrible things should be zero.
I've also seen users personally using our forums to try to get the software for free and complaining it costs too much money.
As soon as it's clear that one of the developers is listening they go quiet but it's super disheartening when your community, which should be supporting you, feels so entitled.
Noe that when deployed properly, we MIGHT not need 85% if we have secondary protocols to inhibit the growth of covid.
For example, requiring all airline passengers or anyone leaving their state to be vaccinated and vaccinating frontline workers including those that work at grocery stores, etc.
the issue we had was that we were using a CSS filter like other commenters mentioned.
The problem is that it inverts images too and pdfjs doesn't actually specify which parts of the document are an image as it's just writing to a canvas.
My plan moving forward is to fix pdfjs so it can invert natively and the actual canvas is inverted so that images won't be inverted.
I think figures would STILL be a problem though.
EPUBs are much easier and we're not inverting there because we can see which one is an img.
Yes... if you delete documents it those won't count against your quota.
We've also tried to make it pretty cheap so if you have a huge repo it won't be super expensive. It also won't bloat your local computer so if you have a large repository most of that data will be on the cloud.
Totally agree.. We want to have a Safari and Firefox one and are working on having that resolved quickly.
The code actually is written to be portable as a 'web extension' as both Safari and Firefox use the same general API.
I'll try to get some time and see if it works on Firefox. The biggest issue we have is testing. If something breaks on FF I want to know and we don't have a testing environment there.
Polar is a tool used by software engineers, students, and professionals. Anyone who wants to manage academic research, technical documentation, textbooks, or web-based reading to build a personal knowledge base.
Polar is an integrated reading environment similar to your IDE that you use for writing code. Think of it like Visual Studio or IntelliJ but for books, web content, PDFs, EPUBs, etc.
What makes Polar special is that we’ve built an integrated workflow so that you can read, annotate (make highlights, add comments, pagemarks etc), and convert anything to flashcards. You can then use spaced repetition to review your material directly in Polar or sync it to Anki.
My co-founder and I have been working tirelessly on this since the lockdown started to get this shipped.
This release represents everything we’ve learned since 1.0 and includes:
- Dark mode!! This was by far our #1 requested feature
- Both EPUB and PDF supported (originally it was just PDF)
- Web pages capture content using Mozilla readability, then saving them to EPUB
- Web capture works entirely from our chrome extension so that your cookies, etc get captured too
- Easy reading management with flagging, tagging, archiving, pagemarks to mark specific sections in the book, and more
- Improved annotations and highlights management, including area highlights, annotation tags, margin notes, etc
- One-click flashcards directly from annotations
- We’ve greatly improved our Anki sync to make it more reliable, faster, and has more features like support for cloze deletions, front and back cards, HTML, etc.
What’s more, Polar is open source so you don’t have to risk being locked into a platform you don’t control!
We want to make obtaining an education as easy as possible. In addition, it shouldn’t cost a fortune to get a decent education. Be it tuition or overpriced textbooks. This is why we are building Polar with the vision to truly democratize education.
This is still early stage for us of course. Some of the upcoming features will include mobile apps, integrations with tools like Zotero, and much more.
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Imagine if it was inverted. It would look like a MASSIVE eyeball staring at us during our evolution.
Imagine how that would have impacted religion!