#Custom Metadata

[fexleservices]

 Build Your Custom Vocabulary with Org Dictionary

Picture this , A tool that lets you craft a unique vocabulary tailored just for your projects in Salesforce. With Org Dictionary, you can set up a personalized list of terms that make sense for your specific needs.

Whether you’re dealing with custom objects or unique fields, you can create and maintain a dictionary that grows with your project. It’s like having a custom glossary at your fingertips to ensure everyone on your team is on the same page.

Work together with your Salesforce consulting partner to maximize the benefits of Org Dictionary, ensuring your project is streamlined, organized, and effectively managed.

[thevalleyisjolly]

Manual data entry my beloathed

[911ohgod]

me, whispering to myself: you don’t need fo volunteer more places

also me: but this community library needs me!!

[jcmarchi]

How Wealth Managers Can Build Trust Through the Power of Automation and AI

New Post has been published on https://thedigitalinsider.com/how-wealth-managers-can-build-trust-through-the-power-of-automation-and-ai/

How Wealth Managers Can Build Trust Through the Power of Automation and AI

Building trust between wealth managers and their clients has traditionally been credited to effective communication and understanding between the two partners. Over time, wealth managers’ have become increasingly spread thin because of larger portfolios of more demanding clients. The knock-on effect is that clients can feel out of the loop due to extended response times from their wealth managers.

The latest AI solutions now enable wealth managers to eradicate human error and secure integral daily processes, including knowledge work automation, which improve client experience and increases trust.

More time for client relations

 Wealth managers don’t have enough time during the week to foster the relationships they have with clients. Over time, wealth managers have seen their portfolios expand, increased compliance responsibility and other non-revenue generating tasks thrusted upon them. In-turn, schedules have become congested for wealth managers.

Manual, time-consuming procedures have been required when handling workflow processes for wealth managers. Taking up time and energy of wealth managers to ensure workflow is properly handled and stored, has in turn, hindered their capability to improve client relations and foster new ones.

Through the power of automation, wealth managers can store and access the most up-to-date version of customer data immediately and without the worry of if it’s the correct version – as it always will be.

Avoiding content chaos

For wealth managers, the handling of sensitive client data is an everyday responsibility. One false move in saving or sharing an incorrect file can now lead to huge legal and financial implications.

Knowledge work automation, supported by metadata and AI technology, ensure wealth managers are accessing the correct data every time. Ensuring only one version – the correct one – is stored, wealth managers avoid the construction of data siloes across their systems. The creation of data siloes slows down workflow processes, as accurate data is more difficult to come by and also increases the chances of sharing incorrect data both internally and externally.

The wealth management industry cannot afford to be viewed as taking a light-touch approach to data handling. High net-worth individuals will sooner find new opportunities to invest or store their capital if they feel wealth managers are simply not up to the task of handling their assets and data.

The AI trust-factor

With much of a wealth manager’s success relying on trust from the client, how can AI better improve relationships for both parties? With AI, building trust in wealth management is born out of these automated workflow management processes. Prior to these tools, wealth managers would be typically time poor, which would increase the likelihood of workflow being mishandled as schedules become increasingly strained.

The power of automation providing seamless and secure processes for wealth managers ensures client data is safely handled and in a timely manner. From a client perspective, trust is only going to increase once wealth managers have harnessed these tools in a bid to eradicate human error.

Money talks

Implementing AI across knowledge workflow processes has little downside when considering the risks often involved in the processes become mitigated and automation rapidly improves delivery.

For wealth managers and their clients, a more present and interactive relationship is born out of the AI overhaul as their schedules become increasingly accommodating as a direct result of automation. Wealth managers have to be up to date on all the emerging financial tools and investment instruments now available on the market as well. It is not just manual processes which are taking up their time – wealth managers need all the help they can get from automation as their job roles continue to evolve.

Eradicating the threat of human error and easing time pressures offers greater levels of trust during the customer journey. Over time, the increased adoption of AI will revolutionise the wealth management offering across these crucial processes. This improved security established across wealth management processes will result in prospects looking to the sector as a reliable channel to store their net worth.

[ourjobagency]

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[insanelyclevermarketing]

How To Build A Website That Will Boost Business Profits

It is essential for every business to have a website. Especially with more customers preferring to shop online. Having a website will boost your business visibility and ensure you do not lose out to other businesses that do offer online services.  You won’t want your business website to turn off customers. Instead, you will want it to attract them, generate leads, and boost sales. Therefore, use…

[jimbuchan]

Automate The Foundation Not Just The Furniture

Considering all that your CRM provides so much as customization and manipulation of data, would it surprise you to learn that a similar function can also be done for the creation of new Fields in Salesforce? Depending on various factors that differ from business to business, the subject of automating the creation of fields may never come up, but when it does (particularly when a large amount of fields need to be created), your time can be cut dramatically in comparison to manually creating them. Much like bulk creation (or removal) of records using Data Loader, you can accomplish the same convenience with field creation… after all, you have the power to manipulate and change the Data in your system… why not your MetaData? Bulk Object Field Creator can accomplish the insertion of new fields rapidly with 1 action, as opposed to tens or hundreds of individual updates, and within the same routine, they can be created all within single (or multiple) Profiles as well as being assigned to various Page Layouts. This is particularly useful when you have hundreds of fields which need to be created for a given Object… a task that can take a fair amount of time if performed manually.  As a time comparison, consider as a baseline that it takes approx. 1 minute to create a single field (i.e. Field Type / Field Name / Profile and Layout). If the amount of fields you needed to create amounted to 250, this would put you in excess of 4 hours in one sitting. Realistically, it would likely take multiple days as the likelihood of other requests competing for your time during the day would likely be the case. In utilizing the BOFC tool, it would take only minutes to complete the same action, which would be accomplished in a 2-step process. First, the list of fields would be assembled in a CSV or XLS file and then imported via the tool with a few selections including Object, Field Type and Name, Required Checkbox, Description and Help Text information. Once entered, the only action required is to click the ‘Create New Fields’ button and presto… the fields are now completed automatically in about the same amount of time it takes to perform a standard Data Load.

But wait… there’s more. Along with the auto-generation of fields, the same can be done for creating (or cloning) Objects in mass as well as  Formula Fields and even Validation Rules. For those who are not yet familiar with the Apex Data Loader (or Dataloader.io) the difference in using a tool like BOFS is that the creation of these elements are done outside Salesforce by assembling your fields in Google Sheets or Excel. This represents a rapid means of entering your data without lag on the server and once completed, your Objects / Fields are completed in your environment in one shot. Taking the tool to further extremes, BOFC can also serve a a ‘Diff’ engine by comparing Objects / Fields between Production and Sandbox instances... a time-saving task which would otherwise require you to have keyboard and mouse-click superpowers. You can also use the application to move data between Orgs in just a few steps. Further, if your business has a requirement to export the Apex Code (including Code Coverage), BOFC also includes this feature.  While the majority of Meta-Data fields created will be done within Salesforce's native environment, when the opportunity arises for a vast amount of fields to be inserted, the Bulk Object Field Creator tool can save your firm time, both in development, and the often overlooked testing phase.  For those who have created large objects which need to be set up in multiple environments, there is nothing quite like the standardization and ease of use for this tool, which is custom suited for the developer / admin who is short on time and long on results.

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[autogyne-redacted]

Let's Talk About Security Culture: Why Keeping Secrets is Cool and Sexy

It's a natural impulse -- if you love crime -- to want to talk about how great it is. And if you hate America, it's only natural to want to share your dreams for its future with the rest of tumblr dot com. It can feel brave and transgressive. And there is a drive to share your soul with the world at the heart of social media. Surely I should be posting the most concrete implications of my politics, right? This is the poster's curse.

Security Culture refers to a set of "best practices" developed over the past several decades, largely (in a US context) coming out of radical environmental groups as they faced intense state repression, infiltration and entrapment. If you're not familiar, there's some fascinating crimethinc write ups to give you a window into that world:

Much of it boils down to: don't talk about crimes, past or forthcoming with people who don't need to know about them, and be mindful of the possibility of surveillance and infiltration. And, we can support each other as a community in minimizing risks, with an eye towards enabling bold action rather than getting bogged down in fears and anxieties. The guidelines that make sense for AG-based trouble-makers are different from the guidelines that make sense for posters, but plenty of common principles apply. To speak briefly to our position here as posters:

First, it bears saying that long term anonymity is nearly impossible to maintain. Unless you've never accessed Tumblr without a vpn, and avoided connections with other ppl who can be associated with you/your location, and never shared pictures without scrubbing metadata, and a bunch of other 100% consistent steps, it's trivial for the state to know who you are.

Second, just because something isn't actively being prosecuted now doesn't mean it can't be prosecuted later. The priorities of the state change and a shift in power towards the right or a growth in radical action from the left can suddenly make it a priority to destroy anarchist networks or just find a few ppl to prosecute as examples (who probably weren't that plugged into larger networks before getting arrested). Advocating for specific anti-government crimes or declarations of intent to commit such crimes are likely prosecutable, and even if charges don't stick, they're an easy vector for legal harassment.

Third, it's worth thinking about heat as separate from prosecutability. There are modes of engagement that may not be directly criminalized but signal that you are someone worth watching. Some people choose to be public in ways that make heat unavoidable. But it's worth noting that heat isn't strictly individualized, that it persists over time but also is going to shrink over time.

It's easy on here, ime, to see yourself as a proud member of the crime fandom but not much of a content creator. And it's easy to feel like you've generated an amount of heat where you're locked into that role. But heat you generated 10 years ago is probably pretty well gone. Heat you generated 5 years ago has faded substantially. It's worth thinking about how the world might shift in the coming years and what doors you want to keep open.

The non-individualized nature of heat also means that leaning into the spiciest of anti-state positions will make it a bad idea for people who are acting out those positions end up tied to you. Loudly talking about how "more people should be doing [X/Y/Z]" unfortunately sets you up to remain distant from people who might be doing or thinking about doing such things.

Which brings me back to: keeping secrets is sexy. Not spelling everything out builds intrigue. You can lay out a theoretical position and leave working out the practical implications of that as an exercise for the reader. There's value in opacity. The poster's curse and the drive to confess are extremely convenient for the state, but we can resist them. We can hold dreams in our hearts that we refuse to offer up to the posting spectacle.

[mostlysignssomeportents]

One of America’s most corporate-crime-friendly bankruptcy judges forced to recuse himself

Today (Oct 16) I'm in Minneapolis, keynoting the 26th ACM Conference On Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing. Thursday (Oct 19), I'm in Charleston, WV to give the 41st annual McCreight Lecture in the Humanities. Friday (Oct 20), I'm at Charleston's Taylor Books from 12h-14h.

"I’ll believe corporations are people when Texas executes one." The now-famous quip from Robert Reich cuts to the bone of corporate personhood. Corporations are people with speech rights. They are heat-shields that absorb liability on behalf of their owners and managers.

But the membrane separating corporations from people is selectively permeable. A corporation is separate from its owners, who are not liable for its deeds – but it can also be "closely held," and so inseparable from those owners that their religious beliefs can excuse their companies from obeying laws they don't like:

https://clsbluesky.law.columbia.edu/2014/10/13/hobby-lobby-and-closely-held-corporations/

Corporations – not their owners – are liable for their misdeeds (that's the "limited liability" in "limited liablity corporation"). But owners of a murderous company can hold their victims' families hostage and secure bankruptcies for their companies that wipe out their owners' culpability – without any requirement for the owners to surrender their billions to the people they killed and maimed:

https://pluralistic.net/2023/08/11/justice-delayed/#justice-redeemed

Corporations are, in other words, a kind of Schroedinger's Cat for impunity: when it helps the ruling class, corporations are inseparable from their owners; when that would hinder the rich and powerful, corporations are wholly distinct entities. They exist in a state of convenient superposition that collapses only when a plutocrat opens the box and decides what is inside it. Heads they win, tails we lose.

Key to corporate impunity is the rigged bankruptcy system. "Debts that can't be paid, won't be paid," so every successful civilization has some system for discharging debt, or it risks collapse:

https://pluralistic.net/2022/10/09/bankruptcy-protects-fake-people-brutalizes-real-ones/

When you or I declare bankruptcy, we have to give up virtually everything and endure years (or a lifetime) of punitive retaliation based on our stained credit records, and even then, our student debts continue to haunt us, as do lawless scumbag debt-collectors:

https://pluralistic.net/2023/08/12/do-not-pay/#fair-debt-collection-practices-act

When a giant corporation declares bankruptcy, by contrast, it emerges shorn of its union pension obligations and liabilities owed to workers and customers it abused or killed, and continues merrily on its way, re-offending at will. Big companies have mastered the Texas Two-Step, whereby a company creates a subsidiary that inherits all its liabilities, but not its assets. The liability-burdened company is declared bankrupt, and the company's sins are shriven at the bang of a judge's gavel:

https://pluralistic.net/2023/02/01/j-and-j-jk/#risible-gambit

Three US judges oversee the majority of large corporate bankruptcies, and they are so reliable in their deference to this scheme that an entire industry of high-priced lawyers exists solely to game the system to ensure that their clients end up before one of these judges. When the Sacklers were seeking to abscond with their billions in opioid blood-money and stiff their victims' families, they set their sights on Judge Robert Drain in the Southern District of New York:

https://pluralistic.net/2021/05/23/a-bankrupt-process/#sacklers

To get in front of Drain, the Sacklers opened an office in White Plains, NY, then waited 192 days to file bankruptcy papers there (it takes six months to establish jurisdiction). Their papers including invisible metadata that identified the case as destined for Judge Drain's court, in a bid to trick the court's Case Management/Electronic Case Files system to assign the case to him.

The case was even pre-captioned "RDD" ("Robert D Drain"), to nudge clerks into getting their case into a friendly forum.

If the Sacklers hadn't opted for Judge Drain, they might have set their sights on the Houston courthouse presided over by Judge David Jones, the second of of the three most corporate-friendly large bankruptcy judges. Judge Jones is a Texas judge – as in "Texas Two-Step" – and he has a long history of allowing corporate murderers and thieves to escape with their fortunes intact and their victims penniless:

https://pluralistic.net/2021/08/07/hr-4193/#shoppers-choice

But David Jones's reign of error is now in limbo. It turns out that he was secretly romantically involved with Elizabeth Freeman, a leading Texas corporate bankruptcy lawyer who argues Texas Two-Step cases in front of her boyfriend, Judge David Jones.

Judge Jones doesn't deny that he and Freeman are romantically involved, but said that he didn't think this fact warranted disclosure – let alone recusal – because they aren't married and "he didn't benefit economically from her legal work." He said that he'd only have to disclose if the two owned communal property, but the deed for their house lists them as co-owners:

https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/24032507-general-warranty-deed

(Jones claims they don't live together – rather, he owns the house and pays the utility bills but lets Freeman live there.)

Even if they didn't own communal property, judges should not hear cases where one of the parties is represented by their long term romantic partner. I mean, that is a weird sentence to have to type, but I stand by it.

The case that led to the revelation and Jones's stepping away from his cases while the Fifth Circuit investigates is a ghastly – but typical – corporate murder trial. Corizon is a prison healthcare provider that killed prisoners with neglect, in the most cruel and awful ways imaginable. Their families sued, so Corizon budded off two new companies: YesCare got all the contracts and other assets, while Tehum Care Services got all the liabilities:

https://ca.finance.yahoo.com/news/prominent-bankruptcy-judge-david-jones-033801325.html

Then, Tehum paid Freeman to tell her boyfriend, Judge Jones, to let it declare bankruptcy, leaving $173m for YesCare and allocating $37m for the victims suing Tehum. Corizon owes more than $1.2b, "including tens of millions of dollars in unpaid invoices and hundreds of malpractice suits filed by prisoners and their families who have alleged negligent care":

https://www.kccllc.net/tehum/document/2390086230522000000000041

Under the deal, if Corizon murdered your family member, you would get $5,000 in compensation. Corizon gets to continue operating, using that $173m to prolong its yearslong murder spree.

The revelation that Jones and Freeman are lovers has derailed this deal. Jones is under investigation and has recused himself from his cases. The US Trustee – who represents creditors in bankruptcy cases – has intervened to block the deal, calling Tehum "a barren estate, one that was stripped of all of its valuable assets as a result of the combination and divisional mergers that occurred prior to the bankruptcy filing."

This is the third high-profile sleazy corporate bankruptcy that had victory snatched from the jaws of defeat this year: there was Johnson and Johnson's attempt to escape from liability from tricking women into powder their vulvas with asbestos (no, really), the Sacklers' attempt to abscond with billions after kicking off the opioid epidemic that's killed 800,000+ Americans and counting, and now this one.

This one might be the most consequential, though – it has the potential to eliminate one third of the major crime-enabling bankruptcy judges serving today.

One down.

Two to go.

If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this post to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:

https://pluralistic.net/2023/10/16/texas-two-step/#david-jones

My next novel is The Lost Cause, a hopeful novel of the climate emergency. Amazon won't sell the audiobook, so I made my own and I'm pre-selling it on Kickstarter!

[wip]

Hello! Would you ever consider bringing back different post types, especially audio? I appreciate that audio posts now display the artist, song title, and album name, but unfortunately newer audio posts don’t play in Tumblr-based music players like egoisticalgoat.de or robinpx.github.io/boombox because they’re read as text posts. Thank you for reading!

Answer: Hey there, @stepintomusic!

Sadly, the answer here is no. We’ve been moving away from legacy post types and towards the Neue Post Format—a format that allows multiple types of media in the same post—for many years. The new features available in NPF basically guarantee that we won’t ever switch back to the legacy format.

(If you’re interested in peeking behind the scenes here, there are a few posts about NPF over at @engineering.)

Now, to get into the meat of the issue. While it would be amazing if we could support every third-party tool forever, the reality is that we can’t. We’re a surprisingly small team to begin with, and even if we weren’t, that support would come at a cost.

To start, there’s the development tax. Now, would it have been cool to ensure all third-party tools (and all custom themes) worked 100% perfectly with posts stored as NPF before releasing NPF to the public? Yeah, it would have been… for third-party tools and custom themes. For us, it would have meant delaying NPF (and all the features it brings with it) for months, possibly years. Imagine a 2023 where Tumblr still doesn’t have polls: that’s the alternate future we’re talking about here.

And then, there’s our maintenance tax. The engine that powers Tumblr themes is already incredibly complicated—complicated to the point that we’re already finding it difficult to maintain and add things like, as you mentioned, NPF audio metadata. If, every time we found some third-party tool that doesn’t play nice with the latest changes, we tried to make an affordance for it… the engine would just become even more complex. And it would do so quickly, and complex to the point of being impossible to keep up with as a maintainer.

There’s a great article here by a former Mozilla developer about the pitfalls of prioritizing a third-party ecosystem over your own software. Did you know that Firefox was essentially a single-threaded application until 2018? This meant it would still visually lock up when saving files to disk, or collecting crash data. Chrome launched in 2008 and was multiprocess from the start. But it took Firefox ten years to catch up because supporting all existing third-party add-ons was seen as necessary. (Spoiler alert: in the end, they had to drop support for those add-ons anyway.)

My own recommendation around third-party software like this is: get in contact with its developer! If something in their software isn’t working, there’s nobody more qualified to update it. (Or, if they’ve abandoned the project but had made it open-source, maybe someone else could step up to maintain it. Maybe you! You never know until you try.)

I talked about the maintenance tax from the first-party side, but let’s talk about it from the third-party side, too. As a theme author and add-on developer myself, I have long accepted that the cost of maintaining these things can never be zero. When your software interacts with an online service, and that online service is being actively maintained, your software also needs to be maintained.

I hope all this has been enlightening! Thanks for your question, and please, have a great day.

—April

[arminaa8]

Saving Fic Epubs and Metadata Using Calibre

I FINALLY spent time learning how to set up Calibre with the FanFicFare plugin in order to easily keep track of fics that I've read. What's really awesome about it, though, is it does way more than just "keep track":

It saves epubs for future downloading (in case the fic is pulled from AO3)

It automatically "scrapes" metadata (title, tags, warnings, etc.) from the fic and includes it in Calibre's built-in spreadsheet

Allows you to create custom categories for things like notes and personal ratings, as well as categories for metadata not scraped by default (word count, for example).

Every bit of information scraped is SEARCHABLE and SORTABLE! Tags, authors, published date, etc.

However, the instructions for how to do all this are not clear-cut and are scattered on different sites and forums. So I've created a little guide based on what worked for me!

Here are my categories (if you know me the fic shown is not a surprise). I couldn't fit them into one long horizontal screenshot so I split them into two.

Most of these are default categories, but some (Thoughts, Words, Summary, Ratings, and Notes) are not. I've excluded default categories I didn't need, and created custom ones for the information I wanted to include.

Tutorial below the cut!

Download and install Calibre.

Once the program is open, click Preferences > Get plugins to enhance calibre Search for and install the FanFicFare and EpubMerge plugins (EpubMerge works in tandem with FFF and allows for downloading an entire fic series into one file).

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Custom Columns

Preferences > Preferences > Add your own columns The custom column screen is shown below. Anything unchecked is a category I didn't want to include in my list. Anything with a column icon next to it means its a custom column I created. To create a new column, click +Add custom column.

The settings I made for each of my custom categories are shown below. Take note of the "column type" for each category. You can make any kind of columns you'd like!

Once you've made your custom categories make sure to click Apply on the "Add your own columns" screen. Now we need to configure the FanFicFare plugin to assign data to some of the custom categories. Click the down arrow next to the FanFicFare plugin icon on the main Calibre screen, then click Configure FanFicFare. On the next screen click the Custom Columns tab.

You will see a list of your custom columns with drop-down menus next to each. For columns you want the plugin to automatically fill, click the drop-down and select the matching data from AO3. There are many options to choose from, including pairing, language, warnings, etc. Note that I left the Notes and Thoughts columns blank. This is because I will input that information manually for each fic.

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Downloading Individual Fics

Arrow next to FanFicFare > Download from URLs Paste in entire-work fic URLs into the black box. I personally found it tedious to copy/paste each link, so instead I found a Firefox extention called Copy All Tab URLs that does exactly what it says on the tin: copies all URLs from any open tabs. Much easier. Click OK. Then, WAIT. It takes a minute to fetch the data. If a fic is restricted, the plugin may show a pop-up asking you to log into AO3 so that it can access the fic.

You're good to go when you see the following pop-up in the bottom-right corner. Click Yes.

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Downloading An Entire Series

FanFicFare combined with EpubMerge allows you to download an entire series into one epub file!

Arrow next to FanFicFare > Get Story URLs from Web Page

Paste in the link to the SERIES page.

Click For Anthology Epub to download everything in that series into a single epub.

The next screen lists all the links in that series. Nothing to do here but click OK.

[kawaoneechan]

So I just did a little test that I should've done way earlier.

These are the only files needed to run Project Special K. The mods folder contains an Isabelle that's currently replacing Mitzi while I work on special characters.

What I did first was add a line to VFS::Init where it loads assets from that specific zip file. Then it tries the (here nonexistent) data folder, then it adds everything in the mods folder.

Technically that mods folder wouldn't be required if I didn't hardcode a need for certain characters to test with.

For a release build (they start faster) the only obvious difference is that it doesn't play the hourly music. That's in another mod. Instead it plays No one's around to help, a fallback track.

...

But now I'm thinking, the whole archive, virtual file system, mods and all that? That whole thing? Like I said before, it's modeled after the system in Starbound, and I've implemented it several times for different projects. But every time, they all had two things in common against Starbound's model: they use ordinary zip files (with or without different extensions) instead of custom uncompressed archives, and they don't use the assets and mods folders — most implementations of mine expect all those zips to go in the same folder as the game itself, and use the data folder to override it.

In Starbound, there are three places where it looks for assets:

the assets folder, where packed.pak is expected to be found along with the user folder

the mods folder

the Steam Workshop

The first two can be changed by editing sbinit.config or specifying another with the -bootconfig parameter (which also by the way specifies where to put saved game data), the Workshop is added on the fly.

And on top of that, there is no technical difference between packed.pak, the user folder, and any mods, Workshop or otherwise. All of them are archives or folders with a metadata file that identifies the asset, and gives it a load ordering priority and dependencies. That's how packed.pak is always loaded first: it has a priority of like -9999.

So I'm thinking, since Project Special K is the first time my implementation also supports priorities and dependencies between assets, should I maybe match Starbound's behavior and put the main data in an assets folder? With a pskinit.json and -bootconfig parameter?

[nhaneh]

so the other week my secondary PC had yet another one of those full screen "We're ending support for Windows 10 soon you need to upgrade to a more modern PC to support Windows 11" ads show up and feeling particularly annoyed with that kind of bullshit at the time I decided to have a peek into task manager to see if I could find out what particular executable was behind this bullshit and whether I could do something about it, and well...

It turns out this is all run by one of the four executables that Windows update has sneakily decided to install under /Program Files/RUXIM/, notably either RUXIMICS.exe or RUXIMH.exe

Okay so what does this RUXIM stuff actually do? That's... good question - according to their file properties metadata, and Microsoft, and just about every place on the web i could find, they are part of the Reusable UX Interaction Manager, and are used by Windows Update and is supposedly used to collect data to "keep Windows up to date and performing properly."

There's apparently a number of people who are very insistent on that being the full, entire, and absolute truth of it and anyone questioning why it is there, what it does, or wanting to be rid of it is a complete fool. And also that your Windows PC will quickly and hopelessly degrade in performance, become unstable and break down if you're dumb enough to delete it. Apparently.

But like... why exactly should we be taking Microsoft at their word about any of this, again? You know, the same company who have been actively lying about the hardware requirements of Windows 11 seeing how they allow some of their larger customers to entirely circumvent it? The same company who came up with Windows Recall and still intends to roll out some version of it basically as soon as they can get away with it?

Do these people also genuinely believe it whenever a website shows a popup to tell you how much they care about your privacy even as they ask you to please click that big shiny button to allow them and their affiliates to track your browsing to the maximal extent possible?

Companies lie to you. Silicon valley lies to you. Even your favourites lie to you.

Anyway I decided to forcibly replace all four executables in the RUXIM folder with a tiny little program I built that basically just writes an entry to a log text file listing what date and time it was loaded and what arguments was passed to it and Windows Update is still working so far ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[ourjobagency]

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[violetsandshrikes]

Since sharing this post about a usful AI used to compile and graph research papers, I've realised I have a few other resources I can share with people!

Note: I haven't had a chance to use every single one of these. A group of post-grad students has been slowly compiling an online list, and these are some I've picked out that are free (or should be free and also have paid versions). However, other students using them have all verified them as safe.

Inciteful (Using Citations to Explore Academic Literature | Inciteful.xyz) – similar to connectedpapers + researchrabbit. Also allows you to connect two papers and see how they are linked. Currently free.

Spinbot (Spinbot - Article Spinning, Text Rewriting, Content Creation Tool.) – article spinner + paraphraser. Useful for difficult articles/papers. Currently free (ad version).

Elicit (Elicit: The AI Research Assistant)  – AI research assistant, creates workflow. Mainly for lit reviews. Finds relevant papers, summarises + analyses them, finds criticism of them. Free (?)

Natural Reader (AI Voices - NaturalReader Home (naturalreaders.com)) – text to speech. Native speakers. Usually pretty reliable, grain of salt. Free + paid versions.

Otter AI (Otter.ai - Voice Meeting Notes & Real-time Transcription) – takes notes and transcribes video calls. Pretty accurate. Warn people Otter is entering call or it is terrifying. Free + paid versions.

Paper Panda (🐼 PaperPanda — Access millions of research papers in one click) – get research papers free. Chrome extension. Free.

Docsity (About us - Docsity Corporate) – get documents from university students globally. Useful for notes.

Desmos (Desmos | Let's learn together.) – online free graphing calculator. Free (?)

Core (CORE – Aggregating the world’s open access research papers) – open access research paper aggregation.

Writefull (Writefull X: AI applied to academic writing) – Academic AI. Paraphrasing, title generator, abstract generator, apparently ChatGPT detector now. Free.

Photopea (Photopea | Online Photo Editor) – Photoshop copy but run free and online. Same tools. Free.

Draw IO (Flowchart Maker & Online Diagram Software) – Flowchart/diagram maker. Free + paid versions.

Weava (Weava Highlighter - Free Research Tool for PDFs & Webpages (weavatools.com)) – Highlight + annotate webpages and pdfs. Free + paid versions.

Unsplash (Beautiful Free Images & Pictures | Unsplash) – free to use images.

Storyset (Storyset | Customize, animate and download illustration for free) – open source illustrations. Free.

Undraw (unDraw - Open source illustrations for any idea) – open source illustrations. Free.

8mb Video (8mb.video: online compressor FREE) – video compression (to under 8mb). Free.

Just Beam It (JustBeamIt - file transfer made easy) – basically airdrop files quickly and easily between devices. Free.

Jimpl (Online photo metadata and EXIF data viewer | Jimpl) – upload photos to see metadata. Can also remove metadata from images to obscure sensitive information. Free.

TL Draw (tldraw) – web drawing application. Free.

Have I Been Pwned (Have I Been Pwned: Check if your email has been compromised in a data breach) – lets you know if information has been taken in a data breach. If so, change passwords. Free.

If you guys have any feedback about these sites (good or bad), feel free to add on in reblogs or flick me a message and I can add! Same thing with any broken links or additions.

[running-in-the-dark]

I seem to have somehow lost all the custom metadata in my main Calibre library. And I don't seem to have a recent backup anywhere. Soo I'm gonna go cry now :')