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Anyone know of any solutions that perform TTS on PDFs and the such?

Basically something like https://speechify.com but open sourced. The motivation, if not already apparent, is to self-host and not pay for something that maybe easily bubblegum + taped together....maybe.

I'm interested in getting hands-on-experience on applying security exploits to my personal website. I'm a developer, but know an embarrassingly little amount of applied security exploits. I'm curious about this.

From a previous post, it seems to me the suggestions for DDOS'ing (as a low-bar way to exploit) converge on hitting a expensive query/operation many times and this can be aided by various tools, such as botnets and load testing tools.

What about other "common" security exploits? ie, exploits that are commonly unprotected against and can cause damage to a website?

Am curious about simulating cyber attacks (e.g. DDOS) on my own little website, for my curiosity. Am a software developer but know embarrassingly little about security and exploits.

Should mention I have a few laptops (2020 Macbook Pros) at my disposal to act as DIY Botnets.

EDIT: Thanks everyone. It seems to me the suggestions for DDOS'ing converge on hitting a expensive query/operation many times and this can be aided by various tools, such as botnets and load testing tools.

What about other "common" security exploits? ie, exploits that are commonly unprotected against and can cause damage to a website?

Also...I have websites hosted on Bluehost (wordpress) and Namecheap. Do these hosting services automatically protect me from the DDOS tactics suggested?

For me a couple of interesting technology products that help me in my day-to-day job

1. Hasura 2. Strapi 3. Forest Admin (super interesting although I cannot ever get it to connect to a hasura backend on Heroku ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ 4. Integromat 5. Appgyver

There are many others that I have my eye on such as NodeRed[6], but have yet to use. I do realise that these are all low-code related, however, I would be super interested in being made aware of cool other cool & upcoming tech that is making waves.

What's on your 'to watch' list?

[1]https://hasura.io/

[2]https://strapi.io/

[3]https://www.forestadmin.com/

[4]https://www.appgyver.com/

[5]https://www.integromat.com/en

[6]https://nodered.org/

How does one make meaningful contributions to an academic field without being part of the academy (eg a graduate program, etc)? I'm a professional software engineer, but I have interests in history, anthropology, cognitive science, philosophy, etc. How can I make meaningful contributions in any of these? Are there examples of this?

For me a couple of interesting technology products that help me in my day-to-day job

1. Hasura 2. Strapi 3. Forest Admin (super interesting although I cannot ever get it to connect to a hasura backend on Heroku ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ 4. Integromat 5. Appgyver

There are many others that I have my eye on such as NodeRed[6], but have yet to use. I do realise that these are all low-code related, however, I would be super interested in being made aware of cool other cool & upcoming tech that is making waves.

What's on your 'to watch' list?

[1]https://hasura.io/

[2]https://strapi.io/

[3]https://www.forestadmin.com/

[4]https://www.appgyver.com/

[5]https://www.integromat.com/en

[6]https://nodered.org/

For me a couple of interesting technology products that help me in my day-to-day job

1. Hasura 2. Strapi 3. Forest Admin (super interesting although I cannot ever get it to connect to a hasura backend on Heroku ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ 4. Integromat 5. Appgyver

There are many others that I have my eye on such as NodeRed[6], but have yet to use. I do realise that these are all low-code related, however, I would be super interested in being made aware of cool other cool & upcoming tech that is making waves.

What's on your 'to watch' list?

[1]https://hasura.io/

[2]https://strapi.io/

[3]https://www.forestadmin.com/

[4]https://www.appgyver.com/

[5]https://www.integromat.com/en

[6]https://nodered.org/

How will this[0] affect DBX stock and direction?

[0]https://blog.dropbox.com/topics/company/congratulations--timothy--

> At Digg, one mentor gave me the savvy advice that the fastest path to financial success was working for four years at three different just-about-to-IPO companies. A surefire way to retire by forty. (This is, for the record, pretty good advice.)

https://lethain.com/forty-year-career/

What are other fastest paths to financial success? Currently am a software engineer, so looking for advice in this career choice.

Is it illegal for a proprietary platform to host user created-content that was originally uploaded to a public website?

Context: I believe my Anki (https://apps.ankiweb.net/) deck was converted into a Reji (https://reji.me/) deck and used in their premium (must pay for) application.

1) Is it legal for other companies to use open source Anki decks as part of their own content that users must pay for? Here are the legalities but I'm not confident - https://ankiweb.net/account/terms

"In addition to the license you grant us above, you may optionally grant users extra rights by specifying so in your deck's description, such as allowing them to redistribute modified versions of your deck. You may not impose any extra restrictions." This tells me that I cannot actually prevent the distribution of my deck. Is this a correct interpretation?

2) Would this have been illegal if Reji simply allowed their users to upload their own (from their local computer, so it could be anyone's) Anki decks onto their own personal Reji app (not public for Reji users to consume)?

3) What about onto Reji's shared deck market place (just like Anki has) for others to consume? And what if instead of another user uploading my deck, I actually did (nefariously)....would this still be illegal?