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Any custom TLS client that has minor implementation of HTTP with custom cipher suite support?
With bouncycastle you can create your own custom TLS client and implement the HTTP protocol yourself. They don't do it for you, they just handle the cryptography side of things for you. I can link you a few github projects that I found yesterday that demonstrate this.
I just find it weird that Microsoft themselves haven't added official support for this into HTTPClient. It's definitely possible since every other language offers it. Why can't C#? What's holding it back?
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❔ Best, most reliable NER (Named Entity Recognition) Library for .NET?
Fairly small complexity. Just takes a look at text that gets posted from a feed, The text gets categorized based on a few simple keywords (that can be in random orders/pronunciation) and then the software creates the appropriate class and inserts into a db with the appropriate object.
NER is perfect for this, but the issue is the lack of well maintained and fully functional libraries (with full feature support) in C#
NER is perfect for this, but the issue is the lack of well maintained and fully functional libraries (with full feature support) in C#
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❔ Best, most reliable NER (Named Entity Recognition) Library for .NET?
A lot. Not worth it really.
They give you 5000 text records a month and apparently 1000 characters counts as one. Overall for a month it won't fit my needs.
Payment side of things it can range from 700 per month or 1 dollar per half million. But I'm not sure what the catch is with that.
Meanwhile you can do it free on python. Was hoping there was one with c# that wrapped around one with a full implementation. But yea I think I'm better off just writing a mini python script and then redirecting stdout if need be. But would prefer full control with c# itself though.
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❔ Best, most reliable NER (Named Entity Recognition) Library for .NET?
Yea I didn't either until someone else told me a while back and it fit my needs.
NER is an NLP, it's like a way of analysing text and catgeorizing certain things based on your text. For example, if I had a bunch of text talking about stock markets. Each sentence will have some things in common, you can tag each word/sentence as an entity and train the model. Eventually, the model will start learning based on what you fed it and then any other sentence/essay/page that it reads it will be able to classify the text and label them thouroughly. You can then use these labels to get data depending on your needs.
Some do it to use it to determine sentiment, some use it to detect what kind of text it is (like say you had a bot scanning marketplaces, with NER you'd be able to know the condition of the product, if it's damaged, what kind of damage and so on) at ease. So it's basically just a way of getting data from text in an easy manner without having to hardcode a bunch of words and structures yourself. I guess it's a form of AI?
I myself am not too deep into the subject but was trying to give it a go to see if it is actually useful. I had a perfect mini project that would prove if it was or wasn't. But yea, most NER is with python and trying to find a well maintened library that does NER on C# is kind of hard. Barely any info on it and documentation is scattered all over the place.
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❔ .NET Framework 4.8 Vs .Net Core for Longterm Support
Probably was but microsoft could've fixed the versioning later down the road? Unsure. Don't really keep up with the VS times. Been using vs2017 till recently with .net core forcing you to use the newer versions
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❔ .NET Framework 4.8 Vs .Net Core for Longterm Support
Yea the UI changes are horrid indeed. To make it worse, they "force" you to upgrade in a sense. Got a big shock when I got a wifi 6e card and realized you need windows 11 to use 6e... Microsoft tend to pull the shady cards like that refusing to include the "newer" tech in an "old" version fo windows
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❔ .NET Framework 4.8 Vs .Net Core for Longterm Support
You had no idea when I was relieved to hear that back then. I got a huge disappointment when I heard about win 11 and even worse when I heard about the rumour for win12 coming out (apparently) in late 2024 due to win11 being hated on and doing terrible compared to 10.
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❔ .NET Framework 4.8 Vs .Net Core for Longterm Support
Well, I think they've learnt from that mistake already. They were forced to upgrade to win10 due to security concerns on 7. Their current application just quite runs and so they are on "red alert" for the future. Hence why I'm there. But yea, I tend to think a little bit too far ahead. I think they'll be alright with win 10-12 support and perhaps 13/14 too at the least.
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