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A Raspberry Pi can help debug and fix HDMI CEC flakiness, with the right cable - https://johnlian.net/posts/hdmi-cec/

I think SciOp is doing something in that area, with a catalog site and webseeds. https://sciop.net/

The Archive Team - not part of the Internet Archive - worked on a distributed backup of a portion of the Internet Archive - https://wiki.archiveteam.org/index.php/INTERNETARCHIVE.B…

I wonder if they'll go with "toploaders" - like Backblaze Storage Pods - later. They have better density and faster setup, as they don't have to screw in every drive. They got used…

There's a flamewar detector, which triggers when there are far more comments than upvotes.

Kern Type, perhaps? https://type.method.ac/

Feel free to run EasyOCR against it and submit a PR

I attempted OCR, and while it's not great, it's a start. I considered adding a reference to "software wants to be free!" or the Open Letter, but I'm winding down for the night. htt…

I attempted OCR with OCRmyPDF / Tesseract. It's not great, but it's under 1% the size, at least. https://github.com/pronoiac/altair-basic-source-code

Checking diskprices.com - https://diskprices.com/?locale=us&condition=new,used&disk_ty... - there's a cheaper outlier for DVD-R, then it's 25GB BD-Rs for a bit. LTO tape can be che…

I've used ocrit, which uses those APIs. https://github.com/insidegui/ocrit There are also: * swiftocr - https://github.com/fny/swiftocr * macos-vision-ocr - https://github.com/byte…

They asked for something like Bluesky starter packs on Mastodon, not Bluesky starter packs on Bluesky.

I knew I'd seen something, but I just searched for for it; Fedidevs have something like that - https://fedidevs.com/starter-packs/

I think Pandoc and Calibre could work for you. I've worked on PAIP, Paradigms of Artificial Intelligence Programming, and I might be able to help you a bit. It's around 1k pages lo…

I've run an X app from Docker, a Linux container on a macOS host. I was able to move the incantations to a Makefile: https://github.com/ryanfb/docker_scantailor

I've worked on PAIP, and I think the GitHub.com version - https://github.com/norvig/paip-lisp/ - gets more attention than the GitHub.io version linked here. The GitHub.io version a…

It's still in progress! It's looong - about a thousand pages. There's an ebook, but the printed book got more editing.

I made a high-quality scan of PAIP (Paradigms of Artificial Intelligence Programming), and worked on OCR'ing and incorporating that into an admittedly imperfect git repo of Markdow…

> The compression was trivial: store a suffix preceded by one byte that contained the length of the prefix that the word shared with its predecessor in dictionary order. Oh, that l…

Covering all frequencies? No Blank Space?

> Maybe yours did much worse because you aren't splitting files into subdirectories but creating them all in one? No, and also, I'd expect that to be awful. 1000 folders, each with…

Is XFS well-regarded by others? I was benchmarking filesystems by generating a billion empty files on them, and while ext2, ext4, and btrfs could finish in a day or two, xfs hit a …

I remember tools that worked with the Wikipedia dumps, in bzip2, and built indexes to allow decent random access. Once you know where the compressed blocks are, and which Wikipedia…

I did some benchmarking of compression and decompression last year. Raspberry Pi 4, Debian, and my corpus was a filesystem with a billion files on it, as a sparse tar of a drive im…

I made: * an issue, "make an ebook": https://github.com/nuta/operating-system-in-1000-lines/issue... * an epub: https://github.com/pronoiac/operating-system-in-1000-lines/r... The …