Notices by ⚪ next buneit of computing (lynnesbian@fedi.lynnesbian.space), page 2

personality quiz - which of the 809 pokémon are you?

it even detects the locale for you... fugck

this might actually be a good idea. i can even make it fall back to tesseract if google cloud vision is disabled/over the limit/etc

just converted all my MP3s to FLAC... wow! you can really hear the difference! the sound is so much warmer now!

imagine if the gmail webapp didn't exist and you instead had a single page with links to other pages to individually load your email. no keybinds, no lazy loading, no toggling images, no attachment warnings... just pure HTTP. it would be beautiful. so minimalist that you could run it on a flip phone. and isn't that what we all want? in today's modern day and age, where mobile phones are massively more powerful than the computers of two decades ago, we *need* to ensure that every website runs like butter on a pentium II PC with 64MB of memory, no matter how complex. what's that? you want to make a video streaming service? fuck you. we already have icecast and other internet streaming standards. provide a link to the stream and a download link for VLC. this is how things should be

after downloading the image, OCRbot uses tesseract-ocr to extract the text. this is a free (as in libre and gratis) program that uses neural networks to do the job. it's been trained on a massive dataset of text and has "learned" what letters usually look like. it knows that a lowercase h is a line with a smaller line connected to it on the right, for example.

tesseract first tries to split the image into chunks of what it believes to be text. it then splits these chunks into words by looking for spaces, and then tries to identify the letters making up those words. if any of these steps fail, the entire process fails.

neural networks work in a similar way to how a brain does, but on a much smaller scale - computers really aren't up to the task of simulating an entire brain right now. powerful computers are used to train the neural network for hours and hours, making it become more accurate at reading text. this has some drawbacks - if it was always trained on helvetica text, it'd only be able to read that, for example. thus it's important to make sure you train it on lots of different fonts. tesseract provides these datasets for you, but you can train your own if you'd like.

finally, after extracting the text, OCRbot does some rudimentary fixes (like replacing | with I, as tesseract thinks | is a lot more frequent than it really is) and posts the reply.

#LynneTeachesTech

i'd probably hate computers a lot less if i didn't know so much about them

yeah its pretty serious.... shes my moirail

growing some gamer instant messaging trees by sowing the seeds of Discord

rubbing my hands together mischievously as "bune" seeps in to the public lexicon and is eventually added to the dictionary

:blobcattilt: no longer bothering to host ebooks bots for people
:blobcatfingerguns: creating a gui for fediverse bot creation, the largest and most complex project you've ever undertaken, so people don't have to learn the command line, even though it'll likely take you a year to finish the thing

did you know? it has long been possible for scientists to create dogs well over ten times the size of the earth. the only thing preventing them is cowardice

Normally this would not be an issue since performing remote code execution on yourself is not usually considered a vulnerability

sshing into my server and wiping it then reporting an RCE vuln to openssh

in my country free speech will apply but ONLY to people who yell "fire" in crowded theatres

when you see a website that's HTTPS rather than HTTP, it means the connection is secure. most popular browsers will display a green padlock in the URL bar to symbolise that (and colour it yellow or red if something's wrong).

to verify that a connection is secure (and not just someone saying it's secure), you need a certificate, a file that verifies that you are who you say you are.

a certificate can be revoked at any time by anyone. you can deny facebook's certificate if you like, and facebook will stop loading for you. more importantly (and practically), the issuer of the certificate can deny it, and the site will stop working until they get a new one. this means that if facebook "goes rogue", the CA (certificate authority) is allowed to remove their certificate, guaranteeing (in theory) that if the site is HTTPS, it's definitely secure.

these certificates don't last forever. they need to be renewed, to prove that you're still there and still complying with them. gargron had certificate auto-renewal set up, which means the certificate will automatically get renewed when it's close to expiring. so why did the cert expire? why did .social go down? the answer is because while a new certificate was installed, it wasn't actually loaded. nginx, the server software that .social uses, was supposed to automatically load the new cert, but it didn't for some reason (computers are weird!), and thus .social went offline for about an hour.

#LynneTeachesTech

my 11 year old nephew just told me "jlagliacci (jean slagliacci (slime pagliacci)) is a scam invented by vape ape companies to promote peace and coexistence through the arts by keeping that #maddie in my wallet!!" #FLOSS

just saw this screenshot on andstatus' google play page and got transported back to an era i never wanted to revisit

if you are nostalgic for pre-jellybean android you are wrong. your opinion is wrong.

i think my computer has a fever.... it's all bloated and tired... oh wait that's just windows bloatware!!!!!! #FOSS #FLOSS #LibreSoftware #FourEssentialFreedoms #RMS #Windows #Microsoft #Zune #FreeBSD #NetBSD #OpenBSD #Linux #HURD #OS2Warp #Haiku #TempleOS #FuckGoogle #Google #SurveillanceCapitalism #women #MastoAdmins #GPL #AGPL #LGPL #BSD2Clause #BSD3Clause #OpenSource #CathedralAndTheBazaar #DunkingOnWindows #EFF #GNU #Privacy #RightToRepair #WhenYouPayForADeviceRunningWindows10HomeYouArePayingMicrosoftToGiveYouAnIntentionallyRestrictedProduct #Hashtags #WindowsTen #GNUSlashLinux #FamilyGuyFunnyMoments #LegalMonopoly #FuckCapitalism #ButItsWhatIveAlwaysUsed #ButINeedToPlayBethesdaGames #ButIDontWantToTypeCommands #MoreLikeShitdows #LynneTeachesTech

guess which all-powerful tech monopoly is breaking ublock origin (and umatrix, and likely many other similar add-ons, such as noscript) in their browser, which happens to be the most popular browser in the world?

https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=896897&desc=2#c23

who could have foreseen this? who would ever think that an advertising company's web browser would end up breaking compatibility with an ad blocker? frankly i'm shocked

ubuntu unity adds a feature that sends your search queries to amazon over https. this feature is enabled by default but can be turned off. RESULT: community-wide outrage, massive backlash, feature is set to opt-in and has since been removed

windows 10 adds ridiculously invasive spying to its operating system, bakes in ads, bundles candy crush, forces restarts for updates, aggressively forces upgrading from windows 7/8/8.1 for an entire year, uses the insider rings to test buggy updates, repeatedly "accidentally" resets the default browser to edge, injects advertisements for edge into the operating system, advertises onedrive from the file manager, forces invasive telemetry on users that can be made less invasive (but never disabled) by upgrading to the more expensive version... RESULT: outrage, backlash, etc. some hold on to 7/8.1 but eventually give in. windows 10 becomes the most popular OS in the world. users accept that this is the way things are now.

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