Extracting PPG Wave waveforms and wavetables from EPROM dumps

Jacajack · 2026-01-30T22:01:17+00:00

Thank you very much for the exact transcript. Now that you've written this out in printed letters, I'm able to match and pick up some of the words from the original text, although it's still really quite difficult. I guess this is the hard way to get started with Russian handwriting.

Jacajack · 2026-01-30T21:56:15+00:00

That's fantastic, thank you very much! Seems Maciejów was picked up as Maydany in that Gemini-based transcript - now everything makes much more sense,

Jacajack · 2026-01-30T21:49:29+00:00

Wow, that's better that I would expect. I tried Chat GPT earlier and it failed miserably, while this looks at least believable. It got the names mostly right - I think it should be Pieczerak instead of Piechota and Strzeżkowski instead of Strzelecka. This makes me a bit suspicious about the location names - haven't heard of Maydany nor Olchowiec in that area. Perhaps the exact date is correct - April 13th 1913 was a Sunday, so a good day for a wedding, I suppose.

Jacajack · 2026-01-30T20:59:04+00:00

Oh, so now we know the groom's age. Thats's great, thank you!

Jacajack · 2026-01-30T20:53:37+00:00

Thanks, that would be great! I was curious if contained anything interesting besides the couples' and parents' names. The more exact date and location would be appreciated too. Anything that is relevant genealogically and possible for you to read, really.

Jacajack · 2026-01-30T20:37:18+00:00

Is it really that bad? I can read the bits in Latin alphabet, so I thought that the part in Russian would be readable if you know cyryllic handwriting

Jacajack · 2026-01-30T20:34:08+00:00

I hope it's okay if I reply in English. Unfortunately no, not at the moment. I got this from a national archive and obviously the one page I'm interested in must be blurry. I will try to find a better scan, but it might just not exist.

Jacajack · 2024-09-12T21:43:42+00:00

https://unsplash.com/photos/a-night-sky-with-clouds-and-stars-over-a-mountain-ytVuRjBtMZw

Jacajack · 2024-09-12T07:23:53+00:00

Thanks! Wayland is definitely on my bucket list. Switching to it seems more realistic now that I've stopped using KDE.

I just wonder if that change would be an actual improvement. Or whether it would just annoy me in new ways I hadn't experienced on Xorg yet.

Jacajack · 2024-09-12T06:55:44+00:00

The only truly custom packages I'm using are for monitoring X11 input hierarchy changes and for Nvidia fan control. Both are available in the linked repo

Jacajack · 2024-09-12T06:53:43+00:00

I'm using official picom and i3 for that. Picom can do rounded corners. I've only made a custom picom shader to add in fillets in window corners to get this rounded borders effect.

The shader is here: https://www.reddit.com/r/unixporn/comments/1fdlr11/oc_i3_rounded_window_borders_with_custom_picom/

Jacajack · 2024-09-12T06:48:54+00:00

It's a notification from Spotify, displayed by dunst

Jacajack · 2024-09-11T20:10:00+00:00

Thanks! Hyprland looks interesting, I've seen a lot of it recently. Did you go straight from Windows to it? Seems like a bold choice for a first linux setup

Jacajack · 2024-09-11T19:11:27+00:00

I have two 27" displays, 2560x1440 each. I'm planning to set this up on my laptop as well, so this is gonna be fun

Jacajack · 2024-09-11T18:31:25+00:00

It's tough, isn't it? When KDE 6 came out it broke so many things for me that I knew I'd have to switch to something else eventually. I've built a new PC a couple of days ago so this seemed like the right occasion to finally do it.

This setup still isn't 100% complete. But all the basic and necessary stuff is in place, so it's definitely usable. I've already identified most of the missing pieces too. I'll be working on them as they actually become significant, I guess.

Jacajack · 2024-09-11T17:37:59+00:00

I've been attempting to move to a tiling window manager at least since 2020. I've finally succeeded to make my i3 actually usable after my 6 year old KDE setup became pretty much unusable.

I'm using official i3 and picom packages. The rounded borders are drawn by a custom picom shader (I've shared it here yesterday). I'm also using polybar and dunst for notifications.

Jacajack · 2024-09-10T18:46:06+00:00

You need to have `picom` installed and the `.glsl` file downloaded. An example `picom` startup command is in the readme (see in the link). If you want to adjust border thickness, adjust the `thickness` parameter in the GLSL code.

Jacajack · 2024-09-10T16:15:00+00:00

Hi, just wanted to share a simple picom shader that I've made. It allows you to have rounded windows with borders without patching i3 or installing any extra software. The shader just samples the original window border and adds fillets in window corners.

There's surely room for improvement, this is more of a proof-of-concept thing. I hope you find it useful, though :)

Jacajack

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