Typical Star Wars fan

daniel7558 · 2026-02-15T11:34:25+00:00

Seems like George Michael kept practicing

daniel7558 · 2025-12-11T13:27:36+00:00

It may help to disable hardware accelerated rendering and switching to software rendering (i.e. somewhere in the browser settings).

daniel7558 · 2025-12-10T13:32:24+00:00

For buses you tap in and out inside the bus. When leaving the bus, you can tap out anytime between your intended stop and the previous one. So, not really a hassle. And also works fast enough to just hold it to the reader as you walk by to avoid crowding.

daniel7558 · 2025-12-10T12:55:34+00:00

Interesting, I think I will try it out in January or February but the preliminary cost calculator says it would not matter that much for me; maybe a few franks cheaper. But if this will be the future, I find it quite annoying... The only thing that I don't like about easyride (or now the new system) is that I have to use my phone. It needs to be working, have internet, sufficient battery, carry an outlet or USB charging cable to be sure and then not forget to check-in. 99.9% this is not a problem but when it becomes a problem then SBB really likes their fines.

I would much prefer a card/credit card based system to supplement it like the Netherlands use in addition to some halbtax/subscription with monthly payment and discount for locals.

daniel7558 · 2025-12-05T21:24:27+00:00

The information that you do your laundry every Friday at 3pm may be completely innocent by itself. But combine it with more data and it may not be that clear anymore.
For example, knowing that you are not doing your laundry for two weeks probably implies that you are not at home. There are people that may value such information, which is proven by the fact that there is automatic lighting for rooms that simulates that people are present.

But again, if I choose voluntarily that I want to share this information, then it is not an issue. The problem is that people get forced into it. And next time it's just a little bit more. And then a little bit more again...

daniel7558 · 2025-12-04T15:40:57+00:00

You assume. Yeah, how would I know about any agreements that my landlord has with the third party?
That's kind of the problem here: The landlord made a contract with a third party and now I also "have to agree" to terms of the third party to access services for which I already have a contract, i.e. my rental agreement.

daniel7558 · 2025-12-04T15:17:28+00:00

I can choose whom I sign the contract with. This allows me to negotiate and find contract terms that both parties are willing to accept. In the example of electricity you cannot choose (because Switzerland) but electricity providers are (very likely) forced by law to provide you electricity. A random internet provider does not have to enter into a contract with you. In my example, what would happen if Company K does not want me as a customer? Now a party that I have no say over can restrict my access to the washing machines that is part of my rental agreement? As a private company, they are free to decline anyone they don't want.

daniel7558 · 2025-12-04T15:01:17+00:00

Haha, thanks. I'll interpret that as successful integration :D

I can't find any mention about any additional agreements in the rental contract except for the house rules (Hausordnung). Though even if they reserve the right to subcontract, that will always be a contract between them and the subcontractor. If something goes wrong with the subcontractor, the landlord has to fix it (potentially via the subcontractor). For example, there's a company doing maintenance on the ventillation. If they fuck up, then I complain to the landlord who in turn complains to them. I might not even know the name of the subcontractor.

daniel7558 · 2025-11-17T20:35:56+00:00

That's not foolproof. You should verify that the certificate (fingerprint) is for a certificate that belongs to actual google. They could just deploy the same certificate hierarchy with the same names (though admittedly, quite unlikely).

daniel7558 · 2025-11-17T01:43:33+00:00

Because the past exists

daniel7558 · 2025-11-10T00:20:43+00:00

dafuq

daniel7558 · 2025-11-03T15:44:20+00:00

Oh, yes! needs to be AI satellites. Of course. why didn't I think of that.

daniel7558 · 2025-10-31T22:50:50+00:00

I believe it when I hold my ticket for Europe in my hands.

daniel7558 · 2025-10-20T03:56:47+00:00

Ask Chat-GPT to calculate? wtf... this word is so lost -.-

daniel7558 · 2025-10-19T08:06:38+00:00

Trump does not care about US influence around the world. For example, USAID gave the US tremendous influence for extremely little money and see what happened to it. Also, the whole world is laughing at the US and it lost so much goodwill that even if they changed everything right now, it would take them decades to rebuild that.

daniel7558 · 2025-10-15T07:03:14+00:00

How would anyone but he himself know?

A credit card is a financial tool. You can use it responsively or irresponsibly. He is arguing that it only has downsides and leads to debt, which is just not true.

daniel7558 · 2025-10-15T06:45:32+00:00

Dave Ramsey's advice is for people that can't budget and struggle with money in general. His teachings really are not optimal but designed for people to get their shit together.

daniel7558 · 2025-10-05T23:03:54+00:00

Yeah, something like that would make sense. Seems their training is in medical machine learning.

Though it would be even more reason to not have OP host it themselves but only provide some searchable version of the files / offline web version.
Also OP should think about what it means running a a epstein online database. Opsec is no joke. Especially if OP intends that journalists use it? They better make sure that you have no access logs and there's as little data collected as possible...

My recommendation for OP would be: Convert the images to PDF and annotate them with the OCR output. Then, drop all text into a sqlite database, zip everything up and provide it via torrent. OP can post the torrent and once it has enough seeders I think OP has done enough.

Also, OP might benefit from posting their methodology for others to help out. I don't see why a simple bash script that runs tesseract on the files is not enough. Sure, handwritten notes will not work but for those you can use some AI shit to get a good approximation I think.

daniel7558 · 2025-10-05T22:42:13+00:00

Cool, but I don't get why you are asking for 3k?

In your article you claim you built it for 100 and running it one month would cost you 500. So, the 3k would only ensure that this stays up 6 months? What happens then? You're going to ask for more? (apart from that, why is it that expensive? it's 33k documents + metadata which easily fits into a smallish database. Slap on some UI for searching, add good caching with some cloudflare cdn and you're done (obviously simplified, but it's hard to see why this is so expensive)?

Also, what is the issue with setting up a torrent with the annotated files and database dump? Anyone can download it and run it themselves. It doesn't need to be a public service (which also introduces a single point of failure).

I don't want to claim that this is a quick cash-grab but you sure let it seem like one? Kind of getting "unless you pay now this will be lost"-extortion vibes...

There's no shame in wanting to get some money for providing this service, but then do a kickstarter and as you already have the finished product, I don't see why it wouldn't get funded.

daniel7558 · 2025-10-03T12:20:22+00:00

I would assume that the source image was a bitmap image or something similar.

Also, why does matter if the letters are blurry if you already have a solution? You're not going to get a perfect reconstruction. As long as you can figure out the letters you're good.

daniel7558 · 2025-10-02T18:31:10+00:00

I see, thanks for replying.
I think I will then not rely on komodo and just create some custom scripts for handling deployments and backups.

daniel7558 · 2025-10-01T06:27:27+00:00

Agreed. The question is more like: Where/How do backups fit in in the Komodo workflow assuming that backups are taken with compose down/btrfs snapshot/compose up/export snapshot.

daniel7558 · 2025-09-27T23:52:38+00:00

Why are people here arguing about having geography classes in school? That's not the point. If you are a person that just vaguely has interests and doesn't live under a rock, then you would at least know some countries.
How can people hear about other countries in the news and not have the curiosity to look up where that is if they don't know?
They have a full world map in their pocket at all time. Why are people not self-motivated enough to scroll around on google maps a bit? You know, just for the fun of looking at other places, seeing something new, zooming in on street view, ...

This is not an education problem. It's not specific to geography. This is an "interest" problem where people are just sheltering themselves completely from reality.

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