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What do you use to do the actual ocr?

Facial recognition cctv, the other day some protesters in South America shot down a drone using lasers, and now this? Clearly the precursor to Ed-209. The future is here I guess. Is it what we wanted?

Once I worked at a place where ooh support accidentally pasted an entire maint guide into putty (right click paste is not a good idea) on a prod oracle server, it was fine until the lines in the doc which read:

Dbfile1 -> /path/to/dbfile1 ... Etc

Which needless to say hosed the entire box... over Christmas...

And this is why they don’t use putty anymore ;)

Eurgh. What have we done? :(

Why are they loads better btw? I think in composable commands, being able to cat my logs without first setting them up to pipe to a syslog is something I very much want...

Have you used openbsd for anything lately? Systemd is better than the horrible mess of upstart/sysv etc, although the one linux laptop I run is using void (and thus, runit) and you can type init 6 and it doesn’t randomly hang for 2 minutes while shutting down if you’re not using gnome/kde.. imagine! The future is here ;)

I dunno about that, the majority of ops guys I work with (or have worked with over the last few years) dislike it... we’re mostly angry old greybeards though.

I tend to approach such tasks by just copying and editing a unit that shipped with the os (e.g sshd) — the example the post gives as being problematic is using some timer feature instead of cron and I suppose my question is really: who is doing that anyway?

I know you can rig up systemd to act like inetd or cron, but perhaps you would be better with an actual service (how hard is quartz?) than baking your jobs into systemd units..

That said, I only use Linux in prod for enterprise stuff that depends on it, everything else is on bsd so you can probably guess my opinion on systemd ;)

You can send epub to your send to kindle email address with the word “convert” in the subject line and it’ll transform it into a mobi... as far as I know..

Edit: apparently you need to change the extension to .zip for it to work shrug

I’m sort of curious what dmr’s was now (his hash is gfVwhuAMF0Trw) from the same dump...

A lot of the buildings in Berlin have very old pipes and while the water to the building is alright, we (in Berlin) have to rely mainly on glass bottles of water (bismark) as if you don’t run the taps enough there’s a nice colour that comes out...

Can you elaborate on your experience with it? Is that thing really worth €820? I like the idea of a giant e-reader but that’s really quite a lot of money for such a device.

Murex is going “cloud”

Utter madness.

I think there’s a difference between scanning all incoming mail for spam and keeping a details list of my purchase history by scanning my inbox for receipts somehow... If they aren’t using this data for context ads it must be being used for something else otherwise why would they do it?