SwizzleStick

A more illustrious and successful career than most humans will manage.

Honorary Eternal Stationmaster

You just can’t compete 😅

Monetizing is what ruins other places.

I like the way my home instance does financial backing through an open model, and that’s part of why I chose it.

An ideal is enough contributors to keep the lights on and to reimburse the admins for their time spent in keeping it afloat. Moderation should always be a volunteer position for those that want to support their individual communities.

Any excesses in finance I would hope go towards future running costs (to a point), feature development and then charitable donations in that order. Non-profit on paper and in practice.

This is viable for a small instance. Maybe even larger ones if the users are altruistic enough as a whole.

Popping the thing open to short the power switch when it was ‘locked’ was my introduction to PC internals, electronics in general, and disobedience :)

I’d have been about 8 at the time. Good years.

After that I think we had some nondescript P3 beige box and then went to a Haswell P4. Ran hot as lava.

P2 with MMX. Think we ended up getting a Voodoo 2 for it as well. Same SoundBlaster and some ridiculously small disk and RAM. Win95. It even had a turbo button and a locking power button.

It was an upgrade from our Amiga 1200.

Fond memories of shoulder surfing the BT guy when he came to our house - peeked a test number for dialup and got about half a year of internet for free.

The more services that lock out my country, the better.

Even my home instance has done it.

Direct consequences are the only way to get it into the thick skulls of the people that This Is Bad.

Has gone suprisingly well.

Tesseract failed in some places, making some of the sub-headings come out in what looks like Klingon. HF have varied their paper stock dimensions as well, which caused a few things to be clipped.

Acceptable output for manual corrections.

Preview:

Expect a DM soon-ish.

Python, Tesseract, OpenAI and my 3 remaining brain cells have now combined to form a working script that will rename the scan file names to whatever it reads in a certain section of the card.

Doing them by hand would be a nightmare 😅

I’ve done less useful things with a Monday morning before. PDFs, and I will try to suss a way to set the file names programatically.

A handful may come with ‘pre-printed accidents’ but all will be legible :)

As long as the scanner can handle the slightly thicker paper stock they use, we should be golden.

If you don’t mind them auf Englisch, I’ve got a hoard of them and time with a duplex scanner.

I’ve had some decent results with this:

https://github.com/ngosang/trackerslist