You happen to have a source for this? I can’t seem to find much.
Will stores be checking the serial of every bill they take? That doesn’t seem scalable. I’d expect they would just be not recirculated the next time it’s brought to a bank. Or if it has to be in stores, by checking the series, not serial.
Well if I wasn’t done using discord already, I’d for sure be done using it now…
The ability of Kate to pipe selected text through shell commands is very nice. Ctrl+\ or whatever it is.
If they’re going so far as scanning open networks & tunneling, why would they bother obeying dns gateways you specify?
Paperless-ngx does include OCR, as well as supporting document types (which can have fields, etc) - but there is no built-in way to intelligently extract field values. You can use the python API to access & update the data and fields. So field extraction via your own code is feasible.
Given the large variety in receipt layout & potential for habdwritten totals after tips - I’d encourage part of your workflow to include manual ispection/correction of every processed receipt - or at the bare minimum that you include check-in points where you verify your end balances 100% match after all transactions have been entered, so you can detect & root-cause errors ASAP.
Oops, thank you for pointing it out!
Here was my mixed emotions read on this article 2 months ago
I use Feishin on desktop instead of the webapp. But otherwise - same setup!
Another interesting one I’ve seen: Upside.
It isn’t necessarily encouraging to buy a specific product, but rather to buy from specific businesses.
To the consumer: they look at the app and buy gas from participating stores, which typically show as having a 5-10 cent discount on gas. The customer uploads a picture of their receipt to confirm the purchase and amount, and get credited that discount. Theres a monthly purvhase target that unlocks a 1 time discount of 30 cents per gallon, etc.
To the business: they pay a fee to Upside to be a participant. Upside promises to only participate with a certain % of stores in the area. It’s likely the business also pays for some of the discounts obtained.
Essentially paying upside is meant to increase sales volume. While a gas station could just dicount their gas, they are paying Upaide to effectively advertise and steer consumers to THAT store. As Upside is national, many custpmers use it, even in unfamiliar areas to choose gas stations.
I say not a specific product, because my understanding is it’s extended to other business categories besides gas.
Market manipulation, ultimately. I’m sure in some part they are sellong your location & purchase data as well.
Not saying it’s perfect but doesn’t Yacy do this?
I have faith that soon even ‘dumb’ devices will ship with small multi-year battery powered cell-connected evices that cannot be disabled, and are not part of an OS.
Damn, my 6 on stock android struggles to make it one day… Bout time for a battery change!
Unfortunately, reciprocal demands to the US to rebuke them, is pretty meaningless when they don’t care about their citizens data privacy at all.
There’s a google doc transcription of this series , so you mostly dont need to suffer through the voice, if you don’t want.
This looks awesome, and I’ll explore it a bit. I love this being open source, and it looks very clean.
I’m going to pull a prior post, because I think ALL could be potential improvements for your utility. Feedback mainly sensible for Kana, but it could be applied to kanji with significant effort.
I like these resources for practicing kana:
I would LOVE for it to detect when you commonly confuse two characters and then offer to give you a short drill of just those characters to reinforce.
OR if you could have a “good probability” of including easily confused characters in the multiple choice. Me/nu, wa/re/ne, chi/sa, can be easily confused. I havent done drills in a long while and I know roughly the shape I’m looking for, but would stuggle to differentiate some of these cases. With 3 multiple choice - odds are good I can guess whichever is present.
Does anyone use Blaze? ( https://github.com/blenderskool/blaze )
I always thought it looked promising, even supporting peer-peer transfer, so in theory if you are transferring to multiple destinations multiple folks would seed.
Edit: ah, ni commits for the last 2 years
So, I’ll start by saying that I think FUTO may have changed their messaging on their website TODAY Regarding this. They now have three split sections,
That seems more sensible if they have small donations to OSS efforts or individuals who maintain them. It would be excellent for every group listed to review if they or any developer received donations from FUTO and publically decry falsity (as the 3 in the article mentioned)
Videos:
I don’t know Yarvin, don’t know shit about him. But wikipedia entry on him is not heartwarming. It does seem an odd choice to have the two videos posted by FUTO. The one is fairly mundane, but the interview with Rossman is just strange as hell in general, and disconcerting. rossman mostly just seems uncomfortable as heck. And Yarvin seems like an insufferable know it all who wants to explain everything and not give anybody the chance to complete their thought.
So I’d say endorsing this video is a dark side to FUTO. It should have been easy to stay mostly apolitical and focus on ownership and software. Not conversations about the efficacy of monarchy.
FUTO manifesto/open source:
I can at least palate that a group could think that open source is not working. There are successes and failures. Linux is a great success. Android is becoming less so as it is dominated more by vendors & Google. Talent, resources, time is continually sunk into would-be inferior software at companies. Those softwares that have closed source, harvest our data, and ultimately don’t have our interests in mind - are often more polished, and attractive to the majority of users out there. One or two people primarily heading an open source repo can often make an awesome competitive software, but perhaps not as polished and with the threat of losing time to maintain it, archive the repo, etc. In that regard, offering optional licenses to pay base wages to attract talent while still letting you verify the code you execute - could still be appealing if successful.
I believe in FOSS, and will embrace & use it til I die, but I’m willing to entertain they have a difference in opinion on what will most advance our interests.
“Rendering my cash invalid with no recourse” might be on the extreme end of this, if the places that its checked are ATM and banks - so long as it’s still exchangeable for goods/services (e.g. not being checked by stores)
I’ll keep an eye out for kore info though.
But yes, with serials are tracked when taken from/put in ATM/bank, it is not anonymous. Potentially breaking larger bills at common places (stores/gas stations) could mitigate this, but theres still information about where you’ve been inherent in that.