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.

Good news, they went through the ADF without too much trouble. Images just need a little contrast adjustment.

The copier used also OCR’d the whole lot, so they’ll be searchable.

Welcome.

Didn’t realise just how many I had - a whole box file full and overflow from that.

I’ve had a nice morning so far sorting, de-duping and remembering the time I coated half the kitchen in sesame seeds…

Been meaning to do it for ages so cheers for the incentive!

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 😅

Now I am wondering the same.

And looking down the rabbithole of Tesseract OCR haha.

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.

So they do.

That’s really neat!

Site either respects system light/dark theme or is dark by default. Either way, it’s a plus for me that is often forgotten.

Guides are simple enough and the illustrations are cute.

You’ve got the balance of plugging your own instance while reminding visitors that there are others just right.

All useful info and not so much of it that it is overbearing.

I’ve had some decent results with this:

https://github.com/ngosang/trackerslist

Years ago, I’d laugh at this.

Yet it slowly becomes reality with every passing year. It’s bad enough that we’ve essentially lost pay-to-own in favour of subscription models for a lot of popular software.

On our corp network, the amount of GPOs I’ve had to mangle together just to make Win11 usable is insane. The users are still going to have a fit in October.

I’d honeytrap this with a software camera that just plays filth and shock sites on a loop :)

I lean on Irfanview+plugins for this kind of processing - it’s the bedrock of some of my workflows.

Will definitely give this a try though, thank you for sharing :)

Ahhh. Sweet, sweet schadenfreude.

You joke, but GPT comes up with some bangers for UK politicians…

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UK Politicians Trading Card Game

A satirical take on British politics, styled like a mix between trading cards and Cards Against Humanity.

John Prescott – Trading Card

Card Title: “Two Jags, One Punch”
Type: Labour Tank

• Power: 9/10
• Charisma: 5/10
• Policy Success: 6/10
• Scandal Factor: 7/10
• Verbal Clarity: 2/10

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Special Ability: “The Left Hook of Justice”

Once per game, if an opponent plays a hostile media card, Prescott may respond with a Swift Uppercut, instantly negating the attack and leaving journalists dazed.

Quote:

“The Green Belt is a Labour initiative and we intend to build on it.”

Flavour Text:
A heavyweight in both politics and physical altercations, Prescott served as Tony Blair’s deputy and made headlines for his blunt approach to diplomacy—particularly when it involved egg-wielding protesters. He was famous for his commitment to public transport… while owning two Jaguars. :::

Tony Blair – Trading Card

Card Title: “Cool Britannia’s War Criminal”
Type: Labour Messiah (Corrupted Form)

• Power: 8/10
• Charisma: 10/10
• Policy Success: 9/10
• Scandal Factor: 9/10
• Trustworthiness: -3/10

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Special Ability: “Weapons of Mass Distraction”

If an opponent plays a Bad Press or Public Inquiry card, Blair may redirect all attention onto a vague existential threat, completely avoiding consequences for one turn.

Quote:

"Look, what we have to understand is… (proceeds to dodge the question for 15 minutes)"

Flavour Text:
Once hailed as the saviour of the Labour Party, Blair modernised Britain with a grin, a soundbite, and a suspiciously close friendship with George W. Bush. His legacy is a cocktail of public service reforms, spin-doctoring, and a certain little invasion that we swear was justified at the time.

David Cameron – Trading Card

Card Title: “The Pig Whisperer”
Type: Tory Toff

• Power: 6/10
• Charisma: 7/10
• Policy Success: 5/10
• Scandal Factor: 8/10
• Competence: 4/10

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Special Ability: “Referendumb”

If Cameron is forced into a difficult decision, he may trigger a National Vote, shifting responsibility onto the public. However, if the outcome is catastrophic, Cameron immediately Resigns to a Nice Cottage in the Cotswolds.

Quote:

“We’re all in this together—well, apart from my friends in the City.”

Flavour Text:
The man who gave the UK its most chaotic decade since World War II, Cameron’s legacy is austerity, that referendum, and that alleged incident with a pig. Thought he could handle populism—turns out he couldn’t even handle Boris Johnson.

It’s horrible, I love it

claps back

slams

blasts

The sooner this kind of phraseology disappears from media the better. Any outlet using it has become a clickbait shitrag.

I buy and sell drives occasionally. Even shitty old IDE drives with 5, 10 years of runtime are worth something to someone.

Bought one recently just to get an old lathe PLC (really just an old PC with DOS software control) running again.

It would be better if the server could detect bots and send them down a rabbit hole

Already possible: Nepenthes.

Step 1: Obtain cat

Step 2: