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New comment by petee in "OCR for construction documents does not work, we fixed it"

petee — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 21:29:08 +0000

Construction, coding is a hobby from before I realized a desk wasn't for me. Sadily we are always under NDAs, so using a tool like this would require a lot of hoop jumping unless it definitely didn't cache or anything

New comment by petee in "OCR for construction documents does not work, we fixed it"

petee — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 21:44:01 +0000

Oh nice! I spend a good amount of time eyeballing drawings for overlooked details, so even finding most is a handy tool to me as my brain can skip the marked areas

New comment by petee in "OCR for construction documents does not work, we fixed it"

petee — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 19:45:29 +0000

I ran the example doors given and it missed 9 swinging doors, some that were in double swing pairs, and a few that were just out on their own not clustered. Not bad overall though

New comment by petee in "You can run a DNS server (2025)"

petee — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 14:20:54 +0000

If you're a masochist you can do it manually, just make sure you have a good grasp of whats going on first[1]

Simplistically you need a DS record at your registrar, then sign your zones before publishing. You can cheat and make the KSK not expire, which saves some aggravation. I've rolled my own by hand for 10 yrs with no dnssec related downtime

[1] DNSSEC Operational Practices https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc6781

New comment by petee in "Fujifilm X RAW STUDIO webapp clone"

petee — Sat, 21 Mar 2026 11:54:52 +0000

Great to see more Fuji X attention, their native software isn't great. Looking forward to trying it out with my older X-T20, which appears supported[1] surprisingly

I was about to mention the Fudge[2] app and its underlying library, but its already listed as a reference, nice!

[1] https://www.fujifilm-x.com/en-us/support/compatibility/softw...

[2] https://github.com/petabyt/fudge

New comment by petee in "France's aircraft carrier located in real time by Le Monde through fitness app"

petee — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 13:57:47 +0000

I'd guess it also risks exposing a specific account as a crew member, making them trackable back on shore; particularly if you're uploading the same routes

New comment by petee in "Store birth date in systemd for age verification"

petee — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 14:19:23 +0000

I had to check the date; is not April yet

New comment by petee in "Put the zip code first"

petee — Sat, 07 Mar 2026 23:52:04 +0000

Some areas have duplicate, or very similar street names (ie, 'ave' vs. 'street') I don't think its that much of an ask that a website lets you enter your address correctly

New comment by petee in "Put the zip code first"

petee — Sat, 07 Mar 2026 23:47:22 +0000

My zip covers two cities, each has a similar street name; 5-digits isn't enough.

I've encountered websites that take the zip and won't let me change the wrongly-assumed city

New comment by petee in "Astra: An open-source observatory control software"

petee — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 19:15:24 +0000

How do you feel about Alpaca in actual use? I've been skeptical about controlling something expensive with a REST api, not that I have anything to back up that feeling, but it always raised my eyebrow

New comment by petee in "Astra: An open-source observatory control software"

petee — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 19:02:49 +0000

In my bortle 8 city, I have been able to get some decent images of the Eastern Veil Nebula with an Optolong L-Pro pollution filter, Zenithstar 73, and about ~2hrs total exposure (color)

Just for poking around, SharpCap has a live stacking mode which helps finding the darker stuff

New comment by petee in "Astra: An open-source observatory control software"

petee — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 18:51:18 +0000

It is unfortunate that frameworks and the like, love to choose completely unrelated names. It certainly makes it tough to navigate the landscape when names mean absolutely nothing

New comment by petee in "Don't use passkeys for encrypting user data"

petee — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 13:02:33 +0000

This past weekend I watched as my mom discovered the password manager in Chrome, and started deleting every entry she couldn't immediately recognize. "Why is this here? I don't need this"

Despite me pleading that they got there for a reason, and takes zero storage, she was confident she didn't need these passwords. So I can totally see her deleting passkeys; my mom is basically Erica, there need to be very explicit implications stated for every action presented and not assume innate understanding

New comment by petee in "OpenAI agrees with Dept. of War to deploy models in their classified network"

petee — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 11:17:19 +0000

This explains the "Free Codex" offer i just got in my email

KeyWalking: Pattern Based Passwords (2015)

petee — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 01:08:28 +0000

Article URL: https://michaelhendrickx.com/201505-keywalking-pattern-based-passwords.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47188592

Points: 2

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New comment by petee in "Windows 11 Notepad to support Markdown"

petee — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 17:09:14 +0000

You're not wrong, and I could have elaborated. While loaded with stuff, I find the ui can be pared down, and has a similar load time and screen space as notepad.

The subscription isn't awesome, but it works fine without it, and doesn't pester alot

New comment by petee in "Windows 11 Notepad to support Markdown"

petee — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 23:55:42 +0000

I found when I did that I lost the ability to associate any program with .txt files; like popup errors when trying to assign a default

You can make old Notepad be the default cmd line by going to Apps > Advanced app settings > App execution aliases, and disable the Notepad setting

New comment by petee in "Windows 11 Notepad to support Markdown"

petee — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 23:47:23 +0000

I like EmEditor, it has a compact ui and some useful features, and 16TB file support -- https://www.emeditor.com/

New comment by petee in "Facebook's Fascination with My Robots.txt"

petee — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 14:39:19 +0000

Do crawlers follow/cache 301 permanent redirects? I wonder if you could point the firehouse back at facebook, but it would mean they wouldn't get your robots.txt anymore (though I'd just blackhole that whole subnet anyway)

New comment by petee in "Windows Notepad App Remote Code Execution Vulnerability"

petee — Wed, 11 Feb 2026 15:34:09 +0000

I can successfully set that as admin, but it doesn't change anything - file won't open and "open with" pops up an error still that notepad can't be used.

Edit: going with EmEditor; forgot that existed