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New comment by smilespray in "Project Gutenberg – keeps getting better"

smilespray — Fri, 15 May 2026 18:42:24 +0000

That is doable. Most of my work was regexp and repetitive stuff. And the typograhpy stuff is achievable with the current state of the art models. Not that I remember what I did, it was 30 years ago.

New comment by smilespray in "Project Gutenberg – keeps getting better"

smilespray — Fri, 15 May 2026 17:53:36 +0000

I remember printing out project Gutenberg books in the mid-90s, four regular pages to an A4 page, double-sided on my inkjet. I had a background in typography, so I made it work.

Any yes, the text needed a lot of processing to make it right.

Now, in my early fifties and with declining eyesight, that's out of reach now.

Thanks for sticking with the project!

New comment by smilespray in "The Car That Watches You Back: The Advertising Infrastructure of Modern Cars"

smilespray — Tue, 05 May 2026 09:28:34 +0000

Where does it say it was written by an LLM?

This felt like human writing to me. I could be wrong, of course.

New comment by smilespray in "The buns in McDonald's Japan's burger photos are all slightly askew"

smilespray — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 06:49:19 +0000

Don't kick the burger

New comment by smilespray in "Artemis II crew see first glimpse of far side of Moon [video]"

smilespray — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 19:38:14 +0000

640 ISO ought to be enough for anyone.

New comment by smilespray in "H.264 Streaming Fees: What Changed, Who's Affected, and What It Means"

smilespray — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 13:58:03 +0000

Not OP, but 2hr battery time for video playback vs 20hr would be the entire point of this thread. HW decoding is an order of magnitude more efficient.

New comment by smilespray in "GrapheneOS will remain usable by anyone without requiring personal information"

smilespray — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 23:56:16 +0000

Same in Norway.

New comment by smilespray in "I built a demo of what AI chat will look like when it's “free” and ad-supported"

smilespray — Sun, 01 Mar 2026 14:14:42 +0000

YouTube Premium Lite!

You know, with ads. That you pay to watch.

New comment by smilespray in "Skip the Tips: A game to select "No Tip" but dark patterns try to stop you"

smilespray — Fri, 13 Feb 2026 07:50:12 +0000

Also see The Simpsons, Treehouse of Horror XIX, where Homer tries to vote for Obama using an electronic voting machine:

https://youtu.be/47QZ6PoHl44

New comment by smilespray in "Native Amiga Filesystems on macOS / Linux / Windows with FUSE"

smilespray — Thu, 08 Jan 2026 12:10:05 +0000

Several Mac versions of the commercial Paragon NTFS driver. It's always been flaky on Mac.

New comment by smilespray in "Native Amiga Filesystems on macOS / Linux / Windows with FUSE"

smilespray — Wed, 07 Jan 2026 22:09:42 +0000

I've lost data multiple times with Paragon.

New comment by smilespray in "Not for human consumption"

smilespray — Sat, 03 Jan 2026 12:20:22 +0000

Seemed they were ingesting more than just weight loss drugs.

New comment by smilespray in "Montana becomes first state to enshrine 'right to compute' into law"

smilespray — Mon, 10 Nov 2025 12:06:01 +0000

What are you on about?

New comment by smilespray in "A worker fell into a nuclear reactor pool"

smilespray — Sun, 26 Oct 2025 10:39:45 +0000

The rule-ignoring and the lying started inside the plants before anybody outside got involved. Then it just spread like cancer.

New comment by smilespray in "A worker fell into a nuclear reactor pool"

smilespray — Sun, 26 Oct 2025 03:44:42 +0000

I've lived through three major nuclear incidents, and what they had in common, regardless of the political systems of the US, The Soviet Union or Japan, was not the transparency, it was the lying. It started immediately after each incident.

I'm essentially pro-nuclear, I just don't trust people who run it.

New comment by smilespray in "I made a public living room and the internet keeps putting weirder stuff in it"

smilespray — Sun, 28 Sep 2025 10:10:08 +0000

I'll order a pallet of 10 000-piece jigsaw puzzles

New comment by smilespray in "$2 WeAct Display FS adds a 0.96-inch USB information display to your computer"

smilespray — Sun, 21 Sep 2025 02:43:08 +0000

https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005009976304564.html

New comment by smilespray in "Commodore 64 Ultimate"

smilespray — Sat, 12 Jul 2025 18:54:12 +0000

Wasn't Rob Hubbard one of the guys behind that trick?

New comment by smilespray in "Meta announces Oakley smart glasses"

smilespray — Fri, 20 Jun 2025 17:19:50 +0000

Who's worse? Palantir?

New comment by smilespray in "For $595, you get what nobody else can give you for twice the price (1982) [pdf]"

smilespray — Sat, 10 May 2025 23:21:56 +0000

I went from a VIC 20 to an Amiga 500. Quite the leap.