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Entertainment > Movies >
(on Wikipedia)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0360556/
https://www.hbo.com/movies/fahrenheit-451
In a future where limiting words somehow makes people happy, some are still enthralled by contraband media.
Moody and good; recommended. It has more literary references than any three years worth of movies.
See also Nineteen Eighty-Four – (1984 movie)
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Entertainment > Movies >
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt12483708/
I really don’t know. Something about aliens who want to archive humanity for some reason.
It’s strange and shifts focus: Terrible.
Software >
A really straightforward and damned-fast file synchronization tool.
It might have been great, but it was abandoned. Reproducibly nonfunctional.
Abandoned
Alex Kaufman, of Mailwarrior fame, vanished from the net.
I was curious; this wasn’t particularly thorough.
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https://github.com/philbot9/youtube-comment-scraper/
Downloads the comments on YouTube videos.
Used to be available at ytcomments.klostermann.ca but that IP got banned because of overuse.
See my youtube-comment-scraper.sh script for how I use it.
Writing > Computers, Internet >
Everything is frail to failure. Be it hardware, software, data, business relationships, or people, nothing is immortal and immutable.
Many things are immediately recognized; the hardware and software, but we fail to see people; the wetware. They represent the intellectual backbone of major projects, the “wet infrastructure” upon which our technology relies, and when they cannot contribute, their projects suffer and we suffer. Their influence isn’t just notable, but critical.
For the internet, esr calls them Load-Bearing Internet People.
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was http://ytdl-org.github.io/youtube-dl/ [ 1 ]
https://youtube-dl.org/ [ 2 ]
A commandline downloader for YouTube videos and playlists (and not comments). Also works for a surprising number of other websites.
It has no competition, so I guess I can say that it’ll have to do, but it really is good.
See also:
youtube-comment-scraper for comments.
Scan stuff, and examine the picture to find language and store that as usable text characters.
NAPS2 6.1.2 has it working automagically!
Optical Character Recognition
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Hardware >
(on Wikipedia)
https://www.kobo.com/
https://ca.kobobooks.com/products/kobo-aura-one [ 1 ] was https://web.archive.org/web/20190118143102/https://us.kobobooks.com/products/kobo-aura-one
An E-book reader.
Because this is my first e-reader, I can’t judge it against it’s peers. It works well.
It is spectacular hardware-wise. Its software works, but it is sometimes obviously or even critically lacking. It lacking a file browser and respecting directories is bad enough that I can’t really use it for its intended purpose, and almost regret buying it.
