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Yggdrasil Linux/GNU/X (Alpha 1992) on 86Box with i486 [1992]
Yggdrasil Linux/GNU/X is the first Linux distribution that came up with the concept of the live distribution that came in a single CD-ROM disk. It was named “Plug and Play Linx”, which means that this distro automatically configures itself for hardware.
In this article, we will be testing the alpha release of Yggdrasil Linux/GNU/X that was released on December 1992 with the pre-installed Bochs virtual machine ZIP file while integrating its disk image with 86Box. You can find this archive file here.
First, we have configured 86Box as follows:
The virtual machine has been configured as follows:
- Machine type: [1992] i486 (Miscellaneous)
- Machine: [STPC Client] ITOX STAR
- CPU: ST STPC DX @ 66 MHz
- Memory: 32 MB
- Video: [ISA] Tseng Labs ET4000AX
- Keyboard: AT Keyboard
- Mouse: Mouse Systems Serial Mouse
- Sound card: [ISA16] Sound Blaster 16
- Floppy disk controller: Internal device
- Hard disk controller 1: Internal device
- New hard disk: ygg-c.img (needs resize)
- C/H/S: 914/16/63
- Size: 449 MB
- Bus: IDE
- Channel: 0:0
- Floppy drive 1: 3.5″ 1.44M
We have taken the ygg-c.img file from the Bochs virtual machine dump that was apparently made in 2004. Since Bochs 3.0 didn’t work with this virtual machine according to our tests due to deprecated entries and other errors, we have adapted it to 86Box.
We’ve started the virtual machine, and let the BIOS automatically detect the drive from the BIOS setup. Afterwards, we’ve let the Yggdrasil Linux distribution start up.
This version of Yggdrasil was using Linux version 0.98. Since the initial snapshot of the disk image was made, we’ve configured the X386 server to use our configured virtual machine’s graphics card and the mouse.
We’ve launched the vi /usr/lib/X11/Xconfig command to edit the X server configuration file, which showed us the full settings that was generated for the Bochs virtual machine. We need to adapt it to the current configuration of the virtual machine.
First, we’ve removed the comment sign,
#, from theMouseSystemsproperty, which means that the X server assumes that the Mouse Systems serial mouse has been installed under/dev/ttys1.After that, we went to the
vga256section that specified no configuration for the graphics chipset, which explained why the X server refused to start. We’ve removed the comment sign from theChipsetproperty that had a value ofet4000, which is the chipset for the Tseng Labs ET4000AX that we’ve selected.Afterwards, we’ve started the X server with
startx, and we’re greeted with TWM with three terminals and one xclock window. The third xterm and the xclock window were both off-screen due to the virtual resolution of 1024×1024 as “Virtual 1024 1024” specifies.The keyboard works fine, but the mouse cursor moves sluggishly. We’ve examined what X11 applications are currently installed by running
ls /usr/X11/bin, and we got the below list.For example, we ran the
mazeprogram, and it showed us the randomly generated maze with the X logo being placed.That is one exciting thing to have seen what the oldest Linux distribution in its oldest version looks like. Stay tuned and feel free to follow us for more old operating systems being run on 86Box.
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Behind the Blogs - 3: Cat Type Distribution | Way of Cats https://www.patreon.com/posts/47191711
If you have twelve minutes, you can hear me talk about the Cat Types.
Bud, seen here, is an Alpha Cat Type. They come with warnings.
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NEW POST! Cats Want Respect and their dignity acknowledged. - Friendship at the Way of Cats https://www.wayofcats.com/blog/cats-want-respect/86904
Since Bud has yet to develop much, as a cat with a lot of Alpha Cat Type, this creates friction.
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NEW POST! Cats Want Respect and their dignity acknowledged. - Friendship at the Way of Cats https://www.wayofcats.com/blog/cats-want-respect/86904
Since Bud still has a lot of kitten, as a cat with a High Alpha Cat Type, this creates friction.
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Re: the cult-like uptake of Hey-Hi in #JPMorgan these days, I don't see direct evidence that the #C++ guru John #Lakos is directly exposed to LLM projects in his senior role at #Bloomberg ; He is listed merely as a "manager". But even Wired is pumping the koolaid for Bloomberg's #LLM use in Terminal. This is despite the #KellyBench study, as reported in the Financial Times, showing LLM based #portfolio management consistently generates negative alpha ("losing money"): https://www.gr.inc/releases/introducing-kellybench
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I just wondered, have I operated with callsigns that contain all letters of the alphabet yet? Yes!
A = 4U1A, B = HB9/DJ1YFK, C = DF0HSC, D = DA0HQ, E = DF0RE, F = F/DJ1YFK, G = GB2RN, H = YU0HST, I = I4/DJ1YFK, J = DJ1YFK, K = SK0TM, L = DL0RD, M = DM8T/P, N = SN75E, O = SO5CW, P = PA/DJ1YFK/P, Q = DK0QQ, R = 5P1ER, S = SK9HQ, T = TF/DJ1YFK/P, U = LZ14IARU, V = PT5V, W = WB6LQR, X = DF0DX, Y = 4O7WWYC, Z = 8Q7ZZ
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Pathfinder: a desktop companion for Elite Dangerous. Point it at your journal dir, get live location, jump history, materials, and fleet carrier status in a small window that updates itself. Built in Rust.
Alpha. 3 of 6 phases landed. Iced 0.14 UI, seven themes, Spansh-backed material lookups. FC tracking next.
Also a public record of building a real app end-to-end with Claude Code. Every commit, plan, and post-mortem in the repo.
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Camp Curtin (Harper’s Weekly, 1861; public domain).
Established just north of the Pennsylvania State Capitol building in Harrisburg by Pennsylvania’s Civil War-era governor, Andrew Gregg Curtin, on April 18, 1861—just three days after the fall of Fort Sumter to Confederate States Army troops—and initially named “Camp Union,” Camp Curtin was a key staging and training point for the United States Army at the dawn of the American Civil War. Within a few short months of its creation on eighty acres of land that had previously been used for Dauphin County’s Agricultural Fairgrounds, this camp site became the largest military facility in Pennsylvania and the nation during the war.
It was here, in mid-August of 1861, that new recruits and seasoned soldiers, who had just recently completed their Three Months’ duty, came together to form the newly-created 47th Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry.
After completing weeks of grueling, basic training in light infantry tactics, the members of the 47th Pennsylvania were personally given their regiment’s First State Color by Governor Curtin on September 20, 1861. An American flag emblazoned with the regiment’s state name and volunteer unit number, that flag was kept safe by the regiment’s color-bearer unit, Company C, from that moment until the regiment returned home to Pennsylvania nearly five long years later.
Camp Cadwalader and the German Hospital, 1876 (David Johnston Kennedy, courtesy of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania, public domain).
Arriving at Camp Cadwalader in Philadelphia in early 1866, the majority of the surviving 47th Pennsylvania Volunteers were given their final discharge papers on January 9, 1866, after having been officially mustered out from the regiment at its duty station in Charleston, South Carolina on Christmas Day in 1865.
This latter camp was named after Major-General George Cadwalader (1806-1879), a native of Philadelphia who had been appointed by Governor Curtin as Major-General of the Pennsylvania Volunteers at the beginning of the American Civil War.
To learn more about each of these Union Army facilities, read these camp profiles:
- Camp Curtin (Harrisburg, Pennsylvania); and
- Camp Cadwalader (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania).
#47thPennsylvaniaInfantry #47thPennsylvaniaVolunteers #America #AmericanCivilWar #AmericanHistory #AndrewCurtin #Army #CivilWar #CommonwealthOfPennsylvania #Harrisburg #Histodons #History #Infantry #PennsylvaniaHistory #PennsylvaniaInTheCivilWar #Philadelphia #TheUnionArmy #USMilitaryAndTheUnionArmy
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On this trans day of visibility, I'm sharing my favorite podcasts with trans and/or nonbinary hosts. Some have a trans focus, some don't. They're all excellent.
Sharing in alphabetical order:
American Hysteria
https://www.chelseywebersmith.com/Be Gay, Solve Crimes
https://www.patreon.com/cw/BeGaySolveCrimesThe Bechdel Cast
https://www.bechdelcast.comCancel Me, Daddy
https://www.cancelmedaddy.com/Cool People Who Did Cool Stuff
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/cool-people-who-did-cool-stuff/id1620562792Ill Conceived
https://www.illconceivedpodcast.com/It Could Happen Here
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/it-could-happen-here/id1449762156Kill James Bond
https://killjamesbond.com/Kill the Computer
https://www.patreon.com/cw/killthecomputerNo Gods No Mayors
https://www.patreon.com/c/NoGodsNoMayors/postsQAA Podcast
https://www.qanonanonymous.com/TransLash Podcast
https://translash.org/podcasts/TrashFuture
https://trashfuture.co.uk/Trouble in River City
https://www.patreon.com/cw/TroubleInRiverCityWell There's Your Problem
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alphabetchallenge #bookchallenge N is for Not Your Sidekick by C.B. Lee #superhero #yabooks #banter #flirty #optimistic #queerromance #foundfamily #crushes #racism #sexism #asianamerican #bookstagram #booksky #booktok #ttrpgpodcast #gamemastersbookclub https://www.k-squareproductions.com/gmbc
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#V'ger #NELL #SCMODS #MasterControlProgram #ROK #WOPRJoshua #Huxley600 #OSGOOD #SAL-9000 #Skynet #Edgar #MaxHeadroom #A7 #X-CALBR8 #GBLX1000 #Lola #Max #G.O.R.N. #Angela #Lucy #SpiritualSwitchboard #Zed #L7 #Charon #Central #LucyGibson #Gibson #Project2501 #Father #Euclid #TheMatrix #PAT #Wittgenstein #S.E.T.H. #Lucille #Dr.Know #Synapse #RedQueen #Vox #I.N.T.E.L.L.I.G.E.N.C.E. #VIKI #PAL #E.D.I. #DeepThought #Icarus #J.A.R.V.I.S. #R.I.P.L.E.Y #ARIIA #AUTO #GERTY3000 #B.R.A.I.N. #ODIN #Mr.JamesBing #Samantha #Christopher #TARSCASE #Genisys #F.R.I.D.A.Y. #Ava #Tau #MillenniumFalconNavigationComputer(L3-37), #Legion #E.D.I.T.H. #DeepThought #Earth #EarthMark2, #Eddie #Marvin #ANGEL1ANGEL2SolariaDCustodianSentinelEarthvoice #Hab #AlarmClockRefrigeratorTelevision #ExecutiveDreamer #TheMainframe #Alpha #System #Gemini #TheMachine #OldManInTheCave #Batcomputer #Agnes #WOTAN #ERIC #TheGeneral #TheUltimateComputer #BIGRAT #ARDVARC #ComputexGB #REMAK #S.I.D. #StarTrek #Ship'sComputer #OmicronDeltaamusementparkplanet #Landru #EminiarVendikar #TheGuardianofForever #Nomad #Vaal #TheDoomsdayMachine #M-4 #M-5 #Beta5 #TheController #TheOracle #TheKalandancomputer #MemoryAlpha #TheAtavachron #V'Ger #BOSS #TIM #Magnus #MuLambda165 #Computer #IRAC
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Seeing as you're making dice that are fighting the current situation in the USA right now, I think this would be up your alley. https://stgiga.github.io/gigaware/TarouijaD120files.zip would be up your alley. It is a 3D model with OpenSCAD for tweaks, of a d120 but instead of the numbers 1-120, it has extended Tarot and extended Ouija as its symbols, via Unicode shenanigans, following this mapping https://www.reddit.com/r/d120Lists/comments/17mr2uv/d120_tarot_and_spirit_board/
Roll: Result
1: Ace of Spades
2: Two of Spades
3: Three of Spades
4: Four of Spades
5: Five of Spades
6: Six of Spades
7: Seven of Spades
8: Eight of Spades
9: Nine of Spades
10: Ten of Spades
11: Jack of Spades
12: Knight of Spades
13: Queen of Spades
14: King of Spades
15: Ace of Hearts
16: Two of Hearts
17: Three of Hearts
18: Four of Hearts
19: Five of Hearts
20: Six of Hearts
21: Seven of Hearts
22: Eight of Hearts
23: Nine of Hearts
24: Ten of Hearts
25: Jack of Hearts
26: Knight of Hearts
27: Queen of Hearts
28: King of Hearts
29: Ace of Diamonds
30: Two of Diamonds
31: Three of Diamonds
32: Four of Diamonds
33: Five of Diamonds
34: Six of Diamonds
35: Seven of Diamonds
36: Eight of Diamonds
37: Nine of Diamonds
38: Ten of Diamonds
39: Jack of Diamonds
40: Knight of Diamonds
41: Queen of Diamonds
42: King of Diamonds
43: Black Joker
44: Ace of Clubs
45: Two of Clubs
46: Three of Clubs
47: Four of Clubs
48: Five of Clubs
49: Six of Clubs
50: Seven of Clubs
51: Eight of Clubs
52: Nine of Clubs
53: Ten of Clubs
54: Jack of Clubs
55: Knight of Clubs
56: Queen of Clubs
57: King of Clubs
58: White Joker
59: Fool
60: Individual
61: Childhood
62: Youth
63: Maturity
64: Old Age
65: Morning
66: Afternoon
67: Evening
68: Night
69: Earth and Air
70: Water and Fire
71: Dance
72: Shopping
73: Open Air
74: Visual Arts
75: Spring
76: Summer
77: Autumn
78: Winter
79: The Game
80: Collective
81: 0
82: 1
83: 2
84: 3
85: 4
86: 5
87: 6
88: 7
89: 8
90: 9
91: A
92: B
93: C
94: D
95: E
96: F
97: G
98: H
99: I
100: J
101: K
102: L
103: M
104: N
105: O
106: P
107: Q
108: R
109: S
110: T
111: U
112: V
113: W
114: X
115: Y
116: Z
117: Yes
118: No
119: Hello
120: Goodbye
And in Unicode
🂡🂢🂣🂤🂥🂦🂧🂨🂩🂪🂫🂬🂭🂮🂱🂲🂳🂴🂵🂶🂷🂸🂹🂺🂻🂼🂽🂾🃁🃂🃃🃄🃅🃆🃇🃈🃉🃊🃋🃌🃍🃎🃏🃑🃒🃓🃔🃕🃖🃗🃘🃙🃚🃛🃜🃝🃞🃟🃠🃡🃢🃣🃤🃥🃦🃧🃨🃩🃪🃫🃬🃭🃮🃯🃰🃱🃲🃳🃴🃵𝟶𝟷𝟸𝟹𝟺𝟻𝟼𝟽𝟾𝟿𝙰𝙱𝙲𝙳𝙴𝙵𝙶𝙷𝙸𝙹𝙺𝙻𝙼𝙽𝙾𝙿𝚀𝚁𝚂𝚃𝚄𝚅𝚆𝚇𝚈𝚉👍👎⎆⎋
The first section of characters is the contents of the Playing Cards block in Unicode, minus Red Joker (white is kept) and Playing Card Back. So that means the 52 cards (jokers included) in an English/American deck of playing cards, plus Tarot's Knight cards, so 56 cards (and these are basically a graphical suit with the value above it, in a 12pt cell), plus the 22 cards in the Major Arcana, with "Fool" as XXII as is done on some decks. That section is rendered as a 12pt card with Roman numerals I through XXII with IX and XI having disambiguation dots. The naming I used for the cards is the alias names Unicode gives the cards. So none of the "The Hanged Man" or the generic numbered-only names that Unicode gives as their official codepoint names. After that is Ouija's 0-9 and uppercase A-Z, using Unicode's Mathematical Monospaced characters (Courier) from Mathematical Alphanumeric Symbols block, in order to fit the 1800s playbill font commonly seen on Ouija boards, also 12pt. Now the next ones are the interesting ones. To represent Yes and No, I used the Thumbs-Up and Thumbs-Down emoji respectively, and the real interesting part is what I did for Hello and Goodbye. For those, I used two characters from the Miscellaneous Technical block, namely the Enter Symbol and the Escape Symbol, both seen on old Mac keyboards. The first one is a diamond with an arrow pointing inwards, and the second one is a circle with an arrow pointing outwards. The metaphor here is that "Hello" is entering a conversation, and "Goodbye" is leaving one, obviously with a spirit. And all this fills ALL 120 slots on a d120, with no empty or duplicate entries. A unique glyph for each side. The only fonts usable for this by the way are Unifont Smooth (bundled) or UnifontEX. No other font, even Unifont itself, has all the characters together, due to the fact that Hello and Goodbye symbols are in Plane 0, meanwhile the rest of the characters are in Plane 1 AND even include emoji, never mind that some fonts do not support the Major Arcana part of the Playing Cards block. So basically, you're stuck with these two forks of GNU Unifont, but UnifontEX is pixel and so is not exactly a fitting theme unless you're a hacker like I am. Plus, by a bout of sheer chance, ALL the characters after vectorization turned out fine (though White Joker's J is too skeletal in the loop), something that related characters (some of the other stuff in the same block as the thumbs up and thumbs down emoji didn't vectorize well) have trouble with. I was very pleasantly surprised that the emoji and the Roman numerals turned out fine. But ultimately this was a feat of engineering I did when I was bored from 2023 to nowadays.
Anyways, what makes this a compelling protest product is that it combines several things that fundamentalist Christians are very prone to hating. It takes Tarot cards and Ouija boards and shoves them onto dice that are literally divisible into an entire set of common and rare TTRPG dice, on top of the shape being a D&D d20 but divided into 6 triangles (putting a d4 on each face and then dividing by 2), a D&D d12 but divided into 10 triangles for each pentagon, as well as being a derivative shape of the d30 and d60. So basically, this "Tarouija" d120 combines multiple things that fundamentalist Christians consider "demonic" into one divination ritual item and thus is a great form of protest against the religious right. For the record I live in California. Hopefully this is interesting. Oh the OpenSCAD file needs the nightly build of OpenSCAD. #dicemaking #dicemaker #dice #d120 #unicode #unifontex #tarotcard #tarotdecks #tarotcards #tarotcardsreading #ouijaboard #ouija #3d #3dp #3dprinting #3dprinter #spiritboard #majorarcana #fuckice #protest #unifont #openscad #scad #3dart #art #tech #technology #code #font #fontdev #fonts #3dmodel #3dmodeling #3dmodels #3dmodeled #computerscience #compsci #boredom #activism #ice -
Life with Alphas is full of surprises. - Way of Cats https://www.wayofcats.com/blog/life-with-alphas/18974
Over his career, this Failed Foster Bottle Baby grew up, locked himself in the bathroom, proved he could open a child-proof pillbox, and made us get a cat tree with the force of his mind.
And yet, I regret nothing.
#ManyFacesOfPickle #TBT #TBThursday #CatsOfMastodon #CatsOfTheFediverse #Catstodon #CatLovers #CatAppreciators #Humane #Rescue -
The ICE agent’s cellphone video: Five key moments
Editor’s Note: Very important video. The Post seem to have made this widely available to all. I hope no paywalls. Read and view online. –DrWeb
The ICE agent’s cellphone video: Five key moments
New footage sheds light on fatal shooting of Renee Good in Minneapolis.
Today at 9:19 p.m. EST
By Jonathan Baran, Aaron C. Davis and Jarrett Ley 3 min
Cellphone video recorded by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent as he fatally shot a woman in Minneapolis surfaced online Friday, revealing new details about the hotly disputed incident from a perspective rarely seen.
The 47-second recording, published by the Minnesota website Alpha News, shows for the first time that Renee Nicole Good spoke to the ICE agent, Jonathan Ross, before he shot her. It reveals that, a split second before the gunfire, Good’s wife urged her to drive away from the scene.
It does not show whether Good’s SUV came into contact with Ross, as the Trump administration contends. Vice President JD Vance said Friday that the video exonerated Ross. “The reality is that his life was endangered and he fired in self defense,” Vance wrote on X.
The Washington Post previously reported that Good’s SUV did move toward Ross as he stood in front of it, according to a frame-by-frame analysis of different video footage. But Ross was able to move out of the way and fire at least two of three shots from the side of the vehicle as it veered past him, according to The Post’s analysis.
Neither Ross nor a spokesperson for the Department of Homeland Security returned messages seeking comment. Good’s wife also declined to comment.
1. Good speaks to Ross
(Video: Obtained by Alpha News)
On Wednesday morning, less than a minute before the gunfire, Ross walks around Good’s vehicle.
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As he passes the driver’s side door, she speaks to him through her open window. “That’s fine dude, I’m not mad at you,” Good, 37, says.
It’s not clear what elicited her comment. In the footage, Ross does not speak before the shooting.
2. Good’s wife confronts Ross
(Video: Obtained by Alpha News)
Good’s wife, Rebecca Good, confronts Ross as he walks behind the SUV.
“We don’t change our plates every morning,” she says, an apparent reference to criticism that ICE agents have swapped license plates on agency vehicles amid immigration sweeps. “Want to come at us? I say go get yourself some lunch, big boy,” she says.
Continue/Read Original Article: https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/2026/01/09/moments-before-ice-shooting-minneapolis/
Tags: Alpha News, Cellphone Video, Homeland Security, Ice, Investigations, January 9 2026, Jonathan Ross, Minneapolis, Minneapolis Shooting, Rebecca Good, Renee Nicole Good, Ross, The Washington Post, Video
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Working on deploying the backend server today, and once that's up and running I can distribute the extension to anyone who would like to be an early tester and give feedback!
#firefox
#duckduckgo
#WebDev
#AI
#AISlop
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I'm getting close to having a very "alpha" release of my slop article browser extension, and I'd like to start collecting some real-world data and getting community feedback. Currently it's #Firefox only, and I've been targeting the #duckduckgo search results page for flagging links.
If you're interested in trying out some very early software to report when you've stumbled across obvious AI slop sound off in the replies
#WebDev #AI #AISlop #enshittification #SoftwareTesting #AlphaSoftware
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ALTERNATIVE #07: GOOGLE LENS
(...con qualche bonus aggiuntivo!)
Ok, a preparare questa ci ho messo un po'.
Con Lens, Google ha accentrato tante funzioni in una sola app, rendendosi ancora più "indispensabile" e garantendosi virtualmente l'accesso a una quantità smisurata di dati dei suoi utenti ("cerca quello che vedi", come recita il motto, o piuttosto "fai vedere a Google quello che vedi"?)
Le funzioni di Lens sono così tante che per sostituirle bisogna ricorrere a diverse app*. Ne ho testate molte negli ultimi mesi, ma non tutte estensivamente.
Tra le miriadi di app disponibili, ho dato la preferenza a quelle open source, poi a quelle comunque prive di tracker.*) Mi limito alle app Android, non potendo testare quelle per iOs. Quelle presenti sul Play Store potrebbero essere presenti anche sull'App Store Apple.
NOTA: so che esistono molte app che emulano tutte le funzioni di Lens... purtroppo, sono tutte piene zeppe di tracker (vedi anche l'ultimo punto).
NOTA 2: alcune app open source vanno installate da F-Droid (installare il pacchetto da f-droid.org/) oppure installando il pacchetto apk a mano (non si avranno aggiornamenti automatici).
-- RICONOSCIMENTO TESTI da immagine (OCR) --
Arriva subito il primo bonus!
Infatti, la migliore soluzione open source per estrarre testo da un'immagine è inclusa in un'app di scansione (ed è perciò un'ottima ALTERNATIVA alle app più usate a questo scopo, come CamScanner, che contiene ben 13 tracker!)Si tratta di [1] OSS Document Scanner [Play Store, FDroid (repo izzysoft)], un'app ricchissima di funzionalità e opzioni (tra cui la sincronizzazione delle cartelle), in grado di acquisire documenti in modo completamente automatico. Dopo la scansione, si può usare la funzione di riconoscimento (OCR) per estrarre in modo affidabile tutto il testo, che può poi essere incollato.
-- TRADUZIONE (anche da immagine) --
L'opzione open source è senza dubbio [2] Traduttore You (Translate You) [F-Droid].
App molto snella e funzionale, che può sfruttare molti motori di traduzione liberi e proprietari (vanno impostati nelle preferenze).
Nella mia esperienza, quello che funziona meglio è LaraTranslate, qui utilizzato anonimamente tramite l'app: le traduzioni sono potenziate da AI e sono tra le migliori, inoltre riconosce anche parole spezzate da trattini e a capi e altri errori dovuti a riconoscimento testi.
A proposito, l'app può estrarre e tradurre direttamente da foto: per farlo, bisogna però configurare le lingue nelle impostazioni, scaricando i dati di quelle che si desidera usare. I nomi dei pacchetti sono poco intuitivi, comunque le prime lettere indicano la lingua.
L'app fornisce anche una voce nel menu contestuale (di altre app): per esempio, selezionando del testo in un browser si avrà l'opzione di tradurlo con Traduttore You.
Se l'OCR interno non dovesse funzionare, consiglio di scansionare il testo con l'app OSS Document Scanner, copiarlo e incollarlo in Traduttore You.
Sito (github)Per avere una soluzione integrata di queste prime due funzionalità e un'esperienza più vicina a quella di Google Lens, consiglio invece [3] DeepL Traduttore [Play Store].
L'app è proprietaria e utilizza 2 tracker (ma sono tra i più "innocui"*). In generale è un buon compromesso tra privacy e usabilità, anche se per alcune funzioni più avanzate (e anche per utilizzare l'app oltre un certo numero di caratteri) è richiesto l'acquisto della versione Pro. Se lavorate molto con le traduzioni da immagine, o utilizzate molto questo tipo di servizio, forse vale la pena consultare i loro piani a pagamento.*) OpenTelemetry e Sentry
-- SCANSIONE CODICI QR --
Secondo bonus!
Infatti, ormai è comune includere la funzione di scansione codici direttamente nell'app fotocamera, ma... puoi fidarti di quella del tuo telefono?
Sicuramente affidabile è [4] Secure Camera [Play Store], l'app sviluppata per Graphene OS, che pur non essendo open source è totalmente priva di traccianti e pubblicità, oltre ad essere un'app fotocamera eccellente e piena di funzioni. Tra cui, proprio quella di scansionare codici QR!Per chi invece vuole un'app indipendente, consiglio [5] QR Scanner (PFA) [F-Droid], una delle app open source e privacy-friendly sviluppate dal gruppo di ricerca SECUSO all'Università Tecnica di Darmstadt (hanno un account su Bluesky e uno sul Fediverso/Mastodon: @SECUSO_Research@bawü.social).
-- RICONOSCIMENTO PIANTE --Per questa funzione consiglio vivamente [6] Flora Incognita [Play Store], nata all'interno di un progetto di ricerca per la conservazione della natura, a cura dell'Università Tecnica di Ilmenau e dell'Istituto Max Planck di Jena. Ben tradotta in italiano, priva di traccianti e di pubblicità, rende facilissimo riconoscere fiori e piante di tutti i tipi e tener traccia delle proprie osservazioni.
Il progetto è presente sia sui social commerciali che sul Fediverso (anche se l'account Mastodon @FloraIncognita non sembra attivo).-- RICONOSCIMENTO ANIMALI --
Per riconoscere gli animali ho trovato [7] Animal Identifier: AI Scanner [Play Store], un'app priva di traccianti e tradotta in italiano, che fornisce un'interfaccia stile AI bot con cui chattare dopo aver scattato una foto. C'è un limite giornaliero di 2 identificazioni (sbloccabile passando alla versione Premium).
Un'altra possibilità senza traccianti è [8] Animal Identifier - iSpecies [Play Store], con un limite di 3 identificazioni al giorno e un'interfaccia più tradizionale, che include una estesa libreria di schede informative su tutti i tipi di animali.
Unica pecca: non è tradotta in italiano e anche le informazioni sugli animali sono in inglese, ma si può ovviare a questo gap linguistico scorrendo la scheda fino in fondo, premendo l'icona di Wikipedia (Read More) e successivamente cambiando la lingua su italiano nella pagina di Wikipedia che si apre.Se invece vogliamo un accesso illimitato, dobbiamo utilizzar app più specifiche, come ad esempio [9] Uccelli Riconoscere - Bird ID (Bird Identifier) [Play Store], un'ottima app priva di tracker e di pubblicità in grado di riconoscere gli uccelli non solo a partire da fotografie, ma anche dal canto!
L'unica pecca è la traduzione italiana ancora molto incompleta...Ecco infatti il terzo bonus: Google Lens è limitato alle immagini, mentre l'app che ho citato può riconoscere anche il canto degli uccelli.
Un'app open source, con un buon supporto linguistico italiano, dedicata al riconoscimento del canto degli uccelli è [10] whoBIRD [F-Droid],
caratterizzata da un'interfaccia minimalista e no-click (riconosce al volo appena aperta l'app). Sicuramente la più immediata da usare e la più pratica per chi ne fa un utilizzo intensivo.
Ancora una buona alternativa per chi usa solo il Play Store: [11] BirdNET [Play Store], un po' più macchinosa da usare ma anche molto precisa, perché consente di selezionare il canto degli uccelli nello spettro del suono registrato. Senza traccianti e completamente tradotta in italiano.-- RICONOSCIMENTO MINERALI --
Ho trovato un'app che mi sembra funzioni, anche se non l'ho testata esaustivamente.
È solo in inglese, ma non ha traccianti.
Eccola: [12] Rock Identifier - Rockr [Play Store]-- RICONOSCIMENTO FUNGHI --
NO. Enne-o.
Cioè, anche GPT4 si rifiuta di riconoscere i funghi.
Ho provato un'app, ma ne ha sbagliati più della metà.
Perciò, i funghi fateli vedere da un esperto.-- PIATTI NEL MENU --
Una delle funzioni più apprezzate di Lens è quella di darci informazioni sui piatti presenti nei menu (e mostrarci come potrebbero presentarsi).
Posto che io preferisco sempre chiedere consiglio al personale di sala, esiste [13] PicMenu.co, una webapp open source basata su Together AI in grado di fare la stessa cosa. O almeno così dicono... non l'ho testata.
Nulla da installare: basta aprire la pagina sul proprio browser.-- ESPRESSIONI MATEMATICHE --
In questo caso vi propongo una vera e propria "istituzione": [14] Wolphram Alpha [Play Store], uno dei motori di "intelligenza computazionale" più noti del web.
È disponibile sia come web app (direttamente dal browser) che come app installabile, e in questo caso offre anche la possibilità di input fotografico. Purtroppo, è una feature a pagamento (e i prezzi non sono bassi)... Ma già con la versione gratuita è possibile avere un grande aiuto introducendo le espressioni a mano.
L'app è priva di traccianti.
App web: wolframalpha.com/E se invece volete proprio il riconoscimento da foto, vi suggerisco di andare direttamente con la prossima opzione...
-- TUTTO IL RESTO --
Ok, resta l'ultima possibilità (almeno per quanto mi riguarda).
Visto che si tratta di modelli IA, a questo puinto chiediamo direttamente a un LLM... il che, a mio modo di vedere, significa usare [15] Duck.ai.
Non ChatGPT (o MetaAI, Copilot, Grok, Claude...), cioè non attraverso la loro app, che comporta la creazione di un account. Una chat con un LLM fornisce un sacco di informazioni su di noi, ed è meglio che rimangano in locale.
Duck.ai si apre nel browser. Si può scegliere tra molti modelli (ecco l'ultimo bonus!), tutte le chat restano in locale, possono essere conservate ma anche cancellate per sempre.
GPT4o, nella fattispecie, accetta input in forma di foto ed è in grado di estrarne il testo, incluse le formule matematiche, e aiutarci passo passo nella soluzione di problemi (io comunque insisto che prima bisogna provare a ragionare con la nostra testa...). Può anche aiutarci a identificare luoghi, monumenti, oggetti e prodotti, anche se non può fornire link diretti a shop online.E così, mi sembra ce ne sia per tutti...
[Ok, ok, allora, se proprio volete il tool unico e mi state suggerendo Perplexity, vi avviso che ha 2 tracker di Google e un punteggio di privacy di 7/10 secondo Exodus. È vero che gran parte delle altre app di AI-powered-search stanno a 0/10, ma io raramente scendo sotto il 9/10, perciò...]
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The Six Million Dollar Man and The Bionic Woman was such a great series and if you rewatch the 6MDM it is a treasure trove of aviation. Shots of a B-1A, Edwards AFB, 3 bladed prop C-130's etc #bionic #6milliondollaman #avgeek #ScFi
"It looks good at NASA One."
"Roger. BCS Arm switch is on."
"Okay, Victor."
"Lining Rocket Arm switch is on."
B-52 Pilot: "Here comes the throttle. Circuit breakers in.""We have separation."
"Roger."
"Inboard and outboards are on."
"I'm coming forward with the sidestick"
"Looks good."
"Ah, Roger."
"I've got a blow-out - damper three!"
"Get your pitch to zero."
"Pitch is out! I can't hold altitude!"
"Correction, Alpha Hold is off, turn selectors — Emergency!"
"Flight Com! I can't hold it! She's breaking up, she's break—"https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/tv/articles/bionic-woman-lindsay-wagner-six-110023659.html
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The Six Million Dollar Man and The Bionic Woman was such a great series and if you rewatch the 6MDM it is a treasure trove of aviation. Shots of a B-1A, Edwards AFB, 3 bladed prop C-130's etc #bionic #6milliondollaman #avgeek #ScFi
"It looks good at NASA One."
"Roger. BCS Arm switch is on."
"Okay, Victor."
"Lining Rocket Arm switch is on."
B-52 Pilot: "Here comes the throttle. Circuit breakers in.""We have separation."
"Roger."
"Inboard and outboards are on."
"I'm coming forward with the sidestick"
"Looks good."
"Ah, Roger."
"I've got a blow-out - damper three!"
"Get your pitch to zero."
"Pitch is out! I can't hold altitude!"
"Correction, Alpha Hold is off, turn selectors — Emergency!"
"Flight Com! I can't hold it! She's breaking up, she's break—"https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/tv/articles/bionic-woman-lindsay-wagner-six-110023659.html
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The Six Million Dollar Man and The Bionic Woman was such a great series and if you rewatch the 6MDM it is a treasure trove of aviation. Shots of a B-1A, Edwards AFB, 3 bladed prop C-130's etc #bionic #6milliondollaman #avgeek #ScFi
"It looks good at NASA One."
"Roger. BCS Arm switch is on."
"Okay, Victor."
"Lining Rocket Arm switch is on."
B-52 Pilot: "Here comes the throttle. Circuit breakers in.""We have separation."
"Roger."
"Inboard and outboards are on."
"I'm coming forward with the sidestick"
"Looks good."
"Ah, Roger."
"I've got a blow-out - damper three!"
"Get your pitch to zero."
"Pitch is out! I can't hold altitude!"
"Correction, Alpha Hold is off, turn selectors — Emergency!"
"Flight Com! I can't hold it! She's breaking up, she's break—"https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/tv/articles/bionic-woman-lindsay-wagner-six-110023659.html
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The Six Million Dollar Man and The Bionic Woman was such a great series and if you rewatch the 6MDM it is a treasure trove of aviation. Shots of a B-1A, Edwards AFB, 3 bladed prop C-130's etc #bionic #6milliondollaman #avgeek #ScFi
"It looks good at NASA One."
"Roger. BCS Arm switch is on."
"Okay, Victor."
"Lining Rocket Arm switch is on."
B-52 Pilot: "Here comes the throttle. Circuit breakers in.""We have separation."
"Roger."
"Inboard and outboards are on."
"I'm coming forward with the sidestick"
"Looks good."
"Ah, Roger."
"I've got a blow-out - damper three!"
"Get your pitch to zero."
"Pitch is out! I can't hold altitude!"
"Correction, Alpha Hold is off, turn selectors — Emergency!"
"Flight Com! I can't hold it! She's breaking up, she's break—"https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/tv/articles/bionic-woman-lindsay-wagner-six-110023659.html
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Debugger/Profiler for Amiga, Sega Mega Drive, and Neo Geo: Engine9000
Engine9000 is a work-in-progress ASM/C source-level debugger for Amiga, Sega Mega Drive, and Neo Geo emulators, featuring a profiler and trainer, which is now available in alpha version 0.41.
In his latest blog post, also Alexander Grupe discusses this program.
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Debugger/Profiler for Amiga, Sega Mega Drive, and Neo Geo: Engine9000
Engine9000 is a work-in-progress ASM/C source-level debugger for Amiga, Sega Mega Drive, and Neo Geo emulators, featuring a profiler and trainer, which is now available in alpha version 0.41.
In his latest blog post, also Alexander Grupe discusses this program.
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Debugger/Profiler for Amiga, Sega Mega Drive, and Neo Geo: Engine9000
Engine9000 is a work-in-progress ASM/C source-level debugger for Amiga, Sega Mega Drive, and Neo Geo emulators, featuring a profiler and trainer, which is now available in alpha version 0.41.
In his latest blog post, also Alexander Grupe discusses this program.
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Debugger/Profiler for Amiga, Sega Mega Drive, and Neo Geo: Engine9000
Engine9000 is a work-in-progress ASM/C source-level debugger for Amiga, Sega Mega Drive, and Neo Geo emulators, featuring a profiler and trainer, which is now available in alpha version 0.41.
In his latest blog post, also Alexander Grupe discusses this program.
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Debugger/Profiler for Amiga, Sega Mega Drive, and Neo Geo: Engine9000
Engine9000 is a work-in-progress ASM/C source-level debugger for Amiga, Sega Mega Drive, and Neo Geo emulators, featuring a profiler and trainer, which is now available in alpha version 0.41.
In his latest blog post, also Alexander Grupe discusses this program.
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Nothing in the universe is as diverse as a byte of data, which can carry information ranging from baby pictures to a digitally signed million-dollar bank transfer. It's like saying that Shakespeare's works are a commodity because he uses the alphabet just like everybody else.
-- Don Tapscott⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #DonTapscott #Commoditization #Data #Technology