I find it really interesting that almost all of the recent comments on the YouTube video are 95% the same and praising “how great all this transparency” is, completely drowning out all other comments. They’re also worded very very similarly.

eh, back when the “exodus” was happening it felt like every second post is about defederation. Nowadays you don’t hear much about it anymore, but if you only looked back then I see how you could come to that conclusion.

Boost feels a lot like rif which I was using and which shutdown made me switch to lemmy.

That’s all very interesting. I might even consider re-learning the d (and the b for that matter).

I’m writing notes for myself and I can read them. When I’m writing for someone else (which rarely happens for handwritten notes) I take the time and effort to write nicer.

Also, I specifically didn’t write the example carefully because the use case for me would specifically be handwritten notes I made for myself.

Also if you’re not writing in cursive? I just checked some templates for kids to learn the letters, and at least the ones I’ve found do a circle first and then strike down. For example here. In cursive the materials I’ve found go halfway clockwise, then anticlockwise to complete the circle, up and down again like this.

I wonder whether this is something cultural.

How else do you write them? Worth mentioning that I learned cursive in school and we had to write in cursive until like middle school when I then mostly transitioned to a happy mix of cursive and non-cursive

Well, I haven’t had any issues at exams with my handwriting. But if I write something for myself, and fast then it’ll look somewhat like this. If I’d take my time it’ll be better but that’s not the point.

I like dotted paper, the dots are less distracting than grids, lined paper sucks for sketches/etc. and with plain paper I’m missing guides. But I agree that on this particular one, the dots are a bit too prominent.

That’s perfect. Now I’m just wondering why chatGPT is apparently much better in OCR than a dedicated OCR model like EasyOCR or Tesseract.

Btw, Deepseek did a good job but not perfect. I also fed chatGPT a full page of notes and the transcription to markdown worked quite well, although not perfect. However, if I supply the same note as part of a larger pdf, it will refuse to transcribe it, stating that it’s unreadable.

+1 for mediawiki

Although you really need to consider the peer group you are working with, and make the contribution as little work as possible. In my experience, as soon as the course is over people won’t want to do any extra work like change the formatting or integrating with existing materials. And requiring to use a specific format (even if it’s something dead simple as markdown) might already be too much friction.

In my experience shared cloud storage (GDrive, Dropbox,…) works quite well, even if the feature set is very limited. Being able to simply plonk your .docx/.pdf/.whatever into there is very easy and low friction.

A different solution I saw that worked was a forum where you could also upload files that could be categorized into the different courses and were then accessible by others. If you were to self-host this, you’d really want to make sure somehow that it’s not exploited to spread malware or worse.

Anyways, I wouldn’t think too much about how well the material can be represented, but rather how you can get your peers to continuously contribute to it. The best representation is useless without the data going with it.

the obsidian-git plugin. Auto commits and pulls/push every x minutes. Works great for me, I get full version control and works on all my platforms (Linux, Windows, Android). You just need to be careful with your .gitignore and add at least .obsidian/workspace.json to prevent conflicts.

Probably not suitable if you store larger files, but after a year of daily usage with tons of small images I’m still below 150 MB.

The one made out of plastic? That one sucks compared to the one I mentioned before.

Ikea OMTÄNKSAM

to double as security camera I guess

Yep, the other comment is even more ChatGPT-ish. And the account was created today. Guess that’s a bot.

Take that as you will, but you sound like ChatGPT.

well, I managed to upgrade from 16.04 to 22.04 without any major issues

I also remember services you could pay to get your captcha solved via a browser extension. You could also register as a captcha solver there to earn a few bucks stupidly solving captchas. Although I’m not sure if they were actually legit.

Yeah conda is slow af, but you can change the env solver which makes things much faster and there’s also mamba/miniconda which I haven’t tried but is supposedly much faster