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frequent overthinker, compulsive fixer, digester-then-explainer, "why?" question relishing father, minor-irritant partner, excessive disassembler, original-form hacker, high-efficiency googler, borderline-competent car-fixer, expert-level car-breaker, faster-by-qwerty communicator, indiscriminate photo-taker, Leatherman owner.
Joined Nov 2022
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Small talk and conversations can be really hard for autistic people.
#ActuallyAutistic @actuallyautistic
image: Izzy@autieselfcare
@techsinger images out of the video-stream may be as silly as taking a print-screen if nothing else is possible.
configuring the output video from the capture down to 1Hz would make it easier, and unlikely to miss much for largely static text information.
unsure on how to recognise a selected option unless the ocr can pick up on underlined or highlighted text.
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MAGICAL GOOGLE HACK:
intext:"thing you actually want to search for"
should work for at least another ten minutes, until they find a way to enshittify that too
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Doctor: Do you want to hear the good news or the bad news?
Patient: Good news please.
Doctor: we're naming a disease after you.
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a quick hunt has led to a series of tutorials on obtaining ocr output from videos, which also includes multi-columns too. this may be useful while poking through a bios screen to troubleshoot uefi woes.
limk follows:
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I know this is quite odd, but it's really just a shot in the dark so I don't reinvent the wheel. I'm sure someone has already done this and undoubtedly done it better than the way I want to. I am #blind and want to bring the HDMI output of one computer, running its UEFI configuration interface, to another computer, and then send the image of that output to OpenAI's #LLM so it can tell me what is selected, what is on the screen, and so on. This is so I can get access to the UEFI on machines, both to install systems and during those times when the machine doesn't boot and there's no sighted person around. I know of no #a11y method for blind users with #UEFI. My thinking is that a capture card would allow this. Has anyone managed this sort of thing on a windows machine? I don't mean to limit to the UEFI input, any sort of visual input from which static images are routed to a LLM from a capture card/visual input would be good to hear about. If so, I would be very grateful for any ideas on both the card and software to use, particularly so that the image is clear to the model. Thanks for having a look at what I'm sure is a very strange request.
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is hdmi capture via usb-c any use to you?
states wide compatibility and captures at 1080p.
19 pounds from Amazon, link follows:
software-wise I have no clue, but would suspect something able to run OCR on a video feed might be a locally-hostable option maybe?
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I told a joke on a Zoom meeting and no one laughed
Turns out I’m not remotely funny!
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@hypnogoria Gooooooood morning!
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I didn't have "Will Ferrell becomes visible trans ally" on my 2024 bingo card but hey, I'll take it.
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Latest comic: Tech billionaires just want to save humanity!
@eclectech depends on the furniture I think. small plastic chair or inflatable pool, no drama. lawnmower, large shed or in-ground swimming pool somewhat more impressive ;)
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Stop scrolling.
I just wanted to bring to your attention that in Norway speed bumps are called Farts Humper.
Carry on.
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So glad we fucked the environment into a cocked hat, so that I could spend time picking recycling up because the bin was blown over.
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Steve:
frequent overthinker, compulsive fixer, digester-then-explainer, "why?" question relishing father, minor-irritant partner, excessive disassembler, original-form hacker, high-efficiency googler, borderline-competent car-fixer, expert-level car-breaker, faster-by-qwerty communicator, indiscriminate photo-taker, Leatherman owner.
Joined Nov 2022
