Purpose and scope This a summary of an investigation into using optical mark recognition (OMR) to digitize paper data collected at public services. It lists the design options considered, the tools compared, and the published research found. The working scenario: Design options for ID and timestamp The investigation pursued three approaches: Each of person ID …
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I’ve been running headscale for a bit and getting it setup to start with had it’s challenges, but I figured it out. Partly due to the excellent error messages posted by the software as it starts up. Recently there was an update with at least one breaking change in it. It’s simple to fix if …
I’m currently running NextCloud with Collabora as the online office suite through Docker. It’s been working well for me but I realized the other day it didn’t have fonts I just expected it to have. After reading some documentation about how this might work, I had a look at the host system and noticed it …
Well, I’d really like to say the first update went well and for the most part I can say that BUT a couple of things came up. I had to rebuild qt5-doc with pamac. This was both painful and long. It took on the order of 30 min to complete and threw many errors (which …
I have’ had a version of mosquitto running for some time. It’s a docker setup and it just worked. The author of the docker container has moved in a direction I’m not following. MQTT is a protocol for enabling devices that are “smart” to talk to your network and other devices or service you might …
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So far the transition has been pretty painless. A couple of things to note though that I’ve bumped into so far. My main drive is not the home drive for the operating system. Everything that I care about is on two ntfs formatted drives. When I transitioned, I made sure there was nothing important on …
I was using the very awesome Calibre Web earlier. It is great software but I hadn’t bothered setting up Calibre itself on the server and I was rsyncing the database from my desktop every time I added or removed a book. This is great for getting the library started but once you’re adding and removing …
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updated Oct 12, 2025 I setup headscale a few days ago and have been thinking about a UI for it since. It feels like early days for this software despite headscale being 4 years old at time of writing. There are a number of UI packages out there for Headscale, all taking advantage of the …
This is one I’ve been meaning to solve for about 2 years. After I first stood up a server for myself. I had an SSH tunnel but this is, in theory a little more flexible and usable. A number of individuals have advertised tailscale and it’s virtues. Tailscale, as I understand it, is a client …
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getting WiFi and the Camera working I have generous people in my life. One of them gave me a Macbook Pro from 2015 recently. I’m excited because it means I get to move out of the Macbook Air 2011 that I’ve been limping along on for the past few years. I’m doubling my RAM (all …
Or any de-googled Android based OS Edited August 19, 2026 So… I’m trying to de-big tech. De-google, de-meta etc… which comes with some problems. The big one is lack of “google play services”. Purchased software currently isn’t purchased (have to figure out how to solve that, in some cases it’s easy in others it totally …
I’m quite new to home assistant. I set it up as part of getting a robot vacuum going in my place and have yet to really use it for anything. Now I’ve noticed that it tracks when the vacuum starts, if it has an error and when it stops. Valetudo (while being so very awesome) …
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