I was presented with a task to quickly prepare a bare-metal Linux machine
to run Tesseract OCR for optical character recognition task. The criterion
was to to the recognition as fast as possible. In my tests, the Tesseract 5
was far more precise than Tesseract 4, no matter what o…
I needed to create a validation rule in Laravel that would accept either of
the two inputs, but not both and at least one had to be supplied. In other
words, I had to apply the XOR logic operation on them:
ABXOR
000
011
101
110
The search results did offer many solutions but I d…
For a long time (a year and a half) I could not start the MS Teams for
linux as an applicaiton from AUR, as a package
teams. I had this error
presented to me all the time.
This version of Teams only supports work or school accounts managed by an organization.
As with anything Mi…
Many times, especially with customizable software stacks, there are aspects
or features of the software that we wish they were done differently.
Fortunately, when using open-source software, configuring said software to
do our bidding could be within a few (hundred) keystrokes. T…
I had to work with many scanned PDF documents that were saved in a very
un-optimal way, each one having up to tens of MBs. This was not suitable
for sending via email and also unnecessary. I saw an option on my
girlfriend's Mac to optimize PDF. The result was that her document
dr…
Somehow, the
official documentation
for restoring Gitea from dump did not work for me. Roughly, the following
command for the original rootful Docker image could look like this:
/app/gitea/gitea dump --file gitea-dump.zip -c /data/gitea/conf/app.ini --skip-lfs-data --skip-reposit…
I am still obsessed with the OpenPGP smartcard. I know, it is definitely
far inferior to YubiKey. It has far, far less features and it's GnuPG
implementation is even
riddled with serious bugs
that can take days to work around. It definitely has it's peak years
behind. But no matt…