It’s nothing dystopian like you think. Basically just a variation on camera sensors:

[…] bio-inspired cameras that capture the world more like the human eye does. These are called dynamic vision sensors, and they work like motion detectors for each pixel. They only “wake up” and send information when something changes in the scene, rather than constantly streaming data like a regular camera.

These bio-inspired cameras are also highly energy efficient, using less than 1% of the power of normal cameras.

Took a quick look at the free tier,

• 3 users
• 100 devices
• Basically all tailscale features

That seems pretty reasonable to me. Main account and two accounts to share. With just friends and family, I doubt most people will reach the 100 device limit.

If it was designed for bending, would soldering be enough? Or would it crack too easily?

TL;DR from Wikipedia: In photon upconversion, two or more incident photons of relatively low energy are absorbed and converted into one emitted photon with higher energy.

Basically photons are combined into a photon that is nearer in wavelength to visible light.

Except they are missing voice calls on Android, and don’t (as far as I have seen) have video or screen sharing yet.

Those two alone make it a poor replacement at the moment for my friend group. I appreciate the simple setup and all the 1:1 features they have so far, but video and voice are the main things we use discord for.

I have it set up and will try to get some techy friends on board to play with it, but it’s not really there yet to move everybody over. Hopefully the eventually self destruction of Discord will give Revolt the push it needs to finally be a suitable replacement.

Skype is dead, sites like ooVoo are long gone, TeamSpeak seems to be held up in part by game clans.

While I can’t say they actively killed the competition, they certainly gave plenty of services little reason to exist. Discord created such a good and new service, that there wasn’t any reason to leave it for a different service.

Animated version :)

I’ll give it a look. I’m still in the early stages of the project, so it’ll be a bit before I get to the point where I work on the database side of things.

Your order is correct!

With the help of the other comment suggesting to measure the voltage of VCC, I was able to verify all the pins were working.

I have the pin order now!

I (very carefully) tested the pins for a brief moment to verify it all was working.

First I verified the voltage of vcc as 3.5v. Red to that and black to ground worked with no problems.

I figured the blue was probably in it’s correct place so I tried it and got video.

Quick test with green have me LED power.

The male part of the plug is borked, so I’ll just solder the wires on. Might even fashion up my own plug if I’m feeling fancy. I’m sure I got some spare connectors lying around somewhere.

Sadly didn’t find any. Even looked at other camera scores in the similar budget range with the hopes that the camera part is reused on other devices. No luck. Not many teardowns of scope cameras.

It’s a bit old and on the budget side. I’ll keep that in mind as a last resort.

The label is for the through holes, but I did confirm the corresponding pins for the plug with my multimeter.

I don’t believe the pins in the cable are in the right places. I guess they were reinserted wrong when it was first opened up. Pin 2 is definitely a dead pin. I confirmed the ground pin to the battery connection.

One concern I’m seeing from other comments is that I may have more data than SQLite is ideal for. I have thousands of stories (My estimate is between 10 and 40 thousand), and many of the stories can be several pages long.

What’s your reasoning for that?

At this point, I think I’ll only use yaml as the scraper output and then create a database tool to convert that into whatever data format I end up using.

That’s a good idea! Would yaml be alright for this too? I like the readability and Python styled syntax compared to json.

I do like the sound of that.

I’m not too worried about performance, since, once everything is running, most of the operations will only be ran every few weeks or so. Don’t want it slowing to a crawl for sure though.

The text search looks promising. I’ve had the idea of automating “likely tags” that look for keywords (sword = fantasy while spaceship = sci-fi). It’s not perfect, but it could be useful to roughly categorize all the stories that are missing tags.