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molly0xfff

@molly0xfff@hachyderm.io

crypto researcher & critic, software engineer, wikipedian โ€ข https://indieweb.social/@web3isgreat creator โ€ข subscribe to my newsletter at http://citationneeded.news/
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molly0xfff, to Rimworld

oh good now they've released the 1.5 patch and new DLC

please convince me not to spend $85 on all the #rimworld DLC ๐Ÿ˜ญ

molly0xfff, (edited ) to random

april showers

molly0xfff, to Wikipedia

i think i can guess why, mr. upwork poster

anildash, to random

lol what is going on with the UI for Google Drive? Am trying to picture Gmail having a GIGANTIC "Welcome to Gmail" message at the top. Or Finder, "Welcome to the Macintosh Finder" all up above my files.

molly0xfff,

@anildash now i kind of want a big WELCOME TO COMPUTER banner on my machine

molly0xfff, (edited ) to random

reopening rimworld for the first time in years, in a week where i have a big deadline coming up

i may be smart but i'm not wise

molly0xfff,

@goblin modded

molly0xfff, to random

my site has a now! https://www.mollywhite.net/blogroll

molly0xfff,

@drewmcmanus oop, thank you!

stanley, to random
@stanley@heretic.social avatar

@molly0xfff I ended up at an a16z crypto event tonight where they were giving out Dixonโ€™s book. For a second, I thought I saw you and thought it would be hilarious to get you to sign a copy. That wasnโ€™t you was it?

molly0xfff,

@stanley it wasn't ๐Ÿ˜…

simon, to random
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I built a new tool: https://tools.simonwillison.net/ocr - it runs OCR against images and PDFs entirely in your browser (no file upload needed) using Tesseract.js and PDF.js

I wrote more about the tool and how I built it (with copious amounts of Claude 3 Opus and a little bit of ChatGPT) here: https://simonwillison.net/2024/Mar/30/ocr-pdfs-images/

Animated demo. The first page shows the heading: OCR PDFs and images directly in your browser This tool runs entirely in your browser. No files are uploaded to a server. Then a drop area labelled: "Drag and drop a PDF, JPG, PNG, or GIF file here or click to select a file" An image is dropped on it and gets OCRd. Then the drop zone is clicked, a PDF is selected and every page of that PDF is displayed as an image and then OCRd in turn.

molly0xfff,

@simon nice! i was thinking of trying to do something similar to autogenerate alt text, which i currently tend to do by opening images in chrome and using google lens (far too many clicks)

molly0xfff, to random

i messed up my daily note formatting so badly i time traveled back 2,000 years

Meyerweb, (edited ) to random
@Meyerweb@mastodon.social avatar

Tonight was my first, and probably not last, foray into the Wikipedia Task Center, where I made myself a member of the Guild of Copy Editors after lowering the backlog of articles that need copy editing by a total of nine.

Thanks to @molly0xfff for introducing me to the existence of the Task Center (and the Visual Editor, which is really nice) in her handy video, โ€œBecome a Wikipedian in 30 minutesโ€. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bRRHR1NEOqE

molly0xfff,

@Meyerweb welcome!! so happy to hear the video was useful, and delighted you've joined us.

molly0xfff,

@kemayo it really ought to be

ben, to random
@ben@werd.social avatar

Put the baby down, walked into the living room to join my dad, who, like every night, is watching DW's The Day news show. Fun to see @molly0xfff give her analysis on the SBF verdict. He says she's very good! I agree.

molly0xfff,

@ben aw yay!

molly0xfff, to random

My article for The Guardian just dropped.

"With no changes to how the industry operates and no watchdogs to check the abuse and greed that have defined it over its now-15 years of existence, we are doomed to see history repeat itself. More Bankman-Frieds will emerge to take his place, drawn by the promise of easy money and the low likelihood of consequences."

https://www.theguardian.com/global/commentisfree/2024/mar/28/sam-bankman-fried-prison-crypto-regulation

molly0xfff, to random

Sam Bankman-Fried has just been sentenced to 25 years in prison.

molly0xfff,

He has already been preparing his appeal, though I doubt very much he will have any success with it.

molly0xfff,

@mistersql as i understand it, federal inmates have to serve 85% of their sentences, which in this case is 21.25 years

molly0xfff,

He has also been ordered to pay the $11 billion monetary judgment requested by the prosecution. This is on top of assets already seized by the government.

molly0xfff,

@penguingeek you are mistaken. most victims in most countries have not received money back.

molly0xfff,

@DaniEhm madoff's sentence was also largely symbolic, as he was 71

molly0xfff,

@Jonly 100 years was the sentence calculated in the pre-sentence report. maximum sentence for this offense was 110 years.

molly0xfff,

@Jer @mistersql i think he would still serve much of the sentence under home confinement under the First Step Act, though I'm not an expert. Not that home confinement has historically slowed him down much...

molly0xfff,

@fazalmajid they have not been charged

molly0xfff, to random

In case it might be useful to anyone else, I just wrote a quick Chrome extension to download all PDFs on CourtListener when there are multiple attachments to one docket entry.

https://github.com/molly/courtlistener-download

molly0xfff,

This is now available to install from the Chrome and Firefox extension marketplaces:
โ€ข Chrome: https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/courtlistener-multiple-pd/mfhmcnemllapebbjmgjidncbimcnhkie
โ€ข Firefox: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/courtlistener-multi-downloader/

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