AI has become an abbreviation for “bad” and I wouldn’t want that, but yes, I’ve been interested for a while in building language models into search engines, to give the queries more reach into the document semantics. Unfortunately, naive approaches like looking for matching vector embeddings instead of (or alongside) search terms seems near useless, and just clutters up the results.

I’d be interested in knowing what approaches you’re using. FOSS, I hope.

I used Squirrelmail briefly. It had a minor security bug which was easy to fix, but when I reported it to the devs, I couldn’t convince them that it was actually a bug. I decided that they weren’t paranoid enough to be working on that type of software, so I stopped using it.

Currently I’m not self-hosting email but am using mxroute.com which has a FOSS mail client that seems ok. I can’t check right now what it is, but maybe later.

Fastmail’s webmail is pretty good and they said something a while back about releasing it as FOSS but idk if that has happened.

Right now I mostly use Thunderbird rather than webmail. It sucks in many ways but I’ve had too much going on to pursue alternatives.

I think Google got it right early on when they realized that email clients should be backed by a serious search engine. The search features of a typical IMAP server aren’t enough and the one in Thunderbird is crap. So I think this is an area where FOSS clients could use some work, if it hasn’t already been done.

Might get an SSD for my laptop. Resisting new computer. Must … resist…

You might give Go (Golang) a try. It’s lighter weight than Java, pretty fast, and easy to use.

What is the code written in now? What happens if you clean it up? What is the project if I can ask? Everything has a runtime, though some are more complex than others. You might like OCaml which is where Rust got some ideas, or Haskell if you like brain benders. Rust (like C) is for when you need very efficient code, and you incur some pain in order to get that.

Funny thing: insurance companies donate to both parties ;).

California had a bill like that pass the legislature in 2022, and Governor Newsom vetoed somehow stopped it from making anything happen. I don’t remember the details but he basically didn’t want to upset the insurance industry, which I would have thought was the whole point of such a bill. He later backed some kind of watered-down bill which as far as I know did nothing.

https://calmatters.org/commentary/2023/10/newsom-resurrect-single-payer-health-care/

solri

Wikibooks might be ok for that.

For howto guides there is wikihow, though its license is noncommercial only iirc.

Wikibooks might also be suitable, as someone said. The other editors there are less insane about rule enforcement than wikipedia’s, anyway.

If you can say what your topic is, that could help.

https://feddit.org/post/9959466/5697405

[why blocked?] "a contributor made a push from a sanctioned region is what i saw. not even a main dev, and they didn’t receive any warning is my understanding. i might be way off, i’m not a final source:

There is also Rumble which I guess is similar.

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=cassette+autoreverse+in+middle+of+tape

Gets some results

Ok one of the capstans is likely to be on a pivot, to detect tape tension for auto reverse. See if it is sticky etc. Try web search for this problem?

Try a different tape. Maybe your tape is getting stuck.

Cig lighter phone charger won’t supply the 5v? I’d have thought the camera mount and enclosure would take the most effort. Raspberry pi zero with their camera accessory would be the main camera.

I hate bagless vacs since you get exposed to all that dirt and pathogens when you empty them, plus anything sticky that gets vacuumed up will get stuck in the vac and eventually have to be scrubbed out. Get a bagged vac if you can. I’m in the US and use an upright/canister, bagged, Dirt Devil MVP.

That’s pretty cool! Any hardware info? I had thought a diy dashcam project would be most about hardware (rpi zero and 3d printed enclosure maybe) with the software being relatively simple. Using an old phone might be another approach.

Do the police take your dash cam if they pull you over? Does that show on their own badge cam?

Streaming live video takes a lot of bandwidth and connectivity from a car can be intermittent, but maybe it’s enough to send a timestamped hash every few seconds, so there is tamper evidence in case of a deletion.

Anyway, deleting video through a dashcam user interface is like deleting a file on a computer: basically a little bit of metadata is overwritten but the underlying data can usually be mostly recovered with filesystem repair or forensic tools. To really delete it for sure you have to either destroy the media or use special tools to overwrite the data blocks. Or just running the camera for a long time (to make sure the freed blocks get re-used) might do it.

You could also stream to another phone or computer tucked away elsewhere in the car, unless you expect the whole car to be seized.

Dash cams do this continuously I thought. Good? Bad? IDK.

Avoids the need for a network connection or server, though I guess you could run it on a local socket. The UI might be preferable too.