Vincent Sparks

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he/him // early 20s // card-carrying Rustacean // audhd // combine every gay furry stereotype you can think of into a single person and you pretty much have me

i use NixOS btw. i am also NixOS's number 1 hater. ask me about why

i try not to bite without a good reason, but i sometimes bite for very bad ones. please call me on it. i'm trying to be better about that.

I'm a simple man, I see furry art, I smash the boost button. i do occasionally (rarely) boost nsfw furry art (always cw'd as such). don't wanna see that? follow someone else

DMs open if you wanna chat, or if you'd like to commission custom software like a Discord/Signal/Matrix/etc bot or a small desktop app

I don't have a pfp because I'm waiting to commission one of my sona and I can't do that until I have a ref sheet (speaking of which, if you know anyone who does commissions of those, please point me their way)

pronounshe/him
Matrix@vincent:sfe.social
timezoneAmerica/Los_Angeles
Signalvincentsparks.29
And to think I thought I had seen the absolute worst that horrible Linux scripts could offer

thank you comcast very cool

#xfinity

why isn't my parallel #rust build happening in parallel? what's going on???

also worth noting that this only happens with rustdoc. rustc parallelizes just fine

#duckduckfedi

RE: https://mas.to/@KatyElphinstone/116025593316693882

I downloaded the video with yt-dlp and uploaded it here in case you don't want to use Instagram.

Transcript at original Mastodon post.

downloading stuff from nixpkgs. the fuck kind of bizarre throttling is going on here

I have the coolest family ever 🥰 Look what I got as a belated Christmas present, just in time for #FurtherConfusion! Hand-sewn by my mom and one of my siblings! I love them (the paws and the people!) so much 🥰

#furry #fursuit

For reference, I'm running #tesseract_ocr on the subtitles of an episode of SG-1.

(For those unaware, because Unicode wasn't really a widely-deployed thing when the DVD format was standardized, but the people standardizing it still wanted DVDs to be able do display subtitles in every language, the subtitles on a DVD aren't encoded as text, they're encoded as images. This is why different DVDs have subtitles in different fonts. Blu-Rays kept this decision, because I guess they didn't want to ship a font with 100% Unicode coverage on every Blu-Ray player. I wrote a script that takes an MKV file with PGS subtitles and spits out a folder full of PNGs.)

Here are the files it's looking at. They're bright white font-rendered text on a transparent background.

Why does #OCR struggle with this?

fucking ocr