eastendguy

" you want to run it ... in your own onsite/cloud/whatever" => I agree. If security and/or privacy is an issue, better use a non SaaS solution. There are many options available, such as UIPath or UI.Vision, or simply Selenium if it is only about web automation.

Hi, interesting. Does this run in the browser or on the backend?

"All your bots live on you computer and process data in your web browser. We store the steps of your bot and data"

It seems the scripts are stored on your servers? Why? Does this mean that you can see my code or is it encrypted?

How does this compare to the more established web macro recorder tools (browser extensions) like the open-source kantu? https://github.com/A9T9/Kantu

It is a truly great tool. The caveat is that using Hammerspoon is essentially programming. So it is "only" suitable for technical users like developers.

For the casual Mac user (e. g. product manager or the guy from sales) the visual Sikuli or UI.Vision RPA tools are more suitable for creating automation scripts.

Showing a password vs getting your face scans taken and stored in a gigantic face recognition library is a gigantic difference. Once the state has your biometrics stored, you can be ID'ed without you noticing, e. g. as you walk around the city.

A solution to run non-headless Chrome browsers in the cloud would be welcome. We used Sikuli and now UI.Vision RPA for test automation, and have to manage the servers for it ourself. If I could outsource this to a service like browserless, it would be convenient. (Applitools was an option I looked at)

The web app we are testing right now (SaaS for architects) makes heavy use of canvas elements and can't be tested headless.

Tesseract is the only open-source OCR package that I am aware of. If anyone knows anything else, I would be very curious as well.

Yeah, nothing to learn from this page. But I can not undo my upvote. I was hopping to see either a comparison of established services (Abbyy, Google Cloud Vision, OCR.space,...) or, even better, an insightful report from a Tesseract developer.

Nobody blames anyone here. The point is that anyone who lives (or has family) in a dictatorship can be easily blackmailed by its own state, with no legal recourse.

He had an idea and tested it. 3 month and $1900 sounds about right. I don't think you can test product ideas with significantly less time and money investment.

Are the trains better e. g. compared to TGV or Shinkansen? I doubt that. Or just cheaper? Sure, cheaper is also a form of "better".

Please note that they forced the technology transfer from Siemens. That is one of the key issues with today's China.

...which is what I strongly prefer (rule of law and all that). Of course, as others have said, on-device processing would be the best.

> if [NSLocale.currentLocale.countryCode isEqualToString:@"CN"]:

So even for US and EU based users the data is send to Tencent just because they enabled Chinese language support? Who programmed that?

Samsung announced a few weeks ago to move all its (phone) manufacturing outside China:

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-samsung-elec-china/samsun...

Prague had its own version of the Tiananmen square protests in 1968, when the Soviet Union and other members of the Warsaw Pact invaded the country to suppress the reforms. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prague_Spring

I understand that developers need to earn money for their work. => Another license option to use is the the one of UI.Vision and others: Split the product in an Open-Source core (e. g. GPL license) and a proprietary part for the commercial "PRO" features of the product.

No need to. These Teslas are for domestic use, and they already have enough data of every Chinese citizen.

?? I really don't understand what upset you so much about my comment.

A person falls, and nobody misses her or looks after her for three days. How is this not a problem of our current society?

...the problem here seems more that nobody missed her for three days. So loneliness is the key issue here and an Apple watch will not fix that.

That said, having an Apple watch is certainly much cooler than wearing those emergency call devices they currently sell for old people.

So did I understand this right? The Hongkong police themself opposes investigation into their alleged collusion with organized crime? That that not sound good.

Another good example of a freemium browser extension is Grammarly. Browser extension certainly can be monetized in an ethical way. (Note: I never used Grammarly myself, just seen the many ads)

I can confirm this. I personally know of two companies were accurate but negative reviews were taken down by Glassdoor. One was the company I worked for. In this case it was triggered at the request of the CEO, who was heavily criticized in the reviews. He made HR sign up for a Glassdoor Premium account, so that they took the reviews down.

All negative reviews were 100% accurate from my point of view and not insulting in any way. So if you see the "managed account" flag at Glassdoor, be careful ;)

It seems the trick is to say that the reviews contain "company internal information",...or something like that.

There are strong hints that Han Kuo-yu's victory was helped by Chinese influenced media companies, e. g. here: https://www.hongkongfp.com/2019/06/28/taiwan-braces-pro-chin...

As of the last months, Han Kuo-yu's support is steadily declining.

But most importantly, it is clear beyond any doubt that >90% of all Taiwanese do not want to be part of the CCP ruled China.

Why is Germany (the state) "anti credit card"? It is accepted everywhere.

You might mean that some Germans don't like CC and prefer cash for privacy reasons. But that is a personal decision.

So if a Taiwanese dislikes the Chinese (government policy) or does not trust software "Made in China" she or he is racist?

For a new light-weight alternative to Sikuli that does not require Java, check out the UI.Vision browser extension + xmodule:

https://ui.vision/x/desktop-automation

Yeah, but I usually don't want to accelerate 10 times, but only once in a while (e. g. after a red light). It is totally useless, but great fun in Tesla.

I keep thinking that an app or service to fight loneliness will be an (anti) killer app. Yet I have no idea how such an service should look like. Obviously dating apps do not work for all circumstances.

Exactly. To avoid contact form spam I added a simple "Fill in this number (123):" to on of our forms. The number is even hardcoded! But that was enough to reduce contact form spam from ~10-20 a day to zero.

All these sliders can be automated with the UI.Vision browser extension and its visual XMove command: https://ui.vision/docs/xclick#xmove

The target audience are web testers. The advantage of this approach is that it requires no Javascript knowledge, as you automate the task visually. It is similar to the well-known Sikuli tool, but works inside the browser.

The "drawback" of this image-recognition driven approach is that it is much too slow for spamming... which is actually another advantage from my point of view.

All this can be avoided (from a scraper's perspective) by using the Selenium IDE++ project. It adds a command line to Chrome and Firefox to run scripts. See https://ui.vision/docs#cmd and https://ui.vision/docs/selenium-ide/web-scraping

=> Using Chrome directly is slower, but undetectable.