peterburkimsher

Suppose you've remotely accessed a Windows computer with no icons in the menu.

You've figured out how to access the Start menu, and figured out where the Power menu is through the icon, but now have a choice between 關機 and 重新開機.

Which one is shut down, which is reboot?

You have one chance, otherwise it requires an embarrassing trip to the server farm.

That specific case led me to make the following table of Windows strings in other languages:

https://peterburk.github.io/i2018n/windowsStringsTable/index...

Although icons in every menu is too cluttered, please don't remove them entirely. At the very least, keep an icon on every menu item that needs to be clicked until the Language setting menu. Oh, and please don't translate the languages in the menu: the user needs to be able to read their own language button.

If you want to make romaji, I built Pingtype:

https://pingtype.github.io/japanese.html

It also supports line breaking, so that words don't get cut in half when wrapping text.

Congratulations on figuring out the NAND upgrade! I tried soldering another flash chip onto the Nano 1G, but gave up when it didn’t detect:

https://peterburk.github.io/blog/

Not to mention supplying astronauts with food and managing their waste for 6+ months.

Another Hackaday reader here. I think that the RPi shines in projects where GPIO are needed, yet the developer needs a full Linux OS (usually to run Python).

I agree that vibe coding microcontrollers will increase the use of embedded systems instead of RPi devices. Seems like a good move for them to have built the RPi Pico.

I sometimes use a Raspberry Pi at work, and found the miniKVM to be a useful tool for controlling it:

https://www.crowdsupply.com/techxartisan/openterface-mini-kv...

That’s what I’d like to use it for as well, but it’s difficult to do so because there’s no way to edit the disk image.

Any advice on how to create a JSLinux clone with a specific file pre-installed and auto-launching would be much appreciated!

Related: PTT BBS is a popular Telnet-based forum in Taiwan, still actively used these days.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PTT_Bulletin_Board_System

Thanks for your long and thoughtful reply!

Matrix is just a visualisation tool, I never actually found a practical use for it other than looking cool.

The decomposition feature is at the bottom of the page below the generated HTML. It's the text box with "隹" and a Search button. Clicking Search will show the 2 parts of the character, and all characters that contain that radical (䧶, 䳡, etc), and all multi-character words containing that character.

Clicking any of the related characters (or numeric codes for radicals that don't have a Unicode representation) will then show the genealogy for that character.

See "copying from images" in http://localhost/pingtype/docs/docs.html

If I ever come to Berlin then your meetup sounds fun! I'm pretty far away though; I live in New Zealand now.

All the best with your learning, I hope you keep making progress!

I made a parallel literal translator for Farsi:

https://pingtype.github.io/farsi.html

Paste in some parallel text (e.g. Bible verses, movie subtitles, song lyrics) and read what Farsi you can on the first line, looking to the lower lines for clues if you get stuck.

The core version of Pingtype is for traditional Chinese, but it supports a few other languages too.

Good to see that there are others learning and creating! Another shameless plug for my translator site: https://pingtype.github.io

It takes text, adds colours for tones, pinyin, literal, and parallel translations.

There’s also a character decomposition tool at the bottom of the page which can be helpful if you’re able to recognise half a character but can’t remember the pronunciation for typing it.

The YouTube channel has some song lyrics, movie subtitles, and audio Bible that might help with learning.

Nice work! I’ve been using CamTwist for effects:

https://camtwiststudio.com/

It makes a virtual camera device that can integrate into any other app, not just the browser.

For a fully-legal alternative of metadata archiving, I suggest the iTunes EPF (Enterprise Partner Feed). https://performance-partners.apple.com/epf

The best metadata I've found, though, is the MySpace Dragon Hoard: https://archive.org/details/myspace_dragon_hoard_2010

That included the artist location, allowing me to tag songs based on their country. I then created playlists such as "NERAS" Non-English Rock Artist Sample, where the one most popular song for a particular artist was chosen, and only when the country of origin was not English-speaking, and the genre was Rock. I like listening to music while working, but English lyrics distract me because I understand what they're saying.

After discovering music via the MySpace archive, I've since purchased 73 songs from 35 artists that I'd never heard of before digging into the data. I rebuilt my playlist on Spotify, but got greyed out tracks, and YouTube Music, but got "unavailable video". So I still prefer purchasing tracks via the iTunes Music Store, Qobuz, Bandcamp, and 7digital.

Other data sources such as the MP3.com rescue barge, PureVolume archive, and Anna's Spotify archive lack the country-of-origin metadata, so are of less interest to me. It may be possible to use an LLM to guess the language of each track title, but someone else will have to do that.

Meanwhile, if you're interested in the genre-by-country MySpace data, or have questions about the iTunes EPF, feel free to reach out and we can discuss your research.

After a concert in London, I missed the last train back to Lancaster. So I made a sign saying that I was on CouchSurfing, and some strangers invited me over!

After CouchSurfing started charging a monthly fee, I’ve defected to BeWelcome.org which is a European, open-source alternative to CS.

Sure, just click my profile name and you'll have my personal website with email address.

Was that the Archive.org HTML files, or did you find a source of PureVolume MP3 files?

Either way I'm interested; I did some independent research into the MySpace Dragon Hoard for non-English music, and discovered bands through there that I've since supported on Bandcamp and iTunes.

If you're interested in other PCB edge connectors, here's an HDMI one I designed:

https://forum.kicad.info/t/hdmi-pcb-edge-connector-for-raspb...

If you're interested in learning languages by reading blocks of text with a word-by-word translator, I've built Pingtype to help with that:

https://pingtype.github.io/finnish.html

If anybody is interested in beta app testing, I’m happy to invite you to the BeWelcome.org iOS app!

Currently it’s just a PWA, but we’re trying to keep it simple so it can get onto the App Store.

I was a big fan of CouchSurfing before they started charging a monthly fee, which is a similar gripe I have with Servas. I met my girlfriend at the CS meet up in Kaohsiung, and although I’m no longer able to help, BeWelcome has several ways to volunteer.

The solution for code signing is coming: through jailbreaks or appdb.to, it's possible to sideload apps without the official app store process. The EU even mandated that there should be other app stores.

Building for older models is possible using a collection of virtual machines, or even a multi-boot old laptop.

There's a link in the header to "Movies"

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLhIooD7mFhphhT5nDdhK0...

Does it work in Chinese? See the movies feature of http://pingtype.github.io

It’s back!

“Got it. The number you would dial to reach our Account Security team would be 1-866-961-9253 (US). Thanks, Peter! -Saul”

I've got an Elgato Camlink, but need the freeze button (e.g. CamLink input to a Raspberry Pi full-screen, feeding through to HDMI output, with a GPIO button to pause the live stream).

Thanks, but I’d prefer open-source rather than professional.

Looks great! Is there an FPGA board with HDMI in and out? I’d like to build an HDMI freeze button to transmit a single frame at the push of a button. (e.g. during a meeting or church when noticing mistakes on the PPT slides).

Cool, thanks for answering! unc0ver is this one, btw: https://unc0ver.dev/

Tethered or untethered? The article didn’t say.

If you aren’t interested in yours, mind shipping it to Shipito, to forward to somewhere else for testing purposes?