This is an amazing tamper/grease monkey script to view images on a web page, hover over an images to get a pop-up menu.
Android app
Super fun to watch 
https://keyboard.futo.org/
Works pretty well, about the only thing I’ve noticed is a slight lag when you press the spacebar but it is in alpha
Until recently, a local government for which I am doing some work has published its important legal documents as PDFs, but these PDFs have been scanned from hard copy, not generated directly from a text document. These PDFs are not searchable locally or online because they are only graphics; these files have no text layer. Ideally, of course, this local government should have exported a text file to PDF directly from Microsoft Word or LibreOffice Writer. Unfortunately, the original text files seem not to exist.
My task, therefore, is to add a searchable text layer to these PDFs. Fortunately, OCRmyPDF does this job very easily:
https://ocrmypdf.readthedocs.io/en/latest/introduction.html
OCRmyPDF is available in the AUR:
https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/ocrmypdf
It works really well. My only complaint is that OCRmyPDF doesn’t recognize as continuous any text that extends from one line to the next. For example, if I see this text in the original PDF…
We want to promote
local businesses
… searches for want to promote and local businesses produce results, but a search for promote local businesses produces no results.
Edit: I experienced the problem with cross-line searching when I viewed the PDF in Xreader. However, this problem does not occur when the PDF is loaded in a browser. In particular, Firefox and Vivaldi have no trouble finding promote local businesses in my example above.
competition, lets gooo
Great find and looks interesting but not very promising considering they want to build a new engine from the ground up with only 4 paid full time engineers. Also no “priority at the moment” for initial mobile device or Windows support so already limiting userbase, compatibility, etc. (source)
Bit unsure about this, the wording he is using seems off (Just my paranoid opinion, don’t take what I say to heart anyone)
The alpha could be up to 2 years away, so additional platform support is going to take a while. As per their faq, they are going to get 3 more full time devs on the team, and will expand it at a slower rate. Also the main benefit of the whole project would be that they are building a new engine from the ground up, the google financed duopoly of renderers is dangerous for the free web (at least imo)
What makes you say that? Also on their website they have it very nicely laid out that as a non profit their only focus will be the browser development, with safeguards for their leadership in place (which will see how it holds up as time goes on)
Just my paranoid opinion, don’t take what I say to heart anyone
My brain just didn’t like the video, for all I know it could be great, as I said above paranoia (due to mental health) plays a big part in it for me and I want to make it clear I am not discouraging peoplefrom trying this. I will probably try at some stage just not now and I have to stop sorryy
well get better? go for a walk? whatever helps
I work on it daily, moment by moment. I am planning on doing a walk in about an hour just waiting on this rain to pass.
Does anyone know Ladybird, a new browser. It is supposed to be independent of the big tech giants.
I hope they have some resources in time and money, because creating a new engine will be tough.
I have never heard of this project.
Apparently there is enough money available
They have an bunch of sponsors listed on their site including shopify at 100k. They just announced the other day that github’s founder gave them 1mil usd.
As cool as it will be for them to actually make a true competitor to Chromium, Firefox and Safari, I have my doubts. If they can tap into Firefox’s or Chromium’s extensions, they got me, though.