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AI : "artificial intelligence is what computers can't do   (Dreyfus, 1965)"

some interesting articles and links, imho .... :-)
 AI  assisting medicine

Intel's AI can catch deepfake videos, they claim...

chatGPT :  making sure the AI sounds convincing does not make it intelligent...  : the register article 

videograbber  
screengrabbing for linux
remconnect
 connects you from a GUI to linux / windows / unix systems with your favourite program
autoscale your screen(s)
 tries to keep your regular, HD and eDPI screen combinations readable i.e. usable
no scanner / no printer driver....  now what... ?
 commercial printer app & driver for linux.
build your own packages for all kinds of linuxes / cpu architectures (x86, ppc,ppc64,arm, <...>)
 (debian, rhel, fedora,suse,opensuse,mandriva,archlinux, ubuntu....etc )		 open build service
remconnect :

a simple GUI program to connect from your linux desktop to systems by ssh, vnc / realvnc  or rdp (windows)

Why I made this ?
- save on typing the same thing over and over again
- it does *not* freeze or kill your sessions if it is closed or killed.....

License is GPLv3 or later, at your choice.

to compile / change you need a Lazarus pascal installation (v1.8 or later), a free GUI IDE for pascal / mostly compatible with Delphi   :

Lazarus is included with most distributions, https://www.lazarus-ide.org/

This source might compile/link on Lazarus for Windows, but it will  NOT work, since it relies on linux capabilities.

What it does:
You can start vncviewer, rvnc, rdesktop or a terminal with ssh to a host you selected.
the host list can be saved, thus saving you from having to type the commands over and over again.
the host list can be followed by any parameters that make sense.

YOU choose which command with which host entry is used. So, e.g. using vncviewer with a ssh host style definition is NOT going to work.

Remconnect works under the user's home directory.
The directory $HOME/.remconnect is automatically created. (assuming you have r/w rights there)

In it you will find a hosts file. It is created by you, when you click "Save host list"
there is also a executable script, rcshscript.
It is a simple script, that gets the commandline from remconnect what to do when you click "Connect";
it is automatically recreated, if you delete it.

that's all.

the picture is (c) me, taken in 1974 during a speedboat race in Amsterdam on the Amstel river with a Zenith SLR with 135 mm lens.
source

binary
Videograbber for linux

note: it requires v4l2 tools and ffmpeg to be installed / alsa and pulse for audio

see it in action below :


 record video + audio from screen, webcam, video capture card :
any resolution that your device supports.

it is a GUI that controls parameters for and starts ffmpeg ( and stops it  )

it also allows to control your webcam (if v4l2 standard compatible, almost every webcam )

specifically, it controls OBSbot tiny 4K better than obs  / webcamoid. The reason why  I build this software ....  no linux tools from the makers.

NOTE: webcams are slow devices. do not try to set / change many parameters at the same time e.g. repeatedly setting defaults or loading a saved setting. Errors will occur, the devices are simply to slow.

attn: it reads the capabilities of your cam. in the screenshot, the cam has pan, tilt and zoom capabilities. any capabilities your cam does not have, will not appear if you select it in the dropdown..
e.g. : if your cam does not have hue settable, it will disappear. and reappear if you plug in a cam and select it, that does have it..

You can set the quality (frames/sec, compression, format ) and output location.  Command line is displayed, for use in scripts etc.
Click on picture for binary download. should work on most newer linuxes

It is a single linux executable, put it in your path ( ~/bin or /usr/local/bin )

Build it yourself : GPL v3 license. please honor that.

lazarus projekt files  (object pascal / free pascal source code !! )

Lazarus IDE : install with  your local package manager (apt, yum, zypper )
or get it here: Lazarus

I removed the embedded mplayer plugin ....it is no longer supported, will not compile/build....
you can click on play the capture, that uses ffplay for watching the recording video.
the livestream webcam/ capturecard  monitoring launches ffplay as well

this project is work in progress
it might be completely useless for your needs. enjoy.

videograbber binary
Autoscale  script is below, copy and paste

enhanced DPI (eDPI) screens, some ultra books have them. (apple, asus, dell, etc )
2500x1500 or even more... ( 4K screens ? )

Problem: 96 DPI (dots per inch) does not work on these. everything becomes so small, it's unusable.

What *should* work is to set / force the DPI to 220 (KDE: system => fonts ) or such. yes, but......  with Linux, quite a few apps do not scale well ( no fonts for 200+ dpi , hardcoded fonts, etc )
or even worse, they do scale the menu items, but not part of toolbars, dialogs, etc.

the only solution is then to use (in kde system settings: fonts -> force  )

96dpi and scale the the display with xrandr with a factor of 0.6 or 0.5
what happens is that then the framebuffer / the physical bitmap becomes 1600x900 or so, and is projected on the 2550x1440 (or similar)

this also works quite well with a mix of HD (1920x1080) large screens ( 21" and up ) in combination with enhanced DPI screens.
It assumes that IF you have two screens, your laptop is under the 2nd screen, like so:


                 _________________
                |                 |
                |                 |
                | HDMI-1          |
                | 1920x1080       |
                |_________________|
                 __________
                | eDPI-1   |
                |2550x1440 |
                |__________|
beware, that xrandr / Xorg  has Y-coordinates upside down:  0,0 is at the top left corner.  E.g, 0,1080 is the BOTTOM corner of your HD screen.
consequently, the top left corner of the laptop is then at 0,1080. ( = not at 0,-1080....)

Now, if you scale your eDPI (the high pixel one, 2550x1440 or so)  to 96 DPI and you then scale your
output (eDPI-1, for example) to 0.6 everything is fine.
but, if you then plug in an extra screen like a 24 inch 1920x1080 (HD format) this output will ALSO be scaled to 0.6
effectively becoming a 1200x800 screen on a way too big physical screen.
you then need to reset your eDPI screen AND your HD second screen with xrandr. tedious , commandline work.

below a script that sort of works ( for me....) I use it with a KDE shortcut, of course you can run this from a konsole window..
check your screen name(s) and adjust for your own use.
if using KDE, sometimes the launch panel does not adjust itself to the new screen size.
if that happens, run this:  ( or put it under a custom keyboard shortcut in KDE )
I do not know the cmd for gnome, / if gnome has the same quirk.....
This does NOT kill your running apps, it only resets the KDE panel. the window manager is separate from this.
#!/bin/bash
# reset plasmashell
killall plasmashell
kstart plasmashell

#!/bin/bash
# autoscale your screen or screens on linux
# scale 1 or 2 screens and position them at 0,0
# adjust screennames (here eDP-? and HDMI-? ) to your setup ( run "xrandr" from a console window to find out your screen name)
#

echo $0 ran at `date` >> /tmp/autoscale.log                                                                            
edp1=0                                                                                                                 
edp2=0                                                                                                                 
hdmi1=0                                                                                                                
hdmi2=0                                                                                                                
                                                                                                                       
moncount=`xrandr|grep -w connected |wc -l`                                                                             
edp1=`xrandr|grep -w connected |grep  -c -w eDP-1`                                                                     
edp2=`xrandr|grep -w connected |grep  -c -w DP-1`                                                                      
                                                                                                                       
hdmi1=`xrandr|grep -w connected |grep  -c -w HDMI-1`                                                                   
hdmi2=`xrandr|grep -w connected |grep  -c -w HDMI-2`                                                                   
                                                                                                                       
                                                                                                                       
                                                                                                                       
[ $hdmi1 -gt 0 ] && mon2="HDMI-1"                                                                                      
[ $hdmi2 -gt 0 ] && mon2="HDMI-2"
[ $edp2 -gt 0 ] && mon2="DP-1"
[ $edp1 -gt 0 ] && mon1="eDP-1"


echo "HDMI-x, DP-1, eDP-1. scaling all to 1.0 and eDP-1 to 0.6 "
[ $hdmi1 -gt 0 ] && xrandr --output HDMI-1 --scale 1.0x1.0
[ $hdmi2 -gt 0 ] && xrandr --output HDMI-2 --scale 1.0x1.0
[ $edp1 -gt 0 ] && xrandr --output eDP-1 --scale 0.6x0.6
[ $edp2 -gt 0 ] && xrandr --output DP-1 --scale 1.0x1.0

if [ $moncount -gt 1 ]
then
echo find height other mon.
set `xrandr |grep -w connected |grep -w $mon2| sed 's/[x,+]/ /g'`
mwid=$3
mhig=$4
echo cmd2exec = xrandr --output $mon1 --pos 0x$mhig >> /tmp/autoscale.log
xrandr --output $mon1 --pos 0x$mhig
xrandr --output $mon2 --pos 0x0
fi

# [ $edp1 -gt 0 ] && xrandr --output eDP-1 --pos 0x1080
# [ $edp2 -gt 0 ] && xrandr --output DP-1 --pos 0x1080

cat <<EOF

eDP-1 is always below other scrn = height of other screen

 ___________
|                       |
|                       |
| ___________|
 _________
|                  |
|                  |
|_________|


hence, if moncount -gt 1
then
xrandr --output eDP-1 --pos 0x<height of other mon>

EOF
Open Build service: here you can find packages for all linux distro's (rpm based or deb based)
and even build your own packages (debian, rhel, fedora,suse,opensuse,mandriva,archlinux, ubuntu....)
 / distro..... go here: OBS, the openSuSE build server
Issue: A linux system cannot mount a NFS share from AIX:

use vers=3 option

mount -o vers=3 <AIX-servername:/mountname>  </mountpoint>
Finally found a Android multimedia upnp/dlna client that works seamless with at least PMS (PS3 media server) and Twonky (e.g. Western Digital Live book NAS/multimedia server has Twonky):
- video, music AND pictures....... 

it is called BubbleUpnp  

link on Google play
Scanning with your canon multifunction printer/scanner : this works for MG53xx and perhaps others.....
 scangearmp
Printing with you canon multifunction MG series printer: I didnt try these, but it's Canon originals.....
 download MG  drivers
Printing on Linux.... can be a hassle.  If CUPS does not have a driver for your printer, you might consider spend some money on stuff that works:  try this Turboprint for linux.
Comes in tar, rpm (suse/fedora etc) , and debian (ubuntu, debian etc) packages

It detected my canon TS 55xx (at that time a  new model, no CUPS driver....) on the wifi network and had me up and running in less than 5 minutes.
Trial time is a month, full function.

 

 ZEDOnet


PLUG is a linux application which does (basically) what Fender's FUSE does on windows / Mac. It
looks a lot less fancy, though, but does not try to eat all your cpu.......
It manages the profiles of your Fender guitar amplifier, model Mustang I/II/III/IV/V


This one is compiled on  openSuSE 15 should also work on a reasonably recent Ubuntu/Fedora etc....
You do not need this software for recording directly from your Fender amplifier's USB connection:
to do that,  just plug in the USB cable, configure the new USB sound device and you are set to go.
 PLUG for linux repository

PLUG binary