Me too, I want it but don't really have a use for it 😛

This is so good. I love it.

A dyslexic's worst nightmare. I love a project that just abuses the hell out of a tech (assuming it's being done for giggles and will not actually be used).

I don't know your age, but this brings back some very strong DOS and Windows 3.1 memories for me. I loved that operating system. I'm glad that I use a Linux distribution and Firefox now, but I will always have nostalgia for that era and what I could make with MSPaint.

Most AI systems work by reading the pixels of an image up close.

Most work by reading Unicode code points, which are a superset of ASCII, because they mostly encounter digital text.

Man, I adore the font they use for this piece. Makes me miss how text was rendered in 2006 on Windows XP machines with low res monitors, when applying anti aliasing to text was rarer.

Looks like they link to the relevant site in the bottom.

Agreed. ]':

Wow, this person kinda sucks?

Failure to build is abhorrent to me. Much of the anger on the planet right now is from humans who aren’t building, believing they are owed a free lunch because they showed up, or they know better, or some other poorly informed worldview they acquired without effort, without curiosity… just because they exist in their particular circumstances. Writing is how I build. That’s why I write.

You will never do 150% of a thing if you do not have a version of these motivations. 15% effort means you have not found your reasons yet.

The LinkedIn level cringe and that they admit they spend all their time talking to AI is... making them pretty hard to take seriously.

Language Log is the best

No one does.

Apparently Pifed blocks images with certain text in it lol

Just looking at the happy human/sorry robot image, it doesn't work as well if the image is large (at least for me), the outline of the decoy message starts to take visual priority over the real message especially if you don't know what it is. With no additional context, I definitely read sorry robot on first glance with the image at phone's width and didn't realise that's not the actual message until I read the description. Seems to work when the letters are smaller though.

I feel like this can be easily cracked if you downscale it down to only a few pixels per letter. Then the decoy letters get filtered out and the human letters lose their blur

It might be useful in some countries where the prevalent unencrypted messaging app is preventively scanning every single image before actually delivering it to the recipient, and silently dropping it if some forbidden keywords are found

Story checks out in Gemini

Gemini says:

The text in the image reads:

TAJS GBNFBNCB JS

WKJIYBN JN BBCDY FONT

…but man does it hurt my eyes to read

Wait, do people think robots use OCR to spy on them? They have access to the actual unicode symbols. They know that an A is an A regardless if it's displayed as Arial, Times New Roman or Wing Dings. Is there a subculture somewhere that people only communicate through text as images?

I know this has good intentions but this is pretty much an accessibility nightmare

This sounds awful for accessibility tools such as screen readers.

That's cool. I don't have much use for QR codes, but it's at least a neat toy.

They would never, ever give the price to someone who appeals to the general population. Either you are part of the ivory tower, or you don't have a chance.

Heaven forbid an author normal people like to read!

I'm not a smart person: can you elaborate on what you mean?

That tells a lot about the lacking quality of the selection process for the price. Much more than about the novels.

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Handed to us? I hecking drew plenty of custom emojis, thankyouverymuch! :3

-- Frost