GitHub was founded in 2008 so nearly half its life it has been owned my MS. Yeah, “recent” doesn’t feel like a good fit here.

I thought they bought GitHub ages ago?

Nice! I’ll update my container and give it a go.

Hmmm, an RPi with a camera might well work. The problem there is more the amount of work I’d need to do - I haven’t got that kind of time right now.

An honest answer that it’s not currently easily doable is in and of itself useful.

This is a “nice to have”. I figured I’d ask preemptively so that I didn’t go down a blind alley. Thanks!

I would be buying. The cam I borrowed wouldn’t fit the setup I want, I just mentioned it because I want that functionality but without the hassle of pulling the SD card.

So far it doesn’t sound like what I want exists, unfortunately.

That essentially boils down to “build your own solution”, which under my current circumstances amounts to “don’t do it”. Not that I lack the skill or will but the spare time and energy I have is used on my baby daughter. I can’t justify rabbit holing on something like this.

It’s why I created this thread - to see if there’s a software and hardware combo that solves this with minimal additional work.

WiFi would be easily sufficient. We’re talking a distance of 10m from my router, tops.

I borrowed a camera - it’s not the one I would be using for this.

That’s why I’m asking. I haven’t bought anything yet and don’t want to get the wrong thing.

That would be possible, yep.

An interesting way to try to spin disposable spaghetti code as a positive.

Best use of the IP in decades. I don’t hate the other stuff but Andor knocked my socks off.

If it can only handle tasks I can do myself it’s not very useful.

My experience has been that more complex cases it simply cannot manage. It’ll swear blind that it’s got it right and the result will be super specific to the example provided. If I knew what the strings would be exactly, in advance, I wouldn’t be writing regex 😂

Shall we ask it to write functional regex too while we’re at it?

Not once ever.

There’s ISS rule 34 content, after all.

I meant more the “coffee makes you shit” thing. I’ve not encountered the idea across the pond.

Is this actually a thing? I’ve only ever heard it from people in the US.

Despite all the awfulness, it can be kinda nice to be amongst a lot of humans celebrating something.

I mean, I’m not doing it, but it’s not all bad.