Tuesday, July 05
Daily News Stuff 5 July 2022
- Interest Rate Printer Go Brrr Edition
Top Story
- Me: Interest rates are at historic lows, screw finding a new place to rent, I'm going to buy a house.
Reserve Bank of Australia: Increases interest rates three times in three months. (Domain)
Thanks guys. Though at least our reserve bank is doing something, and we don't have anyone down here blaming inflation on the Great Patriotic War.
On the eleventh hand, my mortgage payments have gone up 13.5% and I haven't finished moving yet.
- Private information - including police records - on a billion people has reportedly been stolen and is up for sale for 10 Bitcoin. (Nikkei Asia)
In a novel twist, the data has been stolen from China.
Reportedly hackers exfiltrated the Shanghai National Police database. There's no such thing as the Shanghai National Police, but that doesn't mean there isn't such a database, and reports say at least some of the data checks out.
Tech News
- Anyone know of a good solution for scanning large physical media like LP cover art? A3 scanners aren't too expensive but are just slightly too small.
- A Xiaomi 12S Ultra and a very steady hand might do in a pinch. (Engadget)
It has a 50MP Leica camera with a 1" Sony CMOS sensor.
If you're thinking to yourself that a 1" sensor is far too large to fit and the camera bump would take up the entire back of the phone the answer is basically yeah it does. (Xiaomi)
- Xiaomi also has a couple of new laptops with high-resolution OLED screens and the four essential keys. (VideoCardz)
They max out at 16GB of RAM so they're not really aimed at me, but they do look pretty.
- You can no longer see permissions required by an app in Google's Play store. (BlueSpace)
You can still see them, but only after you have downloaded and installed the app, which is a bit too late if you wanted to check if the app was safe to install in the first place.
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Maybe one of those book-scanning setups? Probably even one of the universities near you has one that you could just use.
Posted by: normal at Tuesday, July 05 2022 11:46 PM (LADmw)
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Also, yeah, I would parse that as the Police Database, National in scope, that is run by the CCP goons in Shanghai.
Posted by: normal at Tuesday, July 05 2022 11:47 PM (LADmw)
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If you have any sort of DSLR, the words you're looking for are "flat-field lens". With enough spare mumbly-pixels you can correct most of the corner distortion in software, but a good lens will make it a lot easier. Macro lenses are usually pretty good, and then you just need a tripod, a level, and a pair of cheap lights mounted at 45-degree angles. If you have a lot of them to do, you might be able to find a used copy stand with built-in lights.
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Posted by: J Greely at Tuesday, July 05 2022 11:59 PM (oJgNG)
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I'd also recommend a document scanner. CZUR has a few on Indiegogo that cost from $200 to $400 USD and have 12-24 megapixel resolution. I have their earlier 5 megapixel unit, and it works well enough for my purposes. Their software will do things including OCR and adjusting for curvature in the pages when scanned. There should be no problem with dealing with album covers.
Posted by: wheels at Wednesday, July 06 2022 01:35 AM (CtNcn)
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Variable rate interest mortgage? When rates were at historic lows? That's a big oops.
The best "simple DIY" solution on scanning large media is probably a fixture to hold a good camera flat at a nice distance, another fixture to hold the media square, and the ability to move one or the other on the x/y axis to take multiple shots and stitch them in software.
The best "simple DIY" solution on scanning large media is probably a fixture to hold a good camera flat at a nice distance, another fixture to hold the media square, and the ability to move one or the other on the x/y axis to take multiple shots and stitch them in software.
Posted by: David Eastman at Wednesday, July 06 2022 10:24 AM (D6Mju)
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The 30 year fixed mortgage is mainly an American thing. A variable rate loan may have been the only reasonable option. Given that moving was not optional, that would be more of an oof than an oops.
Posted by: benzeen at Wednesday, July 06 2022 10:40 AM (H7VDR)
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Yeah, 30 year fixed rate mortgages are something that exist only in America.
My variable rate loan started out at 2.65%, now 3.15%. The best 10-year fixed rate loan I can find is 7.45%.
My variable rate loan started out at 2.65%, now 3.15%. The best 10-year fixed rate loan I can find is 7.45%.
Posted by: Pixy Misa at Wednesday, July 06 2022 10:59 AM (PiXy!)
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