Using Bogrep, I could only find https://tenderowl.com/work/frog/ in my bookmarks which is a bit related, but doesn't seem to be what you're looking for.
bogrep + everything (windows filesystem search) + the screenshot "service" - i'm about 80% sure it was a service and not self-hosted - would completely obviate the need to remember anything ever again! It would also eliminate the hassle of firefox or chrome "forgetting" my bookmarks every few years in an apparently random fashion.
I've been having HN "dropbox" moments about this... how hard can it be? I've hacked together OCR to use my phone to control my icom ic-7100 - the person who makes/sells the bluetooth serial ports compatible with icom Ci-V was out during the pandemic, and before, when i needed one, so i wired a raspberry pi to the Ci-V port, enabled BT file transfers on the pi, and using repeaterbook on the phone with GPS i could find the info page for a nearby repeater, do the 2 finger screenshot, hit share, and the pi would OCR it and get the frequency and offset. I never bothered to extract the PL tone frequency, because my radio can find that quickly on an active repeater.
So there's a workflow, and i have spare machines to do the OCR and inserting into solr (or whatever).
Interesting setup! Personally, I would be cautious to use such a screenshot service though. Even if self-hosted, it could screenshot credentials, environment files, and my password manager for example, which would then be stored in plaintext somewhere?
So I would rather prefer to "keep control" by using a search utility when needed instead of scanning the background permanently.
genewitch|2 years ago
bogrep + everything (windows filesystem search) + the screenshot "service" - i'm about 80% sure it was a service and not self-hosted - would completely obviate the need to remember anything ever again! It would also eliminate the hassle of firefox or chrome "forgetting" my bookmarks every few years in an apparently random fashion.
I've been having HN "dropbox" moments about this... how hard can it be? I've hacked together OCR to use my phone to control my icom ic-7100 - the person who makes/sells the bluetooth serial ports compatible with icom Ci-V was out during the pandemic, and before, when i needed one, so i wired a raspberry pi to the Ci-V port, enabled BT file transfers on the pi, and using repeaterbook on the phone with GPS i could find the info page for a nearby repeater, do the 2 finger screenshot, hit share, and the pi would OCR it and get the frequency and offset. I never bothered to extract the PL tone frequency, because my radio can find that quickly on an active repeater.
So there's a workflow, and i have spare machines to do the OCR and inserting into solr (or whatever).
quambene|2 years ago
So I would rather prefer to "keep control" by using a search utility when needed instead of scanning the background permanently.