Finally got around to uploading to flickr

Our upload speed is slow - 1mb max. So, it's very easy for things that require any effort get paused. I finally uploaded the pictures from my iphone.

I was originally planning on doing it in a data centre because it had already been uploaded to apple, but I wasn't getting it done. Since perfection is the enemy of good, I decided to just get it done and upload it over many, many days in small ~ 200 pictures batches. 3809 photos. The now native file format is HEIC which flickr doesn't like. I have not even thought about the videos.

My steps were roughly

1. Download the files to my computer
2. Install image magic and run
   

         magick mogrify -monitor -format jpg *.HEIC
       

3. Move the files into groups in the subfolders
4. Upload them
5. Now to delete the generated jpg files since we don't need them with the below command

  find . -type f -name "*.HEIC" | cut -f-2 -d'.' | awk '{print $1".jpg"}' | xargs rm --

I would like to solve this by just having faster internet. Hopefully our non-profit ISP will soon have something faster than just slower DSL in our area.

A Simulated Ancestor

Right now there is ways to use different photos of someone to build up a 3D model of them. There's a way to simulate someone's voice with as little as a 5 second clip of their voice. I'm sure that there will be a rough way to figure out what someone will reply with going through their writing or other social media interactions.

So, short story I think that the data we are leaving behind now will be able to be turned into some kind of digital shadow of the person that we once were. Think about that for a second. Our great, great, great grandchildren might be able to ask simulations of us questions. The knowledge could be augmented with news and current events. It could be like talking to a ghost. Maybe that will be possible by in the next 40 years. Of course like most things digital, it will depend on the quality of the data available. If we don't leave digital footprints and writings, people won't be able to build any kind of digital golem.

I find this idea interesting. I'm just wondering if this will be too creepy and some kind of uncanny valley.

We will see. I think that I should write more. Maybe then I'll finally be what people already see me to be: "I thought that you looked like computer".

Eclipse and github personal access tokens

When I update eclipse or delete it or something, it gets into a state of being unable to save to secure storage. When I push to github it won't save the personal access token so I have to regenerate it. Next time I restart eclipse I have to generate it again.

Dear future Jim, the solution today was found in stackoverflow:
In eclipse,

Preferences > General > Security > Secure Storage > Contents

and delete either everything, or at least the part for github.