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marcol1n0on A search engine for searching books in the Z-Library index on the IPFS network

I got an error when visiting zlib.zu1k.com/.

Error code: 1020

Ray ID: 781a36f1b9b0babd

Country: IT

I got an error when visiting zlib.zu1k.com:

Error code: 1020 Ray ID: 781a37c3aeacbae1 Country: IT Data center: mxp03 IP: 31.157.83.62 Timestamp: 2022-12-30 10:51:01 UTC

marcol1n0on Ask HN: What are the things that you have automated in your personal life?

It did never took any maintenance, apart from a password change for the police site... I am quite proud of this project, it's one of the most successful of mine... :-)

marcol1n0on Ask HN: What are the things that you have automated in your personal life?

My mum did run a B&B, in Italy, on the sea.

Me and my sister do live in different cities. She was quite old, but did not want any help from strangers. She did refuse to use a computer keyboard, since she hated informatization, and her sight was short.

So I did automate a system for her to scan the guests documents, detect the data required by local police for registration via OCR, fill up the form to send those data, and update the web site availability database table. The computer, when powered up, did only show instructions in big text, high contrast instructions, which where repeated by TTS (essentially "please feed the documents in the scanner", "please remove the documents from the scanner").

At the end she got used to using it, and she was quite proud being able to be so independent, since the last days of her lovely life.