Best thing I've done with @twitter lately: thrash up a shell script that curl's images of text through tesseract OCR from twittering-mode.
Sounds very cool as a reader, but in bulk this also undermines the intent of users who tweeted images so as not to be searchable.
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that's an interesting point, but my thing is nothing so sophisticated - just a curl → awk → tesseract → fmt → less shell alias.
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Right. But someone will do (or already is doing) the same with output >> massive database.
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I definitely operate under the assumption that it's already happening. (Didn't occur to me to think otherwise. Thanks for that.)
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there really is an expectation-of-privacy thing there, though? I don't think you're wrong, I've just never seen that stated.
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Not saying you shouldn't, just that you're exposing a gap between user's privacy expectations and reality of adversary capability.
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yeah, fair ball.
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