Is there anyone here who has experience scanning books, manga, magazines, etc? How do you do it? What's your setup like? I have a simple flatbed scanner but using that would be way too tedious... So I was looking at other types of scanners... Any recommendations for ones that are fast and reliable?
#PhysicalMedia #Digitization #Archiving #Books #Manga #Magazines #Scanning #Scanners #AskFedi
@SonofaGeorge @ZenHeathen @northernlights @CStamp @pinhman @gemelliz PS: Another reason not to use #ballot #scanners is the massive cost of transporting them to the many fly-in communities we have in Canada. And then bringing them back. As you always need a backup, that means at least two machines per community. Wasteful.
#election2025 #Canada
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Keep in mind: federal #elections are simple but huge. 1 choice per #ballot. Easy & quick to count. But over 340 parallel elections. Candidate representatives & individual voters can watch the count. An open process.
Municipal elections usually have many choices per ballot. Those are complex, but small elections. Fewer scanners you may rent, fewer staff to train, but lots of choices to count.
#scanners don't scale well.
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@SonofaGeorge @ZenHeathen @northernlights @CStamp @pinhman @gemelliz #Ballot #scanners are expensive. You'd have to buy tens of thousands of them, ship them, train staff how to use, provide redundant electricity, handle the data storage afterwards (or provide and secure data connections), ship them back to warehouses where they would then sit for years, rinse repeat. All the while protecting them against tampering both in the field, during transport, during storage.
An insane undertaking.
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@SonofaGeorge @ZenHeathen @northernlights @CStamp @pinhman @gemelliz Doug, the feds have noticed #ballot scanners. They are not good.
They are s l o w. I've worked an election (CRD, BC) where voters had to go to the machine, ballot in hand. That created the longest lineup in any election I have ever seen. After making their choice, Viet had to wait in line over 90 minutes. There were several scanners, but they are finnicky. Some voters had used their own pens - doesn't work.
1/x on #scanners
We were yakking about this encryption issue at a recent ham radio club outing.
Mavens pointed out that managing encryption adds expense.
Encryption also complicates inter-agency communications, an improvement of which was a goal of post-9/11 and post-bridge-collapse radio system overhauls.
"It’s not clear what, if any, recent examples exist of disruptions to local law enforcement operations as a result of maintaining uninterrupted 911 radio traffic."
https://www.startribune.com/minneapolis-police-to-encrypt-911-radio-traffic-barring-public-from-monitoring-emergency-dispatches/601330757
Scanners (1981) (4K Ultra HD, Steelbook, Import) Available April 11
#horror – #horrormovies – #Scanners – #SecondSight – After a man with extraordinary—and frighteningly destructive—telepathic abilities is nabbed by agents from a mysterious rogue corporation, he discovers he is far from the only possessor of such strange powers, and that some of the other “scanners” have their minds set on world domina…
#horror #ad #Releases #Scanners
https://horrornerdonline.com/2025/04/scanners-1981-4k-ultra-hd-steelbook-import-available-april-11/
Scanners / The Brood Second Sight WARNING — contains spoilers for #Scanners, The Brood and also (oddly enough) Nightbreed. My first introduction to the work of #DavidCronenberg may not have been ideal, but it was probably fitting. It was through that classic promo shot of a dude with his head exploding from Scanners, in the pages of a much-thumbed copy of (I think) Starlog which got breathlessly passed round my classroom at school before event… #filmreview https://freq.org.uk/reviews/scanners-the-brood/
#happybirthday #DavidCronenberg #director #screenwriter #actor #Kovich #StarTrekDiscovery #thefly #deadringers #existenz #crash #MButterfly #NakedLunch #TheDeadZone #Videodrome #Scanners #AHistoryofViolence #ADangerousMethod #Cosmopolis #mapsofthestars #crimesofthefuture #startrek58 @trekcore
Made a #blog post on how I got my #Brother mobile scanner working on #Slackware:
@QasimRashid Anybody out there know what frequencies ICE uses in the field? #scanners #radio
David Cronenberg’s Scanners gets a Dual Limited Edition release from Second Sight Films. Details here https://bit.ly/4jlo1hK
🧠💥 Scanners (1981) delivers psychic warfare like never before! Cronenberg's cult classic is a tense ride full of corporate conspiracies and explosive (literally) showdowns. Have you experienced this iconic horror/sci-fi gem? 💥
@MsDropbear42 damn...
In terms of #printers and #scanners, I'd recommend looking at #Xerox #WorkCentre multifunction units.
Granted, #UseLonger is better...
Started Scanners today as I realized recently I haven't seen it-- one of the few (David, now that his kids make flicks) Cronenberg things I haven't seen. So good. Only about a third or a fourth of the way through, psyched to finish. That head exploding scene, and Michael Ironside, too. Wild stuff
#movies #films #film #Scanners #Cronenberg #horror #BodyHorror #80sMovies #1980s
