Hey, I have a script for updating my background too! I'm not archiving the old images though, but I've thought about it to make some cool animations
replyHah originally making an animation was my plan, but as so often happens it fell on the backburner and then I ended up with a massive archive. I just deleted it once I realized that A) Better archives exist elsewhere and B) I wasn't going to do anything with it.
replyI still have the script somewhere. I should throw an LLM at it and see if I can't sand off a few rough edges.
It would be great if an LLM could be trained to generate interpolated images between the 10m intervals of the full disk geocolor product. The animations would be fantastic.
replyI've got about 2.5 years worth of that imagery if someone knows a good way to do this on a budget.
I doubt you need an LLM for that, a diffusion model or perhaps even a deep CNN could probably do a passable job. You could train it by taking consecutive triplets of images [A, B, C] and providing [A, C] as inputs with B as the expected output.
replyThere's an app that updates the desktop https://downlinkapp.com/
replymake torrent of it
replyMaybe if the UX was nicer, you wouldn't need to write scrapers and parsers and could just use their site.
replyWe don't need a bloated React framework to show a plaintext file with the fuel tank levels. It's NOAA, not Microsoft.
reply> We don't need a bloated React framework
replyCould have stopped there for 99% of websites
They're scraping to automatically update the wallpaper on their desktop. That's not something a website can do, even with fantastic UX.
reply"That's not something a website can do, even with fantastic UX."
replyActually, I used to have a live-updating website AS MY BACKGROUND. Windows 98 and Me, website used AJAX and Comet to make it happen.
You used to be able to set websites as your desktop background.
I'm sure that was 100% secure, too. /s (I did the same thing back then.)
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