Is DPR - XenForo Transition broken for me only, are others having the same issue?

There was the old Off Topic total post count and Post Off Topic (after the removal of Off Topic and others) total post count, I cannot recall which was the correct number now.

The original DPR Front Page still shows 0 Total Messages.

I remember long ago on the Mac being able to assign text to a key or key combination.

Just asked ChatGPT re: Windows 7 ...

chatgpt.com/share/69162e7e-eb60-8013-9b1e-7ea5818e3f01

it can be done!

Hi,

It was easy on a PC, just program up an 'F' key to do it. On this here Android, no 'F' keys. But I have managed to get the words into the suggested text across the top of the virtual keyboard. So all I need to do is type in the first letter of each word and select the ones I want in order. Clunky by comparison, but it does the job in the end.

It is getting better. This time, I only had to start the first word and select it. The rest popped up in order with no letters needing to be typed.:)

Stan

Amateur Photographer
Professional Electronics Development Engineer

I went through this with a few different AI engines a few months ago, and they pushed the emulated keystroke approach to sending text to an app with AutoHotKey, but it didn't work. Characters got dropped. We inserted a delay between each character, and still characters were occasionally dropped. We switched to loading the clipboard with text, and then pasting it, which cannot lose characters unless the OS or machine crashes you pull the power plug. I am not at a Windows machine now, so I don't have my script template available, but I continued your ChatGPT conversation, and it recommended the key delay method, and then I mentioned that this can be slow with long text strings, and still occasionally drop characters, and that the clipboard approach is what is needed, and it told me how right I was:

Absolutely — you're remembering correctly.
The clipboard-paste method is the only 100% reliable way to insert text in AHK without dropped characters, even on very fast machines.

Here is a clean, minimal AutoHotkey script that:

1) Saves the current clipboard contents

2) Loads "This is my .sig" into the clipboard

3) Pastes it (Ctrl+V)

4) Restores the original clipboard

You can bind it to any hotkey you want — I’ll use Ctrl+Alt+S in this example.

Here's what it generated:

^!s::                         ; Ctrl + Alt + S
ClipSaved := ClipboardAll     ; Save existing clipboard (including images)
Clipboard := "This is my .sig"
ClipWait, 1                   ; Wait for clipboard to update

Send, ^v                      ; Paste at cursor (Ctrl+V)
Sleep, 50                     ; Brief pause to ensure paste completes

Clipboard := ClipSaved        ; Restore the previous clipboard
VarSetCapacity(ClipSaved, 0)  ; Free memory
return

I forgot to include the issue of newline characters, and it is not "\n" in AutoHotKey, but rather:

 "`r`n"

If you have AutoHotKey v2 installed, you also need to include a "requires v1.1 type" of statement at the beginning of the script if you don't want to see a requester that asks you which version it is. v1.1 and v2 are totally incompatible; it's like two different languages, and several months ago, none of the AI engines I tried could write a v2 script to save their lives, even though they promised they could, and announced the "final, working version" several times before admitting that they didn't really know v2.

Well, that doesn't work on my Windows 11 machine, but I should have a working version tomorrow. All I still need to address is multi-line .sigs.

Control-Alt-S was a poor choice by ChatGPT, because many programs use that. Better to use non-alphanumerics, which are less likely to clash with programs.

Once again, AI is more confident than it is capable, and I have not been able to make AutoHotkey v1.1.37 save the existing clipboard, load the .sig into the clipboard, paste it, and then load the old data back into the clipboard (an image or formatted text or spreadsheet cells), as AI promised. It is quite easy, however, to just paste text and have it linger in the clipboard, replacing what was in it:

^![::             ; CTRL+ALT+[

sig =
(

line1
line2
line3

)                                ; multiline .sig text wrapped in newlines

Clipboard := sig                 ; 2. Set the text you want to paste
Send, ^v                         ; Paste the new text
return

The app that Ted was trying (Comfort Keys or something) may be easier to manage than AutoHotkey, if this pasting of a single text is all you want. However, I also have some .ahk scripts that can do things like paste one line from a selected text file, which I have used to paste any line from a list of G25 genetic coordinates of individuals or populations, and you can also disable the infamous CAPS key or require CTRL for it to work. That is why I originally downloaded AutoHotkey; I hate CAPS with a passion; it is totally unnecessary, as anyone typing all CAPS needs to slow down and type with one hand, IMO, and accidentally hitting the key can cause no end of frustration with entire sentences needing to be re-typed. WTH was Doug Kerr thinking? I was once in a forum where Doug participated (Asher Kelman's forum), and started ranting about the CAPS key, not knowing that its inventor was in the forum!

AutoHotkey is available in two versions, the deprecated-but-bug-fixed v1.1.37, and v2.x, and v2.x will NOT run v1.x scripts, like the one above.

In spite of the AI-bash, the AI-suggested app is now working well enough for me, voila.

xpatUSA (Ted Cousins)

I think it is important that people understand that AI is often completely wrong, even with simple math. I have been challenging AI for the months that I have been using it, and I would estimate that 95% of the time that I and AI disagree, the AI usually eventually concedes that I was right, and apologizes to me. Case in point: I was asking AI something about the sensor shift patterns used in modern cameras, and mentioned how I liked Canon's 9-point shift in the R5 because it results in a classic Bayer pattern, and oversamples with an AA filter, making aliasing and color moire nearly impossible. It agreed with me that this simplicity was elegant, and makes demosaicing easy with none of the usual artifacts, but then it claimed that Canon shifted the sensor by increments of plus and minus 1/3px! I corrected it with the increment of plus and minus 2/3px, and explained that 1/3px would result in output pixels where the same color filter was used in contiguous 3x3 tiles of pixels ("quad Bayer is 2x2) which would not increase max color resolution at all, over a non-shifted image, and only slightly suppress color moire. It agreed with me eventually on 2/3px, and then it made a chart comparing shift implementations, and went back to 1/3px. It often does not play by your rules, and forgets what you want. I have told it many times to walk me through something on my computer, ONE step at a time, instead of racing ahead, when its first step doesn't even work. It apologizes, and says it will do one step at a time going forward, and then immediately races ahead with a long flowchart again.

This post is applying adverse spin to the subject of AI. I find the free ChatGPT more than adequate for my purposes and is rarely wrong. Some people seem to enjoy testing AI rather than just seeking information. I decline to counter with good examples from my experience with many topics, it would prove nothing to some here.

You are probably correct about rarely wrong (perhaps the correct description would be not often - rarely is a bit favourable). But I see it from the point of view that if it is going to be the single source of information, it needs to be pretty much foolproof. There will come a time when important decisions are made on the basis of the information presented. I like being given the opportunity to select from a series of sources when I do a browser search on some topic. Gives me the opportunity to apply my own filters to the list - I already know that certain websites will have stretched the truth. When the chat bot bases its answers from info on some of those websites we lose...

Hi,

It is truly broken this morning. Internal Server Error.

Stan

Amateur Photographer
Professional Electronics Development Engineer

It's cloudflare that's having an issue, many sites are not reachable due the problems at cloudfare

Edit: see: www.cloudflarestatus.com/

Cloudflare problems seem a little too regular. What was that about eggs in one basket?

Hi,

I have too few chickens on my farm to use more than a single basket. So I tread carefully. Don't wanna go hungry at breakfast. ;)

There are other sites I visited this morning which use Cloudflare. Ony DPR is having a problem. So I was reading that as DPR was what was casters up. I just checked again. DPR is off, the others are working via Cloudflare. Oh, well.

BTW, I wonder why a Cloud would have a Flare? The Sun, now, that's a different story. And speaking of Mr Sun, he's been having his Flare troubles lately. High Frequency radio communications are mafungied up for over a week now. Satellite communications also being disrupted all over the sky. Maybe that's part of it.we'll.

Edit:

My main data comm is via Starlink. That pops thru Ashburn, VA as I am here in the Raleigh, NC region. So I used my backup data comm which is AT&T Wireless. That pops thru Atlanta, GA via fiber lines. Also No Go for DPR yet ok for other Cloudflare sites. I suspect the issue is on the same long(ish) haul to the West Coast from the East Coast. Those sites I tried which work are all East Coast US and Canada sites.

I am not going to worry about it further. I have some other comm stuff to attend to which isn't internet.

Stan

Amateur Photographer
Professional Electronics Development Engineer

Cloudflare appears to be unstable. It's currently working but not consistently, I can type here, in DPRevived. Twitter for example, appears to be having problems,

Cloudfare latest update:

Yes, I got my first "Cloudflare" errors today, for many minutes at a time, locked out from DPR. The page said the error was in "Newark" (NJ?).

That makes sense. Some websites worked when DPR didn't, earlier today, and X failed on me too, at about the same time.

Hi,

I see where it is back now. I can't say as I missed anything. But then I only eyeball four forums these days. At breakfast time is a good time to check, and that is when things were being screwy.

Stan

Amateur Photographer
Professional Electronics Development Engineer

I was thinking, if Gear Patrol were going to revamp the site but DPR had some unresolved issues, they would fix those unresolved issues but they haven’t.

There are two of my name and it can go up to a Dozen identical names or more.

I did find some long departed DPR Members. who appear to have the issues I faced. There is a problem with their new profile, it cannot be read. I guess they're gone for good. "This user's profile is not available."