Could tools that detect AI (like this one https://gptzero.substack.com/) be used as it consumes data and discard anything that gets flagged? I guess probably a cat and mouse game as more models get built though.
I haven't done the touchscreen side of it, but have been thinking about switching to touch screen, currently my setup is just a display for infomation.
For software I'm using magic-mirror, and then use that to link into my calendar, Home-assistant, weather etc. There are some input modules that can be added, so that might enable some touch-features.
I'm just renting right now, so I just have the Pi mounted in a case by the plug with some of those 3M picture frame strips and run the HDMI to the monitor (also mounted with picture frame strips) hidden in a track, If I owned, I'd bring the plug up behind the monitor, and flush the PI in wall and then wrap the monitor around a frame or something.
I was really lucky that our Computer Teacher/IT guy (this was back in the early 2000s) was really cool and allowed us a bit of leeway to break things. After the first time we got caught (there was three of us) he sat down with us, and essentially gave us some rules of engagement, anything we got around, or defeated we had to write up a short report and turn it into him, explaining what we were able to accomplish, the level of access we were able to get and the steps to reproduce. So we did so, and he actually gave us class credits for it. (Our school system had some "special projects" class credits that could be earned to give students and teachers some leeway on allowing students to learn things that weren't part of the curriculum)
We managed to figure out how to override our typing program to give certificates saying we typed 200wpm at 100% accuracy. By passed the internet filter to access gmail (back in it's early days, we held onto that ability for a while) and a few other things I forget about now. He was one of my favorite teachers.
> he sat down with us, and essentially gave us some rules of engagement, anything we got around, or defeated we had to write up a short report and turn it into him
This is really wholesome. Like that guy. Be like that guy.
I thought I remember hearing like 4 or 5 years ago that MS was planning on replacing VBA with Python Support in Office apps. But I can't find anything to back that up, so maybe I just had a really wishful dream.
They might have some involvement in python libraries or tooling to interact with excel files from python apps, but the default programming support within excel is still VBA. They did add a javascript API, but getting that up and running is a job geared more for a dev than a data analyst.
What I think they should do is not just make a python API, but replace VBA with it, and expose it to end users where VBA is currently exposed. Python should be the language of macros and user defined functions.
I tried to find info on how to set that up a while ago, but found nothing. The Microsoft pages gave me the impression it only works for the web version. Akso I'm on MacOS - couldn't find any mention of that either.
