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The key could be a one-time pad for future-proofing.
+1 for this! Some considerations I thought of: 1. smaller keyboards don't easily have access to upper octaves. 2. User might frequently change the transpose on their keyboard.

Could there be a Create Bookmark Now button in the app as a fallback?

GPS location, depth, exposure settings, focus distance could be incorporated into the signed data. Also if the image is high enough resolution you could pick out individual pixels/subpixels in the screen.
Re:Balloon framing is worse-is-better (2021) on Wednesday December 14, 2022 @02:07AM (#33980853)
Cool! Do you have any links for this? So far I found this video series: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x_jmNLNnqSM&list=PLSab5V2CnI...
Could this be used by colorblind people to remap hues? Like for red apples on a green tree, you could remap red to orange.
Encoders are great for this too. Music hardware often uses mappable encoders with LED rings to indicate the current value, and/or with the screen showing what the encoder is controlling.

https://www.ableton.com/en/products/controllers/apc40mkii/tr...

https://www.native-instruments.com/en/products/komplete/keyb...

Re:1 TW of solar to be deployed annually by 2030 on Wednesday May 18, 2022 @09:21PM (#31429614)
Here’s another interesting one, storing energy in heated metal, and later converting the emitted light back to electricity using specialized PV cells: https://youtu.be/Gn7pfYKB7DA
Re:16-inch MacBook Pro on Wednesday November 13, 2019 @10:55AM (#21525501)
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Re:Touch-typing feels good but isn’t for me on Tuesday April 16, 2019 @11:54AM (#19674725)
One option if you're on a laptop, is to use a Dremel to remove the labels from each key.
It works for any language, though we haven't localized the UI yet. Here's a recent conversation that ran in Taiwan.

https://pol.is/8bfzc9

(We feel ok about sharing this since the owner posted it to Twitter)