I have different technical questions I want to ask. I went to Stack Overflow and they blocked registration with a VPN. It’s really fucking annoying. I can buy a residential IP to bypass this, but I’d rather just not use these enshitified platforms that are so hostile to VPNs.
Is there any decent alternative to Stack Overflow? I have tried getting AI answers to the technical question but they are not good.
And no, I can’t just create a github ID using VPN to login, they block github logins based on IP also.


Terminal error after running GPT code:
`python3 trocr_pdf.py small.pdf output.txt Traceback (most recent call last): File “/home/user/.local/lib/python3.10/site-packages/transformers/utils/hub.py”, line 479, in cached_files hf_hub_download( File “/home/user/.local/lib/python3.10/site-packages/huggingface_hub/utils/_validators.py”, line 114, in _inner_fn return fn(*args, **kwargs) File “/home/user/.local/lib/python3.10/site-packages/huggingface_hub/file_download.py”, line 1007, in hf_hub_download return _hf_hub_download_to_cache_dir( File “/home/user/.local/lib/python3.10/site-packages/huggingface_hub/file_download.py”, line 1124, in _hf_hub_download_to_cache_dir os.makedirs(os.path.dirname(blob_path), exist_ok=True) File “/usr/lib/python3.10/os.py”, line 215, in makedirs makedirs(head, exist_ok=exist_ok) File “/usr/lib/python3.10/os.py”, line 225, in makedirs mkdir(name, mode) PermissionError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: ‘/home/user/.cache/huggingface/hub/models–microsoft–trocr-base-handwritten’
The above exception was the direct cause of the following exception:
Traceback (most recent call last): File “/home/user/Documents/trocr_pdf.py”, line 39, in <module> main(pdf_path, out_path) File “/home/user/Documents/trocr_pdf.py”, line 11, in main processor = TrOCRProcessor.from_pretrained(model_name) File “/home/user/.local/lib/python3.10/site-packages/transformers/processing_utils.py”, line 1394, in from_pretrained args = cls._get_arguments_from_pretrained(pretrained_model_name_or_path, **kwargs) File “/home/user/.local/lib/python3.10/site-packages/transformers/processing_utils.py”, line 1453, in _get_arguments_from_pretrained args.append(attribute_class.from_pretrained(pretrained_model_name_or_path, **kwargs)) File “/home/user/.local/lib/python3.10/site-packages/transformers/models/auto/image_processing_auto.py”, line 489, in from_pretrained raise initial_exception File “/home/user/.local/lib/python3.10/site-packages/transformers/models/auto/image_processing_auto.py”, line 476, in from_pretrained config_dict, _ = ImageProcessingMixin.get_image_processor_dict( File “/home/user/.local/lib/python3.10/site-packages/transformers/image_processing_base.py”, line 333, in get_image_processor_dict resolved_image_processor_files = [ File “/home/user/.local/lib/python3.10/site-packages/transformers/image_processing_base.py”, line 337, in <listcomp> resolved_file := cached_file( File “/home/user/.local/lib/python3.10/site-packages/transformers/utils/hub.py”, line 322, in cached_file file = cached_files(path_or_repo_id=path_or_repo_id, filenames=[filename], **kwargs) File “/home/user/.local/lib/python3.10/site-packages/transformers/utils/hub.py”, line 524, in cached_files raise OSError( OSError: PermissionError at /home/user/.cache/huggingface/hub/models–microsoft–trocr-base-handwritten when downloading microsoft/trocr-base-handwritten. Check cache directory permissions. Common causes: 1) another user is downloading the same model (please wait); 2) a previous download was canceled and the lock file needs manual removal. `
This error looks like it is saying a previous attempt aborted, and it needs you to clean up some file that was only partly downloaded.
Edit: The “please wait” makes me think I would try again in a couple hours.
So try again… in a couple of hours…
Why would that make a difference? It’s a local model right?
If it is local only, then waiting probably won’t help.
Another thought for you: pip behaves much better inside a virtual environment - using the Python
venvmodule, oruv.The instructions you have shared so far look more compatible with
venv.