During the year’s busiest season of charitable giving, donors may wonder whether the nonprofits they are considering donating to are going to be good stewards of their money.
As I write this, I'm still waiting for a present from my Mum, which won't arrive today as no snail mail is delivered on Christmas Day, but I am definitely happy with the gifts I have opened so far, namely two chocolate oranges, my favourite British sweet treat.
There's a video of someone enjoying with family or possibly friends that needs deleting in the WhatsApp group FYI, and you're god damn right it is a Christmas film.
Today I learned why Sonata #TTS created a framework to run AI voices outside of #NVDA. First, NVDA doesn't come with all of the #Python standard libraries. Second, there's no good way of updating dependencies in a bundled addon. Third, NVDA really, really hates it if you include several hundred dependencies in your addon. Anyway, here's kitten TTS, the other synthesizer I wanted to try with NVDA. Unfortunately, the model doesn't support streaming output, so even though it's actually faster than Supertonic, it feels slower when used with NVDA. Also, it takes several minutes to install, makes NVDA startup 30 seconds slower, and freezes the change synthesizer dialogue for about 45 seconds when you open it. It does miss words less frequently, though, and pronounces text better. The ultimate result of my two-day investigation is that even the highly optimized open-source AI imbedded models are not yet ready for screen reader use. Some tree-shaking could fix some of these issues, but it still won't allow for streaming, so it's not worth it. I'd really like to know what Microsoft and Narrator are doing to get the natural voices so snappy. github.com/fastfinge/kittentts-nvda/#screenreader
uhm, did you know that waypipe with ssh is fast enough to use blender remotely over wi-fi? what? this works much better/faster than x11 forwarding ever did
A Sound Canvas takes on beatboxing. And it... actually kind of works. This is a karaoke cover of Dopamine, a song composed by WING of BEATPELLA HOUSE, a South Korean beatboxing group. Two versions of this cover exist. A simplified version designed for sound cards from DREAM SA, which are essentially compatible with the Roland SC-88, and a second one designed for the SC-8820. Both covers lean into the strengths of each source. Both played on my SC-8820. From KY Entertainment karaoke machines. DREAM SA version sequenced by Yunseong Choi (최윤성) currently unsure who the 8820 version's sequencer is due to encoding issues with the file. Original song: youtube.com/watch?v=qlrpeYdm9E…. MIDIs: drive.google.com/uc?id=1kILmA1….
> The Church of Odin will mount a lawsuit to put an end to Santa Claus, who they claim is an insulting parody of their God Odin the All Father, the real Father of Jul.
I'm sure that Quebec has pretty bad numbers too because of that piece of shit of Dubé (and Legault). $180 is the cost, and most no-choice-of-private-insurance don't cover it either.
Before heading to the Hill Country to spend Christmas with my grandparents, I stayed up a little too late packing and writing. This post is a quiet reflection on the past year, family, and trying to slow down even when I am not very good at it.
I GOT A STORY TO TELL ALL OF YOU. AND @ChrisDuffley you might like this, so i'm pinging you in. so it's Christmas day, right? around I dont' know, 9 ni the morning, we open presents. there's a few things I got like (yes) a brand new mini PC, small yetp owerful, and gummy bears, chocolate bars. that was it.....except it wasn't! after my sister and I (at least I thought) was done, I get told there's an extra present waiting for me. I get drove to a hill as part of our property, and what to I find? and i'm not kidding, what you're about to hear what I found is totally real. a 100 feet #ham radio tower. yes, I now have a ham radio tower ready to be installed and, once I get my license, used! I can't believe it! this has to be one of the best Christmases ever!!
I don't know how it was done, but now I have a 100feet ham towert!
* Buy new notebook * Leave Windows 7 * Find someone who installs @linuxmint * Photo shoot with black/white acrylic paintings with @weberjoerg * personalized labels at Kekila juicemaker
The Empire Strikes Back gets a dose of holiday cheer with a festive Christmas parade on Hoth. Originally appears in Auralnauts Star Wars Episode 5: Attack of...
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(for future readers: this table is wrong, #DeltaChat doesn't require phone numbers or #email for registration can be used anonymously without providing any data at all, for #telegram encryption is not supported in groups at all, only in 1-to-1 chats using the "secrets chat" which don't even sync across devices so is highly impractical and not much used by people in the end)
From all of us at HKC Radio, we wish you a Merry Christmas.
As a result of some oddities surrounding schedules, we have chosen today to let you hear music on shuffel most of the day, and at a time TBD, run the Lessons and Carols service @coasterfreak88 submitted to us, in its entirety, as it was cut due to a technical error last night.
Replays will begin late tomorrow night after Christmas unwrapped and Home Alone II.
If, like me, when you think about AI your thoughts drift to the organic composition of capital, here’s a thought you may find interesting: capitals with a high organic composition can only maintain profit levels so long as they can prevent excess supply from entering the market.
For Christmas, I got an Omega Engineering talking multimeter... I have one, but it's in storage, possibly forever, and they're damn near impossible to find at a reasonable price, if you find them at all.
Also got an Ebow for an electric guitar that I don't have, which is interesting, and an Orba2, which seems to be an odd little round thing that makes musical noises.
I had an Ebow, but lost it when I moved to New York.
It looks like, in order to get full functionality from this Artiphon Orba 2, I need to download an iOS app that is no longer in the app store, and the company is apparently in administration. Without the app, it can still do some interesting stuff, but not as much, I.E. you can't change keys or load new presets.
This is why having your product tied to an app creates so much ewaste.
There is a desktop app for both Mac and Windows, and an Android APK you can download from the website. Chaining this tiny little palm-sized thing to a desktop app for some basic functionality is silly, though.
www.virtualhere.com through www.tailscale.com and a wireless hotspot? Honestly, sounds a bit impractical, but it's better than carrying a desktop/laptop around. It would be really helpful, for this sort of thing as well as for a ton of other reasons, to have virtual machines running Windows on phones. The processors and RAM can probably support it.
Very cool! Would love to hear a demo of the multimeter. Ebow is a lot of fun for the first few hours! :) Unfortunately for my Ebow, I got a really cool Ebow library from SoniCouture! :)
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