Why do people complain about curl|bash so much? Especially that the same people will often happily launch setup.exe when in front of a Windows computer.
curl|bash is not any less safe than E.G. `go install`, and it doesn't get nearly the same level of hate.
After spending half my day thinking about waveforms and reading through research papers during lunch, then spending the other half of it thinking about UI frontend and audits and accessibility, I'm about ready to call it quit and slip into the hot tub. Sorry y'all.
The Letter "R" is tuning slowly. Now it doesn't sound like the synthesizer is barking and words like "far" "bar" sound more natural, if a little squished on the R slightly. That will keep tuning itself over time, but it's not a disaster like it used to be haha
This is the first speech player for me I'm comfortable taking up to rate 70., which is about the same rate I do run Eloquence at. I'm not struggling to hear it as much as I used to at rate 70. Hmm. So that might not be a bad sign. But I'm just one ear. Well, two, one set of them.
I'm actually able to understand most of what I hear at rate 65. This definitely sounds smoother than previous. I need to play with all the settings now.
I just imported a MIDI of Rush E into NVDA Composer by @FreakyFwoof and it…didn't go very well, or maybe it did considering. Anyway you be the judge, here's the audio of what playing it actually did. If anyone wants the resulting project file or the original MIDI, just let me know. I think there's a bit of this that @arfy would enjoy.
Lol towards the end it sounds like an old arcade machine with a severely fucked up audio chip finally short circuits and gives up this planet. RIP Donkey Kong, 1981 - 2026.
🎉 Big NV Speech Player update just dropped! Hybrid glottal source - Finally fixed the "breathy" voice quality at 16000 Hz and above! The synth now picks the right waveform per sample rate: smooth cosine at low rates (no aliasing), LF-inspired buzz at 16kHz+ (that Eloquence-like crispness). VoicingTone v2 - 3 new DSP params: • Noise glottal modulation (Klatt-style pulsing) • Pitch-sync F1/B1 modulation (vocal tract coupling) All with backward-compatible version detection so old drivers keep working. Phoneme Editor - Full voicing params UI! 10 sliders, per-voice storage, auto-loads when you switch voices. Plus 3-tier DLL fallback for older builds. NVDA Addon - New voicing sliders in synth settings ring. Tweak brightness, tilt, crispness per-voice. Linux builds - Fresh x86_64 .so files included. This was a marathon session - glottal waveforms, struct versioning, crash fixes, UI work... mass refresh across the whole stack. github.com/tgeczy/NVSpeechPlay… github.com/tgeczy/NVSpeechPlay… github.com/tgeczy/NVSpeechPlay…
Today my friend gave me a couple of joints that he had rolled for me. The problem is it's way the hell too cold outside to go out and smoke them. And I'm not permitted to smoke in my room. #420 #stonerproblems
@Bri oh no. He didn't tell me I can't smoke them. He gave them to me, knowing that at some point I would. But my landlord and landlady do not allow smoking in the rooms here. So I'll either have to go out and freeze my nuts off to smoke, or I'll have to hold onto them and wait until the weather gets a bit warmer.
It's on Peertube. It's literally on Mastodon. It's on Threads with ads. It's literally on Lemmy. You can probably find it on Misskey. It's a Pixelfed original. It's on Pleroma. You can read it on Pleroma. Pleroma has serious side effects. Ask your doctor about Pleroma.
Protest against Hootsuite’s doing business with ICE in my neighborhood. Protesters are drawn from usual demographics: young people, a few multi-issue protesters with kaffiyeh, elder boomers, loud drum circle, etc.
Cars driving by on Quebec St., however, are just regular commuters, and about 50% are honking appreciatively
The other day I was at Elysian on Ontario comparing notes on company ethics with a friend. I said, probably too loudly, “At least we don’t work for Hootsuite!” forgetting I was in a business that might as well be their offsite cafe
Nobody said anything though.
A backgrounder on the Hootsuite/ICE controversy, going back to 2020
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CNN in Minneapolis: "We are seeing thousands and thousands of people, we've been standing on the corner here for the past ten minutes. This crowd has not let up. It's just continuous.
I've covered many protests, especially in New York City. And I have to tell you, I've not seen a crowd like this before. It is eight degrees out here. It feels like five. It is freezing, but nothing, nothing is stopping these people." ✊
Yeah it's YouTube, but it's also Green Day, and I feel like at this point the power of green day and the power of punk overwhelms the power of the fucking data masters and the billionaires and we gotta stick together, right? youtu.be/eebfMFzJHNs?si=yce-Cj…
Starting my day by consoling my naturalized citizen family member while they sob in fear of ICE.
I don't even know what to say to them anymore. Last year it was, "I know. It will be ok. You are a fucking citizen and nothing will happen." and now it's, "I love you. I will do everything to protect you. I'm scared too."
Fuck ICE. FUCK you if you support them. Rot in hell you bastards.
god damn my family is beautiful. my grandparent's old wedding photos are just like, lookin like movie stars, super glamorous. and here ai am lookin like a half baked potato
I call myself a fair-weather waller. I don’t do drystone work through the worst of winter. If you have ever jammed numb fingers between cold stones, started a morning by sledgehammering apart a frozen stone pile, or done a pee outside, bum exposed to biting winter air, you will understand why.
Drystone season is almost upon us. This year we have a run of really interesting jobs and I have a new ambition, learning to drive a digger.
The crops are all in, and the peaches are rotten The oranges are packed in the creosote dumps They're flying us back to the Mexico border To pay all our money to wade back again
Goodbye to my Juan, goodbye Rosalita Adios mi amigos, Jesus and Maria You won't have a name when you ride the big aeroplane All they will call you will be Deportee
Now my father's own father, he waded that river they took all the money her made in his life six hundred miles to the Mexico border They chased us like rustlers, like outlaws, like thieves
Goodbye to my Juan, goodbye Rosalita Adios mis amigos, Jesus and Maria you won't have a name when you ride the big aeroplane No, all they will call you will be Deportee
The sky-plane caught fire, over Los Gatos Canyon A big ball of fire, it shook all the ground Who are these friends who are falling like dry leaves The radio said they were just deportees
Goodbye to my Juan, goodbye Rosalita Adios mis amigos, Jesus and Maria You won't have a name when you ride the big aeroplane. No, all they will call you will be Deportee
But we died in your hills, we died in your valleys We died in your orchards, we died on your plains We died on your deserts, we died in your treetops Both sides of the river we died just the same
Me quedé ayer pensando un buen rato que joder con la gentrificación en el barrio, ya hasta las tiendas de lámparas tienen nombres raritos y modernos en inglés... hasta que caí en que faltaba la i JAJAJA
As of around 11:21 AM Central time, we have power! I repeat, we! Have! Power! This was an approximately 124-hour power outage, which makes it the second longest I've lived through. And our whole house generator did a wonderful job of keeping everything going. Clarification: How do I know we got utility power back? Good question! We have an automatic transfer switch installed. Thirty seconds after power originally failed, it commanded our generator to start, waited until it was producing stable power, then switched our house to it. Then this morning, it saw that utility power had returned, probably waited a bit to make sure it was stable, switched our house back to it, let the generator run for a while with no load, then commanded it to shut down. Had I been fully awake I *might* have suspected utility power was back when we were switched to it, but the real giveaway was when the generator suddenly shut down but power didn't. Whew! It's over!
I have a hole home battery backup. However, I don't switch to it automatically. I want to ration power, so I switch circuit by circuit based on what's going on. For example, in the summer I don't put the hot tub circuit on it, but in the winter I have to in order to prevent the pipes from freezing. I also shut down the servers and then take the battery backup away from them. Assuming I ration to use only the essentials (medical equipment, lights, refrigeration) I can keep everything going for up to five days without electricity or a fuel delivery. Also, the battery system can be charged by a Tesla charger, or any other electric car charging station. And it's multiple batteries, so if I think after 60 hours I won't be getting power back, I can take one discharged battery and recharge it, and bring it back without interruption to the power.
It actually cost me less than putting in an automatic switchover. Because I could do it myself, without requiring a licensed electrician, inspection from the power company, or a disconnect from the grid while it was installed. I looked at a propane generator with automatic switching, and between all the licenses and completely replacing the breaker box, it was going to cost me around 20 thousand dollars. I did this system for only eight thousand.
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I just want to say thank you to the Americans on here who have evidently made a concerted effort to start putting an F to specify when they are talking about Fahrenheit degrees.
I can't imagine what prompted the recent shift, but it makes a difference, it's clearer and respectful to the rest of the world, and I for one have noticed the change.
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#PSA: If you are documenting the #ICE operations in the #USA with #video, I am BEGGING you to NOT trust ANY US-based #SocialMedia like #YouTube. There is currently a high risk your uploads will be nuked, shadowbanned or otherwise suppressed, given the recent FISHY #TikTok aquisition.
Backup everything on international servers. Or better: Move ur stuff altogether. Use decentralized tech like #PeerTube. Do it BEFORE the banhammer strikes.
If you're a wayward half-baked Norwegian looking for a place to crash till you can jump the pond, #minnesota is the place. #Trump says nobody wants to live there, but, seeing all this...passion...I'm sold. All this is like a fucking #liberal "come live here" infomercial. I love it.
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Businesses around Minneapolis are keeping their doors locked, hosting "warm areas" and offering free drinks to protesters and observers.
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#USPolitics #FuckICE #Minnesota
Organizing works! This is a win for public pressure, and a message about the moral clarity Canadians want from politics right now.
Now we need legislation to ban all Canadian companies from contracting with ICE or otherwise supporting Trump's kidnapping and deportation machine. And Parliament must pass Jenny Kwan's bill to close the U.S. arms export loophole – so that no Canadian armoured vehicles, weapons, or equipment end up in the hands of ICE to brutalize people.
A company owned by British Columbia billionaire Jimmy Pattison says it will not be selling a Virginia warehouse to the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, which planned to use the site as an Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility.
I was walking through the city yesterday when I suddenly tripped, for no reason. i must have been falling in love with @ky0les all over again. Love you, paws ❤
44100 still sounds a bit shit, but it's also like, 44100 HZ. No Klatt engine does 44100 well, or at all. I'm not going to blame myself for that one. We made 22050 and 16000 sound more refined, fuller, richer, and those are sample rates more are likely to use than 44100. I shouldn't be mad at myself. But I really wanna pour icecubes all over my body because of it. torture myself somehow as punishment for making it shit at 44100.
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in reply to Jeff Geerling • • •Why do people complain about curl|bash so much? Especially that the same people will often happily launch setup.exe when in front of a Windows computer.
curl|bash is not any less safe than E.G. `go install`, and it doesn't get nearly the same level of hate.