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by aedocw 1y ago
There is a lawyer (Alec Karakatsanis) who has been writing about police driven propaganda for years. His recent book "Copaganda" is fantastic. He carefully breaks down how major papers (NYT is chief among them) create stories that
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by aedocw 2y ago
I think https://github.com/caddyserver is the best option here. Automatic handling of SSL certs, it's incredibly lightweight, and has super clear config syntax.
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by aedocw 2y ago
Give https://github.com/aedocw/epub2tts a look, the latest update enables use of MS Edge cloud-based TTS so you don't need a local GPU and the quality is excellent.
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by aedocw 3y ago
Take a look at https://github.com/ekzhang/rustpad
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by aedocw 3y ago
The best part about this discussion is seeing all the people pop up to defend the money (sometimes fantastic amounts) they have spent on their business/executive coach.
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Show HN: Epub2tts, an Automated Audiobook Maker(github.com)
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by aedocw 3y ago
You can do this today, though you would definitely be breaking copyright (you need to strip the DRM from the epub), and if you're cloning someone's voice without their permission you're probably breaking some more laws. You&#
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by aedocw 3y ago
I wrote https://github.com/aedocw/epub2tts and the quality is pretty phenomenal if you use XTTS for the voice generation. It's really excellent, but requires the book not have DRM.
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by aedocw 3y ago
It does not handle that. A PR to replace stuff like that would be fantastic, I'd love it - please do!
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by aedocw 3y ago
I put together a script to read epub books using Coqui TTS and I think the results are not far off from this. It's super quick if you've got a GPU, but it's reasonable too if it's just using CPU to do the text to speech.
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by aedocw 3y ago
For a really fun exploration of this, read Avogadro Corp by William Hertling.
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by aedocw 3y ago
Some strings: Many/most shelters will not let you bring in a pet. If you've never had any hard times in your life and had a dog companion at the same time you might not understand, but for many people having that pet is the only t
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by aedocw 3y ago
On mac or linux with sox installed, this is a perfect source for brown noise: play -n synth brownnoise gain -25 Also works for whitenoise or pinknoise.
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by aedocw 3y ago
For a related but MUCH deeper dive into this subject, check out the book "The End of the World Is Just the Beginning: Mapping the Collapse of Globalization" by Peter Zeihan.
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by aedocw 3y ago
Depending on what you are looking for from an audio book, there are options. If you expect essentially a professionally made radio production of the book (multiple voice actors, effects, etc) then a real audio book is hard to beat. On the o
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by aedocw 3y ago
Coqui-TTS with vtck/vits is very good right now. Not as good as eleven labs or coqui studio, but for fast open TTS it's pretty good, in case you're not familiar with it. It will be great when there's eventually something
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by aedocw 3y ago
It works with pull requests too AFAIK.
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by aedocw 3y ago
I've been watching the text-to-speech space for a while, waiting/hoping for something both open and better than CoquiTTS. ElevenLabs sounds amazing but is super expensive for something like a book, and tortoiseTTS is so slow as to
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by aedocw 3y ago
Except an environment that is highly toxic does not attract decent people with good community intentions. While you have learned a lot about LLMs and generative AI for instance, it is extremely unlikely you have learned from the most well
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by aedocw 3y ago
Lane keeping is not the hard part, that’s been solved for a while. It’s dealing with pedestrians and other drivers doing unpredictable things. Slow moving infrastructure projects will not help that at all.
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by aedocw 3y ago
That o2 sensor is an important part of the engine/emissions management system. Without that info, the car computer is not able to efficiently map the fuel/air mixture and over time is likely to lead to more problems. Depending on
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by aedocw 3y ago
Recently I wanted an audiobook version of a book I was going to read, but it didn't exist. I put this together using Coqui-TTS and the voice sounds really good. It's not as good as Eleven Labs, but it's far better than anythi
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by aedocw 3y ago
I'm not blind but I wrote an EPUB to Text-To-Speech reader using Coqui (a really good AI TTS project). There are books I wanted to listen to while doing other things, and I couldn't find audio-book versions of them, so this worked
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by aedocw 3y ago
Moxie Marlinspike came up with a powerful yet quiet blower, but I haven't seen anything else about since a he put up a video on Twitter some time ago: https://twitter.com/moxie/status/1582154037700399104
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by aedocw 4y ago
For folks who want to do something similar (no CO2 measure, and possibly less accurate) for far less per sensor, you can easily connect an ESP8266 ($5) to an IKEA VINDRIKTNING ($16) air quality sensor[1]. Stick a AM2302 ($7) on the outside
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by aedocw 4y ago
This is wildly inaccurate. The population of Germany is about 84m. The total prison population in Germany is 56557. [1] What are you talking about? [1]: https://www.prisonstudies.org/country/germany
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by aedocw 4y ago
That might say more about you and who you follow than about twitter overall. It's possible you're not exposed to it, it's also possible you are seeing hate speech that you would not classify as hate speech. There has definite
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by aedocw 4y ago
I love VLC. I've got the follow alias to shuffle what's in my music directory from the command line, very convenient: alias music='find /home/me/music > /tmp/tunes.m3u; vlc -I rc -Z --no-auto-prepa
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by aedocw 4y ago
Pretty sure you are wrong. Let's see... All Nazis are bastards. Yep, that works. All pedophiles are bastards. Still works.
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by aedocw 4y ago
I've got a few zsh functions that let me type "note" which creates a file named todays date (if it doesn't exist), inserts a timestamp, and opens it in vim. When I exit vim, the notes directory is committed to git then p

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