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I agree, pocket-tts is quite good. It is also very easy to make new voices from small sample files with pocket-tts.

I got rid of my Alexa devices after they would not shut up. "Alexa what is the weather for today?" "The weather for today will be ... By the way, did you know that you can set alar…

I wrote a library[0] to let you concurrently update a sqlite db in s3 safely. It uses the little known sqlite sessions extension plus s3 compare-and-swap on a small metadata file t…

I do not trust a free-tier VPS with my data.

I have also used lambda at scale in professional environments. I would not use a lambda for a webserver at scale, but having an s3 object trigger processing via a lambda function i…

> If you're using AWS Lambda then you have to work to keep convincing yourself this is better than your own web servers. Keep convincing yourself that using AWS Lambda is not a hor…

The API is free. The statement in the article is not about corporate friction

> Developers routinely complain about Slack’s API costs and permissions What? What API costs is the op talking about?

Most of what I write in my journal I don't want to need to remember (that is why I am writing it down). I also don't know what will be important or not important later, so I want i…

This "it has to be handwritten" stuff is nonsense. Do that if you enjoy it, but also you should acknowledge the downsides to it. I started keeping a work journal a few years ago an…

I'm curious how asahi linux manages scheduling across e cores and p cores. Has anyone done experiments with this? Edit: It looks like there was some discussion about this on the As…

To follow up on this a bit, something that I really want is a way to build and launch apps from an llm really easily. I am imagining and environment with a database, object storage…

Playing around with this for a small amount of time, it is very neat but also there are a bunch of things that are unclear / undocumented (I assume the documentation is coming so I…

What is the criteria for a sprite being "idle"? Is it no network activity or is it cpu based?

Those are not extensions. Not can you use them to talk to dbus.

What browser extensions? Why would I want websites to integrate with gnome or kde? What does that even mean?

Oh hey this is using my go sqlite vfs module[0]. I love it when I find out some code I wrote is useful to others! [0]: https://github.com/psanford/sqlite3vfs

This is great! I have been using Quickwit as a low cost search engine on Lambda. It works very well for my relatively small and infrequently updated dataset. Unfortunately Quickwit…

The thing that killed perl was python. The reason that python won is because it was Google's blessed scripting language.

I had an M2 air running asahi that I loved and had similar worries. I ended up buying a maxed out refurbished M2 which I expect will last me a few more years.

Yes. It is a nice report that does not engage with 1password's security model at all. 1password specifically says that they do not think it is feasible to defend against locally ex…

I do hate the name ssh3. I was glad to see this at the top of the repo: > SSH3 is probably going to change its name. It is still the SSH Connection Protocol (RFC4254) running on to…

I assume you were using Authy desktop for TOTP? You don't need a smartphone for storing TOTP seeds or generating TOTP codes.

I found the "lets pretend like there is no input latency" thing to be more distracting than useful. As soon as something does not work as expected the illusion is broken. It made m…

You can run x86 steam games on asahi easily now. muvm makes it quite easy to run x86 binaries fairly transparently on arm.