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@delta@mk.absturztau.be
sharkey 2025.5.2-dev+g8e80ed6771Local catgril who isn't particularly smart and is terrible at this 'social' thingy, will write real bio eventually
I speak in nonsense and tangents nobody asked for, all my thoughts come with bonus tangents (feel free to just tell me there is something i do/say that you'd rather me not)
Follow requests are generally accepted as long as you appear to be a real person and aren't too suspicious, however, Please have a bio and at least a few posts first (having pronouns listed somewhere helps too), also might take some time for me to get around to checking follow requests
i made https://fedimoji.tela.moe i guess
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all of them, yes all of them (or effectively Mars Standard Time)
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in bio (she/they/any)
gay:
perhaps
ask me stuff:
average me trying to code experience
opens code editor
writes 3 lines
realizes i'm stupid
closes code editor
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bash is an evil language, it tempts you in by being the simplest and dirtiest solution to quickly tie a couple of things together into one command that is included on almost every nixlike system ever
and then as soon as you need something slightly more complicated than just running a few commands in a row it takes off the mask and reveals the true horror of its syntax and its true nature as the tormenter of programmers
can't wait until the day i look at some project page and the installation instructions are curl | claude
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i genuinely have no idea how or why C compilers are capable of producing such obtuse errors
like, i'm trying to compile the same code that somebody else evidently can compile just fine, how the heck is it getting tripped up this badly, why are there syntax errors, what is wrong with this language :blobcatgooglyholdingitsheadinitshands:
tfw i should be sleeping rn but i'm staying up because i'm actually achieving something for once without being totally thought-blocked by brain
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@maxleibman@beige.party this is gonna be one sad pride month compared to previous years
but we'll soon know who the real ones were by who's willing to still do it after the last few years
json-ld was a mistake
activitypub2 with a more sane encoding format when
"this would be a banger fedi post, if only i was brave enough to post it"
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@piku@blahaj.zone yeah, also afaik thats just running a hacked up version of citra + the game internally
what i'm wanting is more a properly open source/non-encumbered TTS engine like whats seen in tomodachi life
need a tomodachi-like except developed by gay furries
tomolife LTD is so good but nintendo wasn't quite brave enough to give us things like polyamory
scoobernetes
yoinks
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@gavi@bagel.ing i use an ancient Wacom screen tablet from like 2009, i plugged it in and it just worked no questions asked, pretty sure the newer ones are the same on linux
Wacom is good if you can find a used one for a good cost (they're real pricy new though)
Huion and xp-pen are much better price/performance but i don't know the status of their drivers on Linux, I've heard some say they work well and others say they're less consistent
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@sarayalth@fedi.owo.justdied.com i wonder if this is part of why my AMD gpu only has 1 hdmi port and 3 displayports, is AMD is trying to subtly nudge people to use displayport more
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the format is, not that complicated actually, its just raw RGBA compressed with zstd (idk why they didn't just, use png or something but idk i'm not nintendo) the only complicating factor is that its swizzled kind of weirdly (its a z curve, just each level uses a different size and proportion for some reason i'm not graphics programmer enough to understand, but i worked it out to be blocks of 4x2, 2x4, 2x2, 16x8, 1x2 in order of smallest to largest block, for a 256x256 image)
and then i suffered for 6 hours making a half baked krita plugin for it (i don't speak python or c++ or qt this is pain)
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the stupid part is this probably could work, it'd just be kind of bulky, and also like entirely unnecessary
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being able to mess with parameters to set a variety of different voices is so good and every TTS engine from now on needs this
enough AI TTS engines that try too hard to be 'realistic' and 'natural' and are just 1 model = 1 voice and if you want a different voice you download another model that is also just 1 voice
give me TTS models with dozens of parameters to make whatever variety of voices i want
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i can sort of imagine how creating a similar voice engine might work, but i am 0% qualified to even consider implementing such a thing in my current state
but i can imagine doing it somewhat modularly, and taking some notes from how good ol utau worked
have a base sound sample source (could be generated, or using a bank of prerecorded phoneme samples)
a sample transformation engine (like utau)
and combine that with some kind of system that takes input text and transforms it into the list of phonemes with pitch/intonation data for the sample transformation engine to use
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0.2 hours is all of 12 minutes
even if the tutorial is horrendous walls of text that is not enough time to judge how well a game "respects your time"
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@privateger@plasmatrap.com if i ever do need more server capacity i'm gonna have to go hunting for another provider damn, any upgrade from hetzner straight up would just cost too much for me now
if only my home internet wasn't too miserable to even consider hosting from home
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tbf its probably not good for the UPS to be pushed over its capacity like this, but a new UPS that is better enough to be worth getting is like $100-200 and i don't wanna spend money if i can avoid it :niko_woozy:
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@weirdtreething@donotsta.re systemd sounding more and more like the name of some 20th century IBM-made OS
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@privateger@plasmatrap.com oh gosh, hetzner straight up just isn't cost effective anymore for new servers
well i guess i'm stuck with my 2 core 4gb ram arm server til the end of time :D