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Ariel Millennium Thornton

Welcome to Computer Fairies, where the ✨​sparkles✨​ are lively fairy dust, not lifeless AI slop.

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Don't blindly believe everything you read online, tempting as that is. Do your homework first. This video series will help you do it well: youtube.com/playlist?list=PL8d

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Remember to pop your filter bubble every so often. If you think you're not in one, you're trapped in one and in for a rude awakening.

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Ami Angelwings

I've discovered the secret of Madrid

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re: Fucking MapQuest! 

I forgot because it's been so long. There was also that one time where Google Maps wanted me to turn down a street that didn't exist, that its own satellite view revealed didn't exist, and use this nonexistent street to reach another road by crossing a deep irrigation canal and raised railroad track that not only do exist but are active, instead of using a real cross street just a km or so south of the imaginary one.

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Fucking MapQuest! 

Google Maps is frequently & surprisingly wrong when it comes to rural addresses, & it has been since the beginning.

However, today I found out it's also terribly & hilariously wrong with directions, too, on roads the Street View car cased. It told me to turn down a gated dirt driveway, one that was explicitly & obviously a private driveway whats gate was shut to Google's Street View car, to get to another street on the way.

Isn't this why everyone ditched MapQuest?

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epitaph of the sea wind

politics (nazis on substack) 

every time i see some intelligent and discerning leftist writer who's still publishing on substack i get a little more disheartened. substack has published, continues to publish, and continues to defend the act of publishing, explicit nazi propaganda. it's run by the sort of "free speech absolutists" who refuse to contend with the idea that you cannot have both free speech for nazis and for jews/LGBTQ people/people of color/women at the same time

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NullDott 🎩

Careful! She bytes 🐍

#CodeGals #Art #FediArt #MastoArt #Krita #DigitalArt

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captain acab :antifa: 🏳️‍🌈

🧐

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Maddy 🏳️‍⚧️ - ADHD-powered :neofox_googly_woozy:

This is a good time for a friendly reminder to keep your personal and sensitive data separate from your gaming or testing hardware, if at all possible.

More plainly: If you can help it, don't keep your password manager or do your banking on your gaming computer

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sodiboo :pride_heart:

the Arch User Repository package alvr has been orphaned, then adopted by a threat actor who immediately updated it with an infostealer. If you have this package on your system and updated it recently, you've been compromised. This is not a result of any upstream compromise; it's just that one AUR package. in particular, the alvr-bin sister package seems to be fine.

Attached is a screenshot of an announcement from the "Linux VR Adventures" discord.

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qdot

Did a presentation on my VR setup at work today just for fun, since I usually show up to meetings in VR during halloween week and everyone seemed interested.

And somehow managed to pull off the most perfect scrungle demonstration ever.

We need a VRChat scrungle olympics.

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maple "mavica" syrup [6502]

evergreen maple.pet/blog/why-am-i-a-robo

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MiaK 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇵🇸

My new default response to reply guys

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Jae

This is going to be iiving rent free in my head for a long time, I reckon

Via tumblr.com/katakaluptastrophy/

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Alice Averlong🏳️‍⚧️

Comic Sans is the Never Gonna Give You Up of fonts.

There's nothing wrong with it, it's a perfectly enjoyable thing, it's just got so many associations with negative things that people are rarely happy to encounter it

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re: No-AI TTS question 

I still welcome help and/or recommendations for alternatives.

Balabolka runs on Windows 7, and it found a SAPI 5 voice I sorta like: Microsoft Anna. Sorta because it trips on some word combinations.

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Ruby Tails

@maddy
Letting the days go by
The next post lifts me up
Letting the days go by
Critters posting about their lives
Into the fediverse
After the web is gone
Once in a lifetime
Data flowing underground

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Maddy 🏳️‍⚧️ - ADHD-powered :neofox_googly_woozy:

You may find yourself
Wearing adorable critter ears
And you may find yourself
Looking into big floofy tails
And you may find yourself
Waffing, yipping, beeping, and meowing online
And you may find yourself in a wholesome instance
With a beautiful lot of entities
And you may ask yourself
"Well ... how did I get here?"

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Juice that toots other Juice

Juice that makes you decimalise

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nepi

Twingo go honk :3

By @sofia_drawsmore

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re: No-AI TTS question 

I'm scared to use anything cloud-based because half of them say they're slop-powered and the other half don't imply they're not.

I have espeak-ng, but I would need some serious help making its speech reasonable.

I have Balabolka on Windows 10, but IDK if it still works on Windows 7 or older, if it isn't slop itself, or how to install SAPI voices other than Microsoft Sam, and I'd need help and/or pointers.

I also want to know what other options I have.

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No-AI TTS question 

I have an urge to make how-to and let's-explore videos, but the 2019 flu made it too painful to talk for long enough to narrate anything. That means my only options are either captions over voiceless videos or using a text-to-speech (TTS) program to read text I write.

What are my slop-free options for TTS programs and feminine voices folks would be willing to listen to?

I prefer a FreeBSD program, but one for Linux, Windows 7, or an easy to emulate older OS can work as well.

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