maple "mavica" syrup [6502] @mavica_again@computerfairi.es

social media is anything but and mastodon has not ever been and will not ever be better than twitter or any similar contrived microblogging platform for as long as it retains the favourite button

i make music: https://maple.pet/music

i make open source tech tools and toys: https://maple.pet/tech

i started the netizen club and the link cache, to help my yearning for a simpler internet: https://links.netizen.club/

i'm looking for work. if you know anyone who needs someone with 8+ years professional experience plumbing nearly any sort of bespoke tech, talk to me.

if you like a post where a person is talking about killing themselves that means that you like that that person wants to kill themselves, there is no other interpretation for the wording x has liked your post that i can infer in good faith and this is why i tell people not to like my negative posts unless they like that i'm in misery because if you want to convey anything else you have 26 letters and punctuation at your disposal

a cross-section diagram of multi-user mastodon instances

in fact i recall once finding the link to that compilation again at some point and finding out it got taken down

hopefully i'll get to listen to the MD again and make a proper tracklist of what was on it

some time around near 10 years ago or so when i first got a netmd player i bodged together some scripts to allow me to write minidiscs under linux (well before web-based, ugh, solutions made it "easier") and wrote a, i think 2 hour long or so, youtube citypop compilaion to a single LP2 MD

i can't find that particular compilation anymore and i'm separated from that MD by the atlantic ocean, which is a shame

yes the idea is to find voices that sound robotic, synthesized

i know that's not what most people using TTS want them to sound like, that's why it's so hard for me to find what i want

yes i already know about dectalk. i know there are many other TTS engines from the 80s and 90s and those all feel like vapourware now because you can't find anything on them anymore

i want recommendations for free text to speech interfaces like those used for speech impaired people (screens of icons for quick vocabulary, customizable, with option for full text input)

bonus points for something with a highly customizable voice, or also seeking recommendations for any tts voice that's local, customizable, not genAI, runs on old hardware. i don't want solutions that only work with the system's black box TTS i have to find arcane packs for

please boost! ​

TIL one form of CDDA copy protection is intentionally corrupted error correction codes causing audible glitches in ripped copies which explains a lot of MP3s i downloaded as a teenager sounding the way they did

there's something about "computers built by companies who wanted to use up their inventory of VCR chassis" that really appeals to me

lol @ this post not having an embed because my instance does not take remote webp media

QRT @kajer https://infosec.exchange/@kajer/115426518652685730

so much for communication, lmfao

saw something cool on another account and wanted to boost here but that's how i found out someone i never talked to has me blocked so whatever

breaking kayfabe for a moment OSes are tools and you use what works for you

and Linux desktop environments never worked for anybody lol

this is how linux people talk about windows btw

it's funny to watch linux struggle in 2025 with issues windows solved in 95

i just think the same people with a lust for the command line and a disdain for the newfangled mouse and graphics adapter should not be allowed to push their half-baked desktop environments upon others

i'm not anti Linux. i love Linux. even some of my servers are Linux

i'm convinced people who don't have daily issues caused by using Linux are only ever using the web browser and nothing else