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you can call me

  • maple
  • maple syrup
  • maple "mavica" syrup
  • mavica

none of those are capitalised, ever

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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

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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.

i can't wait to play it 10 years from now when the switch 2 is affordable secondhand

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I needed to dither two images, and the Ditherinator was the most convenient tool for the job. Thank you for making it and f… — Ditherinator was absolutely born of a desire/necessity to control every little aspect of how an image can be dithered in rea… alterspring.org/@maple/a/11669

I have this theory that Ladybird is effectively a grift for corpo donations.

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a port of netsurf with modern TLS for Mac OS 9 is the thing i am most excited about today github.com/mplsllc/macsurf

i found a cool post about a cool thing but i can't boost it because it's by someone who's blocked me 🙂

i keep having grandiose plans to build a synth/sampler out of a rpi pico and a toy keyboard. kinda like a cheaper op-1

I'm also willing to part with the APC Key 25 on a trade, if you're in the UK.

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I slightly regret buying an Akai APC Key 25 because I thought I could make fun use of the RGB button matrix but it's really only supported through Ableton, and despite the manual suggesting how to interface with it directly the information is partial at best and a customer support rep told me it's "confidential", hilariously enough.

What 25-key sized MIDI controllers do people like? I like the layout of the Akai MPK mini but I'd like to check out more options.

i am looking for a database of video games, or a way to scrape to build one

initially, i need:

  • title
  • genre
  • platform (aiming for DS for starters)
  • release date
  • region
  • boxart is a nice-to-have i can figure out how to get separately

i have looked at: gametdb, thegamesdb, launchbox, rawg. for different reasons (the biggest one being erroneous data) they don't work for me. the most accurate data come from sources i can't easily scrape (like mobygames)

suggestions and boosts welcome

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