The videogame Final Fantasy XIV has a lot of text. A LOT of text.

Someone has made a plugin to pipe text to external tts services, or a websocket. You talk to characters in game and hear the dialog read by the tts.

https://github.com/karashiiro/TextToTalk

For whatever reason, amazon poly only exposes middling quality voices to the plugin. And I'd rather not have an active AWS account for just this use case.

ElevenLabs is supported by the plugin, but their service isn't really about tts and I'd have to pay the $220/yr tier to unlock further "pay as you go (per character)" with a budget of 100,000 characters per month. A bit steep for using it only for in this one game.

If someone could help plumb AudiowaveAI to this plugin, I'd gladly turn off AWS for this!

No company is obligated to provide that platform for him. When judging a company for what content they decide they don't want to host, spinning "vimeo banned Alex Jones" as negative is ridiculous.

Edited: he can't actually say whatever he wants even on his own platform. There's actually a lawsuit against him right now. Too many internet folk don't actually know what "free speech" means and I should not validate such ignorance.

Absolute nonsense.

And there is no "who draws the line‽" argument here, Jones exists miles beyond what is ever ok.

Re: pill navigation- I find the navigation bar to be an outdated concept and I don't know why we even still have it at all. I use an app called "edge gestures" to navigate with swipes, and I disabe the system navigation bar. I suggest you try that.

``` #main-window:not([customizing]):not([tabsintitlebar="true"]) #toolbar-menubar[inactive="true"] + #TabsToolbar { visibility: collapse !important; } ```

This snippet shows tabs when in "customize" mode, so you can access elements from addons placed on the tab bar by default. It also shows tabs when the menubar is showing: tap alt to peek, enable menubar to have vanilla access to tabs again. Finally, if you use the setting "tabs in titlebar", tabs are not disabled.

Doing it this way enforces sensible behavior and gives you escape hatches that don't require editing CSS and restarting the browser.

However, once I learned of the wine interface that is available on flathub (for flatpak) I immediately removed wine and its 32 bit components from my system- now that untidyness is neatly contained within flatpak dependencies.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but doesn't flatpak'd wine solve this issue?

WireGuard asks so much less of you.

I don't have a left hand, I don't have six fingers, guess I'll stick with my mouse.

I'm sure this could be adapted for one-hand use, but- and maybe I'm slightly biased, but I think even if I still had two hands I'd prefer interfaces that don't require me to use both to do simple actions.

I do agree I need to come up with a better way to maintain and distribute this, I'll look into LARBS.

I have used it with HiDPI but only briefly, so that may still be imperfect.

https://github.com/AeliusSaionji/dotfiles

I recently got signal because some friends made me. Given how old it is, I was shocked by how poor some aspects are.

I liked using it as an android sms app, until I replied to one too many sms over signal because signal always defaults to signal, rather than whichever protocol the person sent you a message via. People uninstall the app, or use iOS. Signal constantly defaulting to a protocol the person on the other end isn't using was too much, so I stopped using signal as my sms app.

I hate that, now that I've stopped using signal as my sms app, it wasn't storing sms in android's common sms store. Now chunks of history are missing, trapped in signal.

The desktop client seems fundamentally broken, often taking 5-10 minutes to sync messages in.

I hate that I can only mute conversations for 1 or 2 hours, 1 or 7 days, 1 year, or forever.

I hate that I can't mute a group and still receive @s.

I hate that it is tied to my phone number.

I think signal offers a really bad experience. I prefer keybase, for many reasons. However when my mother and sister and grandmother needed a way to share pictures and videos (which mms would convert to garbage quality), I set them up with signal. Keybase's mobile client is, unfortunately, specifically bad at media. Signal is decent at it.

Although, the keybase devs as recently as yesterday said they'll be polishing the mobile experience in the coming weeks. Maybe soon I can in good conscience not recommend signal and start pushing keybase among my family. Keybase did also recently streamlined their onboarding process to not require a password- you can just download and go.

Edited for spelling errors.

Microsoft is a company like any other, and like any other company we should keep an eye on what they're doing.

But too often the people who "remember Microsoft's bad practices" are completely unwilling to reevaluate the company based on what they're actually doing _now_, instead preferring to cling to illogical biases based on an old grudge.

Your comment misses the point that it is still a monumental and needless waste.

I'm personally excited for ipfs, but I've stopped following releases / am feeling burnt out by the slow pace of development. Still, good to see creative uses pop up in my internet bubble!

Or part of a network that doesn't want to issue generic API tokens to random users. Since this irccloud is implemented as a specific app integration, if I understand correctly this would be more appealing to administrators and moderators.

My favorite example:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HZvzW4eitdo

There's also baobab for Linux, but I find that less intuitive.