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New comment by huskyr in "TTS still sucks"

huskyr — Mon, 10 Nov 2025 22:57:42 +0000

Yup, ElevenLabs stills rules pretty much in this space. Especially if you're looking for non-English models it's really hard to find anything good although the latest Chatterbox[1] now supports 23 languages.

[1]: https://github.com/resemble-ai/chatterbox

New comment by huskyr in "The librarian immediately attempts to sell you a vuvuzela"

huskyr — Wed, 11 Jun 2025 07:01:07 +0000

Can't wait for all school essays promoting dubious crypto schemes of some sort.

New comment by huskyr in "How I got 100% off my train travel"

huskyr — Thu, 20 Mar 2025 08:15:32 +0000

Seeing the rates here for other countries at least it's a better deal: 50% for delays of 30-60m, and 100% for delays of an hour or longer.

New comment by huskyr in "I'm the Canadian who was detained by ICE for two weeks"

huskyr — Wed, 19 Mar 2025 15:50:33 +0000

Germany apparently is already warning trans and non-binary people when travelling to the US: https://www.advocate.com/news/germany-warns-transgender-trav...

New comment by huskyr in "A Letter to the American People"

huskyr — Sat, 01 Mar 2025 22:36:40 +0000

The situation in Hungary in the best case, Russia in the worst.

New comment by huskyr in "Where is James Bond? Trapped in an ugly stalemate with Amazon"

huskyr — Mon, 30 Dec 2024 22:41:31 +0000

Being good in selling stuff and running servers doesn't mean you are automatically great at producing movies and television series, even if you have a lot of money.

New comment by huskyr in "Useful built-in macOS command-line utilities"

huskyr — Wed, 06 Nov 2024 15:15:34 +0000

I didn't know that, thanks!

New comment by huskyr in "Useful built-in macOS command-line utilities"

huskyr — Wed, 06 Nov 2024 09:34:37 +0000

I've never heard of networkQuality, that's seems like quite a useful tool.

New comment by huskyr in "Useful built-in macOS command-line utilities"

huskyr — Wed, 06 Nov 2024 09:33:55 +0000

For a GUI version, Amphetamine is quite nice (and free). https://apps.apple.com/us/app/amphetamine/id937984704?mt=12

New comment by huskyr in "Show HN: A minimalist (brutalist?) website for sharing all your links"

huskyr — Sat, 02 Nov 2024 23:33:06 +0000

I made something similar eight(!) years ago called Valenski. It's a SASS library but it also only provides a couple of classes and some sane defaults: https://hay.github.io/valenski/

New comment by huskyr in "What is the point of an online conference?"

huskyr — Fri, 01 Nov 2024 08:29:37 +0000

> Next time I get a chance to organise an online conference, I'll steal from Jamie's playbook and invert the model. Viz. ask for pre-recorded talks, distributed to attendees just prior to the conference, with curated live chat + demo sessions with the speaker(s) about the talk. Make the Hallway Track as big and boisterous and charming as possible.

Agreed. This is so much better than having to watch live talks of people stumbling with their camera setup causing the Q&A to be canceled because of that.

New comment by huskyr in "Algorithmic Music Generation with Python"

huskyr — Wed, 30 Oct 2024 16:32:44 +0000

Mercury is also pretty sweet as a live coding environment: https://github.com/tmhglnd/mercury

New comment by huskyr in "Why World War WordPress Will End with a Zombie Fork"

huskyr — Mon, 14 Oct 2024 22:17:18 +0000

I doubt many developers will get on a WP Engine fork of WordPress. Maybe if they funded an independent non-profit foundation that would take care of a fork that could work, but you still need the traction of the community to make it a success.

New comment by huskyr in "WordPress.org's latest move involves taking control of a WP Engine plugin"

huskyr — Sun, 13 Oct 2024 11:45:20 +0000

I think the only reasonable course of action for Automattic would be for Mullenweg to step down and for them to make a mea culpa, but i doubt that will happen. Given that half of the web runs on WordPress, i wonder how many people will actually move away from WP as a CMS. Maybe if there is a succesful community fork.

New comment by huskyr in "We spent $20 to achieve RCE and accidentally became the admins of .mobi"

huskyr — Thu, 12 Sep 2024 07:24:59 +0000

Yup. Think about what happened when the Internet Society almost sold the .org TLD to Ethos Capital and they were planning on raising the registration prices by a lot.

New comment by huskyr in "Coqui.ai TTS: A Deep Learning Toolkit for Text-to-Speech"

huskyr — Wed, 12 Jun 2024 15:10:06 +0000

Piper seems very interesting, but unfortunately the last time i tried it on macOS it didn't seem to work (anymore).

New comment by huskyr in "Show HN: Unforget, the note-taking app I always wanted: offline first, encrypted"

huskyr — Wed, 12 Jun 2024 15:08:23 +0000

iCloud works fine, and there are many alternatives as well, as mentioned in this thread.

New comment by huskyr in "The Worst Website in the Entire World"

huskyr — Wed, 15 May 2024 15:08:40 +0000

Reminds me of this classic 'feature' from Lotus Notes (scroll all the way down on the page): https://web.archive.org/web/20120123085307/http://homepage.m...

New comment by huskyr in "The Worst Website in the Entire World"

huskyr — Wed, 15 May 2024 15:00:10 +0000

That looks awful. Unfortunately you could probably write a very similair article about many other corporate or governmental websites. E.g, applying for an ESTA felt like registering for some kind of scam. Or the systems to let friends and family park for a reduced fee in many municipalities also seem to be designed by people who hate humanity in general.

New comment by huskyr in "VueJS turns 10 years old"

huskyr — Sat, 03 Feb 2024 18:00:06 +0000

...without the cruft and needless complexity of Angular 1 ;)