Thank you! Oh wow, espeak-ng is way better then Festival, tho it’s not that bad itself. Is there a reason to use the latter over the former? I’m only just using these tools for the first time.

You have a point with all this, but we should all be able to agree that a speech synthesis program made prior to the big AI invasion 1. did not make use of large-scale data scraping, nor were they the product of stealing anyone and everyone’s voices without a second thought, and 2. was likely made with much better intentions in mind then anything large companies are pushing currently, and 3. has far less of a negative impact on society and the environment at large. Even if the second one isn’t true, what does that mean for all of us? Should we refuse to run a piece of open source software because one singular person on the dev team turned out to be a shithead? That’s the direction I see this mindset going. Yes, we all should minimize the harm we do, as I am trying to do right now. I refuse to use any modern-day form of “generative” AI, so I decided to ask a community opposed to AI if there are any older, open source programs that could lend me a helping hand. No, I can’t confirm that every single line of code was written with good intentions, but how could anyone, for anything? I’m pretty shocked to see this take on an anti-AI community, because this is one step away from “well, we can’t stop it so lets just use it reluctantly instead of searching for other methods” which is the kind of idea that I think rarely holds water.

That’s a damn quote.

So wait, is this another hub for Lemmy’s servers? How is this different then just accessing Lemmy through a third party app? Is this a totally different platform despite accessing the same servers? I’m a bit confused.

I see, thank you!!

I see… Yikes. I know nothing about those other projects and I’ll look them up, but are they forks of Lemmy handled by different people, or just front ends TO Lemmy? Apologies if I’m missing something obvious.

Wait so if the Lemmy devs are transphobic… Should there not be a fork at this rate? Also, I’ve heard a lot of shit talked about .ml and seemingly for good reason but what’s the story with all this? How did it get this bad?

Read this as Wine 1.0 at first lol

As a Canadian, yeah, our wait times are rancid and they often get glossed over because of how bad America’s healthcare is in comparison. Don’t get me started on how Canadians will excuse any issue with the country because “at least we’re not as bad as America” and shit like that.

But damn it, I’d still take our busted healthcare system over virtually NO healthcare system. Fuck paying to live. Oh wait, that’s just capitalism.

Thought that said “Ardour Edition” and was wondering what it had to do with my DAW lmao

This is the most rational take I’ve seen on the possibility of a general strike. I’ve seen the argument that people need to suck it up and just do it together, right next to the counterpoint that some people simply can’t. They, or perhaps their children or loved ones, could die, and that’s something you can’t just ASK of people (unless you’re a government, apparently). And if not enough people managed to participate in the strike then they would have died in vain. Two things can be true at the same time, though, and I think a general strike is still a good idea, there just needs to be a decently large group of people (who know what they’re doing) to give it a kickstart. I’m sure more people would join as such a movement gained publicity.

But that assumes that the right and left are both searching for truth and a path to a better future. Any flavour of leftist can be wrong about something, but at least leftism attempts to help society at the end of the day. A conservative is only ever out for themself (and would likely get pissed with me for using “them” in the singular lol).

To be fair, most people who use AI already are.

If it could be vegan cheese, then I’d go for that. I think its good on toast and pizza is great, of course. I say I hardly like it because everyone else seems to die for it in all forms. Meanwhile I rarely go out of my way to have it unless its an integral part of something, like pizza.

It’s an Ultimate 2C wired. It’s like they aren’t properly implemented wtf?

Yeah, I downloaded that tool and it’s really useful but the buttons don’t show up at all. The kernel is up to date but I think what other people are saying may be true, they might not be mappable to begin with. That doesn’t explain the two face buttons not working, though.

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I hardly like cheese AND I’m asexual so this question hardly applies to me lol

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