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mcc, to random
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For the last two years I've been semi-daily posting "What I'm Listening to Today" links here. Mastodon has some problems with threads containing hundreds of posts, so I re-create the thread once a year.

If you'd like to see, here's my "year two" thread: https://mastodon.social/@mcc/110266770603341546

Or, alternately, every song from year two in the least practical format possible: A 301-song, 38-hour YouTube playlist (note: video #1 contains flashing):

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLLIjft6ja7DM_kacOW8zo2vtr-aWpTNX6

And here's the thread for "year three":

mcc,
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What I'm listening to today: "THEM5000 (Monomachine only track)"

A futuristic, kinda IDM-y electronic jam. Flits stream-of-consciousness between several different ideas while maintaining the same dark groove. Actually kinda feels like a little mixtape, except for the fact it is six minutes long. Nice energy.

Made on the Monomachine, the old idiosyncratic Elektron box that defined the sound of SOPHIE and Quaristice-era Autechre.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q8nyRgppkng

peterb, to random
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Someone who has played the Grandia games, please sell me on the re-masters. Worth my time?

mcc,
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@peterb asked in a private vidgames forum and got these three responses from @nfinit.bsky.com, @beigemoth , and (DD)

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mcc, to random
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"NoAI" patches for video games that remove all assets that were partially or entirely created with mass-scraped large NN models and replacing those game elements with intentionally crude MS Paint drawings

mcc, to random
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Today, in poorly considered UI messages:

"Loaded model in 1.43e+02s"

mcc,
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@orlin I think it is

mcc, to random
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OMG KORG RELEASED WHAT https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Bi0V6TgB5M

This makes so much sense! Looking at this I feel like this is what I've been Actually wanting from the moment they announced the NTS-1 I just didn't know it

mcc,
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@benjohn @polotek Incidentally I just ran across this… https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dTXn-WfZHUw noteworthy both for the fact it seems to work pretty well, and also that i can't remember seeing a second instance of this workflow.

mcc, to random
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Considering having a nice day today

mcc,
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Not saying I'm going to do it. Just considering. Maybe

peterb, to random
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Coming next Friday: the one you've all been asking for.

mcc,
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@peterb Mr. B, I have a question

If I were going to play exactly one game from the classic Wizardry series (or if such a thought horrifies you, imagine I"m asking which one to play first), which one would you recommend? Assume I'm totally flexible about platform (but do have access to un-emulated NES and SNES hardware)

mcc,
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@peterb That is very interesting, thank you!

mcc, to random
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I think this is the bug in Mastodon that has the biggest gap between "the bug is small" and "my annoyance level at it is large" https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/28947

Short version: all language-related UI on mastodon.social choke (in one way or another) if a post has its language code in uppercase letters, despite BCP 47 (the controlling standard for country codes in software) requiring parsers treat unusual capitalizations equivalently. I run into this all the time.

mcc,
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It seems like it must be really easy to fix, but the main mastodon dev team legitimately has a ton of other stuff to do at all times so will probably never get to this, and I have still never gotten around to setting up a Mastodon test bed so I'm probably not going to be attempting a patch myself

hikari, to random EN
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dear twitter should i make my own linux distro

“you mean gnu/linux?”

no, win32/linux

i have a very specific vision for the kind of os i want but idk if it's a good use of my time

mcc,
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@hikari I was seriously considering installing ReactOS a month or so ago but when I looked into it it appears ReactOS has just never got that Big Community Love and the compatibility of ReactOS is worse than modern Wine.

So at that point… yeah , if I understand your proposal right that would be a useful thing, and when MS pulls the plug on Win10 there will be demand for that

Maybe u could even reuse the ReactOS shell. Seems "obvious" the ReactOS GUI probably runs in Wine

mcc, to random
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I would like to suggest you watch the part of this Commodore 64 demo from 5:06 on

https://youtu.be/9RVLPgfkXb4?t=306

mcc,
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@slowtiger Yes

mcc, to random
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Somebody should make an OS-agnostic program that searches the hard drive and returns a count of how many versions of Python you have installed

mcc,
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@mdione @demiurg is it possible to write a Python/sh polyglot?

mcc, to random
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Thinking about how Mozilla is "pivoting to AI" but DeepSpeech, one of the very few "AI" products you could possibly find a positive use for (pure-local speech recognition), is not only a Mozilla product but so abandoned that you actually have to downgrade to Python 3.9 to run it

mcc, to random
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Ok so. The story so far:

  • Late December I have an idea for a kinda-funny Web Art project I could make. It would require me to be able to "tokenize" a 4 hour video by word, that is, I'd need timestamps of the beginning of each word.
  • I assume this means using a text-to-speech library.
  • However, I don't want to use software that runs not-on-my-computer, or which is made by methods I consider unethical. This means using only old discontinued libraries, since all new ones are cloud-based. (1/3)
mcc,
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…Well… okay… okaayyyyyy… that's actually… pretty good…

I tried cutting out the first 10 minutes of my input file & running on that. It worked decently, and ran at slightly better than real time. Between the fact RAM was creeping up the whole time it ran, and a status message printed in the successful run but not the "silent" one, I conclude on the full run it just ran out of RAM. So I could get what I want by speech-reccing the thing in chunks. Or just use Vosk like several people recommended

mcc, (edited ) to random
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I'd apologize for my nonstop posting today about weird problems with python speech recognition systems but judging from "metrics" there actually appears to be nothing that entertains y'all more than when I experience extended mental anguish due to software

mcc, to random
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Been trying to figure out—in principle, the reason StackOverflow is CC-BY-SA is to allow for community mirrors, right?

Is there any way that I could just get a total local mirror of StackOverflow and search that locally, instead of having to visit StackOverflow which really doesn't deserve my support?

…Or does SO ban scraping, and the only reason for CC-BY-SA was so StackOverflow could (now that the rugpull's happened) claim the right to block u from delerng posts?? CC for them but not for us?

mcc,
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@brandon wait, where does non-commercial come from? That's not a condition of BY-SA.

I don't think BY-SA gives you permission to relicense under BY-NC.

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