/tech/ - Technology

>>21563
Have a look at the FestVox project (http://festvox.org/) or the carnival gui (https://carnival.sourceforge.net/).

>>21565
Thank you anon. I'll try these out and see if they are good enough for a product. :)
>>21564
I have no idea and don't really care. It would not be very useful if so.

>>21563
As far as TTS goes, elevenlabs is the platinum standard. Fantastic, ultra realistic (99% of the time anyway) voices. Has free and paid versions.

Capcut is free, has a web version, and automatically makes text to captions

>>21597
thansk! I did not have much luck before but i will try these too!
There is so much low quality content that utilizes TTS on youtube that still gets a lot of views, it is kind of insane.
Probably the market will be saturated soon but i think it seems a good idea to get in whilst can.

>>21563
TTS sounds horrible, use your voice. I hate the spongebob sounding one from TT especially

>>21860
>For buses and tram you have to download the app and scan some qr code while boarding
That's different than a plane ticket.

>>21860
I give them a 2e coin and say my destination

Some time ago I had to buy some computer parts, I looked online, put the thing I needed into the virtual "shopping cart", and when I tried to pay it asked me if I wanted to log in, register, or continue as a guest. I clicked to continue, filled in the billing stuff, paid by card… and then got an email that everything is in order and they thank me for buying there and oh by the way, they made an account for me, here's my password.

Why let me buy stuff without registration if buying automatically registers me?? If I knew it would do that I would have just bought the thing in person.

Amtrak anon?

>>21860
buses here let you put coins into a machine

>>21937
It can be tough to get people to switch to less harmful alternatives.

>>21939
’d like to interject for a moment…

…What you’re referring to as windows, is in fact, NSA/windows, or as I’ve recently taken to calling it, NSA plus Windows. Windows is not an operating system unto itself, but rather another free component of a fully functioning NSA system made useful by the NSA corelibs, spyware and data collection system components comprising a full surveillance system.

Many computer users run a modified version of the NSA system every day, without realizing it. Through a peculiar turn of events, the version of the NSA data collection system which is widely used today is often called Windows, and many of its users are not aware that it is basically the NSA system, developed by the NSA.

There really is a Windows, and these people are using it, but it is just a part of the system they use. Windows is the piece of trash: the program in the system that steals the system resources from the other programs that you run. This piece of crap is an essential part of an NSA system, but useless in practice; it can only function in the context of a complete NSA system. Windows is normally used in combination with the NSA surveillance system: the whole system is basically NSA with Windows added, or NSA/Windows. All the so-called Windows systems are really distributions of NSA/Windows!

>>21937
But there's no bait and switch, people were doing this precisely expecting this to force fbi.gov to take such measures. This is (albiet stupid) direct action working.
>>21939
Oh thank god linux won't have to deal with Agent Kochinskioids.

>>21939
>person whose entire life is dedicated to grifting through a computer acts like using linux is some high maintenance thing
LMAO'ing rn

>>21942
Kek

yeah, i just emulate stuff and use shaders for recreating the CRT look

Most retro collectors upgrade their old rigs with solid state devices that emulate harddrives and floppies. Yet they do like hot rodding these old rigs and making them sing as it is a fraction of the cost of getting impressive modern over clocked hardware and you can get massive gains.

as always nostalgia is really just pining for youth. as a boomer, OP would have been a grown-ass adult when these things first got on the scene. no wonder there's little nostalgia for shitty tech
and yeah there were some dope games. even on the PC, the DOS era was immensely creative. there was a lot of shit too of course, we only remember the good stuff
>>21936
amiga people are something special

>>21930
don't come calling the next time you need a game with it's original ost. plus computers still sound like vacuum cleaners at high stress.

>>21938
The biggest thing that changed was users were far less babied in the beginning. A bunch of users early on looked at how expensive word processors were and simply cloned Electric Pencil themselves thus why you have hundreds of cheap knock offs all very similar as users just programmed their own word processor so they didn't have to pay $100 for one then they turned around and put it on the market. Also why you had the dos war on the TRS-80 as instead of just dealing with TRS-Dos being shit the users base just wrote their own improved clone and again put it on the market. I mean back in the late 70s the idea of a computer that shipped without a programming language and machine code monitor packed in was unthinkable.

>>18806
Yes, officer. My favorite website to discuss all the leftist hactivism I do is www.iadmitttocommittingacrime.com

Ok anons, here's a subject we should discuss without glowing all over ourselves: What would you recommend a third year CS uni student (not me btw) to get on to the path of becoming le hackermmanzz? Is knowing a lot about Computer Networking useful? Cause I've put a lot of focus points into that as of late…

>>21808
1 - take a networking class if your university cs program has one as an elective
2 - You usually cant get into hacking right away, usually that happens after being a cybersecurity analyst or something first.
3 - Certifications: You have to get some cybersecurity (and possibly general IT) certifications. OSCP is a good one. You have to do your own research here as there are a ton of cybersec certifications and there are new ones being made. Try to focus on the ones you see most commonly in job postings

>>21809
addendum: you probably need to learn scripting/coding to an extent as well, usually bash/linux shell and python

>>19031
>>19054
https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/crimethinc-recipes-for-disaster
kind of a grab bag of different stuff, but includes a lot of public propaganda stuff

>>21736
It is more bloat, even what Active Worlds sent back to clients during the 2000s for its 3D world was tiny compared to what a normal webpage is. Also Amiga OS 3.1 fully installed is less then megabytes thus still tiny compared to a modern webpage.

>>21728
I wish Gopher or Gemini would be more popular. They are much simpler and they put the focus on content instead of looks. You can use Lynx or Gopherus for accessing Gopher and Amfora for Gemini.

Read these for more info:
>https://gopher.floodgap.com/gopher/ (use the Veronica-2 search engine to find gopher servers, there is also a listing that contains all known Gopher servers)
>https://gopher.zone

>>21814
Looks are important, the protocol just shouldn't be a feature-creep mess.

>>21814
it was hilarious reading threads on places like hackernews when gemini was getting some hype. the captains of industry entrepreneurs there were seething that their entire identity built around making some js transpilation 2ms faster for their FAGMAN master was being threatened by this incompatible version of the web.
too bad gemini couldn't appeal to the normies much but i still like it, maintain a page there and still read what people post there. it's refreshing to be free of the gazillion social web tie-ins and irrelevant tracking and other trash on every www page.
gemini is not free from the threat of webification though. it could easily support javascript by having the server just serve js and popular clients would just need to add an interpreter for it, bringing us back to square one. so gemini wouldn't have been the saviour even if it became more popular.

>>21736
they flooded the standards bodies with their people too, making it more unwieldy and complex just so they could serve web "apps" through it, not just pages.

>>20513
the doomer in me sometimes thinks you can't save those who don't want to be, so I take comfort in the availability at least of decentralized and anonymized infrastructure of the internet and try to keep up with it when I can.

>>20513
convenience is efficiency

>>21783
Why pay to get around copyright protection when you just fire up a debugger and step through the machine code to find the DRM code then just edit the assembly so the DRM never triggers. This is far from convenient the end result is your program running much faster without the DRM code while all those that paid complain the DRM screws up their game due to false positive (or just get a copy from someone that did all that work). Hell even the retro scene doesn't like dealing with ancient DRM and many will modify their vintage consoles to run rip out lockout protection for example a jail broken PS3 is far more useful then stock.

I mean, download qbittorrent and the rest you should be able to figure out on your own, takes a bit of exploration, but I promise you, in less than 10 minutes you'll have it working. The reason people don't learn things is laziness, not a big conspiracy.

I think the only thing keeping that which can be pirated relevant is piracy, they need enough people to steal it and talk about it to generate intrigue so people buy it.
Streaming services are an insurmountable expense for the vast majority of 'oomers except a handful of giga-whales, and they will fall for the same reason TV did: better entertainment is freely available online or at most a one time purchase from independent people / teams that have no anylytics to overoptimize their creative decisions to death over.
Streaming services are the final stand for an antiquated way of media circulation that has no place in the current material conditions. Dare I say it's blasphemous to capitalism itself that these companies persist.

>>21788
>whole green post making up quotes
channers are so predictable

>>21789
>>21790
gadget malfunction. Sorry, I forgot to quote you
>cheap gadget
Just because it is cheap doesn't mean it is good or that you should buy it. What happens when it inevitably breaks? You have to buy a new one or spend time fixing it. Now multiply that with all the gadgets you learned to rely on, and what do you get? An alienated gadget maintenance specialist.

you should waste your precious time cleaning your room all by yourself because some loser still stuck in his 4chan phase is going to call you a lot of -oomer and -oid words lol

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>>21793
>you should waste your precious time cleaning your room
so true!! it leaves you more precious time to waste on an imageboard. it takes me a whole hour to clean the floors of my apartment. imagine all the shitposts I could read and write in that time. truly a waste.

>Does anyone know where I can get one of these bad boys on my PC and without limitations?
Never tried, but look up a FOSS one like Stable Distribution. If you're lucky, it has an easy way to install using python in a venv, like just copypasting a set of commands.
>I also archived the old AI thread from leftypol.
Ew, gross.

You can also just use the online ones at huggingface.co and see how far they get you.

CycleGANs
https://junyanz.github.io/CycleGAN/

>>18206
You probably won't be able to make it do concept art for you, but it does make some trippy abstract art

>>18204
This looks like more of a >>>/draw/ thread tbh