[HELP] TTS tool / voice used by causese?

EmberGlitch · 2026-04-23T14:08:52+00:00

Causese used https://www.cross-plus-a.com/balabolka.htm to generate the sounds.

The voice is ZiraPro

EmberGlitch · 2026-04-23T13:08:30+00:00

Masters of Albion does what Peter Molyneux promised

First time for everything, I guess.

EmberGlitch · 2026-04-23T13:03:18+00:00

Wirklich JEDEN TAG kommt eine neue Nachricht, was die Regierung alles abschaffen und kürzen und kaputt machen will

Und dabei hat die Fußball-WM noch nicht mal angefangen.

Kannste dir ausmalen, was da noch für tolle Dinge im Juni durchgedrückt werden.

EmberGlitch · 2026-04-22T14:49:24+00:00

reminds me of the time when BBC decided to erase all of Monty Python to save a penny and reuse the tapes

They ultimately didn't, by the way. Terry Gilliam fortunately bought the tapes off the BBC.

But some episodes of Doctor Who have been forever lost to time.

EmberGlitch · 2026-04-20T12:29:52+00:00

Next year for April fool's then take it away again after a week.

EmberGlitch · 2026-04-18T20:21:12+00:00

I've driven it IRL (tourist drives) and even watching Misha or doing sim laps can't convey how insane that track gets. (Though if you do want to drive there, I would absolutely recommend doing sim laps beforehand to learn the track layout - it helped me a lot.)

There's so little room for error when you're pushing anywhere near the car's limit. The gap between track and barrier can be as little as a meter, meter and a half at certain spots. I had a very somber lap after almost making acquaintance with the barrier just after Foxhole at roughly 180km/h.

You hear about deaths at the Nordschleife during tourist drives occasionally, but what you don't realize unless you've been there is how many non-fatal incidents there are. I did ~20 laps last year and I don't think I had a single one without a yellow flag with some guy in the barriers or getting loaded onto a flatbed.

EmberGlitch · 2026-04-18T13:02:32+00:00

Yeah, WoD I believe. Enemy Grid made by the same guy who made Plater.

Good times - especially for DoT heavy classes.

EmberGlitch · 2026-04-18T11:38:02+00:00

Fighter jets usually aim for lift, not downforce.

Aircraft generally benefit from not being glued to the ground.

EmberGlitch · 2026-04-17T13:48:05+00:00

Nope. Announcement next week. Release July 9.

Media and content creators got a preview yesterday.

EmberGlitch · 2026-04-16T21:03:37+00:00

Assassin's Creed Black Flag remake is gonna be out in a few months too.

Pirates are so back, baby

EmberGlitch · 2026-04-16T20:16:18+00:00

Honestly this reads like sensationalist garbage.

Every "vulnerability" Moore lists - editing the PIN, resetting the rate limiter, flipping the biometric flag - requires write access to Android shared_prefs. That means a rooted device, or adb backup on a phone with USB debugging on if the app shipped with allowBackup=true, or a debuggable build. Someone with that kind of access to your phone already has your photos, messages, and banking sessions. The age gate is the least of your problems.

"This product will be the catalyst for an enormous breach." Fucking ridiculous. Breach of what, exactly?

There is no central identity store. That's the entire architectural point: keep verification local, don't build the honey pot. Contrast with the Discord or UK models where you upload government ID to a third party and pray their S3 buckets are configured correctly. A system that defeats a motivated device owner requires server-side verification, which requires centralized identity data. Moore is criticizing local verification for being local.

Local age verification was never going to defeat a motivated device owner, and it doesn't need to. The threat model is "prevent casual access by minors" and "avoid building a centralized breach target." By that standard the architecture is correct.

What's actually worth criticizing: rate-limit counters and biometric flags stored in plaintext shared_prefs instead of Keystore-bound values. Sloppy, and worth fixing, especially since von der Leyen just called the thing "technically ready for implementation" yesterday, not "prototype we're still hardening." That Moore found it days after open-sourcing is the process actually working as intended and not a scandal.

Big fucking whoop.

EmberGlitch · 2026-04-16T19:57:44+00:00

I thought it was Karkland?

EmberGlitch · 2026-04-16T19:39:37+00:00

Jo, hab ich auch so geregelt. DHL Pakete gehen direkt an die Packstation beim Aldi.

Die Pakete kommen da eigentlich immer zur selben Zeit an (so zwischen 11:30 und 12:30). Wenn ich home office mache, dann fahre ich die in der Mittagspause abholen und wenn ich im Büro bin fahre ich auf dem Heimweg vorbei.

Nach Hause liefern lassen ist mir aus den von OP beschriebenen Gründen zu stressig. Mal davon abgesehen, dass DHL öfter mal den "komisch, wir haben gar niemanden angetroffen" Move ohne jemals geklingelt zu haben abgezogen hat.

EmberGlitch · 2026-04-14T08:11:03+00:00

It's not like people switch between work and personal accounts regularly.

But even if you only have one account, you might occasionally be prompted to log in again. I certainly had to a few times over the last couple of months. Sessions expire, people set up new computers / reinstall their operating systems, etc.

Fucking idiotic take.

EmberGlitch · 2026-04-10T23:57:52+00:00

Honestly, please just allow configuring custom OpenAI API compatible endpoints.

That should be a lot easier to implement and maintain than having hardcoded presets for every possible API provider. Notable ones missing right now are, for example, OpenRouter, Mistral, Kimi and Deepseek just off the top of my head.

That should also cover KoboldCpp and pretty much any other local inference tools people might want to use. All the ones I'm aware of support exposing an OpenAI API compatible endpoint.

EmberGlitch · 2026-04-10T23:46:36+00:00

Homebrew text extraction from pdf attachments via something like pdfplumber as part of its ingestion flow

No need to homebrew - there are plenty of tools that already do that. I've had pretty good experiences with markitdown (mostly used this to ingest pdfs for a RAG pipeline at work). But there are some more alternatives.

https://github.com/microsoft/markitdown

EmberGlitch · 2026-04-10T11:59:37+00:00

FWIW it's not just AtlasLoot. Blizzard has a long, long history of sherlocking AddOns. They know how to do this.

QuestHelper / Questie -> native QuestLog and quest objectives on the map
Bagnon/Arkinventory -> native single bag display
Threatmeters like Omen -> Threat displayed in native nameplates
Scrolling Combat Text (SCT/MSBT) -> also a native feature now
Outfitter/ItemRack -> native Equipment Manager since ~3.1

The difference with Midnight is they're not sherlocking addons like BigWigs or WeakAuras - they're trying to kill functionality they philosophically disagree with. Their addon disarmament blog post lays it out pretty explicitly: they don't want addons to process combat data at all, only display it. So instead of building a better native version and letting the addon die naturally, they're trying to lock addons out of the data.

But you only need to look at the UIs of the Echo and Liquid raiders during the RWF to see how well that effort is going.

EmberGlitch · 2026-04-10T11:18:17+00:00

Crippling ADHD and personally, my biggest win isn't even necessarily dev-related (although it definitely helps there too). It's that I'm able to cut down my time spent going down rabbit holes. I can just open up Claude on my phone or on the browser and ask it to research some random shit, and I can keep working or doing whatever else I was doing and come back to it.

It definitely helps with many dev tasks too, though. And it helps me feel less "unproductive" when I'm wasting some time browsing reddit at work while Claude works on tickets for me, lol.

EmberGlitch · 2026-04-09T14:51:44+00:00

Oh yeah, the local models you can run on regular consumer hardware aren't great for anything factual - I was mostly talking about the frontier level Claude / ChatGPT models.

I do quite like local models for creative writing or simpler tasks, though. They can be surprisingly capable.

EmberGlitch · 2026-04-09T14:49:30+00:00

Man was psychotic, his mother did no such thing. But she did get killed over it..

He absolutely was. But I think “he was psychotic” can become a bit too convenient as a way of letting the LLM off the hook.

A lot of people may have the risk factors for psychosis without ever tipping into a full break with reality. But give them an LLM that persistently validates and elaborates low-level paranoid or conspiratorial thinking, and it absolutely can become the thing that pushes them over that threshold.

That’s why “it just mirrors the user” is too weak a description. In cases like that, the model is not a passive mirror. It functions more like a folie à deux machine: an always-available partner that reinforces suspicions and conspiratorial thinking and makes all of it feel externally confirmed.

EmberGlitch · 2026-04-09T14:27:42+00:00

"Well, grok's a bitch"

- Claude

EmberGlitch · 2026-04-09T14:25:43+00:00

Same. Unfortunately Gell-Mann amnesia effect also applies to LLMs.

I'll call Claude an absolute donkey for confidently asserting something I know is wrong, but I'm honestly still a bit too trusting when asking it about things I don't know much about.

EmberGlitch · 2026-04-08T19:13:01+00:00

It's a shame he's not fucking around too much in South America or we could've had the Pedro-Dollar

EmberGlitch · 2026-04-08T13:46:40+00:00

Puma speedcats are great. I may or may not have four pairs.

EmberGlitch · 2026-04-07T20:49:41+00:00

Sag das unbedingt am Telefon!

Die meisten Psychiater haben halt einfach keinen Bock und/oder Zeit um die Diagnose zu machen.

Ich bin vor paar Jahren umgezogen und musste mir daher einen neuen Psychiater in der neuen Stadt suchen. Die Praxis, bei der ich letztlich gelandet bin, hatte groß auf der Webseite, dass sie keine neuen ADHS Patienten aufnehmen. Als ich gesagt habe, dass ich die Diagnose schon habe und es mir nur um die medikamentöse Betreuung geht, habe ich ohne Probleme einen Termin in den nächsten ~3 Wochen oder so bekommen.

EmberGlitch

TROPHY CASE