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skripp commented on Show HN: Glasses to detect smart-glasses that have cameras   github.com/NullPxl/banray... · Posted by u/nullpxl
shmel · 23 days ago
... by using your own glasses with a hidden camera? Sounds like a good guy with a gun to stop a bad guy with a gun.
skripp · 23 days ago
”I would feel pretty silly if my solution uses its own camera. So I'll be avoiding that.”

From the GitHub link.

skripp commented on VibeVoice: A Frontier Open-Source Text-to-Speech Model   microsoft.github.io/VibeV... · Posted by u/lastdong
simiones · 4 months ago
I read the comments praising these voices as very life like, and went to the page primed to hear very convincing voices. That is not at all what I heard though.

The voices are decent, but the intonation is off on almost every phrase, and there is a very clear robotic-sounding modulation. It's generally very impressive compared to many text-to-speech solutions from a few years ago, but for today, I find it very uninspiring. The AI generated voice you hear all over YouTube shorts is at least as good as most of the samples on this page.

The only part that seemed impressive to me was the English + (Mandarin?) Chinese sample, that one seemed to switch very seamlessly between the two. But this may well be simply because (1) I'm not familiar with any Chinese language, so I couldn't really judge the pronunciation of that, and (2) the different character systems make it extremely clear that the model needs to switch between different languages. Peut-être que cela n'aurait pas été si simple if it had been switching between two languages using the same writing system - I'm particularly curious how it would have read "simple" in the phrase above (I think it should be read with the French pronunication, for example).

And, of course, the singing part is painfully bad, I am very curious why they even included it.

skripp · 4 months ago
The male Chinese speakers had THICK American accents. Nothing really wrong with the language, but think the stereotype German speaking English. That was kind of strange to me.
skripp commented on DeepSeek Open Infra: Open-Sourcing 5 AI Repos in 5 Days   github.com/deepseek-ai/op... · Posted by u/ahsmha_
teekert · 10 months ago
Isn't Musk still on the open side? Isn't that what the whole Musk - Altman conflict is about?
skripp · 10 months ago
Maybe. We’ll see if he open sources grok 2 or if he just want others to open source their models and weights.
skripp commented on Elon Musk's Demolition Crew   projects.propublica.org/e... · Posted by u/raybb
skripp · 10 months ago
Is this a new thing? As a non-American the US is for us famous for the exact opposite in south/latin America.
skripp commented on Thousands of Pablo Picasso’s works in a new online archive   smithsonianmag.com/smart-... · Posted by u/bookofjoe
ajdude · a year ago
Wonder how much work it would be to download it all
skripp · a year ago
Extremely easy.

But the resolution of the images are absolutely horrible...

skripp commented on Germany may introduce conscription for all 18-year-olds   telegraph.co.uk/world-new... · Posted by u/walterbell
Bostonian · 2 years ago
This should not be necessary. By paying enough you can have a volunteer army, as the U.S. does.
skripp · 2 years ago
By giving up enough you can have the possibility of having the U.S. army help you. Unless they for some reason don’t want to.
skripp commented on Nesizm: NES emulator for Casio Prizm calculators   github.com/tswilliamson/n... · Posted by u/27theo
skripp · 2 years ago
Thread hijack: where can I get a replacement screen? Mine is very scratched up.
skripp commented on From Nand to Tetris (2017)   nand2tetris.org... · Posted by u/mikpanko
skripp · 2 years ago
I highly recommend you play the game “Turing complete” alongside this course. Will give you an additional visual way of looking at the problems.
skripp commented on Are Open-Source Large Language Models Catching Up?   arxiv.org/abs/2311.16989... · Posted by u/rkwz
wavemode · 2 years ago
Source for this? I know China's government firewall blocks ChatGPT (for obvious reasons) but I wasn't aware that OpenAI was blocking them in return.
skripp · 2 years ago
I live in China. You can't use it here easily. Even if you use a VPN you still need a non-Chinese phone number.
skripp commented on GIMP 3.0 has a release schedule   librearts.org/2023/11/gim... · Posted by u/pabs3
archerx · 2 years ago
A while back I was working on an indie game dev project and I wanted to see if I could do it without using Photoshop and in my naïveté I downloaded gimp expecting it to be an easy switch over. It was probably one of the most frustrating experiences in software in my life, I knew what I wanted to do but it seemed like gimp was going out of its way to make it as difficult and unintuitive as possible. I was literally getting angry in front of my computer which never happens.

My solution in the end was to download Krita, without using any tutorials I was able to figure it out and was working on assets and textures with very little friction.

Now days Photopea, a web based editor is much more useful and less frustrating than gimp.

I still think of gimp as one of the worst UX experiences in my life and it makes blenders interface seem amazing in comparison which is sad because blender too has an awful unintuitive interface that keeps getting “fixed”.

In the end, what the gimp team should focus on is the UX of gimp and make using it not feel like pulling teeth.

skripp · 2 years ago
I also can’t stand the gimp ui/ux. I haven’t tried it myself but I just googled this[0].

[0] https://github.com/Diolinux/PhotoGIMP

u/skripp

KarmaCake day135April 7, 2019View Original