jbaber's comments

On: Ask HN: Share your personal website

[jbaber]

https://jbaber.sdf.org/

What remains of my personal site that I've been messing with since about 1998.

On: You are not required to close your <p>, <li>, <img>, or <br> tags in HTML

[jbaber]

I usually just write html tables, then convert to markdown via pandoc. It's a crazy world we live in.

On: Sopro TTS: A 169M model with zero-shot voice cloning that runs on the CPU

[jbaber]

I am unhappy about the criminal dimension of voice cloning, too, but there are plenty of use cases.

e.g. If I could have a (local!) clone of my own voice, I could get lots of wait-on-the-phone chores done by typing on my desktop to VOIP while accomplishing other things.

[anigbrowl → jbaber]

But why do you need it to be a clone of your voice? A generic TTS like Siri or a vocaloid would be sufficient.

On: Total monthly number of StackOverflow questions over time

[jbaber]

Having gotten used to SO, I was shocked when I found I could mark multiple answers correct on AskMetafilter. It felt like an innovation.

On: Show HN: My not-for-profit search engine with no ads, no AI, & all DDG bangs

[jbaber]

I thought ddg supported !s at arbitrary locations, but came across enough exceptions that I now invariably put them at the beginning or end.

On: The entire New Yorker archive is now digitized

[jbaber]

I subscribe, but stare right through ads, unnoticing. Do they really not have that margin ad for berets anymore?

On: The lightest notes app implementation in 111 loc

[jbaber]

Every time I want to do things like this, I run into limits on the length of the hash, and it differing for different browsers. Did you get around this?

[medv → jbaber]

Chrome limit is 2MB, Firefox is 1MB, WebKit is no limit.

Here is the Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky:

- https://medv.io/goto/crime-and-punishment-by-fyodor-dostoevs...

On: The Legacy of Nicaea

[jbaber]

There are many meme images of a phrase like "I came to give presents to children and punch heretics. And I'm all out of presents." on top of an icon of St. Nicholas.

On: Chafa: Terminal Graphics for the 21st Century

[jbaber]

Wow. Thanks for this recommendation! I have multiple times half-baked something like this using ffmpeg to dump out thumbnails and make cuts.

On: Cryptids

[jbaber]

Your comment hinted I'd actually want to read it. Thanks!