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@ JoeByeThen @hexbear.net

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Anime & Donghua @hexbear.net

JoeByeThen [he/him, they/them] @hexbear.net 2h ago

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7h ago

Home Economics

7h ago

Indian university faces backlash for presenting Chinese robot as its own

JoeByeThen [he/him, they/them] @hexbear.net 7h ago

Oh, lol. I read that as Indiana and thought a bunch of US kids tried to pull a fast one. Lol.

12h ago

The open-source voice synthesis studio powered by Qwen3-TTS.

JoeByeThen [he/him, they/them] @hexbear.net 12h ago

Got it going on my win10 box. Had to downgrade to the 0.1.10 version, 0.1.12 didn't wanna work for me. Their cuda support is buggy, but 45 seconds of audio took about 10 minutes on my CPU. Not sold on quality of the qwen model yet. But to be fair I used kind of a jokey audio. It generates the speech fine but I think my jokey sample may have confused its ability to handle tonality. I'll give it a couple more shots. I see potential, at least. Those screenshots showing timeline and track editing aren't real tho and I question their judgement on sharing that.

14h ago

How to Avoid Losing Friends Over Politics

JoeByeThen [he/him, they/them] @hexbear.net 14h ago

They're not really lost if you know where they're buried.

1d ago

What "conspiracy theories" do you believe in?

https://www.thenation.com/article/society/gates-covid-data-ihme/

Don't forget poisoning the well for legitimate criticism of Gates.

1d ago

Theory for burgerlanders

https://annas-archive.li/md5/21474f35eff9cd8245359d7ef2f90550

I found Das Kapital for Beginners by Michael Wayne pretty approachable. It has pictures!

Also, Parenti is a great Polemicist. All his stuff is easy reading imo.

1d ago

LLM-generated passwords 'fundamentally weak,' experts say

Hunter

1d ago

Canada sidesteps UN scrutiny over assisted dying

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-15567343/canada-assisted-suicide-laws-diabetic-dead-family.html

Just ran across this. I know it's the Daily Mail but, in what I'm sure is a total coincidence, they cover a lot of maid and Covid stuff other more reputable outlets don't.

2d ago

Can a .torrent file be a virus or malware by itself?

Probably FF being overzealous. I would just double check that the file is definitely a torrent and not named something like ReallyCoolStuff.torrent.exe.

2d ago

Warships can be sent to the seabed, Leader warns in response to Trump’s threats

2d ago

Gabital - Fantasy Capitalism 101: #43 Lease

2d ago

Gabital - Fantasy Capitalism 101: #43 Lease

2d ago

The open-source voice synthesis studio powered by Qwen3-TTS.

https://www.fec.gov/data/receipts/individual-contributions/?committee_id=C00825851

2d ago

Warships can be sent to the seabed, Leader warns in response to Trump’s threats

Oh, I know about them! Had this saved for future sharing.

2d ago

Warships can be sent to the seabed, Leader warns in response to Trump’s threats

That made me think of the fire that broke out on the Bonhomme Richard about five years ago.

Oh I missed that one. Too much going on in 2020.

A Navy report published in 2021 lists numerous deficiencies in leadership, firefighting training, and equipment that contributed to the loss of the ship. In his 3 August endorsement of the report, United States Pacific Fleet commanding admiral Samuel Paparo characterized the crew as "unprepared" and their training and readiness as "deficient" while calling out "a lack of familiarity with requirements and procedural noncompliance at all levels of command." Navy fire safety protocols enacted after the 2012 loss of attack submarine USS Miami in a similar fire were not followed, and Bonhomme Richard's captain, executive officer, command master chief, and chief engineer were criticized for leadership failures that "directly led to the loss" of the ship.

That x Every Ship and Base out there.

2d ago

Warships can be sent to the seabed, Leader warns in response to Trump’s threats

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Millennium_Challenge_2002

This one?

2d ago

Warships can be sent to the seabed, Leader warns in response to Trump’s threats

We're wholly unprepared for an enemy that would be willing to take the fight to us.

A really good example of how much mayhem can be caused with minimal resources and just a little bit of effort are the DC Sniper attacks that happened early 2002.

2d ago

Warships can be sent to the seabed, Leader warns in response to Trump’s threats

ngl, it would be pretty hilarious if the US's Navy fleet just kinda disappeared over night. Like with enough planning, I don't doubt that it would be possible. I did some time in the USN many years ago, when I was much younger and slightly dumber, and I shit you not there was a fire on my ship AT LEAST every other day. These ships are not well maintained, all that MIC money isn't going to the crew or equipment maintenance. In many ways the military itself is run like a business, which means your infrastructure divisions are worried about balancing budgets and cutting costs as much as any private company.

Plus, back when 911 happened it always struck me how little came afterwards. My friends and I were expecting the weeks following to be filled with car bombs and attacks of the power infrastructure. Crickets. We're wholly unprepared for an enemy that would be willing to take the fight to us.

2d ago

Absolute Batman slaps