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Using Piper With Foliate For Text-to-Speech
Recently, I’ve discovered that the Piper text-to-speech utility can be coupled with the Foliate e-book reader to really enhance the TTS experience. For those unaware, Piper is a TTS service that uses voices trained by VITS. What does that mean exactly? To put it in the simplest of terms, the voices are machine trained using…
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maxcso – Batch Compression Script For Linux/Termux
Over the past week, I’ve rediscovered my love for the PlayStation 2, and its handheld counterpart, the PSP. Emulation for both consoles has come a very long way, especially on Android. PPSSPP and AetherSX2 (abandoned) do an excellent job of emulating just about anything I throw at my Pixel Fold. The only problem, though, is…
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Thwarting Annoying Traffic
Along with being a seasoned Linux user, I’m also a security minded server admin. This one’s for you webmasters and admins out there who are tired of seeing bad actors trawling your sites for vulnerabilities to leverage. If you’re like me, you probably see a lot of bogus requests going to places on your server…
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Facetime HD Webcam Driver For Debian/Ubuntu
So, this is my first time building and distributing a DEB package, and it may not work as intended. I don’t have a second Mac on hand that I can test with, but I’m posting this for any other Mac users out there that are having a hard time getting the internal webcam working. The…
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Disabling Internal Keyboard on a Macbook and Linux
Welcome! This is my actual first post on this site. Allow me to preface it a bit, as I feel it’s a little necessary. Back in 2015, I took it upon myself to purchase a Macbook Pro. I’ve been a Linux enthusiast going on 15 years now, and the appeal of macOS was a Unix…