I’m still waiting for a useable screen reader :(

This would involve a stream when using nginx as a reverse proxy, correct?

Well I have the vpn working but the connection seems to close after 2-5 minutes unless the client keeps talking to the server, at which point I have to ping the server from the client to re-open the tunnel. Is there a way to keep the tunnel open?

You are correct, I want the VPs’s IP to be what people see, not my home IP.

You mean nginx the regular web server, not nginx proxy manager, correct?

I’m fairly confident espeak is all you’re going to get that’s FOSS, local, and with any non English support. Yes every espeak language sounds like a Brittish guy badly pronouncing that language, and this includes the American English voice as well.

None of this may be relevant, but I’m curious what your use case is. I use TTS very extensively to consume media and have my preferences. None of them are open source, but as far as I know all operate locally, though they’re baked into other programs like screen readers and ebook readers.

I prefer older more robotic voices because they remain intelligible at high speed. Eloquence is a favorite, as are the older Apple voices like Fred and Ralph. I think it has gone by other names but TruVoice (spacing and capitalization may vary) is also up there. It was semi popular during the surreal meme era. Another memetic synth that’s a little before my time but I quite enjoy is DECTalk (AKA the Moonbase Alpha voice). I believe Vocalizer was responsible for the OG Siri voice Samantha and that one’s a more human voice that’s still serviceable at high speeds.

How much traffic before the sales team comes knocking?

In my experience even a site with low legitimate traffic will eventually buckle under the torrent of bots and scrapers if it’s up long enough to get indexed by search engines, so the longer my stuff is out there the more I anticipate I will need DDoS protection.

Conlanging is a very cheap hobby. Quoth Tolkien in A Secret Vice

It is incidentally one of the attractions of this hobby that it needs so little apparatus!

BeanOS

I’m not saying it’s not important, I’m saying could you please not post about it in a completely unrelated community. I swear Lenny’s motto should be “sir, this is a Wendy’s.”

Oh that parachute!

I too miss being a kid. I miss when my biggest worry was whether I’d get to play Nintendo when I got home.

When people say to stop being political on here, it’s not necessarily that they don’t think politics is important and should never be discussed, it’s that you should turn “off” once and a while and talk about literally anything else. Even Anne Frank wrote about other stuff in her diary sometimes, and her life was under threat by actual Nazis so I don’t buy the “Everything’s on fire so we should never shut up ever” argument. I’m not even asking you to change your mind, just to change the subject once in a while.

I’m just sick of seeing this:

This is a common worldbuilding scenario I play with, a virgin continent appears suddenly, usually in the South Pacific.

Part of this is Google’s and YT’s platform decaying, not just AI. Before AI, Google was infected with ads and listicles. Before any of that you had a million forum replies amounting to “Just google it!” (I am, wise guy, that’s how I ran into your post in the first place.) If not that, then it was “RTFM” (Maybe if you had a technical writer write a better manual and not have the devs write it who don’t realize there are people that don’t have the intimate knowledge of this obscure software package that they do and thus don’t bother mentioning stuff that’s ‘obvious’ to them and literally no one else.)

And don’t get me started on the landfill that is Stack Overflow.

Ah yes, Don Bluth, the man that introduced 90s kids to the concept of mortality. Poor Littlefoot’s mom :( The Secret of NIMH was a favorite of mine. The book it’s based on is pretty weird.

Does that make the Americas Valinor?

You’ve seen Titan A.E. I gather.

No too far to the northwest. 0,0 is somewhere near the Gulf of Guinea.