I think my philosophy when making software is that it should work for people with zero money or no bank account / credit card.
I know it's not a popular mindset to be in since money and profit is everything in the tech world.
I think it comes from growing up as a kid with no disposable income or access to anything but my shitty computer.
I'd rather support people with almost nothing than people with latest and greatest tech gizmos and spare cash for subscription services. 😅
RE: https://social.coop/@afewbugs/117003290007900358
One of the conclusions I’ve come to from my years of software freelancing is that humans hate tradeoffs.
I don’t just mean that we hate deciding between options when none is clearly the best. I mean that people hate admitting that tradeoffs •exist•. We desperately want there to be a best option, a correct answer, a clear choice that will satisfy our egocentric need to believe we are objectively In The Right. 🧵
Main reason I'm going this route is that the sherpa-onnx library is supposed to be able to use my Rockchip NPU on my machine to speed things up.
https://github.com/k2-fsa/sherpa-onnx/blob/master/nodejs-examples/test-offline-tts-pocket-en.js
I enthusiastically support this company that claims to be making a real life version of the monster that chases you around the level in any of those janky-ass Playstation 1 lookin' indie horror games.
Snap! Just learned about this new #JavaScript feature called `using` that lets you dispose of resources after you exit a block. Good alternative for needing a `try - finally` expression. Feels like Python in a good way.
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/Statements/using
I didn't see this on here yet.
Petition on the house of commons web site to withdras Bill C-22.
where's the thing you need? here? there? scroll past the spam, past the notifications! did your filters get it? did they put it in the wrong place? did the person respond on another thread? were you left out of the response? who knows! and the stakes couldnt be higher...!
Occult cyberpunk. Yap with me about decentralized systems, wearable computing, and biohacking.