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mac: Text to Speech and Speech to Text
As part of their accessibility offerings they have a ton of cool but hidden features. here are my favorites Clock speaking every 30 minutes Apple has made it really hard to find settings, they are buried everywhere, but in System Settings > Control Center > Clock > Clock Options you can select Announce the Time…
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tvl: I’m a Data Roaming idiot
Ok this is so silly but if you are traveling v through SE Asia here are some tips:
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ai: Exo for distributed AI
This is a cool tool that lets you jam multiple Macs (or other machines together) and run inference in a circle with a project called EXO It does require a bit of setup. I tried to do a pipx install of it, but it is not packaged that way. You also can’t do a `pipx…
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ai: ComfyUI and Video Generation Missing Mac Manual v1.6 2025-04-27
OK, my previous post on Open WebUI was getting long, so here is a getting a little long and while it covers ComfyUI integration, the bigger topic of using ComfyUI is scattered all over the winds. So if you just want to get ComfyUI to work, here’s the missing manual for that. Some of this…
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pod: London AI Hub January 13 2025
Well we had another one of these great events and it was so good to hear from everyone there and here is the Zoom. It’s a little ugly and messy but gets the points across which are: See it here on YouTube Or check it out as a Podcast on Spotify or listen on Apple…
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inet: Google Drive Storage Counts Get Real
For a long time I’ve wondered how Google Drive does it, no matter how many Google Slides I store with no matter how many images, the storage count against me is always 137 bytes or something. They only count the pointer and not the storage. I woke up this morning to the warning, “you are…
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mac: Getting great Text to speech
While there are better systems out there of course, nothing is better than free and what the Mac has isn’t bad. It is a complete pain to setup, but basically, you have to:
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wp: Removing local backups with Updraft on WordPress
I’ve been a faithful users of Updraft for a long time, but because I haven’t used shared hosting in a long time, the backup files have not been a problem (and don’t take much space), but Inmotion has an automatic searching tool that looks for backup files and they bang on you if you have…
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dev: Getting rid of Git LFS
This thing is a bit of a pain, it is very expensive on Github although they’ve lowered the price artificially, it is $5 for 50GB of Git LFS storage. As long as you keep your files less than 100MB you shouldn’t have a problem, but how do you get rid of it once you have…
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web: Need an A Record for SOA propagation
OK, I was too clever by half and it bit me. Basically, I have lots of different hosting providers, I’ve used Bluehost, Inmotion, Cloudways and DigitalOcean and I’ve been using A records to point to the individual hoster so I can easily switch. Last month I thought I was clever and just made tongfamily.com a…