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Did you opt out of Alexa sending your every word back to Amazon?  Better bin those devices, because Amazon is ditching the option (assuming they ever really honoured it).

Halloween is the perfect time for a Death Knight in Diddlycraft.

TV Series post!
Halo - Season One: John "Master Chief" struggles with Microsoft Cortana spying on him, meanwhile a prophesied young girl defends a planet. 
          Season Two: undoes all that in the first ten minutes and refuses to explain why dead people aren't dead 
Elsebeth - A side character from Good Wife/Good Fight immediately solves a murder the audience witnesses then spends the rest of the episode trying to prove it to boneheaded police 
Tracker - Smallville's Green Arrow finds missing people for a price. 
Krapopolis - Tyrannus is a self-declared king of early civilization, with supernatural parents and siblings, and ungrateful citizens.  No description does this show justice. 
Welcome to Wrexham - Touching, humourous, and exciting documentary about Deadpool and some other guy buying a football team in Wales. 
Clarkson's Farm - An idiot known for loving cars becomes an idiot who loves farming 
Taskmaster - Do you like laughing?  Watch this show 
Ghosts (UK) - A young couple inherits a manor that they turn into a B&B, she has an accident and can now interact with ridiculous ghosts that died on the premises. 
Ghosts (US) - A young couple inherits a manor that they turn into a B&B, she has an accident and can now interact with ridiculous ghosts that died on the premises.  Now in American accents! 
Roadside Rescue - A guy fixes delapotated vehicles enough to get them running again.  A TV version of Vicegrip Garage from youtube. 
Shogun - Masterfully done retelling of the James Clavell book.  Lord Toranaga attempts to keep the peace in feudal Japan, and some Anjin makes for a useful distraction 
Physical 100 - Korean tournament of beefy men and women undergoing gruelling physical challenges.  Second season as good as the first 

 

Tried a couple new AI services tonight.  Supposedly Sonauto gives you more control, and lets you name an artist you want the output to mimic.  It sort of works, but often sounded garbled, like a backwards played record.  Maybe it was just the way I was using it.

Then I stumbled upon Udio and generated this song:

Canvas Reverie

Similar to Suno, it generates pairs of output in small chunks, and you have to add sections to extend it into a full song.  It seems to have more allowance for free use, and the output sounds less compressed than Suno.  Generated lyrics can be just as bizarre though.

Somehow I got 50 more credits.  Here's a few more songs for your listening pleasure


Gaming All Day - Energetic Rock


Foggy Brain Glues - Aggressive Delta Blues


Lonely Soul - Motown


Soundwaves of my Soul - Guitar-driven Alternative song about the joy of playing guitar, ironically has no guitar in it

In just a couple minutes, using Replay, I was able to hear what it might sound like if Johnny Cash sang I'll Stand By You by The Pretenders.

Often I find a need to format a USB stick with the FAT32 filesystem.  For example, the A500 Mini (half size Amiga 500) requires it.  Windows can format a USB with FAT32 natively, but only if it's a small size.  For anything usable you need to turn to alternatives.  The folks at Retro32 have a solution, and fear the utility may someday disappear.

For that reason I have attached it here.  The zip file contains both a GUI and CLI version of the fat32 formatting tool originally from Ridgecrop Consultants

It's Halloween in Diddlycraft.  As always, find the jack-o-lanterns for treats and XP!