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News / Re: Update your WinRAR
« Last post by diddly on August 12, 2025, 09:45:42 AM »
WinRAR has another 0-day exploit.  Why aren't you using 7-zip?

Source
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General Discussion / Re: AI Generated Music
« Last post by diddly on July 17, 2025, 07:50:26 AM »
Rick Beato recently made a youtube video on how easy it was to make AI slop music. His arguments were sound, but in the video you can see him vibing to the songs.  I saw Suno had updated their algorithm so wanted to generate some stuff of my own.  You can hear any of my shared songs on my profile page
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News / Someone is always listening...
« Last post by diddly on March 17, 2025, 09:10:36 AM »
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).
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News / Re: Toots
« Last post by diddly on December 01, 2024, 08:13:29 PM »
While it has been fun running a Mastodon-like server, I've decided to take darkshade.social down.  I tried moving the instance to another machine, but I'm stuck running Pleroma, and that's a convoluted mess to migrate.  It was really only used by me anyway.  If you're looking for me now, I've moved to diddly@sunny.garden

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Diddlycraft Discussion / Re: Halloween in Diddlycraft
« Last post by diddly on October 24, 2024, 08:07:17 PM »
Halloween is the perfect time for a Death Knight in Diddlycraft.

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News / 600 Million Passwords
« Last post by diddly on September 27, 2024, 02:25:42 PM »
Facebook and Instagram stored your passwords in plain text, and now they’ve been leaked. Always use a password vault and different passwords for every service.
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Reviews / Re: Single Sentence Reviews
« Last post by diddly on May 06, 2024, 02:11:51 PM »
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.  8)
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  8)
Taskmaster - Do you like laughing?  Watch this show  8)
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  8)
Physical 100 - Korean tournament of beefy men and women undergoing gruelling physical challenges.  Second season as good as the first  :)

 
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General Discussion / Re: AI Generated Music
« Last post by diddly on April 11, 2024, 01:09:16 AM »
Not mine, but precious.


Dune - The Broadway Musical
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General Discussion / Re: AI Generated Music
« Last post by diddly on April 11, 2024, 12:56:49 AM »
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.


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General Discussion / Re: AI Generated Music
« Last post by diddly on March 30, 2024, 12:47:08 AM »
Quite proud of this one


Awakening of the Seasons - Nordic percussive folk
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