chimay

Words or text file to audio with pico2wave and pico-tts

Generate a nice audio notification from a few words :

https://github.com/chimay/scripts/blob/master/shell/multimedia/pico-words-to-ogg.sh

It's the end of the day, your eyes are tired but you want to read that last post on @stefano 's blog. With pico-tts, you can listen to it instead!

First save the page, convert it to text (eg with w3m), then use this script to obtain the corresponding ogg file :

https://github.com/chimay/scripts/blob/master/shell/multimedia/pico-textfile-to-ogg.sh

Usage :
pico-textfile-to-ogg.sh --help
pico-words-to-ogg.sh --help

Requisites : you'll need pico2wave, pico-tts (aur packages avail for arch), sox and ffmpeg.

@unix

NetBSD 10 RC 4

https://www.netbsd.org/releases/formal-10/NetBSD-10.0.html

Almost 10 :)

@netbsd

Last version of Ventoy support FreeBSD 14

https://www.ventoy.net/en/doc_news.html

That's good news, my old freebsd usb key can now be integrated in the ventoy one.

@freebsd

NetBSD 10.0 RC 3 is out

https://blog.netbsd.org/tnf/entry/netbsd_10_0_rc3_available

@netbsd

NetBSD 10.0RC2 available

https://blog.netbsd.org/tnf/entry/netbsd_10_0_rc2_available

@netbsd

Backgournd copy/move files in vifm with task-spooler

I recently found out that you can advantageously use a batch/queue task
system like task-spooler (tsp or ts executable, depending on your
distro) in a variety of situations.

For instance, to copy or move files in vifm :

" mc-like maps
" copy
nnoremap <f5> :!tsp rsync -av --progress %f %D<cr>
" move
nnoremap <f6> :!tsp rsync -av --progress --remove-source-files %f %D<cr>

The copy/move will then be queued and run in the background. You can
check it with :

tsp

To cat a task output :

tsp -c task-id

https://viric.name/soft/ts/

Idea inspired by this gotbletu video:

https://inv.tux.pizza/watch?v=zrBUZ2g5_O4

#unix #batch #queue

@unix

List of email providers

@cuddle @offtopic

Here is a list I gathered, I didn't checked them all but maybe you'll find what you want inside :

https://mail.proton.me/
https://tuta.com/
https://mail.tutanota.com/
https://murena.io/apps/snappymail/
https://mail.disroot.org/
https://skiff.com/
https://skiff.com/mail
https://app.skiff.com/mail/inbox
https://mailfence.com/
https://swisscows.email/en/
https://www.mail.com/
https://www.gmx.fr/
https://sud-ouest2.org/

fzf-miru : execute w3m commands via fzf

https://iv.datura.network/watch?v=drzMQuLE4BM

@unix

Midiplay : tui midi player

#midiplay is a nice tui midi player with pause and seek, written in rust :

https://gitlab.com/dajoha/midiplay

Used in conjunction with lilypond, vim, and a pdf viewer, you've got a complete composition set.

It needs timidity in server mode and its virtual midi ports, so I don't think it runs on *BSD, unfortunetly.

#music #midi #player #tui #linux

@offtopic

FreeBSD binary PKgBase soon a reality ?

https://lists.freebsd.org/archives/freebsd-pkgbase/2023-October/000221.html

@freebsd

NetBSD sysupgrade

#openBSD upgrade tool is praised, and with reason. From what Ijust read, #NetBSD #sysupgrade one is also a great tool :

https://www.netbsd.org/docs/guide/en/chap-upgrading.html

let's try the crosspost

@netbsd