Yup, ElevenLabs stills rules pretty much in this space. Especially if you're looking for non-English models it's really hard to find anything good although the latest Chatterbox[1] now supports 23 languages.

[1]: https://github.com/resemble-ai/chatterbox

Can't wait for all school essays promoting dubious crypto schemes of some sort.

Seeing the rates here for other countries at least it's a better deal: 50% for delays of 30-60m, and 100% for delays of an hour or longer.

Germany apparently is already warning trans and non-binary people when travelling to the US: https://www.advocate.com/news/germany-warns-transgender-trav...

The situation in Hungary in the best case, Russia in the worst.

Being good in selling stuff and running servers doesn't mean you are automatically great at producing movies and television series, even if you have a lot of money.

I've never heard of networkQuality, that's seems like quite a useful tool.

For reference, it’s been there since macOS 12. You may also like to know that this year (macOS 15) they added jq.

I didn't know that, thanks!

Unfortunately, it's not actually very useful, as whatever server they're using on the other end is severely constrained. networkQuality gives me:

Downlink: 884.856 Mbps, 198 RPM - Uplink: 13.238 Mbps, 198 RPM

whereas speedtest (whether to the official speedtest server OR a friend's home server in their basement!) gives ~700 Mbps uplink.

try

  networkQuality -s

That's a more apples to apples comparison to speedtest.net; Separate upload and download tests.

Somewhat better, 867/114, but still not the symmetric I get on typical real workloads.

For a GUI version, Amphetamine is quite nice (and free). https://apps.apple.com/us/app/amphetamine/id937984704?mt=12

yes amphetamine I use regularly when I want to charge my android phone during travel with lid closed.

That's interesting, I have never needed to do that. My Pixels have always just charged even if the lid is closed, on Intel and Apple Silicon machines. I like to travel light so I often use my laptop as a battery bank instead of carrying a seperate one.

I made something similar eight(!) years ago called Valenski. It's a SASS library but it also only provides a couple of classes and some sane defaults: https://hay.github.io/valenski/

> Next time I get a chance to organise an online conference, I'll steal from Jamie's playbook and invert the model. Viz. ask for pre-recorded talks, distributed to attendees just prior to the conference, with curated live chat + demo sessions with the speaker(s) about the talk. Make the Hallway Track as big and boisterous and charming as possible.

Agreed. This is so much better than having to watch live talks of people stumbling with their camera setup causing the Q&A to be canceled because of that.

when i spoke at an online conference in india i insisted that my talk be prerecorded to make sure there were no interruptions since i was worried that from china the quality might suffer some times. i sent the talk to the organizers to stream and after the talk we did a live q&a. i don't know if the participants felt a difference, but i thought it was the prudent thing to do.

That's very smart. You could even be in the q&a during the talk answering questions while pre-recorded-you is still speaking! This could give a lot more time for focused interaction.