Posted by doppp 17 hours ago
Just as was foretold: an actual differentiator is creativity, not coding ability.
Now I'm still waiting for someone to succeed at a clean-room recreation of Majel Barrett's voice, so we can finally have computers sound like they always should have.
We could've been there a decade ago, but the high-quality audio samples, made officially and specifically with possibility of this use in mind, got trapped somewhere between the estate, producers, and a commercial interest that called dibs, and then procrastinated on the project instead.
Hello "This is a triumph!"
> Your specimen has been processed and we are now ready to begin the test proper.
... at least, once. Or perhaps exactly once.
Obv no clean room reconstruction but good enough for personal use...
audio files sourced from https://www.trekcore.com/audio/
the inflection and impersonal feel is definitely hard to get right. there are parameters in the elevenlabs API docs to make the voice more stable (= monotonous; see speak.sh in that repo) but still the voice cloner on my $5 plan doesn't really get it right.
nevertheless... i'm still having a lot of fun with this.
edit: if I am forced to rot my brain with the 10x productivity boosting slop gun, at least I'll do it grinning
> pod cleaned up. waiting on the behemoth to finish grinding through Italy.
< if only postgres had progress indicators
... then they coulda called it progresql
> lmaooo
> Bash(~/speak.sh "Joke detected. Humor subroutine engaged. Ha. Ha. Ha.")“Director John Badham states in the commentary that the actor voicing the raw content that was later modified for the computerized effect was John Wood (the Falken character), reading the script word-for-word in reverse order in order to portray a "flat quality" with limited inflection. That raw audio was then edited and re-assembled after being run through audio processing equipment to achieve the desired effect.”
downloads other scripts (peon.sh, uninstall.sh) and executes them or places them where they will be executed later
edits your ~/.bashrc and ~/.zshrc files to add aliases and tab completion
parses a remote JSON file to get filenames ($sfile) and then does: curl ... -o "$INSTALL_DIR/packs/$pack/sounds/$sfile"
I wouldn't use this repo outside of some kind of sandbox.
i think a lot of the best software lately has this quality where you can tell someone had fun making it. it's hard to quantify but you feel it instantly. like the difference between a tool that technically works and one that makes you go "ok that's clever."
Already been done.
Copying what works and doing it cheaper without the cost of having to figure it out is what's profitable.
all systems nominal.
First game that I knew of which had such fun details like that.
Once the novelty wore off, I found it more useful to hear per-project, event-specific messages. On macOS, that looks like this:
{
"Stop": [
{
"hooks": [
{
"type": "command",
"command": "osascript -e 'say \"ProjectX work complete\" volume 0.25' > /dev/null 2>&1 &"
}
]
}
],
"Notification": [
{
"matcher": "permission_prompt",
"hooks": [
{
"type": "command",
"command": "osascript -e 'say \"ProjectX needs help\" volume 0.5' > /dev/null 2>&1 &"
}
]
}
]
}I feel like anyone preferring Warcraft III is in their 30s. Grew up with the Warcraft II Battle Chest and it was a vibe.
PS: I still own the same PS1, tho the reader might not working 100%.
Were it not so buggy, I think C&C generals ranks pretty high on fun modern RTSes.
I think it's a case of being better when it came out than another thing was when it came out, despite the other thing being comparatively better without the context of its time.
III has a better and more interesting story telling. But gameplay wise I really like the starcraft 1 system without the heros. I think warcraft 3 adds too much complexity and gimmickry that takes away from fun RTS gameplay.
That said, Warcraft 3 mods were the shit. There were so many fun and inventive modes of play that you could just barely do with starcraft and not at all with warcraft.
A plea to the various lab engineering teams: please create a json format or whatever that lets me configure this with voices locally. I am a happy user as of late of the Codex app by Open AI. It would be great if I could just give it some JSON somehow and it just works. I suppose skills can do this and I will try that later on. But I think this stuff matters, and it would be nice to have it built in and encouraged.
Heck, they even outlined it in the readme
> peon.sh is a Claude Code hook registered for SessionStart, UserPromptSubmit, Stop, and Notification events. On each event it maps to a sound category, picks a random voice line (avoiding repeats), plays it via afplay (macOS) or PowerShell MediaPlayer (WSL2), and updates your Terminal tab title.
Looking at the install script and peon.sh does not raise any over engineering flags for me. It's as simple as the functionally makes it necessary
I get how they got here ; its how claude and codex approach projects, but what does the rest achieve? Your maintenance rituals shouldn't exceed your usecase at this scale.
The fact he added config files to let people create their own package?
* download Warcraft II voices
* tell claude to wire it all up
The age of the WALL-E blobs is upon us!
If you're enough of a fan to want to use these voices, chances are you still have the original installation media (or original bootleg copy) somewhere around the house :).
(This was the HN Post about it -> https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46850881)
This is as much of a copyright violation as the LLM training process.
Did anyone vote an exemption from copyright if it's for "AI" use?
One good thing about genai is that it will force us to rethink the mess that is copyright
If given the option to vote for this, yes I would absolutely vote for an exemption.
But also, this is clearly "Fair Use" even under our current draconian copyright laws.
Not necessarily. This could be considered a quotation of a trivial part of a larger work, making the use legal in the US under its fair use doctrine.
Additionally, I'm not aware of any obvious way that this use could harm the commercial market for Warcraft 3 (and the other games whose voice packs are included in this repository). The use here does not compete with the original, and if anything it might drive sales on the margin through nostalgic reminders.
Edit: well that only took me 30 minutes. "Warning: ssh tunnel collapsed. Unable to proceed."
Nice.
100% ai slop repo, be warned if that offends you.
I guess that I also don't want to pollute old good memories by associating them with work/Claude
But it's kinda funny to me that you just said "I was going to run this code on my system, until I saw some other code in the same repo, and now I refuse to run it" :D It's all the same repo, you're willing to try part of the code, but not another part of it. Completely arbitrary.
I don't quite get that argument. It's the same as the old download installer from random website, double click to run that people have been doing for decades. It only skips the download step. And it's arguably better since at least you can review the contents. When building a Go program it will also happily download stuff from github but I've seen way less complaints about that. And to be fair it's also been an infection vector, from people installing things from shady places (or reputable places but with ill-intent like installing unwanted browser toolbars, DRM rootkits ...), but it's nothing new. Same advice applies, know what you're doing, use reputable sources.
What's a better alternative ?
One day you run it, it's fine. The next day you run the same command on your machine, it installs malware. No way to tell without inspecting the script every time.
If you download an installer and it's fine, then you can run it again and it's still fine.
> What's a better alternative ?
I do not think the program really needs and installer but if one must then why not just have it under source control that way you get the benefits of git handling all the download bits and the install script being completely offline and just using cp or install commands.
you could tell the user to do this with a pithy command like `git --depth=1 clone $GITSITE/$REPO && $REPO/installer.sh && rm -R $REPO`
Hmm, why not?
I really leaned into coding with agents last year, and after some time, it became evident to me that the vision now being pushed -- the "software factory" -- is where things will eventually end up. Building off that understanding, I began thinking about what interfaces would be necessary and useful for managing code and technology at that scale.
I keep coming back to the idea of a video game-like interface for managing all these agents and fleets of agents. Many of the information affordances in video games are reusable in other scenarios. So even though on the surface this project is 'just' a silly and fun enhancement, I think it’s actually a pretty serious contribution as well.