Hacker News: canadianwriter

New comment by canadianwriter in "Firefox tab groups are here"

canadianwriter — Tue, 29 Apr 2025 15:58:39 +0000

I never have more than like 10 tabs open at a time, so likely wont be helpful to me, but I find this super interesting!

Can someone explain what normal people use so many tabs for? It seems to be super common to have tons and tons open.

Are people using tabs as a soft bookmark of basically anything interesting? Afraid to close the page because they wont find it in their history or bookmarks? Is this more an issue with bookmarks and history not being as useful as they could be?

Not judging or anything, I just find how other people use tools differently than I do an interesting subject.

New comment by canadianwriter in "Obsidian is now free for work"

canadianwriter — Thu, 20 Feb 2025 17:09:37 +0000

The data is local, obsidian is just a markdown viewer at it's core. They have sync but that's a paid for product.

Their model is selling to large companies and sync users. Not data sales.

New comment by canadianwriter in "The Curse of Markdown"

canadianwriter — Tue, 03 Dec 2024 17:48:29 +0000

I love how this is formatted - reading it in those little blocks with an image to make it more clear. It is a joy to read.

The actual point itself is somewhat interesting too. "curse" is a strong word though.

New comment by canadianwriter in "PySkyWiFi: Free stupid wi-fi on long-haul flights"

canadianwriter — Tue, 09 Jul 2024 13:34:40 +0000

He notes in the blog post that he didn't actually use his airmiles account more than a couple proof of concepts (the IM stage) - he also says not to actually do this - it was just a creative bit of hacking.

New comment by canadianwriter in "The Microsoft Excel superstars throw down in Vegas"

canadianwriter — Fri, 14 Jun 2024 19:04:24 +0000

Looks like this one is free: https://fmworldcup.com/product/the-forecasting-power-exceler...

The video alone lays out how these things work, very interesting. My brain started solutioning right away. Lots of fun.

New comment by canadianwriter in "Lenovo: "Best Minecraft House Ideas""

canadianwriter — Thu, 30 Nov 2023 15:24:44 +0000

Likely a combination of SEO combined with an LLM to write it all.

New comment by canadianwriter in "Half-Life 25th Anniversary Update"

canadianwriter — Fri, 17 Nov 2023 18:56:29 +0000

At the bottom of the page is a crowbar... maybe you should see if it's useful!

New comment by canadianwriter in "System76's Lemur Pro Laptop Is Just a Nice Linux Laptop"

canadianwriter — Thu, 09 Nov 2023 15:50:51 +0000

If you use the barrel jack you now have an extra USB port you can use for stuff!

If you forget your barrel jack connector you can borrow a USB charger and it'll work!

Win-win!

Ask HN: Is 2FA suddenly not working for tons of apps?

canadianwriter — Wed, 18 Oct 2023 21:25:46 +0000

I use bitwarden for my 2factor. As of tonight, if I try to log into anything the 2fa code gets rejected. One was saying error 400, the other doesn't give an error.

I can log in if I use a recovery code, but even if I re-set up 2fa and get new codes, those new ones don't work! I have to use recovery code again.

the initial "test" code when you set up the 2fa does work though.

Is this a bitwarden issue? Is it something else?

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37934992

Points: 3

# Comments: 1

New comment by canadianwriter in "The End of the Googleverse"

canadianwriter — Wed, 30 Aug 2023 16:30:38 +0000

People will search on Tiktok for things like "how to get game working on linux" or "how to fix a computer" or whatever. They wont bother with Google and go straight to tiktok.

New comment by canadianwriter in "Learn as you search (and browse) using generative AI"

canadianwriter — Thu, 17 Aug 2023 14:53:32 +0000

SEO rears it's ugly head again - yes, articles have gotten much longer, why? Because the Google bots think longer content = more authoritative content.

It's not actually a direct correlation, but enough people take that as gospel that they will pad out an article to make it super long just for the SEO value.

Similar to recipe websites giving their entire life story before a recipe.

New comment by canadianwriter in "How to get ChatGPT to stop apologizing?"

canadianwriter — Tue, 01 Aug 2023 13:32:27 +0000

I guess it depends on the position - if you have to work with people as a regular part of your position, social skills would be a part of the role, an important one at that.

New comment by canadianwriter in "Threads users down by more than a half"

canadianwriter — Fri, 28 Jul 2023 17:59:27 +0000

While not perfectly matching to actual usage - interest has dropped MASSIVELY.

https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=today%201-m&q=...

It's kind of interesting to see stuff like that.

New comment by canadianwriter in "As AI porn generators get better, the stakes get higher"

canadianwriter — Fri, 21 Jul 2023 21:11:58 +0000

If they told the parents they were photoshopped instead of AI made, would that have changed anything?

Curious if we change the language used if that changes how people think of it...

New comment by canadianwriter in "As AI porn generators get better, the stakes get higher"

canadianwriter — Fri, 21 Jul 2023 21:11:16 +0000

I always bring this back to photoshopping. It's been around forever.

That teacher in the article - what if she was photoshopped instead of "deep faked" would anything have been different?

Photoshopping has been around forever.

Just a bit weird to me that people are predicting the AI end of the world with this stuff when its really just a slightly faster way to do something we've had for ages.

New comment by canadianwriter in "Lawsuit claims OpenAI stole 'massive amounts of personal data'"

canadianwriter — Fri, 30 Jun 2023 16:57:12 +0000

Not sure what you are implying here - just because something is free doesn't mean you can use it in a commercial product....

The Data Economy of Khao San Road

canadianwriter — Mon, 26 Jun 2023 17:56:31 +0000

Article URL: https://kolemcrae.com/notebook/dataeconomy.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36483291

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by canadianwriter in "Show HN: Writedown - Open Source Markdown Diary"

canadianwriter — Sun, 25 Jun 2023 01:28:55 +0000

For a heavy joplin user - can you compare the features? It looks like an awesome UI, but wanna make sure itll be good before I jump!

I care about longevity, will I get local .md files so I can easily back up and have them to move to other programs if the worst were to happen?

Do you have a taggin system? Hard to see in the screenshot.

What about linking notes? To be honest, joplin sucks a bit about this.

How do you pay for hosting? Joplin has Jolin cloud, and its a couple bucks a month, how do you make it free, especially in the long run?

New comment by canadianwriter in "Voicebox: Generative AI model for speech that generalizes across tasks"

canadianwriter — Mon, 19 Jun 2023 18:01:06 +0000

like... a pin?

New comment by canadianwriter in "Voicebox: Generative AI model for speech that generalizes across tasks"

canadianwriter — Mon, 19 Jun 2023 17:28:06 +0000

That little stinger at the end was not as surprising as they thought it was :P

It's very cool tech, but it's far from transparent. It has a very obvious "autotune" like sound to it that jumps right out. when they edited that one word it was obvious it had been edited.

Again, super cool tech, just not going to replace voice actors or anything.