Hacker News: flipdot

New comment by flipdot in "Cult of the Dead Cow – Veilid (2023)"

flipdot — Fri, 26 Apr 2024 13:05:52 +0000

What about accessibility?

New comment by flipdot in "Xbox will block third-party controllers to "preserve the console experience""

flipdot — Tue, 31 Oct 2023 00:45:06 +0000

Does this mean the end of custom accessibility controllers?

New comment by flipdot in "Dear Spotify, stop treating your users like testers"

flipdot — Fri, 06 Oct 2023 12:52:11 +0000

The other day they randomly changed the “Like” button for an “Add to Playlist” one. Though they did communicate that change pretty clearly (there was a popup notifying the user about this behaviour etc.), I think it was a horrible spontaneous decision. I’m glad they reverted the thing the same day it was rolled out. Why doesn’t Spotify add an opt-in for experimental features/updates or distribute an “experimental” version of the app through app stores?

New comment by flipdot in "Caps Lock Behaviour Disabled in Gnome"

flipdot — Thu, 28 Sep 2023 22:23:24 +0000

It might mean that the key itself is not disabled and thus free to be bound to some other action, but I agree that the remark sounds a bit odd.

New comment by flipdot in "Caps Lock Behaviour Disabled in Gnome"

flipdot — Thu, 28 Sep 2023 22:17:47 +0000

I find the Compose feature to be quite useful, so I used to have Compose key on Caps Lock on Linux. After I’ve switched back to Windows, I found WinCompose to be a pretty decent equivalent of Compose for Windows, and found out it can also override Caps Lock behaviour (though in about 1% of cases the default Windows Caps Lock behaviour breaks through for a brief moment) and reassign the Caps Lock function to some other, less frequent combination of keys. In my case pressing both Shifts at the same time acts as a Caps Lock toggle.

New comment by flipdot in "Icon Buddy – 100K+ Open Source SVG Icons, Fully Customizable"

flipdot — Sun, 23 Jul 2023 20:48:14 +0000

Nice! There’s a similar project by Anthony Fu: https://icones.js.org I wonder if both share the same superset of icons, relying on the same Iconify framework?

New comment by flipdot in "Blizzard’s bringing its PC games to Steam, starting with Overwatch 2"

flipdot — Wed, 19 Jul 2023 19:05:02 +0000

Looks like OW2 will run directly through Steam, without Battle.net required: https://twitter.com/Qwik/status/1681720303389667328

New comment by flipdot in "Threads profile can only be deleted by deleting Instagram account, Meta says"

flipdot — Thu, 06 Jul 2023 12:32:26 +0000

I feel like the HN title here is misleading. You can’t delete your Threads profile, you can only delete your Instagram account and your Threads sub-account will follow.

Also this is quite clearly stated inside the Threads app: “Some settings, such as deleting your account, apply to both Threads and Instagram and can be managed on Instagram”.

Deactivating your Threads account, on the other hand, will not affect your Instagram account in any way, this warning is there in the corresponding Settings section as well.

New comment by flipdot in "Threads profile can only be deleted by deleting Instagram account, Meta says"

flipdot — Thu, 06 Jul 2023 12:26:34 +0000

Not neccessarily. You do need to download the Threads app and make an account (or rather a sub-account, since it’s tied to your Instagram account).

New comment by flipdot in "FBI obtains Kolektiva.social database while executing warrant on administrator"

flipdot — Sat, 01 Jul 2023 19:50:11 +0000

This question is answered in the first reply under the post in question.

New comment by flipdot in "Show HN: Pornpen.ai – AI-Generated Porn"

flipdot — Thu, 25 Aug 2022 22:49:40 +0000

The perfect shot! XD

https://pornpen.ai/view/sPVcRIXfxxtvfXvxGtGV

New comment by flipdot in "MacBook Air M1 screen crack for no apparent reason"

flipdot — Mon, 15 Aug 2022 21:15:05 +0000

You missed the point. Nobody’s saying chip is the culprit—“M1” in this context refers to the Macbook series powered by the eponymous chip. Which means those Macbooks are only a few years old at most, yet there are 49 pages of user reports that their screens are prone to cracking for no reason.

New comment by flipdot in "Ask HN: Do You Trust Grammarly?"

flipdot — Tue, 26 Jul 2022 15:31:37 +0000

No. I only ever use it as a last resort when I need some non-sensitive text double-checked. And by “use” I mean that it’s installed as a keyboard app on my smartphone (where I believe I can keep its possible logging activity to a minimum), but not used as an actual keyboard, only as a grammar checker to be activated whenever and wherever I need it.

New comment by flipdot in "Tell HN: Discord is permanently locking out users with multiple accounts"

flipdot — Thu, 21 Jul 2022 07:50:09 +0000

I really like how people striving for freedom in software are always ready—and eager—to take away the freedoms of companies they don’t like. “I want to be able to do whatever I wish for with software I use, but I don’t want people who make software to be able to do anything with their own products”, huh?

New comment by flipdot in "Lazarus – Professional Free Pascal Rad IDE"

flipdot — Sat, 23 Apr 2022 12:17:17 +0000

I don’t know if it’s still the case, but Lazarus used to be a part of the high school IT course in Ukraine. Might be that they’ve already ditched Pascal for Python.

New comment by flipdot in "Show HN: Slow Social, a social network built for friends, not influencers"

flipdot — Sat, 16 Apr 2022 20:07:03 +0000

Thanks! First time dealing with this Gmail’s “feature”. (°⊥°`)

New comment by flipdot in "Show HN: Slow Social, a social network built for friends, not influencers"

flipdot — Sat, 16 Apr 2022 19:55:01 +0000

I tried to sign up, but the confirmation email got automarked as spam by Gmail and didn’t contain any links.

New comment by flipdot in "Show HN: Visualize your day as 144 rectangles"

flipdot — Sat, 02 Apr 2022 11:57:19 +0000

I remember stumbling upon a website which did this, but instead of just taking 100 years it prompted the user to select his country and gender. The algorithm then used data about the average lifespan of the selected gender in the selected country to tell the user how much they have left to live.

New comment by flipdot in "Tell HN: Airbnb just stole me 5 minutes of my time adding dices"

flipdot — Mon, 21 Feb 2022 22:31:28 +0000

I don’t know if Rockstar Social Club dice CAPTCHA is still around, but about half a year ago I’ve had an opportunity to experience it. That CAPTCHA required you to select one image out of six in which two displayed dice would add up to a certain number. To pass the test, you had to do this 10 times in a row, making no mistakes. The worst part was that it didn’t even tell you that you failed; it restarted the whole thing only when you finished selecting the last 10th image.

New comment by flipdot in "Google terminates Play Store account of Simple Keyboard developer"

flipdot — Sat, 29 Jan 2022 16:53:12 +0000

An interesting definition of “not a monopoly”: being forced to advertise your competitors on your own platform, for free.