Hacker News: fold3

New comment by fold3 in "Krita 5.2.9 Released"

fold3 — Fri, 31 Jan 2025 00:12:24 +0000

> We think that Clip Studio is much more of a real competitor

https://krita.org/en/posts/2022/what-the-krita-developers-ar...

New comment by fold3 in "Gaining access to anyones Arc browser without them even visiting a website"

fold3 — Fri, 20 Sep 2024 06:20:22 +0000

Did you took a look at the zen browser? It's an arc clone based on Firefox https://zen-browser.app/

New comment by fold3 in "The music player you wish you had in the early 2000s"

fold3 — Fri, 22 Dec 2023 01:40:37 +0000

To be fair, It's more comparable to MP3 players in the 50 to 100 usd range. (See zishan, f.audio, hiby, shanling, fiio, xduoo) The difference is it is using open source hardware and software. Chinese MP3 players have little repairability, limited to no modding and a terrible OS. This tries to fix that. Still expensive in my opinion but I'm waiting to see if people make interesting things out of it.

New comment by fold3 in "WebP is so great except it's not (2021)"

fold3 — Fri, 15 Dec 2023 12:47:05 +0000

Jpeg-XL is light enough to not require hardware support. Did you tried to transcode a PNG to avif? It's painful. Not the case with Jpeg XL. Meanwhile I urge you to read this article. Jpeg XL has way more features than avif.

https://cloudinary.com/blog/the-case-for-jpeg-xl

New comment by fold3 in "Solreader: E-Ink Smart Glasses for Reading"

fold3 — Sat, 21 Oct 2023 13:51:47 +0000

Will it have an unlocked bootloader? sd card slot? Do you need an app to add book in the device? (sounds like it from the tech specs)

Is it sweat/water resistant?

New comment by fold3 in "Mastodon Is the Good One"

fold3 — Sat, 21 Oct 2023 05:14:12 +0000

Mastodon is hard to use because people using social media don't expect to read anything before starting to use a service. TikTok, Instagram,etc really succeeded in frying people's brain over their addictive patterns.

Just the idea of a protocol that can be interacted with over different clients and different instances is hard to grasp.

IMO, Mastodon has to find ways to be more accessible in the onboarding process without compromising on the decentralization feature.

But it's not easy to do that without text?

New comment by fold3 in "F-Droid: Android FOSS app store"

fold3 — Sat, 21 Oct 2023 04:47:05 +0000

I could not make it work. Did you had to do anything special?

From what I learned, only apps that target Android 12and above could have this background update feature. I'm on Android 13 but none of the apps I use updated. I had to switch back to using the f-droid privileged extension.

New comment by fold3 in "APCA Contrast Calculator"

fold3 — Sun, 15 Oct 2023 13:00:44 +0000

Accessible Contrast Relative to Font Size and Weight APCA reports lightness contrast as an Lc value from Lc 0 to Lc 106 for dark text on a light background, and Lc 0 to Lc -108 for light text on a dark background (dark mode). The minus sign merely indicates negative contrast, which means light text on a dark background.

APCA Contrast Calculator

fold3 — Sun, 15 Oct 2023 13:00:44 +0000

Article URL: https://www.myndex.com/APCA/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37889370

Points: 2

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New comment by fold3 in "Ask HN: Is it just me or is mobile web browsing awful?"

fold3 — Fri, 13 Oct 2023 17:39:29 +0000

On iPhone you can use Orion browser, it has ublock origin and it's free. It's amazing.

On Android there is mull or kiwi.

New comment by fold3 in "Epic Games Sale of Bandcamp Has Left the Artist-Friendly Music Platform in Limbo"

fold3 — Mon, 09 Oct 2023 08:09:54 +0000

We need an alternative from Bandcamp that is a co-op fediverse kind of system. I know there is people working on making alternatives like ninaprotocol.com but it's tainted by web3/crypto selling the songs as collectibles NFTs. Not even lossless.

New comment by fold3 in "First automatic JPEG-XL cloud service"

fold3 — Wed, 20 Sep 2023 05:29:27 +0000

Iirc, cjxl is smart enough to do it automatically.

cjxl input.jpg output.jxl

The cjxl --help and cjxl -v -v --help pages are very well done and you'll find the option to explicitly set the option on if you wish to do so.

New comment by fold3 in "E-ink is so Retropunk"

fold3 — Sun, 27 Aug 2023 05:11:28 +0000

From what I know the improvement is minor but noticable. There is less ghosting, a bit more contrast and it's more reactive to the touch. The newer models can even play videos half decently (i.e. you can somewhat understand what's going on on the screen)

New comment by fold3 in "Show HN: Open-source obsidian.md sync server"

fold3 — Fri, 25 Aug 2023 04:05:10 +0000

I use this as a docker instance running on my old laptop. It just took a minute to set up and works really well. The sync is as good as apple notes or whatever commercial software there is.

Only issue is i could not sync with an old iphone running iOS 12.

New comment by fold3 in "JPEG XL: How it started, how it’s going"

fold3 — Fri, 21 Jul 2023 13:29:20 +0000

Even if JPEG-XL could be considered only 'marginally' better than JPEG, and as good or even worse than avif/webP in some specific context, it is unique in the fact that it can also do lossless, HDR, extremely high res, complex color channels, generation loss protection, multi layers, advanced authoring features, etc... It's not a format only meant for the web but plenty of other use cases such as in science, medecine, art print, etc.

And not only that, it's reasonably fast to encode on consumer hardware.

JPEG XL has the ambition to supplant all the images formats of the next 20+years.

New comment by fold3 in "Iosevka typeface for code, from code"

fold3 — Wed, 19 Jul 2023 16:10:30 +0000

See also SARASA GOTHIC, a CJK programming font based on Iosevka and Source Han Sans.

https://github.com/be5invis/Sarasa-Gothic

New comment by fold3 in "Dril is everyone. More specifically, he’s a guy named Paul"

fold3 — Sun, 16 Jul 2023 13:51:03 +0000

It's not about the meaning, more about the vibe and how the vibe is delivered. Just read those tweets as you would read a collection of poems. While poetry more often try to give a feeling of beauty, dril tweets are mostly to make you feel funny or laugh.

New comment by fold3 in "Commit Mono – Neutral programming typeface"

fold3 — Wed, 12 Jul 2023 15:44:55 +0000

I really like it, it's fresh and friendly. it has a narrow option to have that compact spacing like iosevka which is my favorite. I can't use regular width font anymore after being use to narrow width.

New comment by fold3 in "Ask HN: Could you share your personal blog here?"

fold3 — Tue, 04 Jul 2023 16:18:15 +0000

Not tech related, i just share my drawings. The blog is done with hugo and hosted on netlifly, i also use a cloudinary plugin for the images.

https://cesarbrun.xyz

New comment by fold3 in "Show HN: Mofi – Content-aware fill for audio to change a song to any duration"

fold3 — Mon, 26 Jun 2023 17:34:13 +0000

adding to this, how streaming made rap songs shorter: https://pitchfork.com/thepitch/considering-the-rise-of-the-s...

I don't remember exactly but back in the radio days, songs had to be a very specific length to be a pop single.