Hacker News: keypress

New comment by keypress in "South Korea now recycles 95% of its food waste"

keypress — Sat, 13 Apr 2019 16:16:07 +0000

Stopped in the UK due to BSE, and not being able to audit ingredients.

I wonder if cockcroach protein powder would bypass brain wasting disease and other nasties.

New comment by keypress in "BBC podcasts on third-party apps"

keypress — Tue, 02 Apr 2019 10:18:03 +0000

Side issue, at some point (probably still are) they were selling downloadable DRM content (not noticed with Sounds), of shows you have already paid for. I'm still bitter about their digital archive project that they wasted so much money on. License fee funded content should be liberated. I know licensing is difficult when it comes to partnerships, but it highlights another broken part of the license fee. Their archives would be really useful to liberate. I've succombed in the past to buying DVDs of series. And the quality is really poor. So I've already paid twice. The BBC is quite good value for money but the license fee makes me sick, especially when they comercially are exploiting it.

The radio shows used to be downloadable without the songs due to license constraints. I'm guessing Sounds allows them via some kind of DRM to include music, but even at 28 days they time-out for me within the app a little too fast.

New comment by keypress in "BBC podcasts on third-party apps"

keypress — Thu, 28 Mar 2019 14:37:29 +0000

Opting out is a hassle.

New comment by keypress in "BBC podcasts on third-party apps"

keypress — Thu, 28 Mar 2019 14:36:43 +0000

I have the GA speaker version of the podcast player. And navigating, bookmarking and selection is horrible. To the point, I've abandoned it. I do listen to BBC radio streams, but most of this content, if the songs are available from other on-tap on-line services is a waste of a good format. I'd rather more podcasts, and playlists. There isn't much need for the live element. Or having 24hr radio.

New comment by keypress in "BBC podcasts on third-party apps"

keypress — Thu, 28 Mar 2019 14:32:50 +0000

Probably is a drive from the BBC itself into a closed DRM platform. Their BBC Sounds app is woeful. License fee payers are treated like complete dirt. Being charged multiple times for the same content. It's about time the BBC just became a subscription service. Older content should just be left on Torrents, and be available for re-sampling. They are absolute cretins.

New comment by keypress in "I Ditched My Phone and Unbroke My Brain"

keypress — Mon, 25 Feb 2019 09:43:40 +0000

Oh I've totally got an Internet problem regarding my laptop. So understand how that could translate to a mobile. Mine is just a little less conspicuous. I can type relatively easily on a keyboard after many years, whereas the barrier to text entry on a mobile is far higher for me. I think that's part of it. I notice my passivity more on the mobile. Or perhaps I think I'm more busy on the laptop. Whereas probably both are equally futile.

New comment by keypress in "I Ditched My Phone and Unbroke My Brain"

keypress — Sun, 24 Feb 2019 22:14:49 +0000

That's not to say that I don't waste oodles of time on my personal computer. I certainly have some addiction there. I've lost months to what amounts to not a lot through computer use.

New comment by keypress in "I Ditched My Phone and Unbroke My Brain"

keypress — Sun, 24 Feb 2019 22:00:51 +0000

That's interesting, I'm similar. I've just gotten my first smartphone. Weirdly I'm not that drawn to it. It feels a bit too passive for me compared to my laptop. And it's just too large and clunky. Used it twice for walks/maps so far. Which is the biggest draw for me. Many people around me are stuck in their phones. I do find reading on the laptop difficult, and thought the better screen on the smartphone might be easier. But my brain still doesn't like it compared to e-paper. Not drawn to any apps yet, and the thought of trying to key a message into it fills me with horror. Charging is a pain. Years back I'd have loved these modern incarnations, the tech is pretty great, even modern Android is usable and quite slick. Perhaps watching my partner pick up the phone every few minutes every night has been enough to put me off. I'll likely switch back to my old Nokia I think.

New comment by keypress in "Pixelbook and “Nami” Chromebooks the First to Get Linux GPU Acceleration"

keypress — Sat, 19 Jan 2019 18:33:25 +0000

Sound support? I still have various sound issues on Debian, to the point I just can't be bothered to sort it out. It kind of works.

New comment by keypress in "Pixelbook and “Nami” Chromebooks the First to Get Linux GPU Acceleration"

keypress — Sat, 19 Jan 2019 18:28:35 +0000

I'd get annoyed with many sealed offerings with soldered hardware. It's not just Chromebooks.

New comment by keypress in "Pixelbook and “Nami” Chromebooks the First to Get Linux GPU Acceleration"

keypress — Sat, 19 Jan 2019 18:26:24 +0000

My partner has an Acer £250 Chromebook and their work machine is a £1000 HP, I bought a £140 Lenovo, and the build quality of the HP and Lenovo is on par. The case and screen on the ACER is better than both. The battery is quite poor on the HP, but compared to the other machines it has a better CPU - so could explain it. I'm not saying machines are much of a much-ness, but sometimes more money doesn't buy you better quality. There are HP lines that start from £200 - £1000, and they have the same cases but different flavours of memory and CPUs, I doubt there is much between them in build quality.

New comment by keypress in "Ask HN: Is there any money in website design for small businesses anymore?"

keypress — Sat, 19 Jan 2019 18:11:32 +0000

There's lots of mileage building on top of pre-built platforms. I know many people who are doing very well, who can barely cope with hosting their sites or write code, but can work and skin other systems.

New comment by keypress in "Ask HN: Is there any money in website design for small businesses anymore?"

keypress — Sat, 19 Jan 2019 17:59:28 +0000

I'm partially encouraged by this. It's great that a small business is in a position to build their own site.

New comment by keypress in "Tree Style Tabs"

keypress — Sun, 13 Jan 2019 21:37:59 +0000

I do use tags with firefox, but I juggle chromium, opera and other browsers and systems.

New comment by keypress in "Tree Style Tabs"

keypress — Sun, 06 Jan 2019 12:23:32 +0000

Certainly alarming to see. Mine build up, I keep them for a few weeks, bookmark a few, and burn the lot periodically - which suggests I shouldn't have bothered with them in the first place.

My bookmarks are dumped in a large pile to be one day sorted out. I have hundreds of them. And rather annoyingly are there now with forgotten context. I can't even access the creation dates on Chrome/ium unless I export and data wrangle.

I have decided I'm just going to write a system where I paste the address/or use a bookmarklet, and insist on small text or context and/or the ability to tag and group. But it must be a simple and cross-browser/system.

The most annoying thing about bookmark managers is presentation.

New comment by keypress in "Is there hope for IPv6?"

keypress — Sat, 05 Jan 2019 17:59:08 +0000

I can't really comment about what other's care about and use the web for. I've never met anyone that even uses Instagram!

New comment by keypress in "Is there hope for IPv6?"

keypress — Sat, 05 Jan 2019 17:13:40 +0000

I still like the idea of a peer to peer web, with something like hosting in your own browser. This could be a great alternative fallback network with distributed DNS. Most phones are capable. Energy, speed and security are concerns, but in cracking them you'd probably make the web a better place.

New comment by keypress in "Countries that have preoccupied Americans the most since 1900"

keypress — Fri, 28 Dec 2018 09:26:59 +0000

Badly worded, I'm not chasing after new and US releases. I do watch films and I do follow the news, though not that obsessively. And while the UK press will flag Trump's exploits and major disasters, the US doesn't get that much of a look-in. We are an island nation and quite blind beyond our waters. The information is there to find, but it's not thrust in our faces. Heck my niece has more interest in Korean popular culture than the US. People generally are only concerned for their own back yards (HN has a blatant US bias, perhaps unsurprisingly as it was born there).

New comment by keypress in "Countries that have preoccupied Americans the most since 1900"

keypress — Mon, 24 Dec 2018 12:03:10 +0000

No, totally honest. Not interested in movies.

New comment by keypress in "Countries that have preoccupied Americans the most since 1900"

keypress — Sat, 22 Dec 2018 19:39:42 +0000

Not that true in myopic UK. We know your president, and big news events. I can't even list one US box office movie from this year.