Hacker News: r2222

New comment by r2222 in "Gallery of Minimal Design Websites"

r2222 — Mon, 20 Mar 2023 08:07:04 +0000

I’m pretty sure “minimal design” just means “cool design” nowadays.

New comment by r2222 in "Punctuation Matters: How to use the en dash, em dash and hyphen"

r2222 — Sun, 12 Mar 2023 14:07:27 +0000

Yea em dash with spaces looks better to me too, I find that it’s harder to read if the em dash is there without surrounding spaces. Looks too cramped, not separated enough.

New comment by r2222 in "Mozilla solves the Manifest V3 puzzle to save ad blockers"

r2222 — Sun, 19 Feb 2023 12:54:39 +0000

How does Manifest v3 compare to Safari content blocker API in terms of ad blocking capability? Currently AdGuard for Safari (from Mac App Store, the one that uses native content blocking API) has 7 content blockers categories you have to enable, and each of them allow 150k rules, amounting to over a million rules total although you can’t count it like that really. V3’s 30k per extension and 330k total sounds like a lot less.

Is there something more to it than just the amount of rules, is v3 still better than Safari?

New comment by r2222 in "Sloth – A Mac app that shows all open files, directories, sockets, etc."

r2222 — Fri, 17 Feb 2023 13:05:58 +0000

What would be the use cases for such tool? If I need to ask, I won’t need it?

New comment by r2222 in "Microsoft to Replace Edge’s PDF Reader with Adobe Acrobat"

r2222 — Mon, 13 Feb 2023 08:37:53 +0000

Yeah I hadn’t used a Windows machine for a year or so, and fired up Edge Dev just recently. The amount of adbloatware is truly baffling, it’s almost incredible.

Afaik Windows doesn’t ship with a default PDF viewer other than Edge’s, so they probably made a pretty sweet deal with Adobe to let them in to upsell their subscription.

New comment by r2222 in "Stable Diffusion macOS native app"

r2222 — Wed, 28 Dec 2022 11:31:06 +0000

Wonder how it compares to ‘Amazing AI;’ a native Mac app for Stable Diffusion I stumbled into earlier today.

Link: https://sindresorhus.com/amazing-ai

New comment by r2222 in "Show HN: A color picker for named web colors"

r2222 — Mon, 21 Nov 2022 17:05:45 +0000

Shows just pretty much empty screen, with one black polygon at the top: https://i.ibb.co/3Ms9m6T/SCR-20221121-qgw.jpg

New comment by r2222 in "Google to start forcing new Gmail interface this month"

r2222 — Mon, 21 Nov 2022 10:25:23 +0000

I’m counting 3 sidebars at the least.

New comment by r2222 in "Duolingo app update with Path UI facing backlash from users"

r2222 — Sat, 19 Nov 2022 23:44:59 +0000

…with the mandatory change.org petition.

New comment by r2222 in "Evernote to be acquired by Bending Spoons"

r2222 — Thu, 17 Nov 2022 15:09:48 +0000

Yeah it’s been extermely slow with the updates. The Bear 2.0 is currently on Mac-only beta but not yet open (unless you join their beta forum and ask for access), but even then, it doesn’t have the web app. I’ve seen the Bear team say that they did a full rewrite (in C++ I think?) so that it would be easier to implement the web app in future but who knows how many years in the future that is.

New comment by r2222 in "Notion AI – waiting list signup"

r2222 — Wed, 16 Nov 2022 18:18:58 +0000

Imagine being a Notion user that’s been wishing for sensible things like offline mode or performance improvements on large databases/docs and finding out they’ve spent their time and money on this instead.

New comment by r2222 in "Notion AI – waiting list signup"

r2222 — Wed, 16 Nov 2022 18:10:48 +0000

Yeah I thought at first the video was skipping or rewinding or something when I tried to play-pause-play my way though it as it kept repeating essentially the same thing over and over.

Sounds like some next-gen Lorem Ipsum.

New comment by r2222 in "Searchable List of Mastodon Servers"

r2222 — Tue, 08 Nov 2022 17:58:10 +0000

Yeah I understand that now. I’ve learned a lot about Mastodon in these days and it’s not that bad really. I just had this choice-paralysis as I had this idea that I’d have to pick ONE and that’s it. Kinda like if when joining Reddit you’d have to pick just one subreddit and stick with it.

The big revelation was that it doesn’t matter that much.

New comment by r2222 in "Searchable List of Mastodon Servers"

r2222 — Sat, 05 Nov 2022 23:39:49 +0000

I don’t understand what’s the point to this federation thing, other than to offer bad user experince. Shouldn’t “decentralized” be like the number 30 in the long list of things a popular/fun social platform should aspire for, not the number one?

I swear I’ve tried to find an instance but either the focus of the instance is too specific, has only couple dozen people, or doesn’t accept new members because there’s too much of them.

New comment by r2222 in "Twitter Blue for $8/Month"

r2222 — Wed, 02 Nov 2022 06:14:26 +0000

Is the bot spam a problem to any average Twitter user like Elon claims, or just him (one of the most followed account in the app) and maybe couple others?

New comment by r2222 in "Audiobooks on Spotify"

r2222 — Thu, 27 Oct 2022 22:31:53 +0000

The situation already exists on Mac for example and it’s very inconvenient imo to have to buy everything from a different website, trying to keep up who charges what and when, keeping track of the license codes etc. I’m not a fan.

New comment by r2222 in "Audiobooks on Spotify"

r2222 — Thu, 27 Oct 2022 20:57:34 +0000

Apple would definitely let them to get into audiobooks, Spotify just doesn’t want to give them the cut. As a platform owner Spotify takes a cut from the artists, aren’t they playing the same game as Apple?

If they somehow get regulators to allow 3rd party payments on App Store, that would be a terrible thing for the users. I don’t want to start giving out my credit card number to every random company I want to purchase content from.

The UX issues Apple rules create are legit concerns though, but it just kinda feels they’re used as a veil to get to the bottom line, which is to get around the IAP system. It’s always about the money.

New comment by r2222 in "Audiobooks on Spotify"

r2222 — Thu, 27 Oct 2022 19:25:10 +0000

Yeah the App Store rules suck and that’s all on Apple, but I find it a bit silly for Spotify to repeatedly act surprised about them. It’s the same cycle: Spotify wants go around App Store rules → Apple says no → Spotify fires up the timetoplayfair dot com with slightly tweaked text to fit whatever issue they have this time.

New comment by r2222 in "Designing a better pricing page"

r2222 — Sat, 09 Jul 2022 16:04:32 +0000

I’m glad (← sarcasm) if a modern pricing page lists *the actual price* without needing to create an account or install the app first.

New comment by r2222 in "Goodbye, Feedly"

r2222 — Sat, 02 Jul 2022 11:54:35 +0000

I’ve been very happy with https://feedbin.com

It’s a paid RSS syncing service and web app too, costs $5 per month, I use it with Reeder (and NetNewsWire etc). It doesn’t have any social cruft or AI assistants or ML companions.

I was also a Feedly user when I decided to try Feedbin, and I immediately noticed how much faster fetching the feeds was on Feedbin. I also like to have my email newsletters in same place (forward them to a Feedbin-provided email address), and I can have filters to mark things like sponsored posts and podcast show notes as read automatically, basically like mute filters.

Feedly premium tier costs pretty much the same, and I wonder how well it would stack against Feedbin. There’s also Inoreader which I think offers pretty similar feature set for a pretty similar price.

Feedly free tier is excellent, and you can work around many of its shortcomings by using an RSS reader app. For example, Feedly free doesn’t offer full text articles, but I can extract the full text with Reeder/NetNewsWire/etc on the client-side. If you really don’t care about speed, mute filters, or reading newsletters in your RSS reader, then Feedly free tier is already more than enough.