Hacker News: voltaireodactyl

New comment by voltaireodactyl in "Mouser: An open source alternative to Logi-Plus mouse software"

voltaireodactyl — Sun, 15 Mar 2026 20:30:43 +0000

Elecom gives them a run for their money thumb ball wise in my experience.

New comment by voltaireodactyl in "Mouser: An open source alternative to Logi-Plus mouse software"

voltaireodactyl — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 23:49:40 +0000

Steermouse fills this gap brilliantly. Covers every device I’ve ever tried and I have some significant exotics.

New comment by voltaireodactyl in "I don't know Apple's endgame for the Fn/Globe key–or if Apple does"

voltaireodactyl — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 09:08:26 +0000

FWIW you can do it for “all apps” in one go — I set one up for printing to PDF and it works great

New comment by voltaireodactyl in "The 'Toy Story' You Remember"

voltaireodactyl — Tue, 11 Nov 2025 04:18:20 +0000

Excellent article really enjoyed it.

New comment by voltaireodactyl in "Most users cannot identify AI bias, even in training data"

voltaireodactyl — Sun, 19 Oct 2025 07:15:53 +0000

Thought provoking critiques of recent implantations. Number 2 seems like a catch-22 though — how does the group with agency identify their own blind spots?

New comment by voltaireodactyl in "Bots are getting good at mimicking engagement"

voltaireodactyl — Thu, 16 Oct 2025 20:50:19 +0000

My impression is that the question is whether “business” in this instance refers to the Yellowpages company itself, or the companies that make up their customers base.

New comment by voltaireodactyl in "The story of DOGE, as told by federal workers"

voltaireodactyl — Fri, 26 Sep 2025 18:20:38 +0000

Damaging USAID irreparably damages the US soft power around the globe. As Elon’s businesses are not limited to US borders, I wonder if there is perhaps a bigger picture here.

New comment by voltaireodactyl in "I'm spoiled by Apple Silicon but still love Framework"

voltaireodactyl — Tue, 23 Sep 2025 07:32:54 +0000

FWIW, this is now possible albeit with a third party app: https://github.com/sbmpost/AutoRaise

New comment by voltaireodactyl in "YouTube addresses lower view counts which seem to be caused by ad blockers"

voltaireodactyl — Thu, 18 Sep 2025 01:43:41 +0000

FWIW wBlock is on GitHub and can be used without an Apple account. I’ve found it to be excellent.

New comment by voltaireodactyl in "Emacs as your video-trimming tool"

voltaireodactyl — Tue, 19 Aug 2025 23:27:24 +0000

Lossless Cut is free, open source, and very simple to use. Highly recommend. Wayyyyy lighter than screen flow.

New comment by voltaireodactyl in "Facial recognition vans to be rolled out across police forces in England"

voltaireodactyl — Thu, 14 Aug 2025 00:50:48 +0000

If the US government requests such access, do you see a world in which Waymo says no, given the current landscape?

New comment by voltaireodactyl in "AI overviews cause massive drop in search clicks"

voltaireodactyl — Wed, 23 Jul 2025 21:49:01 +0000

I think you might be happily surprised for sure.

New comment by voltaireodactyl in "Proton joins suit against Apple for practices that harm developers and consumers"

voltaireodactyl — Wed, 02 Jul 2025 01:37:52 +0000

Just fwiw, my understanding is that this has already happened on both Android and iOS (via TestFlight): https://techcrunch.com/2019/01/29/facebook-project-atlas/

New comment by voltaireodactyl in "Show HN: TitleBridge - A FinalCut Workflow Plugin"

voltaireodactyl — Wed, 21 May 2025 02:07:20 +0000

This is something I’ve been trying to find for years at this point and I’ve tried all the competitors. LOVE how you’ve designed the workflow.

One question: any chance it can accept existing SRT files? This looks perfect for quick and smaller projects but I also have a pretty good workflow for longer more spelling-specific stuff involving MacWhisper outputting an SRT. Would love to be able to drop in an SRT (if not already possible).

One other note: does it require 15.4? I’m there on my laptop but desktop still on 15.1. Would love to use without updating but if 15.4 is required I understand.

Either way TREMENDOUS work. Just the kind of plugin I’ve been hoping to see for FCPX. Thank you.

New comment by voltaireodactyl in "Show HN: Aqua Voice 2 – Fast Voice Input for Mac and Windows"

voltaireodactyl — Thu, 10 Apr 2025 22:30:04 +0000

Check out MacWhisper which is one time payment and does this among many other things.

New comment by voltaireodactyl in "Mozilla launching "Thundermail" email service to take on Gmail, Microsoft 365"

voltaireodactyl — Wed, 02 Apr 2025 21:51:53 +0000

On Mac I’ve found MailMate to be excellent in this regard.

New comment by voltaireodactyl in "AMC Theatres will screen a Swedish movie 'visually dubbed' with the help of AI"

voltaireodactyl — Tue, 25 Mar 2025 21:44:41 +0000

I want to be on board with the “bring more audience” but the truth is knowing how this industry works, any success with AI on this front will lead almost immediately to a total drying up of funding for professionals engaging in this work currently. I hope I’m wrong, I really do.

New comment by voltaireodactyl in "Brother accused of locking down third-party printer ink cartridges"

voltaireodactyl — Wed, 05 Mar 2025 03:37:35 +0000

There was talk a while back about them silently degrading print jobs that used third party ink. I forget the exact details but it was arguably more heinous than the HP stuff since at least that happens out in the open — this was special code to make third party ink look worse without explanation.

New comment by voltaireodactyl in "macOS Tips and Tricks (2022)"

voltaireodactyl — Fri, 28 Feb 2025 04:56:48 +0000

Fwiw I hear good things about aerospace but haven’t yet had a chance to give it a shot.

New comment by voltaireodactyl in "If it is worth keeping, save it in Markdown"

voltaireodactyl — Wed, 26 Feb 2025 04:23:18 +0000

I love the Fountain spec for exactly this reason. I primarily began using it since it’s Markdown for screenwriting, but it has bold, underline, and italics along with the usual markdown stuff like comments etc. I find it to be by far the best way to write plaintext anything other than code. It’s also a bit more opinionated than Markdown which I highly prefer.