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I have a use case for a niche audience: The videogame Final Fantasy XIV has a lot of text. A LOT of text. Someone has made a plugin to pipe text to external tts services, or a webs…

Free speech means he can say (edit) legally protegted speech* on his own platform. No company is obligated to provide that platform for him. When judging a company for what content…

You seem to be willfully ignoring the demonstrable harm he causes. You're promoting a false balance. You're saying "Alex Jones robbed a bank, other people eat their coworkers' lunc…

Your definition of "free speech" includes not taking action against truly malicious and slanderous and manipulative people like Alex Jones? And there is no "who draws the line‽" ar…

Yeah, right now my biggest challenge is VR. I have been able to work around everything else, but VR is increasingly becoming the domain of those with 10 fingers and two wrists. I c…

Rather than simply disabling the tabs, I find it useful to conditionally disable them: ``` #main-window:not([customizing]):not([tabsintitlebar="true"]) #toolbar-menubar[inactive="t…

This is the most stable option for sure. The more popular Tree Style Tab is still rather buggy, even after its complete rewrite.

I used to run foobar2000 in wine, because no other linux media player scratched some of the itches foobar covered. There is even a foobar2000 package in the arch aur so it simply i…

This genuinely surprises me. OpenVPN is a dense and obtuse rabbit hole of many poorly named configuration options with terrible documentation. WireGuard asks so much less of you.

I was interested until I saw the gestures. I don't have a left hand, I don't have six fingers, guess I'll stick with my mouse. I'm sure this could be adapted for one-hand use, but-…

What is "ricing" in this context? I do agree I need to come up with a better way to maintain and distribute this, I'll look into LARBS.

I could imagine a "resistance" bombarding wechat with so much garbage that the PRC wouldn't be able to trust intel gathered from it.

All you linux veterans may cringe at it, but maybe check out my dotfiles. I have spent years cultivating a complete DE experience around dwm. It shouldn't be too hard to drop in yo…

How did I miss this? Very exciting!

My 2c I recently got signal because some friends made me. Given how old it is, I was shocked by how poor some aspects are. I liked using it as an android sms app, until I replied t…

How many employees from Microsoft in the 90s are still there now, calling the shots? Microsoft is a company like any other, and like any other company we should keep an eye on what…

And coal power shouldn't be replaced as long as it helps people have electricity. /s Your comment misses the point that it is still a monumental and needless waste.

Could you give me a little insight into your use case? I'm personally excited for ipfs, but I've stopped following releases / am feeling burnt out by the slow pace of development. …

> you have to be a chump to pay for a Slack IRC bridge Or part of a network that doesn't want to issue generic API tokens to random users. Since this irccloud is implemented as a s…

I find the ZUI style navigation works particularly well for finding large files and folders- this requires weighing larger folders with a bigger size, rather than just representing…

It's entirely marketing, there is no actual data supporting the claim that it's healthier for you. It succeeds by the "appeal to nature" fallacy, which causes a bunch of problems a…

This comment is more directed at hn commenters than the article itself. I'm led to believe that free journals aren't successful precisely because they don't have standards. They do…

I am wary of making predictive generalizations, but I have been thinking about the effect of "just works" computers for roughly ten years. The robotics program in my highschool fol…

Same, however in my experience people like us will be left out of the loop when there are last minute changes to the event. Just last week I nearly missed a weekly public activity:…

This is just blither. They were right: Microsoft and corporate Linux provide security patches for older operating systems for quite a long time. Your obvious animosity for Microsof…