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Re:Facebook now charging to post more than 2 links a month on Tuesday October 20, 2026 @05:34PM (#50173007)
Not just Pages, but I've read this is also coming to any user who at some point in the past clicked the prompt to turn their account into a "pro" one. I did it long ago, just to see what info it would give me; then found little of interest, and forgot about it. Since then people have followed me who didn't friend me. Now, I can revert to a non-pro account (gaining ability to post more than 2 links) but I'd lose all the non-friend followers. Whatever. It's amazing how much junk FB is now. My feed is mostly crap from people/pages I don't follow and have no interest in.
Re:Minimal Phone 2 on Friday September 18, 2026 @05:42PM (#49760664)
Indeed. I wish Apple would make an Uno -- just the front screen of the Duo. Half the (unfolded) width, half the weight.
Re:Minimal Phone 2 on Friday September 18, 2026 @04:44PM (#49760033)
Why is this phone barely lighter than an iPhone air with a massively bigger screen, two camera lenses, etc? I'm glad it's not heavier, but I would have hoped for it to be the lightest phone -- by far. (Minimal 2 is 7g lighter than iPhone Air).
Re:Apple Introduces MacBook Neo on Wednesday March 04, 2026 @02:45PM (#47252805)
Apple, please make a new 12" Macbook for those of us who travel and want the lightest weight possible. Less than 2 lbs, thinner than the Air, but without the compromises of the Neo. I'd pay more than the Air price for this. Or, make the Air lighter and thinner (to match the iPhone Air in approach?).
Re:Slow Social Media on Wednesday September 17, 2025 @03:41PM (#45280505)
Minus is a finite social platform where users get 100 posts--for life. https://minus.social
Amazing the distinction Sam sees between himself and Zuck while most see no distinction at all.
Re:Typing 118 WPM Broke My Brain in the Right Ways on Monday June 02, 2025 @05:13PM (#44163085)
this is fun. my first test hits 125wpm. bursts up to 162wpm. 100% accuracy. seems too easy, though -- no capitals, nums, etc?
More accurate would be to call it TikTok for Links, not for text, as text without links isn't allowed.
Re:How bad is your Spotify? on Wednesday December 23, 2020 @03:32PM (#25521848)
This drives me nuts. I want to listen to an album, not a song. But I'm guessing this is an old-school POV that the younger demographic doesn't agree with.
Re:JazzKeys: Type to improvise Jazz music on Monday July 06, 2020 @05:16PM (#23752845)
This is mostly just using the keyboard to manipulate the rhythm/time performance of a pre-configured score. Interesting, but not what most would think of as jazz improvisation.
I wonder how this technique differs from CPAP. CPAP doesn't use pure O2, but perhaps the pressures can be similar?
Re:Tell HN: Google should drop Quora from search results on Sunday November 24, 2019 @02:28PM (#21622681)
For years now I have used "-pinterest" on every regular search term I utilize (I bake that into any Google bookmark). Would applaud the removal of Pinterest from search results.
Why does MCAS have to take control of trim at all? Would it not be sufficient to alert the pilot of an imminent stall situation so they can adjust the angle of attack themselves? Is it because doing so would put the MAX too far afield from the old 737 such that it would require simulator training?
Re:De-Suckafying Apple’s Butterfly Keyboard on Tuesday January 15, 2019 @07:10PM (#18917077)
Yes, have tried this. Comes back working and then develops the same problem shortly thereafter. Further, Apple Stores are about a 2.5hr drive for me, so I can't just easily keep popping in for every issue -- especially if I think the fix won't last anyway.
Re:De-Suckafying Apple’s Butterfly Keyboard on Tuesday January 15, 2019 @07:08PM (#18917061)
Trying this out. I like it more than I thought I would. But a couple comments:

1) The sounds appear to all be the same, regardless of key. Seems there should be some subtle variation in the sound, even if it just a very slight modulation in pitch? This would better map with real mechanical keyboards.

2) The sounds appear too far delayed to me. Like it's slightly out of sync w/ my typing. I turned off the keyup sound—which helps—but not enough. It may be this is a limitation you can't overcome.

3) The sound quality seems low. Maybe obtain higher quality samples and/or don't compress it so much?

Re:De-Suckafying Apple’s Butterfly Keyboard on Tuesday January 15, 2019 @07:00PM (#18917010)
I'm okay with the travel changes (and even sometimes prefer it to the old generation).

I am unhappy about the increased sound, but can live with it.

But the regular problems with repeating keys is an insane regression in functionality. I have this problem with a different key almost every day (today it's my 'i' key), but most days one of the keys repeats itself every time I activate iti, such that—see, that "iti" was a perfect example (I corrected the others)—and the repeat happens usually after the following letter. Drives. me. crazy.

Interesting results (thanks for the SciHub link), but also a call for more research. Not enough info yet to rule out a likely explanation: that those who seek therapy were already in a negative situation, and thus the therapy is a symptom of a problem rather than the cause of one. They discuss additional interesting angles about it near the end, re therapists who don't follow standard protocols, patients who don't stay with therapy, etc.
Re:Apple Said to Plan First Pro Laptop Overhaul in Years on Wednesday August 10, 2016 @12:28PM (#12262932)
I'm surprised nobody has mentioned the loss of the ESC key. I use Vim and touch that key all day long. Replacing that with a touch button sounds like a terrible idea for usability. Clearly nobody in charge at Apple is also a vi user.

Beyond not removing the ESC key, I want 32-64 GB RAM, a 2TB drive option (or more), and no more weight.

http://bengrosser.com/projects/protocols-of-looking/ -- artwork w gaze tracking, looks away when you look at it
Re:OS X Yosemite on Monday June 02, 2014 @03:46PM (#7835744)
translucency is the new glossy screen---it looks cool at first, but in practice makes what you’re looking at harder to see
Re:Art project adds tinge of terror to everyday email on Monday October 14, 2013 @02:56PM (#6548938)
direct link to the project (as opposed to the article about the project): http://bengrosser.com/projects/scaremail/

the artist uses NLP in Python to do analysis of an original text (Fahrenheit 451), uses that to swap out nouns/verbs with "scary" versions, then uses Markov chains on the fly in Javascript to generate unique scary stories for each email.

Re:Father of GIFs: 'It's Pronounced JIF' on Wednesday May 22, 2013 @05:38PM (#5753926)
uh, no, it's really not.
Re:Google Street View Hyperlapses [video] on Thursday April 11, 2013 @12:00PM (#5532760)
their interface crashed my mac hard. using chrome. save everything before trying this out.
Re:Google Keep on Wednesday March 20, 2013 @05:21PM (#5410438)
until they change their minds and it becomes google lose
Re:An Open Letter to Google: Google Alerts Now Useless on Wednesday March 20, 2013 @04:41PM (#5410125)
I've found that google alerts rarely reports new hits on my terms anymore. I know this because I also use their time tools in search to find new hits, and what it finds almost never comes in as an alert anymore. When it does it's often quite old.
Re:Show HN: tweet capturer on Friday March 01, 2013 @08:28PM (#5308036)
i'm not going to try it when i don't know what it does. 'capture tweets' doesn't tell me enough to entice me experiment with an app that suggests what I do might end up on twitter.
Re:Firefox introduces PDF viewer on Wednesday February 20, 2013 @02:19PM (#5252589)
just tried it on a large PDF. Chrome takes about 1 second to load while FF takes 10, and the visual result in FF is nearly unreadable (while in Chrome it looks just like it does in Acrobat). i'd love to have nice open-source native PDF support, but this surely doesn't cut it for release.

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