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Re:Ask HN: Why is Microsoft Teams still so bad? on Monday September 26, 2022 @04:42AM (#32980803)
ICQ is not the same thing, that one used a single protocol. Pidgin/Adium/Trillian was able to talk with ICQ users and others without installing several applications.
Re:Ask HN: Why is Microsoft Teams still so bad? on Monday September 26, 2022 @04:40AM (#32980790)
Pidgin (called Gaim) released December 31, 1998 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pidgin_(software)

Trillian (propritary) released July 1, 2000 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trillian_(software)

Re:Revolt: Open-source alternative to Discord on Tuesday September 07, 2021 @01:06PM (#28447174)
It's a server, here are clients for it https://matrix.org/clients/ (with pictures). Features https://matrix.org/discover/
Re:Human Rapamycin Longevity Clinical Trials Begin on Saturday June 19, 2021 @12:26PM (#27561874)
Wealth distribution is already a big problem that needs to be solved regardless of life extension. Personally I hope tech will one day let us reach a post scarcity society.

I hope along with extending life we would also learn how to restore neuroplasticity to help reduce old people that are to set in their ways. Then maybe there would be less of a difference between young and old.

Re:Representing SHA-256 Hashes as Avatars on Thursday June 17, 2021 @12:56PM (#27541764)
I wonder if you could create a hashing algorithm that made outputs more like this https://towardsdatascience.com/avatargan-generate-cartoon-im... So instead of representing a hash the image is the hash and an actual avatar at the same time.
Re:Neural Network Enabled Filmmaking on Monday May 24, 2021 @12:11PM (#27266088)
You can kind of forget that you are reading subtitles but occasionally you might be reading when something happens on screen that you miss. Being able to spend all time (fully) watching the movie is not something you can deny makes for a better experience.

What makes subtitles even worse for me is that I usually watch at higher speeds often 200-300%. Then reading becomes even more annoying and you have to pay very close attention making you miss out even more on the visuals.

Simplest solution would be to just remap keys you don't use with something like Autohotkey.

If you want a separate keypad a cheap solution would be to use any old keyboard and then remap that one specifically with a tool like http://www.hidmacros.eu/whatisit.php (optionally you can paint or add labels to the keys to make it easier to use).

I've been using teams since launch, it's a step up from Skype for business (mostly, they have for some reason decided to drop support for talking with regular Skype). I would say tho that they are still lacking a lot of important features. You can see a lot of examples of this here:

https://microsoftteams.uservoice.com

They can also be very slow getting around to fixing things even if they are very important. They only just recently fixed so status works and notifications stopped working for more than a week without getting fixed (patched this week).

You could look into porting it to Firefox, since they use a similar API now it would hopefully not require much work. There was something called Firediff before but it hasn't been updated for Firefox Quantum.
Re:Microsoft Teams gets a free version on Saturday July 14, 2018 @09:17AM (#17530220)
You could try something like this in the meantime:

https://rambox.pro/ https://meetfranz.com/

Taking it one step further, you can install an add-on like Tampermoney and run full user scripts (works on mobile as well) https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/tampermonkey/
Seems to work fine for me and then you can update manually with a tool like http://www.windowsupdatesdownloader.com/ or maybe http://www.wsusoffline.net/
Re:Lossy GIF compressor on Tuesday March 13, 2018 @02:06AM (#16574138)
It's weird that this pull request was never accepted by gifsicle.

https://github.com/kohler/gifsicle/pull/16

Also check out his other high-quality GIF encoder project https://gif.ski/

Older HN submission https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15730018

There are ways around that like up-scaling a lower resolution or if you add eye-tracking you can do foveated rendering (only render what you focus on with high resolution).
Re:Show HN: Order pizza with random toppings on Sunday December 31, 2017 @06:23PM (#16043602)
As a owner of a dice I don't see a great need for this even if it was available at my location. The dice solution also has a lot more features such as covering allergies, absolutely-not-toppings or just adding drinks.

I guess if saving the surprise until you actually open the box is important you could either have a friend roll for you or give your local pizza place a dice (or url) and promise a tip if they roll for you. Who knows, maybe they would even like the idea of adding that to their menu.

If you want to complicate things a bit it should not be very difficult to just make a user script that makes a random order for you on your favorite pizza site.

I you want something for Windows check out https://www.foobar2000.org/
Re:Show HN: Project Management as Code with Graphviz on Tuesday December 19, 2017 @12:24PM (#15961837)
Re:Incremental Backups Using GNU Tar and S3 on Saturday December 02, 2017 @04:26PM (#15834172)
Re:Firefox Quantum on Wednesday November 08, 2017 @12:04PM (#15654345)
Currently using both Chrome and Firefox, for me it's quite common that Chrome completely dies no freezing just completely and instantly dying. Maybe at most once every other week but it never really happens with Firefox (maybe once or twice per year).
Pogdesign has a great site. Has support for ical so you can get your shows in your normal calendar app, another nice thing is it gives you an alert for newly added shows with a description and trailer so you can easily add it to your list.
Re:Show HN: Dffer – Get notified when a website changes on Friday October 06, 2017 @11:58AM (#15417809)
I've been using a Firefox add-on for this

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/update-scanne...

It works quite well but there's not much in terms of excluding content. When I needed to do that I just ran it through a simple script that filtered for me (Node.js).

Re:Paint.net is now available on the Windows Store on Saturday September 30, 2017 @04:50PM (#15374913)
When you talk about DNS propagation you have to take cache into account. You could set TTL that low (even if you do, some will ignore it) but normally it's a lot longer so you often get times like 24-48 hours for complete propagation.
Re:Firefox Quantum Lands in Beta, Developer Edition on Tuesday September 26, 2017 @01:22PM (#15340722)
I'm at 204 with about 1 GB of usage. Firefox is great with many tabs http://www.techradar.com/news/firefoxs-blazing-speed-with-hu...
Re:Making Visible Watermarks More Effective on Friday August 18, 2017 @12:41AM (#15043613)
Example of content aware fill for anyone that hasn't seen it https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NH0aEp1oDOI

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