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IndieHD music store (a Bandcamp alternative)(indiehd.com)
3 points by whyoh 5y ago|1 comments
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by whyoh 5y ago
GMX exposes your IP address in email headers.
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by whyoh 5y ago
Just a comment: the difference between business and personal accounts is not very clear. It looks like the business account is better, but it's cheaper. Or is that price just temporary? That slow long scrolling of the pages isn't
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by whyoh 5y ago
That's more friction than I'm willing to tolerate. If they force me to use 2FA, I'm done with Gmail for good (it's already no longer my primary email). And I'm not against 2FA in general, I just don't want to u
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by whyoh 5y ago
>The fact you have to reimport the subscriptions manually is very tedious Why not just use RSS for Youtube updates? Or do you not use RSS at all?
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by whyoh 5y ago
>All because people can't read with a faint horizontal line between coherent thoughts? Or is there something I'm missing? It's more than just a horizontal line. There are icons and buttons in every post, that is, every cou
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by whyoh 5y ago
Right. My suggestion/rant is not just strictly about HN posts, but about Twitter in general. I'm hoping HN discouraging such links would have a wider effect and encourage Twitter users to write their next blog post elsewhere.
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by whyoh 5y ago
Flagging would be better than nothing, I guess. But it's not enough IMO. My main problem with Twitter is the UI, which is bad in general and terrible for long posts (threads). The second problem is the "culture" of posting ou
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Ask HN: Can we ban Twitter links, please?
235 points by whyoh 5y ago|127 comments
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by whyoh 5y ago
>In general without Apple, BT File Sharing has never interop'd. I've used it with Windows, Symbian and Android at least, sending small files to each other without issues. The main problem is that it's just very slow. Wi-Fi
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by whyoh 5y ago
>Maybe it's because the Teams Desktop client is a rebranding of Skype's I think it's just because that's the default behavior for Electron apps and they're too lazy to change it. IIRC, VSCode had the same problem
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by whyoh 5y ago
>people like their wireless headphones, they like noise cancellation and so on Just to be clear, "noise cancellation and so on" doesn't in any way require the headphones to be wireless. I think many people would apprecia
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by whyoh 5y ago
Thanks for testing. That 18ms result is actually much better than I expected for a shared mode. It got me curious, so I tried it and I was able to replicate it with my Realtek (I got 19ms). I'm still a bit skeptical about its real-worl
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by whyoh 5y ago
>ASIO4ALL notoriously does not play nice with multiple audio sources. Yep, that's because Asio4all uses WDM-KS and WDM-KS since Vista doesn't support multiple sources. Actual ASIO drivers made by sound card manufacturers usuall
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by whyoh 5y ago
>I can get ~1ms latency with shared-mode WASAPI I seriously doubt it. I don't think it's possible for shared WASAPI to go below 20-30ms. How are you measuring it? Input, output or round-trip? For easy RTL measurements, you can
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by whyoh 5y ago
God, that's such a typical new-Microsoft dark pattern; hiding the toggle for an annoyance in some weird location, hoping the user doesn't find it. It's everywhere in Windows 10.
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by whyoh 5y ago
Yeah, they mention various (sub-)companies: Telegram UK Holdings Ltd in England, Telegram Group Inc in the British Virgin Islands and Telegram FZ-LLC in Dubai. Source: https://telegram.org/privacy Looking elsewhere I
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by whyoh 5y ago
>That is quite misleading to a vast amount of people without tech background. Not as misleading and potentially harmful as saying "Telegram is encrypted" as a blanket statement, because: 1. as I said, the client-to-server encry
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by whyoh 5y ago
>Can we stop comparing the lack of default-on e2ee in Telegram to "no encryption"? I don't think we should. In the context of messaging at least, encryption should mean E2E encryption. Bragging about client-to-server encry
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by whyoh 5y ago
>whereas Telegram users typically take these thing seriously. And yet they don't mind the lack of encryption?
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by whyoh 5y ago
>not domiciled in the west Its legal domicile is in the UK.
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by whyoh 5y ago
I have a new PC with a NVMe drive and Windows 10. Everything is fast on it, but a ~300MB monthly Windows update can easily take 2-3 minutes, plus a reboot. Usually a software install of this size would take no more than 20 seconds. This has
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by whyoh 5y ago
And as is typical for Electron apps, it installs in some non-standard location (C:\Users...) on Windows, without even giving you the option to change it.
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by whyoh 5y ago
>nothing weird going on with the layout The Esc key is shifted to the right compared to a standard layout. (Same for the F-keys, to a lesser extent.) If you're used to the standard Esc position it can be slightly annoying.
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by whyoh 5y ago
>The only solution is a kernel that can place all newly attached USB devices in a queue for manual approval. Would it recognize the newly attached one, if you do the swap while the computer is turned off and they have the same HW ID? Bec
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by whyoh 5y ago
Unencrypted backups are bad, but this is arguably even worse: https://jorislacance.fr/blog/2021/04/16/whatsapp-tracking-2 (Discussion on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26889139
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by whyoh 5y ago
I don't know what he meant with "audio management", but when it comes to music production, MacOS works way better by default, with system-wide low latency audio and multi-client MIDI drivers. On Windows, you need to buy a ded
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by whyoh 5y ago
>it's encouraged by Microsoft now. "If you can't beat them, join them." The cynicism with which Microsoft embraced this path is sickening.
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by whyoh 5y ago
The difference is that ads on websites are somewhat expected and usually easy to block and contained inside a browser. Ads inside an OS are in a different category of annoying. Especially on Windows where it's not just one setting to t
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by whyoh 5y ago
>ALAC is an open source format, which has all benefits as other open source format e.g. FLAC. Technically, it's still not as good. For instance, FLAC includes a checksum of the audio data, whereas ALAC doesn't. FLAC also compre

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