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gigglesupstairs··on Paint on Windows is getting layers and transparency support
Aha. Thanks, I wasn’t aware of that.
gigglesupstairs··on Paint on Windows is getting layers and transparency support
PNG does support layers. Yes. I remember using it in Macromedia Fireworks which had a native format PNG which functioned like Photoshop's PSD and saved layers and its styles and stuff.
gigglesupstairs··on Bluesky Exploits
What’s the reason though, any idea?
gigglesupstairs··on Small prey compelled prehistoric humans to produce appropriate hunting weapons
“Desirable” is a variable though across such different times
gigglesupstairs··on Secret paper trail reveals hidden Adani investors
https://archive.li/Csy3B
gigglesupstairs··on Live worm found in Australian woman’s brain
As someone who grew up in mud and all kinds of filth while playing in a (stereo)typical Indian city, I have to say this makes sense. We kids were just left to play by themselves for hours at a time while we made merry in the dirtiest streets. Nobody was “clean”. There were open drains everywhere and let’s just say that a ball going into those drains never stopped an exciting game of gully cricket.

And, this was most of India not just us.

gigglesupstairs··on Rectify11 Improving upon the Windows 11 experience
You can have taskbar on left in Windows 11 as well.
gigglesupstairs··on X/Twitter is stealing all short accounts
ycombinator.com gettting renamed to y.com?
gigglesupstairs··on Pegasus Mail
Just so utilitarian!
gigglesupstairs··on Pegasus Mail
Those move and copy icons, omg just love them!
gigglesupstairs··on Threads users down by more than a half
> Quite obviously because advertisers prefer networks without controversy.

This + less moderation headaches for Meta as political discussions invite the most toxic users

gigglesupstairs··on OpenAI shuts down its AI Classifier due to poor accuracy
> does it matter if you use ChatGPT for inspiration?

Absolutely not.

gigglesupstairs··on OpenAI shuts down its AI Classifier due to poor accuracy
And?

The tool in question was used for AI text detection not generation.

gigglesupstairs··on Twitter has officially changed its logo to ‘X’
> It sounds the same with "tweet".

May be in certain cultures. I have never made that connect. I am from India.

gigglesupstairs··on Twitter has officially changed its logo to ‘X’
Sounds like a drug addict looking for another dose
gigglesupstairs··on Show HN: I made a customizable iOS browser for minimalists and myself
Keeping the restriction aside, you can still log into most websites even inside webviews.
gigglesupstairs··on Tell HN: Queryable is now open source
Context: Queryable is an offline semantic photo album search app for iOS

Launch on HN some months back: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34686947

Developer: https://github.com/mazzzystar

gigglesupstairs··on PhotoPrism: AI-powered photos app for the decentralized web
Where is your quoted text from? I couldn't find it on linked github.

Edit: Okay, found it. I think it's likely that those warnings are only for uploading on their demo server linked on github and not on the locally hosted product.

gigglesupstairs··on Welcome to Threads
> I do wonder why threads wasn't just included in the Instagram app.

May be because they are trying to create a separate identity and attract twitter crowd which may or may not like IG much. No one likes IG much these days tbh. Just using IG to logging in is an entirely different matter, people are used to logging in using different service providers like google, facebook etc.

gigglesupstairs··on Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg offered Rome's Colosseum as cage fight venue
Link not working
gigglesupstairs··on All Pocket accounts will be converted to Firefox accounts
Adding on to what other user said, Readwise has GPT summary option for every article, inbuilt natural language narrator, support for epub files, and lot more. You can also save individual highlights and notes with each save. They also have very responsive developers and a very handy newsletter they send to users to keep them apprised of what is happening behind the scenes. Not to mention a brilliant iOS app.
gigglesupstairs··on FTC announces proposed rule banning fake reviews and testimonials
This is so non-specific. Which website(s) are you talking about?
gigglesupstairs··on FTC announces proposed rule banning fake reviews and testimonials
And the sundry video editing tools, pdf editors, random file converters etc. So many just mask their promotion strategies in the form of review blogs.
gigglesupstairs··on Anna’s Archive: Open-source data library
It has already been posted here multiple times before.
gigglesupstairs··on How Regulatory Capture gets the beans above the frank WRT right to repair
Not sure if you can but if you can, feel free to change title to make it more appropriate. HN doesn’t mind.
gigglesupstairs··on Reddit Admins are forcing protesting subreddits to open to the public again
I like whatever this is haha
gigglesupstairs··on The note Reddit sent to moderators threatening them if they don’t reopen
I didn’t know r/nfl represents the whole of reddit. Mind = blown.
gigglesupstairs··on Show HN: FlingUp, a Reddit-like platform Ive been building for the last 2 years
Hey, are you aware of WT.Social? It’s run by Jimmy Wales (Wikipedia Guy) and he just released its second version. The philosophy of your product seems aligned with his. See if you wanna contribute or partner: https://twitter.com/jimmy_wales/status/1668266400723488769
gigglesupstairs··on Fark redesign is now live (2007)
It's like I landed in 90s forum talking about stuff happening in 2023. It's a weird feeling.
gigglesupstairs··on Reddit Strike Has Started
As an example, Apollo has around 50k paying members currently. Even if we say 10% are really hardcore ones and will jump ship (and not just use Reddit’s default app which is decent if not feature rich), how many of those 10% will still retain Reddit as a parallel app, and how many of those will get frustrated very fast because growth is very hard in this space owing to federated nature of upcoming social networks and growing personal server costs and the time it will take for that social network to become mature like reddit. Will the remaining ones who stuck with the new ship and probably brought new members as well as part of scaling, be enough to generate enough revenue for those apps to continue investing in the new social network?

Also, what I have understood with these Reddit 3rd party app developers - seeing multiple ones over the years from Alien Blue to Readit to Apollo - is that these guys are pretty good at understanding complexity and solving it via their good designs but a social network is not just all this as we have seen with Reddit itself and now twitter. It’s about moderation, nurturing communities, formulating effective user friendly policies across communities and much more. Which none of these app developers have experience with.

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