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ohtwenty··on Imgur launches video
I recently discovered that youtube-dl works on v.redd.it links, so you can download and share the vids directly.

But I'm with you 100%, their video and image hosting is super slow, and needs to be paused/unpaused a few times before loading or playing anything.

ohtwenty··on GDPR: Programmatic ad buying plummets in Europe
That's been up for quite a while, actually, to help low-bandwidth and screen-reader users.

What's new is that they're redirecting to it if you're EU (like myself)

Edit: It's a pity there's no real archive in the text version, as far as I've been able to tell. No way to scroll down to yesterday's news or anything.

ohtwenty··on GDPR Hall of Shame
Everything is, there was a big deal here in the Netherlands about the local governments having to be compliant as well. The first thing that the dutch agency will check (no fines, but just make sure) is that each municipality has things set up properly.

On top of that, I don't think there's anything in the GDPR limiting it to internet related things, so brick & mortar stores will have to be compliant as well, afaik.

ohtwenty··on MobileCoin has raised $30M for private mobile payments
> You're not going to beat out Venmo, Apple Pay, and other established platforms.

Those are established platforms where you are. Anecdotally, no-one here (NL) uses Venmo or apple pay, recently there's been an increase in popularity of 'tikkie' (https://tikkie.me/) which allows people to send payment requests through whatsapp (used by 90%< of people here). so if something like this is ingrained in whatsapp directly apps like that would lose popularity, i think

ohtwenty··on Ask HN: Who are your favourite people to follow on Mastodon?
There's #ff or #followfriday for suggesting, but i've seen it used to ask for suggestions as well.
ohtwenty··on Ask HN: Who are your favourite people to follow on Mastodon?
oh? i thought you could migrate followers already. I haven't used it, tbh, quite happy with my instance.
ohtwenty··on Ask HN: Who are your favourite people to follow on Mastodon?
https://retro.social/@ajroach42

For cool retro computing stuff, and general archival-of-tech stuff

ohtwenty··on Ask HN: Who are your favourite people to follow on Mastodon?
Explain? I mean it's running and there's a sizable amount of people using it?
ohtwenty··on Ask HN: Who are your favourite people to follow on Mastodon?
So yeah, you can talk with other instances.

And if you want to migrate you should be able to download am your stuff and migrate follower lists etc

ohtwenty··on ThinkPad X1 Carbon 2018 review: The only laptop in a professional’s paradise
You can type, you feel that you're typing, and you kind of start to understand why typing might even be considered fun.

It's a bit hard to explain, the travel on the keys is just really good, comfortable size and shape, etc. See if you can borrow one for a day and type on it, it took me an hour or so to get used to but now any other laptop keyboard feels wrong.

ohtwenty··on ThinkPad X1 Carbon 2018 review: The only laptop in a professional’s paradise
Ive got a x250 and no WiFi issues ever, fwiw, but I'm running Linux as well. Have you tried windows vs Linux, or checking drivers etc?
ohtwenty··on Will MySpace ever lose its monopoly? (2007)
There's an interesting point in comparing to old companies, mainly that they were actually ridiculously big: https://www.fool.com/investing/general/2012/08/22/a-history-...
ohtwenty··on Medium suspended our account and blocked access to all our published stories
Mentioned elsewhere in these comments but they got deleted for violating a no-cryptocurrency that medium added a week ago.

also they never wrote about cryptocurrencies, they're a free alternative to things like patreon, and only accept payment directly through the bank (i've used them once)

ohtwenty··on Medium suspended our account and blocked access to all our published stories
Further down the thread there's a link to (all of?) their posts on archive.org, i think
ohtwenty··on Fediverse – Federated social networks running on free open software
Neat to see it all together!

I'd heard of most of these projects, but there's some I hadn't heard about so I'll be sure to check them out.

One issue I've got is that there's no real rhyme or reason to the layout, or why they're put where they are.

ohtwenty··on The Best Alternative for Every Facebook Feature
WhatsApp at least has this function, you can just change phone numbers in the app and voilà
ohtwenty··on Downloaded my Facebook data and it has the call history with my partner’s mother
it was possible in 2011 when I did
ohtwenty··on Krita 4.0 – A painting app for cartoonists, illustrators, and concept artists
I use Materialistic[0] which besides the usual features has a "catch up" function which can be set to past 24 hrs, week, month, year. I don't use it much, but it just crashed when I did, so ymmv

0- https://f-droid.org/packages/io.github.hidroh.materialistic/

ohtwenty··on The Mastodon Spring Creator’s Release
I saw a post here a while ago, if I remember it right, about Twitter's use of machine learning for this and I think this is quite an elegant solution
ohtwenty··on Reddit and the Struggle to Detoxify the Internet
This is often mentioned but the examples for it keep changing—any of the small nice communities that grows too large will become filled with noise and become unpleasant. It's the reason I've been moving to lower-volume/higher intimacy websites recently, hoping to filter out noise. Unfortunately it's not really easy
ohtwenty··on AI Has a Hallucination Problem That's Proving Tough to Fix
This sounds like a bunch of pseudoscience? I've taken a bunch of courses on neurosciences etc, and there's certainly some left/right splits but nothing as severe as that…

The wiki article is actually pretty accurate: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lateralization_of_brain_func...

ohtwenty··on Launch HN: Tarjimly (YC W18 Nonprofit) – Realtime Translators for Refugees
Personally, privacy—both from the person on the other end of the line and from Facebook. This project reminds me a lot of 'be my eyes'[0] which is basically what you're doing but with blind people. Have you considered contacting them to see how they solve similar issues? What about something like riot.im/matrix?

0-https://www.bemyeyes.com/

ohtwenty··on Diabetes is actually five separate diseases, research suggests
The problem with those are that they're more complicated (even when perfected) than current treatment. Immune modulation would require either suppressing the entire system (or very large chunks of it) which is done with some other diseases but generally has super high costs, as it leaves you quite vulnerable. Or you're targetting only the handful of cells responsible (my DM I knowledge is rusty but I'm guessing b-cells?) in which case you're on your way to solving a bunch of different diseases.

Stem cells has a similar issue, in that once you made new beta cells your immune system will just react to those.

Current treatment is quite alright. There's ground to be gained in earlier prediction and treatment, and a ton (this should excite people here on HN) in bettering the treatment method—create a proper feedback loop with insulin/glucose readers that automatically push out insulin when needed instead of a huge shot of it when you're guessing you'll need it.

ohtwenty··on What the Grayscale Challenge Taught Us About Phone Addiction
I've got a wileyfox (s2) and it's one of the options on there? If not there's apps for it, I remember seeing something on f-droid for it, but since it's built in I don't use it.
ohtwenty··on Why I don't use my real photo when messaging with customers on my website
Thanks for the article, really good to see, and reaffirm what most of us guessed already.

Might I suggest another round of trials but changing up the message when someone joins? It reads quite like a bot/automated system/interactive FAQ, as others point out.

I know that personally if I join one of those with a bot you can usually get a real human on the other end if you curtly answer questions and voice dissatisfaction with the bot answers (e.g. "this doesn't help") at which point it offers to give a human.

What I'm saying is I wonder how this gender effect would interact with a 'bot-like' variable—if people would react this way if the message was more along the lines of "hi, I'm Rachel and I'm a real human working for…'

ohtwenty··on The unnecessary demise of Barnes and Noble
there's a big bookstore nearby that does a few things right: (1)the staff know a lot. It's not just about 'I liked this book give me something like it', it's about where you don't even know where to start. I've walked in there a dozen times looking for gifts for people aged 4 through ~60, with mostly a vague description of what they're like and what interests them and they know a bunch of choices that fit. Amazon, Google, etc can build profiles on you and figure you out, but they cant figure your friends and gifts out (or even more out of the box recs, or have a more thorough look at what does or doesn't interest. (2) they have coffee. Yay. (3) they have two sections of interesting sales: books that are soon to be out of store (but still on the website) that are on clearance, prices going from €80 to ~€10 or whatever. Great sales. Or just old secondhand things, with books in there that are unique, rare etc, and you would be hard pressed to find online, or if you could you're mostly back at the discoverability issue IMO.

So they know their strengths for meatspace stores, and supplement that with a good online presence (e.g. same day delivery in this city).

This is Scheltema in Amsterdam btw

ohtwenty··on Let's Learn About Waveforms
there's the https://pudding.cool site that kind of does this stuff?
ohtwenty··on Waze Carpool
Blablacar exists, and is global. It's pretty common in the Netherlands.
ohtwenty··on The Reason Why Ultra-High IQ Leads to Communication Barriers
>Abstract

>The Two Sigma Conjecture explains the cause of difficulties in communication a party faces when that party encounters another party with vastly different mental capacities

This isn't an abstract.

Stopped reading later on when the nth claim was made without a citation.

ohtwenty··on DuckDuckGo moves beyond search to also protect you while browsing
Thanks for the reply, great to hear.

btw I just tried image search again after being scared off a while ago because it was buggy, and it's in a much better state than it was back then!

Love how you guys show you don't have to sell out to be able to thrive, and that caring for freedom shouldn't come at the cost of design or functionality (quite the opposite!)

<3

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