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timothyduong··on Buzz: Transcribe audio from your microphones in real-time using OpenAI's Whisper
Yes, I've been waiting for an app like this for quite some time. No need for a 3rd party cloud SaaS solution/subscription.
timothyduong··on I spent $3k on a Samsung Smart TV and all I got were ads and unwanted content
For my Samsung TV, I connect it to the internet once a year for a firmware/software upgrade.

Outside of that, any TV in my house is connected to an AppleTV. HDMICEC is great.

timothyduong··on Ask HN: How can I come to peace with the years I wasted on pointless things?
Value what you have, not what you lack.

The experiences you made, be it bad or good, look at the positives of it. For me I’ve spent a good chunk of my life playing a particular game (I’m in my thirties). I loved the memories I’ve made and the friends I’ve gained through it.

I’ve also realised that the game is what I enjoy as long as I still progress in my life in other aspects. These days I enjoy 20-40 mins a day playing it if I have the time. I try to balance it with my other things/pillars in life: money, relationships, health, fun

timothyduong··on There Was No Terra 'Attack'
One of the things I don't get from the people that are jumping up and down over it, blaming the 'attackers'.

If your whole system (whatever it is) because there's some bad actors then your system is frail and needs to be fixed.

timothyduong··on Everything with a battery should have an off switch
I had this same thought.

Also quartz wrist watches.

Turn that quartz watch into an automatic that you wear seldomly. (Aka you need to readjust the time each time you wear it!)

timothyduong··on Android loses 8% of its global OS market share in five years
Isn’t the poster replying on the options for downloading FLAC to a DAP on IOS?

What is the options for Android?

I don’t know of any native android solution that allows for sync to sync desktop or online platform for specifically FLAC files without a backend user/server/client service that is native.

What’s your alternative?

timothyduong··on Bitcoin ‘may not last that much longer,’ academic warns
- environmentally unfriendly - price is falling (or inversely more expensive) - hundreds of competitors

Insert: coal

Takes time for the status quo to adopt and learn.

That being said I don’t think that it’s going to be a bear market for btc, I don’t foresee BTC being big in 10 years, but 10 years is far from now…

timothyduong··on Ask HN: Why there is no DNS for the paper mail?
This process/function costs money right? I’d also like to decouple my home address to for security reasons.

What’s the yearly cost for you? (I’m also from AU)

timothyduong··on Why Disney World doesn't have mosquitoes
I was wondering why I had the faint taste of garlic bread in my mouth when I was there...
timothyduong··on Show HN: I built a better music app for mac for people who buy music
As someone who has been archiving my music (FLAC) and looking for the right player that isn’t too expensive, this has been a godsend.

The existing market for Lossless playback and library management for macos is pretty abysmal. I’ve been testing many (Audirvana, clementine, swinisian, Vox) and so many of have such basic feature sets (vox) that don’t meet my needs or are bloated as hell and run like a dog on a well speced 2020 16MBP..

Keen to try and review this one!

timothyduong··on LG is getting out of the mobile phone business
Well the thing is that Apple gave me an on the spot replacement for a broken Wi-Fi/Bluetooth chip.

LG requires a shipment from Australia to Asia and a 3-4 week turn-around time.

Yeah nah...

timothyduong··on Boston Dynamics unveils Stretch, a robot designed to move boxes in warehouses
Those claims are based on a fictional game.

Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ABDLuHlNjHE

timothyduong··on The new Google Pay repeats all the same mistakes of Google Allo
Successful was the key metric.

Out of those 3, I'd vote only Photos is successful. Whilst completely anecdotal, I don't know anyone that uses Duo or YTTV.

Located in Australia.

timothyduong··on MacBook Pro M1X benchmarks have leaked
There's a Macbook Pro 16" that you cannot get with a M1 Processor. That's the one I have.

So yes, you can compare to the current gen and would be choosing between that.

timothyduong··on Vertical farming does not save space
"Light, its what plants crave!"
timothyduong··on Show HN: A social platform with music in focus. Download the app
Not my cup of tea but just brainstorming of having a mixture of Last.FM with listening to 'someone's' recent playlist would be cool.

E.g. 'I am 60% similar to you in taste, I can now listen to the last 24 hours of what you've "publicly aired"'

Does Last.fm premium do that? I'm yet to find a music platform that you can rate music, listen, share and socialise effectively. Last.fm is too focused on scrobbling.

timothyduong··on Show HN: A social platform with music in focus. Download the app
The fact that there is a reference to 'idols' I think the target market is tweens.
timothyduong··on Show HN: A social platform with music in focus. Download the app
Poor effort spam
timothyduong··on Show HN: Autopaint – A tool for colorizing manga characters
Still not able to sign in, although I have not cleared my cookies or done much more troubleshooting.
timothyduong··on Google Play bans open-source Matrix client Element, citing “abusive content”
Assuming people know how to host a webapp or save a safe webapp or companies are not releasing malware laced webapps...

Happy to let you teach my mum how to run/host a webapp and her whole network of friends then I'll jump onboard so I can converse with her then. /s

We currently need app stores because we're talking about consumer based Operating Systems. Not everyone in the world is up to speed on computing, and currently it is up to the OS developers to create a bridge to step over the technical knowledge insufficiency; thus app stores.

To say that webapps are the end game to address the issues in the current state of consumer application lifecycles, I personally feel is a developer's/prosumer's view of apps.

Although if you have a link/happy to explain to me why WebApps are better than an AppStore for general consumers, I'm all ears.

timothyduong··on Show HN: Autopaint – A tool for colorizing manga characters
Confirming I cannot sign in with Gmail either. Also I don't have a Facebook account :'(
timothyduong··on Show HN: My multiplayer custom-engine game that loads in less than a second
Necromancer is the best build!
timothyduong··on Facebook Admits It Was Used to Incite Violence in Myanmar (2018)
Last time this was brought up HN user @Zackees debating about semantics whether this was a genocide or not.

Would love to hear his perspective on this now that FB admits this. I guess it's 'technically' not 'genocide' so its all a-ok according to @Zackees, it's all the MSM's fault.

https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=zackees

timothyduong··on Facebook’s experimental hate-speech policy seems to be working
The Rohingya genocide occurred in 2016-2017 which killed thousands. Those remainder Rohingyans fled in the hundreds of thousands.

Destruction of habitat or forced expulsion is close to genocide itself. We as humans destroy the habitat of animals causing extinction, how is this not the same case? Because the inhabitants have legs and can move elsewhere? What if they choose not to migrate?

By the way, the reason they're expelled & fleeing is because the only other choice is death. There's no option to stay other than death and if you think that's not genocide then sure. I know where you stand.

Regardless of whether it was expulsion or genocide, atrocities were committed and Facebook was a key factor into the lead up to what occurred: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rohingya_genocide#Facebook's_r...

timothyduong··on Apple Silicon M1: Black Magic Fuckery
Apparently Pixelmator uses it: https://twitter.com/tldtoday/status/1328757085769658373
timothyduong··on HomePod Mini
How is MrMC these days? I stopped using it about a year ago and migrated to Infuse as the MrMC UI was gross.

Infuse is missing the sort-ability of KODI (e.g. sorting by Director, or by rating), does MrMC have these features?

timothyduong··on Intel’s 11th Gen Core Tiger Lake SoC Detailed
If only 4GB of RAM would suffice on my Windows 10 SOE. That thing has 20GB of RAM And a 2018 i5 and still struggles. MS SCCM and all the other 'protection' destroys any ability to be productive.
timothyduong··on Ask HN: How do you get support from Google?
I personally use Authy for 2FA and have run through theoretical disaster recovery plans if I was to lose my phone/account/email locally, internationally etc.

Generally it starts with getting a new/burner phone then getting a SIM card to be able to at least get the 2FA for SMS / Phone working for accounts you enabled that recovery option; Then working back from there.

I also use a Password Manager in conjunction with Authy and store my recovery keys in a fireproof/waterproof box. Said box has USB keys, spares phones, other currencies and many other things and is considered my first thing I would grab if i had to grab 1 thing from my house.

That being said, not everyone practices this and no one thinks it'll happen to them...

Edit: To answer your question, We don't know your question. Google has hundreds of products that all use a gmail account for validation...

timothyduong··on Dev says game started selling 400% better on Steam after releasing torrent
To recount something happening.
timothyduong··on Seiko 7S26 for Novice Horologists (2012)
This gets submitted by Tomte every 4 months or so: https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=clockmaker.com.au
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