webspinner | 4 years ago | on: Improving the Hacker News Ranking Algorithm
That isn't necessary. That's what hnrss.org is for. It will do searches, and filtering by points.
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hopesthoughts | 4 years ago | on: Facebook Is the AOL of 2021
The day my mom joined Twitter, I freaked out!! Well she never was on Twitter, Twitter just said she was.
hopesthoughts | 4 years ago | on: Facebook Is the AOL of 2021
Google search was good 15 years ago, when SEO wasn't as much of a thing as it is today. Now it's pretty much errelevant.
hopesthoughts | 4 years ago | on: Facebook Is the AOL of 2021
Well I'm not anymore. I've never used Whats app and have absolutely no need for Instagram. I was on Facebook itself until I couldn't stand it.
hopesthoughts | 4 years ago | on: Facebook Is the AOL of 2021
If I absolutely wanted to, I could createa second account for that with none of my friends read: um... family, that my first account had on it.
hopesthoughts | 4 years ago | on: Facebook Is the AOL of 2021
If I wanted to ever use Facebook again, which I don't. I'd create a new account.
hopesthoughts | 4 years ago | on: Facebook Is the AOL of 2021
I just got rid of mine. Only ever used it during holidays, birthdays, and things like that.
hopesthoughts | 4 years ago | on: Facebook Is the AOL of 2021
Honestly there are a lot more things now that lead me to believe that blogging is on an upswing. There are quite a few newer blog directories I've found recently.
hopesthoughts | 4 years ago | on: Facebook Is the AOL of 2021
Having different sites'feeds you look at in an RSS reader is different though. In my case I have over 500 of them. I continue to add and remove whenever a feed breaks or sites stop updating.
hopesthoughts | 4 years ago | on: Facebook Is the AOL of 2021
Especially CNET these days, wow!! They used to write good articles like 10 years ago. Not anymore!!
hopesthoughts | 4 years ago | on: Facebook Is the AOL of 2021
Why didn't you just keep AOL for the chat thing, and use broadband for everything else? I'm sure it wouldn't have been that much.
hopesthoughts | 4 years ago | on: Facebook Is the AOL of 2021
Yeah, back shortly after Trump's election Google had a staff meeting. The content of it was something like we weren't successful this time, but we'll win next time. OK I found it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FRf9UxsM-NE
hopesthoughts | 4 years ago | on: Facebook Is the AOL of 2021
yeah deplatformming makes me think of Walter Cronkite. One side wants it their way, and that will be the way it is.
hopesthoughts | 4 years ago | on: Facebook Is the AOL of 2021
Or 2020, or 2019. Wait, that sounds like Facebook since it's creation.
hopesthoughts | 4 years ago | on: Facebook Is the AOL of 2021
Yeah I would have to agree. I just deleted mine about a week ago. I have absolutely no regrets.
hopesthoughts | 4 years ago | on: Show HN: Voicera – Add life-like AI voice dictation to your blogs and articles
I wouldn't recommend using natural voices to read anything long. They definitely aren't fast enough. Maybe reading short emails and things like that, but when you get to long articles, it takes too much time.
I also think that when a voice pauses to breathe it sounds more creepy than natural, and wastes more time, rather than benefits me in any way.
hopesthoughts | 4 years ago | on: Show HN: Voicera – Add life-like AI voice dictation to your blogs and articles
I wouldn't use something like that myself. I use NVDA full time. If you actually need a screen reader, you probably want something more advance than a browser widget.
https://www.nvaccess.org/
hopesthoughts | 4 years ago | on: Show HN: Voicera – Add life-like AI voice dictation to your blogs and articles
No, not really. It just reads it. You're basically talking about a screen reader, and we don't use the term dictation.
hopesthoughts | 4 years ago | on: Show HN: Voicera – Add life-like AI voice dictation to your blogs and articles
Honestly what's the point of these? I mean sure, if you're driving I suppose, but you probably should be concentrating on driving lol. Also, dictation is what I do with Siri.
For people who actually need TTS on a daily, regular basis like me, we have our own, so services like these are pointless.
hopesthoughts | 4 years ago | on: Google Groups kills RSS support without notice
Thus the reason why I never, ever brows the web on my phone. Unless it's necessary. Even the Youtube ads are annoying.