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Technetium

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Technetium··on Discord’s username change is causing discord
They're taking something that works, and screwing EVERYONE late to signup. The fact that I've had the same contact information for years, and it's about to be taken away, is infuriating beyond belief. I have 492 friends on Discord right now. I'm not going to know who ANYONE is as this changes. There's no 'note' of an old name, or transitional period. It's on ME to make a note for everyone and then individually go through my list to find who I want to message. There's not even a vague consideration for transition AT ALL here. This is a hasty bad decision made by old men, not by engineers, or even people that actually use the platform on a daily basis.

How would you feel if you paid for Gmail for years, then suddenly they say you're going to be forced to change your email address. Or your phone number, the phone number that you've had for years. The way that everyone reaches you. Now you have to pick a new number at a random time based on when you signed up for the service. MAYBE you'll get lucky with a similar number, and you can get it to ALL the people that need to be able to contact you, but don't forget, they're forced to change their identity too! You get no choice in the matter. To hell with your social links, business cards, code with contact info, videos with contact info, and anyone who knows you by your username. Now I have to play the world's worst lottery to hopefully get a similar name, before someone else takes it. I'm beyond upset. I'm enraged and fully disgusted. This is the worst decision that's come from them since I started using the service in early 2016.

Technetium··on Get The TLDR Of Any YouTube Video
I've been using Glarity to do this for free without leaving YouTube. Site: https://glarity.app Source: https://github.com/sparticleinc/chatgpt-google-summary-exten...
Technetium··on Using mmap to make LLaMA load faster
Usually you'd be very right, but it's contextually relevant here due to slaren and jart replying there.
Technetium··on I don’t want a new phone, but I’m probably buying one
No you cannot.
Technetium··on Vicuna: An open-source chatbot impressing GPT-4 with 90% ChatGPT quality
The response content there almost certainly comes from the training data from ShareGPT.
Technetium··on Ask HN: What's with the DIY state of the art long-range Wi-Fi?
For more info on Ubiquity products, I'd recommend Lawrence Systems: https://www.youtube.com/user/TheTecknowledge
Technetium··on How the Steam Deck breathes life into underrated old games
Northstar is a modding framework/launcher: https://github.com/R2Northstar
Technetium··on Non-replaceable battery? Not if this proposed EU law passes
I'm going to assume ignorance over bad-faith and provide a video for you: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DUpnrd-Xuho
Technetium··on Ask HN: Help – Locked out of 10 years Gmail account
You can't remove the data that keeps you signed in, then turn around to say their sign-in algorithms should be better.
Technetium··on Freeform: a new app designed for creative collaboration
If you are concerned about retaining formatting in comma separated values, you have MUCH bigger prerequisite problems to figure out.
Technetium··on Twitter Suspends @Joinmastodon
You also cannot post any links to ANY Mastodon instance, any that are already up have a huge danger warning.
Technetium··on Telegram: No-SIM Signup, Auto-Delete All Chats, Topics 2.0 and more
You can sign up without a SIM now, BUT it doesn't work outside the US! When there are country restrictions on username verification, it renders this 'feature' worthless.
Technetium··on Tor Browser 12.0
You don't arrest people because someone does something you don't like, you arrest them because they break the law. Running an exit node is not illegal.
Technetium··on IPv6 Internet is broken
This is absolutely fantastic. Thank you for linking!
Technetium··on Adobe now requires you to purchase a subscription to rotate PDF pages
In chrome://flags you can search for "PDF" and enable the following: Performs OCR on inaccessible PDFs, PDF XFA support, Accessible PDF Forms, Enable Region Search on PDF viewer.
Technetium··on Twitter’s mass layoffs have begun
This belligerently screams "entitled". Maybe you should read this: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Technetium··on T-Mobile will start charging a $35 fee on all new activations and upgrades
I can confirm this.
Technetium··on Study: Electroshock therapy more successful for depression than ketamine
I just left a comment about a deathly similar situation 2 of my Swedish friends have been in. It hurts my soul knowing they will never have the mental capacities to get justice.
Technetium··on Study: Electroshock therapy more successful for depression than ketamine
Wow, this is genuinely one of the most horrific studies I've seen on HN. I wish from the bottom of my soul that ECT would be banned worldwide for everything except extreme seizure treatment with patient consent. I know 2 people that have been irreparably damaged from it. I want my friends back, and I'll NEVER EVER get them back because Swedish 'doctors' forcefully administered treatment. There will there NEVER be justice because they were essentially lobotomized, and as such no longer have the mental capacities to sue the facility. ECT has an EXTREMELY high incidence of brain damage, and you only have to do one Google Scholar search to find out. Of course this 'study' doesn't track anything other than memory loss and headaches.
Technetium··on The technology behind Bella Hadid’s spray-on dress
Posts like this make HN feel more like a fashion magazine, I miss having news for nerds.
Technetium··on GTA VI Leak [video]
It's all fun and games until you want to play something that has anticheat…
Technetium··on GTA VI Leak [video]
This has been removed from YT, does someone have a mirror?
Technetium··on iPhone 14 Pro Camera Review: Scotland
I don't think a sponsored review of a popular phone camera belongs here.
Technetium··on Coffee with Brian Kernighan [video]
I can't tell if this is intended to come off so inflammatory, please do better.
Technetium··on Prenatal cannabis exposure associated with mental disorders in children
I'm an example of the direct opposite. I hate drinking.
Technetium··on Bitwarden: Avoid at all costs (outage issue)
It's not going anywhere, that's part of what the investment is to further, per their post.
Technetium··on Ask HN: Why is there no performant remote desktop for Mac/Linux?
Related: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31456007 - Rustdesk – Remote desktop software, an open source TeamViewer alternative

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32239025 - RustDesk – Open-source TeamViewer alternative

Technetium··on Website to Sign Up for the Lyme Disease Vaccine Phase 3 Trial
I wish I could flag this.
Technetium··on Incident report: Employee and customer account compromise
I'm a fan of US Mobile personally. They let you make a custom plan that has ONLY sms, so you don't pay for what you don't need. Can also add minutes at will for $1. Bonus of choosing the underlying carrier.
Technetium··on RustDesk – Open-source TeamViewer alternative
I most definitely use it a LOT more than that and have never hit an issue, but it's good to know there's a whitelist if that did happen. Thanks for the link!
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