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rolfuson Edge TTS

What TTS model has given the best results for you (for Norwegian)? I've tried MS Azure and it's pretty good, but not flawless.

rolfuson Simple Sabotage for the 21st Century – Specific Suggestions

It's not for you; it's for people who are forced to work for an occupant. During WW2 the CIA actually published a manual for this specific purpose; it's declassified and available here:

https://www.cia.gov/static/5c875f3ec660e092cf893f60b4a288df/...

rolfuson Atkinson Hyperlegible Font

Agreed. The 3rd party app I'm using to read HN on mobile (Glider) has this feature and it's both useful and unobtrusive.

Screenshot: https://www.imgpaste.net/image/SDoBg6

rolfuson Pico-ASHA: USB audio to ASHA adapter

It's cool to see a hearing-aid related project on HN! I'm fortunate that my Phonak hearing aids can connect to any standard bluetooth audio source, including my windows laptop. However, I know other geeks with hearing aids that might find this useful!

rolfuson Show HN: I made a Note-Taking app for people who keep texting themselves

I'm also emailing myself a lot. It works well but every time I do it it feels wrong and shameful. Like, I know there are better solutions but I just won't make the effort.

rolfuson Website Themes with uBlock Origin

I've been using a modified¹ version of Rich Infantes uBlock script for Hacker News², it's a little less monochrome than the one from Darek Kay and appeals more to my aesthetic sensibilities.

(1) https://pastebin.com/Rnsi6Ztw

(2) https://rich.sh/2024/03/20/hn-theme

rolfuson How I Made Google's "Web" View My Default Search

I also use the Vivaldi browser, and the trick from the article (adding %s&udm=14 to the search URL in the search settings) works just as advertised. Such a pleasant little QOL improvement.

rolfuson Stable Fiddusion: Frequency-domain blue noise generator

Zooming works well on my Android, with Opera.

rolfuson Northlight technology in Alan Wake 2

Just checked in my browser (Vivaldi) and it zooms in and out just fine. On my phone Opera with the "force zoom" setting enabled also works.

rolfuson Can’t send email more than 500 miles (2002)

I'm pretty new to this community and this was my first exposure to this story. It's definitely going into my "anecdotes from the internet" mental repository.

rolfuson I went to 50 different dentists: almost all gave a different diagnosis (1997)

I would be shocked by this, but I just finished reading "Noise: A Flaw in Human Judgment" by Daniel Kahneman (the author of Thinking fast and slow") and therefore I'm not at all surprised. In the book they show many well-documented examples where experts (including doctors) are giving wildly different judgements on the same case. In this specific article there's another factor that compounds the problem; bias towards more expensive treatments.