sanketpatrikar

I'm using Ubuntu on desktop and my phone's an Android.

I'm looking to use the phone's inbuilt keyboard for typing or some programming specific one downloaded from Play Store. I want to type as best as I can using a phone.

I'm thinking about holding the device in both hands and double-thumb typing on it. That doesn't trigger my RSI.

It's also on Chrome

I love Espanso! I've been using it for inserting everything from email addresses to site:reddit.com

I wish it was available for Android. For now, I use the text expansion feature built into Gboard, but it has a short text limit, which limits its usefulness.

Would you consider adding an RSS feed for your blog? I wanted to subscribe but couldn't find any.

You can enable uBlacklist to work on DDG and other search engines from settings.

Seems like you didn't properly escape some of your asterisks.

I am logged into google and don't see such an option. How do you achieve that?

Not sure why it's happening, but ISS passes overhead for me multiple times every few seconds. I'm in India. Firefox 100.

@ mentions don't work here. You have to email him at hn@ycombinator.com

Triple-clicking and dragging selects text paragraph-by-paragraph.

What a wonderful extension! Any chance of a Firefox port?

I'm interested in that alternative too. Does a whitelist like that exist?

The repo exists here:

https://github.com/sanketpatrikar/hn-search-blacklist/

In that case, we'd still need a repo bringing together all these individual lists. I couldn't finding anything like this.

I suggested a single list to prevent repetition and to limit the imports one needs to make to one.

I created this repo.

https://github.com/sanketpatrikar/hn-search-blacklist

I relate to this opinion. There are two reasons why my suggestion might still be useful:

1. DuckDuckGo too is affected by these SEO-gaming sites, so maintaining a blacklist will help us make that experience better too.

2. There are times when only Google can find us what we're looking for, so this will prove useful when we go back to it.

I ended up creating a repo with blacklist.txt myself and will add to it for my own usage. I don't see anyone else who'd maintain this. Feel free to use it / contribute to it.

https://github.com/sanketpatrikar/hn-search-blacklist

I suggest this because there can only be so many websites that use SEO to game their way to the top and bury the good results beneath them.

If we manage to block them, we might be able to get a results page with good sites upfront and the other meaningless content below it. I assume Google will also surface good content along with the bad, so our blacklist might enable the good stuff to reach the top.

The spam problem, I'm sure of yet, but we might either be able to block enough of it to be satisfied or it won't pose a problem for most searches that are currently giving bad results.

It is Google's job, but they either aren't doing it or are failing at it. We could do something about it at least until a better alternative or a solution appears.

> Can we just nudge them to do so under the threat of an influential minority leaving due to their use case being affected?

Many influential people have tried and nothing seems to have transpired from it.

Google.com is the most popular website. I don't think the leaving of any minority group we manage to create would even matter to Google, let alone force them to fix the issue. Not that I discourage using alternatives.

It's worth a try! Also, thanks for maintaining those lists!

How long before this gets serious consideration and a cure for "depression" becomes available?

I have emailed him about adding /shownew and /asknew to /lists. Let's see how it goes!

Ask HNs will be the majority in /asknew. Tell HNs and some unflaired & linkless posts will end up there, but I'm fine with those. /new is a big firehose.

I couldn't find it in your profile, but do you write/vlog about this somewhere?

Would love to follow you and learn something!