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vort3··on Show HN: OctaSine, a FM-based VST2 synthesizer written in Rust
Maybe you could upload a demo with sample workflow and sounds to youtube.
vort3··on Show HN: Hyprspace – A WireGuard Inspired VPN Built on Libp2p
Does it allow two devices, both behind NAT and without a public IP, to connect to each other?

Does it rely on some kind of central server that allows devices to discover each other?

vort3··on Show HN: Text instead of DM'ing your Twitter contacts
This was posted here 4 times in last 7 days, I think it's too much.
vort3··on Show HN: Communicate with your social media contacts via text message
I would rather take XMPP with bridges to FB/Twitter/Whatsapp/Instagram etc. XMPP was good while it was relatively popular.
vort3··on What the Fastly outage can teach us about writing error messages
Once I was at /r/androidapps and someone made a new app, asked for feedback, and «experienced devs» told OP something like «instead of „fetching data“ you should be using „getting everything ready“ because it might scare users to think that app is collecting their data».

Are people really that dumb? I'm afraid to use apps made by those people.

vort3··on Password Managers
Firefox can export passwords into CSV as well.
vort3··on Password Managers
» Good examples of simple and safe password managers are keepass and keepassx, or even pass if you’re a nerd.

» I’m generally skeptical of these online subscription password managers, and that’s going to be the focus of the rest of this article.

I may be wrong but he talks about online password managers only, that's why his conclusion is «if you want a password manager in your browser, sue the one that's built-in». Otherwise, separate password managers are good, but author isn't talking about them.

vort3··on Show HN: Mani – Place virtual sticky notes in real-world spaces
Will there be android support?
vort3··on Kinda a Big Announcement
The title is a clickbait. For anyone interested, the article is about StackOverflow being sold.
vort3··on Blender 2.93 LTS
Also, Krita.

Blender, Inkscape, Krita and GIMP are all good software that can compete with paid alternatives, but only Blender was successful at making modern UI that gives you fast comfortable workflow.

vort3··on Show HN: Yare.io – game where you control units with JavaScript
Wish there was a Python game like that.
vort3··on Firefox Release 89.0
The only things I ask for are:

- Non-Google, non-chromium, non-blink engine browser - Support for good keyboard navigation (vimium etc) - Support for Ublock Origin

And the only browser that satisfies those requirements is ruining my user experience by removal of «compact» mode (I know it can be brought back but it's temporary) and making UI bigger without any reason, because having unnecessary empty spaces everywhere is what's considered good design now.

Recently I opened some page that was filled with ads and banners and only 17% of my screen was actually filled by content that I want to be reading. Now, with the new Proton™ design I guess I'll have to get used to 12% of my screen being used.

vort3··on Firefox Release 89.0
Having empty space is considered «clean», «light», «fresh» and having less buttons (by hiding everything into some menus that you need 3 clicks to access) is called «streamlined interface».

I hate that too. On my phone that is 2.5x larger than my old Samsung I see less information on screen compared to old phone, because everything needs to be «light» and «clean».

vort3··on Reclaim Windows10
Can confirm, one of my friends really wanted to use Linux (because she doesn't trust microsoft and tired of windows being bloated, she has a rather slow laptop), but her colleagues constantly send her some .docx/.xlsx files that simply won't work with openoffice or other alternatives.

She tried very hard with Wine, PlayOnLinux, tried all sorts of alternative offices, VMs, but gave up and had to install Windows anyway because majority of people simply refuse to use open data formats and use proprietary closed formats.

I'm also running Windows because I have to do some CorelDraw drawings and don't want to bother with wine etc. Otherwise I would be running Linux for sure.

vort3··on Reclaim Windows10
Everything is bloated.

You need 3GB RAM to open some web pages in your browser nowadays and that's insane.

vort3··on Show HN: Share It, Anonymously with Self Destruct Messages
Can't you just scan the QR code?
vort3··on Noyb aims to end “cookie banner terror” and issues more than 500 GDPR complaints
And then they go to https://termsandconditions.game/ and get some ideas to creatively violate GDPR.
vort3··on Show HN: A knowledge garden for curious mind
What does it to better than Obsidian.md?
vort3··on Windows 10 nagging users with Bing advertisements (push alerts)
On Android I turned off the «play protect» because I'm sure what I'm doing, and every time I try to install something it asks me if I want to enable Play Protect™ with no way to turn off their reminders.

Also, some of my apps have some play store popups asking me if I want to update the app every time there's a new version, even though I explicitly turned off auto updates and update notifications, again, with no way to turn off their friendly reminders.

I hate modern «you better do what we think you should be doing» software.

I'm happy that I have LTSC version of Windows that just works and doesn't have those popups (but Windows Defender still has some annoying notifications that can't be disabled AFAIK).

Recently, Whatsapp forced me to update it because it refused to work if I don't. Meanwhile, there are open source IM clients that were made 10+ years ago and still work without any updates just fine. I wish all software was like that.

vort3··on Show HN: rpg-cli – your filesystem as a dungeon
Thanks, I'll try it as soon as I can.
vort3··on Show HN: rpg-cli – your filesystem as a dungeon
When it works on Windows, please make a new post here at HN, I'll be following. I'm really interested.

Or maybe you could just reply to my comment.

vort3··on The end of the pandemic is near
It's the same in Kazakhstan, people only wear masks indoors when there's someone controlling them, otherwise no one cares.
vort3··on Show HN: rpg-cli – your filesystem as a dungeon
Will there be a Windows binary?
vort3··on Inkscape 1.1
I love Inkscape, but since 1.0 there's this problem, where everything is too big on Windows 10 (at least on my laptop). Icons, menus, button etc. have unnecessary padding and UI takes up like 60% of my screen. I still couldn't find a way to scale down UI.

This bug needs to be fixed, otherwise it may not be usable on some PCs. Otherwise, Inkscape is really great.

vort3··on Show HN: Create and share YouTube playlists, without a Google account
UI is pretty simple (but at the same time), but I really like the idea. With a bit of work on UI this could be pretty popular.
vort3··on Show HN: FuckYourUsers, the easiest way to make using your site a living hell
Just restrict registering with emails that contain plus symbols and dots, and don't allow using simple passwords, long passwords, any passwords that user can remember, and voila, your site is a living hell.
vort3··on Show HN: Skepticoin, the Coin for Non-Believers
Is there a way to contact you? Maybe some IRC channel or whatever?
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