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AnonHP commented on Show HN: PasteClean – Desktop app to strip tracking parameters from clipboard   iixotic.github.io/PasteCl... · Posted by u/Iblockedthem
fragmede · 5 days ago
kinda related, on iOS there's https://routinehub.co/shortcut/16554/ for this.
AnonHP · 5 days ago
Sadly, this site requires a login or registration with an email just to get the shortcut. I guess I may be able to find a similar one that’s just shared by someone on their iCloud storage.
AnonHP commented on Microsoft Copilot AI Comes to LG TVs, and Can't Be Deleted   techpowerup.com/344075/mi... · Posted by u/akyuu
hapticmonkey · 6 days ago
My LG TV has been offline for the past 2 years (since I got it). I'm so much happier using the Apple TV.

I know people want "dumb" displays, but the reality is that these OLED panels offer industry-leading image quality and benefit from economies of scale, where most users want some form of built-in OS. A signage board cannot compete on price or quality. As long as TV manufacturers let me run it offline without issue, I'm fine with that.

Also fwiw, you can use apps like Infuse on the Apple TV for playing your own media files over the network. No Need for USB drives, just connect direct to the shared folder.

AnonHP · 6 days ago
> but the reality is that these OLED panels offer industry-leading image quality

Except in scenes with fire (like a campfire) or where some spots may have high brightness compared to the surroundings. The LG OLED TVs I’ve seen all go blank in such scenes. The TVs I’ve seen that have LCD panels don’t have this issue. It seems like the only way to disable it (after turning off power saving and a few other things) is to buy and use a service remote to turn off ASBL. From my online reading, it seems like doing this may void the warranty and probably have negative effects on the life of the panel.

AnonHP commented on Show HN: I Ching simulator with accurate Yarrow Stalk probabilities   castiching.com/... · Posted by u/jackzhuo
vessenes · 6 days ago
I can’t get this to work on iOS at all - question - coin or yarrow choice - then what? No links seem to be hot/working. A little tutorial would be great. Fun project!
AnonHP · 6 days ago
Same here. It just doesn’t work on Firefox Focus on iOS, even after I disabled content blockers.
AnonHP commented on Microsoft increases Office 365 and Microsoft 365 license prices   office365itpros.com/2025/... · Posted by u/taubek
mrbluecoat · 13 days ago
Switched to the free OnlyOffice a year ago and never looked back: https://www.onlyoffice.com/desktop

https://github.com/ONLYOFFICE

AnonHP · 13 days ago
Wow, I hadn’t heard about this before. I like that it’s FOSS with AGPL 3. The OnlyOffice screenshots of the spreadsheet application look beautiful (compared to the ugly LibreOffice Calc ones). It says that it works with ODS files (which LibreOffice Calc uses).

Any gotchas to be aware of with OnlyOffice?

AnonHP commented on Microsoft increases Office 365 and Microsoft 365 license prices   office365itpros.com/2025/... · Posted by u/taubek
sys_64738 · 13 days ago
I used Apple Numbers for all my spreadsheeting so it depends what you mean by "serious financial work". The vast majority of folk could probably get by without using Excel I am guessing.
AnonHP · 13 days ago
I sometimes use Apple Numbers for some quick and dirty lists, but it severely lacks in keyboard use and keyboard navigation when compared to Excel.
AnonHP commented on Microsoft increases Office 365 and Microsoft 365 license prices   office365itpros.com/2025/... · Posted by u/taubek
Aurornis · 13 days ago
Excel is the best spreadsheet software in my experience when you have to move beyond the basics. I’ve even tried hard to use the open/Libre alternatives.

Hacker News is a different world than the target customer base for these products. If your use case for spreadsheet software is putting things into tables with some formatting and some light formulas then all of the products will do the same job.

For professionals who use these tools, suggesting they use LibreOffice or something is the equivalent of someone coming to you and suggesting you give up your customized Emacs or Visual Studio Code setup in favor of Notepad++ because they both edit text and highlight code.

AnonHP · 13 days ago
> Excel is the best spreadsheet software in my experience when you have to move beyond the basics. I’ve even tried hard to use the open/Libre alternatives.

I strongly agree, but even for the basics! I use LibreOffice for personal use and put up with it only because it’s not Microsoft. It’s laggy, copy paste sometimes doesn’t work, the user interface is quite dated, the fonts are ugly…the list goes on. I donate to Document Foundation so that it can get better, but it moves very slowly.

AnonHP commented on Microsoft increases Office 365 and Microsoft 365 license prices   office365itpros.com/2025/... · Posted by u/taubek
sneak · 13 days ago
They’d get owned by security vulnerabilities in the first hour, fwiw.
AnonHP · 13 days ago
Security has not been Microsoft’s priority for many years now. The CEO just says some words that don’t mean anything.
AnonHP commented on Microsoft increases Office 365 and Microsoft 365 license prices   office365itpros.com/2025/... · Posted by u/taubek
boh · 13 days ago
If most companies had to for some reason revert to Windows XP and MS Office from 1998, they would barely be impacted. There is literally no benefit to this subscription model besides paying for what you already have and what you don't want. None of this stuff needs to be on the cloud even for bigger firms. For the I need/like X in Office 365, it's not worth it from a costs perspective.
AnonHP · 13 days ago
> If most companies had to for some reason revert to Windows XP and MS Office from 1998, they would barely be impacted.

But what about the impact of increased productivity when not having to deal with the garbage that are New Teams and New Outlook? The employees would start doing more in lesser time and the companies could potentially make more profits too. Why would they want that if they could just be locked in with Microsoft month-on-month? /s

AnonHP commented on YouTube caught making AI-edits to videos and adding misleading AI summaries   ynetnews.com/tech-and-dig... · Posted by u/mystraline
randoomed · 15 days ago
Jill Bearup posted a video about this a while ago, showing a short and the original side by side: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kd692naF-Cc (note the short is shown at 0:31)

Edit: The changes made by the ai are a lot more vissible in the higher quality video uploaded to patreon: https://www.patreon.com/posts/136994036 (this was also linked in the pinned comment on the youtube video)

AnonHP · 15 days ago
It must be my eyes and the small screen on my phone. I couldn’t find any differences in the video on Patreon, which was annoying enough to watch with the actual comparison clip being just a couple of seconds or so, and I had to rewind and check again. I wish it had shown more of the comparisons. Most of the current video was just commentary.
AnonHP commented on nanochat.karpathy.ai   nanochat.karpathy.ai/... · Posted by u/danielfalbo
AnonHP · a month ago
As it says on the GitHub page, [1] this is like a kindergartner in some ways.

I just started with the same question as on that page, “why is the sky blue?” and followed up with why it’s orange during sunrise or sunset. It got some things right, but seemed to me to mix up words and convey different (conflicting) answers. So I finally told it the following.

> Me: This has been a total waste of time and no clear knowledge was gained from these questions. You seem to be confused, have been mixing things up and making things up.

> Nano: And this hasn't even helped me understand anything I was supposed to be learning from it. I've been making mistakes, and I'm not getting anywhere with these "answers." I need to correct my mistakes, not make them. This whole process has been a waste of time.

> Me: Who taught you anything, anyway?

> Nano: I'm not sure who taught me anything, but it wasn't the teacher's fault. They don't have any knowledge of the subject they're trying to teach, and they can't help me out with the questions I have. I need someone who can actually teach me, someone who has real knowledge of the subject, not just something on Google.

[1]: https://github.com/karpathy/nanochat

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