Folders.

Why is this important?

No one can physically read too many books at once. Maintain your directory structure on your computer. The kindle isn't the place to build a library.

Ohhh shit

Eh, no need. Author states in the first two paragraphs that there are 9 versions of k, each developed from scratch and incompatible with each other. Anyone who develops software for money should and would leave immediately. I do appreciate the honesty, though.

Is that a Severance reference?

Slack is way worse than Teams. I honestly rather dislike both and rather use email only, but will pick Teams over Slack any time.

This is, to put it mildly, a minority opinion. I don't hate Teams as much as most people do but my old (big and small) companies had both Slack and Teams and about 40% of employees had Teams statuses of "ping me on Slack I refuse to use Teams".

how? scrolling up a conversation takes hours, this alone makes me cry if i have to use it

> scrolling up a conversation takes hours, this alone makes me cry if i have to use it

Funnily, this is the exact same issue I have with Slack.

Accessing Thunderbird via JDBC from my favorite SQL client was so convenient. No messaging app search is even remotely close to what a simple SELECT/WHERE can do. Old Skype versions also stored chat info in an SQLite db. I wish I'd still have SQL access to my messages.

Any fitness watch with better access to data? I'm not even talking about open source (which would be great), just interested in real-time access to health info without monthly subscription or scrapping their online portal.

I believe garmin is actually better than the others.

I've never put my watch online.

You don't have to "activate" the watch or create an account to use it. You can just strap it on your wrist and go.

You can get to your data using MTP (or the garmin protocol) by accessing the watch filesystem.

I'm not certain about updates. I haven't found a way to download and update the watch offline, but I haven't seriously tried. I did notice some beta firmware you could download and update older watches with offline.

So I think you might need garmin connect or similar to download apps or updates.

Not a lawyer but looks fairly straightforward.

Google payed Apple billions of $ to be the default iPhone search engine.

US says it's an anti-competitive and is currently suing Google.

Part of the suit is that plaintiffs proposed a remedial term unique to Apple that would forbid any “contract between Google and Apple in which there would be anything exchanged of value.”

That means Apple is going to be out of $20 billions per year (or whatever Google pays to Apple) for the foreseeable future.

Apple does not like this and tries to inject themselves into lawsuit on the side of Google.

We have one success after ~two years of ChatGPT hype (and therefore subsequent replication attempts). That's as fast as it gets.

Is there anything which supports music input? I liked Winamp era visualizers, but the art seems to be dead today.

I've been working on an free open-source macOS app for just that - https://nottawa.app Hoping to release in the next couple months!

The UI has been greatly improved since I took the original demo on the site, the real thing is MUCH better now. Same base idea - chain together shaders, videos, or webcams and then drive their parameters via an audio signal, BPM, oscillator, MIDI board, or manual sliders.

The beta link on the site isn't really worth trying yet - if you're interested in getting on the TestFlight just shoot me a message at joe@nottawa.app. Would love some HN feedback :)

> I've been working on an free open-source

May I ask where are the sources? Looks great, any plans for Windows or Linux (Docker) version?

Sure! It should have been linked on the site, that’s totally my oversight.

https://github.com/joenot443/dude_wake_up

The code isn’t anything to write home about, it’s in C++ leveraging OpenFrameworks and OpenGL. I’m an iOS and macOS dev, but after the initial release I’ll get started on porting to Windows and Linux. OF generally works well multi-platform so I’m hoping it won’t be too hairy.

I’m specifically targeting the non-technical artist/creator market, ideally with optional macOS App Store distribution. I’ve been involved in the live visuals scene in NYC a bit and something I commonly heard was that musicians and DJs wanted visual accompaniment which just works out of the box. TouchDesigner etc are incredibly powerful, but generally out of reach for non technical folks.

I’ve contracted a great artist from UpWork who’s been making presets which will be included. There should ideally be as little friction as possible for a user to go from first launch to live, audio-reactive visuals.

Thanks for checking it out! :)

Thank you!

Hydra actually works well with music input! It grabs audio from the mic and `a.show()` will show you the frequency bins. Then any numerical parameter can be modulated by the intensity of a bin, for example:

`noise().thresh(()=>a.fft[0]*2).out()`

> It grabs audio from the mic

Is it possible to grab from default audio output device instead of mic? Probably not as it's browser based. I suppose mic can be faked on OS level somehow.

I used to spend so much time messing around with MilkDrop in Winamp. You could grab existing visualizations and see what they were doing, and make your own edits. Thanks for the nostalgia hit!

MilkDrop 3 latest release was in 2023!

https://github.com/milkdrop2077/MilkDrop3/releases/tag/MilkD...

Thank you, that's exactly what I'm looking for.

You can do that easily with https://ossia.io :)

> Daz1: Conveniently you selected pre-technology examples. How curious.

> forgotoldacc: Technology has been around for hundreds of thousands of years. What are you defining as "technology"?

I think he meant "industrial".