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ewoijfawoifjon An Interview with Robert Caro and Kurt Vonnegut (1999)

> The Power Broker

They really need to publish this in ebook form. It's so hard to read as a real book because of the size, and the only other way is audiobook.

ewoijfawoifjon Reddit is full of bots: thread reposted comment by comment, 10 months later

I can't find discord comments on Google.

ewoijfawoifjon Show HN: Nekoweb – a retro static web hosting

> Nekoweb is a free static website hosting service, created in 2024 by a group of coders, programmers and artists, passionate for the old web and personal websites.

> Join us on our discord to chat with the community and the developers!

Gating discussion of the open web in a proprietary service is an interesting decision. Shows that we're still far too reliant on closed protocols for even smaller nontrivial tasks like making a message board.

ewoijfawoifjon Google helped destroy adoption of RSS feeds (2023)

What's the self-hosted open source alternative that's actually good? I've been using Inoreader because the UI for any alternative is mediocre.

I'd like it to work on web and Android, sync back and forth properly, and look nice (sidebar, keyboard shortcuts, etc) and nothing else appears to provide this.

Plus, Inoreader allows you to assign a single feed to multiple folders (tag style) which many other readers don't allow.

ewoijfawoifjon Netflix: Piracy is difficult to compete against and growing rapidly

It'd be easier if their UIs weren't absolutely terrible, and missing basic functionality.

There's no simple "mark watched"/"mark unwatched"? I can't have multiple playlists, just one "My List" that gets randomly reshuffled? Who knows where my "Continue Watching" row is going to be on the main page, because it sure isn't at the top! etc...