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Say what you want about Zoom, but performance-wise their app is absolutely amazing compared to Teams. I’m sure that the fact they choose to develop native apps instead of Electron crap has a lot to do with their success.

> The people who build Electron apps are, for the most part, people who wouldn't build an app otherwise.

Would that be so terrible? I’m completely fine with having less software, if that means having better software.

> If you don't want Electron apps, don't use them. It's not like they would exist without Electron.

I don’t have a choice. I’m forced to use Teams for work. I need to restart my MacBook after every videocall.

Mostly I would just want Electron to disappear overnight.

What a great read — thank you!

These pieces of shit need to leave hospitals alone. We already had one dead connected to a ransomware attack on a hospital[1].

I hope they get caught and prosecuted.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24513820

Miniflux with the paid hosting plan[1].

Things I love about it (from [2]):

> Miniflux is a minimalist software. The purpose of this application is to read feeds. Nothing else.

> The Miniflux layout is optimized to scan entries quickly.

> The design of Miniflux is inspired by Hacker News, Lobsters and Pinboard.

> Miniflux uses Javascript only where it’s necessary.

And the content extraction for truncated feeds, customizable with CSS selectors, is an absolute killer feature that I use heavily.

I'm very happy to pay an annual subscription fee and I haven't looked back once since I started using it. I'm eagerly waiting for NetNewsWire to add support for the Fever API[3] so that I can use it with Miniflux. But the web UI on mobile is good enough to be honest.

[1]: https://miniflux.app

[2]: https://miniflux.app/opinionated.html

[3]: https://github.com/Ranchero-Software/NetNewsWire/issues/76

TL;DR: The plan is to make PDFs responsive through built-in machine learning for mobile consumption.

I’m very skeptical but somehow intrigued.

I point a bunch of subdomains to my local IPs using https://nip.io and authenticate them all using a wildcard Let’s Encrypt certificate. Works great.

Genuinely thought this was an editorial by nature.com explaining how they stopped worrying about researchers scraping their website for data and instead embraced them, and the rationale behind this decision. Turned out to be a just a 101 about web scraping in general. Disappointed.

Not sure it covers all the features you need but worth mentioning: Spect[1] for macOS, frugal and fast.

1: https://stevenf.com/spect

This was a moving read. I wonder if her illness is an actual long-term complication from COVID-19, or a preexistent condition aggravated by COVID-19, or something completely unrelated. Anyways I’m happy she got someone taking care of her and hope she’ll feel better soon.

Surprised nobody mentioned draw.io[1] so far. John should give it a try :)

1: https://www.draw.io/

I had no idea Flash was still supported.

Absolutely. A great read on the subject:

https://drewdevault.com/2019/01/23/Why-I-use-old-hardware.ht...

I recently decided for a refurbished MacBook Pro 2015. Fast, great display, great keyboard, lots of ports, and relatively affordable. I'm really happy with it. I'd wait for at least one iteration to invest a lot of money into an ARM machine… just to be sure.

Yep, heavily.

So you trust archeologists without a second thought when they say that this object was used as a calendar, but you suddenly don't trust them anymore when they tell you it also had a religious function?

> I think it's much, much more the other way around. Modern archaeologists have inherited their Victorian predecessors attitudes, who tended to look on primitive societies as backward and superstitious; "nasty, brutal and short".

Looks like you have an underlying prejudice against history and archeology practitioners, you already thought about these issues and you already have strong opinions on them. That explains your first comment. You might very well have your reasons in thinking this, but when you say

> I don't think there's much evidence to support this. Lots of speculation and interpretation, but not much actual evidence.

I'm sorry, but I really don't know what to tell you. Saying that there's "evidence" would be an understatement. Just pick up whatever history book. I suggest you read about pre-Colombian societies in central America, or shamanism in Africa, or even about religion wars in Europe in the 15th and 16th century. Just to get you started…

This is absolutely spot-on. Brilliant!

There are people who study and investigate this kind of things who probably have good reasons to believe this object served some kind of ritualistic purpose.

> What evidence is there for that? […] Why is there never any proof or evidence required for saying an artifact has a religious purpose?

From a related Wikipedia page:

It is assumed that the Golden Hats served as religious insignia for the deities or priests of a sun cult then widespread in Central Europe. Their use as head-gear is strongly supported by the fact that the three of four examples have a cap-like widening at the bottom of the cone, and that their openings are oval (not round), with diameters and shapes roughly equivalent to those of a human skull. The figural depiction of an object resembling a conical hat on a stone slab of the King's Grave at Kivik, Southern Sweden, strongly supports their association with religion and cult, as does the fact that the known examples appear to have been deposited (buried) carefully.

I'm sure you can find more precise details if you dig deep enough.

> Which sun-god?

You can read more about this cult here[1] and here[2].

> This is a calendar. It's proven to be a calendar. We know how it works as a calendar. It's a tool for predicting celestial events.

Do not project the hyper-rationalistic character of our current society to societies and civilizations of the pre-industrial era. People in the ancient times were not as rational and utilitarian as we are. Everything was permeated by religion, superstition and magic.

[1]: https://www.scirp.org/journal/paperinformation.aspx?paperid=...

[2]: https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/wnja9z/scientists-reconst...

Dropbox does suck though.

That's still way smaller than your average iOS app.

Just FYI, I would pay for a native iOS app that is polished enough and looks exactly like this.

That would be the first step in that direction.

> poetic and funny

We have very different ways of seeing it. I would have found it absurd and infuriating.

Always thought that Markdown was primarily made to convert to HTML.

Dark mode is an accessibility and ergonomics feature that should be supported by websites through CSS whenever possible. Of course browsers need to support it in the first place for it to work, but that seems to be mostly the case:

https://caniuse.com/#feat=prefers-color-scheme

Wait until you find out about wars and genocides!

No butterfly keyboard on these models. That, at least, is on its way out.

So, no model with physical F-keys available anymore… touchbar only.

> On the other hand, they also triggered a horrid revelation, the darkest nature of online harassment, with abject levels of abuse and misogyny. Maybe they played a minor role as catalysts opening the door to the decade of the Me Too movement.

The article closes with this surprising allegation without explaining anything about it. What did these books have to do with harassment, abuse, misogyny and MeToo? I'd be curios to know.

EDIT: Never mind, I've found what I wanted to know: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kathy_Sierra#Harassment_and_wi...