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What does the $@ stand for? Readability strips sidebars, comments etc from web pages. But I'm sure it's leaning on free libraries. I assume pandoc doesn't do that?

Oh, there is Calibre, that I have been meaning to try and use. But it's nice to be able to just turn on the kindle (as I'm in the shower or something), and have it download latest reads before I leave the house. Rather than fussing about connecting the machine to another machine etc.

I didn't really want to flag a specific e-reader. And was hinting at something more general. As you say I'm sure you could bolt something together, like I have been meaning to.

At the moment it's as boring as a readability bookmarklet. That then sends the parsed html to a free kindle address. Readability will accept urls to process in emails. But this doesn't work for me. I forget why. Also readability sometimes borks and I never get the page. And sometimes readability can't read something. It just comes out blank. Probably a JS heavy page or something. Managing readability archives and searching through them isn't that great. I'm not really a fan of the readability web browser interface. I haven't tried the apps. But it does the job for free so I mustn't grumble.

I'd rather email/bookmark links, to process later, to then read at my leisure. And also text index them. Something to improve searching. Also the ability to rate or summarise what I've read.

I get articles that upon reading, I don't like. So chaff does get through. I could do with applying feedback. Flagging bad (as in I don't like) sites, bad authors etc. One problem is that I can't do the feedback there and then from my e-reader when I'm in the moment. But actually it might be a good re-enforcment tactic to come back and evaluate later. It would be nice to then share good reads.

An email address for reads is good, as you can always ask others to send you stuff. Or perhaps forward an email containing a link to your reading address.

I have cognitive difficulty reading from a browser, but am fine with e-ink. Plus it doesn't require an internet connection. It's comfortable. I do tend to neglect my book reading though, which is a bit of a shame. Oh and I have a mountain of articles to read, currently about 1200.

With what comes through with readability, sometimes the author is missing. Probably meta data missing. And not having dates and other meta data available can be annoying. Having a datestamp of when I bookmarked it for reading might be nice.

I find lynx/terminal style browsers easier to read. But one thing I did notice was that they were slower than some of the graphical ones (the last time I tried). So I ended up modding my GUI web browsers for readability.

I'd like to see a speed comparison.

A browser where you disable JS, CSS and images, you'd hope may be smart enough to not fetch or process unneeded assets.

I have a 1.4mb connection at home, and many sites are painful to use, to the point I just don't bother. Because of lavish asset loading - with advertising etc.

Most of my web reading is suspended to the future: add to queue -> process page to text -> send to e-reader, partly as it's more comfortable, and also because of sluggishness in sites/pages.

On faster connections/faster computers it's less of a pain. Mobile is generally a world of pain (for me at least)!

Thanks, hard to imagine a young L.A. it's mind blowingly big, from a little Brit's perspective.

Yeah I used to know the key sequences to turn off my computer.

That's not to say that you couldn't come up with an interface for controlling a computer blindly with a mouse.

I've had a laptop with a broken keyboard, that I tried to drive with a pointer. And a system without a mouse driven with a keyboard. I was surprised how much I could do with the former.

I like the terminal, and I am also a reasonable touch typist. I don't particularly enjoy typing though. I've tried a few different keyboards. And I _do_ get the power of the CLI. But I think it's a barrier to computer input. And it's a barrier to free conversation. Check Youtube comments for example. I think some of the terseness (think Twitter) results as a result of text entry being laborious. I'm not familiar with using a tablet - and I always feel somewhat restricted and impotent when using mobile devices, which I figure others feel when using a keyboard.

OSs could make text entry far better and centralise it. Portable dictionaries and shortcuts for example. Yeah you can do that by keeping shell scripts on a remote, but it all feels a bit hodge podge.

Jumping from one CLI to another, different apps, etc can feel nasty. And I'm personally not happy putting my primary CLI in a cloud based SILO.

The weird thing about the song is that it's just so clunky. When you hear it out of context it's pretty horrible.

On reading it for the third time, I noticed the word app, which I must have missed before.

So it's exclusive to the apple eco-system and probably pay-walled. I think I get it now.

I don't get it. I go to wired, I follow the link to apple, and I get bounced back to wired???

Same here.

Would recommend a text change: 'keyboard type' to 'keyboard layout'.

I feel the same after doing web programming for over a decade. I started out doing database stuff and actually with hindsight I think I could have quite happily narrowed my focus towards being a db specialist, and avoided that feeling of treading water. People say it's great to be an all rounder but it's only when you are focused you excel at one thing. After grappling with an ad-hoc task, I master it after a day, only to forget it by the next time I need to use it.

I am not quite sure I understand the ramifications for the indie phone with something like the snoopers charter.

I would hope there was no such thing as an indie cloud (all your address book, call history, online searches etc. tucked away in some silo that is ripe for picking), but rather a decentralised system that was impervious to snooping.

Nice if you can do it. I swore I'd leave if the Tories got in in 2010. But I didn't... I have roots in the UK with family and friends, and they are difficult bonds to break. A few hundred miles from some people already feels like it is too wide a gulf.

Very funny.