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Somehow related: I find Snappy Snippet extension (for Chrome) very interesting. It's supposed to let you make a "live" screenshot of a DOM element. Unfortunately, I've not tried it much as I only rely on Firefox in day to day browsing.

https://github.com/kdzwinel/SnappySnippet

What do you mean publish your website in PDF/A? Is your frontpage a PDF document linking other PDFs?

Ha! Just checked you account and indeed that's what you do... I'm not sure I like to acknowledge the sense of failed HTML but your pages look good and there's no javascript nonsense in the background.

On that page, they just mention "growing maintenance costs and technical support needs"... I've wondered if there could be any intellectual property problem underneath but there's no indication about such a thing. It's sad anyway, that was such a great tool (bis repetita).

The Unbound Bible was a project held by Biola University providing free access to many Bible translations of reference along with search tools. There was also a great tool to provide parallel view of different translations. This is a great great loss. I wish they'd consider a donation programme to fund their effort. Scriptures need to be widely available so that it's no one's own property but everyone's share.

Apparently, the downvote restriction to wise users doesn't prevent some of them from being trigger happy. Maybe the release date stated above is wrong but I'm shocked to see this kind of comment downvoted.

SPA: single page application (I actually had to look it up... Shame on me.)

Really? Does this number account for aluminium foil too? In France it's long been said that this should be thrown with the non-recyclable. Is France an outlier in this regard? Does that mean aluminium foil is a negligible amount?

Very hypnotic indeed. Gets you right into dream mode :)

That's a really great name you came up with! Embodies both parts of your focus, stays pronounceable. Does the 3 relate to the Python version or are you mimicking some specific molecule that I can't think of?

My French brain frequently struggles to parse English titles. But this one takes the cake! Before opening the link, I was expecting something about drug addictions and Cuban cigars. (It's about a company that goes under the overly complicated name of Mark Cuban Cost Plus.)

That brings me to the problem with links as well as with e-books: you don't usually see them. When you have an open tab, you see it all day long until you get rid of it. When you have a printed book, you bump in it on a daily basis (unless you hide it in more books).

The closest I can think of is the Hemingwrite typewriter which has an e-ink display and is portable in some sense. At $342, I hope it's more than a toy.

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/astrohaus/hemingwrite-a...

Edit: oops! They have a new website and a new product that fits your request more closely.

https://getfreewrite.com/products/freewrite-traveler

But that's really a typewriter. Which is somehow good if you just want text, not code. And here's the problem: these things belong to consumer segments so narrow that I don't see them getting the attention I'd like.

Limitations... Sony has annoyed me very much with astonishing limitations on a previous laptop. This has seriously tainted the way I see them despite the otherwise great products they build.

That's the funny thing! French with what are called regional "accents" (be it parisian) is more pleasant to speak and easier to get.

This is a recording from an interview of a Parisian craftsman that took place in 1912. The purpose was to study the different accents that were found in Paris at the time. They mention that it's easy to tell apart someone from Paris 14th arrondissement (south-ish) and someone from Montmarte (north). When the interviewee listens to the recording, he's astonished to hear why people have sometimes been mentioning slowness in his speech.

This lack of reliable handwriting is definitely an annoying point to me too. That being said, why do you think it won't get any better? Judging by their ads, Sony DPT-RP1 looked great in this respect. (I wonder if the actual experience matched the ad, though.) Furthermore, I wonder what you're referring to about interchangeability: are the current annotated PDFs somehow not interchangeable?

I suspected something along these lines when I saw Library Genesis was down two days ago : https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25750184 These are weird days.

Author devises a cookie-less technique (based on local storage) for getting non-invasive analytics from users.

Beautiful images of tree-shaped veins in a lake. Nothing to do with a tree of life in the biological sense, though. But I realize I'm biased: Wikipedia [1] shows that the tree of life is a common art depiction.

1. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tree_of_life

This article can be seen as an introduction to emacs hacking. It features profiling, hooks, advice, and more emacs developer tricks. I haven't read it fully yet but this looks like a nice way to get to know emacs deeper.

I haven't noticed EPUB suffers from bad support. I like its principle (just a markup language), the two problems I came to see: 1) handling images, tables... objects that may need to be cut are cut at the expense of the ease of reading. And 2) no handwritten annotations.

But you're right: deep down, both depend on the implementation, not on the format itself so you could actually blame the support. (Yes, I somehow changed my mind in the process of writing this comment.)

Back online somehow. We're now redirected to libgen.rs

I don't know how to report this properly but at the time of writing, it's not just me: https://downforeveryoneorjustme.com/library-genesis

That's a good question. I regularly get interested in e-readers but one key point in your question is affordable. Kobo readers [1] look promising. Especially the biggest one Kobo Forma (8") but it's far from cheap (280€).

In general, what deters me from e-readers is the lack of a nice way to annotate (with handwriting). I get the problem with EPUBs but it should be fine with PDFs.

Generally, EPUBs are a problem for technical books where I want the figures to properly match the corresponding text. Plus some figures are bigger than the screen (have to be so). And reading PDFs is a problem for the same screen size reason...

The best I can think of is Sony's gigantic DPT-RP1 [1] and it seems to have perfect handwriting support. But at almost 800€, I really don't call this affordable.

1. https://fr.kobobooks.com/collections/eReaders

2. https://www.sony.net/SonyInfo/design/stories/DPT-RP1/

Signal syncs fine between my iPhone and MacBook. I don't actually understand how, but it does.

As far as I understand, the point of Signal's current move is to take advantage of the huge number of people who (for once) got interested in moving away from WhatsApp.

Then, I suspect there could be an implicit specific criticism underlying your comment but I don't get it.

For what I understand, that's about a group working on restoring computer and radio electronics from the cold war era. The video has some funny (in a pleasant way -- in my opinion) playback music and a simple scenario to display the team's achievements as they celebrate their 100,000th subscriber. Looks like some friendly and dedidated crowd indeed!

I can only guess that people sending messages to my cancelled WhatsApp account saw only one tick. That's still meaningless to less skilled users and there's no way to tell if the user has gone forever or if they're just offline for a bit.

Anyway, my point is that WhatsApp shouldn't silently accept messages for a non existent user no matter what weak signals you get. When you send a text message to a non existent number, you get an error. Same for an e-mail.

I can't help but think it's a way to deter users from leaving WhatsApp.

I can confirm my mother has no idea what these ticks mean. She can't make the difference between WhatsApp and iMessage either. At the time I left, I told her so and she kept wondering why I was not getting some of her messages (the ones she was sending on WhatsApp, that is).

Having different apps is probably a step forward indeed. But (as far as I understand) just having WhatsApp installed on my phone allows them to keep an eye on my contact list. That sounds quite despicable to me.