webwanderings

Two features missing right away: Terminal and Remote SSH.

Would somebody (if reading this) want to be generous and help me out? I'm not a programmer. I'd wish to use xterm.js in either a md or the mdx file (looking to incorporate a terminal in docusaurus site). My google-fu fails me for this.

Sometimes one just needs a terminal running remotely. Otherwise, code-server is good enough and works well without much marketing fluff.

https://feedreader.com has been working out really well for me for long period of time. It is not as popular as others, and that's a good thing.

Quattro pro was indeed very shiny and fast compared to anything else back then.

This is cool. Exactly what I was looking for not too long ago (sometimes markdown does not fit all the needs for documentation).

How about images? How do you handle images; their layout, scaling etc?

You want me to do your work for you by recommending later research from academia, which invalidates Sacy and Marco Polo's fiction and ignorance? Do your own work and look up Institute of Ismaili Studies and their research from the recent times.

> A rebellious offshoot of the Fatimids under Hasan al-Sabah, a student of the Fatimid House of Wisdom (Dar al-Ilm), would later fight in the Crusades and come to be notoriously known as the Hash-Hashins (or the Assassins).

Lots of misinformation you have there in one paragraph. Read up a better researched history.

> Sadly my own friends and family that I used to respect and look up to have shown themselves as fools this year.

This has been the most astonishing fact of life that has come out of Covid. Blown away by discovering the same. I think a whole lot of humans must have discovered this fact for the first time in their life.

Someone's soon going to recreate the facebook!

Is it just me or nobody realize that the likes of MySpace started the downfall of the original Internet before it became "social media"?

Nostalgia of a simple web page is fine (and this is a nice implementation no doubt), but why recreate something that leads to something that is predictable?

Instead, recreate usenet with better privacy and mobile adoption. Usenet is what they killed before the promise of the Internet could be realized.

Roblox is bigger than Minecraft. Just ask any 9 year old. Any!

Typora's markdown experience is great. I wish to see the same in VSCode. It isn't feasible to use Typora just for markdown and VSCode for other type of files.

I miss Typora's WYSIWYG Markdown editing in VS Code. For a note-taking, two pane window (one for editing and one for preview) makes very less sense.

Had the same problem. Bought a radio which runs all night not connected to any channel. Got used to it myself. She sleeps fine, winter or summer.

This is great. Can you add a separate category for kids?

I want to setup something like this for my daughter's primary grade school meetings using Zoom. Any suggestions? Are the Pis or this device up to par now for such use case? I totally do not like Chromebooks, and standard laptops are an overkill.

Another fascinating thing is human’s perceived comprehension of aliens. Hollywood and popular literature has always conveyed the notion of someone from other planets, so much so that we have forgotten the others among us. The nature on this planet earth is still as unknown to us as any external planet. Come to think of it, humans are not that great in comprehending themselves and the nature that surrounds them. Our ability to be self-aware is technically relative and not absolute.

> Everything goes over an encrypted TLS connection, so nobody other than the intended recipient (and us. And probably CloudFlare, and maybe Google. But that's it.) can see what you're pasting.

This is funny. Liked the sense of humor over the irony. :) It does look pretty.

No love for OpenShift?

It's nice though.

Good for the interviewer for making counter arrangements at that time. Some of the things he said are still true: we still have to come up with categories in our heads. This is true regardless of advancements in ML.

Before thinking about creating, or participating in an "online" community, think about the same without the online.

A community is first formed by humans. The online piece is just a platform, or a place of logistics.

This may throw you back in time but read Scott Peck's The Different Drum, to get a real feel of what a community is.

I think the QA section should serve that purpose. Say that you got something bad and has negative review to tell. First of all, you have to eliminate your subjectivity (whether it is just you and your one specific product out of the lot, or is it everyone and everything out of the lot). Only the vendor can help you here first, and not the whole world. If the vendor is bad, then it is the platform’s fault (they didn’t help themselves by helping host the vendor). The best you can do is ask a ‘why’ question (why it is broken, or why it is not as advertised). Enough people asking the same, would naturally help everyone.

Now say you got something good. Again, you have to first eliminate your subjectivity. Why should the world care if you like something? But you want to help others make a good decision. Fine. Let them ask questions genuinely and then you can answer. Platform should let that happen because otherwise vendor would never let others answer on their behalf. QA should be the only place for interaction. Question should only be posed by potential customers. Answers, only by known customers.

Crowd sourced reviews are first and foremost subjective. They spawn either a fan boy syndrome or ‘I’m going to get’ you syndrome. If not either of them then they have spawned a whole new underground market of their own. Indeed, they have not proven to naturally balance the real and legitimate market; otherwise, they wouldn’t have been gamed. But Amazon does have QA alongside reviews. This makes it obvious that reviews are their cash cows using/abusing human psychology - of greed and gratification.

Human beings never used to write reviews. They were either repeat customers or they weren’t. I have never felt writing a review. So what if you have a good product, or something I may like. Why should I tell the whole world? I’d rather do word to mouth. Your product - good or bad - will adjust based on demand and supply on its own.

Amazon’s reviews are like old Yahoo’s news comment streams (same as YouTube today). I’d like to think average/sane human beings do not spend their time compulsively hanging out at such joints.

The best sensible thing Amazon could do is list the number of repeat customers against the number of sell. That would be honest and fair.

I don't like the idea of spending time on a site where I'm reading rumors but this is very nicely done indeed. Looks good on the mobile as well, though images take up more space than they should.

This is good looking. But, is this just a River of News scrolling, or do you keep track of "read" items to get them out of the way?

Bringing people together aka social networks, shouldn’t have been the ideal. Telephone was not a social network itself. It was a tool which gave people the opportunity to communicate - come together. Wish we had stayed with the similar ideology of providing just the tools. Email was/is there. But then, Facebook happened.

Great resource. Glad to have stumbled upon it.

People's informational bits are not unified as html or pdf. They could be anywhere: html on web (more than one browser), html on mobile (which browser is it?), pdf here, pdf there; tons of apps icons, whatsapps, facebook, bookmarks galore, blah, blah. We are all over the place. Annotation on the other hand is a tool for organized individuals. Life is not necessarily organized for most people, hence, this never got picked up.

Annotation should have been part of the browser from day one. It should have evolved with it when things moved on to the mobile world. It never happened.

Here, someone left this(1) link above. This is a better practical response than just trying to win an argument for the sake of winning an argument.

https://github.com/Ranchero-Software/NetNewsWire/issues/491

Is that what you read in two of my messages above? Interesting!

BTW, NNW is not charging as of yet. What I was talking about in two of my messages above, is the adoption issue with disparate platforms without the availability of read-state feature. If I use NNW mobile, I'm bound to using it all the time (which is not practical). If I use it's desktop app, I'm bound to using it on my Mac all the time (again, not practical). Anyone with more than hundred or more feeds, would find issues adopting such service. I am not here to defend my likeness of NNW so I won't say anything in this regard.