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I switched to Joplin. It's completely seamless once I authenticate with the service I sync with and toggle the web clipper support in the desktop app. You can even clip those pages where the site blocks the Evernote and OneNote crawler since it all happens in your browser and on the local clip server.

Best of all, it's all in Markdown. There's a beta rich text editor, but the Markdown editor has a preview and a little button bar for common stuff like lists and formatting.


I've yet to find any site that blocked either Evernote or OneNote. Interesting to know.


I'm coming around to management being a key part of Mozilla's problem. Firefox did legitimately find itself in a situation even the best turnaround artist would struggle with, but the situation calls for self-sacrifice at the top when there's so much money available to experiment with new lines of business. Nobody would complain about Pocket if it was just one of an intentional and visible program to find a viable course away from depending on Google.

Pocket is fine. Pocket randomly appearing on the gunwale of the sinking ship to tell you how great it is while the crew takes the life rafts, not so much.


This looks promising! I'll try it in five years, or when Google commits to keeping it alive long enough for it to have a chance.


While PDF is an open format on paper, in practice it's as proprietary as any ancient format. Supporting it in full is not trivial.


The real problem here is that, 20+ years on, printing to PDF is still a totally natural and easy-to-understand metaphor for a normal office desktop user; but producing HTML for the browser is still impossible for them.

If we simply had print-to-HTML functionality which resulted in a document identical to what you view onscreen while editing, PDF could die the death it deserves.

But HTML+CSS somehow manages to suck just as much for common usage, so it persists.


I wish epub would catch on for more than books. An epub is just HTML and CSS in a zip file, and a large part of the world population has a device than can load it and present it cleanly.


Relevant story time!

The neighbor would often complain about his cable and ask if I had the same problems. I did. One day, he'd had enough, and switched to DSL and satellite.

My house's connectivity issues vanished.


Sounds like fitting either house (or ideally both) with a $15 POE filter from Amazon would have fixed the problem. (POE in this case is point-of-entry not power-over-ethernet.)

I had to get one to make MOCA (ethernet over cable) work in my current house.


This stuff was always public information. These sites collected it and charged to access it in detail. They basically replaced people who did this professionally. Gumshoe as a service.


I think most people who think about it use Unsplash as lead generation. Like writing a blog in your area of knowledge.


Today I learned:

Microsoft is buying Bethesda

Bethesda is owned by a company called ZeniMax Media

It's actually Bethesda Softworks

Bethesda is a place in Maryland


There was a long time where the only way to watch ExoSquad post-cancellation, unless you taped it, was to download it from a site hosted on someone's subdomain on a university domain.


You can get a $20-40 Netgear router at Walmart.


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