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I've always been curious about what it means for a movie to enter the public domain. A few years ago I sent a mail to Planet Money in what I thought would be an interesting hook bu…

Yeah I have 32k saves and hit the same problems with search being extremely unreliable. About 5 years ago quotes stopped working in search. Trying to find "The Grapes of Wrath" wou…

I tried Matter but it lacked Android support at the time so didn't go deep into it. I've been a heavy Readwise user for the last two years or so. It's better than Pocket in almost …

I think doing this would expose how poorly they've actually saved their copies of articles. Pocket has always had a very funny definition of "permanent copy" which doesn't mean wha…

The latest episode of the excellent video game history podcast They Create Worlds ( https://www.theycreateworlds.com/listen ) does a good job debunking some of these myths.

I'm actually shocked that even before these layoffs there was anyone working on Pocket. I have not noticed a new feature in this product for maybe 3 years, with numerous things get…

This podcast goes into a lot more detail than most of the replies here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-video-game-crash-4... It's not just a glut of "bad games." There a…

Eh, I think this is overstating the case for the typical user (Zoom or gaming rather than something like podcasting). The sound quality is more than acceptable, even when placed re…

VCD is a very undercovered format. Any budding media scholars out there could make a good book out of the format. It connects to an area I'm growing increasingly interested in, the…

My car still has an amusing WMA logo above the CD player to advertise its support for playing CDs with WMAs burned to them. Never actually used that functionality though.

See also Defender of the Favicon: http://www.p01.org/defender_of_the_favicon/

I read this over the summer, it's a great read.

I've seen some apps recently move to only having icons and no text label. I think Paint in Windows 11 is an example. I really dislike this as for an app I'm not using every day it …

I've used a series of them for over 20 years and never had this issue.

The only place I do this anymore in hotel rooms, although I'm usually foiled by how horribly slow this experience has become. I've stayed in hotels where it's up to 5 seconds betwe…

Maybe it's because, as a post next to this on HN tells me, attentions are off by one?

My understanding is that Readwise uses the HTML you're seeing on your browser to make the copy and this works with paywalls better than most services I've tried. The downside is yo…

I've long had issues on Android where lists that should effectively be infinite scrolls instead have a cache of maybe 20 items and they just repeat as you scroll.

It says it does but in practice this is a "we will do our best." I've run into this with now paywalled articles I can't get to my highlights on.

By the way, I'm curious if there are any Pocket communities anywhere. Readwise, for instance, has an active Discord. I haven't been able to find anything for Pocket, which is perha…

This is absolutely an advertised feature of Pocket and it's frustrating they're so inept in supporting this.

Very much agree that Pocket has gotten worse as I've used it over the years. It's so bad I've mostly moved to the much better Readwise ( https://readwise.io/ ). I'd be fully over i…

Relatedly, there's a new drama out about the history of pinball: https://pinballfilm.com/ It's good!

I bought a new modem over the holidays. Xfinity required me to install the app to activate it. But their login system was broken. It was impossible to talk to a human over the phon…

Another option I guess is Bloomberg Businessweek which has at least some of the same news coverage as The Economist. But if you're not liking The Economist for having too much opin…