toki

yeah and nope, toki.net was not my first but my third try.

i am somehow not able to login with two different browsers (opera mobile and chrome) to log in. only firefox worked.

my new account there is "toki1". but i havent been able to add feeds somehow. the input box does not to react when i click submit.

feel free to use me as test user. contact me via the mail i gave with my account data. i am rather busy today, but from tomorrow on i will have more time.... :)

i am surprised. rssident looks really simple and promising on my smartphone as a mobile page! can you give any background!? when did you start!?

i like the one big feed directly on the start page. i like the the simple layout in my mobile browser.

i don't need fancy sharing features. all i need is a simple webapp that shows me a condensed view of my subscriptions and opml import.

if these things work there is also no need for a specialized android or mobile app, i think.

(oh, mobile sign up didn't work somehow for me, maybe you check the code...)

Your solution is just brilliant and a really cool hack. I will add this to my basic techniques. One suggestion: Change your article, instead of the sentence "he first set of brackets denotes deletion, the second set denotes addition, and the third set denotes a comment." write it the Ruleset for dumb people like me like this:

Ruleset:

First Brackets: [Deletion] Delete this word.

Second Brackets: [][Addition] Add this word.

Third Brackets: [][][Comment] Comment this word.

Combination Examples:

[Change][Replace] Delete first word, replace with second word...

[Remove][][My comment: You should remove this word!]

No, i like reddit as it is! I love that reddit is a living organism. I think that the 4chan-jokes are just a trend like the Ron-Paul-Posts some months ago...

A long time i was sceptical that the system with the sub-reddits is really useful, but now i am convinced that it is a great invention: It allows reddit to develop and be a very dynamic system.

Reddit is alive and becoming better every day in its subreddits. The new "todayilearned" and "iama" subreddits are great. Its becoming a little bit like a better usenet.

Hacker News has better discussions, yeah, but reddit has more potential for further development and innovantion...

There is a tool in the repos that reproduces the macos global menu on the top of the screen. I never tested it, it seems to work only with gtk-apps i think.

http://code.google.com/p/gnome2-globalmenu/

The feature allows great applications:

For example: Friends at a party in my flat, drinking beer, watching Youtube Videos. In the future they can also make jokes on my internet usage habits!

And: Finally i can control what my girlfriend does on the internet! (Of course i won't tell her about the feature - she wouldn't be interested anyway...)

My suggestion for the next FF-Version: Send about:me data directly to boss. Weekly. Hidden, please.

(The concept of "One Browser == Private Area of One User" was always wrong on desktop-PCs. Why does everyone insist on it?)

I use keyboard navigation for a longer time now because i cant stand browsing by touchpad. The keyboard-navigation-methods that firefox and ie use are rather outdated, there are much cooler and better methods today.

So i have tested many methods, and here are my favourites:

1. Opera! The Browser has something called spatial navigation. It somehow works like the cursor key navigation in "Links" but much better and gives you a feeling of rather direct control. Very cool...

2. Firefox + "mouseless browsing"-Plugin. Every link on the webpage gets a number, a little bit like footnotes, and you surf via entering numbers. Sounds complicated but it is rather intuitive and very fast. Well, the webpages look a little bit uglier than before. Try it out, it should work with every Firefox-Version.

Both of these methods force you to surf a little bit more concentrated and less relaxing, tv-like. But for just getting work done the methods are just great. They work with nearly every webpage, even those you wouldnt expect. The only times i use the touchpad is for flash-applications (like the video-windows on youtube). I dont even miss a mouse.

I think Vimperator could be interesting too, but it somehow always looks too complicated for me.

Sorry, i have read opinions like the one in the article many times, but i think they are just plain wrong. They are a myth. They were true in times when gtk1, gnome 1 or fvwm were standard. (And that was imo long before 2002). But times have definetly changed. I prefer the design of linux and of open source apps. I am no open source developer, but i am using it every day, so:

1. Most linux distros have well designed UIs, most linux apps too. I would say that open source apps have a focus on efficiency while many windows apps have a focus on first-time-users.

2. Many existing flaws of open source user interfaces have practical reasons: open source is always somehow "work in progress" / many open source desktop apps are somehow frontends for command line apps / many open source apps are grown products which for example come out of old gtk-times.

3. The real horror are many closed source apps which just ignore all developed gui standards just because of marketing reasons: Why does my windows desktop firewall or antivirus need their own gui design and even changeable skins?! Why does my windows office software give a sh on what i think is the best ui for my needs? Why does every app i install have to clutter my desktop with wizards, autoupdate-system notifications (which somehow look more like company ads) and hints to other products?

The article is something like "Illuminatus" or "Da Vinci" Code for Nazi-Fans. Many interesting and known facts without connection get woven together to support a rather weak story. Even the author doesn't really believe it. The whole truth here is somehow like a sentence which i have read repeatedly in the last weeks on this board:

Correlation is not causation.

(I tried to write some arguments to support my conclusions. But i deleted them. It would have become too long. Go out, read some books on this topic. The facts are much more complicated and fascinating than this dumb conspiracy theory.)

I am from germany. You shouldnt overestimate the warning. Some background information:

1. You have to know the context: The situation is very special in germany at the moment. Here is a big discussion about privacy and data security. There was a big scandal some weeks ago because a call center company sold some data from its customers and other companys abused these informations. Somehow the politicians and goverment agencys have a "bad conscience" now.

2. Im a lawyer and i think if the warning is really an official warning it is rather problematic (for the goverment agency, not for google). But one has to know that in germany some ministries understand themselves somehow as consumer protection agencies. It is a little bit different than in other countries i guess.

3. The warning is more directed to people who dont know much about the internet: mums and dads and aol-users and so on. The goverment agency didnt tell them anything different then that what every reader of this page here already knows.

Just another rant. Once i liked rants very much, because they are often funny and somehow cool, but after reading too much of them in blogs i have become a little bit bored and suspicious:

If i read a rant what makes me say "yes!" to the article?: Is it the content? Or is it more the writing style which makes even the most stupid points and argumentations sound logical and cool?

Take this rant as an example: it is somehow succesful on hacker news despite having absolutely no content other than that its author feels fine two days out of three. If he would have written that in a normal style not even his mum would have read his blog entry. But by insulting other people and writing somehow aggressive he creates attention that isnt supported by the content.

This two day old thread about google is somehow related to this article:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=247046

I think it is a funny irony that the leading-edge-tech-megacorp Google gets all of its revenue out of small textads that every experienced internet user ignores and only get clicked by people who mistake the advertisement block of a website for its content.

oops: hackernews somehow didnt like the layout of my last comment and made one big sentence out of it.

just use your imagination to see some paragraphs in my last message. :)

andrew turnbull is completely right. i used windows 95 too, as long as possible (2006).

windows 95 has many good things that the modern version of windows have lost or never had:

- lightweight (Doesnt even use memory <128 MB)

- very fast

- total cost of ownership = 0

- functional (office, opera, etc: everything works somehow)

- easily replaceable (ebay)

- robust (works even with damaged hardware - somehow)

- security (through obscurity)

- i have an idea how it works (in modern version of windows i have somehow lost the overview)

- no need to update (just accept how the system is)

- free of distractions (no widgets, sidebars, audoupdates)

:)