It's not just their Mac one. The one on Windows for me kills it, it just seems to make the machine really slow (only whilst it is syncing). Seems as if it is a bit of "the nature of the beast" as it's a similar story with other desktop clients. Great apps otherwise!
After Google Reader shut down, I briefly switched to feedly but found the UI basically unusable.
Newsblur is a great alternative. The web client and Android clients are both nice to use -- no experience with iOS but I'm sure it's comparable -- and are open source, written and maintained by Samuel Clay (conesus on HN).
I pay for the service but there's a free tier as well.
I think it's a bit strong saying it's "actively hostile" to power users. The developer takes a very specific view about why he has the limits set-up that way: I think a lot of people would like a different level but he makes sense over the fact that most people don't go that far back on RSS. And in fairness he's added a lot of other power user features like keyboard shortcuts.
Personally, I really like Newsblur. It's available on all the clients I care about, it's pretty fast and it's Open Source with a sane business model. I'd really like it to have search as that's the main thing that stops me finding good trends in my RSS feeds.
Is there a news reader that will preserve unread items forever? I like to collect months' worth of my favorite webcomics to read at one go, and I know the old Google Reader at least would just delete them after a while.
Newsblur's Android app can tend to get buggy - as you're scrolling through items by swiping right-to-left, sometimes it'll end up on a blank item, and the whole feed will be marked as read. It also sometimes shows some count X for a given folder, but will show less than X items.
On the upside, Samuel seems to be very quick to respond to issues, and pushes updates out pretty often, both to the app and to the site.
I've been using Digg Reader since the last time news broke about Feedly doing junk like this and I have really liked it. The only thing I dislike is that something steals focus away when navigating via j / k, so for long articles you have to click into the article pane to then use up / down arrows to scroll. It also seems to refresh feeds a little slower than feedly / google reader, but that's pretty minor.
Other than those two small issues, Digg Reader is fantastic.
I've been using Digg Reader for a few months and it works pretty nicely. I'd like it if the reloading of articles could sync in the background, and I'd like to be able to default to my list of feed articles rather than Digg's... however, it's free.. so I can't complain too much.
To Digg's favour, I do read some of their articles now (so presumably they get some ad revenue)...
I use my own install of TinyTinyRSS. The phone app is nicer than google reader ever was. That combined with having the data under my control means that it won't shut down on me again the same way that reader did.
I started with Feedly then switched to Ino. One interesting (paid) feature of Ino is essentially a "killfile" -- just like in the good old Usenet days -- for RSS feeds. E.g. say you want to read the newest Penny Arcade comic, but you don't care for the news articles also on the same feed, you can automatically mark those as read.
There are two options:
1. if you reply to a tweet, or start a tweet with a '@', then most of your followers won't see it, unless they follow the replied to handler. so if i tweet a command to @instagram, only @instagram followers among my friends will see it, and there aren't many...
2. there will be cases where you want to engage a conversation around a command you send. for example:
CTRL @robinhoodapp buy $FB for USD100
So you buy FB stock AND you get your friends talking about it. Is it a good buy? a bad move?
Probably because it's a few static HTML files that are stored with dozens (if not hundreds) of other single purpose sites, whose infrastructure is managed programmatically. (i.e. they have an intern run a script when they need to migrate it to a new cluster, and that's the extent of it)
A client of mine has a site with 4000+ individual pages, and no content management system.
In the corporate world, you just don't touch stuff if you don't need to. There's no time to go and find web pages that haven't changed in 10 years and figure out what to do about them.
It isn't so crazy. Imagine that 3900 of those 4000 files never change. Every few years there is a redesign on a section of the site, but some sections haven't changed in 7-8 years.
It's easy to manage a large site that only makes a few changes per week.
because if they don't know that they're goods are stolen, they haven't done anything wrong and there is no reason why their privacy should be allowed to be violated
NOTE: This is what is called a 'rhetorical question'. I'm not trolling.
> Shouldn't he be able to use it as he sees fit?
Say it ends up in the wheelhouse of an old oil tanker and the Captain prefers its GPS and maps application to the 1980s-era thing built in to the ship. If the legitimate owner of the laptop "saw fit" to modify the displayed GPS coordinates such that a catastrophe ensued, "shouldn't" he be able to do that?
After all, it's not his fault that a coastline packed with baby seals was standing in front of it.
That gets into the territory of intent. If he intended to crash the ship, then it's illegal. If, in the normal course of working on his laptop, he changed the map's endpoint to somewhere else (say, the local Wal Mart), he did not intend to crash the ship.
Is Dom intending to cause harm with these pictures? Is he actually causing harm? Those are the relevant questions.
But for a portable 'personal' computer like this Mac laptop, it's difficult to "use it as one sees fit" in the normal way when it's in Iran. Sure, it's possible he could make a remote connection and continue to edit documents on it or something. But in practice Dom is unlikely to get any real utility out of it by treating it as cloud server in the hands of untrusted parties. We probably all agree that Dom should be free to recover and wipe his own data from it, but that's purely an attempt to cut his losses rather than derive further "use".
So Dom continuing "to use it as he sees fit" is not really possible. Nearly everything Dom can do remotely to this computer will be inseparable from his intent with respect to effects on these other parties.
I have been working on this for over a year and thought it was time to show it off, if you do not want to sign up to have to try it then you can login with the username Demo and the password demodemo.
Any feedback would be greatly appreciated. A mobile app is on the way.
A lot of people have said it before on here but really?! The company is blaming on person, whilst yes it was technically his fault, why in the first place was he allowed on the production database and why was the company keeping very regular backups of all this mission critical data.
If the company saw that the data contained in this live database was so critical you would have thought that would not have given the keys to everyone and that if they did, they would at least make sure that they can recover from this, and fast.
