Mi primera contribución a Raycast: Añadiendo Notas a Raindrop.io
#RaindropIO
I use #raindropio and wanted a way to fetch a random bookmark so I could process them over time.
Turns out there’s no built-in way to do it - so I made a simple CLI tool:
🔗 https://www.npmjs.com/package/raindrop-random-bookmark
Mashable: Pocket is shutting down. Here are the read-later app alternatives.. “Pocket may be saying goodbye, but plenty of bookmarking and read-later platforms are still alive and kicking. If you’re looking for a read-later service like Pocket, Instapaper and Readwise are two popular options.” Also Raindrop, which I use and heartily recommend. I have no financial relationship with them except […]
Mozilla ajaa kuulemma Pocketin alas. Se on palveluna eräällä tavalla kirjanmerkit, mutta steroideilla. Toisin sanoen se on keskitetympi, tallennetut asiat saa tägättyä ja hautkin sisällöstä toimivat. Ainakin periaatteessa. Lisäksi, sopimuksesta riippuen, sisältö on tallella, vaikka sivusto olisi alhaalla, lopettanut tai muuttunut maksulliseksi.
Eräällä tavalla yksityinen internet archive, mutta sivutasolla, ei koko sivuston kattavana.
Mozilla siis lopettaa sen. Eivät he ole siihen suuremmin panostaneetkaan, eivätkä mainostaneet. Joten Pocket siirtyy siihen suureen joukkoon netin palveluita ja sivustoja, jotka siirtyvät historian hämärään.
Silti osa jaksaa suunnattomasti murehtia jonkun mastodon-instannin pysyvyydestä seuraavan ikuisuuden aikana.
Minulla on siellä kuitenkin aika paljon asioita tallessa. Lisäksi olisi tarve tuon kaltaiselle palvelulle. En ole käyttänyt Pocketia oikeastaan siksi, että Mozilla teki siitä vaikean. Merkityksessä minulla meni aina vartti, että pääsin kirjautumaan. Jo pelkästään se, että he päättivät sitoa vanhat tilit paikallisen tilin sijasta Firefoxin tiliin, oli kiusa.
Mutta eniten ärsytti se, että en koskaan pääse captchasta läpi. Voitaisiinko teslat ja muut joskus-ehkä itsestään kulkevat ajoneuvot kouluttaa jollain muulla tavalla kuin pakottaa kävijät tunnistamaan moottori- ja polkupyöriä, liikennevaloja ja paloposteja?
Joten oli aika löytää toinen vaihtoehto.
Mastodonin puolella joku mainitsi raindrop.io palvelun/appin. Päällisin puolin vaikuttaa ihan toimivalta. Myös Pocketin tallennukset saa tuotua — kunhan ensin löytää sen todella hyvin piilotetun linkin, josta CSV:n saa ladattua. Onneksi Raindropilla oli suora linkki.
En vielä tiedä miten import onnistuu. Tilasin vasta Pocketilta tietoni, ja Mozilla toimittaa ne koska toimittaa.
Nykyisessä maailmassa mietiyttää tietysti kaksi asiaa. Menevätkö rahat Venäjälle vai biljonääri-somelle.
Ensimmäisestä en tiedä. Palvelua pyörittävä hemmo on kazakki, mutta en tiedä missä hän asuaa ja mitkä hänen sympatiansa ovat. Toiselta puolen, olin pitkään DigitalOceanin asiakas, ja sen firman omistaa venäläiset ja sijaintipaikka sekä serverit ovat jenkkien ja NSA:n saatavilla. Vaihdoin saksalaiselle Hetznerille, mutta aito syy muuttoon oli raha. DigitalOcean hinnoitteli itsensä pois meikäläisen maksuhalusta ja -kyvystä.
Mutta biljonääriä Raindropkin rahoittaa, koska käyttää Amazonin servereitä. Mikäs minä olen ensimmäistä kiveä heittämään, koska sivustoni käyttävät tiedostoille AWS:ää ja sähköpostit kulkevat SES:n kautta. Kukaan ei ole vaivautunut rakentamaan kilpailevaa, johon pystyisin siirtymään.
Joten loin tilin Raindropille. Hilkun vajaa 4 euroa kuussa tai alle 40 euroa vuoden tilaus. Löytyy ilmainenkin optio, mutta siitä puuttuu riittävä haku sekä offline lataukset.
Ei, en tiedä miten se toimii. Ei, en tiedä miten appit toimivat. Mainosten mukaanhan kaikki toimii niin julmetun hyvin. Mutta onpahan nyt tulossa vaihtoehto Pocketille.
I hear Mozilla is shutting down Pocket, and it took me back to my troubles with the app last year + my adventures to find a #FOSS replacement. I did Pocket → Omnivore → Raindrop, and I'm still loving Raindrop so far (+ its lovely RSS feed).
https://vis.social/@candide/113007744655773749
https://vis.social/@candide/113394605656887249
I highly recommend Raindrop to anyone looking for a Pocket alternative, and it's easy to migrate: https://raindrop.io/integrations/pocket
#Mozilla #MozillaPocket #Pocket #Omnivore #Raindrop #RaindropIO #RSS
Strange thing about #Pocket shutdown is that now a lot of people are suggesting like five bazillion other #socialbookmarking services.
...I've had accounts on a few social bookmarking services. *All* of them died for various reasons. (Any Delicious users still around? Anyone remember Magnolia?)
(There are people saying that it sucks that Pocket export doesn't have the article contents. Yeah, it sure does, but at least you *get* an export of the data in some capacity. Not all services I've used were that lucky. Some just straight up blew up one day. Magnolia was "eep, our database got screwed. We have no backups. That's that, then, I guess.")
I just signed up for #RaindropIO, and made damn sure they have an actual backup option.
RIP #Pocket 🫡, first/only bookmarking site I used until Mozilla neglected to keep it running well with their browser extensions…
Migrated to #RaindropIO a few months back and it’s been just perfect👌🏼
What's the best alternative to #Pocket?
I'm seeing #readeck, #wallabag, #raindropio, #instapaper, #karakeep, #floccus, #memex, #obsidian, and #curiooo.
I need it to do a good job reading articles and be available for web and android. I'd love it to be FOSS and let me support them monthly. I dream of it having great integration with my fedi account.
I see that @readeck, @instapaper, @wallabag and @obsidian are here. Anybody else?
UPDATE: I went with @wallabag. It's great.
I'm once again looking for a read-it-later/article archive tool. I think I've tried them all by now and I'm amazed that for such a basic task there's no good solution. I think my demands are very reasonable:
– article content extraction (not just bookmarks) and comfortable reader
– full text search over the entire archive
– website and Android app with synchronization between them
– not a whole lot of random unrelated features like todo lists or whatever thrown in for no reason
I was using Pocket for many years and even paid for the "premium" (which basically got me a few extra fonts because the "premium" features like tag suggestions didn't work), however Pocket got worse and worse at article extraction, to the point where it just opened to website instead of showing the extracted text for more than half of the saved articles. Also no one seems to actively work on it it seems. Pretty much the same problems with Instapaper. I tried Feedly and Inoreader which kinda works I guess but they're primarily RSS readers, which I don't need. raindrop.io does extract article texts but shows them only in the Android app, in a browser it'll still open the website, also the full text search doesn't work reliability. Then there's Wallabag but that seems very Alpha and I don't want to host the service myself. Tried a bunch more which I can't remember right now.
As a temporary solution I'm now saving articles to @notesnook since I'm using that for notes anyway. Article extraction works alright but there's no way to archive notes, so it's all cluttered with articles now and I can barely find my own notes anymore.
If anyone knows of a tool that reliably does all the things mentioned above, please let me know!
#readitlater #readability #pocket #feedly #inoreader #instapaper #raindropio
⭐New saved RSS item: https://danq.me/2022/09/27/freshrss-xpath/
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XPath Scraping with FreshRSS
The latest version of FreshRSS's killer feature is XPath scraping. Dan demonstrates how to use it.
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#RSS #RaindropIO
I'm giving Raindrop.io another go. I've tried various bookmark managers over the years, but always just went back to the browser's. However, this makes it somewhat difficult to switch between browsers as I like my bookmarks to be “just so.” I figured, I used a 3rd party password manager, why not a 3rd party bookmark manager?
Let’s see how it goes this time around!
any one using raindrop know if it's possible to bulk download all of what they call "permanent copies"? I'm aware of their backup export feature but it's just a HTML file containing links. #raindropio
⭐New saved RSS item: https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/25/03/04/2151220/brother-accused-of-locking-down-third-party-printer-ink-cartridges-via-forced-firmware-updates?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed
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Brother Accused of Locking Down Third-Party Printer Ink Cartridges Via Forced Firmware Updates · Slashdot
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#RSS #RaindropIO
⭐New saved RSS item: https://developers.slashdot.org/story/25/03/01/2211210/27-year-old-exe-became-python-in-minutes-is-ai-assisted-reverse-engineering-next?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed
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27-Year-Old EXE Became Python In Minutes. Is AI-Assisted Reverse Engineering Next? · Slashdot
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#RSS #RaindropIO
It’s been a long time coming (and I’ve been putting it off 👀)…
#Pocket to #RaindropIO migration now complete ✅😌
So much more easier organising things now 🤩
⭐New saved RSS item: https://prisonjournalismproject.org/2025/02/20/heres-the-best-prison-burrito-recipe/
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How I Perfected the Prison Burrito · Prison Journalism Project
The Fuego Flamin’ Furritos burrito recipe honors the Southwest’s fiery food.
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#RSS #RaindropIO
⭐New saved RSS item: https://gaiwan.co/blog/why-clojure/
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Why Clojure?
This is about a 17 minute read. Feel free to pause and come back to it later. Clojure is not one of the handful of "big" mainstream languages. This means that sometimes people are surprised that we are all in on Clojure. Why go against the grain? Why make it
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#RSS #RaindropIO
⭐New saved RSS item: https://www.clereviewofbooks.com/writing/kevin-killian-selling-the-collective
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Selling the Collective: On Kevin Killian’s “Selected Amazon Reviews” — Cleveland Review of Books
Killian was a humanist of a sort, re-centering the individual experience on a site premised on selling to the collective.
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#RSS #RaindropIO
⭐New saved RSS item: https://www.quantamagazine.org/the-largest-sofa-you-can-move-around-a-corner-20250214/
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The Largest Sofa You Can Move Around a Corner | Quanta Magazine
A new proof reveals the answer to the decades-old “moving sofa” problem. It highlights how even the simplest optimization problems can have counterintuitive answers.
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#RSS #RaindropIO
⭐New saved RSS item: https://chrismaiorana.com/from-emacs-to-microsoft-word/
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From Emacs To Microsoft Word (And Beyond, Really) – The Daily Macro
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#RSS #RaindropIO
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