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scouw | 1 year ago | on: Show HN: I built a modern Goodreads alternative

Seems pretty good! However, like all of these websites, it's only so useful without a large userbase to get ratings and reviews from.

Some feedback:

- Visually pleasing!

- It seemed to have failed to import some books from StoryGraph for me (e.g., "The Hive" by Camilo José Cela and "The Epic of Gilgamesh"), and as far as I could tell it did not notify me anywhere. I had no idea until I noticed that they were missing from my "Read" library.

- The book "Zone" by Mathias Énard seems to be completely impossible to find via searching, despite existing on the website (https://kaguya.io/books/zone).

- Adding a feature that allows clicking on 'Read Books' or 'Want to Read' on a user's profile to directly view their complete library in that category would be nice.

- Only five "Similar Books" seems rather low, would love to have a "See more >" option there!

- A "Neighbours" feature similar to what Last.fm has for finding other users would be great.

- This is a minor nitpick, but the grey box that represents a missing book under "Favourite Books" on a profile is taller than the actual covers.

scouw | 1 year ago | on: Microsoft is first to get HBM-juiced AMD CPUs

It's far from an ideal solution but I've started to just have JS disabled by default in uBlock Origin and then enabling it manually on a per-site basis. Bit of a hassle but many sites, including this one, render just fine witbout JS and are arguably better without it.

scouw | 1 year ago | on: EU: Users who refuse scanning to be prevented from sharing photos and links

You can see who voted for "Amending Interim Regulation on a temporary derogation from certain provisions of the ePrivacy Directive" at https://mepwatch.eu/9/vote.html?v=167712, which from what I understand is about extending the duration an earlier version of chat control (1.0) [1] where the scanning is only done by tech companies on platforms such as Xbox and Facebook Messenger [2]. So not quite what is being talked about in the article in this post but definitely related.

[1]: https://www.patrick-breyer.de/en/chatcontrol-1-0-pirates-con...

[2]: https://www.patrick-breyer.de/en/european-parliament-o-exten...

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