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Neat! I'm working on a similar thing but mine is not as far along, and slightly more focused on what I call "subtitled reading" (interleaving source and target language lines of text).

Small UI feedback: the WORD LOOKUP sheet has UI design disease, i.e. imo too much text. I'd drop "WORD LOOKUP" and "CURRENTLY SAVING". Also behind the latter the current word is repeated (it's already the title of the sheet), so I'd drop that too.


Awesome, let me know when your ready for testers, happy to help!

Thanks for the UI feedback, will sort that today :)


It's now fixed!

* That was meant to say "AI UI design disease". I find them to default to overtexting

I never understood how that flies by Apple's review. Aren't all code changes supposed to go through their review and thus OTA is effectively illegal?

Power on pluggable bundles. So you can change the business logic, but if you want to change any native dependency then you do need a new app binary which needs the same app store review process.

Been a pretty happy user of https://www.languagereactor.com

Not seeing a reason to switch atm tbh


That’s fair enough! I am curious tho, are there any issues you face while using the app that could be handled better? Or any features that would make it easier to use?

ASR in LR is down often from my experience.


I tried Language Reactor a couple of years ago and bounced off of it because of its absolutely atrocious support for traditional character Chinese. Its page literally says there is none on Netflix despite most their Chinese content being from Taiwan.

Migaku is flawed, but better. This tool seems like a much less polished version of Migaku or Lexirise with just a local media player and no ability to use it on YouTube, Netflix, Bilibili, etc.


I can't even login to languagereactor.


While I do not know anything about DHH's parenting, rarely have I heard of a racist shithead being a good dad, so I'll keep my reservations, thanks



Regulations __can__ create monopolies. DMA is a regulation, but it does not have the shortcomings you mentioned.


DMA seems explicitly written to only target monopolies, though (and seems like a surrender from the EU, since monopolies should be broken up and not get laws codifying their business models IMHO).


Can you imagine the collective screeching, across the White house, HN and Apple reality distortion field, that'd happen if EU attempted to breakup the American monopolies?

Electing to not do something impossible and framing it as a surrender is strange to me.


The countries that let Donald Trump's screeching dictate their policies don't fare any better than those who ignore it.


https://bsky.app/profile/watwa.re/post/3lizpdz34522g

I'm working on a similar idea, it's been a while since I published about it but open to input and collabs!


Tangled (https://tangled.org) is the next social coding platform to believe in imo because

- no more silo-ing, moat BS, by design - they are working on vouching which is becoming more important in the age of AI PRs


I find this to be vile political posting, moving responsibility for Trump's rightwing fascism to a social theorists is just misguided, banal and does not belong here. Don't you have X for that?


It fits in with the contemporary mainstream on this site, unfortunately. Whenever politics comes up on HN, it invariably brings all the cranks out to play.


So a bunch of leftists say things like "knowledges" are just things that people in power use to keep themselves in power. They make everything about power. And then they are surprised when the right decides it's about power and enables a Trump.

Both sides are appalling. But I have no sympathy for the people wringing their hands over Trump. They asked for it. Unfortunately, those of us who didn't ask for it have to deal with it.


Wait until you discover that Alex Karp is a (Neo-)Marxist…

Philosophical insights and methods can be used for politics of any color.

I do agree that its wrong to say that Habermas would be responsible(!) for any of that though. As if thinking up stuff would make you responsible for the misuse of those ideas down the road.


1. "Responsibility" was indeed too strong. Involved in the chain of causality, maybe.

2. I'm not blaming Trump's rightwing fascism on social theorists. I wondered whether a backlash against overbearing postmodernism enabled Trump's election victories. Sorry if you find that question vile and banal; I find it rather consequential and important to avoid further fascists.


Trump is the most postmodern politician, and MAGA the most postmodern of political movements


It just comes off a bit victim-blamey, I think. If it's not intended, you should certainly be aware that it can.


In all honesty that’s not even the worst part.

He signed that “never again” letter, completely buying into the exceptionalism of one group over all others… They kind of threw the baby out of the water and moved into Heidegger territory quickly. They seemed to put “who” over “what” very, very hastily. One would expect an enlightened mind to understand the difference and maybe phrase his concerns a bit more “inclusively”. But let’s be honest, it wasn’t a mistake.

Anyway, we’ll take the good parts and move on.

RIP.


thinking out loud: it'd be great if web servers could sign their responses+timestamp, so you could guarantee getting the right content even through such intermediaries


This already exists in a limited form as Signed HTTP Exchanges. It's intended primarily for caching and serving content from CDNs, but associating with the origin host.

https://www.ietf.org/archive/id/draft-yasskin-http-origin-si...


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