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by Ourgon 5y ago
FYI, I just fixed a small problem - two missing const statements - which kept the last release from actually producing RSS feeds - and there I thought I had tested it enough. If you tried it, try again.
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by Ourgon 5y ago
The replacement "CEO" should be someone like Linus Torvalds, someone who is not in it for the money but for the satisfaction of crushing his opponents where it matters: mind share among developers followed by market share. Someone
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by Ourgon 5y ago
Information wants to be free but sometimes it needs some help in finding freedom.
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by Ourgon 5y ago
Odd, just closing the tab is enough to get rid of the "menace". I tried this in Firefox on Linux (my "daily" browser), Chromium on Linux, Firefox on Android and Chromium on Android. Those browsers were around in 2019, th
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by Ourgon 5y ago
No just that, if they were to launch their own label they'd be shunned by all the others. You do not get HBO content on the Disney channel after all.
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by Ourgon 5y ago
For the same reason that I sometimes run Windows applications using Wine on Linux even though I dislike Microsoft's PC hegemony: because the podcaster is supposed to have something interesting to say, because the application is needed
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by Ourgon 5y ago
That's what this thing enables you to do: not listen to any podcasts on Spotify. You can listen to them on your Gameboy Advanced for all I care, as long as it supports RSS it should work. If you mean to totally eschew any podcast hos
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by Ourgon 5y ago
Indeed. Start here: https://github.com/Yetangitu/Spodcast/releases/tag/v0.3.1
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by Ourgon 5y ago
This project uses librespot-python to access Spotify, it takes care of whatever is needed to access content. Can you give me a link to one of those DRM-encumbered "podcasts" to test? Thus far I have not come across anything like
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by Ourgon 5y ago
I stopped listening entirely when he moved to Spotify because a) I don't use Spotify and/because b) their app nor web will run on the "old clunkers" I use for these purposes which tend to be off-line when I'm out in
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by Ourgon 5y ago
Adding video support is rather easy, it is just something I never felt the need to do given my preference for audio - which I can listen to while working on the farm etc. - over video. I can have a look at adding it if there is enough deman
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by Ourgon 5y ago
It was the demise of Spotifeed which gave me the impetus needed to build this thing, all that was needed was some free time. When than came, this was born. Spodcast's fate depends on whether librespot-python continues to track whatev
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by Ourgon 5y ago
I'll give it a try one of these days.
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by Ourgon 5y ago
Given all the brouhaha around Spotify hosting "controversial" podcasts I cobbled up a tool to actually listen to those things using my favourite podcast listening devices: old phones. They support RSS but have long since fallen of
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by Ourgon 5y ago
Good, that is what I made it for - to be used.
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Show HN: Spodcast, a Spotify podcast to RSS proxy(github.com)
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by Ourgon 5y ago
I'm questioning the definition of a "working" lockdown. I consider the trade-offs to be part of the definition of "working" in such a way that, as far as I'm concerned, lockdown does not work for this disease.
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by Ourgon 5y ago
How do you define "worked", and how long a period do you use to make that conclusion? Compared to e.g. Sweden the number of deaths from SARS2 per capita is lower in those countries you mention but the damage from locking down is h
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by Ourgon 5y ago
Those "indigenous societies" - or, to use Rousseau's term, "noble savages" - simply lacked the technology to enslave more than their direct neighbours or they would have put the Spaniards (et al) to shame. Have a lo
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by Ourgon 5y ago
> she still calls my parents “Mr. __ and Mrs. __” because there’s literally no English equivalent to the polite title you’d use in Bangla to address your in laws. Use a transliterated version of the Bangla term, it's what my childre
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by Ourgon 5y ago
> “celebrating their racial identity” by acting indistinguishably from white Americans. Ok kids. Now you make the same mistake as all those other race baiters by referring to "white Americans" as a group which acts in a specif
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by Ourgon 5y ago
Car trains (or "Motorails") do. Park your car on the train at the head station, drive it off the train at the destination after having spent the night in a sleeper cabin and drive on to where you want to go. Since trains are elect
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by Ourgon 5y ago
We can't. The moment we sit down and start singing Kumbayah some neighbour will take his chances to sweep us up. If ever we were to manage to tame the entire human race into singing Kumbayah we'd be taken over by a fleet of flying
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by Ourgon 5y ago
Indeed it is, something to keep in mind when confronted with accusations of "colonialism" towards specific nations, peoples or cultures. Conquest and colonisation are part of all our histories, no matter our background.
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by Ourgon 5y ago
Why stop there? Don't forget that the Aztec empire was just that, an empire. They conquered land, sacrificed their enemies to their gods and were an altogether unpleasant bunch which explains why the Spanish conquistadores got help fro
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by Ourgon 5y ago
There's nothing odd about that, seeing as how law enforcement and national defence are some the few tasks relegated to the state in a libertarian society. Now if you were talking about anarchists sporting such stickers you'd be ri
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by Ourgon 5y ago
Furthermore, solutions for the waste problem already exist in the form of fast breeder reactors [1] which can be used to create new fuel for (conventional) reactors. Using these the total amount of waste needing storage is reduced by a fact
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by Ourgon 5y ago
Culturally the UK is definitely a European nation. I'm talking about the country as a whole, not about the (London) City which - like other financial centres - is part of the global financial nation no matter where it happens to be loc
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by Ourgon 5y ago
Pindakaas (Dutch for "peanut cheese", which you would call peanut butter) on the other hand is available everywhere, at least in the Netherlands. Then again, peanuts are available everywhere, just put them in a blender or use a
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by Ourgon 5y ago
How do you define "actual information about SARS2"? Who makes the definition? This issue has been politicised and polarised so much that "actual information" is hard to come by. Compare the laissez-faire approach of e.g.

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