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by bluebarbet 2y ago
The word "perhaps" was an attempt to de-escalate a verbal confrontation that is unproductive because neither assertion is falsifiable.
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by bluebarbet 2y ago
Yes yes I understand. My point is that I personally find it easy to read text in a desktop web browser, and this is the unique way of consuming rights-encumbered content without needing to install black-box spyware.
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by bluebarbet 2y ago
The desktop web-app reader is interesting in that it's a DRM-free legal way to access otherwise DRM-encumbered e-books. Last I checked the EME DRM browser sandbox was still not required. Personally I'm fine with this compromise so
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by bluebarbet 2y ago
Politics in general. Because everyone has an opinion, often based on their values rather than cold facts, and people do not like their values being questioned. The discussion is more civil than on other forums, but the difference is not n
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by bluebarbet 2y ago
This is gratuitously snarky and adds little to the discussion.
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by bluebarbet 2y ago
But a laborious multi-step process that few ordinary people are ready to attempt.
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by bluebarbet 2y ago
This take seems to me to be a classic case of the US tendency to irrational suspicion as first described in the Hofstadter essay The Paranoid Style in American Politics. I'm not American but I do subscribe to The Atlantic, which seems
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by bluebarbet 2y ago
Agree. There's a provocative word you don't mention: hypocrisy. This has become my reflexive internal response when I hear complaining about small-beer animal cruelty. Why are we so quick to empathize with this sunfish, and so slo
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by bluebarbet 2y ago
Sure, but that's not the correct usage with proper noun acronyms , i.e. ones referring to official names. The official name is the Communist Party of China.
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by bluebarbet 2y ago
Is this mysterious feed reader one that you made yourself? I agree about the need to have some means of filtering. This is a major weakness of RSS, alongside onboarding and discovery. Algorithms serve the purpose of filtering well. The prob
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by bluebarbet 2y ago
Realism shared. I work with journalists, exactly the type of normies who would most benefit from this technology. Years of evangelism has had no effect whatsoever. Nobody they know is using it, they don't see the logo anywhere, or a bi
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by bluebarbet 2y ago
>Reality way have a well known liberal bias This was unnecessary and undermines your otherwise valid point.
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by bluebarbet 2y ago
Thank you for using the correct acronym (CPC, Communist Party of China) rather than the incorrect acronym-of-the-colloquial-variant CCP, which seems to be achieving ascendancy in the discourse. Acronyms are like variable names, we would do
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by bluebarbet 2y ago
Yep I know the history, I was building sites at the time. And my own unfashionable take is that "pragmatic" HTML5 was a cop-out, it was still early days for the web and XHTML would have been worth the initial breakages. Interestin
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by bluebarbet 2y ago
OK I won't dispute that. The problem is that they would function nicely as a pragmatic solution to the underlying problem. Maintaining a few HTML attributes on an existing webpage is significantly easier than maintaining an RSS XML end
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by bluebarbet 2y ago
This was part of the technical justification for RSS: concentrate all the redundant page hits in once place. But another reason was that parsing an article list from messy tables-based HTML was harder than it is today with HTML5. There&#x27
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by bluebarbet 2y ago
Also: https://kill-the-newsletter.com for use case 3. Free service with no signup that works reliably.
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by bluebarbet 2y ago
The scraping issue is resolved by just putting the `h-feed` attributes on the relevant HTML elements. Far easier to implement and maintain than RSS. Maintaining a parallel XML endpoint is itself very error-prone, I know this from unpleasant
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by bluebarbet 2y ago
While I use RSS, I think we need to recognize that it's slowly going away. Even a single publisher that's missing a feed will be a deal-breaker for any new adopters. And RSS is an over-complex solution anyway, designed for a time
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by bluebarbet 3y ago
Imagine the mountain of electronic waste if everyone needs a separate gadget for every task. A screen is a screen. In theory, a single general-purpose computer with a screen is the simplest solution of all. The real problem, as I see it, is