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by colinsane 3y ago
maybe it's a matter of degree then. enough publishers still support RSS that i can still use it exclusively and not miss much. maybe my reader is doing more magic to find the feeds than it used to? there's the weird email newslett
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by colinsane 3y ago
gPodder's still alive and kicking. 'course, it's the type of old-school open source app for which the features which appeal to its existing userbase, like "uses your system's default media player instead of a builti
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by colinsane 3y ago
> As you point out, ftp and gopher were, at one point in time, also used to transfer websites, so the inclusion was supportive of the web directive. for blogging, RSS is a mechanism to transfer webpages. so shouldn't this apply?
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by colinsane 3y ago
i think your point is that RSS used to be a norm on the consumption side, and is no longer; and GP's point is that it still is a norm on the publishing side, such that for the users who care -- like yourself -- the practical differenc
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by colinsane 3y ago
critically, even Substack still exposes their RSS feeds publicly. view it as a two-sided marketplace: Substack would need to control both a majority of feed sources and a majority of feed consumption (i.e. the install base of feed reade
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by colinsane 3y ago
every youtube channel has a RSS feed though. see it with: `curl --silent ' https://www.youtube.com/@Channel5YouTube ' | grep -o 'href=" https://www.youtube.com/feeds/[^" ]*"&#
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by colinsane 3y ago
my feeds seem to all be: `<title>.libsyn.com/...`, `anchor.fm/.../rss`, `feeds.feedburner.com/<title>`, `feeds.megaphone.fm/<title>`, `feeds.simplecast.com/<title>`, `omny.fm/show&#
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by colinsane 3y ago
i think it's a historical argument. i.e. from when the "pod" in podcast meant "iPod".
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by colinsane 3y ago
i'm incredibly suspicious of anyone who compares a language with a repl to one without. as for your 3rd point about packages, just try this: `grep -l '#!.*python' /usr/bin/*` and then run that same command pipe
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by colinsane 3y ago
how many people do you know who use 100% stock sway? certainly some people _do_. if you just want the DE to be a minimal part of how you interact with the device. then there are those who install aftermarket app launchers, swap in a differe
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by colinsane 3y ago
anyone know how close the kernel/drivers are to mainline? loads of Linux epub/cbz/RSS/etc reader apps are already friendly to small screens, would be lovely if i could just throw a minimal OS on there and rsync my media
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by colinsane 3y ago
> Now you shouldn’t expect from me the level of academic rigor associated with scholars at e.g. Harvard; on the Internet, we cite our sources. since you're comfortable making a jab like that, would you mind linking me to specific pa
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by colinsane 3y ago
it can vary pretty tremendously within the same city. i lived 3 miles from the "downtown" part of Seattle in a house, and 50% of my Amazon deliveries were late by 1-3 days. my friends lived 2 miles further out from the downtown in
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by colinsane 3y ago
sure, i can `git send-email` to the particular developers i've collaborated with before, but by default my send-email goes to just the list-serve at `~user/project@lists.sr.ht`. pulling out `nc lists.sr.ht 25` seems to show that i
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by colinsane 3y ago
> Things are getting better yet sentiment is falling. Does that mean things aren’t getting better or does it mean expectations are rising? i'm not sure the two can actually be decoupled. why do people work? as a means to fulfill the
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by colinsane 3y ago
not to dismiss the issue, but if you can procure a certificate (e.g. host nginx+acme on `local.nwalsh.com` to obtain a wildcard for `*.local.nwalsh.com`), then just put `127.0.0.1 mastodon.local.nwalsh.com` in your hosts file and you should
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by colinsane 3y ago
using a 256GB SD card on a phone that only advertises 32GB capacity right now... works fine. but phones that advertise low capacity limits are probably also not wiring the SD interface for high bandwidth. it's not unusual to see intern
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by colinsane 3y ago
my memory was just of running Pidgin and being able to reach everyone through it (google, FB, weirdo self-hosters). guess it must have had good multi-accounting support and i was relying on that. i assumed it was using the same code paths
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by colinsane 3y ago
> But I'm both cases XMPP is still around, if you care for it. great: then DM me at xmpp:colin@uninsane.org and lets talk more. if this were 2008, your browser would render that as a link and clicking it would put us in direct conta
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by colinsane 3y ago
> Google has, perhaps, the worst track record for chat clients and for killing their products in general. It’s a real shame how Jabber/XMPP users were effectively “ghosted” by the far more numerous Google Talk userbase, but does thi
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by colinsane 3y ago
sure, i can identify the moment in this chain when copyright law may have been violated. it's the contract part i'm caught up with though: law is a thing which exists whether i agree to it or not, but contracts are agreements op
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by colinsane 3y ago
> I use only one messaging app for all of my friends! i admire the resolve. on the other hand i think that rules out iMessage playing much role in that long-term, right? like, they're just never going to play nicely with others, it&
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by colinsane 3y ago
> Besides, it costs nothing to live as a hermit in the woods if i formally opt out of this "contract" (i.e. renounce my citizenship), then there are no woods i can recede to without being considered an illegal alien.
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by colinsane 3y ago
great, now read his counterpart, Rousseau. these are both just stories, and in as much as their conclusions rely upon their assumptions about the "state of nature" they're both flawed: with every decade anthropologists uneart
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by colinsane 3y ago
then i very clearly participate in this contract only on conditions of duress. i lack the means to "leave society" and exit this supposed contract without risking starvation or death from the elements: literal threats to my life.
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by colinsane 3y ago
my friend had some old Cowboy Bebop DVDs he got from a garage sale way back. i bought them off him, and then visited a 2nd friend's place to rip them using her DVD reader, and having done so showed the series to a 3rd friend group next
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by colinsane 3y ago
> social contract 1. a contract is just an abstraction over a commitment to give it more salability. if every contract violation is a sin then so is me committing to meet you for dinner tonight but canceling because i'm feeling unde
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by colinsane 3y ago
Cory links as the source of this quote to a bluesky page. does anyone know how to view these things without a login? doesn't seem to be supported by bypass-paywalls or by archive.org yet. https://bsky.app/profile/t
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by colinsane 3y ago
> The social graph lock in problem is well documented and well understood. i don't actually think it is. i don't know _anyone_ who uses just a single messaging app (and thereby a single protocol-level social graph). i have some
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by colinsane 3y ago
then to OP’s “where’s the hacker spirit” question: the answer would be “the hacker spirit is to replace iMessage with anything less controlled”, right? that’s still equally as subversive against The Powers in the sense that “hacker spirit”

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