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Use RSS for privacy and efficiency (2021)

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Re: Use RSS for privacy and efficiency (2021)

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Post by robalni »

googlryas wrote: post #98
djbusby wrote: post #96

Earlier quoted context omitted.

All in bash!, well done, neat usage of `nc` in there too.

Not only bash but some of the more readable shell script I've seen. OP, if you're reading this, is that an idiomatic style or did you learn the style from some well known source?

I don't know what you refer to when you talk about the style but it's just how I write code; I try to keep it simple. Some of the simplicity of the code is possible because it's bash, which both means that I can skip parsing the input (since bash already is made for doing that) and use existing programs like curl and nc.

Re: Use RSS for privacy and efficiency (2021)

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Post by gbil »

Just earlier this week I went back to rss with my selfhosted aggregator based on FreshRSS docker. What made me go back to rss was partially fueled by the twitter situation since I primarily use twitter for updates from news and tech sites. Moreover, I realized that on twitter I get the "list" of news but then I also spend a lot of time browsing the various sites even if there are no new articles and rss would be ideal to get at the same time a list of new articles, go back to read/old ones and expand only what I wanted in the same interface - with some compromises.

FreshRSS looked to be a more up to date solution compared to ttrss that I self hosted in the past with a BIG plus of going beyond what is available in the rss stream, retrieve full articles AND even just parse normal web pages to retrieve articles when rss is not available. For sure I've spent 2-3 hours to setup all these things, but now I have a curated list of rss feeds + parsed normal sites in a page, rarely needing to go outside of that view directly on the relevant sites and accessible from everywhere with proper user/pass support behind a reverse proxy. AND I spend less time just browsing without reason ;)

Re: Use RSS for privacy and efficiency (2021)

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Post by SahAssar »

quintussss wrote: post #37
diordiderot wrote: post #32

I'm kind of a JSON maximalist because I find it really simple and haven't put too much thought into it. I'd also like to shout out https://www.jsonfeed.org/ https://jsonresume.org/ https://tomcritchlow.com/2020/04/15/library-json/ https://geojson.org/ It'd be pretty cool to have an ecosystem where you could ``` $ packagemanger init my-site password $ hostOfChoice deploy ``` Go to the url, auth yourself, then have a l…

I don't get why anybody would want a json feed. RSS/Atom are already simple to the point of being trivial, so why introduce more standards?

XML is a far more complex format to parse.

Re: Use RSS for privacy and efficiency (2021)

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Post by RadiozRadioz »

superkuh wrote: post #100

HN is a great place to gather RSS feeds. Any time there's an interesting site I always look for them. These days I usually see articles that appear on the HN front page a day or so before they hit HN. But HN isn't the only place I practice this. Back in the 2010s it was obvious reddit was going under so I did the same there till 2015. I have 1000+ RSS feeds now and very little need for news aggregators on the day to…

I do this too, but only started a few days ago. That's a lot of feeds you've collected, would you be open to sharing a list of them?

Re: Use RSS for privacy and efficiency (2021)

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Post by noveltyaccount »

superkuh wrote: post #100

HN is a great place to gather RSS feeds. Any time there's an interesting site I always look for them. These days I usually see articles that appear on the HN front page a day or so before they hit HN. But HN isn't the only place I practice this. Back in the 2010s it was obvious reddit was going under so I did the same there till 2015. I have 1000+ RSS feeds now and very little need for news aggregators on the day to…

Good grief I struggle to keep up with eight feeds in my RSS reader!

Re: Use RSS for privacy and efficiency (2021)

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Post by dont__panic »

cxr wrote: post #97
dont__panic wrote: post #82

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Curious why you recommend 1). Personally, I just don't use Javascript in my blog posts. But maybe I'm missing a use-case here? I should really add my email address to my news feed though.

I don't understand your remark about "Javascript in my blog posts" or how it relates to CORS. In theory, it should be trivial to make simple, truly "serverless", web-based feed readers like AirSS[1][2]. In practice, many people are prevented from doing this, because the feeds they're interested in are hosted on servers that don't support CORS, which leads to really annoying workarounds (like needing to use a proxy or…

Makes sense. I should disable CORS on my blog, then! I normally use a dedicated feed reader, rather than a browser, but it makes sense to accommodate both use cases.

Re: Use RSS for privacy and efficiency (2021)

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Post by croutonwagon »

nazgulsenpai wrote: post #9

Feeder is a great GPL RSS reader for Android. Save you some time fumbling through the Google Play cess pool. Not affiliated just a happy user. https://f-droid.org/en/packages/com.nononsenseapps.feeder/ https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.nononsense...

Personally I use miniflux. Not app needed for iOS or otherwise. Its pretty nice. You can also host it wherever.

https://miniflux.app/

Re: Use RSS for privacy and efficiency (2021)

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Post by vanilla_nut »

cxr wrote: post #18

PSA: enable CORS[1] so people can make cross-origin requests without having to run a proxy. PSA #2: set things up so the author field of your feed includes your email address (e.g. "Alice ") and not just your bare name, so people can more easily get in touch with you without having to click through to the original post and then hunt around for your contact page; otherwise, you might never find out it's broken[2]. 1.…

For those of you wondering if your GitHub Pages site enables CORS: it does by default!
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