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Text only news websites (2022)

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Re: Text only news websites (2022)

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Post by billyhoffman »

reaperducer wrote: post #120
sgtnasty wrote: post #76

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This is fantastic, now I can view news in Gemini all day. Thank you, we need more gemini sites or tools to convert HTML to it.

What are you using for a Gemini client? Lynx handles Gopher URLs, so I presumed it would be OK with Gemini, but no luck. Any suggestions?

For the terminal, I use amfora: https://github.com/makew0rld/amfora

For a GUI, I use Lagrange: https://github.com/skyjake/lagrange

Lagrange is sort of the Netscape of Gemini. It works on all the major desktop and mobile OSes. Personally prefer Elaho (iOS) or Buran (Android) for mobile

Re: Text only news websites (2022)

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Post by muyuu »

billyhoffman wrote: post #62

I too was using text-only versions of sites like CNN, Reuters, or Christian Science Monitor[1], and they were fine. But what I really wanted was to turn any news website into a text-only website. So I build NewsWaffle, which for any website: https://github.com/acidus99/NewsWaffle * Automatically builds a list of news stores, separate from the navigational hyperlinks. * Detects RSS/Atom feeds to provide a more accurat…

I didn't know I needed this so much.

Re: Text only news websites (2022)

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Post by anthk »

Lynx web/gopher browser and if you tweak it a little, you can open the linked images with sxiv for instance:

   - gopher://magical.fish

   - gopher://gopherddit.com

   - gopher://mozz.us

   - gopher://gophernews.net

Re: Text only news websites (2022)

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Post by JasonFruit »

billyhoffman wrote: post #62

I too was using text-only versions of sites like CNN, Reuters, or Christian Science Monitor[1], and they were fine. But what I really wanted was to turn any news website into a text-only website. So I build NewsWaffle, which for any website: https://github.com/acidus99/NewsWaffle * Automatically builds a list of news stores, separate from the navigational hyperlinks. * Detects RSS/Atom feeds to provide a more accurat…

Absolutely great! It makes https://antiwar.com work better than the actual website.

Re: Text only news websites (2022)

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Post by gibspaulding »

yosito wrote: post #45

I'm surprised this didn't mention Wikipedia's Current Events Portal https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal:Current_events I also use teddit.net which is essentially a plaintext reddit https://teddit.net/r/worldnews

This has become my main source of news for the past couple of years. I highly recommend it.

There's a GitHub repository floating around somewhere with code for an rss feed of it which works great for getting it on mobile.

Re: Text only news websites (2022)

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Post by th15row »

tasuki wrote: post #117
SpaghettiX wrote: post #16

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Genuine question: I wonder why you didn't think to disclose your relationship with the product? I notice this a lot, and it ruins my perspective of the product. Haven't you seen people start their comments with "full disclosure, I made this" type sentences.

Was it a relevant suggestion for you? If yes, then what benefit does the disclosure provide? If not, then downvote and say so? In this particular case, I think halotrope just didn't think the dislosure was necessary. They have a link to the website in their profile and aren't trying to hide the affiliation. Full disclosure: I'm not related to halotrope in any way nor to the website in question.

Not the OP but yes, I think it's tacky. If you're shamelessly plug your own product you should say so.

Re: Text only news websites (2022)

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Post by hmahonen »

Findecanor wrote: post #44

I get most of my daily news from ... Teletext [1]. I'm lucky to be in a country that still has it. I much prefer that format over news sites on the web: Headlines are often laid out in a list one entry below the other, which is easy to read through without having to scroll. Because pages are limited to 40 columns × 24 rows, every article is short and to the point. I don't usually read it on TV though but on a web-sit…

Finnish one: https://yle.fi/aihe/tekstitv

Re: Text only news websites (2022)

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Post by anthk »

yosito wrote: post #45

I'm surprised this didn't mention Wikipedia's Current Events Portal https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal:Current_events I also use teddit.net which is essentially a plaintext reddit https://teddit.net/r/worldnews

In my case, gopher://gopherddit.com under Lynx. As for the config -file:

     cp /etc/lynx.cfg $HOME/.lynx.cfg 
    export LYNX_CFG=$HOME/.lynx.cfg
At lynx.cfg:

VIEWER:application/postscript:fbgs %s VIEWER:image/gif:sxiv -a %s VIEWER:image/x-xbm:sxiv -a %s VIEWER:image/png:sxiv -a %s VIEWER:image/tiff:sxiv -a %s VIEWER:image/jpeg:sxiv -a %s VIEWER:video/mpeg:mpv %s VIEWER:video/mp4:mpv %s

Install sxiv and mpv, of course.

Re: Text only news websites (2022)

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Post by halotrope »

Etheryte wrote: post #49
halotrope wrote: post #28

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Thank you! Yes we are hoping to launch the Rest API and RSS within March

That sounds very nice, I've been looking for a good service like this. Is there a way to subscribe for updates so I know when new features are released?

@markets_sh on Twitter. We are planning to add a newsletter but all suffer from email marketing fatigue a bit.

Re: Text only news websites (2022)

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Post by halotrope »

francoma wrote: post #64
halotrope wrote: post #41

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Hi, thank you for the feedback. I should have added that we launched it yesterday so it there is still some quirks. Yes, we use language models to do the summaries, they are not perfect yet and the feed ordering also needs to be improved. Since you get the actual news headlines and teaser on the detail, we assume some inaccuracies are ok for now. The primary focus right now is clustering and a high-level overview ove…

Hi, cool project! Which language models are you using for the summaries?

Quite a few actually. We will do a writeup once everyting is stable and post it on HN
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