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Re: Blueskyfeedbot: Post RSS Feeds to Bluesky via GitHub Actions

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Post by toomuchtodo » Thu, Jan 30, 2025, 2:42 AM UTC

Eric_WVGG wrote: post #4

RSS and AT Proto have been on my mind all week. Even though RSS is my main source of news, it’s impossible to get around the fact that the (incredibly, unfathomably stupid) shutdown of Google Reader kneecapped it. AT Protocol is more than “let’s make Twitter more open” — it’s an open protocol for anything that’s real-time and shareable. I was never a big Google Reader guy, I liked traditional clients like NetNewsWire…

Bluesky has launched RSS feeds - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39007756 - Jan 2024

https://openrss.org/blog/bluesky-has-launched-rss-feeds

How would you extend this ("a distinct AT Proto lexicon seems like the actual way forward IMHO") beyond the RSS feed you can get from a Bluesky profile?

Re: Blueskyfeedbot: Post RSS Feeds to Bluesky via GitHub Actions

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Post by skybrian » Thu, Jan 30, 2025, 3:01 AM UTC

Eric_WVGG wrote: post #4

RSS and AT Proto have been on my mind all week. Even though RSS is my main source of news, it’s impossible to get around the fact that the (incredibly, unfathomably stupid) shutdown of Google Reader kneecapped it. AT Protocol is more than “let’s make Twitter more open” — it’s an open protocol for anything that’s real-time and shareable. I was never a big Google Reader guy, I liked traditional clients like NetNewsWire…

I don’t know what you mean by “kneecapped.” I’ve using Newsblur for at least a decade and it works fine.

Re: Blueskyfeedbot: Post RSS Feeds to Bluesky via GitHub Actions

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Post by nozzlegear » Thu, Jan 30, 2025, 3:15 AM UTC

ASalazarMX wrote: post #8

rpmisms wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Cron expressions aren't bad. Now regex.... nope.

I can't even remember tar or find options reliably.

The only tar command I can remember reliably is this one:

    tar -tf ./archive.tar

It lists all of the files in the archive. I only remember it because of the mnemonic "tar the fuck is in this archive."

Re: Blueskyfeedbot: Post RSS Feeds to Bluesky via GitHub Actions

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Post by threeseed » Thu, Jan 30, 2025, 3:39 AM UTC

bri58ADD wrote: post #9

Is it weird that I feel weird about using github as basically a free lambda service?

Well Microsoft is using Github to put developers out of a job.

So I wouldn't feel all that much sympathy for them.

Re: Blueskyfeedbot: Post RSS Feeds to Bluesky via GitHub Actions

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Post by methou » Thu, Jan 30, 2025, 3:51 AM UTC

I might have misunderstood. If this a part of static site generation it might make some sense. But just syncing some random rss feed to bsky with GH actions seems like a bit excessive and wasteful. A simple daemon can do.

Re: Blueskyfeedbot: Post RSS Feeds to Bluesky via GitHub Actions

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Post by eslammhmad18 » Thu, Jan 30, 2025, 3:53 AM UTC

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Re: Blueskyfeedbot: Post RSS Feeds to Bluesky via GitHub Actions

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Post by mullingitover » Thu, Jan 30, 2025, 3:56 AM UTC

We've really come full circle. Back when Facebook was a user-friendly place, you could connect any RSS feed to your Facebook feed. My FB was just a collection of things I posted to del.icio.us, flickr, etc etc. It really was a sign of the crapification of that place that was to come when they ripped out this feature.

Re: Blueskyfeedbot: Post RSS Feeds to Bluesky via GitHub Actions

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Post by rpmisms » Thu, Jan 30, 2025, 4:39 AM UTC

anonymousiam wrote: post #16

fartfeatures wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Not everyone knows how to use Cron, the comment is a good tip for those that don't. The target audience for a solution like this might be less technical than the average Github user.

I'll assume that your comment was not intended to reflect on the average Bluesky user, but there might also be something there too.

We can be a little sassy, as long as we acknowledge that the average X user is no better.

Re: Blueskyfeedbot: Post RSS Feeds to Bluesky via GitHub Actions

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Post by Eric_WVGG » Thu, Jan 30, 2025, 4:44 AM UTC

skybrian wrote: post #22

Eric_WVGG wrote: post #4

RSS and AT Proto have been on my mind all week. Even though RSS is my main source of news, it’s impossible to get around the fact that the (incredibly, unfathomably stupid) shutdown of Google Reader kneecapped it. AT Protocol is more than “let’s make Twitter more open” — it’s an open protocol for anything that’s real-time and shareable. I was never a big Google Reader guy, I liked traditional clients like NetNewsWire…

I don’t know what you mean by “kneecapped.” I’ve using Newsblur for at least a decade and it works fine.

I mean that it kneecapped the idea of RSS in the social consciousness. Most people believe that when Google Reader shut down RSS stopped existing, if they even knew what RSS was in the first place.

A friend of mine — in tech — asked me the other day where I was hearing a bunch of stuff and I said “my RSS feeds” and he laughed at me. That”s what I mean.

Re: Blueskyfeedbot: Post RSS Feeds to Bluesky via GitHub Actions

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Post by mhitza » Thu, Jan 30, 2025, 5:09 AM UTC

nozzlegear wrote: post #23

ASalazarMX wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I can't even remember tar or find options reliably.

The only tar command I can remember reliably is this one: tar -tf ./archive.tar It lists all of the files in the archive. I only remember it because of the mnemonic "tar the fuck is in this archive."

    journalctl -fu some-service

Also feels appropriate, because most of the time when I have to type in that command I'm thinking FU service file for not showing me by default why a service failed to start/restart.