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Re: Apple News No Longer Supports RSS

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Post by erikpukinskis »

ThePowerOfFuet wrote: post #250
erikpukinskis wrote: post #34

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Apple's hijacking of links, addresses, etc, is possibly their top abuse of power. The other possible top abuse is the way they block you in your group messages if you switch from iPhone to Android.

>The other possible top abuse is the way they block you in your group messages if you switch from iPhone to Android. The solution is to deregister your phone number for iMessage; if you don't do this, it will happen automatically after a week or so. https://selfsolve.apple.com/deregister-imessage/

This just drops you from your group messages.

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Post by Mikhail_Edoshin »

vbezhenar wrote: post #127
whiskeykilo wrote: post #126

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As someone who grew up on Windows when I initially started working on a Mac daily this drove me absolutely nuts. It could be worded much better. The way Finder sets the default view is equally unintuitive

Being able to associate a particular file with application instead of all files of the given type might be handy feature.

In old days Mac OS files had two properties: file type and creator type. File type could be like "TEXT" and creator type was a unique code for the application that created it (they were registered at Apple, I believe). All this was purely internal, users never saw such things: Mac file names normally didn't have an "extension", it was just "1995 Report" or something.

As a result it behaved like that:

- When you opened a file, it opened in the program that created it.

- When there were no such program, you could still open it in another program that claimed to understand these files. I don't remember how it was implemented, I think there was a dialog asking if one would like to use another program with some choice (probably the first one that fit).

This was rather handy with formats like "Encapsulated Postscript" in desktop publishing: this format supported both vector and raster images, but one normally used different applications to manipulate them.

This stayed for some time after the move to Mac OS X, but now I believe these things are gone or not used at all.

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Post by jonplackett »

mundiff wrote: post #246
jonplackett wrote: post #228

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This is so annoying. I hate being bounced around like this. There used to be an issue with amazon with this where you’d try to buy an ebook and be bounced into the app, but you can’t buy ebooks in the app because amazon don’t want to pay Apple 30% of the cost. I just had to delete the amazon app to buy the book. Luckily their website works just as well.

this was literally an example that was given of poor user experience during a UX class I took.

Haha! That’s funny.

What were the other examples?

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Post by anthk »

ljm wrote: post #257
anthk wrote: post #224

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Get plan9port for OSX, forget XCode, Vi, Emacs. Set it up accordingly, you won't go back. Acme under OSX shines.

Speaking to my heart. I had Acme set up but it needs a good mouse to make it work. I use a trackball mouse, it doesn't have the three finger chords. Fucking love the concept, but it'd take a lot of work to get the immersiveness of modern systems. e.g. completion/suggestions, linting, etc. none of it is built for plan9. Ironic because plan9 is amazingly trackball friendly.

acme2k has keybindings too, you can use these instead of chords

https://github.com/karahobny/acme2k

Re: Apple News No Longer Supports RSS

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Post by anthk »

ljm wrote: post #257
anthk wrote: post #224

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Get plan9port for OSX, forget XCode, Vi, Emacs. Set it up accordingly, you won't go back. Acme under OSX shines.

Speaking to my heart. I had Acme set up but it needs a good mouse to make it work. I use a trackball mouse, it doesn't have the three finger chords. Fucking love the concept, but it'd take a lot of work to get the immersiveness of modern systems. e.g. completion/suggestions, linting, etc. none of it is built for plan9. Ironic because plan9 is amazingly trackball friendly.

Also, if you code in Go:

https://github.com/jmigpin/editor

It diverges somehow from Acme, but it has autocomplete and a similar interface. I love it :)

Re: Apple News No Longer Supports RSS

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Post by newscracker »

iscrewyou wrote: post #3
newscracker wrote: post #2

Apple News was already flakey and unreliable in the sources (websites) it would allow to be added. With its highly limited geographical availability (years after launching) and its problematic focus on News+, I switched back to a plain RSS Reader to follow specific sites. Apple News seems like a niche product with hardly any technical effort put into it. In comparison, Google News, with its ads, generally looks like…

Which RSS reader do you use?

I use Reeder 3 on iOS and NetNewsWire on Mac. NetNewsWire is a free and open source RSS reader. An iOS version (also free) is coming in the first quarter of 2020.

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Post by newscracker »

heavyset_go wrote: post #117
fredthomsen wrote: post #26

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Feels like there has been a bit of a resurgence lately, not that I have any hard data to back that up. The major players ie google and now apple have dumped it, but most blogs and news sites still have rss feeds.

When I follow a site via RSS, I go out of my way to reach out to the owner and let them know I am enjoying their content via RSS. If I site I want to follow doesn't have RSS, I reach out and let the owner know I can't follow their site via RSS. A few people implemented RSS on their blogs because of it :)

Thank you. That makes a lot of sense!

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Post by official151 »

jauke wrote: post #168
stevenicr wrote: post #138

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I am interested in getting these three as rss feeds, not that I use them very much, much getting them into a reader would help others very much. a quick search shows some things saying public pages can be made RSS, but nothing like a bot that can suck in what your wall or whatever would be and push it into a feed that can be read otherwise. Here's to hoping the twitter open api thing and the few stories about portabl…

I use RSS Bridge. You can host it yourself, which is probably better, or use a public instance. https://github.com/RSS-Bridge/rss-bridge/blob/master/README....

Check Details Here http://bit.ly/367ssqC this sounds like a privacy issue and should be filed as a bug. if I can't open a link in a private tab in Safari (or ideally the browser of my choice) then I can not protect my privacy. The launched app will get to record my activity or via the non private browser tab the site will track me. file a bug / feedback that this is not in line with Apple's privacy first stance Check details Here http://bit.ly/367ssqC

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Post by pjc50 »

derefr wrote: post #104
ReverseCold wrote: post #86

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> There is literally nothing which makes iMessage unique in this regard. Sure there is. If you try to "text" someone (as in SMS) and the Messages app (which is the ONLY way you can send SMS on iOS) detects your number as registered to iMessage, it will send an iMessage by default. So even though your number didn't change, and everyone is still using the "Messages" app to talk to you, it inexplicably doesn't work anym…

> which is the ONLY way you can send SMS on iOS There are plenty of SMS-API-provider-backed "texting apps" on iOS. There are also softphone apps that provide SMS service. I think you specifically mean "the only way you can send SMS messages from the DID number that your carrier maps to your phone's MMC IMEI registration .

You're proving the point that you have to use ludicrously non-obvious ways to make normal phone functionality work in the way you'd expect.
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