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  • Me on textlog

    Evgeny Morozov has pointed out that using ai through chat interfaces is based on an individualised and privatised model, which (heavily paraphrased) is inherently anti-social. With an extra layer now of people making small personalised tools, do bigger things still need teams of people who know what they’re doing? FWIW I’d like to see more sharing of vibe coded tools instead of everyone making their own more less the same ones. Mine are here: https://pauladams.neocities.org/

    https://textlog.cc/post/4172

  • On Reddit ending RSS feeds, this stuff about “large-scale scraping and automated abuse” is an excuse, right? Presumably they just want to keep all their (or their users) content for their AI licensing deals?

    https://techcrunch.com/2026/09/30/reddit-is-killing-rss-feeds-ending-public-api-access-because-of-ai-bots/

  • thanks for posting this here. it's still pretty new. i diverted for a bit to get Frontier running on new OSes, and then it's back to this network. we will pick it up with FeedLand, first creating an API for it, and then integrating its feed reading prowess and design patterned after the social networks like twitter, masto and bluesky. but as with rss.chat -- powered only by open formats and protocols in wide use.

  • Advice for Toni at Bluesky

    I happen to know Toni Schneider the new CEO of Bluesky, from his tenure at Automattic. I have some ideas for him, people that follow me will recognize them. ;-)

    hey toni, i'm sure everyone is giving you advice on how to evolve your two products, Bluesky and AT Proto. i am no exception. :-)

    i think you have to merge the two. make it so that the writing tools you've attracted, that don't fit in with the 300-char limit, and other restrictions you have inherited from twitter, are first class citizens on Bluesky.

    When I write in Pckt, i should be writing a Bluesky post. Simple limits, basically what Markdown supports (people love Markdown).

    Twitter's limits imho were a good idea at first in 2006, but they have already started getting rid of the limits, and it has made a big difference in the medium.

    in other words, i think you and your users need what leaflet, pckt et al are doing. and their posts should be first class citizens on bluesky and that means relaxing the limits.

    i see the developers struggling to try to create a namespace for their products, but nothing they come up with can compete with bluesky, nor should it -- the users only know the bluesky name, trying to start something new here gives you a third name of something technical for people to learn, and in the end it'll be what bluesky becomes, because twitter is already getting rid of the limits. and twitter is, like it or not, still the leader in this space.

    btw, this editor would fit in there nicely, but i decided in 2017 that i wasn't going to try any longer trying to fit into the hodgepodge of different regulations for each of the social media systems.

    anyway, you could be the leader in this space, not by dominating but by dropping the barriers. a bluesky that keeps the limits while twitter is removing them is a bad place to be. you have to be the scrappy innovator, again imho of course.

  • Milestone, nightly backups for real

    I was doing too much work to set up a root backup, and i want it to be super easy.

    Claud obliged, in a few minutes the whole thing including a glue script was written.

    It's starting to become a groove. The turnaround is amazing.

  • Practical Groupware for Good Governance

    Every organisation i work with keeps its decisions in documents that quietly forget why they were made. Resolve a comment and the reasoning disappears. There is tooling that does not work that way; it is thirty-five years old, it runs the software your phone is built on, and almost nobody outside that world has noticed.

  • Ma lecture du moment : Amine Messal ERREUR SUR LA MARCHANDISE Le néolibéralisme...

    Ma lecture du moment :

    Amine Messal ERREUR SUR LA MARCHANDISE

    Le néolibéralisme contemporain, récemment dégénéré dans le libertarianisme porté par Javier Milei ou Elon Musk, voue une défiance viscérale à l’idée de la moindre régulation.

    Or, l’intuition libérale classique était mue par le refus de l’autoritarisme politique et religieux, des privilèges et de l’arbitraire.

    Comment, à l’héritage intellectuel des Lumières, a pu se substituer le sacre de l’égoïsme rationnel, avec une conception de la liberté réduite au seul champ économique ?

    Ce renversement absolu a cela de puissant qu’il permet de taxer de « liberticide » toute critique du système capitaliste, en dissimulant son emprise sur nos vies et les menaces réelles qu’il fait peser sur nos libertés fondamentales – d’expression, de mœurs, de circulation, etc.

    Là où le libéralisme originel encensait la culture des contre-pouvoirs, le néolibéralisme fanatique – et plus encore le libertarianisme autoritaire qui s’éveille – rêve de monopoles sans limites et d’un exercice tyrannique du pouvoir.

    Sans nier les contradictions de l’héritage libéral, Amine Messal revient aux racines de celui-ci et révèle l’arnaque des adulateurs contemporains d’une liberté dévoyée, devenue le moyen d’imposer la loi du plus riche et du plus fort – une perspective en phase avec les idéologies les plus réactionnaires.

  • Almost happy with my RSS to indiekit / Micropub posts plugin This is how https:/...

    Almost happy with my RSS to indiekit / Micropub posts plugin This is how https://indiekit-demo.rmendes.net/ updates work

  • Cloudron getting better and better #selfhosting Me and my friend Rui have been o...

    Cloudron getting better and better #selfhosting Me and my friend Rui have been on this journey with cloudron from the early days up to now and we have no plan to change, this is getting soo good it’s turning selfhosting an easy game!

  • Going to adapt my work flow to this new reality

    Going to adapt my work flow to this new reality

  • L’IA aurait «failli déclencher une guerre» entre les États-Unis et la Chine aprè...

    L’IA aurait «failli déclencher une guerre» entre les États-Unis et la Chine après avoir écrit un faux rapport de renseignement, selon CNN

    Le risque ce n’est pas Skynet ni l’AGI, le risque c’est les humains complètement débile qui utilisent ces outils pour obtenir des effets géopolitiques, commerciaux ou politiques eux-mêmes assis sur une perception du monde en “warp drive” intoxiquée par la désinformation, l’ignorance, la cupidité et la bêtise.

  • Creating database in Atlantis?

    We’re starting to focus on scriptable apps, esp web services like GitHub, Mastodon, Slack.

    We also have SQLite baked in, and I was wondering while watching the news is we could have a verb that creates a new database, one one that sends a query one of those databases.

  • I'm deep in Frontier territory. No podcasts, can't publish them right now. At this moment I can't even update my blog! ;-)

    I built a lot in Frontier over the years, and moving that whole body of code and writing to a new app I wrote with Claude in a few months is a pretty ambitious thing to do.

    But it is working to some extent. I am typing this from the new system.

  • Data Vampires Redux: Sacrificing for AI (Episode 3)

    Paris’ new book Hyperscale: The Ambition and Excess of Data Empires is coming out in October. To celebrate, we’re revisiting the series that planted the seeds for his deep dive into hyperscale data centers, the communities they’re affecting, and the future Silicon Valley is trying to build. This is episode 3 of Data Vampires, a special four-part series from Tech Won’t Save Us.

    The show is hosted by Paris Marx. Original production on Data Vampires was by Eric Wickham. Current production is by Kyla Hewson. Support the show on Patreon.

    Also mentioned in this episode:

    • Preorder Hyperscale to support Paris at hyperscalebook.com.
    • Sustainable AI Group cofounder Sasha Luccioni, Associate Professor in Economics Cecilia Rikap, former head of the Center for Applied Data Ethics Ali Alkhatib, Goldsmiths University lecturer Dan McQuillan, and Director of Research at the Distributed AI Research Institute Alex Hanna were interviewed for this episode.
    • Interviews with Sam Altman and Brad Smith were cited.

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  • Oprah Winfrey: How to Find Your Unique Purpose, Authentic Power, and Calling In Life

    This episode is a master class on how to live an incredible life.

     

    In one of the most powerful conversations ever recorded on The Mel Robbins Podcast, Mel sits down with someone she has looked up to for more than four decades: Oprah Winfrey.

     

    Mel first started watching Oprah on local television, before The Oprah Winfrey Show was nationally syndicated. Through every chapter of her own life, Mel has returned to Oprah’s work for perspective, encouragement, and direction.
     

    This is more than an interview for Mel. It is deeply personal. Now you get to hear the questions she has wanted to ask Oprah for years.

     

    Oprah starts this episode by saying, “I want everybody to know that you have the power to fulfill the fullest expression of yourself as a human being.” 
     

    She is teaching you how to do that today. 

     

    Oprah shares what she learned, growing up feeling unloved and “red dirt road poor” in Mississippi to extraordinary success. She discusses painful mistakes, difficult family relationships, and moments when she ignored her own intuition and paid the price.
     

    What she reveals is surprisingly simple: You already have an internal GPS. Oprah will teach you how to hear it, and find the courage to follow it.
     

    In this episode, you’ll learn:

     

    -How to recognize the thread of purpose that has been running through your life all along

    -Why intention changes the way you experience your work, relationships, and choices

    -The single question Oprah asks when something in her life is not working

    -Oprah’s best advice: “You are allowed to change your mind,” and what happened when she ignored it

    -What to do when something painful or unfair happens and you have to figure out how to move forward

    -Oprah’s life-changing definition of forgiveness

    -The “10-gallon versus pint-size” lesson that helped her heal her relationship with her mother

    -The single spiritual practice Oprah comes back to again and again
     

    If Oprah Winfrey could sit beside you and help you think through the biggest questions in your life, this is the conversation she would want you to hear.

     

    This conversation will help you come back to your center and look at your own life differently.

     

    Start paying attention to the life that has been speaking to you all along.
     

    There is something in this episode for wherever you are in your life right now.
     

    This is a must-listen episode.

     

    For more resources related to today’s episode, click here for the podcast episode page.

     

    Mel is going to Oprah Winfrey’s AHA at Sphere Las Vegas! And she’s thrilled to share that Oprah has given listeners of this show early access to tickets for the event with code MELAHA.

     

    This presale is from Wednesday, September 23 at 10 AM PT to Thursday, September 24 at 10 PM PT
     

    Use presale code MELAHA to purchase tickets HERE. 

     

    If you liked the episode, check out this one next: How to Master Your Emotions & Never Get Angry or Bothered by Anyone
     

    Connect with Mel:  

     


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  • Secrets de famille : qui suis-je vraiment ? - teaser

    Hébergé par Acast. Visitez acast.com/privacy pour plus d'informations.

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  • Survivre à l'inceste en tant qu’homme

    Si la parole se libère progressivement autour de l’inceste, celle des hommes victimes reste encore largement silencieuse. 50 % d’entre eux déclarent n’en avoir jamais parlé à personne, contre 43 % des femmes victimes.

    Comment parler d’un traumatisme d’enfance quand on a grandi avec l’idée qu’un homme doit être fort, solide, maître de lui-même ? Pour le rappeur D’ de Kabal et le réalisateur Julien Gaspar-Oliveri, il aura fallu des années pour trouver les mots. 

    Quelles traces l’inceste laisse-t-il dans la construction des hommes, leur rapport au désir et à l’affection ? Comment les injonctions à la virilité peuvent-elles empêcher de reconnaître et de dire les traumatismes ? Et comment se reconstruire après l’inceste ?

    Pour en parler, Naomi Titti reçoit D’ de Kabal, rappeur et auteur de Ma honte et Julien Gaspar-Oliveri, réalisateur du film La Frappe.

    Toutes les références citées dans l'émission sont disponibles sur le site : https://www.binge.audio/podcast/les-couilles-sur-la-table/survivre-a-linceste-en-tant-quhomme/

    CRÉDITS : Les Couilles sur la table est un podcast créé par Victoire Tuaillon produit par Binge (URBANIA AUDIO). Cet entretien a été préparé, mené et monté par Naomi Titti, enregistré le 2 septembre au studio dans le studio de podcast d’Urbania Audio (Paris 10e). Réalisation et mixage : Octave Bothier. Supervision éditoriale : Naomi Titti. Responsable des productions éditoriales et édition : Charlotte Baix. Assistante de production et d’édition : Aude Miquel. Rédacteur en chef : Thomas Rozec. Direction de production : Albane Fily. Responsable administrative et financière : Adrienne Marino. Responsable sponsoring : Betty-Maeva Wendling. Musique originale : Théo Boulenger. Identité graphique : Camille Bernard (Upian). Composition identité sonore : Jean-Benoît Dunckel. Voix identité sonore : Bonnie El Bokeili. Direction de contenu : Sophie Marchand. Binge est une marque URBANIA.

    Hébergé par Audiomeans. Visitez audiomeans.fr/politique-de-confidentialite pour plus d'informations.

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  • I got some pushback when I compared Muse to ChatGPT Work, where I was mostly thinking about having access to a server in the cloud to run agents from your phone. That comparison wasn’t quite right. Feels like there’s a lot that is OpenClaw-inspired in it too.

  • Paramount Funds, ‘Leaks’ Dodgy Study Saying California Will Suffer If Its Merger Is Blocked

    Larry and David Ellison are desperate to get their unpopular $111 billion merger between Paramount/CBS and Warner Brothers across the finish line. So they’ve been engaging in no shortage of dodgy behavior to try and derail the only thing left standing in their way: the 12-state antitrust lawsuit claiming that more media consolidation is anti-competitive […]
  • AI Breaks Containment

    Kate and Josh discuss a dire new poll for Republicans, the politics of AI and a surprisingly good Supreme Court ruling.


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  • Genius Design Details: Pips and Nubs

    The gang from Craighill explains the origins and uses of three seemingly small design details that show up everywhere: pips, nubs, and the very useful union of pips and nubs. You’ve seen pips on dice and dominos, nubs are used for Braille text, and the pips/nubs combo is used for locks or stops that can be released under pressure. Craighill even has a pips + nubs category in their online store. (thx, rion)

    Tags: Craighill · design · video

  • The Real AI Threats: Automated Hacking And Surveillance, Conventional Weapons Development, Biological Misuse

    Techdirt has just written about concerns that AI development is proceeding more quickly than human oversight can monitor and control it. Since then, there has been lively debate about whether those fears are real or overblown. They mainly focus on the possible future threats from AI systems using RSI — recursive self-improvement — to drive […]
  • Usenet-Rewind : search over 1 billion Usenet text posts...

    Usenet-Rewind: search over 1 billion Usenet text posts from 1981 to the present.

  • “ Figures show Japan is now home to 107,677...

    “Figures show Japan is now home to 107,677 centenarians, the highest number in the world, of whom 88% are women. The oldest woman is Kishimoto Fuyo, a 114-year-old from Kyoto City and the oldest man is Kato Hikaru, a 112-year-old from Kumamoto.”

  • Court: The First Amendment Allows You To Tell The ICE Director He’s A ‘Sad, Despised Man’

    You may recall that back in July we had the ridiculous story of how ICE decided to go all gestapo on its critics, including tracking down and threatening David Streever, who had emailed then-acting ICE director Todd Lyons back in January, after federal agents killed some peaceful protestors in Minnesota. Streever’s email was pretty straightforward: […]
  • Daily Deal: The Premium Microsoft Office Training Certification Bundle

    The Premium Microsoft Office Training Certification Bundle has 11 courses geared to help you master essential skills and raise your expertise. Popular programs like Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Teams are covered, while more advance programs get introduced as well, including SharePoint, Access, PowerBI, and Microsoft SQL Server. You’ll gain a better understanding of how each […]
  • Danny MacAskill Plays in the Endless Light of Norway

    Scottish trials rider and mountain biker Danny MacAskill, who I first featured on the site more than 17 years ago, recently took his Santa Cruz eMTB north of the Arctic Circle to Narvik, Norway. He rode three different mountains and the result is this incredibly beautiful video, backed by a Max Cooper soundtrack. As one of the commenters notes, MacAskill makes a relatively heavy eMTB seem extraordinarily playful.

    As a mountain biker myself, some of that looks insanely fun but the narrow steep stuff looks insanely insane. Makes me want an eMTB, which I suppose is the whole point of the video.

    Tags: biking · Danny MacAskill · Max Cooper · music · video

  • Hidden in Pieces: Live at the Royal Albert Hall . A live...

    Hidden in Pieces: Live at the Royal Albert Hall. A live album from the Yeah Yeah Yeahs? Hell yes yes yes! 13 songs are available now plus 9 more tracks when the full album drops in October.

  • Turns Out It’s Pretty Easy To Turn A Profit Selling Cheap ‘Freedom Fuel’ If You Just Don’t Pay For It

    Yet another data point on the whole grift/graft aspect of (particularly) the second Trump administration. While Trump was endlessly bragging about how much war he was going to wage, while simultaneously bragging about how much war he was going to end, his Israel-enabled Iran War refused to submit to his vacillating bluster. After claiming to […]
  • Xserve ready to make a comeback? 9to5Mac blogs about a report from The Information about M8 servers. The Information says they might use NVLink:

    Apple has considered connecting the M8 chips in the server using an Nvidia set of products called NVLink Fusion, which includes switches, chiplets and software that help chips communicate with each other in data centers.

    If Apple has to build these for themselves, they might as well sell them. Quite the leap from selling Mac minis to AI enthusiasts.

  • #563: Getting Started with Rust as Python Devs

    Lint the entire CPython code base from scratch. It takes 0.3 seconds. Three blinks of an eye.

    That is ruff, and it is written in Rust. So are Pydantic, Polars, uv, and Granian. Rust shows up in Python three ways: tools that happen to be Rust, libraries Python imports, and servers that run Python inside Rust. This is Rust for Python developers, not Rust experts.

    Christopher Trudeau is back on Talk Python to discuss Rust and his latest course Up and Running with Rust. The core rule is that only one thing can own a value at a time. Pass it around freely in Python and the garbage collector cleans up. Do that in Rust and it will not compile.

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    main.rs: main.rs
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    https://github.com/ritwiktiwari/awesome-python-rs: github.com
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    polars: pola.rs

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  • Paul Ford: Aided by LLMs, people & companies are...

    Paul Ford: Aided by LLMs, people & companies are producing lots of software. But where are the AI-coded killer apps? “[AI is] very good at reproducing things that look and feel like what came before.”

  • Kreel: a free browser extension that finds RSS feeds on any site and exports them to OPML or Excel

    Kreel detects RSS and Atom feeds on the pages you visit. Turn capture on, browse normally, and it collects the feeds it finds into one list.

    What it does:

    **•** Detects declared feeds plus feeds linked anywhere on the page. **•** Finds feeds sites don't advertise, using common paths and platform detection for WordPress, Substack, Medium, Ghost, and others, plus constructed feeds for YouTube channels, Reddit, and GitHub. **•** Validates each feed before adding it, so no dead links. **•** De-duplicates automatically. **•** Exports to OPML for any reader, Excel, or copies the URLs to clipboard. 

    It runs entirely locally. No account, no tracking. The only network requests are read-only checks that confirm a feed is real.

    Free, and available on Edge, Firefox, Chrome, and Safari.

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  • I recorded a 3-minute screencast video on YouTube that walks through what it looks like for a brand new Micro.blog user to start using AT Protocol right away with our PDS, without having to create a separate account in Bluesky first. Love open standards. 🦋

  • The All of the Above Trail Fest is “deconstructing...

    The All of the Above Trail Fest is “deconstructing the very definition of a trail race, refiguring it into something more expansive and inclusive”. There are no gender divisions and winners are decided by who gets closest to their predicted finish time.

  • Excited for the new show from Casey Newton and Kevin Roose, Machine Gods. I was a big fan of their Hard Fork podcast. Seems smart to partner with NPR on this too.

  • Editing the auto-generated transcript on a YouTube video. Actually surprised at the fairly poor quality of initial transcript. Simple things like "blue sky" instead of "Bluesky", or "crossosting" instead of "cross-posting" that usually an LLM would get right, I think.

  • Great blog post from John Gruber on the Apple announcements. On the Siri recap feature, he actually has the opposite perspective that I had:

    I think it’s better for Apple to lead with privacy-minded versions of ambient transcripts and AI-generated conversation summaries than to follow after other products have hit the market with all-day recordings and whole-life transcripts.

    I don't think Apple needs to push the state of the art here. But I'm only 50% sure. John has a good point too.

  • Podcast: Humans Are Reading Your ChatGPT Conversations

    The contractors reading real ChatGPT users' prompts; the big out-and-back-in around Automattic; and a16z thinks enshittification isn't real.
  • Claude Code, even though it had blocks preventing it from doing this, overwrote files on an S3 bucket that took one of my major apps off the air. Every customer must be grappling with the same thing. How do I trust it when it can't be trusted? More about this in a tweet earlier today.

  • The Powerful Connection Between Smell & Memory

    One thing I didn’t get a chance to work into my post about the unexpected memory bomb triggered by my spice drawer was the tight, deep connection between smell and memory. I first learned about this relationship in college when I read A Natural History of the Senses by Diane Ackerman for a class. It’s still one of my favorite books. Here’s some of what she has to say about smell:

    Smell is the most direct of all our senses. When I hold a violet to my nose and inhale, odor molecules float back into the nasal cavity behind the bridge of the nose, where they are absorbed by the mucosa containing receptor cells bearing microscopic hairs called cilia. Five million of these cells fire impulses to the brain’s olfactory bulb or smell center. Such cells are unique to the nose. If you destroy a neuron in the brain, it’s finished forever; it won’t regrow. If you damage neurons in your eyes or ears, both organs will be irreparably damaged. But the neurons in the nose are replaced about every thirty days and, unlike any other neurons in the body, they stick right out and wave in the air current like anemones on a coral reef.

    And:

    Unlike the other senses, smell needs no interpreter. The effect is immediate and undiluted by language, thought, or translation. A smell can be overwhelmingly nostalgic because it triggers powerful images and emotions before we have time to edit them. What you see and hear may quickly fade into the compost heap of short-term memory, but, as Edwin T. Morris points out in Fragrance, “there is almost no short-term memory with odors.” It’s all long term. Furthermore, smells stimulate learning and retention. “When children were given olfactory information along with a word list,” Morris noted, “the list was recalled much more easily and better retained in memory than when given without the olfactory cues.” When we give perfume to someone, we give them liquid memory. Kipling was right: “Smells are surer than sights and sounds to make your heart-strings crack.”

    And:

    Smell was the first of our senses, and it was so successful that in time the small lump of olfactory tissue atop the nerve cord grew into a brain. Our cerebral hemispheres were originally buds from the olfactory stalks. We think because we smelled.

    Our sense of smell, like so many of our other body functions, is a throwback to that time, early in evolution, when we thrived in the oceans. An odor must first dissolve into a watery solution our mucous membranes can absorb before we can smell it. Scuba-diving in the Bahamas some years ago, I became aware of two things for the first time: that we carry the ocean within us; that our veins mirror the tides. As a human woman, with ovaries where eggs lie like roe, entering the smooth, undulating womb of the ocean from which our ancestors evolved millennia ago, I was so moved my eyes teared underwater, and I mixed my saltiness with the ocean’s. Distracted by such thoughts, I looked around to find my position vis-a-vis the boat, and couldn’t. But it didn’t matter: Home was everywhere.

    I could basically quote the whole smell chapter…it’s interesting throughout. Great book — if you’ve never read it, I’d recommend checking it out.

    Tags: A Natural History of the Senses · books · Diane Ackerman · senses · smell

  • Rss noob looking for help

    Hi! So primarily I use feedly on my phone. Im not suuuper tech savvy I can do a few things but code not so much?

    Feedly has been somewhat working bc it generates rss out of whatever website and doesn't need native feeds etc. but I'm trying to find a workaround to TRANSLATE the feeds because most of what I look at is in variousother languages and I don't have time to scroll through and copy paste every other article into a translator?

    I've tried like 10 or so different solutions so far and they all have a paywall or require native feeds which I dont have. Or both.

    Any/all help appreciated.

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  • Bernie Sanders Tries To ‘Help’ Fix AI By Complaining With Steve Bannon, ‘Banning Superintelligence’

    In an ideal world it’s certainly possible that the U.S. federal government could implement meaningful guardrails for AI development that protect innovation, national security, consumer privacy, public safety, and labor/creatives, while preventing market monopolization by the sector’s biggest players. But we don’t live in that ideal world. We live in a country where an historically […]
  • We Must Create the Shit Machine . “I asked...

    We Must Create the Shit Machine. “I asked everyone I know at the BIG TECH HUMAN CENTIPEDE ROUNDTABLE, and we all agreed that UNCONTROLLABLE SHIT-RAIN IS USEFUL AND GREAT, and that EVERYONE WANTS IT.”

  • Show HN: Modern RSS reader with social capabilities based on AT Proto

    Hey HN!

    The web is a bit broken and looking at social medias like X makes me a bit depressed. I feel like the original content that we had before on a multitude of website has been replaced by ton of click-bait content that just want impressions and reactions.

    I would like us to go back to simpler times, where everyone had their publishing space (their website, or an hosted solution) and everyone could subscribe to it in their own software and do what they want with their feed.

    I still think that social is important, like sharing, because afterall it's what made social networks interesting in the first place, but it should happen outside of where the content is.

    That's why I wanted to build an RSS reader that is respectful of this principle of federation: no in-app reader, just RSS subscriptions. And I've added social capabilities based on the AT Protocol, like sharing / liking and following people.

    The project was coded with AI, but it's my convictions that I've put it in. It's self-hostable and I hope that more and more people will be convinced to publish on their own website instead of X / Bluesky.

    Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49724533

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  • Hackers Stole Flock’s Camera Software, Revealing How the Company Tracks Cars and People

    While people around the U.S. are tearing down Flock cameras, one group of hackers went a step further: extracting the camera's software too.
  • Humans Are Reading Your ChatGPT Conversations

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