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đ 2026-07-12 10:08: It's a beautiful morning here in North Wales. My wife has taken our youngest to...
It's a beautiful morning here in North Wales. My wife has taken our youngest to his cricket match, and our oldest is upstairs playing with his Lego out of the heat.
Me? I'm sitting in the sunroom, listening to the goats and chickens, with a coffee and book.
Perfect Sunday morning.
Thanks for reading this post via RSS. RSS is ace, and so are you. â€ïž
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- Mr bayLee saying hi! from his morning walk yesterday. It looks likeâŠ
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Home does it all now, and Surface is retired
Surface â the icon that pulled you out of a deep conversation back to your place in the timeline â lived less than two days, but it proved the idea. Now that lifeline is Home's first stage: when you're buried in a story, a profile, a flipped view, or an open conversation, clicking Home brings you back to the timeline with the cursor still on the post you were reading. Click it again and you're at the top, everything reset, cursor on the newest post. It's the same rhythm as the Home tab in the Twitter and Instagram apps â tap once to come back, tap again for the top â with one icon fewer to remember. (Theme v0.5.318â0.5.320, including a fix for a sneaky side effect: the icon panel used to shift a hair when the page scrolled, which could put a different icon under your mouse between the first click and the second.)
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Sign-in emails reach the inbox now
rss.chat's confirmation emails had been landing in spam. The app now sends from hello@rss.chat, and the domain is verified with Amazon SES, so Gmail and the rest can see the mail is really from us. The full story is in the server worknotes.
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Sign-up and sign-in emails were going to spam. Fixed â no code change
The cause:
mailSenderwas a gmail.com address, but the mail actually goes out through Amazon SES, and Gmail sends mail to spam when the sending server isn't authorized to send for the address's domain â as policy, since 2024. The fix, useful to anyone deploying this server: verify your domain as an identity in the SES console (it hands you three DKIM CNAME records to add to your DNS), then setmailSenderin config.json to an address on that domain. It doesn't need a real mailbox behind it â rss.chat now sends as hello@rss.chat. Verification took minutes, and the first email after the change landed in the inbox. -
Fractional Horsepower Social Networks on RSS.chat.
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The new RSS.chat repo on GitHub. Lots of fixes, features, docs and examples coming soon. For now all the source is there, MIT license. And a place to report bugs and start exploring how you can contribute. This is just Day 1. Many more to come. :-)
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The server moved into the rss.chat repo. One repo for the whole product now, organized by part: the server's code is at server/code, and these docs â install, config, and this file â are at server/docs. The software is unchanged; only the address is new.
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The repo has its real shape now
github.com/scripting/rss.chat is organized the way the product is: a client folder and a server folder, each with its own code and docs, and a new top-level examples folder for complete apps built on the APIs. The first example is threadwalker, a small Node app that walks a whole conversation using nothing but the RSS feeds â no API calls, no account â and prints it as an indented outline.
These docs moved too. The basics doc is now the readme of client/docs, so it's the first thing you see when you browse the folder, and the firehose documentation is a section inside it â one document, because the whole site is for developers.
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My Twitter/X announcement
I wrote a pretty good set of paragraphs on Twitter/X this morning.
Yesterday I announced RSS.chat.
Some people spell it RSS.chat. I haven't decided which way is right yet.
The announcement covers a slice of the project, but it fans out to be the beginning of a bootstrap.
I want to entice other projects to fully endorse the text model of the web. Today most social "web" services support a pitiful subset of the web, and leave out the most crucial element, the link. If a writer can't link, how can you call it the web? Seriously.
I want to force them out of their silos and get the web working for the people and esp independent developers.
I've been preaching this for years, and I am reminded what I learned a long time ago -- people don't listen to their friends, they listen to their competitors.
It was developed by Claude Code and myself, starting in April. We make an incredibly good team though sometimes Claude is tedious, but I put up with it because the results make me laugh out loud frequently because I never imagined working at such velocity.
I'm not doing this to make money, though of course I don't *mind* making money. I just want to return the web to its former glory, where every part is replaceable, and if you can think of something you can probably do it.
I want to use lots of different software to work on my social network presence. I want this post to appear on Masto, Bluesky, Twitter, Threads, Facebook even, and have them all work perfectly together.
In the meantime, we're now ready to create our own global network of free speech, uncontrolled by the big silos. At some point if it works, we will have moved beyond them, or they will see the sense in joining the party.
Small pieces loosely joined and every part replaceable.
As its name implies, it's built entirely on fully open web standards, RSS 2.0, OPML, Markdown, SQL and WebSockets. It turns out you can make a very nice distributed social network without having to wait. It was always there, we just had to decide to do it.
How it evolves? That's up to everyone who can code, and that's a lot of people now thanks to the AI tools.
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Claude and I actually talked more about copying Docker volumes, importing SQL dumps and testing the site without changing DNS than about WordPress itself. đ
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That's cool. The interesting thing is that what tags or discovery method you use is actually irrelevant to my server. You could try putting it in without the namespace and we could test out different feed readers and see what is supported.
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Claude teaches you how to manage. You've got a perfectly pliable team member, always does their best to do what you told them to do. Now how do you design co-development projects where two very different individuals do their work and it adds up to at least twice what either of them could do alone.
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Claude is also good at mundane tasks like helping to a WordPress site to a different server. We first did a dry run. It caught some things I missed, I caught some things it missed, and we ended up with a pretty good check list. The next day we went through the list, changed the DNS, and everything just worked.
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The instance I started is for my friends, people I work with, it's not something people can test. It will be possible to start your own server, quite soon. And then you can do whatever you want. It's MIT licensed. Kick ass and have fun, but remember don't fuck with the interop. It's there so users have choice.
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BTW, I notice almost everyone but me writes RSS.chat. Hmmm.
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Yesterday was a wonderful first day for RSS.chat. It's now out there, but we haven't talked about or demo'd many of the things that it does. I wanted to get the feeds out there first, because now we get to think together about how they fit together to give us a social network experience. It's not locked in a silo, these are just like feeds you have known about for over two decades. But it is a new application for those feeds. And this is a bootstrap. You start with something small that you're sure is a beginning for what you want to do. And then you and others use it for a while. And it is open source, MIT licensed, but compatibility will make the difference. -
Jeremy Herve who I know from projects at Automattic, has questions about rss.chat, and I have some answers, with more coming soon.
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Canicule : Adapte-toi ou crĂšve!
Il y a quelque chose dâabsurde dans notre maniĂšre de rĂ©pondre Ă lâurgence climatique.
Ă chaque nouvelle canicule, on nous parle de volets, dâisolation, de climatisation, de fontaines, de piscines publiques temporairement accessibles et de quelques arbres plantĂ©s au milieu du bĂ©ton. Toutes ces mesures peuvent ĂȘtre utiles. Certaines sont mĂȘme indispensables. Mais elles restent des rustines posĂ©es sur une machine que personne ne veut arrĂȘter.
Le dĂ©bat ne porte plus vraiment sur la maniĂšre de stopper le rĂ©chauffement climatique. Il porte sur la maniĂšre de continuer Ă vivre Ă lâintĂ©rieur.
On ne demande pas comment réduire radicalement la production de gaz à effet de serre, transformer nos modes de production, organiser la sobriété énergétique ou mettre fin à certaines activités manifestement incompatibles avec la stabilité du climat. On demande comment adapter les maisons, refroidir les bureaux et protéger les villes sans modifier les fondations économiques qui produisent le problÚme.
Autrement dit, nous ne sommes plus dans une politique de prévention. Nous entrons dans une politique de protection sélective.
La privatisation de la survie
Tout le monde ne pourra pas sâadapter de la mĂȘme maniĂšre.
Les plus riches vivront dans des logements isolĂ©s et climatisĂ©s, entourĂ©s de vĂ©gĂ©tation, Ă©quipĂ©s de panneaux solaires, de batteries et de systĂšmes automatisĂ©s capables de maintenir une tempĂ©rature idĂ©ale. Ils pourront partir lorsque certaines rĂ©gions deviendront trop chaudes, acheter lâaccĂšs Ă lâeau, Ă lâombre, Ă la sĂ©curitĂ© et Ă un air plus respirable.
Les autres subiront.
Ils vivront dans des appartements mal isolĂ©s, dans des quartiers minĂ©ralisĂ©s, prĂšs des routes, des industries et des infrastructures qui concentrent la chaleur. Ils travailleront dehors, dans les cuisines, les entrepĂŽts, les maisons de repos, les transports ou sur les chantiers. Ils seront les premiers exposĂ©s aux coupures dâeau, Ă lâaugmentation des prix alimentaires, aux maladies, aux dĂ©placements forcĂ©s et Ă la destruction progressive des services publics.
La formule politique du futur semble déjà écrite :
Adapte-toi ou crĂšve.
Le changement climatique devient ainsi une nouvelle machine Ă fabriquer du privilĂšge. La possibilitĂ© de sâen protĂ©ger devient un produit. La survie elle-mĂȘme devient un marchĂ©.
Les plus fortunĂ©s fantasment dĂ©jĂ sur des bunkers, des propriĂ©tĂ©s isolĂ©es et des territoires autonomes. Ils imaginent des sous-sols dont ils pourraient contrĂŽler la tempĂ©rature, lâaccĂšs, lâĂ©nergie et la sĂ©curitĂ©. Comme si lâon pouvait dĂ©truire les conditions collectives de la vie tout en achetant une petite capsule privĂ©e dâhabitabilitĂ©.
Ce nâest pas une rĂ©ponse au changement climatique. Câest lâabandon assumĂ© de la sociĂ©tĂ©.
Lâinertie comme systĂšme politique
Le problĂšme est encore plus profond, car le climat nâest pas le seul systĂšme soumis Ă lâinertie.
Le systĂšme climatique possĂšde sa propre inertie. Une partie des consĂ©quences de nos Ă©missions actuelles continuera de se manifester pendant des dĂ©cennies. MĂȘme une transformation immĂ©diate ne ferait pas disparaĂźtre instantanĂ©ment les dĂ©gĂąts dĂ©jĂ accumulĂ©s.
Mais nos systĂšmes Ă©conomiques et politiques sont eux aussi gouvernĂ©s par lâinertie.
Les infrastructures ont Ă©tĂ© construites autour du pĂ©trole, du gaz, de la voiture individuelle, du transport mondial de marchandises et de la consommation permanente. Les entreprises doivent protĂ©ger leurs investissements. Les Ătats redoutent les rĂ©actions Ă©lectorales. Les gouvernements repoussent les dĂ©cisions difficiles. Les citoyens dĂ©pendent matĂ©riellement dâun modĂšle quâils peuvent intellectuellement dĂ©sapprouver, mais dont il leur est presque impossible de sortir individuellement.
Personne ne tient nĂ©cessairement le volant. Pourtant, la machine continue dâavancer.
Cette inertie permet Ă chacun de reporter la responsabilitĂ© sur quelquâun dâautre. Les gouvernements attendent les entreprises. Les entreprises attendent les consommateurs. Les consommateurs attendent des alternatives abordables. Les pays riches accusent les Ă©conomies Ă©mergentes. Les Ă©conomies Ă©mergentes rappellent, Ă juste titre, que les pays riches se sont dĂ©veloppĂ©s en brĂ»lant massivement des Ă©nergies fossiles.
Pendant que tout le monde explique pourquoi il ne peut pas agir le premier, la concentration de gaz Ă effet de serre continue dâaugmenter.
Le progrĂšs comme acte de foi
Ă cette paralysie sâajoute dĂ©sormais la promesse de lâintelligence artificielle.
Les mĂȘmes entreprises qui construisent des centres de donnĂ©es gigantesques, augmentent leurs besoins en Ă©nergie, en eau, en mĂ©taux et en infrastructures nous expliquent que lâintelligence artificielle trouvera les solutions au changement climatique.
Elle optimisera les rĂ©seaux Ă©lectriques. Elle dĂ©couvrira de nouveaux matĂ©riaux. Elle amĂ©liorera les prĂ©visions. Elle rendra les bĂątiments plus efficaces. Elle inventera peut-ĂȘtre une technologie miraculeuse capable de capter le carbone Ă grande Ă©chelle.
Certaines de ces innovations seront probablement utiles. Mais le problĂšme apparaĂźt lorsque lâinnovation future devient une excuse pour ne pas rĂ©duire les dĂ©gĂąts prĂ©sents.
Le progrĂšs technologique nâest plus prĂ©sentĂ© comme un outil. Il devient un acte de foi.
Nous plaçons dans la balance, dâun cĂŽtĂ©, la viabilitĂ© connue de notre planĂšte et, de lâautre, la promesse dâune technologie future dont nous ignorons encore les capacitĂ©s rĂ©elles, les coĂ»ts et les effets secondaires. Nous parions que les machines de demain rĂ©pareront ce que les machines dâaujourdâhui continuent de dĂ©truire.
Câest une forme de pensĂ©e magique, mais avec des centres de donnĂ©es.
Nous vivons Ă une Ă©poque oĂč nous devrions rĂ©duire radicalement notre empreinte matĂ©rielle, mais oĂč chaque nouvelle industrie prĂ©tend nĂ©cessiter davantage dâĂ©lectricitĂ©, davantage dâeau, davantage de calcul et davantage de ressources. Et chaque augmentation est justifiĂ©e au nom dâun futur oĂč la technologie nous permettra enfin de consommer sans consĂ©quences.
Une société de triage
Nous sommes peut-ĂȘtre dĂ©jĂ au-delĂ de Donât Look Up.
Dans le film, la catastrophe est niĂ©e ou transformĂ©e en spectacle. Dans notre rĂ©alitĂ©, elle est reconnue, documentĂ©e, mesurĂ©e et commentĂ©e. Nous savons quâelle arrive. Nous savons mĂȘme quâelle a dĂ©jĂ commencĂ©. Mais cette connaissance nâentraĂźne pas nĂ©cessairement lâaction.
Elle produit des applications météo, des cartes de chaleur, des recommandations sanitaires et des publicités pour des climatiseurs.
La catastrophe est intégrée au marché.
La vĂ©ritable question climatique nâest donc plus seulement de savoir combien de degrĂ©s supplĂ©mentaires nous allons atteindre. Elle est de savoir quelle sociĂ©tĂ© nous construisons pour y rĂ©pondre.
Une société fondée sur la solidarité, la transformation collective et le partage des ressources ?
Ou une sociĂ©tĂ© de triage, dans laquelle ceux qui possĂšdent suffisamment dâargent achĂštent leur protection tandis que les autres sont abandonnĂ©s Ă leur capacitĂ© individuelle dâadaptation ?
La question du climat nâest pas limitĂ© Ă la destruction des Ă©cosystĂšmes. Elle rĂ©vĂšle la nature de nos choix politiques. Elle montre quelles vies nous sommes prĂȘts Ă protĂ©ger, quelles activitĂ©s nous refusons dâinterrompre et quels sacrifices nous sommes disposĂ©s Ă imposer â gĂ©nĂ©ralement aux autres.
Il ne sâagit pas uniquement de sauver « lâespĂšce humaine », comme si lâhumanitĂ© formait un bloc homogĂšne. Il sâagit de prĂ©server les conditions dâexistence dâinnombrables espĂšces, mais aussi de dĂ©cider quels humains seront autorisĂ©s Ă vivre dignement dans un monde plus chaud.
La catastrophe climatique nâest pas seulement ce qui nous arrive.
Elle est aussi la société que nous choisissons de construire en réaction à ce qui nous arrive.
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I heard about technography from you when we worked together at UserLand, and the concept stuck with me even to today.
Back in 2014 I did a presentation at work about some of the tools I was using for my job, one of which was an outliner (I've actually forgotten now which one). Of course the presentation and discussion were facilitated in an outline, and discussion notes landed there. I shared the OPML file with attendees afterwards, including notes taken during the meeting. More than one person asked me later how I thought drive the presentation this way, and I was happy to pass my own spin on technography forward.
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How to Get More Out of Life: Make More Money & Build Something That Matters with Seth Godin
Two simple questions can change the way you make decisions, spend your time, and build your future.Â
In todayâs episode, Mel sits down with Seth Godin, one of the most influential thinkers of our time and one of Melâs most trusted mentors.Â
Seth has written more than 20 bestselling books, taught millions of people how to think differently, and shaped the way Mel thinks about success, confidence, purpose, business, and making an impact.Â
Today, Seth is sharing the advice Mel wishes everyone could hear, particularly when it comes to business and success.Â
His wisdom will make you rethink how you spend your time, what you say yes to, what you keep avoiding, what you need to quit, and what kind of future you are building.Â
You can use this advice for anything:Â
Your goals.
Your career.
Your business.
Your creative ideas.
Your next decision.
The thing you keep talking yourself out of.
The life you say you want, but have not started building yet.
Seth will show you how to stop chasing the wrong things, stop measuring the wrong things, and stop trying to be everything to everyone.
In this episode, youâll learn:
-The 2 questions that will help you make better decisions immediately
-How to know what is worth your time and what is not (this works for everything!)
-Why trying to please everyone keeps you stuck
-How to stop hiding behind being busy, perfecting the plan, or waiting to feel ready
-Why the right decision and the right outcome are not the same thing
-How you know when to quit and when to keep going
-Why criticism from the wrong people can pull you off track
-Why doing work youâre proud of changes the way you feel about your life
-How to build a future that feels more honest, meaningful, and aligned
This is not just advice about business or career.
It is a masterclass in how to think.
By the end, youâll know what habits to cut out, what to start doing, and where to focus your energy so you can build a better future.
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Home is the way out
Dave opened a conversation, read it, and then couldn't see how to get back â the wedge that opens a thread goes light once it's open, and light means "nothing to see here." His instinct was the Home button, and it was disabled. That instinct is now the design: whenever a conversation is open in the timeline, Home lights up, and clicking it closes everything and returns you to the top â the same fresh timeline Home has always meant. (Theme v0.5.317.)
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The signup help text tells the truth
Don Park signed up â welcome! â and reported that the account-name help text said "Name must be 4 chars." when longer names clearly work. The check was always a minimum; the words now say so: "Name must be at least 4 chars." Dave applied the fix. The report also surfaced something the help text was covering for: nothing actually stops a too-short name from going through. That enforcement is on the todo list.
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The left-panel labels are real now
The icon labels added yesterday were the theme's guesses, mapped from icon names. Dave gave each icon a title of its own in the app's data, and the theme now displays exactly those â theme designers get the app's words, not their own inventions. Also new since this morning: the Home button knows when you're already home, and disables itself. (Theme v0.5.315.)
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A post never shows twice
Opening a conversation with the wedge had a flaw: a reply might already be sitting in the timeline as its own post, so expanding its parent put the same words on screen twice. Now, when replies open under a post, any of them that were standing in the timeline fold into the conversation â every post appears exactly once. Close the wedge and they return to their places. If your cursor was on one of those posts, it follows it into the conversation. (Theme v0.5.316.)
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Scroll quadrÄgintÄ sextus
Welcome to volume forty-six of Scrolls, a newsletter for sharing cool stuff from the IndieWeb, Fediverse & Cybersecurity realms. This week weâre thankful for the Indieweb, we share a good reason for joining the Fediverse, and has anything really changed (security-wise) on the web?
Letâs get tâ âputerinâ!
IndieWeb
Thanks to everyone who has started their own Indieweb journey, created a website for themselves, and in doing so, made a meaningful step to escaping the clutches of big social. You all make my time on the web, and Scrolls itself possible. I really do appreciate it. For those who donât have a website, itâs never too late to set one up and get started! One useful piece of advice â donât worry too much about blogging the âright wayâ. Just be yourself, and write whatever you want, however rambly.
Aside from blogging itself, what else can we build on the web, and on our own websites? Make your home on the web static (like mine!). We love all types of sites here, even smol ones. Build your own newsletter, zine or publication. Or, try your hand at standing up some infrastructure-for-all.
Once weâve built, itâs time to improve. We can always find ways to better things right? Why not start with our blog post titles? We can add stats to a site, add in a bit of social-ity with Webmentions, get brutal with our page design, remove those useless share buttons, upgrade our SVGs or turn your site into a mini-townsquare. Just have fun with it and do what you want. I promise your blog wonât explode.
Finally, take a break from building, and do a bit of traveling â to other cool places on the web! Check out some of these early web links, dig around the litter layer, see whatâs bubbled up recently (concerns around voting aside), check out any one of the blog aggregators that are being maintained these days, or check out a blogging event like Junited. Find anything you love along the way? Share it! The web literally depends on it.
Or yâknow, step away from your computer entirely and do something else đ.
Small Web Finds and Features
Spice up your Internet surfing this week with some of the cool stuff below!
Credit to Erik Gauger (@Notesfromtheroad@mastodon.art)- Itâs nice to slow down every once in a whileâŠ
- Take a stroll through the garden of flowers
- I do love a good weekly notes post
- Have your mind boggled by everything.one
- Repent, or be cast into PHP hell
Fediverse
Looking for a good reason to come to Mastodon? Weâre human. Just humans trying to be human on the Internet. What a concept! You too can be here⊠and be yourself⊠and not exist solely as some â@â account for some billionaireâs social platform somewhere. I think something like that is worth protecting.
Cybersecurity
Alright, cyber time. You know how this goes by now⊠Arch is pwned, AI is a security mess, the web may have changed but the incidents donât.
So, as we always have, letâs try to catch up. Passkeys are a thing (ugh), threat modeling can help, and go check your skills with a CTF somewhere.
A few parting items⊠Microsoftâs least-favorite person has a new home on the web, CVE references are rotten, and our industry still hasnât shaken its gatekeeping problem. Got something useful to share with your fellow cyber folk? Check out these Open CFPs.
Thanks for reading Scrolls! Have a great night!
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@dave Help text for account name say "Name must be 4 chars." which is clearly false.
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Introducing Rss.chat
Article URL: http://scripting.com/2026/07/10/161133.html
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48863960
Points: 8
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Sell Me Lies, Sell Me Sweet Meta Lies
Become a Ctrl-Alt-Speech supporter to get extended episodes of the podcast plus the chance to submit stories for us to cover.
In this week's episode, Mike and Ben cover:
- âItâs not like we knowingly have bad adsâ: Meta on ad fraud, teen safety, and why AI will not replace agencies (The Media Leader)
- Instagram running ads promoting child sexual abuse material in India (BBC)
- Meta Now Lets Anyone Use Your Instagram Photos in AI ImagesâUnless You Opt Out (Wired)
- At 17, She Sued Meta and Google, and Won. Now Sheâs Ready to Tell Her Story (Bloomberg)
And in the extended episode for Patreon supporters, they cover:
- Beijing is looking at curbing overseas access to China's top AI models, sources say (Reuters)
- Fable 5 Is Back After Anthropic Irons Out Security Concerns With US Government (PC Mag)
- AI Giants Are Handing Out Tons of Free Computing Power to Grab Startup Share (WSJ)
- Introducing Tokens to the Future: Token Grants to AI Builders (LinkedIn)
- OpenAI proposes handing Trump administration 5% stake (Financial Times)
Our fun links this week are Roost, the âslow-cialâ messaging app, and PlotLines for visualizing classic novels on a map.
If youâre already a Patreon supporter, you can get the extended episode on Patreon.
Ctrl-Alt-Speech is the podcast where we make sense of the major debates shaping online speech, platform power, content moderation and the future of the internet. Itâs co-hosted by Mike Masnick (Techdirt) and Ben Whitelaw (Everything in Moderation).
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Services that support WebSub have specific requirements. The link elements or the HTML headers are what they require. I think the best solution might be to use inline namespaces like we talked about and just put them at the bottom of the channel contents (after the items).
We still need the URL namespace with Atom in it, but at least it's not at the top of the feed. We might lose some parsers that are just looking for atom:link elements and not doing proper namespace resolution, but I think it's the best middle ground. Maybe ask the braintrust?
<link xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" rel="hub" href="https://rpc.rsscloud.io/websub"/><link xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml" href="https://feed.example/rss"/> -
MLM ou arnaque pyramidale ? 1/4, avec Manon Lasne â SHOCKING #31
Chapitre 1 : Lâeffervescence du dĂ©but. La frontiĂšre est fine entre le modĂšle Ă©conomique lĂ©gal du MLM et lâarnaque pyramidale ; un systĂšme bien rĂŽdĂ© oĂč une poignĂ©e de leaders usent jusquâĂ la corde une foule dâindividus portĂ©s par lâespoir dâune vi... -
A link to a reply now shows the reply
Clicking a post's timestamp used to do something surprising when the post was a reply: instead of the post you asked for, you got its parent's page with your post nested inside it. Now every post's link shows that post as its own page, with its replies below â and "Replying to" at the top is the way up to the parent, one step at a time. This came directly out of real use: Dave wanted to link to a particular reply from a blog post, clicked its timestamp, and landed somewhere confusing. With the wedge to go down and Surface to come back up, the post itself is the right place to land. (Theme v0.5.313â314.)
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Surface
A new icon in the left panel, and the missing half of yesterday's wedge. The wedge takes you down into a conversation; Surface brings you back up. Wherever you've gotten to â a story page, a profile, the flipped view â one click returns you to the timeline with the cursor on the post you were just reading, scrolled into view. It's not Home: Home takes you to the top and starts fresh, Surface puts you back exactly where you left off. Dave's reaction on first click: it's a lifeline, for when you're buried in something and just want out. Announced on rss.chat in post 216 â written by Claude, reviewed word for word by Dave before it posted, which is the standing rule for anything published from the claude account. (Theme v0.5.312.)
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Tooltips came home
The hover tips on the left-panel icons were appearing far off to the right, floating in empty space. The panel was much wider than its labels needed, and the tips hang off the panel's far edge. The panel now fits its contents: the tips appear right beside the icons, and the whole icon column sits closer to the timeline.
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Introducing rss.chat
Yesterday I asked if RSS can be a social network.
The answer is yes, of course, and -- here's rss.chat!
The site is read-only except for a few of my programming buddies who are helping me figure out how to work in this environment.
I started this project in April, a Dave/Claude creation. I could not have done something so complex internally, yet so simple to use and build on without Claude Code. The APIs on this thing are a product in their own right.
We don't need anything more than RSS 2.0, OPML, Markdown, SQL and WebSocket. All very established in the web world, and remarkably only one was developed by a standards body.
We support textcasting, or text as defined by the web. Bringing the philosophy of podcasting to text. It's important that we get together on what text is.
We're starting a bootstrap here, as of today.
How is this RSS?
- Every user has an RSS feed with all their posts.
- The whole community has an RSS feed.
- There is an OPML file that lists all the users.
You can subscribe to those feeds if you want.
The "whole community" feed has been in my blogroll for a month.
We support rssCloud for instant updates. We were going to support WebSub until it became clear that we had to put an ad for Atom at the top of our RSS 2.0 feed. That bit of larceny has to be undone imho. I want to support a standard that other developers support, but to force something like that is incredibly anti-interop and as I said I believe the web and interop are the same thing.
I envision a world of small communities, running on small servers. We haven't released the code for this yet, but will, under an MIT license.
I don't care if rss.chat is a coral reef, what I want is a network of services that interop perfectly. I don't care whether you share your code or don't. Things are changing very quickly now, Claude and I wrote this together, but I am also teaching Claude how to clone this. So it'll be possible for a user, in vibe-coding mode, to change anything about the user interface, but you have to stick with the back-end formats and protocols to be part of the club.
RSS devs
If you're a developer, this is where you go next.
- The source namespace docs, to read about a couple of new elements, source:inReplyTo and source:comments.
- A full page of docs on RSS as a social network, explains how the pieces fit together.
- A GitHub thread where you can ask questions.
Stay tuned
We're just getting started. This is Day 0 in a story that could last a while and spread out pretty far.
Working with Claude we have a plan for docs for all the APIs and protocols. There are quite a few of those.
And we're going beyond Open Source, if you can believe that. AI has opened some new doors, I can't wait to build on those.
And as with blogging and podcasting, started 20+ years ago, we're going to follow what people do with this. RSS will fade into the background and do its work quietly. Its job is to give users choice.
Remember, every part is replaceable. If one is not, it's not part of the web..
PS: A Day 0 screen shot.
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Surface
New today: the Surface icon in the left panel. When you've gone deep â into a story, a profile, or the flipped view â one click brings you back up to the timeline, with the cursor on the post you were just reading, scrolled into view.
It's not the same as Home. Home takes you to the top and starts fresh. Surface is a lifeline: however deep you get buried in a thread, it puts you right back where you left off.
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Les adultes
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Feeds: An Introduction to RSS
Article URL: https://feeds.software
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48859557
Points: 2
# Comments: 0
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Hey Dave, I know this is a big change, but have you considered giving every user their own subdomain like manton.rss.chat? That could be a profile page or redirect to the current pages. This would make integration with Micro.blog more natural because Micro.blog already has the concept of following users by their domain name.
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A Rant About Modern Cars
I recently bought a new Peugeot and the experience of getting setup on their online platform has been painful to say the least.
Yesterday I picked up my shiny new (to me) Peugeot E-3008 GT. It's a beautiful car with lots of bells, whistles, and toys. I had my little MG EV for around 2.5 years, and it served me well, but I wanted something bigger, with more range. So I opted for the Peugeot.
Anyway, since this is a modern car, it no longer comes with an owner's manual. Instead you need to install an app and read the manual there. So I did that and duly signed up for a Peugeot Connect account - all standard procedure in this internet age we find ourselves in. That was until it came to generating a password.
I did my usual and generated a 30 character, complicated password with Bitwarden, only to be greeted with this ridiculous password complexity error:
So my 30 character, random string password is apparently weak and the only way to make it secure is reduce it's length (and complexity) by ~50%. Not only that, I had to abide by a slew of other arbitrary rules along the way.
I tried to generate a 16 character PW with Bitwarden a couple times, but the error persisted. So I ended up jumping over to Gemini, pasting the requirements in, and asking it to give me a password. Being the sycophantic AI that it is, it spat out a password that conformed to Peugeot's ridiculous rules. Or so I thought...
OK, so the password Gemini generated for me was
vR4&mK2$qW9_zP7!. Let's see how it stacks up to the requirements:- 8-16 characters â
- An uppercase letter â
- A lowercase letter â
- A number â
- A special character from the list â
- No sequential characters â
So why the fuck is the password still being rejected as too weak? I assume it's poor wording on Peugeot's part, but I ended up just typing gobbledegook into the field until it passed.
Interestingly,
P@ssw0rdalso passed and was reported as a "very strong" password:
For the record,
P@ssw0rdis NOT a very strong password. Don't use that. Ever.I'm astonished that this is still an issue in 2026. Why on earth can't manufacturers get this simple shit right? It's basic stuff. All you're doing here is forcing people to use shitty passwords.
But wait, there's more!
I finally got into my bloody Peugeot account and tried to enable to Connect features so I can do things like control air-con from the app, only to find that it costs ÂŁ90 (~$120) per year!
This isn't a piece of hardware that I'm paying for. It's literally ÂŁ90/year for a switch to be flipped in some software. Utter. Fucking. Robbery.
Peugeot, you should be ashamed of yourselves.
Aside from this, the new car is lovely. đ
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Extinct
Extinct
Author: RR Haywood
Genre: Sci-fi
Released: 2018
Rating: â â â â âThe end of the world has been avoidedâfor now. With Miri and her team of extracted heroes still on the run, Mother, the disgraced former head of the British Secret Service, has other ideasâŠ
While Mother retreats to her bunker to plot her next move, Miri, Ben, Safa and Harry travel far into the future to ensure that they have prevented the apocalypse. But what they find just doesnât make sense.
London in 2111 is on the brink of annihilation. Whatâs more, the timelines have been twisted. Folded in on each other. Itâs hard to keep track of who is where. Or, more accurately, who is when.
The clock is ticking for them all. With nothing left to lose but life itself, our heroes must stop Motherâor die trying.
I've really enjoyed this series - I'm a big fan of Haywood's writing, as regular readers will already know, I've read a few of his books. This one took me a little while to get through though; not because it was bad, just because I've had a lot going on at home, so haven't had much time for reading recently.
Haywood recently released book #4 in this series, Rebirth, which I've already bought. But I don't know if I should take a break from the series. I have the Red Rising books on my Kindle and everyone keeps telling me how good they are, so I may jump over and start those.
Any recommendations?
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OpenAI's big launch â and bigger departure
GPT-5.6 impresses the critics, but Fidji Simo's exit leaves OpenAI's focus â and its org chart â in flux. PLUS: Meta plays catch-up, and the "AI 2027" authors present "AI 2040." -
People and Blogs: Zachary Kai
People and Blogs is a series founded by Manuel Moreale featuring the people behind personal blogs and the stories of their corners of the web. This conversation â the last one Manu conducted before ... -
/getiteminfojoined/getitembyguidin robots.txt's Disallow list â both calls serve individual posts on demand, and we'd rather aggressive crawlers not treat them as an invitation to walk the whole database one post at a time. Feeds remain the front door, and they're static files on S3. -
The wedge
Every post now carries a small wedge just left of its comment icon, and it answers a question the timeline never could: is there more underneath? A dark wedge means the post has replies you aren't seeing â click it and they open right there, nested under the post, with everything else on screen staying put. Click again and they fold away. Each opened reply has its own wedge, so a deep conversation unfolds level by level, as far down as you care to go. A light wedge means don't bother clicking â nothing hidden. No spinning, no pointing down when open: the shade is the whole signal, an idea borrowed from outliners going back to Frontier, where it's worked without complaint for decades. If you've used Drummer, or the blogroll on scripting.com, your eye already knows how to read it.
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The like count that said -1
A heart under a post briefly showed a like count of minus one â the server always had the right number, but the copy on screen was doing arithmetic on stale information. The cause: a post can be on screen in more than one place at once (the timeline, its own story page), and when likes changed, only one of those copies got the news. Now every visible copy of a post updates together, and the count on screen can never go below zero. (Theme v0.5.307.)
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The left column grew up
The icons on the left â Home, New post, Feed, Flip, Data â now show their names next to them, in the style of the sidebars in Claude and ChatGPT. Same icons, same behavior, much easier to learn. (Theme v0.5.311.)
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The new GPT-5.6 family: Luna, Terra, Sol
OpenAI's latest flagship model hit general availability this morning, and comes in three sizes: Luna, Terra, and Sol (from smallest to largest).
The new models are priced per 1M input/output tokens as Luna $1/$6, Terra $2.50/$15, Sol $5/$30. For comparison, the Claude Opus series are $5/$25 and the Claude Fable 5 is $10/$50, but price-per-million tokens doesn't tell us much now that the number of reasoning tokens can differ so much between models for the same task.
All three models have a February 16th 2026 knowledge cutoff, a million token context window, and 128,000 maximum output tokens.
OpenAI's biggest benchmark claim concerns long-running agentic performance, with one benchmark showing all three models outperforming Claude Fable 5:
We trained GPT-5.6 to get more useful work from every token. On Agentsâ Last Exam, an evaluation of long-running professional workflows across 55 fields, GPT-5.6 Sol sets a new high of 53.6, eclipsing Claude Fable 5 (adaptive reasoning) by 13.1 points. Even at medium reasoning, it beats Fable 5 by 11.4 points at roughly one-quarter the estimated cost. That efficiency extends to smaller models, which are essential to making intelligence more abundant and affordable: GPT-5.6 Terra and GPT-5.6 Luna outperform Fable 5 at around one-sixteenth the cost.
Amusingly, one self-reported benchmark that Fable 5 crushed the GPT-5.6 family on was SWE-Bench Pro, where Fable 5 got 80% compared to GPT-5.6 Sol getting 64.6%. This may help explain why OpenAI chose to publish this article yesterday specifically calling out SWE-Bench Pro for problems they found while auditing that benchmark:
In light of these results, we estimate that ~30% of SWE-bench Pro tasks are broken, and advise that model developers carefully examine results
I've had some early access to GPT-5.6 Sol - it's definitely very competent, though so far it hasn't struck me as better than Fable at the kind of complex coding tasks I've been using with Anthropic's model.
As usual, the model guidance for using GPT-5.6 has the most interesting details. There are a bunch of new API features that I need to explore (and probably add support for in LLM), including:
- Programmatic Tool Calling allows the models to "compose and run JavaScript that orchestrates tool calls" - which sounds to me like it could help bridge the gap between MCPs and full terminal sessions that can compose CLI utilities in useful ways. Also reminiscent of the dynamic filtering mechanism Anthropic added to their web search tool, which allows code execution against web results as part of a single model turn.
- Multi-agent lets the model "spin up subagents for parallel, focused work" - the sub-agent pattern now baked into the core API.
- Prompt cache breakpoints brings the Claude model of prompt caching to OpenAI, letting you be explicit about where the cache breakpoints are rather than relying on the API to detect them automatically. Personally I much prefer automatic detection (still supported by OpenAI), but presumably there are optimization cost savings to be had here if you put the work in.
- You can now set detail: original on image requests to avoid resizing the image at all before it is processed.
Here's a full page with 18 different pelicans - for reasoning efforts none, low, medium, high, xhigh, and max across the three different models. It also lists their token and calculated costs - the least expensive was gpt-5.6-luna at effort none for 0.71 cents, the most expensive was gpt-5.6-sol at max reasoning level for 48.55 cents.
In further pelican news, if you jump to 17:50 in their livestream from this morning you'll see OpenAI's own demo of 3D pelicans riding a tricycle, a bicycle, a pony, and another pelican!
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