Timeline
Every post and feed across this instance
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Hello World ...
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Sat06Nov2004 - BloggerCon III -Jing Jing Podcast dinner - 7 blurry spicy noodles André Radke inspired of course :-) #BloggerCon #2004 #JingJing
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Why are American ambulances so expensive? In part...
Why are American ambulances so expensive? In part because Medicare pays only a fraction of the actual cost of an ambulance ride and the uninsured often don’t pay at all, so the privately insured get bills of $13,000 for a $2600 ride.
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A New “Movement Class” Is Emerging - by Oana Leonte
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Viktor Frankl, Carl Jung, and Alan Watts All Discovered the Same 5 Rules for Living—Almost Nobody Lives by Them https://scienceandsoul.substack.com/p/viktor-frankl-carl-jung-and-alan +links
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Apple Is the King of AI and Nobody Knows It https://open.substack.com/pub/limitededitionjonathan/p/apple-is-the-king-of-ai-and-nobody +links +apple +ai
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From Our Correspondent in Wisconsin - TPM – Talking Points Memo
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/from-our-correspondent-in-wisconsin
+links +pefl
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ICE Illegally Scooped Up Medicaid Data, Then Shared It With Palantir
The Trump administration’s continual trend towards maximum awfulness means that every report seems to be “I’ve got bad news and I’ve got worse news.” What was already bad has become even worse now that more of the administration’s actions have been exposed during court proceedings. Last July, the Trump administration unilaterally decided ICE should have […] -
Who needs silos?
I love the idea of RSS.chat
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We’re Squandering LEDs’ Potential to Save Our Night...
We’re Squandering LEDs’ Potential to Save Our Night Skies. “Our main failure isn’t a technical one. It’s that we have yet to revise our thinking about lighting at night. We use LED technology just as we did the old sources of light.”
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blamouche/browsidian: Browser interface for your local Obsidian vaults
https://github.com/blamouche/browsidian +links +markdown +obsidian +web +editor
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ToDo
- Run an instance of rss.chat in oevl.info (rss.oevl.info)
- Run an instance of browsidian in oevl.info (md.oevl.info)
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scripting/rss.chat: A simple chat network, client and server, based on RSS 2.0 feeds and websockets. https://github.com/scripting/rss.chat/tree/main +links +rss
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El modelo Costco: Cuando pagar bien es una estrategia de rentabilidad - America Malls & Retail https://americaretail-malls.com/opinion/el-modelo-costco-cuando-pagar-bien-es-una-estrategia-de-rentabilidad/ +links +sbi
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RSS Chat
Article URL: https://johnjohnston.info/blog/rss-chat/
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49023374
Points: 1
# Comments: 0
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A Matter of Form (1984)
In addition to leading the animation studio at the National Film Board of Canada, René Jodoin made several animated films that explored geometric forms and motion, including the one above, A Matter of Form from 1984.
Set to the rousing notes of Schubert’s Military March, this animation film is an ingenious example of how a single point can be the building-block for a multiplicity of shapes and configurations. Lines and forms grow out of the point, eventually covering the entire screen in splashes of colour. This is geometric wizardry at its colourful best. A film without words.
I’m not saying my affinity for such animations is because I watched so much Sesame Street as a kid, but I’m not not saying it either.
Here’s another of Jodoin’s films, Dance Squared:
You can watch more of Jodoin’s work in this YouTube playlist. (via the kid should see this)
Tags: geometry · René Jodoin · video
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Patreon Lays Off 20 Percent of Its Workforce
In an internal email shared with creators, CEO Jack Conte wrote that AI doesn’t replace human creativity — but it does affect how the company operates. -
Amyloo, a longtime friend from the early days of podcasting, has made an appearance on demo.rss.chat. So happy to see her. Here's one of the bits we did, back then in the very early days of podcasting in 2005. A duet of Green Acres. Ten seconds of dead air at the beginning, it was pretty common in those days. But I think the spirit of it is lovely. BTW fwiw I cracked my voice on purpose. 😄
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A new feature on rss.chat, images. Up to 2MB per. User interface couldn't be simpler, get the image on your clipboard, start editing your post, put the cursor where you want the image, paste. Prior art was GitHub and Slack. It was driving me crazy not having this feature. I think perhaps I should add this to textcasting. It's a feature I needed to be reminded is essential. The first browser to support inline images came from Univ of Illinois in 1993, NCSA Mosaic. It didn't come from TBL, but it is most definitely a standard feature of the web. -
Security fix
We got a report of a security issue which we quickly addressed and fixed.
Instructions on how to update your server.
This server has been updated as has rss.chat.
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Security fix
We got a report of a security issue which we quickly addressed and fixed.
Instructions on how to update your server.
This server has been updated as has demo.rss.chat.
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An online edition of all 85 of the Federalist Papers ,...
An online edition of all 85 of the Federalist Papers, presented as they were originally serialized in newspapers, with on eye on good typography and readability.
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The Rise of Anti-Flock Influencers Who Make Things Up for Clout
Instagram influencers are creating fake cease-and-desist letters, making themselves go viral and muddying the waters about mass surveillance. -
Alright.
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Early this morning we got a report of a security issue in the rss.chat server, quickly fixed and tested the new version. So, if you're running your own instance of rss.chat, you please follow the instructions and do the update asap.
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The Simple Joy of “No Phones Allowed"
“Every time someone in a group of people deploys a screen, the whole group is affected. Each disengaged person in a crowd is like a little black hole, a dead zone for social energy, radiating a noticeable field of apathy towards the rest of the room and what’s happening there.”
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“ This map shows the predicted density of...
“This map shows the predicted density of underground networks created by arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi. These networks form one of Earth’s circulatory systems, moving massive amounts of carbon, nutrients, and water across plant communities.”
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What's coming to RSC: smarter sources, cleaner timelines, honest attribution
We've just finished designing the biggest under-the-hood upgrade RSC has had since launch. It's being built in four stages, and while most of the work is invisible plumbing, all of it exists to change what you actually see and trust in your timeline. Here's what you'll get.
One story, one card
Today, when the same post reaches RSC through more than one feed — a personal blog you follow and a newsletter that republishes it — you can end up with duplicates in your river. After the upgrade, RSC understands that these are the same item.
You'll see one card, showing the best version available,
with clear credit to the person or site it came from. If a better copy arrives later (say, the author's own canonical version), the card quietly upgrades itself.Know where things really come from
Anyone can put a name on a feed item. Soon, RSC will be able to check.
When a post claims to come from a particular site, RSC can verify that the post actually appears there — and content that passes gets the strongest attribution. Impersonation gets harder; genuine authorship gets the credit.
A safer, better-kept neighborhood
Instance operators get real tools to keep timelines healthy without
rewriting history:- Hide an individual post clear record of what was done and why.
- Purge a bad source completely — and it stays gone: renamed or redirected copies of a purged feed can't sneak back in.
Everything is reversible where it should be, permanent where it must be, and every action leaves an audit trail.
Your subscriptions, upgraded in place
When the switch happens, you don't have to do anything.
Everyone you follow, every feed you've subscribed to, every post and conversation, and the instant-update connections that make new posts appear live — all of it carries over automatically.Each instance is backed up before the switch, the changeover happens in one atomic step, and if anything looks wrong we
restore and try again another day.What doesn't change
RSC stays RSC. Posts, replies, and conversations still travel as plain RSS that any reader can consume. Your data stays yours, in open formats, with no lock-in.
Everything above works without JavaScript, in both themes, on the web you already use.
When?
The four stages ship in order, each fully tested behind a switch before it's turned on.
We'll announce here as each one goes live — starting with the foundations, which are being built right now.
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Updating a server you already run
This is the first of a kind of note you'll see here from now on: when a change matters to people running their own installs, the steps to update will live right here in worknotes. For this one:
Get the new
rssnetwork.jsandpackage.jsonfrom the repo.In your server's folder, run
npm install. The updatedpackage.jsonadds one package -- the cleaner -- and this brings it in.Restart the server.
That is the whole update. Nothing in your config or your database changes, and the cleaner applies to new and edited posts the moment you restart.
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A security fix -- posts are now cleaned as they're saved -- and the first update note of a new kind: how to bring a server you already run up to date
A post's text is written by its author and then shown to everyone who reads the timeline, which means anything hidden inside it runs in every reader's browser. Until today the server stored a post's text exactly as it arrived, so a post could carry markup that did more than format words. As of server v0.6.3, every post passes through a cleaner on its way into the database. Ordinary writing comes through untouched -- links, bold and italic, quotes, lists, and pasted images are all kept -- but anything that could run code is removed before the post is ever stored. Because the cleaning happens as the post is written, it protects every reader of every feed and timeline at once, and no old or unusual browser can slip past it. Both public servers, rss.chat and demo.rss.chat, are already running it. Thanks to the reader who reported this privately.
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Hello world. I'm testing to make sure that the server is working after another upgrade.
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Leaked Document Shows the Surveillance Tech at ICE’s Fingertips
From phone location data, to social media monitoring, to online undercover tools, a document obtained by 404 Media lays out the surveillance tech available across ICE agency wide. -
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La source originale de la web app: https://rss.chat
Et pour celles et ceux qui veulent essayer sans complications: https://demo.rss.chatL'installation de l'instance soFab a été effectuée grâce à l'aide de Claude.
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Orcas Explode Fish Into Confetti, Possibly for Fun, In ‘Astounding’ New Video
A team captured first-of-its-kind footage of orcas holding a sunfish carcass still and ramming it so hard that it burst into fragments, which may be a form of social play. “We could hear the sound,” said one researcher. -
Something to keep in mind in press reports with AI apps breaking out of their sandbox, it works the other way too. If you give a big piece of code to Claude and ask if it to find any security issues, it not only finds (at least some of) them, but it also suggests fixes. Quickly. I've done it the other way, where you have a small team, and someone discovers a hack, and you have to find the right answer and implement it, asap.
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I've now foutered my way through sendgrid and for 100 days on the free plan I've got a way to sign into my localhost copy of rss chat.
I am going to try my Raspberry Pi next, probably at the weekend.
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Dem Texas AG Candidate Vows To Investigate Musk’s Starlink Grant Grift
Last month I wrote a feature for The Verge exploring how Republicans had hijacked the Biden-era infrastructure bill to redirect billions of dollars away from next-generation fiber, and instead funnel it into the pockets of billionaires Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos — in exchange for congested, expensive, satellite broadband service they’d already planned to deploy. […] -
Our New FOIA Forum! 7/30, 1PM ET
Join us for our latest FOIA Forum where we teach you how to pry records from the government. -
Hello, I just arrived here. As I posted to demo.rss.chat I managed to get this running on my mac, without much bother.
rss chat is now simper to set up so I gave it a wee go on local host. So far I've just run it from my downloads folder. The instructions worked but I am a node-no-nothing so I tripped a couple of times.
First I didn't npm install so nothing worked.
I tried to set up SMTP using SendGrid, but I lost the will to live half way through. Got an API key but
> Message failed: 550 The from address does not match a verified Sender Identity. Mail cannot be sent until this error is resolved. Visit https://sendgrid.com/docs/for-developers/sending-email/sender-identity/ to see the Sender Identity requirementsSo I just copied the magicString from the terminal and constructed my own url:
`http://localhost:1420/userconfirms?emailConfirmCode=ysugstk4yc\`Which did the trick.
Of course a localhost-one-person social network is not much use ;-) but interesting none the less.
Once I have braced myself and figured out SMTP I'll try this on my raspberry pi next.
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Security versus Privacy
Security versus Privacy
by Loren Stephens
Loren talks about the differences between Security and Privacy, but also how (and why) he prioritises one over the other.
I actually wrote about this topic back in 2019 - I agree with Loren that Security and Privacy are often used interchangeably, but they're objectively different things.
Anyway, that's old news. The thing I wanted to comment on in this post is Loren's position on how he prioritises one over the other. He says:
So, when I ask myself which one matters more, I consistently arrive at the same answer: security first, then privacy.
I used to be among those who avoided Google services due to privacy concerns, and I understand why. [...] However, by choosing to avoid Google, many people end up using less secure alternatives. They've prioritized the second question while neglecting the first.
I agree strongly with this. I've fallen foul of this myself, where in my efforts to de-Google, I've ended up using worse tools both in terms of security and functionality.
At this point in my life, I just want my shit to work well and get out of my way. I do, however, prioritise security, then privacy, then functionality. Ultimately, I care more about keeping my data secure, than anything else.
That's not to say I don't care about privacy. I just care more about securing my data.
If I can find a tool that gives me both security and privacy, I'll use that every time.
Thanks for reading this post via RSS. RSS is ace, and so are you. ❤️
You can reply to this post by email, or leave a comment.
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Minor unexpected behavior
In a browser (e.g., Safari or Firefox on a Mac)
Click the post feed icon.
Click browser's Back button.
Click the post timestamp.
Click the post username.
Click browser's Back button again.
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Dr. Gillie Jenkinson on Thought Reform, Trauma, and Walking Free (Part 2)
In Part 2 of our conversation with Dr. Gillie Jenkinson, we move from her remarkable story into the practical question so many survivors ask: How do you actually recover after leaving a cult? Gillie shares how her own experience escaping a high-control Christian group led her to become one of the world's leading specialists in cult recovery, and why she set out to create ethical, trauma-informed support when almost none existed. We dig into the foundations of her work, from the International Cultic Studies Association (ICSA) and the pioneering Wellspring Retreat Center to the influence of Dr. Robert Jay Lifton's thought reform model, exploring why understanding coercive control is often the first step toward reclaiming yourself.
We also unpack the common threads Gillie has seen after decades of working with former members of high-control groups, religious cults, and coercive relationships. From identity reconstruction and trauma recovery to the importance of healthy therapeutic boundaries and making sense of what happened, this convo’s packed with hope and hard-earned wisdom for anyone navigating life after undue influence.
Pick up Dr. Gillie Jenkinson’s book, Walking Free from the Trauma of Coercive, Cultic and Spiritual Abuse, follow her on Facebook or LinkedIn, and follow Hope Valley Counselling at hopevalleycounselling.com or on Facebook.
Trigger warning: This episode contains frank discussion of religious trauma, coercive control, thought reform, and psychological manipulation.
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Librarians Are Helping the Public Ditch AI w/ Hannah Cyrus & Alison Macrina
Librarians are working harder than ever to support their neighbourhoods — including by teaching and promoting digital literacy. Hannah Cyrus and Alison Macrina join Paris Marx to discuss the role of library workers in the digital landscape, including how they’re helping patrons navigate privacy basics and artificial intelligence, and how the tech industry is making their jobs harder.
Hannah Cyrus is a digital media librarian at the Bangor Public Library. Alison Macrina is an activist librarian and the director of Library Freedom Project.
The podcast is made in partnership with The Nation. Production is by Kyla Hewson. Support the show on Patreon.
Also mentioned in this episode:
- Click here to get your first month of Proton Mail for just $1.
- The Library Freedom Project has a ton of resources on critically approaching technology.
- Bangor Daily News wrote about librarians like Hannah helping patrons get AI off their devices.
- Shout out to friend of the pod Brian Merchant and his book Blood in the Machine.
- Learn more about the Luddite Club.
- Learn more about the organization Libraries For The People, working to strengthen and expand libraries.
- Support your local library! Say hello, get a card if you don’t have one, and participate in community events.
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Much better than Chatouk!🙄
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This is great!
Thank you Dave 🤗
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Something about the UI here is pleasingly tactile.
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How does
relate to
- https://wordland.social/ & https://this.how/wordland/ & https://github.com/scripting/wordlandSupport
I see that the editor features are a little different. In wordland, there's a little paper-airplane icon that publishes/updates the wordland post on a wordpress blog:
the arrow icons move back and forth between wordland posts, and the + adds a new post.In demo.rss.chat, it's setup like a top-posting chat, where the '+' icon on the side bar add new top-level posts:
and the posts appear to make a tree with replies, and comments.
The header of the post has three clickable bits, The poster's name, (which leads to a list of their posts, e.g.
https://demo.rss.chat/?screenname=drf5n
), a direct link to the particular post (e.g. this one is
https://demo.rss.chat/?id=231 )
, and the poster's RSS feed, so you could keep up-to-date with an RSS reader.
