pedro1976

Created one for you!

https://api.feedless.org/f/c5f5ae53-16f1-4f67-b45f-1c3e8a92d...

What separates us afaik is - in bible terms - that we left the paradise, by becoming conscious.

"High German" is basically the dialect spoken in the Hanover area.

Author here, thanks for those tough nuts :) I am working on a successor of this POC called rich-rss [0], which contains a full rewrite of rss-proxy in a strongly typed language.

[0] https://github.com/damoeb/rich-rss

This legal agreement idea does not work at all. In most cases this agreement would have an expiration, only include specific actions and most likely could be withdrawn unilateral at any time. This makes an agreement basically worthless. The fact that people bring up technological solutions for social problems shows their inability to understand the messiness of social constructs.

IMO nuclear power won't help us in the climate crisis. The inertia to change our technologies, behaviour... is already extremely large, with nuclear energy (which is very limited) there will be less incentive to change anything at all. Hence, we will just prolong the party and not make use of this tiny thread of hope.

There are people [0] who claim that air traffic will be the first target of this development. It is very fragile, has a huge attack surface and efficient counter strategies are non existent. I am really amazed why "nothing" we know of has happened yet.

[0] https://after-on.com/episodes-31-60/044

This feeds into my dystopian believes. I a couple of years those drones will be affordable to every individual. This individual will then savely engage in a drone strike against other individuals. Hence I predict an end of the celebrity cult :)

I disagree. I find the it wasteful, that every source will implement their way of rendering data. If we ignore the ad-problem for a moment, I would love if RSS would be the output of every website and the client then renders HTML to achieve the best UX possible. No broken layouts, no distractions, no dark pattern, just content.

I created a automated HTML->Feed mapper [0], that simply analyzes the structure and offers you potential feeds.

[0] https://github.com/damoeb/rss-proxy/

Boredom is a totally underestimated and undervalued mental state these days. IMO it's quite difficult to become bored these days with all the distractions of the Internet. Many great thinkers went to rural "boredom resorts" to let their ideas thrive after they got stimuli from crowded cities.

I agree. SM operates on a subconscious level by exploiting all kinds of cognitive biases. Rational thinking won't solve this issue for the majority

I wrote a general purpose tool for html to rss mapping, maybe what you are looking for. You can run it as a docker container. https://github.com/damoeb/rss-proxy

I don't believe this will work but due to its complexity. And even if it will work, the life expectancy of some parts like solar panels is rather short. IMO projects like fog catchers [0] look much more promising.

[0] https://edition.cnn.com/2016/11/18/africa/fog-catchers-moroc...

There are other opensource alternatives you might be interested in too [0], [1] and [2]. For rss-proxy you do not have to deal with selectors, though the feed quality won't be as good as the one OP suggests.

[0] https://github.com/damoeb/rss-proxy/

[1] https://github.com/RSS-Bridge/rss-bridge

[2] https://github.com/DIYgod/RSSHub

Thx for the heads up, I appended it to the readme.

If you want to go crazy with RSS and build your entire information stream on top of it, you might need some glue code that semi-automatically turns static markup to rss [0]. (Disclaimer: I am the author)

[0] https://github.com/damoeb/rss-proxy

I did not know this one. The difference is that the first one extracts the feeds automatically, the second one not. Here the user has to define everything.

To me RSS is exactly that. I don't see the advantage of converting an HTML to RDF because it would cover the entire spectrum. All the semantics might be lost. RSS is the smallest common denominator. If you agree somehow, you might be interested in that tool [0], it converts HTML to RSS using pattern matching.

[0] https://github.com/damoeb/rss-proxy

I agree. I dropped all analytics for my blog and sideprojects, thoufh I found out that for my personal motivation I really like some stats about user engagement.

I could use the access logs from the webserver. Can anyone recommend a tool that post-processes those logs in a "analytics" like way?

Take care that you don't burn out, you have been pumping out releases lately like a team of 10. Keep up the great work!

Great, thanks for the feedback. I will add your feature request to the long list ;)

I would love to have a search engine for feeds, let's say I search for 'Stuart Russel podcast' and it returns among others the after-on.com feed url. So the output is always a feed url.

As I pointed out before, it feels like you haven't found your niche yet, but you are close. I don't recommend building a search engine, cause For an end user it does not matter how a search engine retrieves its data, only the results matter. And here you will always loose. This place is too crowded.

I would love if people would see that their networks they maintain are of incredible value. As a consequence I would like to profit of e.g. information network a person x has. My idea is that every person exposes an aggregated RSS feed of feeds they consume. Every interesting person that tells me their secret RSS link would empower me.

I started a couple of projects in that area, one is a piece of glue code [0] to automatically get a feed of a site, even if there isn't one. It maps html to a feed structure, which works decent, fixing broken feeds after the html changes is now the main concern.

[0] https://github.com/damoeb/rss-proxy

For those who require very custom, niche feeds, you might want to try rss-proxy [0] which automatically maps HTML markup to RSS feeds.

[0] https://github.com/damoeb/rss-proxy/

Sadly with RSS we never got to the point of building networks. People subscribed to the producers directly, but never to brokers. My underlying assumption is than news coorps are brokers in a way, we should not build a network based on them, cause they have a conflict of interest. So everyone ends up maintaining a huge list of feeds, rather than relying on other.

I apologize for being pessimistic about this. Curation does not scale due to Metcalfe's law [0] and socializing it does not work properly due to the differences of interests. What works is curation for subtrees, then you have a social network. Good luck!

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metcalfe's_la

Maybe my side project rss-proxy [0] might be interesting for you. It automatically transforms static HTML markup to RSS, so ideally you would not need to write a parser manually.

[0] https://github.com/damoeb/rss-proxy

Social media should be forbidden until the age of 18. Just consider beeing mobbed, you will be exposed 24/7.

If you looking for a niche feed, you might want to check out a general purpose feed generator rss-proxy [0]. It even supports JavaScript rendered pages.

[1] https://github.com/damoeb/rss-proxy