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Kazy posted:I still use Feedly. I have one tech website on Feedly as a force of habit. It's a good app, but there are other more modern ways I can look at article headlines, say that sounds interesting, bookmark it and never look at it again.
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Michaeldim posted:The software is called SurePOS ACE. It's mainly meant for supermarkets. It runs on a bizarre OS called IBM 4690, originally built on a multitasking DOS. Unfortunately I find it hopelessly fascinating so I set up a working system of my own and spent far too much time tracking the software down.
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RSS feeds rule. I run my own aggregator on my personal website, using Selfoss. It's pretty great.
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Kazy posted:I still use Feedly. 
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Sep 22, 2019 18:24
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Krispy Wafer posted:I have one tech website on Feedly as a force of habit.
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Sep 22, 2019 22:53
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mobby_6kl posted:I use the RSS feature in Outlook, and I suspect I might be the only one who does that now. There are three sites I need to keep an eye on and this seems to be by far the best way to do that. I don't even know what the alternative would be, twitter feeds? This lets me see at a glance if and how many updates there are from my inbox without spamming me with notifications, and read it when I have moment. It's pretty funny because I never really seriously used RSS when it was all the rage, this is just for the last year or two. Same. I want to be able to see a text-only list of updates to only content I'm interested in (including Youtube videos) with the ability to mark them as read so they are removed from the list and I have never seen anyway to do that aside from RSS. I use youtube-dl so I can grab the URL from a text-only list of videos from channels I frequent from an RSS feed via Feedly and I never have to go to Youtube's website. Unperson_47 has a new favorite as of 00:50 on Sep 23, 2019 |
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Sep 23, 2019 00:46
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I paid for NewsBlur even though it’s free and it’s everything I need in an rss reader including a great app that is still worked on. I use it all the time.
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Sep 23, 2019 04:35
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I used QuiteRSS for a bit after Google shut down Reader, but it just seemed to underline how much dang work it was to go through RSS feeds. I had way too many. Now I can't even remember most of them, so I guess they weren't that important. I have never seen a compelling reason to use Twitter for anything that would overcome the compelling reasons to avoid Twitter. gpodder, an open source podcast downloader I used after finally getting sick of iTunes, will also work with plain RSS feeds, but with around 100 or so feeds, it's really slow. It will, however, let me stream (most) YouTube videos so I never have to go to YouTube again.
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Sep 23, 2019 08:02
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doctorfrog posted:gpodder, an open source podcast downloader I used after finally getting sick of iTunes, will also work with plain RSS feeds, but with around 100 or so feeds, it's really slow. It will, however, let me stream (most) YouTube videos so I never have to go to YouTube again. gPodder seems to work well for me too, at least for podcasts. I haven't bothered with RSS for web pages, blogs, etc. for a while, but I used to use Thunderbird for it and it still seems to support them. I never tried 100 feeds though.
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Sep 23, 2019 10:04
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Jerry Cotton posted:Do you pronounce it RSS or R S S? i explained podcasts to my grandparents as just a newer iteration of radio where you choose the specific radio program, instead of having to listen live
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Sep 23, 2019 13:25
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Seriously what the gently caress do you DO with an rss feed? -questions I've been asking since like 2002
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Sep 23, 2019 17:41
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I, too, have been asking this question. Scooter from Sleep With Me really wants me to set mine up, god love him.
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Sep 23, 2019 17:44
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Wasabi the J posted:Seriously what the gently caress do you DO with an rss feed? I have a shitload of tech sites in my rss reader so I don't have to check websites for updates. It used to be a shitload of tumblr porn sites. And then welp.
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it would actualyl be really nice to have my facebook, youtube, twitter, and discord all update in one consolidated timeline. maybe in different columns since they only take up a third of the vertical space of my monitor anyway. having it all on one screen would make it so much easier for me to check it once in the morning, once in the evening, so much faster.
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Sep 23, 2019 17:50
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an rss feed is for scrolling through 250+ headlines during coffee and maybe clicking to read one or two things in full while your brain boots up
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Sep 23, 2019 17:51
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I don't drink coffee
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Cojawfee posted:I don't drink coffee Might as well burn your computer then.
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Wasabi the J posted:Seriously what the gently caress do you DO with an rss feed? If you use Outlook, Thunderbird, etc., it's the interface of an email client but the messages contain the title of a news article, blog post, or whatever, and the body might have a snippet of the article IIRC. Now you get told about new articles without having to go to the site and the tool remembers for you which ones you've read (or at least have marked as read or deleted).
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Sep 23, 2019 21:41
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Many RSS feeds do, or did, contain the full text of the article. It was a better experience than going to the site itself.
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Sep 23, 2019 22:17
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Wasabi the J posted:Seriously what the gently caress do you DO with an rss feed? Podcasts generally deliver themselves through an RSS feed, I believe? (At the very least, you can add RSS feeds to some podcasting programs.) Outside of that you can also use RSS to automate downloading of torrents as they get uploaded, providing the tracker you use supports it. Outside of that though, I have to admit I've never really used them.
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Sep 23, 2019 22:21
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Used to have this thing, and it had an RSS readout feature, it was so useless since the screen is small as hell and you could only read the headlines, still i thought it was cool at the time
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Convention these days is to deliver notifications directly through an app or browser-notifications. The same reason you click a link on a the forums and are prompted to download ratdick.info THE APP. RSS is used for podcasts, with the understanding that you are getting notifications from your app of choice, not because people are using Outlook for RSS in 2019. It’s a leftover and anything including an RSS reader is converting it to a more-“modern” push notification system. They can’t skip that step because it’s burned-in to both ends of the chain. Note: the only real way for RSS to die will be quick and violent once a major player (sic) drops it and requires the app-store model SLOSifl has a new favorite as of 22:45 on Sep 23, 2019 |
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Sep 23, 2019 22:36
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RSS feeds are like a newspaper or radio or whatever where you get to pick what gets broadcast. Want to keep up with a blog that updates every 6 months? Add the RSS feed to your reader. Want to assemble your own comics section? Add all their RSS feeds. Want to see all the headlines from a news site without them filtering it based on a marketing profile of you? Take their RSS feed. For sites that depend on adds, RSS feeds are terrible because you skip most of their ad UX and browse content first. For sites that need to count views, they'll give you a link to their their site as content. For sites that don't depend on any of it, they'll feed the content directly to your reader. The other nice thing for people making websites is that most platforms have built in ways to create an RSS feed, so all you do is click a button on a settings page somewhere.
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LifeSunDeath posted:Used to have this thing, and it had an RSS readout feature, it was so useless since the screen is small as hell and you could only read the headlines, still i thought it was cool at the time The idea of having a piece of tech that only does one thing is so late 20th century. Reminds me of stuff that just did emails or q codes or any other single use stuff. Your phone can do basically everything as long as you have a data connection.
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twistedmentat posted:The idea of having a piece of tech that only does one thing is so late 20th century. Reminds me of stuff that just did emails or q codes or any other single use stuff. Your phone can do basically everything as long as you have a data connection. Well, what if WIFI went out, huh what then? Just made me think of when a certain boomer would go " If money became worthless, these rich people would starve in a week" and " If the internet was shut down, y'all wouldnt know what to do with yourselves" Look buddy, if we experience such a societcal/economic collapse that US currency is rendered valueless, then we got some other serious issues to attend with. Same as with no internet. Having the entire Internet grid collapse for a sustained period of time (or essentially permanently) would mean there would be some major serious problems going on that would be more important than cat memes.
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Johnny Aztec posted:Well, what if WIFI went out, huh what then? Ask that boomer what they'd do if Amazon ended home delivery of their insulin/knee medication/Rascal batteries.
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twistedmentat posted:The idea of having a piece of tech that only does one thing is so late 20th century. Reminds me of stuff that just did emails or q codes or any other single use stuff. Your phone can do basically everything as long as you have a data connection. You know that's not just a dedicated RSS machine right?  But yeah phones definitely killed off a whole bunch of personal gadgets for the majority of people. Like literally everything in this photo except for the stun gun:  And then phones got so cheap they could give them away with happy meals. mobby_6kl has a new favorite as of 12:00 on Sep 24, 2019 |
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Can you imagine how much noise that guy makes when he walks? Probably sounds like a busted rock tumbler. And are those bullets in his belt bandoleer?
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Meanwhile I just got a dedicated TAN generator for online banking, because my bank switched from codes-by-text to codes-by-app and I definitely don't trust them to not have had their app programmed by the lowest bidder. It's actually kinda cool in exactly the right formerly-cyberpunk-now-obsolete tech sort of way.
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Johnny Aztec posted:Well, what if WIFI went out, huh what then? cell network?
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Krispy Wafer posted:Can you imagine how much noise that guy makes when he walks? Probably sounds like a busted rock tumbler. And are those bullets in his belt bandoleer? 2019 answer: vape cartridges
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My Lovely Horse posted:Meanwhile I just got a dedicated TAN generator for online banking, because my bank switched from codes-by-text to codes-by-app and I definitely don't trust them to not have had their app programmed by the lowest bidder. Are you meaning like RSA keyfobs? If so - yeah I have a few for various work and banking stuff. Much better than app poo poo considering I've hosed up going to new phone and not migrating some poo poo from an authenticator app.
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LifeSunDeath posted:Used to have this thing, and it had an RSS readout feature, it was so useless since the screen is small as hell and you could only read the headlines, still i thought it was cool at the time see this is the exact type of poo poo that should be common by now, fuckin cyberpunk poo poo. Slamming those g keys for hypernet ultracomputing
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LifeSunDeath posted:Used to have this thing, and it had an RSS readout feature, it was so useless since the screen is small as hell and you could only read the headlines, still i thought it was cool at the time It appears to be displaying stats for a video game, because when I'm playing a game I want to be constantly looking at my left hand to figure out how much health I have left.
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Pham Nuwen posted:It appears to be displaying stats for a video game, because when I'm playing a game I want to be constantly looking at my left hand to figure out how much health I have left. Logitech had an API so games could display information on that and I think one other keyboard they made with the display. It was a neat idea that worked with a grand total of like 7 games (which I can't find a list of).
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Krispy Wafer posted:Can you imagine how much noise that guy makes when he walks? Probably sounds like a busted rock tumbler. And are those bullets in his belt bandoleer? 10Base2 terminators
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Among the many amusing things in that cyberpunk photo, the one that always strikes me is the giant Sony Pyxis GPS. This was well before the US government turned off Selective Availability that intentionally degraded the signal for civilian users, so that thing was only accurate to within 100 meters or so. Which was still pretty awesome by 1993 standards, but not really useful for the urban cyberpunk who wanted to geotag the exact spot where they spliced into the corporation's token ring network to gain unauthorized Tymnet access.
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mobby_6kl posted:But yeah phones definitely killed off a whole bunch of personal gadgets for the majority of people. Like literally everything in this photo except for the stun gun: I find that amazing that you're not being hyperbolic. Literally everything can be run on a bone-stock smartphone, probably using free apps from the app store. Not even a special dongle, add-on or software required Known Lecher posted:Among the many amusing things in that cyberpunk photo, the one that always strikes me is the giant Sony Pyxis GPS. This was well before the US government turned off Selective Availability that intentionally degraded the signal for civilian users, so that thing was only accurate to within 100 meters or so. 
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By then your parents will have already driven off the end of the pier.
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Shut up Meg posted:I find that amazing that you're not being hyperbolic. Literally everything can be run on a bone-stock smartphone, probably using free apps from the app store. Not even a special dongle, add-on or software required This is GPS. For the device to calculate where you are, it has to download the map of where all the satellites are. This takes forever as you only get about 50 bits per second from, you know, space. Phones and more modern devices with internet connections use aGPS where it grabs that data using the faster internet connection. Once the device has that it can determine location.
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