● 05.24.23
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●● RSS Feeds (or XML/Atom) Are Far Better Than Social Control Media, Doing It With CLI and Text Editors Works Best for Us
Posted in Site News at 3:50 am by Dr. Roy Schestowitz
Video download link | md5sum c6f31e80562b96bd70360acd7a2524e6CLI and RSS Feeds Creative Commons Attribution-No Derivative Works 4.0
http://techrights.org/videos/feeds-cli-workflow.webm
Summary: Consumption (marketing term) of content (another misnomer) on the World Wide Web has been geared towards engagement (fancy term for time-wasting), so we’re trying to correct this with RSS feeds and processing of news (to Separate the Wheat From the Chaff)
THE curation of Daily Links in this site is done manually with help from hand-crafted tools, developed and improved over time to better suit our needs. This morning we reported — or rather attempted to report — to FreeBSD that its main feed had gone really bad, critically invalid in fact.
“Maybe more people will follow suit and find/gather/explore their news sans all the unnecessary cruft (tracking, pop-ups, paywalls, malicious JavaScript, autoplaying videos and irrelevant images).”
For those who aren’t keeping abreast of these developments over Git (there are several programs used), the video above gives an informal overview; there are daily routines and weekly routines for fishing out news of interest. A lot of the heavy lifting is done with Perl, Bash and Python. Browsing is done with text editors and Web browsers. After nearly 20 years of using RSS readers I’ve come to the conclusion that this is the best way to get stuff done. Yesterday we shared this new article about “Informant”, a command-like news reader for GNU/Linux. Maybe more people will follow suit and find/gather/explore their news sans all the unnecessary cruft (tracking, pop-ups, paywalls, malicious JavaScript, autoplaying videos and irrelevant images). █
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