(webdev Tory) @worldsendless@qoto.org

@david_megginson

my morning playlist is the music to Newsies, so I have a casual awareness of some of that.

True that the entire economic state of news has changed; nonetheless, I prefer the Newspaper Box model to the News Delivery model. The box model -- which is no longer inconvenient to digital users -- is a clear win to privacy and freedom from invasive algorithms, spam, and black box news-feed tweaking.

That tweaking is the sort of thing that makes feeds non-reproducible ("I read a thing this morning and can't find it now") and non-shareable, not to mention unknown forces "tailoring" the feed to what they believe users want, which inherently promotes clickbait and ideological contention.

Give me clean #RSS !

In the physical world, the only real limitation to the newspaper box distribution method is that of convenience; the consumer might not have a box near them, or my not want to be troubled to go out to that box. These concerns go away online, and #RSS really shines at keeping anonymous distribution instead of anything requiring an registration (newsletters, vendor accounts). Identity is costly, even bothering with dummy or burner identities.

#GitHub down

@daviwil The long build times are gross, but "separate software management stack" is a real pity for Guix...

wow. Text-browser Nitter is actually quite nice. https://nitter.net/ChrisO_wiki/status/1673963225845493764#m

Ah! Great solution found: the impressive #libredirect plugin, which allows choosing redirects for YouTube and many others! https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/libredirect/ #privacy #FireFox #piped #YouTube #twitter #reddit #ManyOthers

Many #piped instances, including the main ones, seem to be hitting a java error that might be a result of being blocked by #YouTube. Fortunately each instance provides "preferences" that list other instances. Swapping them out individually, eventually I found one that still plays videos (for now). https://piped.simpleprivacy.fr/

@daviwil Are you using GUIX system with flatpak? If flatpak is just another repo, how do I tell guix to prefer that Firefox instead?

Whoa. Just performed a #guix update of #FireFox from 107 to 114. Downloading and installing the dependencies and the final product took over two hours...

no instance of #piped.video is working for me. eg https://piped.video/watch?v=1ZPopZJipnA

#MarcAndreessen on #LexFridman podcast points out that the advent of software would have #Marx rolling in his grave, because Marx' ideas were founded in industrial economics while the software boom sees individuals able to convert labor directly into capital. https://lexfridman.com/marc-andreessen/

I have youtube videos I want to listen to when I don't have eyes to spare. YouTube.com does some unholy mobile code that causes it to stop when you turn off your screen, even in your browser. Sometimes this can be bypassed by viewing in Firefox Mobile in desktop mode, but sometimes this just doesn't work. The Piped.video interface not only has no qualms about continuing playing when your screen is off, it offers an audio-only option so, presumably, I'm not streaming high-payload video data! Another win for #piped over the #DefectiveByDesign #YouTube greed.

Have you ever had two keys randomly swap places on your keyboard? Only if your #keyboard is this cool https://orys.us/uN #planck

@dekkzz76@emacs.ch been around for many fortnights, would you say? Just another case of #EmacsFurtunateMistype

Twice in two days I've had problems (solutions?) with #css. Once was a #WordPress site we thought was failing to display search results, and we found an errant over-matching `display: hidden` in the style. The other was while implementing a goog autocomplete and I mistook "not loading the data" with "forgot to make usable styles."

#emacs #orgmode org-agenda-fortnight-view. When did this happen!? It so happens that some of my schedule makes more sense that way, though.

I just recently discovered #emacs #Gnus `gnus-summary-next-unread-article`, default to `N` and hops from the end of one mail group (like my webdev email) to the next unread in any other group. Great addition to my #email workflow!