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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

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/

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

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!

I used to listen to #podcasts through Google, then through Spotify, then Spotify Lite, and now I just love listening to them raw through #firefox and the RSS feed (#elfeed on my pc, #feeder on my phone). There are tradeoffs -- can't share as easily, don't have playlists of them, can't cast. But I also don't have things getting paused accidentally by the service or by others on my account (there are no accounts at all!), and I don't need to worry about things tracking/sharing my listening data. At least, not for podcasts. It's the way podcasts were meant to be!

Excited for this talk on #Clojure performance in an hour. https://www.meetup.com/london-clojurians/events/293273349/?utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=share-btn_savedevents_share_modal&utm_source=link

It's a beauty of open source #emacs that I thought, "with my three streens and multiple emacs windows per frame, it would be great to blink the modeline which one has received my focus." A short function later and boom; done!

Often I search for something like, "What's the OS Alt for XYZ?" But now I wonder, "what's the proprietary version of it?" In particular, I have no idea what is the off-the-shelf equivalent that a lay user might know for #Inkscape?