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  1. Re:don't expect to be in control for long on Why RSS Still Beats Facebook and Twitter for Tracking News (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1

    Such as?

  2. Re:Uh, actually, you totally can miss out with RSS on Why RSS Still Beats Facebook and Twitter for Tracking News (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1

    Yes, if you don't want to do it yourself then there are numerous online aggregators that will do it for you.

    I would note, though, that if you aren't allergic to paying, you could use one of those $5/mo web hosting companies to host your tt-rss (or whatever) installation and do it that way.

  3. Re:Uh, actually, you totally can miss out with RSS on Why RSS Still Beats Facebook and Twitter for Tracking News (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1

    What do you mean by "curated"? Do you mean the sources that I personally enjoy? I don't think it's worthwhile to just list a ton of links, but if you wanted to develop your own a reasonable place to start would be to look at the sources that Google News uses and pick the ones you like from there.

  4. Re:Juicero is a bad example on At Burning Man While Your Startup Burns (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    No, or at least not in the same way. Most of the engineering work for the iPhone had to do with user interface and human-facing design, and I think it probably had the correct amount considering the market it was aiming at.

    Juicero's overengineering had to do with the internal mechanics.

  5. Re:TinyTinyRSS on Why RSS Still Beats Facebook and Twitter for Tracking News (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 2

    I really, really love TT-RSS, but have to disagree with you about the mobile app -- I don't think it's amazing, I think it's pretty bad. I recommend gReader instead. It has all of the features of the TT-RSS mobile app (and a whole lot more), works very well with TT-RSS, and it's much nicer to use.

  6. Re:don't expect to be in control for long on Why RSS Still Beats Facebook and Twitter for Tracking News (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1

    It seems unlikely that they'd try to do any of that (let alone succeed). However, that's purely a "cross that bridge if we come to it" sort of thing.

  7. Re:feedburner is a single point of failure on Why RSS Still Beats Facebook and Twitter for Tracking News (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1

    Feedburner blows. But, although it's common, they are far from having a monopoly on these things. I have about 100 feeds in my list, and 10 of them are from feedburner.

  8. That's what I started to use when I switched away from Google News. I recently dropped it, though, and am happier for it. Instead, I go straight to the sources that I care about.

    Now, I never have to see all the garbage sources that Google includes. Win!

  9. Re:Are there free RSS tools? on Why RSS Still Beats Facebook and Twitter for Tracking News (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1

    Most RSS feeds that I've seen are free. It probably depends on what sites you're looking at, though. Also, RSS is not push technology, so you'd have to poll them.

  10. Re:Why RSS beats Facebook and Twitter for news on Why RSS Still Beats Facebook and Twitter for Tracking News (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1

    On the other hand, there are RSS feeds that require login credentials to read...

  11. Re:Lack of formatting = win on Why RSS Still Beats Facebook and Twitter for Tracking News (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1

    I haven't run into any sites that I care about that don't have an RSS feed (although often they aren't advertised, and you need to look in the HTML header to get the feed URL).

    However, back in the old days -- before RSS was widespread -- I ran a news aggregator and used a scraper to create an RSS feed for those sites that didn't make one themselves. I'm sure those programs still exist.

  12. Re:Makes sense, but... on Why RSS Still Beats Facebook and Twitter for Tracking News (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1

    Good RSS aggregators/readers allow you to do exactly this.

  13. Re:Decentralization on Why RSS Still Beats Facebook and Twitter for Tracking News (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1

    I believe that he means that you can get your RSS feed directly from each information source rather than a central clearinghouse (like Google News). Thus, decentralized.

  14. Re: Lack of leftist censorship? on Why RSS Still Beats Facebook and Twitter for Tracking News (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1

    The left/right dichotomy is a fake one egged on by both the media and the main political parties. In the US, it's pretty much BS and worth ignoring completely.

  15. Re:Why are you tracking news? on Why RSS Still Beats Facebook and Twitter for Tracking News (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1

    It sounds like you got hung up on the word "track". People might or might not mean what you think they mean by that.

  16. Re:Uh, actually, you totally can miss out with RSS on Why RSS Still Beats Facebook and Twitter for Tracking News (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1

    I've been running numerous servers on my (Comcast) home internet for years. This has not been a problem for me. If it ever becomes so, then I'll figure something out.

  17. Re: Shovelware sucks on How Proprietary Software Lets Companies Cheat (locusmag.com) · · Score: 1

    Yes, I would. Although, in practice, there is no such surcharge.

    If so, why didn't you just buy a more expensive camera that does what you want? You can't but the cheapest shit and then get mad that it's lacking features, that's unreasonable

    I think you may be confusing me with someone else. I haven't bought any cameras that require cloud connectivity.

  18. Re: Indeed on Why RSS Still Beats Facebook and Twitter for Tracking News (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 2

    gReader

  19. Re:news reader recommendations? on Why RSS Still Beats Facebook and Twitter for Tracking News (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 2

    Here's what I use:

    Tiny Tiny RSS on my home server (but you don't have to use it that way): https://tt-rss.org/

    gReader on Android: https://play.google.com/store/...

  20. Re:Uh, actually, you totally can miss out with RSS on Why RSS Still Beats Facebook and Twitter for Tracking News (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 4, Informative

    Most sites implement their RSS feed as a "most recent X items" and if there were more than X in however long you were offline - oops, they're just gone. You missed them.

    There are many solutions to this issue. The one I prefer is to use Tiny Tiny RSS that runs on my home server. It constantly gathers stories from the feeds I've defined, organizes them into topics that I've defined, and keeps those stories available for as long as I define (even forever, if I wish).

    Then it provides RSS feeds of its own (as well as a web interface). I use the RSS feeds from it instead of going straight to the source. I don't miss any stories.

    That's my solution, but it's one of many.

  21. There are several RSS readers that will go to the link and download the article itself for you. The one I use on Android even does this in the background, so when I tap on a story headline, I always get the story, not the summary.

  22. Indeed on Why RSS Still Beats Facebook and Twitter for Tracking News (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 5, Interesting

    When Google News changed their web site format (and rendered it much, much less useful to me), I switched to using RSS feeds.

    I had forgotten how awesome getting news this way is, and wonder why I ever stopped.

  23. Re:Batteries that aren't full-cycled last longer on Tesla Temporarily Boosts Battery Capacity For Hurricane Irma (sfgate.com) · · Score: 1

    I think it's likely that Tesla limits the batteries for lifetime purposes.

    So then why can you pay $5000 to have the limit removed?

  24. Re: Uh huh... on Tesla Temporarily Boosts Battery Capacity For Hurricane Irma (sfgate.com) · · Score: 1

    Yeah, so?

  25. So Tesla artificially inhibits the hardware? on Tesla Temporarily Boosts Battery Capacity For Hurricane Irma (sfgate.com) · · Score: 1

    Another good reason to never buy a Tesla.

    I know this is common practice for a lot of companies, but it's still a horrible practice and I avoid supporting it whenever possible.