> solution that censors large amounts of speech

I did not read anywhere that this solution can only be used if it's the ONLY solution. Did you?

How is the statement "not every solution needs to work for 100% of the people" controversial? People are different, with different circumstances and ideally there are a variety of solutions to cover all of them

Maybe it's your browser/phone restricting that?

Zoom works find on default samsung browser

https://imgur.com/a/brZ3FXP

At least it's possible to tease out some nuance between those topics. Unlike all the people still simping for the Manchurian candidate's immediately self-defeating policies - let's compete with China through stiff import taxes that directly hurt American businesses, let's be strong by alienating our allies, let's fix the market for manual labor by arresting individual illegal immigrants while giving passes to big businesses employing them at scale, let's fix inflation and government overreach by printing $5T of new money and spending it on unaccountable jackboots. It's perversely amazing how this whole movement continues to run on empty spectacles and identity politics. When it finally burns through its fervor, all of the existing problems are still going to be there, plus a whole host of new problems.

Aren't there tons of generic terms gTLD controlled by a single organizations now?

I've just learned here that .man is owned/controlled by the MAN group

edit: source: https://icannwiki.org/.man

also: walmart applied for .george https://icannwiki.org/.george

Having restarted using rss in the past months (after probably 10+ years of not using it) i am now starting to remember why I stopped using it: lack of a personal "algorithm" that made hundreds (if not 1000s) of unread daily items to be manageable.

I know part of it is on me. I need to let go, unsubscribe aggressively, etc... but this is... work?

Im not a regular iOS user, but on it I have feeeeds which actually seem to have a sane personal "algorithm" of sorts that doesn't force ALL feeds items onto me, and also isn't purely chronological.

More readers should have this

> Im not a regular iOS user, but on it I have feeeeds which actually seem to have a sane personal "algorithm" of sorts that doesn't force ALL feeds items onto me, and also isn't purely chronological.

> More readers should have this

Why? If that's what you want you can get it from your social medium of choice. I use RSS because it gives me precisely what I asked for (for better and for worse), and I suspect the vast majority of the userbase feels the same.

Because a local algorithm not dictated by a social media walled garden will probably not optimize for engagement to deliver a large amount of ads.

Yeah never subscribe to a feed that publishes more than once a day (basically any news website).

Gnus in emacs is a good reader for that due to the scoring system in gnus.

The thing that made RSS work for me is to really limit my feeds. Instead of following 10 tech news sites that have a bunch of overlap, I follow 1 that has most of what I want. A few blogs are for apps I use and want to be informed of new information, but they post infrequently, which is good.

Feed with dozens of posts per day turn into noise, especially if you have a lot of them.

By choosing one site I trust, I let the editors edit, instead of the algorithm.

Yikes. I read THOUSANDS of RSS headlines on a daily basis. This is exactly why I use RSS. You can easily get a glimpse of headlines and keep browsing.

That's the beauty of RSS, people can tailor it to their needs and wants. If I saw thousands of unread items, I'd shut down and give up. On the flip side, if you had my feed list, you'd probably feel like you were missing a ton of stuff. But we can both make it work for us.

I did have a job where I got 10k email per day for a good 10 years, so I probably have some PTSD from that. I'd feel like I was right back there if I had thousands of items per day in my RSS reader. I've been out of that stage of my job for a good 8 years, and I'm just now starting to get a handle on my email again, after feeling like there was no way to control it for so long.

Is there still no alternative filling Google reader's void?

Google reader was simple and beautifully designed, free, and online first. There are alternatives but they sacrifice one of the three. Inoreader, the old reader, and newsblur are all pretty good but require a subscription to fully replicate Google reader.

There are various local-first phone apps, desktop apps, and self-hostable apps that are good, completely free and have comprehensive features.

There are some what I would consider bait and switch options like Flipboard and Feedly that pretend to care about RSS but layer on features unrelated to the protocol. I think you can find one that works for you.

The problem with RSS right now is not, imo, the lack of tools to do the reading, thankfully. It's more that the major vote of legitimacy previously extended by Google was revoked and prompted an unwinding from RSS as a universal form of content distribution basically across the whole internet.

> ... Feedly that pretend to care about RSS but layer on features unrelated to the protocol

I've been using Feedly since Google killed reader, and while I like the RSS functionality it offers, I do agree that they've slowly been adding more and more features I don't care for.

Maybe it's time to migrate to something like TFA suggests.

I also agree with your other comments; it's huge a shame.

YMMV, but I have been using Flipboard for along time and think that Flipboard is a very nice blend of an RSS reader that gives you precisely what you asked for and a random article curator in one.

Adding RSS feeds to it feels kinda clunky though.

I think a company that makes products that last may actually literally be more rare than the discovery of alien life in the universe

(Who makes the incentives at Google?! Seriously)

you could self-host your own rss reader on a server & set it up to automatically update the feeds in the background every now and then, and just check on it whenever you want to read what's new. freshrss seems to be the popular choice.

there's also some subscription services that seem to do the same thing, but i have no experience with them.

Newsblur was the one I fled to after Reader's death.

Used it for a long time until I switched to a self-hosted FreshRSS instance

If you're looking for a project, I think this is something that an LLM, even a dumb local one, would be pretty good at. Give it a list of 50 articles you like, 50 you hate (or however many fit into the context window), and let it read the full text of each post and assign a 1-5 score. Then sort and/or filter by that.

In theory, this is actually a very textbook ML supervised learning problem, and stuffing an already-trained LLM's context window with a small handful of samples like I suggested is a gross hack. But it might be the easier option.

Same with UK's OSA: don't most governments already have the tools to block domains based on operator compliance with laws? What's wrong with that approach that leads to this kind of universal jurisdiction approach?

I leave my home computer network open to the public and now suddenly I'm liable to some random jurisdiction around the world because someone in that location decides to call my computer?

China's GFW seems benign in comparison

If it's worth protecting, copyright holders will find a way to enforce it without needing a police state to do it. The truth is IP loves the contemporary cheapness of information distribution but doesn't want to pay for "undesirable" distribution. Do your own enforcement or don't distribute

I dunno if you lived through 2008, but the government actions at the time were pretty big news.

When United States is becoming Venezuela like nationalizing shit it is major news :)

Not nationalizing as in confiscating, but bailing out, like it's 2008. A 10% stake is not even that big.

Major news nevertheless.

Didn't the US join 2 world wars it did not start (or was involved in starting) in the last ~100 years?

Not against our neighbors

If the US didn't enter WW2, we would have new neighbors. The technology has made the world a small neighborhood.

So the argument is that the neighbors will never ally and be involved in a war that puts US on the opposite side? What is the argument for the sovereign neighbors to always be neutral or on US side come what may?

Yes, that's right. This has been the case for over 200 years so I think it's reasonable it will continue to be true for at least another 100

Germany was trying to get Mexico to join them for wwi, with enticement of getting back the land they lost 70 years prior. That loss was immense for Mexico in land, pride, and economics

Mexico was dealing with its own internal issues (revolution) which made it difficult for them

A slight turn of events and the us would have a huge southern front I deal with, and a base of support for disaffected native Americans and African Americans.

Russia also dropped out of Wwi due to its intern revolution

It is easy to look back and see manifest destiny as a given. There were a lot of contingencies

The fact that they're much smaller than the US and right there. Both would have their key cities flattened within 30 days.

Are you accounting for debt? I hope people are also ditching massive student debt on top of widening career options