Does the world need another RSS reader/mousetrap? We already have so many.
https://duckduckgo.com/?t=ffab&q=rss+readers
What is your friend's idea to revolutionize with their new reader?
yes it does. The world is full of 'another's.
Readit Newsmro_name commented on I ditched the algorithm for RSS joeyehand.com/blog/2025/0... · Posted by u/DearNarwhal
frankly I find rot quite appealing.
Rotting produces compost, fertiliser. And at the same time makes way for new things. Great, isn't it?
mro_name commented on Creating a social photo frame from scratch insignificantdatascience.... · Posted by u/tylerjrichards
another one of these super-cool 'lets burn the planet for fun using generative AI' projects.
mro_name commented on A neurology ICU nurse on AI in hospitals codastory.com/stayonthest... · Posted by u/redrove
There's this earthquake phrase in past tense:
> We felt like we had agency.
mro_name commented on Don't Publish with IEEE (2005) cr.yp.to/writing/ieee.htm... · Posted by u/stargrave
in german law it's even impossible to transfer copyright (Urheberrecht). There is but one way: inheriting. What can be transferred though is usage right - licensing.
mro_name commented on Show HN: I made a git rebase TUI editor github.com/NyuB/ocli... · Posted by u/NyuB
how is your tea different from https://opam.ocaml.org/packages/teash/?
mro_name commented on FreeBSD: How Can We Make It More Attractive to New Users? gyptazy.com/freebsd-how-c... · Posted by u/tosh
is the user base shrinking or why should we?
IMO pulsating, vivid stability is more important than growth.
mro_name commented on Data center emissions probably 662% higher than big tech claims theguardian.com/technolog... · Posted by u/mitchbob
I bumped into a zine about this topic the other day.
Thought it was quite good: https://emmlab.info/Resources_page/Data%20Center%20Fights_di...
glimpsed into it, looks fancy but find it apologetic. IMO it's double-standards to campaign against "the next datacenter from being built" without reducing personal usage and demand.
Individual frugality is the precondition for collective degrowth, both practically and morally. Otherwise you just open business opportunities for datacenter growth.
IMO both should be pursued, make one and don't omit the other.
mro_name commented on Convert Markdown files to RSS feed github.com/TimoKats/mdrss... · Posted by u/Rush2112
Podcasting is kind of a special case, since Apple's guidelines mandate the use of RSS [1]. So if you're publishing a podcast and you want to get into the Apple Podcasts directory, you have to publish a RSS 2.0 feed (as well as meet all their other extra requirements).
If you don't care about the Apple Podcasts directory you can publish an Atom podcast feed that will work with most podcatchers. The primary thing you do differently from a normal Atom feed is to use the `link` element with `rel=enclosure` to reference the audio file for each episode/entry.
<link rel="enclosure" href="http://example.com/audio.m4a" length="100" type="audio/mp4" />
[1]: https://podcasters.apple.com/support/823-podcast-requirement...
I have some like this http://rec.mro.name/podcasts/zuendfunk/broadcasts.atom (and .rss, too) which plays the audio nicely e.g. in https://miniflux.app but I remember having trouble with iTunes on MacOS and the Apple podcast iOS app.
But his is mostly try-and-error and merely no specs. Apple doesn't talk about atom AFAIK.
Racket is interesting, I'm into Ocaml, but create those feeds via https://codeberg.org/mro/internet-radio-recorder/src/branch/...
Regardless of whether someone is entitled to free speech, is a private company bound to the constitutional protection?
My understanding has always been that its specifically the government that can't censor me, a private company or citizen can. The NY Times isn't required to write an article I submit to them for example, that's no different than Twitter deciding not to keep a post a write.