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MajorHavoc

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  • A platform for posting (or searching) user-created RSS feeds - Does this exist?

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  • This does not address the searchability issue

    Search will always be a challenge, but my understanding is that WordPress is as well or better optimized for search than any thing else that exists.

    or the complexity and cost of self hosting.

    WordPress is the single most hosted app in existence, I think.

    I want less friction for the user who is only focused on publishing and does not care much to own their infrastructure.

    You just described WordPress.

    Edit: I don't even like WordPress. Lol. But I still think you're dismissing a likely 80% or better solution to your problem, if you don't look into WordPress.

  • A platform for posting (or searching) user-created RSS feeds - Does this exist?

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  • For creating an RSS feed, WordPress will certainly get the job done.

  • They/Them

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  • Yeah. Lol. I figured that out, too, eventually.

  • Alexander... who let you back on the ship?

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  • I'm actually fond of Data's big scenes.

    One of the big things that kept data from ever becoming a real boy:

    ...is that everyone knows he might never die.

    Brent Spiner delivers a brief moment when Data faces death, and realizes with some fleeting happiness how human it is, to face death - it's really well done.

  • 12/11/2024

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  • Heck yeah. Cookies and contact info. I like to write it on a little card next to the coookies.

    It even helps with nice little stuff, like I once rescued a neighbor's expensive package from the threat of porch pirates due to this. They had my contact info (thanks to cookies) and sent me a quick text, so I grabbed the package and set it inside for them.

  • Another child

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  • It's still a biannual tradition if we skip it some years, right?

  • Sauron Secures Funding for All-Seeing Eye

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  • I detest our modern surveillance culture. But ...

    one of Sauron's chief products is its "deterrence pod," a detection system that pairs with an autonomous drone that wards off trespassers by blasting them with a powerful, ominous logo-emblazoned search light, sweeping over their movements.

    I promise I will get back to advocating for principled privacy laws - right after I'm done buying and installing one of these for Halloween.

  • Sauron Secures Funding for All-Seeing Eye

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  • I'm worried I could lose a finger to an emaciated Hobbit.

  • Rockguard

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  • That guy is the best.

  • Alexander... who let you back on the ship?

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  • Oof. Yeah.

    The mind rape is why I never recommend Star Trek: Nemesis. Without that scene, it's a middling Trek film. Thanks to that scene, I just don't find it worth the watch.

  • They/Them

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  • Yeah. And Y'all also used to be plural. Now it can be singular and we use All Y'all to clarify when we need people to know we mean plural. Language is bonkers.

  • They/Them

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  • Calling people what they ask to be called just doesn't have to be this difficult.

    And yes, his royal lordship Starn, the majestic, that goes for you, too. It's fine. We're cool with your chosen name. And I admit, the opera cape absolutely works for you.

    And I don't need to know what genitalia most other people are rocking. That's none of my business, unless we're really into each-other, in a very intimate way.

    It takes all my willpower not to be get pretty inappropriate every time a government form asks my birth sex:

    "Oh! We just met at this office of motor vehicles...I didn't know you felt that way about me! This is so much to process. I admit there's a mutual attraction. Of course I feel it too. I'm delighted that you had a special form made up to ask! I'm flattered! Want to grab dinner, and see where this goes?"

  • They/Them

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  • I'm tired of calling John, John, every time I refer to Join, but I wasn't paying attention to John's pronouns, so now I'm stuck until I have a chance to ask John, when I next see John.

    Source: I've done this, actually. I hope I was more subtle.

  • A Jan. 6 rioter tried to join the Russian military to fight against Ukraine, feds say

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  • If you feel so American you think it’s time to overthrow the government, then how does joining the Russian military factor in?

    I have a feeling the answer starts with a Q and gets really weird, really quickly.

  • Do you think the mostly limited range of political views is a strength or a weakness of Lemmy? (For example, in terms of attracting new users.)

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  • but most of the world considers them to be right wing.

    Yep. I'm fiscally conservative, mildly sympathetic to people who fear and resist change, and fond of the pragmatic pursuit of libertarian ideals, where that's possible.

    I also feel that how others do sex is none of my damn business, taxes supporting social services are necessary, and equitably applied rule of law is critical for any real economic prosperity.

    On the scale of history, I suspect that makes me centrist or even a moderate conservative.

    In my country, and today, somehow, astonishingly, this combination makes me what most would call very left leaning.

    I feel that the right has gone insane and continues to alienate people who might otherwise have been allies.

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  • Yep. I figure God can put their pronouns in a quick update (no doubt written in flames on a wall somewhere - basic courtesy, nowadays), or is probably content with the neutral terms.

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  • This does come off a lot like "Let's all ask God to do the important and urgent things I chose not to do."

    As Dale Carnegie says, prayer is what we try after we've exhausted every practical option. If God exists, they clearly want us to do our best with available options before begging them to solve our problems.

    (Side note: if God exists, they have a lot to answer for, and there's non-trivial evidence that they might be a raging asshole. Maybe a stupid choice of ally in the tough times ahead.)

    CEOs have a lot of practical options. I don't know if Pat exhausted those options, but it's hard to give any CEO the benefit of the doubt after the last decade of pervasive "line must go up regardless of the obvious short, medium and long term consequences for absolutely everyone concerned."

    So pardon me if I'm not impressed with trying to pray away those consequences.

  • Digital consumption keeps me from getting better at my job

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  • So older architecture books, refined by several editions, are still best.

    Yeah. It's hard to do better than the classicsl books. The language structures have changed, but the core principles endure.

  • Digital consumption keeps me from getting better at my job

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  • there's no-one who will tell you "this is the correct answer",

    That's a great point. The metric that really matters is "good enough for today", which can be very subjective.