So, tonight with my feed-herder add-on:
* queried my browser history
* added an in-memory task queue
* enqueued 10000 tasks from my history to fetch pages and scan for RSS/Atom feeds
* set the concurrency to 32 for the hell of it
* hit the button and watched it go
Now my internet connection seems very angry with me. Twitch streams are dying. I'm glad I also added queue pause & clear buttons.
Oh yeah, and Google is making me run through a Recaptcha before showing my search results. I've never seen that before.
(i mean i did literally make my browser act like a bot because i was driving it with a bot, but still)
@jon Well, what I'm hoping to end up with from this add-on (if it's not a disaster) is either it is itself a news reader and/or it exports OPML lists of things it finds.
Could also publish the OPML to a URL, and a good news reader can subscribe to an OPML URL and pick up changes. (I can't remember which ones support that though)
That time I described how social media companies treat their users like organic waste in a compost heap: Mostly let them stew, occasionally turn the pile, harvest the activity & rot.
https://blog.lmorchard.com/2014/10/08/microblogging-like-its-2002/#Free_as_in_Lunch
Like, it seems like the value proposition in most companies these days is a combination of 1) how little human management can we get away with, 2) how much can we get people using other people's stuff & shift liability, 3) how much surveillance can we get away with
@jon Hmm, I should explore using bookmarks as a signal for what to scan / weight more heavily. Kind of want to end up with an in-addon page you can visit showing what look like relevant feeds, with some light manual management and OPML export
@metagrrrl I was very proud of learning how to use that filter :D
@bdimcheff Haha, having had my power on & off several times yesterday, I'm used to the printer spooling up as notification that the power's back on
@bdimcheff print off my wifi network, apparently
@sanspoint Saw David Byrne in Detroit. Soooo good
Seems like every Twitch streamer I end up watching for any period of time has a Discord "server" and it's annoying as hell. Wish they all just had IRC channels or something less siloed
I've got a Discord "server" too just to see what was about, but I'd be way more likely to get folks to join up with my telnet BBS if we're already off doing a weird silo thing.
@scanlime I've been pretty happy with The Lounge as a webby IRC server, seems decent on my phone. That said, even my work IRC stuff seems to be getting absorbed into Slack
@scanlime (or rather web-server-based-irc-client, it's complicated)
I have discovered an alarming situation at my house: All the whiskey's gone. Because we drank it.
@hikaruaikawa That concept gets harder to understand the closer you get to an empty bottle, alas.
@skipfordj Yeah, I've joined 18 Discord servers that I'm at least somewhat interested in - and I don't really have time to jump between any of them :/
@ElfLord When does this festival happen because i am there
