writer by choice, programmer by necessity, metalhead by the grace of the witch

personal website: https://starbreaker.org

main fedi account: @starbreaker

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  • There are news channels that are only on social networks.

    And you’re better off ignoring them. Corporate news channels are nothing but advertising and propaganda.

    As far as I know, you can’t do without scraping on the server if you want to receive news from social networks.

    Not to be pedantic, but web scraping and port scanning aren’t the same. If you had mentioned scraping before I’d have been content to say that sites that make you scrape instead of providing RSS feeds are run by assholes.


  • Unfortunately the display of content in different RSS readers is different.

    Why is this a problem? I consider this a strength; choose the reader that works best for you.

    I understand that RSS is for displaying text and photo information, but the lack of video and audio playback in various app is disappointing.

    You know that podcasts are basically RSS feeds with extensions, right?

    In addition, it is often necessary to configure the server part to scan commercial sites.

    Why is this necessary?



  • I’m not going risk my life and property, let alone my future, by engaging in political violence short of an outright armed rebellion against the Republican Party and their bootlickers, and even then I’m not going to get involved unless I like the odds of winning, because if you lose it’s not a revolution but treason.

    Why? I’ve got a family to consider and you ain’t part of it. I’m not going to do my people much good if I’ve been imprisoned and made unemployable just because I decked a Republican at a street protest. That’s not going to do any good or change anything.


  • Take whatever job will pay the most while demanding the least amount of time spent on the job. It doesn’t matter of a job pays a quarter million and lets you work on trendy tech if you’re on the job 80 hours a week; that’s just you getting fucked in the ass. If you’re working 40 hours a week or less (ideally much less) you can do passion projects on your own time.

    Don’t look for friendship, community, or emotional fulfillment on the job. If you find it anyway, it’s a trap. Do the job, get paid, and GTFO. Be a mercenary, not a company man.





  • I don’t hate Google. I just want to see it face the sort of antitrust enforcement not seen in the United States since the breakup of AT&T into the Baby Bells.

    And it’s not just Google I want to see ripped apart, but every corporation that operates across state lines (let alone internationally) and does more than one thing. Like Nestle, Disney, Bayer, Microsoft, Nintendo, Sony, ConAgra, Proctor & Gamble, Facebook, Amazon, Netflix, Pepsico, etc.