I'm never quite sure whether Advent should run 24 or 25 days, so if you're of the "24" persuasion, consider today's #FreeSoftwareAdvent a bonus 🙂

Today it's rss2email¹, which is I read my RSS feeds². I prefer to read my RSS via email for a number of reasons:

• I don't need to learn Yet Another Set of Keyboard Bindings because I already know my MUA's key-bindings

• I can use any standards-compliant MUA to read my RSS feeds, whether I have them delivered to my mbox file and read with mail(1), or delivered to my normal mail account and read them via mutt/neomutt/Claws/Thunderbird/whatever

• I have offline access via OfflineIMAP/mbsync and any changes (deleting entries, read-status, flagging, stars, tags, filing, etc) gets synced back up to my server, even across multiple machines

• I have all the filtering power of my MUA

• plenty of utilities also speak IMAP, so I can write scripts to (post-)process my RSS feed too

• sharing an interesting article with friends is as simple as forwarding an email

• my backup process for email also automatically backs up my RSS feeds too

• because it runs from cron(8) on a schedule I establish, I have more control of my distractions (I usually run it around 4am gathering feeds for me to read with breakfast). I found if it ran hourly or even multiple times per day, I'd get sucked into constantly checking to see if anything new/interesting had arrived

• control remains with me on my machine rather than handing my reading habits over to some 3rd party RSS reader-service

And I love RSS because it is a pull rather than a push. If I subscribe to your email newsletter, I have to trust that you'll respect my email address and not share it or lose control of it, and cutting off email subscriptions is sketchy. But with RSS? I just stop polling that feed if I'm done with it and it's gone.

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¹ github.com/wking/rss2email

² blog.thechases.com/posts/readi…

GitHub - wking/rss2email: open-source tool for Windows, Mac OS and UNIX for getting news from RSS feeds in email

open-source tool for Windows, Mac OS and UNIX for getting news from RSS feeds in email - wking/rss2email

^GitHub

I'm not sure I really get the logic behind the antizionists who also want to kick fellow Jewish citizens out of their diaspora countries.

Like... where are they supposed to go specifically?

I'm joking. I totally get the fucking logic.

"A violent #antisemitic incident unfolded Sunday evening in #Istanbul, where a group of #Jews heading to light the eighth and final #Hanukkah candle at the Neve Shalom #synagogue were attacked by #proPalestinian #protesters.

According to footage circulated on social media, the attackers charged at the group while shouting, “These #Zionists should leave this country.” Police intervened and dispersed the demonstrators, who waved #Palestinian flags and attempted to approach the #Jewish group."

ynetnews.com/jewish-world/arti…

Jews attacked heading to Hanukkah candlelighting in Istanbul

Pro-Palestinian protesters assaulted Jews on their way to a Hanukkah candle lighting near the Neve Shalom synagogue, shouting anti-Zionist slurs as police dispersed the crowd, some of whom waved Palestinian flags

^{Itamar Eichner (ynetglobal)}

Ich habe den Eindruck, dass Matrix weitaus problemloser läuft als XMPP.

Bei XMPP kann sich nicht jeder Client an jedem Server anmelden (ich habe diverse Clients und Server, nicht nur meinen eigenen mit ejabberd, getestet). Und auch die Kommunikation zwischen zwei Accounts funktioniert manchmal gar nicht, manchmal nur in eine Richtung und irgendwie nur selten problemlos. Auch da wieder stark abhängig vom Client.

Ein Problem mit meinem Server mag sein, dass er unter einer Subdomain (xmpp.example.com) läuft. Ich mutmaße, dass nicht jeder Server bzw. Client damit zurechtkommt. Zwischen meinem Server und dem von Mailbox.org klappt jedenfalls gar nichts. Aber ich habe noch nicht einmal eine Möglichkeit gefunden, für Mailbox.org einen andeten Client als deren Web-Client zu verwenden. Ich glaube fast, die sind nur zu sich selbst kompatibel.

Manche sagen freilich auch, dass ejabberd recht eigenwillig sei.

Mit Matrix hingegen hatte ich bisher keine Probleme (auch da habe ich einen eigenen Server am Start).

#Matrix #XMPP #Jabber #ejabberd

Do you celebrate #Christmas as...

(RT for funsies etc)

#poll

• A religious holiday (11%, 11 votes)
• A mostly secular holiday (66%, 62 votes)
• I don't celebrate but enjoy the time off (22%, 21 votes)
• I'm working on Christmas your insensitive clod! (0%, 0 votes)

From 2018:
The Face Value of Bitcoin: Proof of Work and the Labour Theory of Value

public.monster/~dmytri/face-va…

On a parlé un peu de la politique du Québec hier soir et, bien sûr, mon père a dit: ben nous c'est pas compliqué, c'est sûr qu'on va y aller avec Duhaime.

.... Je le savais mais eurk lol

J'ai aussi eu droit au traditionnel chialage sur le tramway!! Woohoo haha

RE: tldr.nettime.org/@dk/115594598…

come on. this is an underrated joke!

Dmytri

2025-11-22 17:46:38

Senator Soaper: To Err is Human; To Really Foul Things Up Requires a Computer
AI: Excellent insight, Senator — let me assist with that.

Merry Christmas - I hope you make some good memories 😊🎄🎁

#Christmas

By the way: indoor positioning using our Android app is already working and we're working on making it better than ever before this year!

If you have a phone capable of Wifi RTT measuring (unfortunately that's mainly Google Pixel and Samsung), you even get more precise positioning :)

If you have an iPhone, there is no app. It wouldn't have any advantages to adding our site as an app through your browser, because iOS doesn't allow apps to scan for WiFi networks. #39c3

The two hardest problems in Computer Science are:

1. Getting up in the morning
2. Going to bed at a reasonable time

List of things i forgot to pack for congress even though they where on the packing list:

* headphones 😢