Baaaaad idea probably.

I’m going to say it’s usually bad to suddenly disconnect from someone. It’s ok to distance yourself instead; but send some kind of response acknowledging the phone call and maybe say you want to keep to yourself for a while.

Sounds ok to me, it’s usually very hard to get data like that deleted. Best to not let them get it in the first place.

Flipper Zero?

Not normal at all, and you better wonder what he’s going to do with that ID even if you’re no longer in contact with him.

Remember you have to say apt dist-upgrade to get the minor version bump.

Extend? Do you mean it was already in place? I thought it was something that was not yet imposed, and the discussion was whether to start requiring it.

TERCOM for “hobbyists”? Just what we need. What could possibly go wrong. :(

The webview isn’t supposed to show the bloaty page directly. Your client would retrieve the bloaty HTML, strip the junk out or maybe completely reformat the page, and then show the “purified” page in a browser. I did this for a while with local proxy cgi’s but they eventually stopped working due to AI bros over-scraping everything. Also, are you going to write custom de-bloating for different sites that your client reads? It helps quite a bit. I can send you some of mine if you want.

Yes a normal web page can’t pull arbitrary feeds but I had thought there were permissions you could give to enable that. Like I think Manifest v2 lets you turn off the cross origin check, so you could write a Firefox extension. But, they shut down Manifest v2 in Chrome in order to prevent ad blockers from working.

We already have lite.cnn.com and there must be tons of RSS readers already? Emacs’s gnus.el has an RSS reader that I use on my laptop if that helps. It’s probably not usable on a phone.

Anyway, I’m supportive of the idea but for the same reason, I don’t have a Play account. If the app eventually shows up on F-droid I might give it a try.

The name “Compass” must already be in use for tons of other things, fwiw.

Why a built in reader instead of a web view? Don’t we already have too many apps with their own special text UI’s?

In fact I wonder if the whole thing can be done as a static web page with local storage and permissions to retrieve the remote RSS, if that’s a thing. Or it could be a very simple standalone httpd that a local browser could point at.

There’s another issue, which is that news RSS feeds often only give you the headlines. Here’s an example:

https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/feed/bay-area-news-429.php

if you want to see a complete story, you have to click a link that gives you the usual bloaty web page full of ads. It’s fronted by the now-common bot detection stuff so you would have to do some fancy scraping to get the underlying page into your special client. If you want to go that route, you probably have to orchestrate a real browser anyway.

Um obviously it will depend on the cost, and tape in general these days is seen as an enterprise thing with prices to match. Are you going to make a tape drive? What about the tape?

1TB isn’t that interesting since you can get LTO-5 or LTO-6 (1.5TB or 2.5TB native) fairly affordably these days. The physical size of the cartridge isn’t that important for most of us.

I had to do a web search to figure it out. Maybe you can revise the post.

This appears to be about medical coding, nothing to do with writing computer software. When someone gets medical treatment, someone has to translate the treatment description into insurance billing identifiers, called “codes”. I don’t know anything else about it except that it takes a lot of training, and some effort goes into gaming the system to choose the most expensive codes for a given treatment. CPC stands for Certified Professional Coder.

How does the anonymity work?

What does that even mean? Fastmail is mostly or entirely FOSS on the mail backend but the web front end is currently non-FOSS. You can of course use a FOSS client instead.

Hosted services are more about hosting than about the backend software anyway. You can use something like mailcow to self-host email if you don’t mind headaches.

mxroute.com is probably all FOSS but they don’t make an issue of it. Actually idk what web control panel they use now. It was formerly cpanel but they switched, probably for cost reasons. The webmail ui’s are roundcube and a few others.

There are tons of launchers on f-droid. No idea about comparisons.

Rejecting temporary email (particularly mailinator but sometimes even hotmail) has been a common thing. Fastmail temporary addresses usually work, but you need a paid fastmail account to get them.

I use the gasbuddy web site now and then. I’ve refused to install the app just like I refuse any app like that. The web site is a pain but you can use it with some persistence. It’s surely invasive too, and it’s probably best to access it through a VPN, but it can’t be as bad as the app sounds.

Thanks, I don’t see any of those fixing the functionality that youtube broke, but the effort is appreciated. The one that shows the upload time only says you can use it while watching the video, but that time is shown in the text blurb if you click “more…”. And it makes a network request, of course. I’m using firefox so ublock origin still works for blocking ads.

I’d be interested to know if there’s a way to fix this issue with extensions. Do you mean browser extensions? I use a browser sometimes and newpipe sometimes.

Using a browser and ublock origin, I find viewing youtube to work ok except for the occasional age gated video that I can’t view without a google account. What’s stopped working is search ordering and seeing timestamps. Like old comments might get labelled “2 years ago” with mouse-over no longer showing the actual date/time. It’s not shown in the unrendered HTML in any obvious way either.