RSS is the answer to Reddit killing its RSS feeds

The good news is that most of what a subreddit feed gave you was links to stories from sites that publish feeds of their own. You can follow those directly, starting today, and they’ll keep working no matter what Reddit decides next.

Love to see it. RSS feels more alive than ever, in spite of what Reddit wants you to believe.

The more feeds I collect, the more I realize I never needed Reddit to find good articles in the first place.

Find a good forum while you’re at it; platforms like Reddit and Discord have been trying to kill everything that made the old web good for years now, but their walled gardens are not where I want to spend my time online. There are better alternatives out there.

↳ via Zetfeed

A lot of people these days are talking about “learn AI or get left behind.” There might be a little bit of truth in that, but there’s another sweet spot only Gen X and millennials get… How to use a computer. Sure, there are outliers. I’m just kinda generalizing here. I know ...

I’ve seen the name Jensen Huang today enough for more than one lifetime. I get it; the guy fucks.

The Web We Know Is Going to Disappear Native mobile apps became the next walled garden. People loved them. They were faster, smoother, more integrated, and easier to monetize. They had app stores, push notifications, payments, device APIs, ratings, updates, and distribution...

TUI Space Invaders!

#!/bin/sh Invaders is probably the world’s most arcade-accurate terminal-playable Space Invaders clone. It’s fun to play! It’s rather quixotically written in pure POSIX shell, probably the worst ‘real’ language to use for this.

↳ via blog.montgomerie.net

What is an app worth in a vibe-coded world? The answer, to me, is you pay for an app if the care and attention the developer gives the app is more than you can afford to give. If the few bucks you’ll spend is worth more than the time you’d spend building your own version of...

Obesity linked to 27% lower risk of death in dementia

I like those odds (for me)

↳ via Latest Science News -- ScienceDaily

The greatest millennial tragedy was losing all of the obscure screamo music that was never archived from MySpace

Kei trucks coming to the US… kinda

The truck, called the KEI-01, will top out at just 25 mph.

Well that’s a bummer. When I saw this headline I was ready to trade in my Honda for one of these bad bois and show all the rednecks hanging out in Walmart parking lots across town what a real truck looks like.

Guess I’m hanging onto the Honda a little while longer.

↳ via Gizmodo

Re: I "built" my own RSS reader app I’ve been using RSS readers for close to 20 years. It’s the only way I consume any writing these days. If there is no RSS feed for a website, it might as well not exist. If there is, and the topic is interesting to me, there is ...

The indie web truly is a social network. If you spend enough time here, you’ll keep running into the same people. On Bear Blog, Quxnet, blogrolls and directories… it’s huge and mostly unorganized, but if you know where to look it’s better than MySpace was in its prime 🧘

VeggieTales creator: non-binary god is in

Let’s be clear: If you believe the eternal God, creator of the universe, is a male (or female) of a gendered species, you have departed from Christian orthodoxy.

I’m an atheist, but I don’t have anything against religious people. Unless they use their religion as an excuse to peddle hate.

Pleasantly surprised to learn the VeggieTales guy is not one of those Christians. We need more of this.

And that’s enough theology on my blog for this year, I think.

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TIL Nickelodeon was born in Columbus, Ohio

One part of QUBE that still lives on today is its children’s channel called Pinwheel. It offered twelve hours a day of commercial-free content aimed at a pre-K audience. That concept would evolve to become a mainstay on cable television across the county after a name change to Nickelodeon.

↳ via WOSU Public Media

Buying weed used to mean faking friendships Nobody ducked into the dealer’s house, bought and left, Aaron Zeeman remembers. That looked suspicious. So in a lot of circles you sat down. You smoked a joint. You talked for fifteen or twenty minutes and acted like you’d come ov...

I ran a couple of tech blogs over the years, and I found that I never liked sticking with any single niche. So when I spun up my first personal blog on Bear, my goal was to never let it turn into a tech blog.

Here I am nearly five years later, on a self-hosted static site, and I’m realizing I just like tech. I like reading and writing about the web, Linux, AI, games, tech companies and sometimes gadgets. This blog is a pretty random mixed bag of everything, but I find myself wishing I had more tech folks in my social circles — after trying for so long to keep things less tech-centric.

Catholic guilt about enjoying things too much, maybe? Maybe. But I’m not Catholic, so that’s probably not it.

Idk where I’m going with this; just making an observation I reckon.

Need for Speed Underground 2 in your browser

I’m well aware of the fact that it’s 2026 and Need For Speed: Underground 2 is essentially a retro game at this point, but this still feels like witchcraft to me.

The “slop rust port” of Quake was impressive enough for me, but this is unhinged. Even supports online mode. No OG Xbox required.

↳ via nfsu2.xyz

Feedly Is An AI Threat Intelligence Company Now?

I can’t even really tell what Feedly is supposed to do as a threat intelligence product. It actually looks a lot like news reader Feedly. Apparently you can use its AI agents to look at the dark web for security vulnerabilities? “Deliver STIX-formatted threat intel to your entire security stack and stakeholders?” What the fuck?

I’ve never particularly liked Feedly, but it wasn’t a bad RSS reader. Seems like a weird shift in direction. I’m just going to stick with Miniflux and stop thinking about this now.

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Flash is back baybeyy

We’ve re-implemented Flash support on itch.io using Ruffle, an open source Flash emulator that runs entirely in your browser. Ruffle has been around for quite some time and compatibility is quite good from our testing. We’ve gotten a few requests over the years to add it to help make older games playable. The day has arrived!

Finally: I can play Helicopter Game like it’s 2005 again.

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Bruce Springsteen's worst selling record is his most defining Likewise, it showcases how he was wary of commercialism but often bent towards it, confessing that he was, after all, a pop kid at heart. This was evidenced two years later when he produced his best-selling a...

Ancient Siberians took their cannabis use to the grave

The total assemblage of all the prehistoric plant material excavated from Tunnug 1, they wrote, “was almost completely composed of cannabis seeds” with only “a few additional wild seed types” recovered.

If someone could germinate these and mass produce an ancient weed strain I bet they could make a killing.

↳ via Gizmodo

Denise Herzing: Dolphin whisperer since '85, now with AI It’s been a 40-year wait, but AI is finally allowing Herzing to untangle what dolphins are saying, she told the audience at WIRED World Fair. Her research group has gathered countless hours of video and audio footage ...

A font that censors swears as you type

Modern fonts can combine letters into a single ligature, usually for things like fi or fl but you can pick anything so we’ve done it for swears.

I could probably use this on my blog. I won’t, but I probably could.

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If you ever feel bad about treating yourself to a little something nice...

…just remember Elon wasted $446 million trying to buy the midterms.

↳ via The Guardian

Arguably the best Mario Kart ever made, in your browser

Idk what’s going on with the rest of this website, but this is a solid Mario Kart 64 port. Runs well on my iPhone Air/Brave browser.

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Trump's ambitions as a space colonizer

“The nation that leads in space will shape the future of humanity,” the declaration says, and pledges that America will carry the values of faith, freedom and individual liberty into an interplanetary civilization.

He would love to bring stories of blue-eyed, blonde-haired baby Jesus and other Christian nationalist ideals to the vast corners of the universe.

Now would be a good time for the Grays to show up in their saucers and beam this fucker up into the cold vacuum of space.

↳ via Latest from Space.com

Feels good to see a bunch of political posts that don’t make me sick today! It was so close last night I wasn’t getting my hopes up, but then they announced Amy Acton won in Ohio. The terrors are far from over, but I’m feeling that same glimmer of hope I felt in ‘08. Lots of big wins for Dems.

Now that the political campaigning is over... …I’ll do a little personal campaigning for Fark.com. Fark is one of my favorite websites. And tbh, I didn’t even know it existed until a few months ago, but it’s been around since 1999. I stumbled across it one day and instantly ...

A neat little map of the most famous 90's band from each US state

I’ve lived in Ohio all my life and I have no idea how I never realized Nine Inch Nails was from Cleveland.

↳ via Brilliant Maps

A new cold war: hackers target fridges across the globe

Everyone’s heard this story by now; refrigeration units in grocery stores across Europe and even at some military bases on US soil have been hacked and millions upon millions of dollars in food has gone to waste. I’m not trying to break any news here.

But I’ll be damned if this isn’t the most satisfyingly clever headline I’ve ever read. At least in a long time.

↳ via NPR News

Apple and Google block apps that crowdsource ICE sightings

ICEBlock, the most widely used of the ICE-tracking apps in Apple’s app store, is among the apps that have been taken down. Bondi said her office reached out to Apple on Thursday “demanding that they remove ICEBlock” and claiming that it “is designed to put ICE agents at risk just for doing their jobs.”

Another lesson in why the open web is always the better alternative to native apps trapped in closed ecosystems.

StopICE looks like one of the best web apps to me. DryICE looks promising too, although it requires signing in with Apple, Google, or email.

↳ via AP News