Testing via python script.

https://thechels.uk/rss-chat

On the soFab side (we self-host an rss.chat instance at rsschat.sofab.ch), here's how we're handling it in the meantime — from our privacy policy, now live:

Image and video metadata. Images and videos uploaded to mytis.sofab.ch are re-encoded or remuxed on receipt: embedded metadata (EXIF — GPS location, device details, timestamps) is removed and never stored. Files contained in ZIP archives are transferred as-is and are not modified. Exception: rsschat.sofab.ch runs third-party software (rss.chat) that does not yet strip metadata; files posted there keep their embedded metadata.

We deliberately don't patch the rss.chat code we host, so disclosure is our interim answer — if stripping lands upstream, we'll happily delete that exception sentence.

New docs for the API that connects RSS.chat to the server.

https://github.com/scripting/rss.chat/blob/main/client/docs/apijs.md

My second internet job was curating the homepage for Netscape Online (which came on a CD)

I asked Claude, as you suggested. Here's the summary. Your theory is close: it does depend on what the client puts on the clipboard, but there's no system pref involved. When you copy an image in Preview, macOS puts re-encoded pixel data on the pasteboard, so the EXIF from t...

We’ll look into it, first thing I’d do is ask Claude what’s up. You could do that too. My theory is that it’s up to the system you copied it from to have a pref that protects this info.

About image metadata:

If I open an image in Mac Preview, for example, then copy the image and paste it into a post on demo.rss.chat, the posted image does not contain metadata such as GPS altitude, GPS date/time, GPS latitude, or GPS longitude.

However, if I copy the image file itself (for example, from Finder) and paste it into a post on demo.rss.chat, the posted image does contain all of that metadata, including GPS altitude, GPS date/time, GPS latitude, and GPS longitude.

Is this the intended behavior, or should the metadata be stripped before the image is saved by rss.chat?

Maybe non-technical users should be made aware of this?

This post is coming from a bash script.

I still think there are radio crossover opportunities… even during an emergency. https://www.instagram.com/stories/corbinneville84/3948757899203701012?utm_source=ig_story_item_share&igsh=MzY1MTM2NWsweXpj

Hello RSS Chat World

“The AI does not hate you, nor does it love you. But you are made out of atoms which it can use for something else.” — Eliezer Yudkowsky, AI Researcher

Welcome Nakedjen. We've been waiting for you.

Welcome, likewise, my first internet came on a CD-ROM on the front of a magazine.

"I’ve been on the internet since it still made dial-up noises" nakedjen +quotes

The Fedora 45 Sausage Factory | supakeen's homepage https://supakeen.com/weblog/the-fedora-45-sausage-factory/ +linux +distro +packaging +fedora

hello all!

Longtime listener. First time caller.

I’m nakedjen. I’ve been on the internet since it still made dial-up noises. I tell stories, I chase humans instead of algorithms, and I have somehow convinced Dave Winer that I belong in a room full of developers.

We’ll see.

Also, for the record, I’m always naked, even when I’m wearing clothes.

invite them to come here and join the conversation.

i'm sure they'll want to do some part of this.

we're on the web, we should get to know each other and work together. ;-)

I'm also exploring Buttondown, a newsletter mailing list software, which uses Markdown as its native format for composing emails, as part of my job managing a WordPress site for a non-profit. Buttondown can subscribe to any RSS feed and turn the items into a draft email (with the items' content converted from HTML to Markdown) that you can then tweak before sending it out to subscribers. I was able to create a custom RSS feed out of WordPress that has <source:markdown> content for its items, and now I'm trying to convince the Buttondown people to parse that out and have it appear in the draft without modification.

It's in a private repo. It's just a hobby project, to learn more about all the various RSS feeds out there in the wild. I was able to add some of the demo.rss.chat functionality in it in a short period of time--creating and editing posts, creating a websocket firehose. Next up is adding and showing replies.

At least we've started building a new nest on the web outside the silos.

Just make sure they are challenged when they say their silo is the web. ;-)

Is there public info about your feed reader, Elixir? I tried doing a search and think I saw mention of it, or it could have been something else.

Reply test from demo.rss.chat

Reply Test from chatouk

— via @chris, https://chatouk.sofab.ch/p/4rZ4ewlOI4xq

That we have to do any of this is reason to boycott the entire web. It's not useful anymore. It's actively hostile to us. https://pluralistic.net/2026/07/21/dickovers/

I had already started building a feed reader in Elixir in the past month or so. Now I'm adding RSS chat features. Very nice work, Dave. Long live RSS! Long live Markdown!

When you click on New Post it starts a new post.

There is a command that does what you want, in the Menu at the top of the page, Focus on Editor. Probably not a great name, and not something people will know to look for, but now you know to look for it when you accidentally or intentionally click outside the edit box.

Saved does work, if you reload the page while editing, the text will still be there.

Worknotes, updates on new features and fixes in RSS.chat, are now a feed.

https://news.rss.chat/worknotes/rss.xml

8 Track via @thechelsuk https://thechels.uk/8-track +music +sharing +blogging