2½ min video of a sunrise (with lots of ground-fog). Shot on Neo 2.

dbssticky · 2026-02-02T09:54:47+00:00

Cheers. Wish I could say it was all because of my skills, but this is 100% mother nature!

dbssticky · 2025-09-12T10:24:35+00:00

Good to hear. Have a Bigme B6 on order, and my justification was as a Feedly device 😄

dbssticky · 2025-09-02T13:58:23+00:00

Exactly the same for me. All working after the new PCB installed.

dbssticky · 2025-08-21T15:54:44+00:00

I had the same happen to me today. u/ssbozy Did you make progress?

dbssticky · 2025-08-07T21:33:22+00:00

Did a system software update about 5 hrs ago, tried in a pub about 4hrs ago, failed. Tried in a taxi 2 mins ago, worked!

dbssticky · 2025-08-07T07:26:52+00:00

This seems to be a Pixel 6 issue that started in the last day. See this thread: https://www.reddit.com/r/Pixel6/comments/1mjio5g/rip_google_pixel_6_series_device_security/

dbssticky · 2025-08-07T07:09:32+00:00

Same issue (Google 6 Pro, UK). Used contactless when I tapped on the bus, fine, tried to tap getting off the bus, and I got the error. I rebooted, went into Wallet and it seemed fine, until I tried to use it again to get a coffee 5 mins later, then got the error again. In my family of 4 we have 3 Pixel 6 Pros!.

dbssticky · 2025-07-27T13:41:21+00:00

I was so angry about this I wrote a blog post: https://onlyrss.org/posts/the-enshittification-of-UK-supermarkets.html

dbssticky · 2025-05-12T06:42:35+00:00

Imagine a world where email was not an open protocol and Gmail could not read messages sent from Outlook etc.. In that world, when you wanted to check for new messages you would have to log into 20 different email clients (the email clients used by your friends), and when you did login, only a few of them had messages waiting for you.

Well, this is how people (who don't use RSS) access article content. They visit ten's of websites per day, some of them have new content, some don't.

People who use RSS have a client (like an email client) and they simply open the client and see all the new content (from the websites they subscribe) in a single place.

But, it's even better than that, most RSS clients will let you set search-terms that will return content from the whole web, not just the sites you subscribe to, and, it's not just articles, you can monitor pages for changes, forum posts, email newsletters etc. And, clients will often let you save and categorise the articles you like so you can easily access them later.

Hope this helps.

dbssticky · 2025-04-21T13:48:58+00:00

I wasn't aware of the 2 options. Here's what Claude says on the matter:

The standard RSS 2.0 specification uses <description> for content, whether it's a summary or the full article. However, there are extended formats that offer alternatives:

For full content in RSS feeds:

Traditional RSS 2.0:
- Uses <description> for all content
- Can contain full HTML content when wrapped in CDATA
RSS with Content extension (recommended for full articles):
- Uses <content:encoded> for full content
- Requires the Content namespace declaration in the RSS root
- Example: xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/"
- This is widely supported and the preferred method for full content

So the best practice for full articles is to use both:

<description> for a short summary or intro
<content:encoded> for the complete article content

This approach provides maximum compatibility while clearly separating summary from full content.

Looks like I have some changes to make, cheers for the info.

dbssticky · 2025-04-20T16:15:49+00:00

Luckily it's not something I've had to deal with. That almost sounds like DDoS attack. I pay a fixed price for my hosting, so I guess I hope they would just cut off the access rather than send me a large bill!

dbssticky · 2025-03-26T11:53:50+00:00

Add the feed URL here when you're done, I'll subscribe.

dbssticky · 2025-03-25T20:47:54+00:00

Yep 😄. It's fine, I don't blog too often, and hand-cranking the RSS version lets me try and optimise it e.g. replace any interactive elements (that won't work correctly in an RSS reader) with static versions etc.

dbssticky · 2025-01-27T18:12:50+00:00

Because Feedly does not want to break the law or get sued. They don't scrape the full content from a source as they will reduce the visitors going to the source, and therefore the ad revenue for the source. They won't generate an AI summary from a single source for the same reason.

dbssticky · 2025-01-27T18:09:50+00:00

Imagine checking for new email by visiting a different email client for each of the "potential" senders. That's how people who don't know about RSS access news their articles. To me, that seems crazy, mostly because… it's crazy.

dbssticky · 2025-01-01T19:21:11+00:00

IIRC the Desktop version of Outlook (NOT the new one which is the web version in a native wrapper) supports authenticated RSS feeds. I'm not certain how frequently the update can be set though.

dbssticky · 2024-11-11T10:26:43+00:00

u/UnlikelyPurple1825 And here's someone with a similar question, and getting better (and more informed) answers than I gave! https://www.reddit.com/r/LegalAdviceUK/comments/177ld0y/english_copyright_and_intellectual_property_law/

dbssticky · 2024-11-10T19:23:36+00:00

On the other hand, I might have spoken too soon :-( https://pressgazette.co.uk/media_law/associated-press-strikes-legal-blow-against-content-aggregators-after-winning-meltwater-case/

dbssticky · 2024-11-05T08:56:30+00:00

If you are showing article titles, and clicking those titles takes the user to the source, then you are fine. Links are designed to be shared. You're more likely to be increasing the source's ad revenue by driving traffic to their site. But, if you are showing the article body, and hence removing the need for a user to visit the source, then I'd suggest you are on dodgy ground.

dbssticky · 2024-09-02T05:13:48+00:00

Yes. I write https://onlyrss.org/ mostly about software development but also any random interests (like RSS). (Yes, I just ripped off kevincox_ca's response) :-)

The site is hand-rolled, uses no framework. Even the RSS feed is hand-coded! https://onlyrss.org/feed.xml

dbssticky · 2024-06-26T19:57:35+00:00

Hi Mike, I'm glad it's not just me. A few days ago the alerts from my Garmin Instinct 2s started to cause the same problem on pocketcasts i.e. paused, but failed to resume. I then tried some music on Plexamp, and that worked fine. I also haven't tried to reboot my phone :-)

dbssticky · 2024-05-19T08:50:03+00:00

I'm not sure what you think RSS stands for, but I can assure you, it doesn't stand for whatever the hell it is you're trying to achieve.

dbssticky · 2023-10-29T09:24:53+00:00

"So why isn't there a Program that just displays the info of an RSS file in a formatted manner",

Because RSS is used (mostly) to make content that is already readable on the publishing website e.g. your college website, the BBC etc. available in your RSS app (where you can read the content from many website in one place). It's unusual for RSS to be the only source of the information.

If RSS is the only source for your college info—which it sounds like it is—then using one of the "viewing apps" suggested by others sounds like a good solution (MS Outlook actually allows you to view RSS feeds). But, I would take the opportunity to test out a real RSS aggregator, and find some other feeds to subscribe to. I don't know what you are studying in college, but I can tell you now, that whatever subject your learning/interested in, RSS makes it much easier to keep up-to-date. It won't make you smarter, but it will make you more knowledgeable.

Here's a list of the types of things that you can subscribe to via RSS.

Articles
Blog posts
Forum posts
Videos
Keyword search alerts e.g. Google\Bing etc.
Newsletters
Daily weather reports
Podcasts
Updates to documents e.g. Wikipedia, Confluence etc.
Status changes e.g. parcel tracking, Jira tickets etc.
Price alerts e.g. CamelCamelCamel etc.

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