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> building digital fiefdoms with users as the serfs

I wouldn't call you names, but this does sound rather extreme. It also sounds rather imprecise. Is this a metaphor, or a hyperbole, or do you actually mean this literally? If so, in what way I, an iOS user, going to be an Apple serf?


That you should join the war, kill some people, and potentially die yourself. A better question is why is that funny.


I don't think you can guarantee that. Yes, you might have a strong prior in favour of that - most people don't have a propensity to prefer logical and systematic reasoning over strong emotions such as anger or hate - but it's still rather unfair to a person you're talking to to assume that must be the case.


> The best way to teach history would be to make politicians dig slit trenches and then shell them for a few days

I don't see why you think that. That didn't work for Hitler, Göring, and the countless numbers of WW1 veterans in the SA and SS hungry for another try.


It absolutely does have merit when the point is to highlight hypocrisy and bias.


in seeking to make a point of hypocrisy and bias - that diverts from the original point instead of refuting it, thus it has no merit. 'xyz is also doing bad things' just gives us n+1 of xyz, but says nothing about xyz.


Does anyone know if there is a self-hosted rss tool which exposes the data over API? I am interested in processing feeds programmatically but ideally would prefer not to bother with writing the update / subscription / parsing logic myself.


Pretty much all of them? They usually implement the Ye Olde Google Reader API and a few more so that mobile applications can connect in a standard way.

- https://freshrss.github.io/FreshRSS/en/developers/06_Fever_A...

- https://freshrss.github.io/FreshRSS/en/developers/06_GoogleR...

FreshRSS implements two APIs


You may be interested in tools that parse XML, I'm sure there are libraries for parsing RSS/Atom specifically. I'm not sure what you're asking exactly. You want a tool that will read RSS feeds then reformat the data to a different (JSON?) format or something and have an API endpoint return that converted format? But then for what purpose of transforming the XML(an already suitable format)?


Yeah, perhaps I did not explain myself correctly (or, to be precise, explained myself incorrectly - I should not comment right after waking up). I want a tool that would take as input one or more RSS feeds and emits an aggregated RSS which I can then open in an RSS reader. I would then do certain things with the RSS entries (for instance, for some academic journals only the header of the article is emitted, so I can attach the full text or even an AI summary to it).


Run "rss2email" then your API becomes IMAP/POP3?


I’d say artificial womb is a technocratic center-left solution. A right-wing solution would be a proverbial “Kinder, Küche, Kirche” for all women.

I, for one, would bet my firstborn that a solution to the demographic question such that fulfills modern sensibilities is to ever be found.


“Pay this or we will concoct some criminal charges on your entire leadership team, append each of you to interpol lists and formally request your extradition” is probably a good start.


Good luck with that. The US has that power, the UK doesn't.


The UK might not have the power to force extradition (neither does US, in fact), but to make life very inconvenient for someone - for sure.


> More NCAA championships and Olympic medals. Still leading in "big game" football series (though currently on a losing streak.)

As a side note, I always found this obsession with sports to be a fascinating aspect of american culture. Being from an entirely different culture, it’s unclear to me why on earth would anyone give a fuck about this.


I have heard that in some countries soccer (aka "football") is a big thing for some reason.

Also the Olympics seem to be a big thing every four years, particularly in the country where they are being held; Berkeley and Stanford do pretty well in that competition.


Sports can be big in a country, sure, but US is the only country I can recall where sports matters as a criteria to choose a university to go to (as an in op).

But just in case - it’s cool, I wasn’t being judgmental.


You may be reading too much into the original question, which was simply:

> What does stanford offer undergrads that berkeley doesnt? IMO access to legacies and the larger alumni network is about it

Non-academic advantages (e.g. athletics programs, student housing, etc.) are still advantages.

Berkeley has its own set of non-academic advantages, such as closer proximity and access to San Francisco (via BART).


Wow, I've tried tmux like a hundred times and could never learn to like it, falling back to screen and promising to myself - never again. I'm going to break my promise to try this.


I've always found screen's ctrl-a is so much easier to reach for than tmux's ctrl-b. I recommend re-mapping ctrl-b to ctrl-a


I've had it on C-o forever to mostly stay out of readline's way, but I've been dabbling with C-Space.


I never really understood the people who use these keybinds. Do you not use it to go to the start of the line?


Ctrl-a and then a still goes to the start of the line.


Personally no, I use vim keybindings in the terminal not emacs which is the default.


I just remapped the keys to ctrl-z after I swapped ctrl and caps lock. As you'd never suspend stuff under tmux for obvious reasons, you'll get the whole keyset for any cli/tui software.


I use tmux to replace terminal emulator tabs, I also suspend jobs all the time (most notably vim to run git commands)

In any case with your bindings you can still C-z z and it sends C-z to the process.


I'll bite. What's so obvious? I suspend jobs in bash all the time while using tmux.


Often TMUX it's for tasks you woudn't suspend. And, if any, you can just use kill -STOP and kill -CONT among other signals from another tmux pane.


Or if you want to stay in same pane, (chord, I still use C-b), :, "send-keys C-z"


+1. Was using screen with this and now tmux for the last 15 years maybe.


pinky on caps and ring finger on z ?


I use Ctrl-Space.

    unbind-key C-b
    set -g prefix C-Space
    bind-key C-Space send-prefix
I find it a lot easier to type than either Ctrl-A or Ctrl-B.


The real superpower prefix key is ` especially if you have a british mac keyboard.


Both C-a and C-b are so commonly used that I don’t like either of them. I ended up going with C-\ since I only rarely use that one.


Isn't the screen equivalent literally this?

  Host tmux
      HostName 1.2.3.4
      IdentityFile ~/.ssh/etc.etc.etc
      RequestTTY force
      RemoteCommand screen -dR
Edit: I guess it's missing the iTerm integration


> falling back to screen

So you're saying you're a masochist


I’ve used screen for 25 years. What am I missing without tmux?


mainly sessions, i think, and maybe scripability. sessions are groups of windows. i have one session per project or work mode. (one for email and connecting to remote machines, one for writing stuff, one for managing my hobbies, one for dev work...)


Screen has sessions. You can name them, and choose which session to resume when you reconnect.

I use tmux now because it’s supposed to be cool but secretly like gp I also wonder what the actual difference is , besides a different default leader key. Oh and killer iterm2 integration.


it's been a long time since i used screen. afaik screen had one session per process. you could switch processes by detaching from one and attaching to another. in tmux it's all one process, which allows you to create new sessions and switch them interactively and move windows from one session to another, or even have a window in more than one session. i can also see all windows from all sessions:

    (0)   - main: 6 windows
    (1)   ├─> 0: elvish-
    (2)   ├─> 1: elvish*: "[mosh] embee@foo:~"
    (3)   ├─> 2: elvish
    (4)   ├─> 3: elvish: "embee@bar:~"
    (5)   ├─> 4: elvish: "[mosh] embee@fedora:/etc"
    (6)   └─> 5: elvish
    (7)   - local: 6 windows (attached)
    (8)   ├─> 0: elvish
    (9)   ├─> 1: elvish-
    (M-a) ├─> 2: [tmux]*
    (M-b) ├─> 3: elvish
    (M-c) ├─> 4: elvish
    (M-d) └─> 5: elvish
    (M-e) - dev: 7 windows (attached)
    (M-f) ├─> 0: elvish*
    (M-g) ├─> 1: elvish-
    (M-h) ├─> 2: elvish
    (M-i) ├─> 3: elvish
    (M-j) ├─> 4: elvish


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