skepticalifornia

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The United States spends more on its military than the next 10 countries combined in c/politics@lemmy.ml
[–] skepticalifornia@lemdro.id 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Do you not understand the concept of deterrence through strength or are you being intentionally dense?

Do you believe for one second that Putin stops with Ukraine if NATO and the US weren't standing in his way?

If it's OK (non-spammy) to ask, I'd be grateful if anyone could check the login screen at https://futurology.today/ in c/lemmy_support@lemmy.ml
[–] skepticalifornia@lemdro.id 2 points 1 year ago

Mine came through just now and I logged in successfully.

If it's OK (non-spammy) to ask, I'd be grateful if anyone could check the login screen at https://futurology.today/ in c/lemmy_support@lemmy.ml
[–] skepticalifornia@lemdro.id 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I tried creating an account, but never got the email confirmation. Everything seemed to work until that point.

Reddit appears to have neutered RSS feeds in c/RedditMigration@kbin.social
[–] skepticalifornia@lemdro.id 1 points 1 year ago

Update on this issue. Reddit has apparently started to enforce login requirements for RSS feeds. Since most newsreaders have elected to not pay Reddit for API access, most of them will likely stop working.

However, there is a workaround for now - you can use old.reddit as the feed url, so something like https://old.reddit.com/r/technews.rss will work, for now.

I expect Reddit to also kill old.reddit at some point as they still have a couple of bullets in their gun to shoot off the rest of their foot.

is anyone else bothered by the lack of the 3 buttons at the bottom in c/android@lemdro.id
[–] skepticalifornia@lemdro.id 3 points 1 year ago

Same for me, I think there are a lot of us 😀

I just haven't been able to get use to gestures instead of the buttons.

Reddit appears to have neutered RSS feeds in c/RedditMigration@kbin.social
[–] skepticalifornia@lemdro.id 1 points 1 year ago

The great thing Reddit had was the ability to turn any subreddit into an RSS feed by just putting .rss on the end of the URL in place of the "/"

Thankfully RSS is built into Lemmy - every community includes an RSS feed.

It's a good way to see a quick list of all posts in a reader that supports RSS.

Reddit appears to have neutered RSS feeds in c/RedditMigration@kbin.social
[–] skepticalifornia@lemdro.id 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Are they updating? Mine are there but nothing new in a couple of days.

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Reddit appears to have neutered RSS feeds (lemdro.id)
 

I use NetNewsWire on my iPad and Feeder on my Android phone to read RSS feeds from multiple sites (including Lemmy and Kbin). I also use it to monitor niche sub-reddits so I can give Reddit as little traffic as possible.

I guess it was inevitable that Reddit would know many are doing this and begin to kill RSS feeds. I’ve noticed the past few days that my feeds were not being updated very often, if at all, even though the feed appears to still be there.

This started a few weeks ago, apparently:

https://www.reddit.com/r/bugs/comments/14z44nw/rss_feeds_are_broken_for_most_subreddits/

What's your favorite memory from childhood? in c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml
[–] skepticalifornia@lemdro.id 3 points 1 year ago

Like others here it has to do with my Grandmother - one of my earliest memories was me, about 2, riding in the front seat of a car, and looking over at my grandmother driving and she smiled at me.

This was in the 1960s so kids could ride in the front seat and I probably wasn’t even wearing a lap belt, certainly no car seat.

My grandmother stopped driving not long after that, so I never saw her drive a car except for that one time and I can still picture her face smiling at me.