Nkrs Had a lot of fun at work today solving problems. The server that these guys got is an old Linux box running Ubuntu 14.04 LTS. The application needed Java 8 and Tomcat 8 but for some reason it had Java 6 and 7 and Tomcat 7. After upgrading and setting up the JVM (for some reason it defaults to maximum of 128MB of RAM which is a weirdly low default for any Java application), the application was working. All of this without even looking at the documentation, because it doesn't exist.
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Nkrs This is what high performance computing looks like: ibb.co/hMzHsF
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Martijn That might still have you miss content from high throughput sites. E.g. sites who limit their feeds to the 5 latest items, but have made 6 posts between your computer's download moments.
Nkrs I don't follow many sites like that, in fact, Hacker News might be the only things. I could make it so the program minimises to tray and runs in background, with notifications popping up when there's something new.
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Martijn I think the reason you will see web apps being used is that people end up needing an always-online system that keeps check of feeds when their own machines are offline. When you have the server based system, it often makes sense to turn that into a web app.
Nkrs That's understandable, though my take is that it is also convenient to use from a mobile phone if you set it up on your web host. I consume feeds on my computer, once or twice per day, so it makes sense to me to have it run and download stuff only when I am interested.
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Nkrs In regards to , it seems like majority uses web apps for RSS feeds, with minor use of desktop apps that appear to be available only on the Mac. I guess it is time to roll my own, could be a fun project for the weekend.
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Martijn I think the reason you will see web apps being used is that people end up needing an always-online system that keeps check of feeds when their own machines are offline. When you have the server based system, it often makes sense to turn that into a web app.
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Nkrs I'm using Liferea for RSS feeds but it's starting to annoy me with frequent freezing and crashing, and it never manages to display the correct numbers of unread items, and it's the most decent desktop reader for Linux that I've found. Maybe I should build my own. What do you use for your RSS needs?
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🦿 Lucian Marin Feedly works great for me. I wanted to build a feed reader too, but each feed is different and respecting the standard is optional in most cases.
John Olinda I use Stringer, hosted on Heroku. However, I'm trying to find another self-hosted option and I'm leaning toward Miniflux.
Martijn I'm using Feedbin in the back, and then Reeder on macOS and Press on Android.
Mark Dain I haven't read/followed RSS since Google Reader closed. I just never found a nice solution, to be honest I wanted something identical to Google Reader but self-hosted. I ended up losing the list of hundreds of blogs I followed. Oh well.
Tbd inoreader.com - fast, Google Reader like interface (and shortcuts), works great for me
Flo Feedly.
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🦿 Lucian Marin What is that tag for?
Nkrs It was initially for displaying keyboard input, like CTRL+ALT+DEL, but I think they expanded its use for other inputs as well. It could be a useful hook so that screen readers would expand CTRL into "Control", but I have no idea if it works that way.
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Mark Dain I wonder if the tactic of the TV License people is to continue to harass those who legitimately don't need a license just so they will pay to enjoy the silence. Leave me alone.
Nkrs Here it is included as a tax in the electric bill. Despite this, the national TV still has 15 minutes of ads per hour and the shows and films they make are terrible, which I think is the major difference with BBC.
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Martijn I don't really have the whole favours thing, but contact does get slow if I am not the one to initiate. Guess that's why I am happy to have IRC: asynchronous friendships.
Nkrs IRC is great but it doesn't do well with doing things with people offline.
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Mark Dain Aw that sucks. You might find this funny: youtu.be/oUZFuS0c0Ak I also try to cut people out of my life who just want things from me all the time. It will mean a smaller group of friends, but they're actually dependable.
Nkrs This was the smaller group of friends to me. Now I'm left with nothing. Perhaps it's time to start fresh.
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Nkrs I did an experiment on my group of friends. I figured out that they were only interested in hanging out with me if they needed something from me, and the only times we were seeing each other besides that is when I was the one to make first contact. I stopped sending messages and calling them, and after 8 months of silence, one of them sent me a message - you guessed it - because she needed a favour. I don't know how we were friends to begin with.
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Mark Dain Aw that sucks. You might find this funny: youtu.be/oUZFuS0c0Ak I also try to cut people out of my life who just want things from me all the time. It will mean a smaller group of friends, but they're actually dependable.
Martijn I don't really have the whole favours thing, but contact does get slow if I am not the one to initiate. Guess that's why I am happy to have IRC: asynchronous friendships.
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Nkrs Went to my bank today to move some cash from my foreign exchange account to my regular account and the bank teller said "oh, you're the Swedish krona guy" when I gave her my card. Felt like a celebrity for a moment.
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😀 Tom Interesting. Keep us updated!
Nkrs I don't think anything else is going to happen. I've exhausted my options and energy to fix this and now that I think of it, it is perhaps too much effort to solve something that I didn't screw up with a company whose products and services I don't use.
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Nkrs In regards to , I took the advice that gave. Two days later, I received an email from Apple's support. They were very adamant that I contact them about this issue through phone, which turns out isn't possible as they don't have a line for Serbia. I'd have to call the line in Croatia which I can't since we don't have a phone at home and my cell and work phones can only make calls in the country, not outside.
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😀 Tom Interesting. Keep us updated!
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Sojourner Interesting discussion at discussions.apple.... among others with the same issue.
Nkrs Hey, thanks, I'll have a look.
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🦿 Lucian Marin I usually do command line tools with Python for this sort of things. It's easy to parse arguments, display a progress bar and things like that.
Nkrs Python is great for scripts and I would have used it if possible, but this is for Windows machines that are equipped to run Java apps and don't have Python installed. Maybe I could look into Jython or JRuby so that I could write these programs in a nicer language and still get an executable that can be opened with a double-click.
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