@Techmeme@techhub.socialAt its Made on YouTube event, YouTube unveils Custom Feeds, an LLM-powered feature that lets users generate and save tailored homepage video feeds, for US users (Reece Rogers/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/youtube-custom-feeds-let-you-ste…
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialAt its Made on YouTube event, YouTube unveils Custom Feeds, an LLM-powered feature that lets users generate and save tailored homepage video feeds, for US users (Reece Rogers/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/youtube-custom-feeds-let-you-ste…
@cdarwin@c.imSlovakia sought to modernize its traffic control systems with the acquisition of a batch of 279 new NERO R-ONE speed cameras, reports the Risky Bulletin Newsletter.
Unfortunately, the country’s national security service, the NBU, has discovered that the cameras have multiple security issues.
💥Firstly, they have SMS-activated Russian backdoors.
💥Secondly, live camera feeds can be accessed by anyone with the device IP, no password necessary.
Slovakia splurged a chun…
@zachleat@zachleat.com@… could definitely check feed content to guess if the feeds are the same and then just select from a radio of formats!
@newsie@darktundra.xyzX's Algorithm Feeds Off Ragebait and Impacts Democrats More, Study Finds https://www.404media.co/xs-algorithm-feeds-off-ragebait-and-impacts-democrats-more-study-finds/
@cdarwin@c.imThe UN secretary general,
António Guterres, has told the security council that
the Middle East is being pushed to the “edge of the unimaginable”
amid mounting fears over the trajectory of the conflict.
“The situation is getting out of control.
It is teetering on the edge of the unimaginable.
The region is being pulled into an ever-widening circle of confrontation.
One crisis feeds another.
One escalation triggers the next,” Guterres told a secur…
@jerome@jasette.facil.servicesToronto mayoral candidate Bradford using Israeli app that feeds supporters AI-generated comments
Of course he does
https://www.nationalobserver.com/2026/09/21/investigations/ai-app-suggests-posts-brad-bradford-supporters
@alejandrobdn@social.linux.pizzaI deleted my Reddit account years ago because I didn't need it. The feeds from the communities I was interested in were enough. However, I now find myself forced to create an account on that site just to visit it (several times), and old.reddit no longer exists.
Well, you can shove your new policies wherever you like. Adiós.
#reddit
@heiseonline@social.heise.de @zachleat@zachleat.comRE: https://fediverse.zachleat.com/@zachleat/117123177464053065
Happy with these results! Fewer duplicate feeds, please!
@v_i_o_l_a@openbiblio.socialich habe grad erst realisiert, dass es im portal #ARDSounds keine #RSS-feeds gibt! WTF??
thomas nohl stellt ein tool dafür bereit: https://thm…
@rasterweb@mastodon.social➡️ feedle: Search RSS Feeds from Blogs and Podcasts
#bookmarks
@acka47@openbiblio.socialArbeitet hier jemand an der Sammlung und/oder Katalogisierung von Podcasts? Im -#Metadaten-Forum gibt es eine gute Frage zur Überführung von Metadaten aus Podcast-Feeds nach METS/MODS und MARC: https://
@bourgwick@heads.social
@hikingdude@mastodon.socialHate “The Algorithm?” RSS Is One of the Tools You’ve Been Looking For
RSS is one of the best examples we have of the open web, where we can design and customize how we experience the internet, not the other way around.
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/06/hate
@asterisk@social.linux.pizzaLooks like the "decentralized" network went down today. The main page loads but no posts or feeds load at all, and sometimes I just get a 503. Nice.
#bluesky
@Sustainable2050@mastodon.energy
@mia@hcommons.socialInteresting proposal from Australia: 'The federal government's proposed digital duty of care could let Australians opt in or out of algorithmically recommended social media content.' https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-09-08/labour…
@grumpybozo@toad.socialAlso, unlike this one, many of my skeets don’t get here. Something about @… doesn’t pick them all up. Probably bsky is sinking the stuff they determine not interesting or whatever.
I despise algorithmic feeds where I can’t fix my algorithm. @…
@bourgwick@heads.social @heiseonline@social.heise.de
@cdonat@hostsharing.coopThis week on #ProFed: the web client now has RSS feeds. Not everywhere yet – authenticated feeds are a harder problem. Every approach I've considered so far is either tooc unsafe, too complicated for regular users, or not supported by most RSS readers.
Ideas very welcome. Are you maybe aware, how other applications do that? Are there any other applications at all, that do that?
@bencurthoys@mastodon.socialI know no one here is on Facebook, but you are missing out.
Reform are spending a fortune promoting and boosting every post by every constituency group, pushing their previously invisible ultra-targetted dogwhistle shit into all the normal peoples feeds, and they are being absolutely fucked over in the comments. It's glorious.
@Techmeme@techhub.socialDatabento, which sells financial data feeds, raised a $97M Series B led by NEA, taking its total funding to $127M, and says it is "profitable every month" (Lily Mae Lazarus/Fortune)
https://fortu…
@ellie@ellieayla.netSometimes people post RSS/iCal/etc feeds on web servers and then get conned into slapping Cloudflare in front. So feed readers get captchas instead of a feed.
But Cloudflare edge workers are privileged. So one can write a tiny proxy to fetch from the original website without a challenge.
#cloudflareisevil
@andres4ny@social.ridetrans.it"Sorry you don't get your liberal fantasy where Zohran feeds you non-GMO grapes on a free bus driven by a trans Karl Marx." 😂
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9-Q1p74b-Xo
@ToneMilazzo@mastodon.cloudLooking for recommendations for blogs with RSS feeds that cover American independent comics. I stopped going to the comic book shop on the regular and I've fallen out of touch.
@trezzer@social.linux.pizzaI adore Frank Putman’s Teletext64U. He even did an impressive reverse engineering of Danish teletext because the official feeds were weird, so he took the clean text version and made it look like the real TV version. It is super fast and you can change which provider you want to read from. Pretty interesting to see what the top stories are in neighbouring countries without clicking around and evading cookie banners and pop-overs and all the other web-horror. Just instant text with no clickba…
@bourgwick@heads.social
@davidaugust@mastodon.onlineIntriguing. "You and I both eat through the labor of people whose hands we might decline to shake if we just knew a little more about them. Their sentiments are not our own. Maybe they have bad politics. Or they’re kooky about health and wellness. Or they’re racists. In the vast, anonymous network that feeds us all, there are certainly quite a few people like that. If you asked them, they’d have a litany of bad things to say about us, too."
@toxi@mastodon.thi.ngToday 10 years ago was the UK's big morning after... The morning after the referendum, with the dizzying realization that Brexit would indeed become a bitter reality, though no one fully knew at the time just what a shit show it would turn into, bringing out the worst in UK politics, revealing a deep national (though mostly English) insular psyche which still refuses to grasp its post-empire status and feeds on false nostalgia of an imagined past. What followed has been, in part, a not-so-sl…
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialAustralia proposes a "My Feed, My Way" initiative requiring social platforms to send users a notification asking them to opt in or out of algorithmic content (Clare Armstrong/ABC)
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-09-08/labou…
@wraithe@mastodon.socialHow do I know that Mastodon & Bluesky work for me and I’m following the right people?
Both my feeds on those platforms are wall-to-wall Dolly Parton, RN
@krone@frawas.deWenn dir der Feed gefällt und du mich bei den Serverkosten unterstützten möchtest, kannst du das hier tun: https://buymeacoffee.com/mastodonserver
Danke
@dichotomiker@dresden.network#TIL https://www.pizzint.watch/polyglobe/app exists. Is this supposed to be civil palantir for the masses?
@kineticdiplomacy@infosec.exchangeSeptember 22, 2026
I wanted local news for Wassenaar, but without press releases pretending to be journalism, political parties' own opinions dressed up as reporting, and definitely without gambling ads. So I built my own aggregator.The idea is simple enough: pull RSS from every local source I can find, dump it in a database, filter out the garbage, read what's left. In practice the filtering turned into the whole project.Right now I'm pulling from eight feeds. The municipality's own news, Omroep West, Centraal , Wassenaarders.nl, the Police1, Wassenaar Times, a 112-incident feed, and Vrienden van Wassenaar2. There's also a Google News search bolted on for regio15.nl (for pictures of accidents), since that site doesn't bother with RSS. That one runs backwards from the others: instead of a blacklist of things to exclude, it needs a whitelist of every street name in Wassenaar.Local news has a lot of overlap, and that turned out to be its own little problem. A fire, a crash, a stabbing — the same incident shows up on Omroep West, Centraal , Wassenaarders.nl and the municipality's site within a few hours, each with its own angle and its own stock photo. Reading all four versions back to back is a waste of my time. So every article gets a story ID, and anything covering the same event shares one. The August fire near Wassenaarse Slag is a good example: the municipality's evacuation notice, Omroep West's first report, Centraal 's follow-up and Wassenaarders.nl's colour piece all fold into a single thread. I read it once instead of four times with diminishing returns each pass.
The municipality's own feed, for what it's worth, is fine — road closures, permit notices, the odd royal decoration. Boring in exactly the way a municipal feed should be. The actual problem is political parties. Wassenaarders.nl in particular runs a fair amount of content that reads like it came straight out of the VVD's press office: opinion with the "opinion" part quietly removed, no facts, never a critical word. Similar stuff turns up on other sites too, from groups clearly attached to a party. None of it belongs in a news feed, because it isn't news, it's a party talking about itself.And then, separately, there's the gambling ads. At some point the person running Wassenaarders.nl started slipping in LLM-written ads for online casinos. Tacky doesn't cover it, that's close to unethical, and it has no business anywhere near something calling itself local news.Both problems land on the same site, which is why its exclude list dwarfs everyone else's combined, and keeps growing. The real reason it's such a pain is that the guy doesn't use metadata at all — no categories, no tags, nothing structured to filter on. Every other feed gives me some kind of handle beyond raw text. This one just gives me a title and a blob, so I'm stuck excluding it phrase by phrase as new junk appears. Death by a thousand keywords.One nice side effect of all this: both the 112-meldingen.nl feed and the police feed carry GPS coordinates and a priority code for every incident. Too good a dataset to ignore, so I'm using it to plot a risk map of incidents around Wassenaar, somewhere you can actually see where things cluster, rather than scroll a list of accident reports. Give it a few more months and I can map the most dangerous places in Wassenaar.Aggregating local news sounded like a small job. It wasn't, because most local sites simply aren't built to be aggregated: no proper feeds, no metadata, party messaging laundered as journalism, and in one case, a whole side business in AI-written gambling ads. The technical bit was the easy part. The filtering never really finishes.
Which took an incredible effort to find, only to discover het Police only posted two items in the last 3 years. ∩A weird local organisation that's quite critical of the government. ∩
#Blog #Article #Media #PersonalWebsite #WebDevelopment #Local #Wassenaar
@presseportal_pol_NDS@frawas.deWenn dir der Feed gefällt und du mich bei den Serverkosten unterstützten möchtest, kannst du das hier tun: https://buymeacoffee.com/mastodonserver
Danke
@Techmeme@techhub.socialAustralia proposes a "My Feed, My Way" initiative requiring social platforms to send users a notification asking them to opt in or out of algorithmic content (Clare Armstrong/ABC)
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-09-08/labou…
@servelan@newsie.socialSunday Science: This Cell Feeds, Grows and Reproduces. And It’s Manmade. | Portside
https://portside.org/2026-07-05/sunday-science-cell-feeds-grows-and-reproduces-and-its-manmade
@3sframe@social.linux.pizzaI now use ads on short form video feeds as a "stopping point" indicator.
Any time I want to be done with the endless scroll, I wait for an ad. Then I close the app.
I know someone is getting metrics on this somewhere. Maybe, it'll net me less ads in my algorithm. And it weirdly has helped me break the scrolling cycle, too.
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialThe US raises censorship concerns over the UK's proposals to force tech platforms to put "trustworthy" news providers at the top of social and video feeds (Charlotte Tobitt/Press Gazette)
https://pressgazette.co.uk/news/us-iss
@Techmeme@techhub.socialThe US raises censorship concerns over the UK's proposals to force tech platforms to put "trustworthy" news providers at the top of social and video feeds (Charlotte Tobitt/Press Gazette)
https://pressgazette.co.uk/news/us-iss
@krone@frawas.deWenn dir der Feed gefällt und du mich bei den Serverkosten unterstützten möchtest, kannst du das hier tun: https://buymeacoffee.com/mastodonserver
Danke
@lornajane@indieweb.socialBBC still publish actual podcasts (RSS feeds with audio) for their world service content. The trailers have always been annoying when I've downloaded quiet spoken word content and they've got very noisy stings (and outside the UK, bad ads) for other programmes an the start. Today I notice those noise injections are also being added in the middle of episodes.
Woke up thinking about the options for recording broadcast radio and making it into usable, non-startling audio (thank you sleeping brain)
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialInternal messages: Nexstar has ordered its Fox affiliates to stop using news packages from Fox News Edge in an attempt to bolster the prominence of NewsNation (Matthew Keys/TheDesk.net)
https://thedesk.net/2026/08/nexstar-fox-affiliates-move-on-from-fox-news-ed…
@samerfarha@mastodon.socialVesturbæjarlaug, my neighborhood pool, has a swim suit centrifuge to wring the water out of your suit. The water drains right on top of the electric cable that feeds this beast 230v. 😬⚡️🩳
@bici@mastodon.social"When despair for the world grows in me and I wake in the night at the least sound in fear of what my life and my children's lives may be, I go and lie down where the wood drake rests in his beauty on the water, and the great heron feeds. I come into the peace of wild things who do not tax their lives with forethought of grief. I come into the presence of still water. And I feel above me the day-blind stars waiting with their light. For a time I rest in the grace of the world, and am free"
@enriquericos@mastoart.socialWhen I am halfway depressed (no, I'm not trivializing the term), there are three movies that help: Alien, Aliens and The Thing.
So I'm shutting down news feeds, comms and reality itself. I'll be relaxing in cold, hostile places with terrifying monsters, thank you very much.
#depression #movies #coping
@cowboys@darktundra.xyzGP3 content for your feeds | @AmericanAirlines #DallasCowboys #GeorgePickens #football #shorts
@todbot@mastodon.socialIf you are a listener to The Bootloader (our monthly podcast about cool tech things) or a CircuitPython Show listener (learn about cool #CircuitPython stuff!), check your feeds! https://hachyderm.io/@prcutler/116981335892556713
@adulau@infosec.exchangeThe release of cpe-editor v1.1.0
https://github.com/gcve-eu/cpe-editor/releases/tag/v1.1.0
CPE Editor v1.1.0 is a substantial feature and operations release focused on making curated CPE data easier to explore, review, publish, and run in production. It expands the public contribution workflow, adds richer APIs and feeds, improves dataset portability, and delivers major performance and reliability improvements for larger catalogs.
@…
@BBC6MusicBot@mastodonapp.uk🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #6Musics00sForever
Nine Inch Nails:
🎵 The Hand That Feeds
#NineInchNails
https://arachnor.bandcamp.com/track/nine-inch-nails-the-hand-that-feeds-arachnor-version
https://open.spotify.com/track/4L5r9XNiWJ7cbqcIiNvVes
@DamonHD@mastodon.socialWhile it is hardly the biggest current waste of resources on the intartubes, the mindlessly damaging* behaviour of #Spotify, #Amazon, #Apple et al polling #RSS podcast feeds still annoys me, so I cranked up my defences today...
https://www.earth.org.uk/note-on-site-technicals-112.html#2026-09-17
It costs creators in bandwidth/CPU as money, and all of us as climate change. It would take a few hours of engineering time to improve this by (say) orders of magnitude.
@wraithe@mastodon.socialHow do I know that Mastodon & Bluesky work for me and I’m following the right people?
Both my feeds on those platforms are wall-to-wall Dolly Parton, RN
@cowboys@darktundra.xyzsome visual ASMR for your feeds 😵💫 | @AmericanAirlines #DallasCowboys #satisying #ASMR #shorts
@servelan@newsie.social"The “why here” is clear. The Seattle metro area’s secularity is actually part of the draw for TPUSA, which has a well-worn playbook for visiting deep-blue, non-Christian strongholds to generate friction. The local backlash, counter protests, and media coverage feeds a ready-made narrative of persecution that plays well to the base back home."
Erika Kirk's TPUSA Tour Lands in Kirkland Today - The Stranger
https://www.thestranger.com/news/erika-kirks-tpusa-tour-lands-in-kirkland-today/
@katrinakatrinka@infosec.exchange"A proposed budget cut would reduce Medicaid reimbursement rates by 38% for five key categories of behavioral health providers: clinical social workers, psychologists, marriage and family therapists, residential treatment facilities, and alcohol and drug treatment centers."
-- @…
#Utah already throws piles of money at an abusive #Synanon model in #TOSA (The Other Side Academy) and at police and prisons, but not at actual treatment and recovery programs. It feeds a system that funds the wealthy and keeps an underclass in place and vulnerable.
Who cares if it's cheaper (both financially and socially) to help people rather than punish them?
#Medicaid #utpol #ACAB
https://www.sltrib.com/opinion/letters/2026/09/08/letter-if-utah-cares-about-mental/
