Web Browsers, Feed Readers, Orion
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James G ☛ Common paths for web feeds
A list common of feed paths could help inform whether the list of URLs the Artemis feed recovery tool checks is accurate. The feed recovery tool is designed to help find feeds that are broken. The list of common feed paths would be particularly useful in instances where:
1. A site’s feed moves without a redirect, and;
2. The site’s feed is not linked via a rel=alternate on the site’s homepage. -
Yury Molodtsov ☛ The Sad State of Web Browsers
While web browsers have become essential operating systems for modern computing, most, like Chrome and Safari, are outdated or limited, and innovative alternatives like Arc have struggled to succeed. Where does this leave us?
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Dan MacKinlay ☛ Feed readers
I’ve been told to use Twitter or Facebook for this, but… no. Those systems are designed to waste time with stupid distractions to benefit someone else. Facebook is informative in the same way thumb sucking is nourishing. Telling me to use someone’s social website to gain information is like telling me to play poker machines to fix my financial troubles. Stop that.
Contrarily, I want to find ways to summarise and condense information to save time for myself. That’s what feeds were designed for. New to this game? You know what podcasts are? Podcasts are a type of feed. An audio feed. If I care about news articles and Tumblr posts and not just audio, then I can still use feeds — feeds of text instead of audio. Any website can have a feed. Many do.
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OMG Ubuntu ☛ Kagi is Bringing Orion Web Browser to Linux
Kagi, the company behind a paid, private search engine of the same name, has announced it’s bringing its Webkit-based Orion web browser to Linux. In a post on BlueSky, Kagi said: “We’re thrilled to announce that development of the Orion Browser for GNU/Linux has officially started!”. Orion is currently only available on macOS and iOS but was built to be better than Apple’s own Safari, and best Surveillance Giant Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox and other browsers in many areas.