Author here, thanks for those tough nuts :) I am working on a successor of this POC called rich-rss [0], which contains a full rewrite of rss-proxy in a strongly typed language.
This legal agreement idea does not work at all. In most cases this agreement would have an expiration, only include specific actions and most likely could be withdrawn unilateral at any time. This makes an agreement basically worthless. The fact that people bring up technological solutions for social problems shows their inability to understand the messiness of social constructs.
IMO nuclear power won't help us in the climate crisis. The inertia to change our technologies, behaviour... is already extremely large, with nuclear energy (which is very limited) there will be less incentive to change anything at all. Hence, we will just prolong the party and not make use of this tiny thread of hope.
There are people [0] who claim that air traffic will be the first target of this development. It is very fragile, has a huge attack surface and efficient counter strategies are non existent. I am really amazed why "nothing" we know of has happened yet.
This feeds into my dystopian believes. I a couple of years those drones will be affordable to every individual. This individual will then savely engage in a drone strike against other individuals. Hence I predict an end of the celebrity cult :)
I disagree. I find the it wasteful, that every source will implement their way of rendering data. If we ignore the ad-problem for a moment, I would love if RSS would be the output of every website and the client then renders HTML to achieve the best UX possible. No broken layouts, no distractions, no dark pattern, just content.
Boredom is a totally underestimated and undervalued mental state these days. IMO it's quite difficult to become bored these days with all the distractions of the Internet. Many great thinkers went to rural "boredom resorts" to let their ideas thrive after they got stimuli from crowded cities.
I wrote a general purpose tool for html to rss mapping, maybe what you are looking for. You can run it as a docker container. https://github.com/damoeb/rss-proxy
I don't believe this will work but due to its complexity. And even if it will work, the life expectancy of some parts like solar panels is rather short.
IMO projects like fog catchers [0] look much more promising.
There are other opensource alternatives you might be interested in too [0], [1] and [2]. For rss-proxy you do not have to deal with selectors, though the feed quality won't be as good as the one OP suggests.
If you want to go crazy with RSS and build your entire information stream on top of it, you might need some glue code that semi-automatically turns static markup to rss [0]. (Disclaimer: I am the author)
I did not know this one. The difference is that the first one extracts the feeds automatically, the second one not. Here the user has to define everything.
To me RSS is exactly that. I don't see the advantage of converting an HTML to RDF because it would cover the entire spectrum. All the semantics might be lost. RSS is the smallest common denominator. If you agree somehow, you might be interested in that tool [0], it converts HTML to RSS using pattern matching.
I agree. I dropped all analytics for my blog and sideprojects, thoufh I found out that for my personal motivation I really like some stats about user engagement.
I could use the access logs from the webserver. Can anyone recommend a tool that post-processes those logs in a "analytics" like way?
https://api.feedless.org/f/c5f5ae53-16f1-4f67-b45f-1c3e8a92d...