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Sunday 2024-11-10 – Link List

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Blogging Intensifies Link List for Sunday 2024-11-10

10-Nov-2024 – ‘I hate lying to her’: US couples on voting against their partners’ candidates

Brief Summary: “Americans recount political clashes inside the home and how they get past it – or don’tIn the 2024 e”

10-Nov-2024 – SECURITY AFFAIRS MALWARE NEWSLETTER – ROUND 19

Brief Summary: ”
Security Affairs Malware newsletter includes a collection of the best articles and research on malw”

10-Nov-2024 – Security Affairs newsletter Round 497 by Pierluigi Paganini – INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Brief Summary: ”
A new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter arrived! Every week the best security articles”

09-Nov-2024 – Brick Layers: the Promise of Stronger 3D Prints and Why We Cannot Have Nice Things

Brief Summary: “It is a fact of life that 3D-printed parts from an FDM (fused deposition modeling) printer have weak”

09-Nov-2024 – Here’s Code for that AI-Generated Minecraft Clone

Brief Summary: “A little while ago Oasis was showcased on social media, billing itself as the world’s first playable”

09-Nov-2024 – Microsoft adds AI to Notepad — yes, Notepad. And Paint.

Brief Summary: “Notepad is the Windows operating system RichEdit widget as an application. The whole point is to be “

09-Nov-2024 – Exploring the Physics Behind Cooling Towers

Brief Summary: “A characteristic of any thermal power plant — whether using coal, gas or spicy nuclear rocks — is th”

09-Nov-2024 – For transgender Americans, Trump’s win after a campaign targeting them is terrifying

Brief Summary: “LOS ANGELES — Avery Poznanski was excited for a new chapter.

The nonbinary transgender senior at UC”

09-Nov-2024 – Retrotechtacular: Computer-Generate Video 1968 Style!

Brief Summary: “[Classic Microcomputers] read in a book that there was a computer-generated film made in the late 19”

08-Nov-2024 – ‘Going to pay a lot more’: Here’s how Trump’s deportations will lead to huge tax increases

Brief Summary: “President-elect Donald Trump ran on deporting millions of undocumented immigrants if he won a second”

07-Nov-2024 – What now?

Brief Summary: “I successfully avoided publishing an ill considered and profane rant here on Wednesday. I’ll take th”

08-Nov-2024 – Fifth Circuit: You Have To Do A Ton Of Busywork To Show Texas’s Social Media Law Violates The First Amendment

Brief Summary: “If the government passes a law that infringes on the public’s free speech rights, how should one cha”

10-Jun-2023 – The Adventures of Writing a CHIP8 Emulator – Part 2

Brief Summary: “In my last installment of “How to continually stub your toe with C”… Uhhh, I mean, The Adventures “

03-Jun-2023 – The Adventures of Writing a CHIP8 Emulator – Part 1

Brief Summary: “A few days ago I decided to write a CHIP8 emulator. Why? Because it’s fun! As for a programming lang”

08-Nov-2024 – A Slow, Crooked Path Forward, Toward Who-The-Hell-Knows

Brief Summary: ”

I don’t know that I’m ready to write much else since the thing I posted other day, but maybe I’m”

08-Nov-2024 – Democratic Governor Warns Trump Not To ‘Come For My People’ In Impassioned Tweet

Brief Summary: “After Donald Trump was elected to a second term, Illinois Democratic Governor J.B. Pritzker issued a”

08-Nov-2024 – Tony Blair Institute reports on AI in the labor market — using numbers they made up with GPT-4. Again.

Brief Summary: “The Tony Blair Institute has issued another encyclical on the fabulous AI future: “The Impact of AI “

08-Nov-2024 – What You Should Know About Climate Change Under Trump!

Brief Summary: “Wind energy then and now. Photo by Mark König on UnsplashHere’s a data point to keep in mind as we p”

08-Nov-2024 – To Unfuck Politics, Create More Union Members

Brief Summary: “An enlightened citizen. (Photo: Getty)The election went bad and now we are in the time when everyone”

08-Nov-2024 – Warner Bros CEO Zaslav Sees Big Opportunity For More Pointless Media Consolidation Under Trump 2.0

Brief Summary: “We’ve well established that the AT&T–>Time Warner–>Discovery series of media mergers were some of th”

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Programming Projects

2024.11.08 – Code Project – Python – Improved FreshRSS Link Lists

Ramen Junkie November 8, 2024 2Comments

Today, I want to talk about recent improvements I have made on my FreshRSS to WordPress Digest Python script. And to make a note on what I would like to do next.

This is the script I used to produce these Link List Posts on [Blogging Intensifies] and Lameazoid. The Github Repository for it is here.

The first version was simple, it pulled from the sharded feed of FreshRSS, collected favorited articles, formatted them a bit, then posted a wordpress post of links.
Overtime, I wanted these posts to be prettier, so I added a bit more massaging to the formatting, and some HTML code so the links would show up in pretty little formatted boxes. I also decided some sort of summary would be useful, so it pulls the first 100 words or so from a feed item as a teaser.
Initially I was using the main share feed from FreshRSS, but I have two blogs, each with vague but disting “themes”. Sharing video game news to [BI] felt a bit silly. Not that it matters, no one reads those lists and its mostly for my reference. I found you could narrow things down by personal tags, so altered the Python script to handle any number of configured blogs and now both get seperate link lists.

So, whats new this round?

Not a lot on the externally visible end. A week or so ago, I found that the Raspberry Pi I had running the script on had died on me. Or, more likely, the SD card did. Whatever the case, the script was not running as scheduled. I have always had a bit of a love/hate with the scheduled run. Some days I barely share anything from the reader, so it makes for weird small posts. Also it ran at like, 10:30P, which was kind of late, and occasionally, I found myself rushing to get through everything to make sure I flagged anything relevant, because I was flipping through it at 5 minutes till.

Right now, I am running it manually. And at irregular intervals. This created a new problem, but its one I had already been planning to fix. The way the FreshRSS shared feed works, you can append a number, X, and get “everything in the last X hours.” When it ran on a cronjob schedule every 24 hours, this number was simply, hardcoded at 24.

When manually running things, I needed X to be “however many hours since it last ran.” So now, it writes out a simple file with a time stamp, after each run. It also pulls in that file, and calculated the time difference. If the time difference is less than an hour, it defaults to an hour, because “X=0”, just gives the default feed, which may be everything, or may be the last ten items. I am not sure on the limits. If there isn’t a timestamp file, most likely if its being first run, it sets the hours different to 0, and gets everything.

Something else I added this round, everytime I wanted to do modifications, I needed to comment out some lines and uncomment others, so the script would not spam my blog with the same post over and over. Also, I have a time stamp file now that I don’t want to overwrite when testing, since it will probably stop seeing feed items unless they were marked in the last hour.

So I added a flag variable at the top, and encapsulated the business end output in some conditional statements. Now, when I want to test, I just change the “runmode” variable at the tol to “False”, and it stops posting or editing the time stamp file.

This was also needed for my third new feature. In addition to posting to the blog, it spits everything out into a simple, dated markdown file. This way, I have a private record of everything shared, since a lot of the point is, “I want to keep these links for reference.” Initially I just spit out the post data, but that was ugly since it was full of HTML tags. So It now compiles together a second, markdown formatted, variable, that gets written to the file. Another key difference, in my private files, I dump the entire article, and not just the 100 word summary.

I don’t want to repost entire articles on my blog, its rude and ugly, hence the summary, but for a private archive of text data, dumping it all is preferable. Articles disappear ALL the time, this is literally 100% of why I save and archive shit like this in the first place.

Some changes I still want to make

Right now it dumps everything into one output file, I may split this across blogs/topics
Another advantage of the private archive, I can add any number of additional tags to pull, that don’t have to be posted anywhere. I can just, pull them to a text archive. I already have started a recipes tag, for example. I also added a to be used flag in the config for it a feed gets posted anywhere.
I am kind of down on the idea of AI, but I still may look into hooking the summary function to some sort of AI service to create actual summaries. In my very very vague testing, it had a hard time keeping it short, even when instructed to do so.
I kind of want to modify the script to also produce a queue of links, then maybe a second script on a schedule that posts any links out of a file on microblogging services like Mastodon.
I would love to find a way to share links I find elsewhere to FreshRSS or this script.
I kind of want to find a way to sort and group posts under categories (Music, Coding, Video Games, etc). I have ideas oh how, but they are not all very… Elegant.
I kind of dislike having the timestamp file, I would like to figure out a way to query the WordPress Blog itself for “The last post marked link list,” and go off of that as the “last run date.”

The “Holy Grail” want, is the ability to add comments to shares. I put in a suggestion on the Github page for a “Notes” feature. I am seriously just considering making my own plug in. This would be super useful for WHY I shared a link. I could use this later in the social sharing queue system as well. The idea would be, as an example, I tag a post for a new CHVRCHES album, then add a little note, “I am super looking forward to this!”, then on the digest, the comment would show up.

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Link List

Thursday 2024-11-07 – Link List

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Blogging Intensifies Link List for Thursday 2024-11-07

07-Nov-2024 – Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker has warning for Donald Trump: ‘You come for my people, you come through me’

Brief Summary: “CHICAGO — Gov. JB Pritzker on Thursday sought to assure Illinois
residents that he would fight to pr”

07-Nov-2024 – Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s Anti-Vaccine Organization Hopes He’ll Take Their Wildest Dreams to the White House

Brief Summary: ”

The elites of the anti-vaccine, “medical freedom” world saw the presidential election unfold at “

07-Nov-2024 – Despite Trump’s election, a glimmer of hope as transgender candidates win elections nationwide

Brief Summary: “In a year dominated by anti-transgender messaging from Republican campaigns and the reelection of fo”

07-Nov-2024 – Hollywood Exodus? Stars Vow to Flee U.S. After Trump’s Election Win – Here’s Who’s Packing Their Bags

Brief Summary: “A wave of Hollywood’s biggest names is preparing to leave the U.S. after Donald Trump’s recent elect”

07-Nov-2024 – ‘Donald Trump Is A White Supremacist!’ Pro-Harris CNN Guest Goes Off — Says White Voters Fear ‘Black South Asian Woman’

Brief Summary: ”

Pro-Kamala Harris guest Michael Blake came in hot, telling anchor John Berman that President-el”

07-Nov-2024 – Microsoft doesn’t like you downloading Windows 10 even from official source anymore

Brief Summary: “Microsoft seems to not like it anymore it you want to download Windows 10, even if you do it from an”

07-Nov-2024 – We Need To Fight For Free Speech More Than Ever

Brief Summary: “The American people have spoken. And they’ve chosen to hand the full power of our military, the nucl”

07-Nov-2024 – Nobody wants Copilot Pro AI for Office 365 — so Microsoft will force-bundle it and raise the price

Brief Summary: “Copilot Pro is an AI assistant for Microsoft Office 365, introduced in January. Based on nine months”

07-Nov-2024 – As more Americans go ‘no contact’ with their parents, they live out a dilemma at the heart of Shakespeare’s ‘King Lear’

Brief Summary: “Is blood thicker than water? Should family always come first?
These clichés about the importance of “

07-Nov-2024 – How can Jupiter have no surface? A dive into a planet so big, it could swallow 1,000 Earths

Brief Summary: “The planet Jupiter has no solid ground – no surface, like the grass or dirt you tread here on Earth.”

07-Nov-2024 – It’s OK to feel despair at Trump’s victory. The important thing is not to give up | Polly Toynbee

Brief Summary: “A lot of people say they just don’t care about ‘politics’, and I’m sure that would make for an easie”

06-Nov-2024 – How Playing Cyber Games Can Help You Get Hired

Brief Summary: “When it comes to landing a job in cybersecurity, what does it take to stand out from the pack? Try p”

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Link List

Wednesday 2024-11-06 – Link List

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Blogging Intensifies Link List for Wednesday 2024-11-06

06-Nov-2024 – Jan. 6 rioter asks judge to postpone case due to ‘expected scope of clemency’ from Trump

Brief Summary: “Former President Donald Trump campaigned on pardoning scores of participants in the January 6, 2021 “

06-Nov-2024 – ‘If you have half a brain’: Tech reporter busts conservative’s defense of Elon Musk

Brief Summary: “Tech reporter Kara Swisher on Wednesday refuted CNN conservative strategist Scott Jennings’ effusive”

06-Nov-2024 – New Tax on Firearms Will Help Domestic Violence Victims in Colorado

Brief Summary: ”

Colorado voters on Tuesday brought to victory a ballot measure that will provide millions of cri”

06-Nov-2024 – 7 of 10 states backed abortion rights — but little to change yet

Brief Summary: “Voters backed abortion rights in seven of the 10 states where the issue appeared on ballots Tuesday “

06-Nov-2024 – Trump’s White House return poised to tangle health care safety net

Brief Summary: “Former President Donald Trump’s election victory and looming return to the White House will likely b”

06-Nov-2024 – I Don’t Hate Women Candidates. I Just Thought an Erratic and Vindictive Criminal Was Worthier of My Vote Than a Woman Candidate

Brief Summary: “I admit, it was tricky for me, a white male swing-state voter, to decide who deserved my vote in thi”

06-Nov-2024 – Welcome to Phase 3: What Happens When Propaganda Wins

Brief Summary: ”

Author Mar”

06-Nov-2024 – The shocking US election result will create a new world order – and launch a fresh wave of Trump wannabes | Martin Kettle

Brief Summary: “A whole raft of tired assumptions collapsed today. Britain must be realistic about America now – and”

06-Nov-2024 – Texas law targets transgender people with $500 fines, $10k civil suits for using the bathroom

Brief Summary: “At a contentious open meeting in Texas last month, the Odessa city council banned transgender indivi”

06-Nov-2024 – Synology fixed critical flaw impacting millions of DiskStation and BeePhotos NAS devices

Brief Summary: ”
Synology addressed a critical vulnerability in DiskStation and BeePhotos NAS devices that could lea”

05-Nov-2024 – Missouri Voted on Abortion Rights and Abortion Rights Won

Brief Summary: ”

The first state to ban abortion after the fall of Roe v. Wade just became the first state to hav”

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Link List

Tuesday 2024-11-05 – Link List

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Blogging Intensifies Link List for Tuesday 2024-11-05

05-Nov-2024 – Hoax bomb threats linked to Russia target polling places in battleground states, FBI says

Brief Summary: “The threats, which were deemed to be non-credible, caused two polling locations in Fulton County, Ge”

05-Nov-2024 – Russia Just Tried to Disrupt Georgia Voting With a Phony Bomb Scare

Brief Summary: ”

The morning of Election Day, Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger blamed Russia for cre”

05-Nov-2024 – The FBI Warns of an Election Day Hoax Video Designed to Scare Off Voters

Brief Summary: ”

The FBI issued a warning on Election Day about a hoax video that purports to be a news clip rela”

05-Nov-2024 – Abortion Foes Are Routing Millions of Dollars Through Local Candidates

Brief Summary: ”

This story was produced in partnership with the National Catholic Reporter.

Millions of dolla”

05-Nov-2024 – Here are key LGBTQ+ races to watch on Election Day

Brief Summary: “Besides the presidential race and deciding who’ll control Congress, Tuesday’s election will feature “

05-Nov-2024 – Open-Source Robot Transforms

Brief Summary: “Besides Pokémon, there might have been no greater media franchise for a child of the 90s than the Tr”

05-Nov-2024 – Election Monitors Blocked in Key States: Civil Rights Chair Demands Accountability

Brief Summary: “As voters across the U.S. head to the polls, tensions are high following decisions by officials in T”

05-Nov-2024 – Election Day information in Macon County

Brief Summary: “November 5, 2024 – It’s finally election day, and if you have not already voted, today is your last “

05-Nov-2024 – ‘People do not want to believe it is true’: the photographer capturing the vanishing of glaciers

Brief Summary: “Christian Åslund was shocked at the difference between what he saw in 2002 and what confronted him t”

05-Nov-2024 – On Election Day, Disinformation Worries Security Pros the Most

Brief Summary: “A Dark Reading poll reveals widespread concern over disinformation about election integrity and vote”

05-Nov-2024 – AI Not Needed For Hackaday Projects

Brief Summary: “It was Supercon this weekend, and Hackaday staffers made their way to Pasadena for what was by all a”

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