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I think you still have to specify the URL up to the greader.php page, maybe in your case it would be

https://freshrss.example.com/api/greader.php


A beautiful RSS client finally adds support FreshRSS, my self hosted RSS aggregator of choice, and also for the gReader API that plenty of other services use. The dev notes however that at this time Inoreader is not supported via gReader API.
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I was going to say Digital Illusions but for Motorhead, the racing game. The OST for that game has been in my music rotation for decades and it’s still in my top 3 of all time.


The local and remote port options sound exactly like something I’ve needed multiple times in the past, I’ll keep this saved for when it happens again. Great stuff!


Is VR really so ubiquitous to warrant these concerns? In my opinion most of the warnings about how this technology encourages “escaping reality” apply more to things that have had an established place in society for decades, namely phones, social media and online gaming. I have two kids and a VR headset is the least of my concerns, but they could be sucked in to the non-reality of a personal phone in two seconds if I allow it.


I recommend NSD or Knot for strictly authoritative servers. BIND is great too, but it is built to do both authoritative and caching DNS which makes it a bit too “big” for the task of serving only authoritative DNS data. You can definitely configure BIND to only serve authoritative data though.

I can’t comment on running from a container, I’ve always worked with NSD/Knot/BIND building directly from source.


Well, you can fact check later right? If nothing else kids will learn to be bored again, which is good.


No problem! FreshRSS really is amazing so I’m happy to help and spread the love.


Using .site-content container clearfix didn’t work because those are actually three separate CSS classes, so you’d have to use only one - for example .site-content. However, it looks like .site-content is too big, as it includes the website’s sidebar as well. You may already know this but in Firefox and Chrome you can right click anywhere on the website and use the Inspect option to look at the source, and clicking on a section of the source highlights the corresponding section of the website and this will help you find exactly the CSS class you’re looking for. I did this on a couple articles from Humble Bundle and found a couple of options:

  • .post: This includes only the content of the post, excluding the title and the image.
  • .site-main: This includes the title, author, image and the content.

Another useful tool in FreshRSS I forgot to mention is “CSS selector of the elements to remove”. You can use it to remove certain section from the full article, I’d recommend removing .sharedaddy and .entry-footer (the sharing links at the end of the article), and also .entry-header if you use .site-main as the CSS selector for the full article (.entry-header is the title of the article, but FreshRSS already fetches it from the RSS feed so you don’t need it in the body of the article as well). You can remove multiple sections by using a comma-separated list of CSS classes to remove:

.entry-header, .sharedaddy, .entry-footer


I’ve always known Drop for their audio sales and products, I hope they continue to collaborate with audio brands in the future. The Sennheiser/Drop HD58x is one of my favorites, it was hard to beat for the price when I bought them.


Final Fantasy VII and Chrono Cross are my absolute all time favorites. Ori and the Blind Forest is a more recent soundtrack that blew me away. The soundtrack for the Motorhead racing game is also a classic for me.


I thought maybe the title had been misspelled and it was supposed to say “selflessness and trust” but nope, Linus goes into great detail about how being selfish helps open source projects. I agree with the points he’s making though, great interview. This bit is so relatable:

I’ll happily sit in front of the computer the whole day, and if the kids distract me when I’m in the middle of something, a certain amount of cursing might happen.


Before you go reading all that, out of curiosity I looked around the RuneScape site and found the News RSS feed here:

https://secure.runescape.com/m=news/latest_news.rss

That feed contains only titles, thumbnails and a very small preview of each article. However, with FreshRSS you don’t need to do scraping/crawling at all to get full articles from limited RSS feeds like this one. Here’s what you do:

  1. Subscribe to the RSS feed in FreshRSS as you normally would.
  2. Go to Subscription Management and find the settings for the RuneScape feed.
  3. In the Advanced section of the feed settings, find the item called “Article CSS selector on original website”, and write .c-news-article__content in that text box. You can click on the button next to the text box to preview the full article that FreshRSS will retrieve.
  4. Click Submit to save the changes, and then go to the bottom of the feed settings and click Reload articles so that FreshRSS populates the feed with a few full articles.

That should do it. The CSS selector essentially tells FreshRSS which section of the full article’s HTML/CSS is the body of the article, which FreshRSS then uses to populate the body of the RSS feed.


It can be done directly in FreshRSS and I’ve done it successfully with a few websites, though the process is fairly involved. Here’s a starting point, from the FreshRSS documentation:

https://freshrss.github.io/FreshRSS/en/users/11_website_scraping.html

This blog post (also linked in the FreshRSS docs above) proved extremely useful as an example on how to get started:

https://danq.me/2022/09/27/freshrss-xpath/

Good luck!


I think the apps currently in development will only get better with time, but currently the web app is my favorite way to browse Lemmy.


As if these two needed their egos stroked even more. I’ll never understand why billionaires need so much attention, and why on earth we give it to them.


Looks great! I’ll also chime in that the Play Store website tells me it’s not available for any of my devices, and the Play Store app says it’s not available in my country (Chile).