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skepticalifornia, 6 months ago to politics in The United States spends more on its military than the next 10 countries combined

Do you not understand the concept of deterrence through strength or are you being intentionally dense?

Do you believe for one second that Putin stops with Ukraine if NATO and the US weren’t standing in his way?

skepticalifornia, 9 months ago to lemmy_support in If it's OK (non-spammy) to ask, I'd be grateful if anyone could check the login screen at https://futurology.today/

Mine came through just now and I logged in successfully.

skepticalifornia, 9 months ago to lemmy_support in If it's OK (non-spammy) to ask, I'd be grateful if anyone could check the login screen at https://futurology.today/

I tried creating an account, but never got the email confirmation. Everything seemed to work until that point.

skepticalifornia, 9 months ago to RedditMigration in Reddit appears to have neutered RSS feeds

Update on this issue. Reddit has apparently started to enforce login requirements for RSS feeds. Since most newsreaders have elected to not pay Reddit for API access, most of them will likely stop working.

However, there is a workaround for now - you can use old.reddit as the feed url, so something like old.reddit.com/r/technews.rss will work, for now.

I expect Reddit to also kill old.reddit at some point as they still have a couple of bullets in their gun to shoot off the rest of their foot.

skepticalifornia, 9 months ago to android in is anyone else bothered by the lack of the 3 buttons at the bottom

Same for me, I think there are a lot of us 😀

I just haven’t been able to get use to gestures instead of the buttons.

skepticalifornia, 9 months ago to RedditMigration in Reddit appears to have neutered RSS feeds

I think it’s all part of their assault on open APIs - I have to believe that a tiny percentage of users use RSS, so the traffic can’t be that big unless scrapers use RSS.

skepticalifornia, 9 months ago to RedditMigration in Reddit appears to have neutered RSS feeds

The great thing Reddit had was the ability to turn any subreddit into an RSS feed by just putting .rss on the end of the URL in place of the “/”

Thankfully RSS is built into Lemmy - every community includes an RSS feed.

It’s a good way to see a quick list of all posts in a reader that supports RSS.

skepticalifornia, 9 months ago to RedditMigration in Reddit appears to have neutered RSS feeds

Are they updating? Mine are there but nothing new in a couple of days.

skepticalifornia, 9 months ago to RedditMigration in PSA, you can add subreddits as an RSS to view without supporting Reddit

Sadly, Reddit appears to have pretty much broken RSS feeds. I use NetNewsWire on iPad and Feeder on Android and both of them are hardly ever updating now. Reddit appears to have implemented rate limiting.

reddit.com/…/rss_feeds_are_broken_for_most_subred…

Yet another reason to tell Reddit to go F itself…

skepticalifornia, 9 months ago to asklemmy in What's your favorite memory from childhood?

Like others here it has to do with my Grandmother - one of my earliest memories was me, about 2, riding in the front seat of a car, and looking over at my grandmother driving and she smiled at me.

This was in the 1960s so kids could ride in the front seat and I probably wasn’t even wearing a lap belt, certainly no car seat.

My grandmother stopped driving not long after that, so I never saw her drive a car except for that one time and I can still picture her face smiling at me.