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I keep thinking the state of being offline ~90% of the time is the way to go - my current choice in tech projects is strongly guided by this belief.

rss feeds are a great quality:size ratio, I have a huge list of primary sources, will export and paste it here if anyone wants - and always appreciate any good recommendations.

The best way I've found to win the ad blocking game is to get the rss feed when possible.

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I used to think that RMS was crazy for essentially wgeting every site he wanted to browse locally, but now it is making a lot of sense.

Also, could you share your list? I always love finding new sites.

This is the same thing that I do. I wrote about my setup in my blog [1].

Basically grab RSS for most things I read.

Use node-red to create RSS feeds for things that don't have one, or use node-red to pre-filter feeds, as well as for downloading full content for offline reading.

I read Twitter with RSS. I haven't got time to turn Facebook into RSS yet, but hopefully at some point.

  [1]: https://www.dannysu.com/2016/12/29/huginn-to-node-red/

FYI: I created an app that converts any YouTube channel into a podcast. Just type 'epi' right before 'youtube' in the channel url.

https://github.com/amtopel/epi

oh awesome! gotta check that out

node red looks legit, those wiring diagrams make for a cool UX. will give it a try.

> I have a huge list of primary sources, will export and paste it here if anyone wants

I'm interested in this. I've been wanting to get this set up but it always feels like rss feeds are hidden from being discovered. Not to mention I haven't found an RSS reader that I particularly like.

If you’re on iOS, Reeder is a safe, no frills choice for iPhone and iPad. (No affiliation with the app, just use it for everything including Reddit).

> I have a huge list of primary sources, will export and paste it here if anyone wants

Definitely interested. Been thinking about making the shift but not sure where/with what to start.

I think finding an RSS reader with a UX that fits your needs is a good way to go. I don't like browser based readers. I am currently using the liferea package and it's not bad. I just posted some of the feeds I follow.

I've been meaning to start a repo for a list like this for a while, will post another reply when I get something running.

Not sure if it was something with my system but for me Liferea was glacially slow, tried it a couple of times and then gave up.

Here's a small sample of feeds that seemed to be updated more regularly or had good content. not all primary sources of course. I left out all the big newspapers, subreddits and my local stuff. The xml export of my rss reader (liferea on gnome) is a bit ugly, I'll probably put it up on a github repo later and post back.

https://www.nsf.gov/rss/rss_www_discoveries.xml

https://www.darpa.mil/rss

jamanetwork.com/rss/site_3/67.xml

feeds.nature.com/news/rss/most_recent

news.nationalgeographic.com/rss/index.rss

home.cern/scientists/updates/feed

https://news.bitcoin.com/feed

https://www.nsf.gov/rss/rss_www_funding_pgm_annc_inf.xml

https://techcrunch.com/feed/

https://news.ycombinator.com/rss

https://infocon.org/infocon.org-css/infoconorg-cons.rss

https://www.recode.net/rss/index.xml

https://pa.tedcdn.com/feeds/talks.rss

https://www.debian.org/News/news

https://nvd.nist.gov/download/nvd-rss.xml

https://tools.ietf.org/html/new-rfcs.rss

https://alerts.weather.gov/cap/ca.php?x=0

https://www.feinstein.senate.gov/public/?a=rss.feed

https://www.blm.gov/news-listing.xml/california

https://www.fema.gov/feeds/news.rss

https://www.state.gov/rss/channels/alldos.xml

https://www.fbi.gov/feeds/national-press-releases/rss.xml

https://www.defense.gov/DesktopModules/ArticleCS/RSS.ashx?ma...

https://www.dhs.gov/news/rss.xml

www.centcom.mil/DesktopModules/ArticleCS/RSS.ashx?ContentType=1&Site=808&max=20

https://travel.state.gov/_res/rss/TWs.xml#.html

https://www.census.gov/newsroom/press-releases/by-year.xml

https://www.fda.gov/AboutFDA/ContactFDA/StayInformed/RSSFeed...

https://bivol.bg/en/feed

www.nato.int/cps/rss/en/natohq/rssFeed.xsl/rssFeed.xml

https://www.saudi.gov.sa/wps/wcm/connect/MCIT_en/News/?srv=c...

Since there are a lot of US government offices in there, I'd like to ask if you noticed any changes to these feeds (frequency, topic selection, content, etc.) when the Trump administration assumed office?

That's an interesting question. I actually started following all of them around the time of the last election because the political atmosphere got me interested in seeking out primary sources - so I'm not sure about a change in tone.

It would be a good set of corpora to feed through some NLP algorithms though, I might look into that at some point.

I'm also trying to do the same. I now pocket a LOT of articles to read later and offline. Hell, I barely read anything on the computer these days.

Just pocket it all and have it sent to my Kindle to read later.

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