From: oldernow@dev.null   
      
   On 2024-04-24, D  wrote:   
      
   >> Isn't is nice when you write a script to scrape and parse   
   >> online text, and whoever owns the site containing it keeps   
   >> the format the same for fairly long periods of time?   
   >   
   > That is indeed a joy! My longest lived source of   
   > information online are RSS feeds. I parse them with a   
   > script and generate emails which I send to myself for   
   > consumption in my favourite email client alpine.   
   >   
   > I am also anachronistic in the way that I like the old   
   > school TV-text pages which still exist in sweden.   
   >   
   > They do have an internet interface, so when I'm travelling   
   > I also have a script that converts them to an email as   
   > well. ;)   
      
   I used to do stuff like that.   
      
   But I generally avoid "news", and when it comes to blogs   
   (and their gopher/gemini counterparts), I'm fine with   
   stumbling upon things in a sort of "how Berners-Lee   
   intended it" kind of way. I'm to the point of banning   
   bookmarks from my life, even, mostly because - as odd as   
   it may sound - there seems to be no greater death-knell   
   in my life for someone I enjoy reading, or for specific   
   articles I found particularly good, than to bookmark   
   them. For me, articles related by links is a better,   
   more natural/holistic form of bookmarking, and articles   
   disappearing - completely with that creating bad links   
   elsewhere - seems far more in accord with "real" life, and   
   stockpiling bookmarks seems more an artificial aberration   
   and somehow counter intuitively lowers the chances of my   
   ever reading things I've saved bookmarks to again.   
      
   > When it comes to baseball, I thought that common sense   
   > and common truth proclaimed that the white sox are the   
   > best, right? At least that's what I learned when living   
   > in chicago and I thought it was a lesson taught to all   
   > american. ;)   
      
   I've rooted for the White Sox here and there.   
      
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