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thought you guys would find this blog post from Brian Leiter today funny. he's a pretty good guy and a respected scholar so no shade on him, clearly just misinformed. i wonder if this is in some way downstream of the recent political drama around proton.

this is a really underdocumented feature that this extension supports, wanted to share it with people. i've never written and shared a blog post like this before so feel free to give me tips about documenting steps or point out any errors i made. i kinda take docker knowldge for granted, not sure if i should avoid that. here's the contents:

I came across documentation for this in the readme for the FreshRSS extension YoutubeChannel2RssFeed. The method involves running an instance of the Youtube-operational-API (there was a public instance that has been cease and desisted by Google, see here) and plugging the extension into it.

YoutubeChannel2RssFeed Extension

TL;DR install this extension

git clone https://github.com/cn-tools/cntools_FreshRssExtensions.git
cd cntools_FreshRssExtension
cp -r xExtension-YouTubeChannel2RssFeed <your_freshrss_data_directory>/config/www/freshrss/extensions

Youtube-operational-API instance

Here's a Docker compose.yml for running both

services:
  freshrss:
    image: lscr.io/linuxserver/freshrss:latest
    container_name: freshrss
    environment:
      - PUID=1000
      - PGID=1000
      - TZ=America/Los_Angeles
    volumes:
      - ./freshrss/config:/config
    ports:
      - "8811:80""
    restart: unless-stopped
  youtube-operational-api:
    container_name: freshrss-yt-o-api
    image: benjaminloison/youtube-operational-api:latest
    restart: unless-stopped
    ports:
      - "8812:80"
    depends_on:
     - freshrss

Configuring extension

In FreshRSS, log in as admin and go to Configuration > Extensions. Turn on YoutubeChannel2RssFeed under User extensions and click the gear to configure.

Set Youtube Shorts to be marked as read or blocked completely. Enter the URL for your yt-o-api instance. Based on the above compose file it would be http://freshrss-yt-o-api:8812. Submit changes.

For me this worked immediately, no shorts ever show up in FreshRSS for my Youtube feeds. I haven't seen this documented anywhere else so I wanted to mirror it somewhere.

Last year I did a major fuckup and bought a .us domain without noticing that they don't support WhoIs privacy, so my name number and address became part of the public WhoIs database scrapes. Since then my spam texts and calls have vastly multiplied. I'm realistic about the fact that the damage is done and it'll always exist out there, but I would happily pay some money to a service that sends takedown requests for the data in the public databases like LexisNexis etc. to lessen the damage. Do you know of any services that do this somewhat reliably? Or even a guide or something about doing this manually?

Do you think it's worth keeping 2FA OTPs in a separate source from your password manager? Currently I keep them in Bitwarden. I was thinking keeping them separate could add a little extra security in case my BW was cracked, but not sure it's worth the hassle of loading a second app for logins.

Do you know of an app that does 2FAs as conveniently as Bitwarden, in that it has mobile apps, browser extension, etc that can all access the same vault?

here's one i came across from an awesome-selfhosted list. i would need to test the PWA experience https://github.com/Bubka/2FAuth

Joe Cronin: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gGB_3bw26-w

Chauncey: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CzN1BNTHZB8

Deandre Ayton: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mQ6Rd_9EWqs

Grant: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=564IFxCleYs

Simons: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EDwuQssdzXo

Scoot: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lS9joawaDOk

Shaedon: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KWztvp-f2GI

Thybulle: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vHDTHKdSwCI

Jabari: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yQw8G8bKwb4

Kevin Knox II: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_9byZy86u6g

Rayan Rupert: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x_g7AEeJoEg

Kris Murray: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZLJiOpGbVsk

Tounami Camara: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a_X7qF_zq-o

Dewayne Hankins: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZIWzVfrKNRE

If anyone else has dealt with iCloud Drive constantly getting stuck uploading I wanted to share the best solution I have so far and ask if anyone has fixed it another way.

What I've figured out from reading Apple support and Reddit threads is that there's a daemon called bird at /System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/CloudDocsDaemon.framework/Versions/A/Support/bird that handles syncing, and killing it forcing it to restart usually gets things working again.

My oneliner script to kill it to force a restart: pid=$(ps -ax | pgrep bird | awk '{print}'); kill $pid

But sometimes it restarts and gets stuck the same way. Do you get this issue? Figured anything out about it?

Wasn't sure where to post this so I'll just share it with the ripcity gang. I used to use stanza.co which is what nba.com links to for adding season schedules to your calendar, but now that requires signing up and has weird ticket purchase ads in the events. Then I was using sportscalendar.net for a while, but it went down.

Eventually I figured out that Yahoo sports publishes a full season calendar at https://sports.yahoo.com/nba/teams/por/ical.ics , and this is the same for every team page there, like if you add /ical.ics after https://sports.yahoo.com/soccer/teams/portland-timbers you get a subscription link to add to your calendar. Super convenient.

For me on iOS/macOS, you add a subscription calendar and paste the url with the .ics at the end.

Bonus, they also still publish their news feed to rss at https://sports.yahoo.com/nba/teams/por/rss/

I’ve been listening to podcasts more lately and there are quite a few blazers shows, wondering which you guys like. YouTube shows work too, or even share if you follow anyone on social media that covers the team.

The ones I’m subscribed to right now:

BlazerFocused, which is by the Oregonian. The show is chill and I feel like they must have some good editorial standards being connected to major news organization.

The Brief Case, which is Casey Holdahl’s show, very insider since he works directly with the team, gets player interviews, not very critical since he’s so close to things.

Locked on Blazers, shorter weekday episodes by Mike Richman. Seems knowledgeable.

any other good ones? as a bonus, the Oregonian also has a Timbers show called Soccer made in Portland.