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     13 		<title>Tech stuff I use</title>
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     15 		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Jul 2024 15:15:04 +0200</pubDate>
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     18 		<description>&lt;p&gt;I generally try to use &lt;a href=&#34;https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/floss-and-foss.en.html&#34;&gt;FOSS&lt;/a&gt; software, here a non-complete and always-changing list:&lt;/p&gt;
     19 &lt;h2 id=&#34;oss&#34;&gt;OSs&lt;/h2&gt;
     20 &lt;ul&gt;
     21 &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&#34;https://www.parabola.nu&#34;&gt;Parabola Linux&lt;/a&gt;: Desktop&lt;/li&gt;
     22 &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&#34;https://archlinux.org&#34;&gt;Arch Linux&lt;/a&gt;: Desktop if I need some non-free software (driver issues and &lt;strong&gt;sometimes&lt;/strong&gt; some work-related stuff)&lt;/li&gt;
     23 &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&#34;https://www.debian.org&#34;&gt;Debian Linux&lt;/a&gt;: Server (only the FOSS repos)&lt;/li&gt;
     24 &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&#34;https://openwrt.org&#34;&gt;OpenWRT&lt;/a&gt;: Router&lt;/li&gt;
     25 &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&#34;https://grapheneos.org&#34;&gt;GrapheneOS&lt;/a&gt;: Smartphone&lt;/li&gt;
     26 &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&#34;https://github.com/Quill-OS&#34;&gt;Quill OS&lt;/a&gt; (old InkBox OS): Kobo Nia&lt;/li&gt;
     27 &lt;/ul&gt;
     28 &lt;h2 id=&#34;hardwares&#34;&gt;Hardwares&lt;/h2&gt;
     29 &lt;p&gt;I have rarely been in the same place for many years so I usually prefer laptops, also I don&amp;rsquo;t need a lot of power.&lt;br&gt;
     30 My main device is a Thinkpad X200 with &lt;a href=&#34;https://libreboot.org&#34;&gt;Libreboot&lt;/a&gt; and it&amp;rsquo;s in great conditions, my secondary laptop (that I use for work) is a Thinkpad X250.&lt;br&gt;
     31 I also have a Dell G15 with a Ryzen 7 5800H and a RTX 3060; I rarely use it, mainly for gaming, running a &amp;ldquo;simple&amp;rdquo; AI stuff like &lt;a href=&#34;https://github.com/ggerganov/llama.cpp&#34;&gt;LLaMAC++&lt;/a&gt; or &amp;ldquo;mining&amp;rdquo; &lt;a href=&#34;https://www.getmonero.org&#34;&gt;Monero&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;
     32 &lt;p&gt;I also buy/receive/find old computer (laptops, netbooks, pentium towers etc&amp;hellip;), I usually clean and recover them, repair if needed and install Debian on a new SSD; after that I either sell or donate them if needed by someone (schools, churches&amp;hellip;).
     33 Whenever possible I&amp;rsquo;ll also install Libreboot on all supported hardware.&lt;/p&gt;
     34 &lt;p&gt;Smartphones are forged by the devil but I have a refurbished Pixel 6a with a custom ROM, I don&amp;rsquo;t use it much, on a tipical week it last for like 4 days. It is starting to lag more than usual (let&amp;rsquo;s thanks Google, famous for the poor quality of his devices) and, in the future, I could try switching to a &lt;a href=&#34;https://pine64.org/devices/pinephone&#34;&gt;PinePhone&lt;/a&gt; or in general something compatible with &lt;a href=&#34;https://postmarketos.org&#34;&gt;Postmarket OS&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;
     35 &lt;p&gt;A very cool thing that I have is the &lt;a href=&#34;https://github.com/joeycastillo/Sensor-Watch&#34;&gt;Sensor-Watch&lt;/a&gt; and also the &lt;a href=&#34;https://n-o-d-e.net&#34;&gt;N-O-D-E&lt;/a&gt; mods are great.&lt;/p&gt;
     36 &lt;p&gt;My homeserver is a &lt;a href=&#34;https://shop.zimaboard.com/products/zimaboard-single-board-server&#34;&gt;ZimaBoard 432&lt;/a&gt; with 2 Western Digital SSD (2TB and 1TB); I thought it was not worth the price but it&amp;rsquo;s working great and the power consumption is very low (I was using a random old pc before, this boars already re-payed itself with the saved electricity). I mainly choose it for the x86 processor. Of course I instantly deleted CasaOS and installed good ol&amp;rsquo; Debian.&lt;/p&gt;
     37 &lt;p&gt;As a router I use a Fritz!Box 7520, found it for 30 euros, it support ADSL2 and latest OpenWRT release.&lt;/p&gt;
     38 &lt;p&gt;I also have a strong interest in &lt;a href=&#34;https://opensource.com/resources/what-open-hardware&#34;&gt;Open Hardware&lt;/a&gt; and I would like to try something like the &lt;a href=&#34;https://shop.mntre.com/products/mnt-reform&#34;&gt;MNT Reform&lt;/a&gt;, but for now I&amp;rsquo;m ok.&lt;/p&gt;
     39 &lt;h2 id=&#34;programs&#34;&gt;Programs&lt;/h2&gt;
     40 &lt;h3 id=&#34;daily&#34;&gt;Daily&lt;/h3&gt;
     41 &lt;ul&gt;
     42 &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&#34;https://dwm.suckless.org&#34;&gt;dwm&lt;/a&gt; and related &lt;a href=&#34;https://dwm.suckless.org&#34;&gt;Suckless&lt;/a&gt; stuff&lt;/li&gt;
     43 &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&#34;https://lynx.invisible-island.net&#34;&gt;lynx&lt;/a&gt;: terminal based web browser with vim-like keybinds, just great&lt;/li&gt;
     44 &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&#34;https://librewolf.net&#34;&gt;librewolf&lt;/a&gt;: the best &amp;ldquo;normal&amp;rdquo; browser&lt;/li&gt;
     45 &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&#34;https://keepassxc.org&#34;&gt;keepassXC&lt;/a&gt;: I used &lt;a href=&#34;https://www.passwordstore.org&#34;&gt;pass&lt;/a&gt; in the past but I find KeepassXC easier to use across multiple devices. And no, there are &lt;strong&gt;NO&lt;/strong&gt; alternatives to offline self-contained password managers.&lt;/li&gt;
     46 &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&#34;https://www.vim.org&#34;&gt;vim&lt;/a&gt;: I tried &lt;a href=&#34;https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs&#34;&gt;Emacs&lt;/a&gt; but I still prefer Vim, not really sure why&lt;/li&gt;
     47 &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&#34;https://github.com/gokcehan/lf&#34;&gt;lf&lt;/a&gt;: a great advantage of terminal application is that once you get used to them, they are comfortable and usable on a server&lt;/li&gt;
     48 &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&#34;https://remmina.org&#34;&gt;remmina&lt;/a&gt;: having to manage a lot of SSH and sometimes some RDP connections daily I found remmina to be the &lt;em&gt;least bad&lt;/em&gt; program.&lt;/li&gt;
     49 &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&#34;https://newsboat.org&#34;&gt;newsboat&lt;/a&gt;: terminal-based RSS reader&lt;/li&gt;
     50 &lt;/ul&gt;
     51 &lt;h3 id=&#34;media&#34;&gt;Media&lt;/h3&gt;
     52 &lt;ul&gt;
     53 &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&#34;https://mpv.io&#34;&gt;mpv&lt;/a&gt; + &lt;a href=&#34;https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp&#34;&gt;yt-dlp&lt;/a&gt;: Just the best player + a very cool downloader which works for a lot of websites (even though &lt;a href=&#34;https://curl.se&#34;&gt;curl&lt;/a&gt; works most of the time&amp;hellip;)&lt;/li&gt;
     54 &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&#34;https://github.com/ncmpcpp/ncmpcpp&#34;&gt;ncmpcpp&lt;/a&gt;: very cool and simple to use terminal music player&lt;/li&gt;
     55 &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&#34;https://vanilla-music.github.io&#34;&gt;vanilla music&lt;/a&gt;: my god it was a pain to find a simple, offline and not subscription-based (or Spotify/Soundcloud frontend) Android music player that doesn&amp;rsquo;t completely sucks. This works good.&lt;/li&gt;
     56 &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&#34;https://github.com/baresip/baresip&#34;&gt;baresip&lt;/a&gt;: right now I work with SIP related stuff and this is great&lt;/li&gt;
     57 &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&#34;https://pwmt.org/projects/zathura&#34;&gt;zathura&lt;/a&gt;: simple stupid PDF (and a lot of other formats) reader&lt;/li&gt;
     58 &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&#34;https://koreader.rocks&#34;&gt;koreader&lt;/a&gt;: again, simple stupid application for e-reader in general. It just works.&lt;/li&gt;
     59 &lt;/ul&gt;
     60 &lt;h3 id=&#34;server&#34;&gt;Server&lt;/h3&gt;
     61 &lt;ul&gt;
     62 &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&#34;https://rsync.net&#34;&gt;rsync&lt;/a&gt;: easy to setup with &lt;a href=&#34;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cron&#34;&gt;cron&lt;/a&gt; and keep every device in sync&lt;/li&gt;
     63 &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&#34;https://github.com/trapexit/mergerfs&#34;&gt;mergerfs&lt;/a&gt;: great utility for a simple home server setup like the one I have&lt;/li&gt;
     64 &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&#34;https://nginx.org&#34;&gt;nginx&lt;/a&gt;: very simple webserver to understand and configure.&lt;/li&gt;
     65 &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&#34;https://www.postgresql.org&#34;&gt;postgresql&lt;/a&gt;: just the funny blue elephant DB&lt;/li&gt;
     66 &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&#34;https://www.wireguard.com&#34;&gt;wireguard&lt;/a&gt;: a pretty good VPN. If you are using a non self-hosted one, you are doing it wrong.&lt;/li&gt;
     67 &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&#34;https://dovecot.org&#34;&gt;dovecot&lt;/a&gt;: SMTP server, configured with &lt;a href=&#34;https://spamassassin.apache.org&#34;&gt;SpamAssassin&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
     68 &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&#34;https://github.com/coturn/coturn&#34;&gt;coturn&lt;/a&gt;: TURN server&lt;/li&gt;
     69 &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&#34;https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse&#34;&gt;Matrix Synapse&lt;/a&gt;: Matrix server, I use this &lt;strong&gt;obscene and unbearable&lt;/strong&gt; software just because I was looking for a self-hosted messagging solution and now I&amp;rsquo;m using it with an handful of users and mainly for the Whatsapp bridge. Administrating it is not &lt;strong&gt;that&lt;/strong&gt; bad but the absurd amount of network request that you have to block in order to have a &amp;ldquo;private&amp;rdquo; experince is just unacceptable.
     70 Also there isn&amp;rsquo;t even a single &lt;strong&gt;decent&lt;/strong&gt; client.&lt;/li&gt;
     71 &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&#34;https://docs.searxng.org&#34;&gt;SearxNG&lt;/a&gt;: great private search engine, and self-hosted!&lt;/li&gt;
     72 &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&#34;https://rss-bridge.github.io/rss-bridge&#34;&gt;RSS-Bridge&lt;/a&gt;: I haven&amp;rsquo;t been using it a lot lately, but it can be pretty useful&lt;/li&gt;
     73 &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&#34;https://www.getmonero.org&#34;&gt;Monero node&lt;/a&gt;: I have the bandwith and the storage to run one (&lt;em&gt;pruned&lt;/em&gt;), so why not?&lt;/li&gt;
     74 &lt;/ul&gt;
     75 &lt;h2 id=&#34;other-random-stuff-that-im-planning-to-try&#34;&gt;Other random stuff that I&amp;rsquo;m planning to try&lt;/h2&gt;
     76 &lt;ul&gt;
     77 &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&#34;https://www.proxmox.com&#34;&gt;Proxmox&lt;/a&gt;: I generally dislike virtualization since I see it as an over-engineered solution to a self-made problem (most of the time) but hey, maybe I&amp;rsquo;ll change my mind&lt;/li&gt;
     78 &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&#34;https://www.openbsd.org&#34;&gt;OpenBSD&lt;/a&gt;: well, gotta try it sooner or later&amp;hellip;&lt;/li&gt;
     79 &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&#34;https://guix.gnu.org&#34;&gt;GNU Guix&lt;/a&gt;: mostly out of curiosity&lt;/li&gt;
     80 &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&#34;https://www.torproject.org&#34;&gt;tor&lt;/a&gt;: running a Tor node and serving this website through it would be nice&lt;/li&gt;
     81 &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&#34;https://i2pd.website&#34;&gt;i2pd&lt;/a&gt;: Tor bul cooler (and safer). Same as tor, I&amp;rsquo;m planning to run a node&lt;/li&gt;
     82 &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&#34;https://xmpp.org&#34;&gt;XMPP&lt;/a&gt;: the real best &lt;strong&gt;extensible&lt;/strong&gt; chat protocol, still not sure which server to choose&lt;/li&gt;
     83 &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&#34;https://man.openbsd.org/OpenBSD-current/man8/httpd.8&#34;&gt;httpd&lt;/a&gt;: seems cool and simple, I also personally don&amp;rsquo;t use a lof of nginx advanced features&lt;/li&gt;
     84 &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&#34;https://www.asterisk.org&#34;&gt;Asterisk&lt;/a&gt;: when you work with systems like &lt;a href=&#34;https://www.3cx.com&#34;&gt;3CX&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&#34;https://www.freepbx.org&#34;&gt;FreePBX&lt;/a&gt; at first they seems ugly, unpolished and you have no idea of what it&amp;rsquo;s happening. When you understand them you start to appreciate solutions like those, excpecially in a business environment. I&amp;rsquo;m planning to have a pure Asterisk installation for personal use, but &lt;a href=&#34;https://opensips.org&#34;&gt;Opensips&lt;/a&gt; is also really cool.&lt;/li&gt;
     85 &lt;/ul&gt;
     86 &lt;p&gt;When I will try all of this? No idea.&lt;/p&gt;
     87 &lt;h2 id=&#34;stuff-that-ill-try-to-make-myself&#34;&gt;Stuff that I&amp;rsquo;ll try to make myself!&lt;/h2&gt;
     88 &lt;p&gt;In tech, like a lot other things in life, complaining sounds good at first, but then you realize that you are doing no harm to anyone but yourself by not following the solution you want.&lt;/p&gt;
     89 &lt;p&gt;So, since I have a love/hate relationship with some programs I&amp;rsquo;ll try to code myself an alternative. Maybe they will suck at first, but that&amp;rsquo;s the only way.&lt;/p&gt;
     90 &lt;ul&gt;
     91 &lt;li&gt;a &lt;a href=&#34;https://www.postman.com&#34;&gt;Postman&lt;/a&gt; alternative: how is it possible that there isn&amp;rsquo;t a single FOSS application that replace Postman &lt;strong&gt;WHITOUT&lt;/strong&gt; a subscription/cloud login based service?
     92 I know that there are application where this option is &lt;em&gt;not mandatory&lt;/em&gt;, but I don&amp;rsquo;t want it at all.&lt;br&gt;
     93 For now I&amp;rsquo;m using &lt;a href=&#34;https://firecamp.io&#34;&gt;Firecamp&lt;/a&gt; and I&amp;rsquo;ve tried &lt;a href=&#34;https://insomnia.rest&#34;&gt;Insomnia&lt;/a&gt;, at least they are Open Source, but they are still sub-optimal&lt;/li&gt;
     94 &lt;li&gt;a &lt;a href=&#34;https://dbeaver.io&#34;&gt;Dbeaver&lt;/a&gt; alternative: I mean, it&amp;rsquo;s ok, but I would like something more slick and not written in Java, since I had a lot of problems with jre and jdk libraries&lt;/li&gt;
     95 &lt;/ul&gt;
     96 &lt;p&gt;This is not to demigrate any project, it&amp;rsquo;s just a great exercise to learn and understand technology. Of course you will find all of this software on my &lt;a href=&#34;https://cgit.lorenzocesana.xyz&#34;&gt;git&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;
     97 &lt;h2 id=&#34;technology-that-i-dont-like&#34;&gt;Technology that I don&amp;rsquo;t like&lt;/h2&gt;
     98 &lt;ul&gt;
     99 &lt;li&gt;Proprietary software or non-free software in general.&lt;/li&gt;
    100 &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&#34;https://electronjs.org&#34;&gt;Electron&lt;/a&gt;. I hate it with passion. Don&amp;rsquo;t use it. Don&amp;rsquo;t use applications written in Electron. Please, just don&amp;rsquo;t. It&amp;rsquo;s really bad.&lt;/li&gt;
    101 &lt;li&gt;The new shiny stuff that you don&amp;rsquo;t need. I try to buy used or even better, not buying and using what I already have.&lt;/li&gt;
    102 &lt;li&gt;I don&amp;rsquo;t think smartphones are inherently bad, but a lot of time they &lt;em&gt;make the person who use it bad&lt;/em&gt;. They completely kill social occasions most of the time.&lt;/li&gt;
    103 &lt;li&gt;VPNs companies and all their fake marketing. They are literally a scam. More on this in the future.&lt;/li&gt;
    104 &lt;/ul&gt;
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    108 &lt;br&gt;
    109 &lt;br&gt;
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    111 
    112 &lt;p&gt;As said before, this is an always-expanding page and things may change/update. I will elaborate more on some points in dedicated posts.&lt;br&gt;
    113 Also if you have any suggestions or question please contact me!&lt;/p&gt;
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    118 		<title>How I learned to Stop Worrying and Love RSS feeds</title>
    119 		<link>https://lorenzocesana.xyz/rss/</link>
    120 		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Jun 2024 21:29:19 +0200</pubDate>
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    123 		<description>
    124 &lt;figure &gt;&lt;img src=&#34;https://lorenzocesana.xyz/rss.svg&#34; title=&#34;RSS Logo&#34; width=&#34;200px&#34; height=&#34;200px&#34;&gt;&lt;/figure&gt;
    125 
    126 &lt;p&gt;In this guide I&amp;rsquo;ll explain what RSS Feeds are, why to use them, and what the advantages are over traditional notification methods.&lt;/p&gt;
    127 &lt;h2 id=&#34;the-modern-way&#34;&gt;The modern way&lt;/h2&gt;
    128 &lt;p&gt;Nowadays to stay up to date you need to install every proprietary application, visit multiple websites filled with ads daily and have you inbox flooded with emails.&lt;br&gt;
    129 Or at least this is what a lot of people is doing.&lt;/p&gt;
    130 &lt;p&gt;There is a simple and easy way to aggregate and have all your updates in a single place: RSS Feeds.&lt;/p&gt;
    131 &lt;p&gt;Oh yeah, by doing this you also avoid some &lt;a href=&#34;https://forum.f-droid.org/t/potential-dangerous-of-push-notifications/24632&#34;&gt;security issues&lt;/a&gt; with modern &lt;a href=&#34;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Push_technology&#34;&gt;Push notifications&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;
    132 &lt;h2 id=&#34;how-do-rss-work&#34;&gt;How do RSS work?&lt;/h2&gt;
    133 &lt;p&gt;First of all, please &lt;a href=&#34;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RSS&#34;&gt;have a look for yourself&lt;/a&gt;, learning things this way is much more effective.
    134 But to be short RSS provide a webpage with all the content that you want to share and &amp;ldquo;subscribing&amp;rdquo; to an RSS Feed means checking it from time to time and, if it is changed, you can view the new content!&lt;/p&gt;
    135 &lt;p&gt;Doing this by hand is a pain and doesn&amp;rsquo;t make a lot of sense so there are specific application that groups multiple feeds, automate the check and update it automatically; below you can find some applications but there are a lot more:&lt;/p&gt;
    136 &lt;h3 id=&#34;linux&#34;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Linux&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;
    137 &lt;p&gt;I personally use &lt;a href=&#34;https://newsboat.org/&#34;&gt;Newsboat&lt;/a&gt;, a terminal reader with Vim-like keybinds; otherwise I also know &lt;a href=&#34;https://github.com/martinrotter/rssguard&#34;&gt;RSS-Guard&lt;/a&gt;, I used it for a short time and it seems nice.&lt;/p&gt;
    138 &lt;h3 id=&#34;windows&#34;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Windows&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;
    139 &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&#34;https://github.com/martinrotter/rssguard&#34;&gt;RSS-Guard&lt;/a&gt; or &lt;a href=&#34;https://quiterss.org/en/download&#34;&gt;QuiteRSS&lt;/a&gt;, I personally like the former better graphically.&lt;br&gt;
    140 &lt;del&gt;Thunderbird&lt;/del&gt; &lt;a href=&#34;https://www.betterbird.eu&#34;&gt;Betterbird&lt;/a&gt; is another alternative. Actually more or less any modern &lt;a href=&#34;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Email_client&#34;&gt;email client&lt;/a&gt; has a built-in RSS Feed reader, but Betterbird is &lt;a href=&#34;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_source&#34;&gt;Open Source&lt;/a&gt; and let&amp;rsquo;s face it, any other email client is horrible and frustrating at the very least. Betterbird is decent enough, but I still recommend considering it only as a &lt;strong&gt;last choice&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;
    141 &lt;h3 id=&#34;android&#34;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Android&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;
    142 &lt;p&gt;I use &lt;a href=&#34;https://f-droid.org/packages/com.nononsenseapps.feeder/&#34;&gt;Feeder&lt;/a&gt;, I find it simple and intuitive.&lt;br&gt;
    143 I also recommend &lt;a href=&#34;https://github.com/Ashinch/ReadYou&#34;&gt;Read You&lt;/a&gt;, it has very modern graphics and gets the job done.
    144 Both of these apps can be found on &lt;a href=&#34;https://f-droid.org/&#34;&gt;F-Droid&lt;/a&gt;, it&amp;rsquo;s simply an &amp;ldquo;alternative Play Store&amp;rdquo; where apps are Open Source.&lt;/p&gt;
    145 &lt;h3 id=&#34;apple-in-general&#34;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Apple in general&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;
    146 &lt;p&gt;As not an Apple user, one Open Source application that I found and it doesn&amp;rsquo;t seem too bad is &lt;a href=&#34;https://netnewswire.com/&#34;&gt;NetNewsWire&lt;/a&gt;, which is good for any Apple device.&lt;/p&gt;
    147 &lt;h2 id=&#34;configuring-your-feed&#34;&gt;Configuring your feed&lt;/h2&gt;
    148 &lt;p&gt;Now you have to insert all your RSS urls into the reader, the process slightly change for each one, but in general this should be the process:&lt;/p&gt;
    149 &lt;ol&gt;
    150 &lt;li&gt;Click the &amp;ldquo;Add&amp;rdquo; button&lt;/li&gt;
    151 &lt;li&gt;Paste in the feed url&lt;/li&gt;
    152 &lt;li&gt;Configure some options (folder, tags, time interval to check for updates etc&amp;hellip;)&lt;/li&gt;
    153 &lt;li&gt;Enjoy!&lt;/li&gt;
    154 &lt;/ol&gt;
    155 &lt;p&gt;If you have a lot ot urls you can also import a list from an &lt;a href=&#34;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OPML&#34;&gt;OPML&lt;/a&gt; file and export your current list to use it on another device.&lt;/p&gt;
    156 &lt;p&gt;To have them synchronized between your devices you can use a lot of solutions, I use &lt;a href=&#34;https://rsync.samba.org&#34;&gt;rsync&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br&gt;
    157 Here&amp;rsquo;s my feeds that you can import right now (there is a lot of random stuff :)): &lt;a href=&#34;https://lorenzocesana.xyz/various/urls.opml&#34;&gt;click here&lt;/a&gt;!&lt;/p&gt;
    158 &lt;h2 id=&#34;where-to-find-rss-feeds&#34;&gt;Where to find rss feeds?&lt;/h2&gt;
    159 &lt;p&gt;The best sites will have a particular designation for their feed (like the RSS image you find at the end of every page on this site), but for others you&amp;rsquo;ll have to do a little more work.&lt;br&gt;
    160 In most cases you&amp;rsquo;ll be able to search the Internet for something like &amp;ldquo;&lt;strong&gt;Site&lt;/strong&gt; RSS Feed&amp;rdquo; (perhaps using my &lt;a href=&#34;https://searx.lorenzocesana.xyz&#34;&gt;search engine&lt;/a&gt;) or by going to the site in question, right-clicking with your mouse, selecting &amp;ldquo;inspect&amp;rdquo; and searching the code for &amp;ldquo;.xml&amp;rdquo; or &amp;ldquo;.atom.&amp;rdquo;&lt;/p&gt;
    161 &lt;p&gt;Should you find a feed with a &amp;ldquo;.atom&amp;rdquo; extension, fear not, it&amp;rsquo;s pretty much the same thing, most RSS Feeds support them with no difference from &amp;ldquo;.xml&amp;rdquo;.&lt;/p&gt;
    162 &lt;h2 id=&#34;sometimes-though-some-sites-dont-provide-a-feed-at-all&#34;&gt;Sometimes though, some sites don&amp;rsquo;t provide a feed at all.&lt;/h2&gt;
    163 &lt;p&gt;What to do in such cases? I host &lt;a href=&#34;https://github.com/RSS-Bridge/rss-bridge&#34;&gt;RSS-Bridge&lt;/a&gt;, a program that, as per its name, acts as a &amp;ldquo;bridge&amp;rdquo; for all those sites that don&amp;rsquo;t provide an RSS feed, generating it itself!&lt;/p&gt;
    164 &lt;p&gt;I specify of course that the project is not made by me, I just implemented it on my server and make it publicly available, &lt;a href=&#34;https://rss-bridge.github.io/rss-bridge/General/Public_Hosts.html&#34;&gt;as many other people do&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br&gt;
    165 You can find it &lt;a href=&#34;https://rss-bridge.lorenzocesana.xyz/&#34;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;, it&amp;rsquo;s still quite bare but I&amp;rsquo;m gonna add things in the future.&lt;/p&gt;
    166 &lt;p&gt;RSS-Bridge comes with a multitude of channels (if you see a few it&amp;rsquo;s because I haven&amp;rsquo;t enabled them yet), with even the ability to custom program them.&lt;br&gt;
    167 I would also add that there are plenty of sites from which to get rss feeds for those platforms that seem not to support them: &lt;a href=&#34;https://github.com/zedeus/nitter&#34;&gt;Nitter&lt;/a&gt; for twitter, &lt;a href=&#34;https://invidious.io&#34;&gt;Invidious&lt;/a&gt; for YouTube, and many others (P.S. These sites allow you to see content without having to log in and without advertising!).&lt;/p&gt;
    168 &lt;p&gt;Should you not see a bridge you are interested in or have any doubts about this guide, please do not hesitate to contact me.&lt;/p&gt;
    169 &lt;p&gt;Even if I rarely use RSS-Bridge for myself, I &lt;strong&gt;have&lt;/strong&gt; to quote this &lt;a href=&#34;https://github.com/RSS-Bridge/rss-bridge?tab=readme-ov-file#rant&#34;&gt;rant&lt;/a&gt; from this application&amp;rsquo;s Github:&lt;/p&gt;
    170 &lt;blockquote&gt;
    171 &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Dear so-called &amp;ldquo;social&amp;rdquo; websites.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
    172 &lt;p&gt;Your catchword is &amp;ldquo;share&amp;rdquo;, but you don&amp;rsquo;t want us to share. You want to keep us within your walled gardens. That&amp;rsquo;s why you&amp;rsquo;ve been removing RSS links from webpages, hiding them deep on your website, or removed feeds entirely, replacing it with crippled or demented proprietary API. &lt;strong&gt;FUCK YOU.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
    173 &lt;p&gt;You&amp;rsquo;re not social when you hamper sharing by removing feeds. You&amp;rsquo;re happy to have customers creating content for your ecosystem, but you don&amp;rsquo;t want this content out - a content you do not even own. Google Takeout is just a gimmick. We want our data to flow, we want RSS or Atom feeds.&lt;/p&gt;
    174 &lt;p&gt;We want to share with friends, using open protocols: RSS, Atom, XMPP, whatever. Because no one wants to have &lt;em&gt;your&lt;/em&gt; service with &lt;em&gt;your&lt;/em&gt; applications using &lt;em&gt;your&lt;/em&gt; API force-feeding them. Friends must be free to choose whatever software and service they want.&lt;/p&gt;
    175 &lt;p&gt;We are rebuilding bridges you have willfully destroyed.&lt;/p&gt;
    176 &lt;p&gt;Get your shit together: Put RSS/Atom back in.&lt;/p&gt;
    177 &lt;/blockquote&gt;
    178 </description>
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    181 	<item>
    182 		<title>About me</title>
    183 		<link>https://lorenzocesana.xyz/about/</link>
    184 		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Feb 2024 18:54:05 +0100</pubDate>
    185 		
    186 		<guid>https://lorenzocesana.xyz/about/</guid>
    187 		<description>&lt;h3 id=&#34;i-am-lorenzo-cesana-a-young-italian-guy-and-i-finally-have-my-own-site&#34;&gt;I am Lorenzo Cesana, a young Italian guy and I finally have my own site!&lt;/h3&gt;
    188 &lt;p&gt;I created this blog for many reasons (in no particular order):&lt;/p&gt;
    189 &lt;ul&gt;
    190 &lt;li&gt;
    191 &lt;p&gt;To have a personal site where I can keep track of my progress over the years.&lt;/p&gt;
    192 &lt;/li&gt;
    193 &lt;li&gt;
    194 &lt;p&gt;Even though one of the great passions of my life so far has been technology there&amp;rsquo;s more to it than that! I am also a big fan of literature, music, film, politics, philosophy, pop culture, and so much more!
    195 I will use this personal part of the web of mine to express some of my own opinions and thoughts, hoping to stimulate some constructive discussion.&lt;/p&gt;
    196 &lt;/li&gt;
    197 &lt;li&gt;
    198 &lt;p&gt;To create (or at least try to) easy-to-follow guides for any person, mainly &amp;ldquo;digital newbies&amp;rdquo; or even more &lt;a href=&#34;https://dictionary.cambridge.org/us/dictionary/english/tech-savvy&#34;&gt;tech-savvy&lt;/a&gt;, why not.&lt;br&gt;
    199 &lt;em&gt;(Of course, if you would like to see a specific topic explained feel free to reach me out!)&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
    200 &lt;/li&gt;
    201 &lt;/ul&gt;
    202 &lt;h2 id=&#34;general-info&#34;&gt;General Info&lt;/h2&gt;
    203 &lt;p&gt;Everything I offer is hosted by me on my own personal home server, I&amp;rsquo;m a big fan of &lt;a href=&#34;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-hosting_(web_services)&#34;&gt;self-hosted&lt;/a&gt; and of course it&amp;rsquo;s all free and usable by all, barring future catrastrophes that are hard to predict; also, should you want to use my instance of &lt;a href=&#34;https://searx.lorenzocesana.xyz&#34;&gt;Searx&lt;/a&gt;, know that I don&amp;rsquo;t keep track of any research done by users! This is because I consider personal privacy an indispensable right and also because I don&amp;rsquo;t have industrial quantities of storage space to fill with various logs.&lt;/p&gt;
    204 &lt;p&gt;I will do future articles where I elaborate more on my idea about personal privacy online, how to get it (or get as close as possible to this goal, spoiler: if you want to be anonymous on the internet the 100% right solution is &lt;strong&gt;DO NOT USE THE INTERNET!&lt;/strong&gt;) and related topics.&lt;/p&gt;
    205 &lt;h2 id=&#34;how-to-navigate-the-site&#34;&gt;How to navigate the site&lt;/h2&gt;
    206 &lt;p&gt;From the &lt;a href=&#34;https://lorenzocesana.xyz&#34;&gt;main page&lt;/a&gt; you can find a list of posts, some of my services open to the public for use and at the bottom of each page you will find my RSS Feed to stay updated (if you don&amp;rsquo;t know what they are and how they work I have written a &lt;a href=&#34;https://lorenzocesana.xyz/rss&#34;&gt;special guide&lt;/a&gt;), along with my contact information.&lt;/p&gt;
    207 &lt;p&gt;Also at the end of each post there will be a tag with one or more categories (Technology, Personal etc&amp;hellip;), clicking on it will take you to a dedicated page with all the posts belonging to that category.&lt;/p&gt;
    208 &lt;h2 id=&#34;not-very-useful-info&#34;&gt;Not very useful info&lt;/h2&gt;
    209 &lt;p&gt;To run the this site I use &lt;a href=&#34;https://gohugo.io/&#34;&gt;HUGO&lt;/a&gt;, a very convenient framework for static sites, with the &lt;a href=&#34;https://github.com/LukeSmithxyz/lugo&#34;&gt;lugo&lt;/a&gt; theme customized to make my life easier and accordingly to my (&lt;strong&gt;horrible&lt;/strong&gt;) taste.&lt;/p&gt;
    210 &lt;p&gt;I have nothing more to add, so I invite you to explore my site and, if you want, give me direct feedback via email or message.&lt;/p&gt;
    211 </description>
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    214 	</channel>
    215 </rss>
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