New blog post:
I stopped reading online news
https://82mhz.net/posts/2025/01/i-stopped-reading-online-news/
#blogging #blog
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@82mhz I have avoided reading the news too, at least for the past week or so. Charging my phone away from the bedside has helped a bit but I need to take extra steps.
I wonder if there is a crowd-sourced web category service so you can block news sites easily. I use one at work but it's an enterprise paid service and not cheap.
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@stardot
Good question. There are up to date and very comprehensive hosts files available here:
https://github.com/StevenBlack/hosts
They cover ads, malware, social networks, porn... but nothing for legitimate news sites as far as I can tell. I guess not many people have the problem of wanting to block those đ
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@82mhz yeh, for more advanced filters you need a range of categories you can use to build more complex logic these lists are useful but stick to things most people just want blocked
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@82mhz Great post. Looking forward to part 2. Newspaper is a good idea for a weekly update. Something to look forward to every Sunday morning over coffee.
But then that may ruin your Sunday đ
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@82mhz I do something similar to this, too. On Sunday's I try to disconnect completely, while still getting messages from family. So, I setup PiHole to block everything except a specific set of URL's for the chat app. I can turn if on or off by changing the device to the "LAN_Days" group.
Only problem is I self-host almost everything and I still have access to the LAN đ
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@82mhz
I'm currently thinking about filtering my RSS streams for certain terms. I like reading news - just not all of them đ
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@hikingdude @82mhz I did just that recently. Added "Trump" and "Musk" to my filters on Heise and Golem. Even though I stopped following general news about a year ago, I still learned way too much about what these idiots are doing via tech outlets. For whatever reason they feel like they need to cover every single post Musk does on X bashing German politicians and their response. It's embarrassing and I'm having none of it!
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@mforester @hikingdude
That pissed me off too, that even the tech news is constantly reporting about every last stupid thing Musk says... some the ancient wisdom "don't feed the trolls" seems to have been lost.
How are you filtering away these articles?
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@82mhz @hikingdude I'm using Miniflux to aggregate RSS feeds. It has an option to define a Regex and will filter out items that match the Regex in their subject.
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@82mhz @mforester
I just made a simple php script to filter certain terms. Just very basic...
https://www.locked.de/how-to-filter-hide-ignore-news-in-an-rss-feed/
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@hikingdude @82mhz I built something very similar for podcast feeds a few years back. đ
One of the podcasts I listen to has a premium feed on Patreon. They have a bunch of shows, but because Patreon allows only a single feed, everything is thrown together.
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