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well, I’m back here on micro.blog. My host is in the process of shutting down it’s servers. I got free hosting for a couple years, which was nice. I even ran a Miniflux instance for a while. That was a lot of fun. Wish I could still do that!!
The service was a startup so doing a lot of pivoting!! First it was a service that was going to self host for you, and manage all that. Then he wanted to build a blog platform. Now doing something else serverless.

Pretty soon, this is going to be a Known instance. I’m sending domains over to the same service that manages my Miniflux instance. He’s going to set up WP and Known instances for me.

I’m beginning to think Kill the Newsletter isn’t a great solution for converting Newsletters to RSS. I’ve had problems wiwth it twice in a row now. This causes Miniflux to give me a bunch of feed errors I can’t fix when a site is down. This annoys me a lot, because I don’t like broken feeds.
Is there a better solution? I know Substack supports RSS, but if you’re not using Feedbin, Feedly, inoreader is there a good solution?

[https://9to5google.com/2021/05/19/chrome-follow-rss-feed/[https://9to5google.com/2021/05/19/chrome-follow-rss-feed/]

Shoot me now, OK?? I mean really?? No, Google isn’t reviving RSS, because it isn’t a living thing and doesn’t need reviving. Not only that, but it’s been around long after Google reader shut down.
Most of us have found our RSS reader replacements by now. Not only that, but we’re sticking with them. Google isn’t bringing back reader, they’re just putting back RSS in the browser. For heaven’s sake, maybe they’ll actually fix RSS preview in Chrome one of these days, OMG!!!

Wow, my router was giving me extreme fits a little bit ago. I couldn’t connect to the internet, it was saying it couldn’t obtain an IP address.It was working fine earlier today, and now not so much. I ended up bypassing it, and now I’m connected directly. It worked for a week, that’s it.

I’m having a service called cloudblast manage it for me. No, I have no affiliation with the service, other than the fact that I’m beta testing it.
It’s a service that will install self hosted apps on their servers for you. They’re in charge of the maintanence of the apps, and you get to use them. Kind of like having a VPS, but not really.
It’s gone extremely well these past 3 weeks or so. Although in the beginning, the instance did crash. I’ve wanted to set up an instance ever since the hosted version started archiving my unread items after 60 days last year. When I start paying for the service, I’ll probably ask for .more than what’s allocated already, when it comes to resources. Simply so that we can avoid any crashes in the future.
Oh yeah, here’s a link to this most epic service.
[[https://cloudblast.network]]

This is pretty epic, and I’d like to try it. [larrysanger.org/2021/01/a…](https://larrysanger.org/2021/01/a-first-attempt-at-using-wordpress-for-microblogging/)

Well today is day 3 of CCC, or #RC3 as they’re calling it. Lots of technical issues. Streams that don’t work most of the time. Which is unfortunate, because there are some epic lectures. Blah you guys, yesterday I lost CET time synchronization, and missed an entire day of talks.
This happened from not sleeping the 2 nights before. Now, I just need to catch up, which is going to be kind of interesting. I’ve caught up on concurrent events this way, but never like 12-13 of them. All the releases will end up here eventually: [streaming.media.ccc.de/rc3](https://streaming.media.ccc.de/rc3)

If anyone wins anything Tuesday, I want it to be the LP candidate. LP = libertarian party.

I got to go to church for the first time in a long time today. It went well overall. Unfortunately the face shield I was wearing didn’t have padding on the front of the band part, and it dug into my skin. This caused me to have a headache. I think I need to order some better ones online. These came from a friend from church who works at a local charity. They were given to her by the health department.