Re: [linux] canadian news funding, maybe a free open source news aggregator app as part of a funding model solution?

2023-09-06 Thread jf
I see there is a big debate around the news broadcasting within Canada and Thursday's discussion about this and the presentation about FreshRSS is going to be a very interesting one. On 2023-09-06 13:24, Dianne Skoll wrote: On Tue, 5 Sep 2023 10:54:34 -0400 tug wrote: [...] If the

Re: [linux] canadian news funding, maybe a free open source news aggregator app as part of a funding model solution?

2023-09-06 Thread J C Nash
To answer just one: Yes, nation-states ultimately have the advantage because they have, well, armies and such. But IMO, the tech giants have become dangerously powerful... powerful enought to actually start challenging some nation-states. The British and Dutch East India Companies had their

Re: [linux] canadian news funding, maybe a free open source news aggregator app as part of a funding model solution?

2023-09-06 Thread Dianne Skoll
On Tue, 5 Sep 2023 10:54:34 -0400 tug wrote: [...] > If the solution is charitably donate to news sources you like, then > the outcome will be that the narrative of the richest will prevail. I don't see how that follows. Plenty of ordinary people used to subscribe to newspapers and magazines

Re: [linux] canadian news funding, maybe a free open source news aggregator app as part of a funding model solution?

2023-09-05 Thread tug
A very late response. I was away, and I hate web-based email, and google hates my preferred email client... Below, my thoughts... I know rather long and rambley... On 2023-08-08 11:59, Dianne Skoll wrote: WARNING: This post will contain NSFW language. Do not read further if that bothers

Re: [linux] canadian news funding, maybe a free open source news aggregator app as part of a funding model solution?

2023-08-08 Thread BCLUG
I am a strong proponent of strengthening news organizations and actively subscribe to a couple due to their good work. Just a couple thoughts on a quick read of your proposals... the different needs people have related to news content I'm kind of concerned that what people *need*

Re: [linux] canadian news funding, maybe a free open source news aggregator app as part of a funding model solution?

2023-08-08 Thread James
Aug. 8, 2023 12:44:02 j...@messier.ca: If someone wants a demo of the system, I can have something for a future meeting. Sounds good. :-) To unsubscribe send a blank message to linux+unsubscr...@linux-ottawa.org To get help send a blank message to linux+h...@linux-ottawa.org To visit the

Re: [linux] canadian news funding, maybe a free open source news aggregator app as part of a funding model solution?

2023-08-08 Thread Richard Guy Briggs
On 2023-08-08 16:26, Katherine Mcmillan wrote: > but I would love for AI to be able to actually write a useful SQL > program. Isn't that just called a higher level language? We started with machine code, then went to machine language, then kept going with more and more readable languages for

Re: [linux] canadian news funding, maybe a free open source news aggregator app as part of a funding model solution?

2023-08-08 Thread jf
WARNING: This post will contain NSFW language. Do not read further if that bothers you. :) I never liked reading my news of interest mixed with fake news, useless cats videos and other supposedly fun stuff. Since the creation of Google News that was perhaps the ancestor of news aggregator,

Re: [linux] canadian news funding, maybe a free open source news aggregator app as part of a funding model solution?

2023-08-08 Thread Katherine Mcmillan
Hi Dianne, Thank you for your honesty, it's always appreciated, especially when it elicits more laughter than sighs, but you're so right. As someone who is perceived as having been born a couple of years ago, I am very concerned about the same. I really do not want tech entering the creative

Re: [linux] canadian news funding, maybe a free open source news aggregator app as part of a funding model solution?

2023-08-08 Thread Dianne Skoll
WARNING: This post will contain NSFW language. Do not read further if that bothers you. :) On Tue, 8 Aug 2023 02:17:05 -0400 Michael Goguen wrote: [...] > > 2/ could opt in to pay a small fee for 'enhanced' library news > > access, whereby people can select to some extent where they prefer >

[linux] canadian news funding, maybe a free open source news aggregator app as part of a funding model solution?

2023-08-08 Thread Michael Goguen
Hi! I commented on a twitter post by michael geist on a globe and mail article about funding model and approach issues and michael geist's crticisms on the approach, My ISP is National Capital Freenet, I notice they seem to value supporting projects like this, and I noticed that the Ottawa Public