A well-timed cat poster can have the same effect. The problem is, if there's little substance to the message, the effect is short-lived. The key to running a good cat poster business is spacing out the shallow messages, you can even reuse them if they're slightly reworded or just spaced far enough apart.

They keep telling me they're working on it.

It really is the best. No need to create and maintain another account, no need to reskim over read/intentionally skipped entries, filters for things you know you want to always skip.

You can have HN, YouTube and Reddit syndicate to your own, self-hosted feed?

Now I get it. No. But you can post links to your site to them manually.

What is it that's only allowing you to play audio from a single source at a time? On my desktop that sound just plays over other sounds, nothing pauses. I hate auto-play media as much as the next guy but your real problem is an awkward configuration or oddly limited device.

I’m not on a desktop.

Do you know if installing Portacle will mess with any existing configurations of those things on Linux? In particular Emacs. I have everything backed up but, since I only plan to play with CL, I don't want the headache if it does.

It should not touch anything outside of its own directory. If it does, then that's a bug and needs to be fixed.

test in peace, it doesn't interfere with your emacs config or anything else :)

No, it won't. Portacle is 100% self-contained and does not modify anything outside its home directory.

I've been using Newsbeuter but my needs are very minimal.

While it seems inevitable, I really hope there's going to be a way to do all this without having to authenticate and link a name, credit card and cell phone. I really don't like the idea of not being to travel more than a few miles without being tracked, I hope enough people feel the same way.

That leaves no room for them to appear at all. I'm all for it.