Many sites provide a “feed” page, which is a regularly changing XML file* that a program of your choice can read and thus update a list of articles/podcasts etc.

That’s literally all. No accounts or other BS.

That some apps try to make it into a business was to be expected I guess. I have no idea what the (perceived) advantages are, but there’s no need to outsource any of the above into “the cloud”. Plenty of purely local feedreader or podcast apps exist.

Over the past two decades, the office of the US Trade Representative–which is responsible for developing and coordinating US international trade, commodity, and direct investment policy—has pressured most of the world into adopting these laws, hamstringing foreign startups that might compete with Apple (by providing a jailbreaking kit that installs a third-party app store), or Google (by blocking tracking on Android devices), or Amazon (by converting Kindle and Audible files to formats that work on rival apps), or John Deere (by disabling the systems that block third-party repairs), or the Big Three automakers (by decoding the encrypted error messages mechanics need to service our cars). The rents that these digital locks help American companies extract run to hundreds of billions of dollars every single year.
The world’s governments agreed to protect this racket in exchange for tariff-free access to American markets. Now that the US has reneged on its side of the bargain, these laws serve no useful purpose.

In 2026, many countries will respond to tariffs like they were still in the 19th century. But a few countries will have the vision, the boldness, and the political smarts to kick Donald Trump right in the dongle. The country that gets there first will enjoy the same relationship to, say, third-party app stores for games consoles, that Finland enjoyed in relation to mobile phones during the Nokia decade.

Hear, hear!

just disable javascript.

Full article:

In 2026, the leaders of America’s (former) trading partners are going to have to grapple with the political consequences of tit-for-tat tariffs. A tariff is a tax paid by consumers, and if there’s one thing the past four years have taught us, it’s that the public will not forgive a politician who presides over a period of rising prices, no matter what the cause.

Luckily for the political fortunes of the world’s leaders, there is a better way to respond to tariffs. Tit-for-tat tariffs are a 19th-century tactic, and we live in a 21st-century world—a world where the most profitable lines of business of the most profitable US companies are all vulnerable to a simple legal change that will make things cheaper for billions of people, all over the world, including in the US, at the expense of the companies whose CEOs posed with Trump on the inaugural dais. READ MORE

This story is from the WIRED World in 2026, our annual trends briefing.

In 2026, countries that want to win the trade war have a unique historical possibility: They could repeal their “anticircumvention” laws, which make it illegal—a felony, in many cases—to modify devices and services without permission from their manufacturers. Over the past two decades, the office of the US Trade Representative–which is responsible for developing and coordinating US international trade, commodity, and direct investment policy—has pressured most of the world into adopting these laws, hamstringing foreign startups that might compete with Apple (by providing a jailbreaking kit that installs a third-party app store), or Google (by blocking tracking on Android devices), or Amazon (by converting Kindle and Audible files to formats that work on rival apps), or John Deere (by disabling the systems that block third-party repairs), or the Big Three automakers (by decoding the encrypted error messages mechanics need to service our cars). The rents that these digital locks help American companies extract run to hundreds of billions of dollars every single year. The world’s governments agreed to protect this racket in exchange for tariff-free access to American markets. Now that the US has reneged on its side of the bargain, these laws serve no useful purpose.

US tech giants (and giant US companies that use tech) have used digital locks to amass a vast hoard of ill-gotten wealth. In 2026, the first country bold enough to raid that hoard gets to transform hundreds of billions in US rents into hundreds of millions in domestic profits that launch its domestic tech sector into a stable orbit—and the remaining hundreds of billions will be reaped by all of us, everyone in the world (including Americans who buy gray-market jailbreaking tools from abroad), as a consumer surplus.

In 2026, many countries will respond to tariffs like they were still in the 19th century. But a few countries will have the vision, the boldness, and the political smarts to kick Donald Trump right in the dongle. The country that gets there first will enjoy the same relationship to, say, third-party app stores for games consoles, that Finland enjoyed in relation to mobile phones during the Nokia decade.

There are many countries with the technical nous to pull this off. Obviously, Canada and Mexico have pride of place, since Trump has torn up the USMCA agreement he arm-twisted them into in 2020, and heaped racist rhetoric on Mexico even as he threatened to annex Canada. Speaking of annexation targets with sizable communities of technical experts, the Danes could lead the EU out of the wilderness the bloc bargained its way into when they enacted Article 6 of the Copyright Directive in 2001. Then there’s the global south: African tech powerhouses like Nigeria, South American giants like Brazil, and the small, developed Central American states who’ve seen Trump renege on the Central American Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA), like Costa Rica.

Retaliatory tariffs make consumer goods in your own country more expensive, and to the extent that they punish Americans, they do so indiscriminately, inflicting far more pain on soybean farmers than they do on the CEOs of the tech companies that back Trump.

Repealing anticircumvention law is a targeted strike on America’s most profitable companies, and it will have an especially severe impact on Tesla, whose hyperinflated price-to-earnings ratio reflects investors’ pleasure at the Tesla business model, which involves charging drivers every month for subscription features and software upgrades that expire when a car changes hands. Musk owes his power to the digital locks that keep this business model intact. If it were legal for mechanics all over the world to jailbreak Teslas and unlock all those features for one price, Tesla’s share price would collapse—taking with it the overvalued shares Musk uses to collateralize the loans he took out to buy Twitter and the US presidency.

In 2026, world leaders have a choice—to make things cheaper and better for all of us, or to fight Donald Trump with weapons that were developed in the Age of Sail.

You saved her life. Twice.

Yes, Ryanair. But even they could itemize what you had to pay extra for. OP got this instead:

What confuses me is how these things can be “volatile” and “fluctuating” before they bought the ticket?

edit: somebody made the Ryanair experience into an operetta song! https://youtu.be/ZAg0lUYHHFc

That’s like renting a flat and being charged extra for doors.

volatile, unpredictable or fluctuating operating costs and fees

Socialize the Costs and Privatize the Profits

edit: What confuses me is how these things can be “volatile” and “fluctuating” before you bought the ticket?

I like to think that almost every stone has been liquid long ago. Often you can still see the swirls.

Not the rays, the anger. I guess.

Wir treffen Jill und Joe und dessen Bruder Hip
Und auch den Rest der coolen Gang
Sie rappen hin, sie rappen her
Dazwischen kratzen’s ab die Wänd’
Dieser Fall ist klar, lieber Herr Kommissar
Auch wenn sie anderer Meinung sind
Den Schnee, auf dem wir alle talwärts fahr’n, kennt heute jedes Kind

Jetzt das Kinderlied

Drah di ned um, oh, oh-oh
Schau, schau, der Kommissar geht um, oh, oh-oh
Er hot die Kroft und wia san klan und dumm
Und dieser Frust macht uns stumm
Drah di ned um, oh, oh-oh
Schau, schau, der Kommissar geht um, oh, oh-oh
Wenn ea di onspricht und du waßt warum
Sag eam, dein Lem bringt di um

Are you talking from the pov of one specific country? edit: not around here; not that the situation is much better

who (legitimately) ask for some defense of their property rights, attacked both by hackers and by the big monopolists of platforms and AI

This does not sound like they’re defending Spotify.

lol

Fsck MSN.

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A newly released document Tuesday from the Department of Justice’s (DOJ) investigation into convicted sex trafficker, Jeffrey Epstein contains shocking allegations about President Donald Trump.

A victim’s complaint to the FBI dated March 8, 2020, has been released by the DOJ on Tuesday (file no. EFTA00025010), in which the complainant alleges that she was trafficked by Epstein and her uncle as a pregnant 13-year-old in 1984. She claims that her newborn daughter was murdered and disposed of “because I gave birth to her while in the middle of this sex trafficking ordeal.”

The victim then goes on to provide details of the disposal of the newborn. She alleges that the baby’s body was dumped into Lake Michigan from a yacht and President Donald Trump was present at the scene. Trump has been listed as a witness in the allegation. What Happened At Lake Michigan?

The complainant, whose name has been hidden in the DOJ documents to protect the identity, provided a tip to the FBI regarding the investigation into Jeffrey Epstein, apart from being a victim of his sex-trafficking operations. In the complaint, she tries to find out about an NYPD detective who she claims called her about the sex trafficking investigation a few days before the alleged infanticide, around May or September 1984

Also read: Rape charge, handwritten letter: 5 shocking revelations about Trump in Epstein files

“A detective from NYPD FBI sex trafficking task force called me a couple of weeks ago from a 212 area code number,” the complainant writes. “I talked to him for about 20 or 30 minutes about my being sex trafficked by my uncle and Jeffrey Epstein in 1984 while I was 13 and pregnant.”

She then goes on to detail what exactly happened to her and the information she tried to provide to the NYPD detective.

“I told him some other important information about other high-profile individuals involved in my sex trafficking and the murder and disposal of my newborn daughter because I gave birth to her while in the middle of this sex trafficking ordeal,” she states.

Providing details of the infanticide incident that happened “mostly from a yacht in Lake Michigan originating from Mona Lake, MI” and lists Trump as a witness.

The picture is another of Trump next to Epstein, and a suspiciously young blonde.

They took this from HindustanTimes btw.

You mean the social sector being chronically underpaid with no improvement in sight? I blame less and less regulated lobbyism, a.k.a. legal corruption. Because the social sector doesn’t have one, usually. It would often amount to the government bribing itself. What, politicians making good decisions without looking out for a payday, you say?

hundreds

Wow, that makes me extra curious. I know kids of a certain age love to build miniworlds, but this sounds like it could be something else. Or, like, ALL the kids around have a secret meeting place there.

Not sure if I love or hate the name

I love it. I hope some kid loves it too, and plays with it.

PS: if anyone needs a hint at the true size, note the cones in the foreground.

I have to admit I live in a country that still upholds some form of journalistic integrity, and for me there was nothing new or particularly revealing in that segment.

Which makes the whole thing all the sadder imo.