With all the talk about Twitter and social media going on, I felt really inspired to do a comic about RSS feeds. This is a really barebones guide but I hope it helps you stay updated with your favourite webcomics, artists and websites.

The nice thing about RSS feeds is that almost any kind of site has one, so if you wanted you could add user feeds from tumblr, twitter, mastodon, etc. here’s some helpful guides on how to add those (1) (2)

I hope you found this little guide helpful. I’m just a simple guy who’s passionate about RSS feeds, comics and staying updated using both. Go forth and make the feed of your dreams!

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* this article has solidified a thought i was having trouble articulating until now

* the thing about web apps is that tons of people know how to pentest them, like that's literally what "script kiddies" refers to

* but mobile apps, especially on iOS, are such a closed ecosystem that actually you can get away with writing less secure software, because it's way less likely that a 16-year-old may try to break it

* i think we should inherently distrust the security of anything that is only an app.

YEAH

I found this on wikipedia last night and absolutely cannot get over it. it makes me livid

first off, i consider helicopters to be toys. they're like those neon sculptures in the early 20th century - an interesting trick, but not something you'd use for serious applications.

i mean, just look at them. they're contraptions. they're fail-deadly, if the slightest thing goes wrong they crash and explode. they are immensely complex and constantly struggling not to kill their occupants. it is astonishing to me that people have just made helicopters a normal part of life.

i can't picture how someone looks at a helicopter and goes "we should use that for things other than otherwise-impossible mountain rescue operations." it's not even like fixed-wing craft, where they COULD crash but the reality is that 99.99% of flights are safe and the exceptions are almost all perfect storms that will happen once in a lifetime. when you get into a helicopter you are condemning yourself to the grave, and if you get out safely, you're experiencing a probabilistic anomaly. they shouldn't work - and in practice, they don't! they crash a lot!

all the things that helicopters get used for daily are astonishing to me. do we REALLY need to have traffic info that badly? do we REALLY need aerial news photography? why is it legal to run air taxis? we should be using these things for life and death situations and nothing else, it just amazes me to no end that we're so casual about it.

so helicopters baffle me enough on their own. but then militaries are just like "sure, let's build special helicopters that will by their nature always have far fewer hours of operation to prove their airworthiness, and then hang tons of weapons and shit on them, and then put them in the air for hours and hours at a time"

and THEN i find out that THIS is going on, and it's just too much. it's too much! i am flipping my lid at this time!

what really puts me over the edge is that I don't know where to start. there's so much to get upset about

1. why are there helicopters that are large enough to dwarf a four-engine plane

2. why is anyone putting a helicopter in the air long enough to need midair refueling

3. why is anyone operating a helicopter far enough from base that it makes SENSE to midair refuel

4. why is anyone operating TWO helicopters in this fashion SO consistently that they DEVELOPED A DUAL-CRAFT CAPABLE TANKER JUST FOR THIS PURPOSE

5. helicopters go up and sideways and a little bit forward. like, gently, for stations keeping, or getting from one place to another eventually.* it is illegal that they can maintain a consistent forward velocity above the stall speed of any plane larger than a cessna 152. there is NO WAY a helicopter could fly in formation with a fixed wing craft. i reject this. i reject ALL of this

every time i look at the picture i come at it from a different direction, my brain randomly picks one of these things to get mad at and then i bounce through all the others as if it's my first time looking at the picture, every time. i think i'm having a stroke and i think i've been having it since 1AM

* yes, i know that helicopters can go forward very fast. but i don't accept it.

helicopters are horrifying abominations of aerodynamics and it is mind-boggling that they ever became anything more than a novelty

and that's why they're cool

According to all known laws of aviation, there is no way a helicopter should be able to fly.