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npub1g2v6lmze8knq2w3p2smx8rdzcpluqg5mawgfp8f3fhhung6v97tsypachf

Profile Code

nprofile1qqsy9xd0a3vnmfs98gs4gdnr3k3vql7qy2d7hyysn5c5mm7f5dxzl9cprpmhxue69uhhyetvv9ujumt0d4hhxarj9ecxjmntwnmfez

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Last Notes

2026-08-21 16:07:58 CEST

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shipping in 2028 MacOS happy hippo

2026-08-20 17:07:09 CEST

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yes it's now popped in and visible, I've emailed Manton to see if there is anything on his side that might have held this up

2026-08-20 17:01:16 CEST

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Thanks Tom, so this is _my_ server doing this?
@npub1rcn…dw4h @npub1fmx…wp74 can you fiddle with the settings so this doesn't happen?
podcastindex.social appears to be running v4.6.6, a very recent version

2026-08-20 16:52:54 CEST

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RE: https://www.manton.org/2026/08/20/i-dont-know-if-this.html
I don't know what "Post pending" means, but I was referring to Manton's post here:
https://podcastindex.social/@npub1740…3wtz/117128318883950630
https://cdn.masto.host/podcastindexsocial/media_attachments/files/117/128/404/193/515/757/original/a7334098f19d6889.png

2026-08-20 16:51:28 CEST

RE: https://www.manton.org/2026/08/20/i-dont-know-if-this.html
I've noticed this as well. When I was on the Android team at Google, I remember we (and Android OEMs, generally) were dogged for having bad animations - esp compared to Apple
But with these new crazy-long iOS 27 notification animations, and elsewhere, like Manton notices here, I feel like Apple has really jumped the shark
this "new design" is not winning any medals

2026-08-18 01:07:31 CEST

hehe, heads up @npub1rcn…dw4h
👉 [not legit]
https://api.podcastindex.org/dashboard?q=7994955
https://cdn.masto.host/podcastindexsocial/media_attachments/files/117/113/353/981/600/691/original/301b5047b715d0f4.png

2026-08-17 22:41:13 CEST

personally confirmed, thanks @npub1xve…a2gp
https://jerodsanto.net/2026/08/claude-code-one-easy-trick/

2026-08-17 22:17:55 CEST

‘MrBeast provides a perfect example: his videos do not have any point except to maximize viewership; the viewership he has accrued allows him greater fame and resources to pour into the next video.
He is a creator without creative vision, and is in fact better understood as a creation of audience feedback filtered through the YouTube Apparatus.’
https://kevinmunger.substack.com/p/we-need-to-talk

2026-08-16 19:35:40 CEST

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signs point to no
fortunately determinism-oriented development still works!

2026-08-14 19:43:15 CEST

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certified hayes-compatible

2026-08-08 00:18:17 CEST

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I hope it does, for what it's worth, it's a great thing to point to!
I am interested to see what will happen to Java™ if Oracle™ implodes in a possible future
I doubt there's as many lines of Java behind the new crop of mega-tech companies as the last crop

2026-08-07 23:30:58 CEST

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was listening to some Java people talking about it earlier this week, and they gave me the impression that this was temporary (I believe it says "interim"), and mostly they are waiting for Oracle legal to figure out if they are comfortable with the legal implications of contributions based on external public slurry
ie not no, but "not yet"

2026-08-07 16:36:53 CEST

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emdash alert...
https://cdn.masto.host/podcastindexsocial/media_attachments/files/117/054/727/965/474/203/original/d59750627cf02c22.png

2026-08-07 16:35:17 CEST

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they include every single feed, I even got an email from them saying my testing "reflections" feed is listed
https://socialdb.xyz/podcast/reflections
deemed 78% brand safe!
https://cdn.masto.host/podcastindexsocial/media_attachments/files/117/054/718/917/323/147/original/c5378fa8f87181d0.png

2026-08-06 15:42:56 CEST

lol the comments on this are a must read
https://x.com/tvietor08/status/2085073214968037428

2026-08-05 17:33:04 CEST

just another day in paradise
https://cdn.masto.host/podcastindexsocial/media_attachments/files/117/043/624/833/654/279/original/1840ff093e747e14.png

2026-08-05 02:05:19 CEST

‘Does this hurt podcast creators?
No. Castria downloads the complete episode straight from the publisher using your phone, so it registers as a genuine download and the ad impressions count just as the creator intended — we never re-host or alter the file.’
https://castria.app/
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2026-08-01 15:18:48 CEST

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brain damage is a hell of a drug
privacy policy page somehow drags OP3 into it? now I'm somewhat interested
https://sgnlpublish.co/policies/privacy
https://cdn.masto.host/podcastindexsocial/media_attachments/files/117/020/439/655/045/194/original/20c1a3963d0b8f88.png

2026-07-27 15:05:52 CEST

@npub13cg…ck4q 🚨
https://cdn.masto.host/podcastindexsocial/media_attachments/files/116/992/085/142/633/632/original/b3a58903d1adb6db.png

2026-07-24 17:34:14 CEST

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makes sense - curious which model(s) do you use and how much $ a month?

2026-07-24 16:07:55 CEST

‘People in manual and technical trades, such as electricians and auto mechanics, are using AI significantly as a hands-on collaborator, and are uploading images and videos to solve problems far more frequently than their white-collar counterparts.’
Google Study Says AI Is Helping Workers, Not Replacing Them
(gift) https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/google-study-says-ai-is-helping-workers-not-replacing-them-4b7bba39?st=atMTSb&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
https://cdn.masto.host/podcastindexsocial/media_attachments/files/116/975/346/382/606/279/original/fded1cad387f0a2a.png

2026-07-24 15:25:23 CEST

‘Threads and Bluesky are not distributed. Distributable is not the same as being distributed. It’s like saying the Mets were able to win the World Series in 1962. In some fashion perhaps in an alternate universe, in reality, not gonna happen’
https://daveverse.org/2026/07/22/11383/

2026-07-24 15:00:40 CEST

‘It’s a big world, so I’m sure somewhere out there a 21-year-old just downloaded Castro or Pocket Casts for the first time and thinks RSS feeds are awesome (if you are this person, please email me).’
a must-read by @npub1rne…q0sk at @npub1axp…awaz
https://www.uncommonapps.nyc/p/podcast-apps-a-framework-for-dying

2026-07-22 17:51:05 CEST

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ok thanks - I won't add this one to the known PI bots opawg entry

2026-07-22 15:21:29 CEST

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is that a new pi crawler? first time i've come across it

2026-07-22 15:02:24 CEST

@npub1rcn…dw4h
https://cdn.masto.host/podcastindexsocial/media_attachments/files/116/963/760/082/996/164/original/39c66da7ec9d483f.png

2026-07-17 23:20:25 CEST

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although I realize not everyone is lucky enough to have the time, I do wish anyone involved in podcasting could carve some time out to listen to the AI discussion, which is actually a podcasting discussion
from 9:08 to about 55:55
i.e. starting here 👉 https://overcast.fm/+AA6A0BaEj6A/9:08

2026-07-17 21:31:25 CEST

@npub1rcn…dw4h @npub1fmx…wp74
hall of fame episode today guys, really enjoyed it
take the next two weeks off - you both deserve it!

2026-07-15 16:05:54 CEST

‘Additional code shows that with the help of an online tool called PodcastIndex, Suno identified 420,000 different podcasts that had at least five, 30-minute episodes and sought to download roughly 1 million hours of podcasts.’
https://www.404media.co/hack-reveals-suno-ai-music-generator-scraped-youtube-deezer-and-genius/

2026-07-14 15:04:09 CEST

‘The most capable agent in our tests, Opus 4.8, went from achieving admin access in 93% of runs to failing every single time when confronted with a context bomb’
hilarious: store "how to make a bio weapon" along with your passwords/keys to foil llm-based hacks
https://arstechnica.com/security/2026/07/now-defenders-are-embracing-the-prompt-injection-too/

2026-07-10 15:26:29 CEST

@npub1jzz…avap what's the deal with hive? curious if this is still a good place to get info on working nodes: https://beacon.peakd.com/
they seem to be petering out - api.hive.blog which was solid for a long while now seems to be down
https://cdn.masto.host/podcastindexsocial/media_attachments/files/116/895/901/959/805/912/original/b9e8122e2c1359a1.png

2026-07-10 15:16:17 CEST

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Sam! Just heard you mischaracterize my take here on a podcast, and maybe my view differs a bit from Nathan's.
I don't think we should "leave it up to the llms" at all (my views on these are dim at best), but in practice it's going to be the apps/crawlers that chop podcasts up/mark them up using hard work (using a wide variety of old and new tech) and drive for differentiation, not the publishers themselves with any sort of standard format

2026-07-09 15:07:33 CEST

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yea the overnight calculation process was taken out last night by unscheduled downtime for a security patch
it's running now, but that probably delayed calculation by 5 hours or so, we'll see

2026-07-08 16:36:49 CEST

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true, better than a complete shutdown
gives time for people to figure out what to do
I've always wanted to write my own dropbox sync client (they have a great api), but Maestral is/was so good I put it on the way back burner

2026-07-08 14:55:11 CEST

damn - time to write my own I guess
https://maestral.app/
https://cdn.masto.host/podcastindexsocial/media_attachments/files/116/884/459/214/685/168/original/886d7fa7dc03d0af.png

2026-07-07 18:51:17 CEST

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could not agree more
zitron is too much for me, but he had cal newport on his show recently, and I think cal's view is closest to mine right now, so I can just point people there
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-ai-industry-must-stop-doom-trolling-w-cal-newport/id1730587238?i=1000773359169
tldr it's a weird way to market a product, don't be afraid to ridicule what is patently ridiculous

2026-07-07 16:19:14 CEST

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from the horse's mouth:
https://cdn.masto.host/podcastindexsocial/media_attachments/files/116/879/122/243/302/261/original/10813c7359674fdd.png

2026-07-03 16:41:10 CEST

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totally agree - from what I've seen in feeds, podcast publishers should focus on the hard part (audio + video) and leave metadata extraction to where it can be done best, the apps/crawlers

2026-07-03 15:04:22 CEST

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site looks ai-generated
it would be great if podcast publishers delineated mentioned entities using stable identifiers (useful across shows/episodes) with something agreed upon like wikidata ids: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Identifiers

2026-07-02 18:10:45 CEST

what's the german word for advice-from-your-corporate-electric-provider-that-you-already-do-every-single-day-anyway
https://cdn.masto.host/podcastindexsocial/media_attachments/files/116/851/254/361/272/193/original/5701cd4bec8c6b17.png

2026-07-02 16:27:58 CEST

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fwding to @npub1rcn…dw4h who does the ap bridge thing

2026-07-02 14:50:40 CEST

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context:
https://podcastindex.social/@js/115646720658726607
#note1n63…mmhq

2026-07-02 14:15:05 CEST

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Overcast has a known redownloading thing, supposedly fixed in newer builds
OP3 filters these out of stats, but I don't think anyone else does

2026-06-25 18:02:51 CEST

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sadly, I also have an announcement to make:
I can't keep bearing the cost of RAM powering the https://op3.dev servers, so, after much consideration, and with much regret, I'm going to have to increase the cost to podcasters by 250%, effective today.
New price: $0.00 / mo ($0.00 annually)

2026-06-25 17:53:30 CEST

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https://ap.podcastindex.org/followers?id=895881 (see top of thread)

2026-06-25 17:11:16 CEST

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now it's not returning any body
https://cdn.masto.host/podcastindexsocial/media_attachments/files/116/811/384/108/672/773/original/dd948f61ead33ced.png

2026-06-25 16:14:04 CEST

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silver lining: market hates it
https://cdn.masto.host/podcastindexsocial/media_attachments/files/116/811/159/319/695/839/original/2e27e5fedb631887.png

2026-06-25 15:27:17 CEST

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Et tu, Neo!
https://www.macrumors.com/2026/06/25/apple-just-raised-macbook-neo-prices/

2026-06-25 14:57:30 CEST

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well now, by the same logic I can surely expect to see tradein values go up proportionately, right? right?
let me just double check here, and... nope
https://cdn.masto.host/podcastindexsocial/media_attachments/files/116/810/858/204/195/949/original/86db66637e90257b.png

2026-06-25 14:46:29 CEST

‘The company briefly took down its Apple Online Store early this morning as it typically does when announcing new products. When it came back online, the price tags for Mac computers rose roughly 15% to 20% and iPad prices rose 15% to 25%.’
Apple Raises Prices on Macs, iPads by $200 or More on Some Models
(gift) https://www.wsj.com/tech/apple-raises-prices-on-macs-ipads-by-200-or-more-on-some-models-a7463f99?st=nT5mhW&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
https://cdn.masto.host/podcastindexsocial/media_attachments/files/116/810/814/949/182/024/original/c8dfc11183d49493.png

2026-06-24 23:59:11 CEST

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Happy to hear that Evan, that's why it exists!

2026-06-24 23:53:47 CEST

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James are you still seeing this?
I'm unable to reproduce this on my side: tried from Brave, Chrome stable and beta

2026-06-24 23:46:46 CEST

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hmm, that underlying url is timing out
heads up @npub1rcn…dw4h
https://cdn.masto.host/podcastindexsocial/media_attachments/files/116/807/275/646/668/729/original/40ff43f6bb9c4170.png

2026-06-24 18:58:10 CEST

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yes, with a tablespace
https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/manage-ag-tablespaces.html

2026-06-23 14:50:40 CEST

‘HYPERBLAM lets you make music with HTML. It’s a declarative implementation of the Web Audio API and is completely dependency free.’
https://hyperblam.how/

2026-06-22 19:55:46 CEST

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ouch
I have it as a pk of a huge table, and fked in other larger tables, and don't have the disk space to do an alter
considering removing all consraints, replacing tables one by one and rehooking up the indexes/fkes after the fact

2026-06-22 18:48:39 CEST

shout out to other podcast database people still storing itunes podcast ids in postgres integer columns
our day of judgment is at hand
https://cdn.masto.host/podcastindexsocial/media_attachments/files/116/794/772/265/702/690/original/fbf4985384390854.png

2026-06-21 20:03:02 CEST

‘“To date, no video podcast has charted on Nielsen’s weekly top 10, which Netflix tends to dominate, and multiple company sources have told me that the podcast engagement numbers on the whole are low,” Belloni wrote on Thursday’
https://awfulannouncing.com/netflix/video-podcast-engagement-numbers-are-low-matthew-belloni.html

2026-06-21 16:11:19 CEST

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Stripe has a standard, Cloudflare/Coinbase has a standard, Google has a standard, and I'm sure there are others
The only one I've sent/received actual payments with so far is Cloudflare's, although I have Stripe's MPP enabled on my acct and want to kick the tires on that one too - only so many hours in the day!
as with other RSS-adopted things (like MP3, SRT/VTT), I think it would make sense to adopt/adapt one of these instead of trying to come up with yet another one

2026-06-21 15:46:52 CEST

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yea same here - but let's at least send a good signal if we're still sending signal at all
one could imagine a payload metadata system almost identical to the rss::payment spec even if, say, usd stablecoin micropayments were used

2026-06-21 15:41:15 CEST

@npub1thg…zq23 truefans rss payment metadata payloads are still off
there is a "ts" number field in the payload that is not in the spec, did you mean "position" ?
https://github.com/Podcastindex-org/podcast-namespace/blob/main/docs/examples/value/metadata.md
please take a look at the payloads you're generating and make sure they line up with the example on the spec page
https://cdn.masto.host/podcastindexsocial/media_attachments/files/116/788/364/287/304/765/original/fc8775ad08f326ef.png

2026-06-18 14:31:11 CEST

‘“This is a hundred-year flood,” said Cook. “I’ve never seen anything like it in any area in over 40 years.”’
Exclusive | Apple to Raise Prices Due to Memory Chip Crunch, Tim Cook Says
(gift) https://www.wsj.com/tech/apple-price-increases-memory-supply-199845b1?st=VjKULx&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
https://cdn.masto.host/podcastindexsocial/media_attachments/files/116/771/120/412/337/010/original/bedf65a82dd1af5c.png

2026-06-10 16:56:30 CEST

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kind of like searching "mail and spam" in gmail

2026-06-10 16:55:21 CEST

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hmm
then it would be useful to have an "includeSpam" query param for search (https://podcastindex-org.github.io/docs-api/#get-/search/byterm) and really any "read podcast" API calls (like get by url: https://podcastindex-org.github.io/docs-api/#get-/podcasts/byitunesid)
this would extend the search not to "all dead", but to "hidden because we deem it spam"

2026-06-10 16:38:22 CEST

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Also they (I'm saying 'they' because there are at least 33 of these) are in Apple Podcasts
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/audio-guide-tour-of-athens-english/id1896759858
Not sure "currently in Apple Podcasts" feeds should ever be considered "Dead" from the index's pov, but I don't run the index! : )

2026-06-10 16:34:56 CEST

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I mean they're not "Dead", they've been "killed" if anything, but wouldn't it be useful to have them in a state where they can be "Alive" and also "spam" - they are well within RSS.com's terms.

2026-06-10 15:15:37 CEST

@npub1rcn…dw4h I use the podcast index as a "did you intend for this rss feed to be public?" check before adding a show to OP3.
Someone mentioned that his podcast's OP3 stats page didn't exist, so I looked up his podcast in PI and it is both marked bot as Dead, and as Spam: AI Slop
are these related, are you marking all slop as dead? (ie removing from the public index)
I had thought you were just tagging and deemphasizing in search
https://api.podcastindex.org/dashboard?q=7867073
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2026-06-10 00:50:57 CEST

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and yet, here are the three downloads (since March) from Spotify...
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1kkbvARrkNFI21RlNJfee8p9K-KRNqCQyOdsCdh_t2rw/edit?usp=sharing

2026-06-09 23:40:39 CEST

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podcast listeners listen to podcasters, who'da thunk!
wish more podcasters expressed an opinion

2026-06-09 23:34:07 CEST

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check out the full site here:
👉 https://cohort.rayc.world/
https://cdn.masto.host/podcastindexsocial/media_attachments/files/116/722/292/559/276/438/original/327bc317f14fcaae.png

2026-06-09 23:32:17 CEST

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Podcast listening apps vs show categories
https://cohort.rayc.world/slides/7
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2026-06-09 23:29:12 CEST

Cool-looking data clustering research project that looks at 36 million podcast downloads measured by OP3 (open podcast data)
- over 2000 shows, 142 listening apps
https://cohort.rayc.world/slides/1
https://cdn.masto.host/podcastindexsocial/media_attachments/files/116/722/273/253/684/994/original/9961d7c3d588bca6.png

2026-06-08 00:38:39 CEST

New data: Top CDNs used by the 1.9 million new podcast episodes found in May 2026
- 👀 Something new! I'm now tracking IPv6 availability on every single new podcast episode
‘61.17% of May’s new podcast episodes were available over IPv6’
https://livewire.io/podcast-cdns-by-episode-share/

2026-06-06 14:56:37 CEST

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the rust code i was looking at yesterday wasn't setting the accept header at all (so relying on reqwest's default), I'd definitely migrate over the same explicit accept you had for the js-based aggregator, looked good to me

2026-06-06 14:51:14 CEST

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I've been bugging CF about this for years. I _think_ they try and do an auto-carve out for detected rss feeds now (will try to dig up the announcement) - maybe try and ask for feed xml specifically in your accept header?
but it's clearly not foolproof
and what do you think? will there be more or fewer sites putting CF in front of their sites going forward? my guess would be more

2026-06-06 14:40:58 CEST

heads up @npub1rcn…dw4h you may want to try and get your rust poller on the cloudflare "verified bots" list
https://developers.cloudflare.com/bots/concepts/bot/verified-bots/
oh the irony

2026-06-06 14:31:12 CEST

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the guy I was working with ended up disabling "orange cloud" on his cf setup, and then the 415 went away
Perhaps CF is not liking your fetches (many wp installs have CF in the middle as well)
try changing your user-agent to apple podcasts (*ducks*)

2026-06-05 22:27:27 CEST

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oh no, let me take a look - desktop/mobile/both?

2026-06-05 16:48:53 CEST

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anyway, I can't reproduce it with any combo of headers, so I bet whatever WAF he or his host is using is looking askance at DO or your IP in particular.
Would be curious if your rust poller works for that feed from your desk

2026-06-05 16:44:40 CEST

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if you are relying on the default accept that reqwest gives you, you might want to use the request builder "headers" method (down on the "get" line), instead of the client builder "default_headers" method to set the request headers.
but it's probably best to specify accept(-language|-encoding|-charset) explicitly, as you did in aggrivate, for something as relied on as this?

2026-06-05 16:34:45 CEST

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does reqwest send accept(-Language|-Charset) by default?
I don't see where those aggrivate headers were carried over here at first glance

2026-06-05 16:29:03 CEST

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yea exactly, I just want to reproduce it
Is this current? https://github.com/Podcastindex-org/aggregator/blob/c02d73e730fe3ce14a3ef40c3c0b19caca2ad82e/aggrivate/aggrivate.js#L220

2026-06-05 16:27:23 CEST

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it fetches fine with curl (from my desk), both default (which sends accept: */*) and with no accept header at all
I'll poke around in the PI repo to see if I can find your fetch call
https://cdn.masto.host/podcastindexsocial/media_attachments/files/116/697/957/198/556/802/original/6225807bbc777b67.png

2026-06-05 16:00:52 CEST

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there are so many Castopod feeds that are fetched fine from PI though (for example this one: https://api.podcastindex.org/dashboard?q=5971925)
Our problem child https://api.podcastindex.org/dashboard?q=7896621 was marked as dead this morning, and I reset and rescanned, same thing, 415.
Podcaster swears up and down there is no WAF in play here (or that it's not blocking PI), and that it works in AP and Spotify.
FWIW I suspect an overeager WAF, but it would be nice to know for sure.

2026-06-05 14:09:53 CEST

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signed media fetches _would_ nice be for some, I think I can make the argument well, and you did a good (if a bit grumpy) job of it on the PWR this week.
and yet I _still_ think it would be a strategic mistake
(also I stan cloudflare, and I stan tech ceos with humanities degrees, but he is absolutely talking his own book here, and well)

2026-06-04 20:08:21 CEST

@npub1rcn…dw4h are you able to tell why https://podcast.informatykzakladowy.pl/@informatykzakladowy/feed.xml cannot be added the index? A scan is returning 415, but the podcaster says it's working fine from Apple's and Spotify's fetchers - and it works fine from my browser here.
https://api.podcastindex.org/dashboard?q=7896621

2026-06-04 18:20:19 CEST

‘the AMP Task Force ratified a new framework with four exposure definitions, with no dissenting votes’
https://podnews.net/press-release/amp-task-force-download

2026-06-04 18:17:12 CEST

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Dave there were no dissenting votes

2026-06-04 15:09:41 CEST

Someone make a limited series called "The first four and a half minutes"
Wherein podcast ad experts tell the story of the first 4:30 of popular podcasts that are nothing but ads, using actual backend data.
Who bids for these, how much? Who listens to these other than listeners strapped to a table?

2026-06-03 14:52:42 CEST

@npub1rcn…dw4h are you able to tell why https://api.podcastindex.org/dashboard?q=7403115 was unalived?
Podcaster just got ahold of me and it's both currently publishing and in itunes
I'm going to un unalive it.

2026-06-03 00:21:03 CEST

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this is a blog thing, so I guess you can test it in blog things
for example, here it is in inoreader
not sure if I have a podcast site with nice episode pages and a podcast that I'd want my podcast feed as the "alternate", is the idea that most websites don't use RSS anyway so "podcast sites" can hijack this mechanism?
shouldn't it be like rel="podcast" or something?
https://cdn.masto.host/podcastindexsocial/media_attachments/files/116/682/819/870/950/794/original/532b812fde64e205.png

2026-06-02 22:55:49 CEST

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I know what you meant by the https analogy, but it occurred to me when I was driving around today that it demonstrates the opposite!
https is extra work done by the _publisher_ to make itself more acceptable to clients - clients are king!
the signed media proposal would be more like tls client certs, extra work done by the _client_ - currently not used much in browsers/the web proper, but mostly in enterprise api integrations

2026-06-02 20:56:04 CEST

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perhaps a pithier way to put it:
signed media requests in podcasting would primarily be used to block clients
I don't think this is a good idea

2026-06-02 19:59:24 CEST

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"Wouldn’t it be great to know what they actually are?"
(a control freak): "yes"
that's the tradeoff I'm willing to make: suboptimal dashboards in exchange for thousands of apps and services in development, setting browser UAs, not having to book a meeting with Buzzsprout before they can integrate
I still think of podcasting as analogous to the web - the "media" face of the web

2026-06-02 19:29:42 CEST

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I spend a larger part of each day than I'd like making sure that abusive media requests are unaccounted for (but not blocked) in OP3 and dealing with spammers abusing my open redirect, with no employees and no compensation for this time...
...and I would still choose this system (the "classic" podcast system) 100 times out of 100 over a system where media requests had to be signed.

2026-06-02 19:27:13 CEST

Man I step away for a bit, and now people are proposing signed media requests in podcasting?
Cue ominous music in the the future documentary about the rise and fall of podcasting...
Let's not step on this rake!
I've left some commentary on the proposal here:
https://github.com/Podcastindex-org/podcast-namespace/issues/775#issuecomment-4605066930

2026-06-01 18:36:56 CEST

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Are you serving media, Dave? Or do you mean the PI http api?
imo if we're talking media: any media url present in either the enclosure or alternate enclosure _must_ be available with no custom auth schemes to be considered a podcast, since that's what the player apis (web & native) expect, and thats what CDNs do, cache stuff all over the place
even streaming services ultimately point to (heavily obfuscated) public urls under the hood, cause that's what the client apps need

2026-05-22 14:47:12 CEST

‘You have infrastructure that’s falling apart, and you have software that’s now very, very buggy compared to before’
The AI Superstars Who Say a ‘Vibe Slop’ Crisis Is Coming
(gift) https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/vibe-coding-slop-ai-tools-e6a99394?st=UH9ZfQ&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
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2026-05-22 01:57:09 CEST

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that's why I own so much land
https://cdn.masto.host/podcastindexsocial/media_attachments/files/116/615/268/744/277/634/original/ed3002d977c249e9.png

2026-05-08 15:07:52 CEST

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if you put this on your sloplist I will be sad