Re: Update your news reader to point to news.gmane.io

With the help of several people, we've now gone through the first half
of the Sourceforge lists and resubscribed them.  Thanks!

There's about 2K of these lists, so it's a...  bit of a chore.  But
since we did the first 1K yesterday, perhaps we can do the last 1K
today?  Send me a mail if you want a list of 100 er lists.

It's a pretty mindless task, but if you're an Emacs user, it's slightly
less work.  You have to run this command on each line, and it puts the
address to be pasted into the form into the X selection:

(defun gmane-open-sourceforge ()
  (interactive)
  (let ((bits (split-string (buffer-substring (line-beginning-position)
					      (line-end-position)))))
    (x-set-selection nil (cadr bits))
    (funcall browse-url-secondary-browser-function (car bits))
    (forward-line)))

And then click off the "yes, send me ads" choices (if they are
pre-selected; it seems like they are not for EU citizens (GDPR?), but
are for us outside of the EU).

The major stumbling block is the captcha that appears at random, but...
there's a plugin for that!

  https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/buster-captcha-solver/

It works great!  Especially after getting a private API key from 

  https://wit.ai/

to avoid using the same API key as everybody else, because that's rate
limited.

It's amazing how productive computers make us these days, eh?

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