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No newsletter, no account, no form. The feed carries the newest sixty pieces with the body included; the weekly edition picks five. Nothing asks for an address and nothing tracks you.
RSS 2.0full text60 itemsno trackers
summarylive
cat /etc/backbone/feed.confdistribution
# no account, no newsletter, no tracking
feed.url = https://backbonebrief.com/rss.xml
feed.format = rss2
feed.items = 60
feed.fulltext = true
feed.tracking = none
week.url = https://backbonebrief.com/week/
corrections = /corrections/
email = not offered
feed.url = https://backbonebrief.com/rss.xml
feed.format = rss2
feed.items = 60
feed.fulltext = true
feed.tracking = none
week.url = https://backbonebrief.com/week/
corrections = /corrections/
email = not offered
feed healthok
items60
payload≈ 370 KB
newest piece10 Nov
third-party calls0
why sixtycap
Sixty is a size cap, not an editorial one. An uncapped feed crosses a megabyte within a month, and that is where readers start failing. The archive keeps the rest.
other waysfour
emailNot offered. There is no list to join.—
what arrivesfull text
<item>
<title>Alpine's sshd could be logged into without a password…</title>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>…the whole piece…</p>]]></content:encoded>
</item>
<title>Alpine's sshd could be logged into without a password…</title>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>…the whole piece…</p>]]></content:encoded>
</item>
Full text means you can read the piece in the reader and never come back to a page with a cookie banner — because there isn't one.