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Article from Issue 271/2023

This month in Linux Voice and Elvie.

Most people today think of a newsfeed as something that happens on social media, but the protocol known as RSS has been serving up headlines and news links for more than 20 years. And the best part is, RSS doesn't depend on AI voodoo to figure out what kind of news you want. You can customize your news yourself by selecting the sources that interest you. This month, we explore RSS and show you how to build your own homegrown RSS news aggregator. Also inside this month's Linux Voice, we look at how to edit images with Converseen, and we round up some popular desktop tools for compressing and archiving files.

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