Страхиња Радић <contact@strahinja.org> writes:

> Skimming over this article, it contains a lot of false arguments. One 
> of the worst offenders being the fallacy that since Big tech are 
> contributors to Linux, we should use their AI-feeding platform. 

Or this:

" I am aware of the problems and do know Codeberg.  I cannot run my own
  server due to the costs and time involved.  The technical reason for
  not opting for such alternatives is that I will not be getting enough
  contributions there."

Using Codeberg is totally orthogonal to running your own server.

Phil Hagelberg <phil@hagelb.org> writes:

> We've got some great stuff lined up for 1.5.0 and just wanted to get out
> the little things out before we start with that.

Sweet!
And now I'm really curious to know what's on the roadmap for 1.5.0.

-- Chris

Following back up on this because we did discover the cause of the
temporary failures.  Apparently one of the database indices was corrupt.
It was a simple fix.

-- Chris

Geert Stappers <stappers@stappers.nl> writes:

> On Mon, Jan 29, 2024 at 10:53:04AM -0800, Chris Brannon wrote:
>> So I'm trying to add a webhook to notify me when somebody makes a push
>> to a repo of mine.  As far as I can tell, I need to use the legacy API
>> to do that.  I couldn't figure a way to do it with the hut CLI for
>> instance.  I went and created a legacy oauth token, and then tried
>> sending my request to add a webhook:
>> 
>> ```python
>> import requests
>> u = 'https://git.selfhosted.instance/api/~cmb/repos/my-cool-repo/webhooks'
>> headers = {'Authorization': 'token ' + a_32byte_hexstring}
>

So I'm trying to add a webhook to notify me when somebody makes a push
to a repo of mine.  As far as I can tell, I need to use the legacy API
to do that.  I couldn't figure a way to do it with the hut CLI for
instance.  I went and created a legacy oauth token, and then tried
sending my request to add a webhook:

```python
import requests
u = 'https://git.selfhosted.instance/api/~cmb/repos/my-cool-repo/webhooks'
headers = {'Authorization': 'token ' + a_32byte_hexstring}
requests.post(u, params=dict(
    url='https://the-brannons.com/cgi-bin/cmb-webhook?type=git',
    events='["repo:post-update"]'), headers=h)
```

joneworlds@mailbox.org writes:

> What is the best way to use elpher to get the text of a gopher menu or
> file, in an elisp program?  I do this thing where I do elpher-go,
> sit-for a bunch of seconds, and then elpher-view-raw.  It was the best
> I could figure out, but I wonder if there's a better way.

I don't have an answer, but I was wondering the same thing the other
day.  Ideally emacs's built-in url package should be extended to
retrieve gopher and gemini URIs, I think.  I wonder if emacs's url
package has any mechanisms to allow third-party libraries to add new URI handlers.

-- Chris

I would love to get my hands on one of these.  My computing needs are
probably even more minimal than yours.  I don't have a need for graphics
or video or any of that, because I'm blind.  The fact that you can get a
serial console through a micro USB port is a bonus, since boot processes
are so notoriously inaccessible.

-- 
Chris Brannon
Founder: Blind and Low Vision Unix Users Group (https://blvuug.org/).
Personal website: (https://the-brannons.com/)
Chat: IRC: teiresias on libera.chat and OFTC, XMPP: chris@chat.number89.net

Great article.  Cryptocurrency has been on my list of things that should
be eliminated *by any means necessary* for some time now.
Drew, do you have any thoughts about the best way to go about
eliminating cryptocurrency and NFT?

I have an old wallet.dat with a small fraction of a BTC in it.  It
probably has a password that I have long since lost or forgotten.  I'm
surprised I haven't ran rm on it yet.

-- Chris

"Sam Whited" <sam@samwhited.com> writes:

> If by "failed" you mean "Google Talk doesn't use it anymore", fine, it
> failed, but otherwise it seems to be succeeding quite well.

I've been using it with bitlbee for 15 years or so.  I'm one of the "pry
my IRC client from my cold dead fingers" types.  I don't see any
problem with XMPP and wish it would get wider adoption.

I think Google Talk may even still support it but in non-federated
mode.  I don't know anymore; I stopped using it last year when they
started blocking my attempts to sign in with bitlbee.  Facebook
Messenger used to use it, and they ditched it completely.  The megacorps
ditched it when they decided they didn't need interoperability for their