Oddmuse and the EU
I have started working on a plan for Oddmuse regarding the EU Data Protection Directive, today. You can read about it on the Oddmuse Wiki.The basic idea is that I want to get rid of IP numbers as far...
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I think I’m going to unsubscribe from all the blogs that don’t provide full articles in their feed. If they do that, I need to click through and open a browser. That makes me think people want to show...
View ArticlePrivacy Policies
I’ve been writing some privacy policy statements...this site: Privacy PolicyOddmuse Wiki Privacy StatementEmacs Wiki Privacy StatementI will need a few more: Community Wiki, Campaign Wiki, etc. But...
View ArticleAway from GitHub
Microsoft is buying GitHub. Mastodon is abuzz with discussions. Let’s remind ourselves of Embrace, extend, and extinguish, the phrase used internally by Microsoft to describe its strategy for entering...
View ArticlePaginated Feeds
Recently, @jamey was talking about feed pagination (RFC 5005). I finally got around to adding the necessary code to Oddmuse and deploy it for all my sites. So if you check out Recent Changes and click...
View ArticleCro as a Service?
I ran Oddmuse 6 for a while now from a little shell script. It set up the environment variables, it checked whether the process was already running, it used nohup to run perl6 service.p6, it saved the...
View ArticleMonit and Oddmuse 6
I noticed that my Monit setup for Oddmuse 6 isn’t working.check process oddmuse6 with pidfile /home/alex/oddmuse6/pid start program = "/home/alex/bin/oddmuse6" as uid alex gid alex restart program =...
View ArticleUsing a Mastodon Bot
Perhaps if I had a dedicated bot acting on behalf of the blog, like a newsbot. It toots what I post on the blog, and it posts any replies it gets as comments to the blog. Hm. 🤔I’ll have to think about...
View ArticleThinking about the real RSS 3.0
I’m still sad about RSS 2.0 and Atom. Why didn’t we go the other way? Aaron Swartz had the right ideas and called it RSS 3.0! He was so ahead of his time.Follow those links and read it. The...
View ArticlePingback
@Halfjack mentioned pingback and I realised that Brock had contributed a Pingback Server Extension to Oddmuse back in 2004. I decided to take another look because I’m unhappy with how the Automatic...
View ArticleActivityPub and Oddmuse?
I wonder whether I should write an extension to a basic ActivityPub server for Oddmuse. What would it do? Allow people to comment? And it would also allow people to delete their comments? And offer a...
View ArticleTrying to add ActivityPub to Oddmuse
OK, so I want to add ActivityPub to my wiki. I started the endeavour by looking at the blog post How to implement a basic ActivityPub server as it uses static files to get started.My goals:be able to...
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Oddmuse 6 memory use
I have a Munin module that runs ps -eo rss,command | grep $prog for various regular expressions.Well, actually I sum it all up so I run this:ps -eo rss,command | gawk ' BEGIN { total = "U"; } # U =...
View ArticleWhat about Oddmuse?
Yeah. What about Oddmuse? Am I going to reinvent everything and implement in Raku (i.e. Perl 6) – or do I keep working on what we currently use and stick with Perl (i.e. Perl 5)?There’s the question of...
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View ArticleReduced Site Functionality
I somehow managed to introduce a bug into this site’s configuration. It manifests as one of processes serving the site eating all the CPU resources. Every day there seems to be about zero to three of...
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