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    Today in #FreeSoftwareAdvent it's pandoc(1).I author most of my prose in raw HTML (something I've done since the 90s, stemming from my appreciation of WordPerfect's "Reveal Codes" functionality), or occasionally I'll use Markdown. It's nice to just hand the file off to pandoc and get some other format (PDF, Word, RTF, plaintext, whatever).Is the output flashy? Not really. Is it what I would get if I hand-crafted the desired output document? No. But does it let me lazily do conversions with basically zero effort? Yep!
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    Today in #FreeSoftwareAdvent #newsraft #RSS ```git clone https://codeberg.org/newsraft/newsraftcd newsraftsudo apt install libcurlpp-dev libgumbo-devmake && sudo make install````1 minute later (without parallelization on a 8yo cpu), you have built a complete RSS reader.You can even get Gemini feeds (gemget needed though).ex:$(gemget -sq https://geminiprotocol.net/news/atom.xml) "GeminiProtocol main feed"Thank you Grigory Kirillov!
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    Today in #FreeSoftwareAdvent it's lynx(1). Which is amusing because it's been scheduled for today on my calendar since the beginning of the month, but @neil chose to share links(1) today as well, for many of the same reasons. 😆It's been around for decades—I used it to browse gopherspace (and maybe WAIS?) in the 90s via a 1200 baud dial-up connection to a shell account and later the nascent WWW when it arrived.Sadly, ClownFlare, Google, and anti-AI-bot/scraper tech has made many formerly-accessible-with-lynx sites now inaccessible, some blocking by User-Agent, some blocking due to the lack of JavaScript support.But it has the right amount of usability and friction, so I can use it from my command-line-only writer-deck netbook to do a little research or read some HTML documentation, without getting sucked into the modern web.My custom configuration puts it in Advanced mode (no help-bar at the bottom), specifies vi-key-bindings, a custom color-scheme, uses links-and-form-fields-are-numbered making it easy to jump to them, and text-fields-require-activation so I don't get stuck in text input boxes when using j/k to scroll up/down in the document.I also have a couple shell wrapper-functions to invoke lynx on particular URLs (Wikipedia, dictionary/thesaurus/rhyming resources, web search, etc) with the CLI arguments filled in.I also have mutt configured to show text/html messages in lynx (either using `lynx -dump` and the internal pager, or using `m` from the attachments menu to view it interactively)
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    Today's #FreeSoftwareAdvent is all about XMPP.Snikket (https://snikket.org/) is an easy-to-install, and easy-to-administer, XMPP server. It is designed for families and other small groups. The apps for Android and iOS (based on Conversations, I think) are great.Dino (https://dino.im/) is my desktop XMPP client of choice.Profanity (https://profanity-im.github.io/) is a terminal / console XMPP client, which is incredibly convenient.Why not have a fun festive project of setting up an XMPP-based chat server for you and your family and friends?#XMPP #FOSS #SelfHosting