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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'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
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    Today it's awk(1)I use it almost daily—from simple column-extraction (specifying column separators and mashing together various columns feels easier with awk than with sort(1)), to summing and running totals, to aggregating counts of data, to reformatting text, etc…so many little uses pop up.It's available on every POSIX platform making it easy to write cross-platform utilities without having to install additional run-times like Python/Ruby/Node and the heavy dependencies that come with them.I've even written cgi-bin/ scripts in awk, allowing dynamic data processing on my stock OpenBSD systems with httpd+SlowCGI without non-stock software in the chroot.https://blog.thechases.com/categories/awk/#FreeSoftwareAdvent
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    Kicking off #FreeSoftwareAdvent (thanks, @neil), I'll open with remind(1)While it took several articles and a couple attempts before I switched over to using it, once you taste the power of what it can do, it's hard to go back to less-capable calendaring tools.While the classic "garbage day is on Thursday unless there was a holiday earlier in the week, in which case it moves back to Friday" scenario is a nice little demo of its power, one of the best examples from my daily use is the kids' school calendars:• the teen has an A/B schedule which doesn't mesh nicely with calendar days, week-days, etc• similarly, our elementary-age kiddo has a 4-day cycle schedule for her "specials" classBut remind's nonomitted() function makes quick work of both of those, taking into consideration weekends, the school holidays, and using PUSH/POP directives for high-school testing days that impact his A/B schedule but not her 4-day cycle. I've never encountered another calendar that handled all the edge-cases with so little effort.It's a little rocky interchanging with other calendars (you have to use rem2ics to create .ics files to share, and pulling in others' iCal is non-trivial and doesn't seem to maintain the fidelity of remote events).But otherwise, this runs a great deal of my life schedule.