prawnsalad

hi, and goodbye

The past few weeks has not been fun on IRC, the drama based on false information and assumptions has been insane. I've almost entirely been silent on the drama because I know the fallout that would happen if I spoke up.

A quick TLDR - I'm quitting all IRC development. KiwiIRC project lead, IRCv3 technical board, supporting the multitude of IRC networks, the lot.

Many people seem to think that I am supporting one side in everything that is going on, so just to be clear: I am not supporting any side of the current freenode drama - there is so much false information going around from everywhere that it is impossible to support anybody.

Woo freenode drama

q3k

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0708 b'%s'
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0c40 b'BN_bin2bn\x00'
06d0 b'BN_bn2bin\x00'
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hubgit

Anonymising PDFs

PDF metadata

Metadata in PDF files can be stored in at least two places:

• the Info Dictionary, a limited set of key/value pairs
• XMP packets, which contain RDF statements expressed as XML

PDF files

PeterGrecian

AWS Costs Cheatsheet

• USD per year.
• Yearly cost is so much easier to understand than hourly.
• Costs which are charged by the event (usually per million) are more easily understood as the cost of one event per second sustained for a year.
• The always free allowances are significant: Lambda is 24 requests per minute or 9, 1GB processes per minute whichever is reached first.

Compute and DB per year

hay

# Converts a JSONL file generated with telegram-history-dump (1) to CSV
# Usage: python telegram-csv.py <path to json file> <path to output csv file>
# Example: python telegram-csv.py Bob.json Bob.csv
# 1: https://github.com/tvdstaaij/telegram-history-dump
from datetime import datetime
import unicodecsv as csv
import json, sys

def get_isodate(msg):
    date = msg.get("date", None)

ShadowJonathan

from mastodon import Mastodon

# Create an application, and fill in these parameters with that.
# You should at least have the following permissions;
#  - read
#  - admin:read
#  - admin:read:accounts
#  - admin:write
#  - admin:write:accounts
mastodon = Mastodon(

gnremy

hartsick

A guide for friends considering Mastodon

A lot of my friends have recently been considering leaving Twitter for other networks, and many are considering Mastodon. There are many guides floating about that can tell you about Mastodon and the Fediverse, which is really exciting! It can be overwhelming to sort through them all, though, and honestly I haven't read them since I know my way around.

So, this is the blog version of me sitting down with a friend explaining what I know about Mastodon and how I'd recommend approaching setting up an account there for the first time and getting oriented.

What's in this:

1. What is the Fediverse / Mastodon?
2. Why would I want to join?
3. Where do I start?

eloquence

General

• Wikimedia Code Review - Gerrit, our code review tool and Git repository
• Wikimedia Git Repository Browser using Gitblit
• Wikimedia on GitHub - GitHub mirror of all our Git repos, if you like that kind of thing
• Getting started with Git/Gerrit - Get up and running on Git, Gerrit & Wikimedia Labs
• Data hub - freely available datasets to play with, including all Wikimedia project content :-)

Templates/Scripts

lucahammer

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