Paul Sutton – personal blog
Warmux
Warmux is a clone of the turn based artillery game Worms, which was very popular Team17 game from the 90's. This works really well on my set up and is a fun distraction.
Menuscreen showing various options
Ingame screen
Ingame screen
Ingame screen
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#YearOfTheFediverse,#Games,Strategy,#Warmux, #FreeSoftware
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LibreOffice 7.1 released
LibreOffice 7.1 [1] has been released, more improvements and features, better compatibility with MS Office documents. OMG Ubuntu [2] has a run through of the new features.
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1 LibreOffice 2 OMG Ubuntu 3 Free Software Foundation
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#YearOfTheFediverse,#LibreOffice,#Office,#Writer,#Calc,#Base,#Draw,#Math.
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Matrix
Matrix is a communication protocol. You can read a more detailed description here and I have found a video which an introduction below.
The Devon and Cornwall linux user group now have their IRC channel bridged to Matrix, this means that the channel #dcglug can be accessed by anyone who has either an IRC client, Matrix Client or connects to IRC via the web interface for example. This opens up the chat to far more people, which is a good thing.
DCGLUG Matrix channel : #freenode_#dcglug:matrix
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#YearOfTheFediverse,#Matrix,#Decentralised, #communication #Communication.
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The Milky Way vs. Andromeda: When Galaxies Collide
Space Telescope Science Institute Public lectures The Milky Way vs. Andromeda: When Galaxies Collide Tue 2nd Feb 2021
#space,#telescope,#astronomy,#lecture,#public,#online,#talk, #science
Fosdem 21 Reminder
Fosdem 2021 takes place on the weekend of 6th and 7th Feb 2021.
FOSDEM is a free event for software developers to meet, share ideas and collaborate.
Will take place via Jitsi and Matrix
If you sign up to matrix via the link below the you can get access to all the chatrooms during the conference.
I am on there as zleap@zleap:fosdem.org
Social
#conference,#freesoftware,#freedom,#fosdem
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CryptPad 4
A look at some of the features of the Rich Text Editor that comes with the recently released, version 4 of CryptPad.
This is a really nice package, and service, Cryptpad also comes as part of Disroot, which is also linked below. The best feature of course is the privacy.
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#YearOfTheFediverse,#CryptPad,#RichText,#Editor,#Text, Cloud,#Privacy
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LaTeX : Flowcharts
Another useful resource and tutorial from LaTeX Draw for drawing flowcharts.
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#YearOfTheFediverse,#LaTeX,#LaTeXDraw,#Flowchart,#Tutorial
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Ansi Weather
Getting weather information is really useful. What happens if you're at the command line in Linux? I found a really little application that can help
ansiweather
apt install ansiweather
ansiweather -l Plymouth, UK
So what else can we do with this
This is a two step process
Will send the weather info to Mastodon.
However this does not include any date info
We can fix this with
then send the whole lot to Mastodon with
So, if we put this in to a final shell script we need:-
#send weather info to Mastodon
# current date
date > weatherinfo.txt
# current weather
ansiweather -l Plymouth, UK >> weatherinfo.txt
#send to Mastodon
toot post < weatherinfo.txt
# done
echo done
Again released under GPLv3
I tried to get festival to speak the weather, it is not perfect but this sort of works, you will need to direct to weather.txt first.
festival —tts < weather.txt
Looking in to this further, the issue is the brackets etc, so this stackoverflow post
strips out the colour formatting
sed 's/\x1b[[^\x1b]*m//g' weatherinfo.txt
Therefore
sed 's/\x1b[[^\x1b]*m//g' weatherinfo.txt > weatherinfo2.txt
Sends the newly formatted text to weatherinfo2.txt
So running back through festival
festival —tts < weather.txt
Is perhaps a little better, but not perfect
So going back to what we wrote earlier to send to Mastodon, the new script
1 #send weather info to Mastodon
2 # current date
3 date > weatherinfo.txt
4 # current weather
5 ansiweather -l Plymouth, UK >> weatherinfo.txt
6 # clean up output with sed
7 sed 's/\x1b\[[^\x1b]*m//g' weatherinfo.txt > weatherinfo2.txt
8 #send to Mastodon
9 toot post < weatherinfo2.txt
10 # done
11 echo done
Produces much nicer output. The top bottom part of this illustrates what was sent before we stripped out the colour formatting
However it still isn't perfect, as it removes part some of the wording, but it is hopefully getting there.
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#YearOfTheFediverse,#Weather,#Scripting,#Bash,#Linux, #Mastodon,#ProblemSolving,#AnsiWeather,#programming, #Stackoverflow,#sed,#cat,#grep,GPL3,#FSF
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Toot mastodon client
I have been experimenting with the toot mastodon client. This does have a curses interface.
toot curses. (q to quit)
However experimenting with this and bash scripting
So to begin with you will probably need to login
toot login_cli
toot post text here
will send that text to Mastodon (toy
fortune > fortuneout
#
# echo to screen
cat fortuneout
# post content of fortuneout to console
toot post < fortuneout
#
echo "done"
This will run the fortune program, send output to a file then send the output in to toot post.
The next example the script asks for some user input and then sends it to toot post
echo "Please Enter some Text"
read usertext
#
#
# post user input to mastodon
echo $usertext
toot post '$usertext'
#
echo "done"
The potential of the above could allow real time data to be posted to Mastodon for example.
The above scripts are released under GPLv3.
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#YearOfTheFediverse,#toot,#mastodon,#client
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Messenger App Comparison
Further to the post yesterday. This was posted to Mastodon, This comparison has been put together by the Free Software Foundation, India. That compares various Free and Non Free applications. Good to understand why we need to use decentralized, privacy aware tools.
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#YearOfTheFediverse,#Messenger,#app,#comparison
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