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Entries from August 20th, 2009

Brainbird’s cleanup maid for laconica

August 20th, 2009 Comments

Well this is a pretty small script written in python to break realtionships in identi.ca, brainbird.co.cc or any other laconi.ca instance by blocking/unblocking users that have been inactive a number of months at discretion of the user.
USAGE:

./maid.py https://instance/api username months [break/ask]

First argument is the laconica instance api url, ie http://identi.ca/api
Your username on that [...]

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Polipo and Adblock Filters for Uzbl

August 20th, 2009 Comments

Well this is a micro post about polipo and how do you setup it with adblock filters. First adblockplus is capable of mangling the rendered hmtl to remove adds and that makes it better to anything we can achieve with polipo, but what we get with polipo filtering it’s good enough at least fo [...]

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Brainbird current features

August 12th, 2009 Comments

Well Brainbird is my own laconica instance where I hack around the code from time to time,
I have added few modifications to the current 0.8.x branch of laconica, you can see them here.
While right now they are exclusive from brainbird there’s nothing stopping anyone to grab my changes and use them as they see fit, [...]

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It’s time, Sygn

August 8th, 2009 Comments

Every now and then I see some sort of professional that’s completely bored about windows, and the entrapment he has been put by all the restricting software vendors; but then when he tries the few, if existing at all, free software tools alternatives for his specific area he realize that the tool is incomplete or [...]

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