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I'm surprised no one seems to have mentioned ChatGPT here yet.-daddydave (December 12, 2022, 03:56 PM)
Today, we’ve filed a class-action lawsuit in US federal court in San Francisco, CA on behalf of a proposed class of possibly millions of GitHub users. (...) By training their AI systems on public GitHub repositories (though based on their public statements, possibly much more) we contend that the defendants have violated the legal rights of a vast number of creators who posted code or other work under certain open-source licenses on GitHub.
I am curious to see how this release looks in that regard.-irkregent (October 10, 2022, 07:03 PM)
In case nobody else has noticed, Listary 6 has been released, after a four-year gap.-rjbull (October 10, 2022, 04:55 PM)
| App Name | Nushell |
| App URL | https://www.nushell.sh |
| App Version Reviewed | 0.67.0 |
| Test System Specs | Windows 11 with the Windows Terminal |
| Supported OSes | Linux, macOS, and Windows (officially). |
| Support Methods | Discord and GitHub (no account-free support, it seems). |
| Pricing Scheme | Free software. |
| Reviewer Donation Link |  Give me money! |
| Relationship btwn. Reviewer and Product | None at all. |
| Application Name | zb |
| Version | n/a |
| Short description | a self-contained blog software |
| Supported OSes | all that run rust |
| Web page | https://code.rosaelefanten.org/zb |
| Download link | attached |
| Author | hi. |
this is my approach at creating a self-contained website. the whole site will be embedded as a zip archive right in the server binary file, so it is probably the most portable website you'll ever have.
one of zb's unique features it that it will render html, markdown and org-mode files, so if you prefer to write .org files instead of html, zb has you covered.
motivation
i first saw the concept of single binary websites in ted unangst's blog where he complained that go couldn't do this just as easily, because of its broken support for embedded zip files. as i play with both go and rust every now and then, i thought "how hard could it be to do it in rust?".
quite surprisingly (for me), it wasn't really hard at all.
how do i use this?
you'll need a zip file, containing your website. for the default start page, zb will search for one of the following files in the root path:
1. index.htm
2. index.html
3. index.md
4. index.org
if you prefer to use a different file name, you can pass --defaultpage name.ext when starting the application.
everything else in that zip file can be any file of your choice. relative references between them will work. (if they don't, please file a bug.)
first steps...
- use the attached zb.exe binary or
- install rust, then build zb with cargo:fossil clone https://code.rosaelefanten.org/zb
cd zb
cargo build --release
now, concatenate your zb.exe with your zip file. assuming your zip file is named index.zip:# powershell
cmd /c copy /b .\zb.exe+.\index.zip .\final-site.exe
# cmd
copy /b .\zb.exe+.\index.zip .\final-site.exe
once done ...
run the concatenated binary (in this example, final-site.exe) and your website will be delivered from port 8000. (you can change that: final-site --port 8081 would make it run on port 8081 instead.) from now on, every time you want to update your website, just create a new zip file and repeat the concatenation. (it should be easy to automatize that task.)
automatic converted html routing
it is important to note that the file extensions for .org, .md and html files are optional, so the file stuff/demofile.md can be reached over localhost:8000/stuff/demofile as well.
the search order for all files is:
1. /[path]
2. /[path].md
3. /[path].org
4. /[path].htm
5. /[path].html
)
- just wondering:
yaydl 0.10.0, on the road to 1.0.0:
* New feature: Playlist support for handlers! Might fix issues like #1.
* New site: xHamster. (Uses the new playlist support. Yay!)
* The WebDriver port can be set as an environment variable now to save some typing.
* The progress bar is now cleared after a download is finished.
* cargo will now strip the resulting binary when compiling in release mode.
No shortage of good, privacy oriented Chromium browsers.-Dormouse (April 17, 2022, 04:37 PM)