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DC Member Programs and Projects / dehexify: Converts %FF-like hexadecimal characters to ASCII

« on: March 05, 2020, 03:23 AM »

Useful for JSON transfer analysis. Enjoy.

(Update: Smaller binary.)

Source code: https://code.rosaelefanten.org/dehexify

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Living Room / Who‘s on Usenet?

« on: January 07, 2020, 05:29 PM »

Among my to-be-finished pieces of software, there is a sane Usenet client for Windows. Does anyone here feel the urge to have it ready for NANY 2021 or can I safely postpone it?

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General Software Discussion / 30 Years of Pegasus Mail [1] ...

« on: January 06, 2020, 08:03 PM »

... and the versions 5 of both the Mercury Mail server and the Pegasus Mail client, having been postponed since 2006, are around the corner now [2] - this time for real!

[1] http://www.pmail.com/30years.htm
[2] http://www.pmail.com/devnews.htm

Ahh, modern times. :)

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N.A.N.Y. 2020 / NANY 2020: repost: birdcries

« on: December 24, 2019, 02:37 PM »

Originally posted in August:
https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=48528

NANY 2020 Entry Information

Application Name	birdcries
Short Description	View tweets with privacy - and without bullshit.
Web Page	https://birdcries.net/
Download Link	https://code.rosaelefanten.org/birdcries
System Requirements	Server: Perl 5, CPAN and a number of modules listed in the README behind the download link. Client: Any web browser should do.
Author	me

Description
Replace twitter.com in any Twitter status link by birdcries.net to get a less shitty read-only view of the tweet which is faster and will respect your privacy!

Screenshots
See this example tweet.

Known Issues

birdcries cannot display videos, pictures et cetera, nor will it load discussions. If you need a "full-featured" alternative tweet view, I can recommend nitter instead.
Protected tweets will spawn an error message. Sorry.

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N.A.N.Y. 2020 / NANY 2020: repost: Unping all the links!

« on: December 24, 2019, 02:31 PM »

(Your NANY template still says 2019...)

Originally posted in April:
https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=47540