"Bugs, Mr. Rico. Zillions of em!" Hughes, p. 248; reporting on…
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"Bugs, Mr. Rico. Zillions of em!"
- Hughes, p. 248; reporting on a bug assault to LT Juan Rico on Planet P.
"Bugs, Mr. Rico. Zillions of em!"
- Hughes, p. 248; reporting on a bug assault to LT Juan Rico on Planet P.
Some links of personal accounts across the Internet 😎
A direct link too.
this is "Opening Day": finally decided to open fully featured shell accounts' registration on WPN: woodpeckersnest.space/eu for friends.
Who are friends then? Since IRL friends have zero interest in this, my friends are people I know and respect over the Internet, in particular - but not limited to - the XMPP network. They are mostly Italian and English speaking folks, since those are the only 2 languages I know..
This is a first-time experience for me, so give me a few days (a week maybe) to "adjust" and set account(s) up.
If you feel lucky, click the title of this post and apply now! 😏
Continuing from the previous article..
Today while trying to install yet another plugin (Calendar this time), I had a lil incident and destroyed everything 😃
Some hours later I restored a backup and we're up again. BUT! In the process I discovered some SQL errors which I believe were there since a lot ago, always gone unseen.
To make a long story short, I had to disable the standard "Personal Address Book" for everyone, because it was impossible to save any contact in there anyway.. And we are now relying on CardDAV, which is way better.
At one point I had the Calendar plugin working too, alongside CardDAV, but I had (wrongfully) installed it as a local one, so no sync to the cloud with CalDAV; it was later that I tried the CalDAV way by changing the config and shit got me.
Now I asked the people of libera.chat about the plugin, to see if it really supports any CalDAV implementation or not - and then I'll try again :) Feel free to check it out and leave a comment if you know better than me..
https://git.kolab.org/diffusion/RPK/browse/master/plugins/calendar/
and here's the configuration: https://git.kolab.org/diffusion/RPK/browse/master/plugins/calendar/config.inc.php.dist$28
I believe I'm done for today tho.. Looked like a full day's job. Ooh, yes.. Was already forgetting. I also updated the services blob in my website with all the new stuff.
Hello o/
Just completed a new software installment for the "woodpeckers" webmail, powered by roundcube. It's a plugin to manage CardDAV address books, so you can import them in your web contacts; I've tested it with "Radicale Cal/CardDAV" server and the import to roundcube was fast and easy peasy; hopefully it'll be the same for every other compatible server 😎
https://webmail.woodpeckersnest.space/
Yeah, that was all for your local news! Until next.
$ uptime
03:54:18 up 34 days, 8:19, 4 users, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00
$ free -m
total used free shared buff/cache available
Mem: 877 503 159 8 377 374
Swap: 499 87 412
$ df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
udev 428M 0 428M 0% /dev
tmpfs 88M 8.4M 80M 10% /run
/dev/vda1 9.7G 2.8G 6.6G 30% /
tmpfs 439M 0 439M 0% /dev/shm
tmpfs 5.0M 0 5.0M 0% /run/lock
/dev/vda15 124M 12M 113M 10% /boot/efi
tmpfs 88M 0 88M 0% /run/user/1000
$ ip -s link
2: ens6: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc fq_codel state UP mode DEFAULT group default qlen 1000
RX: bytes packets errors dropped missed mcast
1444308867 14871375 0 32828 0 0
TX: bytes packets errors dropped carrier collsns
18414348377 21921709 0 0 0 0
$ curl https://chatmail.woodpeckersnest.space/metrics
accounts 83 1719367201634
The etckeeper program is a tool to let /etc be stored in a git, mercurial, brz or darcs repository. It hooks into APT to automatically commit changes made to /etc during package upgrades. It tracks file metadata that version control systems do not normally support, but that is important for /etc, such as the permissions of /etc/shadow. It's quite modular and configurable, while also being simple to use if you understand the basics of working with version control.
https://packages.debian.org/stable/etckeeper
root@pandora:/etc# git log --oneline mumble-server.ini
c1e2238 daily autocommit
2e66cf6 daily autocommit
76fd073 daily autocommit
baaff1c saving uncommitted changes in /etc prior to apt run
9980c10 daily autocommit
830fa84 daily autocommit
0cc8fd9 saving uncommitted changes in /etc prior to apt run
4e7b545 saving uncommitted changes in /etc prior to apt run
20d692a daily autocommit
c05a405 saving uncommitted changes in /etc prior to apt run
3a00635 daily autocommit
62e0e1c Initial commit
root@pandora:/etc# git diff c1e2238 2e66cf6 mumble-server.ini
diff --git a/mumble-server.ini b/mumble-server.ini
index 3332154..d91f520 100644
--- a/mumble-server.ini
+++ b/mumble-server.ini
@@ -236,8 +236,8 @@ logdays=5
; If you only wish to give your "Root" channel a custom name, then only
; uncomment the 'registerName' parameter.
;
-registerName=SpaceNest
-registerPassword=sekret
+registerName=SpaceNest[EN/IT]
+registerPassword=newsekret
registerUrl=https://woodpeckersnest.space/
registerHostname=voice.woodpeckersnest.space
registerLocation=IT
Hello, do you remember about Slixfeed? Talked about that here a while ago.
Schimon, the bot's author, chose woodpeckersnest.space
to host a new home for it and I was am very happy about that 😀
More to that, he also decided to move Slixfeed's source repository from "gitgud.io" to the Italian XMPP-IT Community GIT server - even if we're not sure everything will be migrated (WIP). Oh, I also want to mention the other XMPP-related projects which Schimon also moved to our community server, which you should check out!
Thanks Schimon for trusting us with your work. Keep it up!
Now, links!
Finally, I would like to remember you that the XMPP-IT Git server is not open to registrations, but if you want an account there to post your work (we only accept XMPP-related stuff!), you can request an account to one of the XMPP-IT admins or by sending an email to "admin [at] xmpp-it [dot] net" with desired username; we'll use that email address of yours to register the account and will set a password for you, to be changed at first login.
Thanks, bye 😀
After some failed attempt at this, I think I found the right way to "mount" a remote WebDAV folder under Windows' Explorer.
Initially my baby steps took me here: https://note.woodpeckersnest.space/share/0TJT81fgI8Jy
After following that tutorial I didn't succeed, so I investigated further. I can say that everythig looks correct until you get to point 9.
The address they tell you have to enter isn't correct in my experience and they aren't even using https for the URL. What worked for me was instead something like:
\\webdav.woodpeckersnest.space@SSL\folder
You have to input the network-path-stile address which is common in Windows, as in: double backslash, FQDN of your WebDAV server, "@SSL" and then the path (folder) where you have access to files in your WebDAV server, with a backslash preceding it.
That's it, a prompt will ask for username and password and then a new Network Path (WebFolder) will be connected in Explorer, just below your local drives.
You can then browse, copy, upload, delete (and so on) whatever content you like.
EDIT: Just found out I couldn't rename files/folders from Windows or Total Commander (Android)
Fixed by setting nginx virtualhost like this:
server {
listen 443 ssl http2;
listen [::]:443 ssl http2;
server_name webdav.woodpeckersnest.space;
# HTTPS configuration
ssl_certificate /etc/letsencrypt/live/webdav.woodpeckersnest.space/fullchain.pem;
ssl_certificate_key /etc/letsencrypt/live/webdav.woodpeckersnest.space/privkey.pem;
access_log /var/log/nginx/webdav/access.log;
error_log /var/log/nginx/webdav/error.log;
location / {
set $destination $http_destination;
if ($destination ~* ^https(.+)$) {
set $destination http$1;
}
proxy_set_header Destination $destination;
proxy_set_header X-Real-IP $remote_addr;
proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-For $proxy_add_x_forwarded_for;
proxy_set_header Host $host;
proxy_pass http://127.0.0.1:17062/;
proxy_http_version 1.1;
proxy_set_header Upgrade $http_upgrade;
proxy_set_header Connection "upgrade";
}
client_max_body_size 0;
}
Now I'm quite happy 😀
Me and friends on xmpp:lozibaldone@conference.xmpp-it.net?join had a discussion about big attachments in Thunderbird and one person ("idice"), which I thank, suggested to use (long forgotten by me) Thunderbird's "filelink" functionality.
filelink lets you upload your big attachments to the cloud and send a link to download them, to your email contact. For it to work, you have to download an extension for Thunderbird and choose a cloud instance.
There are a few in the community, ranging from Dropbox, to Nectcloud and webdav. I chose webdav, because I already have a docker container with a running instance.
The tricky part in setting the extension up and working with my server was to have a private and a public URLs: you have credentials for webdav, so the private one is easily accomplished, while I had never thought about having a public site to share stuff without authentication; and in the end it was really straightforward.
What I did was basically: mount a volume in docker where I want to publish stuff to be shared. So at first when uploading I'm asked for credentials and everything just works.. files go to the volume.
Then, to have people access those files, I simlinked (ln -s
) the docker volume dir to a path under my main site's virtualhost in nginx. Like:
My site is in /var/www/html/
, so I changed dir to that location and:
ln -s /path/to/public-docker-volume/ public
Now I have a /public/
dir in my website with all the files that I publish in webdav and since index is off in nginx, you can't just browse it - you have to know the exact file name to access it.
And that's it.
Now for the Thunderbird setup, I'll show a few shots. For starters, this is the extension I used: https://addons.thunderbird.net/it/thunderbird/addon/filelink-provider-for-webdav/
This is the "attachments" settings in Thunderbird, the only place where you configure the extension:
As you can see it asks for a private and a public URLs, as explained before.
When you compose a new message, go to the attachments menu as always and you'll find a new item, called Filelink - WebDAV:
Click it and select your attachment from disk. It will ask for a username and password (those you set up for webdav in docker) and will begin uploading the file.
Then you'll see the message being populated like this:
It says:
I have linked 1 file to this email:
mibunny.png
Size: 408 KB
Link: the link
If you keep uploading files, the number in the first row will be automatically incremented and there will be another file section with new info about it.
And.. we're done!? 😀
If you got any question, leave a comment down below.