Posts tagged with “BoT”

Night tinkering..

Written by Simone

I am most productive at night, when there is finally silence - apart from background music. The last couple hours of this Wednesday brought some nice additions to the @wpn support MUC:

  • chat is not XMPP only anymore, but it got bridged to Matrix, via "matterbridge".
  • a bot is now sending "BOFH excuses" to the chat, once a day.

XMPP MUC can be reached from: https://invite.woodpeckersnest.space/#status@chat.woodpeckersnest.space?join

Matrix room can be reached from: https://matrix.to/#/#wpn:matrix.org

Bridged chat means that everything being written in any of those rooms, gets relayed to the other by bots: there are in fact 2 bots connected to the 2 rooms, one is an XMPP bot and the other is a Matrix one, operated by "matterbridge", as I said earlier.

About "BOFH excuses", they are some fortune cookies from the relative Linux package, which are all about "Bastard Operators From Hell" excuses.. They are some short funny sentences about IT which an imaginary Operator (sysop, sysadmin, you name it) could say as excuse to justify issues.

Example?

BOFH excuse #266:
All of the packets are empty.

I have the same script running on gemini, at gemini://woodpeckersnest.space/cgi-bin/bofh

Basically it's some python spaghetti which runs the fortune command, does some formatting to the resulting text and sends it over gemini, or in the case of @wpn chat, over webhook to one other bot, which then posts its content to XMPP. It's more complicated to explain than do it 😀

P.S. @wpn support MUC is not publicly listed, so even if I'm posting links which may be used to join it, it should be treated as limited to @wpn users only.

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Slixfeed News Bot Home

Written by Simone

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 😀

Slixfeed RSS XMPP BoT

Written by Simone

Interesting project, features' rich and almost complete. Thanks goes to its main developer Schimon AKA "sch".

Here is the support room