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Vivekanandan KS

(vivek)Dec 5

@itsfoss
Text Files in NixOS

#nix #nixos #declarative #os #textfile

DimaLink Jul 9, 2025

Frozen Arctic Station – snow and helicopter

https://dimalinkeng.blogspot.com/2025/07/frozen-arctic-station-snow-and.html

#retrogame #quest #textbased #textfile #readtext #1980s #eighties #retrocomputers #msdos #8bit #qb64 #retroprogramming #storyline #frozen #cold #monsters #bmovie #sciencestation #scifi #sciencefiction #snow #blizzard #incident #arctic #snowdesert #unknown

Nine Internet Solutions AG May 21, 2024

What are the technical details of our Prometheus monitoring solution? 🤔 What are the different sources of the corresponding metrics? 🤷 And how does the ‘Node Textfile Collector’ work as a flexible solution for creating simple metrics? 🧐 Dirk answered all these questions in a blog article. ✅ You can find all the details and the full blog article here: https://www.nine.ch/en/blog/prometheus-textfile-collectors 🔗👈 #prometheus #textfile #collector #blog #nine

Prometheus Textfile Collectors

Nagios becomes Prometheus. Read more about the technical details of implementing our new monitoring system.

beSpacific Feb 15, 2024

The #textfile that runs the #internet. For decades, #robotstxt governed the behavior of #webcrawlers. But as unscrupulous #AI companies seek out more and more #data, the basic social contract of the web is falling apart. https://www.theverge.com/24067997/robots-txt-ai-text-file-web-crawlers-spiders #enshittification

The text file that runs the internet

For decades, a humble text file governed the behavior of web scrapers. But as the AI industry grows, the social contract of robots.txt is falling apart.

The Verge

N.A. Ferrell Jun 13, 2023

I noticed that crawlers sometimes look for an ads.txt file on The New Leaf Journal. I felt bad about them finding our 404 page instead of the information they were seeking. Not wanting to leave their bot hearts unfulfilled, I remedied the issue.

https://thenewleafjournal.com/ads.txt

#wordpress #textfile #ads

Khurram Wadee ✅Mar 14, 2023

Another reason to hate #Microsoft. I took data from a colleague’s #Powerpoint slide to put into a #LaTeX document. When I processed my file I kept getting errors and I couldn’t see anything with #Emacs that was wrong with the file. It turns out that the original file contained a #zero-width #Unicode character which I couldn’t see! The solution was to use od -c | less to spot anything untoward in my #TeX source #TextFile.

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Ben Greenberg Dec 28, 2022

Well, that actually worked!... almost. #IFTTT did poll my #RSS feed and did save a #TextFile to #Dropbox. It didn't publish to my blog as intended, but that's (hopefully) just a matter of refining the IFTTT #applet. The turning point was figuring out that I had to set up Mastodon to allow IFTTT as an application. I learned how to do this via this blog post by @KelsonV /cc @tawalker @DedraWolff https://hyperborea.org/journal/2017/12/mastodon-ifttt/

How to Post to Mastodon From Anything Using IFTTT - K-Squared Ramblings

Update March 2023: If you want to cross-post from something supported by brid.gy, I recommend using that service since it’s a lot simpler to set up. But if you want to pull from an RSS/Atom feed, or anything else that brid.gy doesn’t support, or customize features like post visibility, this will let you connect just […]

K-Squared Ramblings

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Ben Greenberg Dec 26, 2022

@tawalker @DedraWolff FWIW I'm trying to do something similar--so far unsuccessfully. I created an #IFTTT applet that checks my #RSS feed for new posts with a particular hashtag and then saves the post content as a #textfile in #DropBox. In theory the text file would then publish to my blot.im #blog. But in practice the #applet is not polling my feed :/