Software: WriteFreely, LibreOffice, and More
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Extremely minimal blogging with WriteFreely: Dissociated Press
WriteFreely is a “distraction free” blogging platform that people can follow on Mastodon, Pleroma or other ActivityPub services.
It’s written in Go, and consists of a single binary that you can run alone or with a MySQL backend. (Uses SQLite if you don’t opt for MySQL, which is probably just fine for a single-user setup.)
If you just want to test it out, you can set it up and start playing with it in just a few minutes. I slapped the binary on a test server and spun it up in single user configuration in less than five minutes.
Configuring for multiple users and blogs might be a bit more complicated, but I suspect you could set up an instance for multiple users and all the trimmings (like encryption with Let’s Encrypt and OAuth for authentication), in a few hours if you’ve got experience with such things already. A little longer if you’re new to system administration.
You can also opt to sign up for an inexpensive WriteFreely account or even multi-user hosting with your own domain.
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LibreOffice Base can connect to an external Firebird server
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Inertia scaling in Democracy 4 (new feature) - Cliffski’s Blog
So the big question is… how long does it take for politics and society to convert someone from being hard right to hard left, or liberal to conservative? I have no definitive answer, but its a long time. Democracy 4 limits all inertia to a maximum value of 32, for technical reasons, which is 8 years. probably not long enough…
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PowerDNS Recursor 4.5.12, 4.6.5 and 4.7.4 Released | PowerDNS Blog
Today we have released a maintenance release of PowerDNS Recursor 4.5.12, 4.6.5 and 4.7.4, containing fixes for a few minor issues. In particular, RPZ IXFRs now time out if the server becomes unresponsive. For more details on the other fixes, consult the changelogs available at 4.5.12, 4.6.5, 4.7.4.
The source tarballs (4.5.12, 4.6.5, 4.7.4) and signatures (4.5.12, 4.6.5, 4.7.4) are available from our download server. Packages for various distributions are available from our repository.
Note that PowerDNS Recursor 4.4.x and older releases are End of Life. Consult the EOL policy for more details.