Hi all,
In the spirit of this list's rejuvenation, I thought I'd share a fun
project I did recently with ~team.
For context: I use a flip-phone (it's much less distracting than a
smartphone), so I cannot use an app or browser to check the weather when
getting dressed every morning. And I can't call NOAA to get the weather
because the dial-a-forecast number for my state is out of service.
So, I made a script that texts me the weather and made a cronjob to run
that every morning. The script was surprisingly simple:
#!/bin/sh
WEATHER="/tmp/$(uuidgen)"
curl --silent https://wttr.in/<LOCATION>.png?1Fqn > "$WEATHER"
mutt -a "$WEATHER" -- 8005551234(a)mms-gateway.example
rm "$WEATHER"
I used wttr.in here because its api is increadibly simple (it's
literally the same thing as its UI). This does mean, though, that I had
to send it as an image because wttr returns formatted text that wraps
horrible.
Many cell providers have an email to SMS/MMS gateway, so it was really
easy to send a text; it should be easy to find this via a search engine.
I also used mutt here instead of something POSIXly correct to make
attachments simpler — this is just a hack, after all.
Cheers,
--
DJ Chase (~u9000)
They, Them, Theirs
hey ~teammates,
if you're new to the team and haven't heard about the freebsd server
that we maintain for ~team users.
it's somewhat barebones, but has web- and mailservers that are up and
running, ready to serve php and static files from ~/public_html.
this is the process that i use to migrate user accounts:
https://gist.github.com/benharri/2a515dbde2dfdf3294dffe7b1be56e67
~/.ssh/authorized_keys is copied over from tilde.team proper, meaning
you can ssh to bsd.tilde.team with the same keys that you use here.
there's also an inspircd node running there for the tilde.chat network,
so you can connect to localhost/6667 there as well.
i plan on using this list as a place to post updates and other info.
holler here if you need anything or have any package requests etc.
~ben
Howdy teammates!
I've set up a Web Key Directory for folks that have a key for their
@tilde.team email address.
See the repo for info:
https://tildegit.org/team/site/src/branch/master/.well-known/openpgpkey
Once you add your key here, it can be found with any gpg tool, for example:
gpg --locate-key ben(a)tilde.team
Feel free to mail me a patch or submit a pull request if you would like
to add your key.
Cheers and stay safe out there,
~ben
Howdy tilde.team,
If you didn't see this in #team last night. Check it out.
https://tilde.team/~ben/ring/
Rings work best, the more people are on them. If a lump of wasabi can
do it, I bet you can as well.
Thanks again to Ben for making this.
Russ
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Dr. WaSaBi
