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Running akkoma/plermora in docker in WSL

Sat Nov 19 17:55:44 UTC 2022

This isn't an exhaustive how-to, just a list of some of the complications I ran into. I'm running the standard Ubuntu 20.04 WSL image from the Microsoft store, I think.

• Install the docker compose plugin. Whatever "docker-compose" is in ubuntu, it's not updatable and it doesn't work.
• I followed these instructions for installing akkoma with docker but I had to replace every docker-compose with docker compose (space instead of dash)
• I used afraid.org for free DNS and pointed it at my home IP address. You might have to do stuff with the firewall rules on your cable modem.
• I opened port 443 in Windows Defender Firewall.
• Very important: the date/time in WSL has to be correct, otherwise federation doesn't work. I had to install ntpdate and force an update.
• I changed the config so that registrations are not open. I don't need people signing up on this instance, which is running on my laptop, and which essentially shuts down when I close my laptop lid (which I do when I'm not using it).

If I remember any other work-arounds I had to do I will add them to this page.

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tilde.club mailing list

Thu Sep 26 15:32:56 MDT 2019

I'm really enjoying the tilde.club e-mail list. It's exactly the speed of social media that I can handle anymore.

Though I am extremely out of practice when it comes to writing e-mails. To think that I used to write entire paragraphs at a time and now I have to work to string a few sentences together.

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tilde ressurection

Wed Sep 18 11:28:46 MDT 2019

Tilde club is suddenly ressurected. It's great. A lot (A LOT) has changed since the last time I posted in 2015. Both the WWW and the Earth are deader.

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Remember the 90s?

Fri May 29 17:00:53 UTC 2015

I'm losing the battle against nostalgia today... making myself sick.

Remember when the WWW was young and there were still open SMTP relays out there?

Remember when 500MB was a lot?

Remember when people would record that night's episode of ER on a VCR?

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@tilde_fortune twitter bot

Mon Oct 13 15:51:02 UTC 2014

In the end it was too easy to set this up. THANKS UNIX. I was planning to have to learn (more) python and choose a python Twitter library etc but in the end I just used TTYtter.pl called from a shell script. I even got to use TR(1) to strip newlines, woo-hoo!

So the bot is made up of:

• TTYtter.pl in my ~/bin directory
• shortfortune, a shell script that does this:

  fortune -n 140 -s

• tweet_fortune, a shell script that does this:

  shortfortune | tr '\n' ' ' | TTYtter.pl > /dev/null 2>&1

• a cron job that runs tweet_fortune every 20 minutes

It's a demonstration of the power of the Unix Philosophy of small well-defined tools that can be joined together easily.

Tweeting fortunes is fun but I'm thinking about creating a better source of tweets:

• Tweetable quotes about tilde.club from articles about it?
• Tweetable quots from pages on tilde.club, with links to the pages
• User-submitted (anonymized) bash.org style quotes from IRC/Wall?