Notices by Peter Krefting (nafmo@social.vivaldi.net)

@mroach @lexiconista And "opening and closing quotation marks are always different glyphs". Swedish always uses the same on both sides:

”hej”, or in old texts »hej»

@ai6yr “I am not Hitler”, says man riding an electric swastika.

Since I have a single script using the #Python #cgi module (the rest is C++ using SimpleCGI), I figured that switching to a full framework was overkill. So instead I am rewriting using urllib.parse.parse_qs for the query string and email.parser for the multipart body.

Thanks for all the helpful comments! I found #uwsgi to be very useful for other parts of the code.

@Vivaldi Z/X for back and forward in history, similarly the left+right click and right+left click. I always miss these when using some other browser.

Today is also two years since "the nuget story" where I struggled to get a ten year old and vulnerable #curl version delisted:

https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2023/03/02/the-curl-nuget-story/

@Eelcom indeed! Enjoyed it very much. I also have the #OptimusPrime set, so they will be stood together.

Finished!

#LEGO #Transformers #Bumblebee

What the rest of the world saw.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Staiy/comments/1j0tl1t/die_fsk_18_version_als_die_kameras_im_oval_office

#AI #AgentOrange #OrangeHitler #PresidentBawbag #TangerineShitGibbon

@WWESavant I just wish they dropped it down to two hours again. Fortunately, it is watchable in less than two by fast-forwarding through it.

@georgetakei This is the only paper with the image of the trump printed on it that we ever need: https://www.aliexpress.com/w/wholesale-donald-trump-toilet-paper.html

#TruckFump

You can never go wrong with some #LEGO on a Friday night.

#Transformers #Bumblebee

The plot is absurd. We have to get the MacGuffin. Oh no someone sabotaged our ship. We found another ship but it’s missing one part. Oh no a saboteur. Now let’s track him out in the woods.
#startrek #section31

Watched #StarTrek #Section31 now that it finally dropped on #SkyShowtime.

Well, that's 90 minutes of my life I'm never getting back. Quite horrible, indeed.

Someone needs to get that #OrangeClown out of the White House and into an orange jumpsuit.

#TruckFump

Poor Americans.

#AgentOrange #PresidentBawbag #TangerineShitGibbon

@tartley Common parts: https://repo.bridgetech.tv/btech/dists/noble/vbc-6.5/binary-amd64/btech-ssg_4.1.0_amd64.deb - installs some .cgi files that are very simple, they converted just fine (those versions are not available anywhere yet)

https://repo.bridgetech.tv/btech/dists/noble/vbc-6.5/binary-amd64/btech-vbc_6.5.0.1_amd64.deb - here I am looking to convert the slightly over-engineered "snapshot_upload" script. It has some shenanigans going on combining POST and GET, and confusing POST with PUT.

@tartley We ($DAYJOB) deliver a software package on both embedded and server platforms. We have been using Nginx on the embedded for several years, but were running Apache on RHEL platforms before switching over to Nginx on Ubuntu, mainly to make them as similar as possible, to ease maintenance.

The server platform has two products that can be installed side-by-side, and some of the common parts (routing default URLs to the correct product) was a simple CGI script doing a redirect. That's what I am rewriting, since Nginx doesn't do CGIs.

It's proprietary software, but the CGI scripts are of course readable, being scripts. I'll add links to the packages in a comment to this.

@tartley @jaseg The email module might work, it seems to be able to do some of the things I need.

I'm trying to avoid having too many dependencies that I need to install, that's why I am trying to do this with the minimal set of modules, preferrably doing as much as possible with the standard Python libraries.

If all else fail, I could probably rewrite it into C++ or golang, I have some frameworks available there already for the other parts of the application, but that's a much bigger job.

@tartley @jaseg Yeah, that's basically what I end up doing when docs (or my skills at navigating them) are lacking...

I've found a few pointers on parsing POSTs in uwsgi, but they are all old (pre-2010) and suggesting the use of the very cgi module that has now been removed from Python...

@jaseg That was indeed quite minimal. I struggled with the #uwsgi manual and was unable to find a definition for the application interface, but got some help from

https://dev.to/cwprogram/python-deployment-wsgi-with-uwsgi-d45

I have successfully converted the simple scripts, but I have one more complex one that need to handle POST data (both multipart/form-data, possibly some query parameters in the URI, and a direct binary POST with a file upload). The #cgi package did help me there, but I am struggling to find any documentation on how uwsgi handles that.

#Python