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Ever since Cohost closed down I've been thinking on-off that I should maybe set up presence on the Fediverse. Mostly off, though, as I can generally just follow the ppl I know feeds without having an account myself, and if need be send replies through other channels. Recently, however, I've had a couple times where the only method of contact I'd have was fedi or something even worse.

So, partly for that reason, and partly just to get some more experience sysadmining OpenBSD, I've set up a snac2 instance at fedi.nortti.org

Feel free to send a follow and message me there. I probably won't post much, but it is a way that I intend to be reachable.

The studio was intent on promoting its "all-talking" stars, and silent-film personality Rin Tin Tin obviously could not speak.

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I've rebuilt the site using Haunt. If everything goes well, you should see (essentially) no changes.

This will also mean that, hopefully, I'll start posting more often here again.

His music draws inspiration from the work of celebrated modern composers like Dmitri Shostakovich, though he used the Super Mario series as a model of good video game composition.

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GitHub hosts the Expat project. Versions exist for most^[quantify] major^{[citation needed]} operating-systems.

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(I'll post a proper writeup about this later, but here's the quick version)

Nokia 225 4G is an (imo) pretty dissapointing featurephone by HMD Global. Unlike some other Mocor OS-based devices from them, the 225 4G supports web browsing using Opera Mini. It's alright, the usual Opera Mini caveats apply.

However, some time ago I discovered that the 225 4G actually comes with a second, hidden, web browser. Unlike Opera Mini, that one does not proxy all your requests through a server.

Both Opera Mini and the NokiaBrowser support saving pages for offline usage (though, annoyingly, the OS on the 225 4G does not let you start up Opera Mini if you are in offline mode, and NokiaBrowser can be started only from within Opera Mini). Opera Mini uses a bespoke binary format called OBML, but NokiaBrowser uses HTML with just a small header prepended to it. As such, I created some tooling to attach such a header to arbitrary HTML documents.

So, what can you use this for? For one, eBooks. The EPUB format is essentially just (X)HTML files in a ZIP archive.

After extracting the "Compatible epub" of The Count of Monte Cristo, I'm left with a collection of .xhtml files under epub/text. If I mount 225 4G's internal storage on my computer, I can then run:

python encode.py epub/text/chapter-1.xhtml /media/nortti/disk/browser/snapshot/monte-cristo-1.html

When I unmount the phone's storage and open up NokiaBrowser, I now have the first chapter of the book available under Menu → Open → Offline pages.

Looks like I forgot to run zola build after my last post. Really ought to automate this better…