Notices by hosh (hosh@hub.vikshepa.com), page 20
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hosh (hosh@hub.vikshepa.com)'s status on Friday, 24-Aug-2018 19:35:26 EDT 
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"So has my life been a failure?"
First, this isn't a matter for somebody else to decide, right?
And it also isn't something objective. All of these roles depend upon our human myth-making, as Yuval Noah Harari might say.
So it all depends upon one's personal evaluation. Usually during life the value that we attach to things changes, so that what we once held in high regard we may later see as bearing little value. But not always. So the question is whether you still judge yourself by the yardstick of these "important" roles in society and regret not filling one of them. Obviously you couldn't fill all of them and there is possibly some contradiction between them, so that if you'd become the pres. of National Geographic, you might still regret not becoming a cardinal. But maybe you eventually discovered that you all along had a different swadharma and fulfilled it very nicely.
From the age of 16 I was influenced by Lao Tse: his maxims like "One who excels in traveling leaves no wheel tracks", and his council "not to honor men of worth". But that's me. I don't want to lay my trip on you. It's up to you to decide, according to your own measure. -
hosh (hosh@hub.vikshepa.com)'s status on Friday, 24-Aug-2018 14:59:06 EDT
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I was thinking again: if this feature of adding a channel source (and then "resending posts as author") could really be usable as a hack for adding a blog (through its RSS/Atom feed), then it might be possible to modify the file responsible so that it doesn't only add future posts. -
hosh (hosh@hub.vikshepa.com)'s status on Friday, 24-Aug-2018 14:11:22 EDT
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@M. Dent Okay - so that's not a shortcut to importing an existing blog. Any other ideas to import a blog to either the articles module or the regular channel feed? Another thing I tried was to export the content from the channel that has the RSS feed from my blog, then import that content into my normal channel. But nothing gets imported in that case. Update: that anyway actually wouldn't achieve much, as it wouldn't give the imported blog content the same identity as the channel. My head hurts. It seems like the only way to import a blog is to have a dedicated script, such as Mike described. -
hosh (hosh@hub.vikshepa.com)'s status on Friday, 24-Aug-2018 12:59:15 EDT
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@h.ear.t | tobias I gave your suggestion or idea a try. I created a new channel, added the rss feed for my blog to the channel. It imported everything. However, then I had difficulty adding the new channel as a channel source (settings/Channel Sources) for my regular channel. First of all, it refused to recognize the channel at all, unless I added the channel as a normal connection. After creating connections between/friending the channels i was then able to add the channel as a channel source. I added a category ("blog-post") and checked the box for "Resend posts with this channel as author". Under Channel Sources, the other channel is shown as a "new source" for the normal channel. So it looks OK, but isn't: no content gets sourced. Nothing is added. I thought it might be a permissions thing, so gave the channel with the blog posts the most generous permissions. But this has no effect. -
hosh (hosh@hub.vikshepa.com)'s status on Thursday, 23-Aug-2018 07:49:23 EDT
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https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2018/aug/22/our-memories-have-vanished-the-palestinian-theatre-destroyed-in-a-bomb-strike -
hosh (hosh@hub.vikshepa.com)'s status on Thursday, 23-Aug-2018 02:07:19 EDT
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@Jens (public) Yes, I mentioned having read what Sean Tilley had written above - just didn't add the relevant link. Thanks. I don't see that he carried through with anything so far, but I'm sure he'll do some nice work on this once he turns his hand to it. There's another approach to all this that I'm exploring in parallel - that of the indie web. The advantage there is that it relies upon one's own web site as the basis of identity across multiple networks. I like that idea. However it depends on many modifications or plugins and the sum total may be clunkier than what hubzilla can achieve natively. Also, they haven't as yet managed to achieve federation with gnu social, friendika, pleroma and maybe other instances. -
hosh (hosh@hub.vikshepa.com)'s status on Wednesday, 22-Aug-2018 16:41:55 EDT
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@Brian Ó 🐟 @🛫 Brad Koehn 🛬 you may be reading too much into this -
hosh (hosh@hub.vikshepa.com)'s status on Wednesday, 22-Aug-2018 07:34:01 EDT
hosh
Things I've had confiscated:
tiny scissors from a travel first aid kit
safety pins from a travel first aid kit (another time)
fireworks! (kids purchased them unknown to us)
On the customs side I once paid a $50 fine for smuggling an apple into the US (served to us on the plane) -
hosh (hosh@hub.vikshepa.com)'s status on Wednesday, 22-Aug-2018 02:36:09 EDT
hosh
@Jens (public) What I was meaning was simply to be able to list articles by date, category, etc. on the article page. I see that it lists categories by default (see https://hub.vikshepa.com/articles/hosh) Under the advanced page layout editor, under settings, display settings, content settings, I went to "articles" and tried to add an archive widget. So far unsuccessfully (it doesn't influence the display of the articles). I still need to read through the Comanche help article to see if there are any pointers there. -
hosh (hosh@hub.vikshepa.com)'s status on Wednesday, 22-Aug-2018 02:06:10 EDT
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@Hyp☀️li🌷e Pet🌸van (he/him) This site looks like a good resource (for the whole of the US): Community networks map -
hosh (hosh@hub.vikshepa.com)'s status on Tuesday, 21-Aug-2018 23:59:39 EDT
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@h.ear.t | tobias I understand what you are saying. That would be adding it to the regular timeline and not to the articles module. But that isn't necessarily bad. I was thinking that another way to tackle the differentiation of blog posts from regular statuses would be to create a category like "blog" and then either create a menu item for that category page, or, for example, create a listing of these on the profile page.
Ideally, there would be in the repositories a script similar to the one that Mike used to import his blog. Especially now that there is a dedicated articles module into which a blog can be integrated. Maybe if it were capable of handling rss or atom feeds, it would not need to be specific to WordPress, but could handle imports from other blogs that have a feed. -
hosh (hosh@hub.vikshepa.com)'s status on Tuesday, 21-Aug-2018 15:57:02 EDT
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@silverwizard my 5 year old granddaughter was sitting at my desk and apparently found the emoji button! -
hosh (hosh@hub.vikshepa.com)'s status on Tuesday, 21-Aug-2018 15:49:27 EDT
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@Sean Tilley I think that stopped being possible a few versions ago, no? -
hosh (hosh@hub.vikshepa.com)'s status on Tuesday, 21-Aug-2018 15:44:42 EDT
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@Dr Fatboy hmmm - interesting. It wasn't me who added those smileys. Either my 5 year old granddaughter or I've been hacked. -
hosh (hosh@hub.vikshepa.com)'s status on Tuesday, 21-Aug-2018 05:45:51 EDT
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- I had partial success only with the hubzilla wp plugin: can cross-post from hubzilla to my blog, but not in the other direction..
- I've been thinking that instead of using hubzilla's articles module, it would also be possible to use a hubzilla category like "blog" in order to create custom category pages, which one could probably include, for example, on the profile page. It's possible to use the summaries tag in ordinary status posts, though not a custom name for appearance in permalinks.
- indeweb.org has a slew of tools and plugins that enable one to convert an ordinary blog into a 2-way system for communicating with a part of the fediverse. So theoretically, it would possible to simply use one's blog and not establish a separate presence on a social network. I have experimented with these and so far didn't manage to connect to my website from hubzilla. I was trying with the "bridgy" system.
- I usually aim for simplicity; using one tool for a number of different uses, even at the expense of using crude hacks. But I may end up continuing to use my blog's wp installation alongside hubzilla. The presentation of articles looks better on the blog, whereas hubzilla does the networking thing better. Clever people or those with lots of time on their hands can often get nicer results and indieweb.org website has a couple of nice examples, but my own solutions generally don't look quite as elegant.
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hosh (hosh@hub.vikshepa.com)'s status on Tuesday, 21-Aug-2018 00:36:21 EDT
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The "related stories" sections on news sites are kind of ridiculous. Read about all the disasters anywhere over the last 10 years in one place. -
hosh (hosh@hub.vikshepa.com)'s status on Monday, 20-Aug-2018 17:33:58 EDT
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Will have a look, because I loved Sita Sings the Blues and one or two other things that she's done. -
hosh (hosh@hub.vikshepa.com)'s status on Monday, 20-Aug-2018 17:11:34 EDT
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Erkan Yilmaz and others were voicing these opinions even back in the heyday of GnuSocial. I haven't been keeping up with Matt Lee's thinking, but he's right that we shouldn't be relying on smaller silos that are actually worse, from the point of view of usability and sustained identity, than the ones they are trying to replace. He doesn't mention here that Hubzilla's Zot solves some of the problems, in that identities can be maintained and sustained in a much more reliable way.
It's sad that people with interesting things to say get sidetracked or discouraged from running their own website or blog, exchanging a solid web identity for something a whole lot poorer. RSS is still a perfectly usable gel for maintaining readership of a lot of disparate unconnected websites. I think maybe this is what he means about that. -
hosh (hosh@hub.vikshepa.com)'s status on Monday, 20-Aug-2018 03:10:11 EDT
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duly received by a faithful follower on hubzilla -
hosh (hosh@hub.vikshepa.com)'s status on Monday, 20-Aug-2018 01:24:38 EDT
hosh
Thanks again. I found out (accidentally) that we can at least import someone else's blog, even without a script, when I added the RSS feed of Christopher Webber's blog. I was expecting it to add just recent or future articles as would a feed aggregator, but it's added 11 years, so far. And presumably back-dated these blog posts as my archives widget has accrued a few more years. As of now, I still can't read the articles but I suppose when my system has managed to digest it all, I 'll be able to read them.
What I learn from this is that If the articles module had the ability to import an RSS feed in the same way, we would have a way to import blogs.
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