@phenomlab that makes sense

@JAC those speeds are indeed possible over light as a transport medium (if you consider the speed) but I can’t comprehend the distance quoted. If you happen to encounter a solid obstacle, the beam is either absorbed, or deflected meaning the data never arrives.

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@phenomlab I will have to test this out in my virtual environment. I have an Arch KDE Plasma install in virtualbox that I am testing a bunch of things out before I actually wipe the hard drive and install linux. I am currently in the process of copying my Arch test web server over to virtualbox on linux to make sure that it works. This is the virtual server that I test updates on before updating the production server. I can’t remember the error I was getting but I think it had to do with the network device. That was on the virtualbox side. So the cloud storage will be the next thing that I test.

@Madchatthew yes, works well for us.

@phenomlab yes I 100% agree with you!

and BOUM Personally, I don’t hate American companies. I use their products like everyone else, but I think their economic weight is such that they impose their own rules instead of respecting those of the countries where they do business. And here, for once, the DMA is putting the church back in the middle of the village (French Expression).

@phenomlab said in Windows 10 EOL by October 14, 2025: From memory, the commercial edition is RHEL. Yeah the RHEL is the commercial edition. I think I am going to stick with Arch and KDE desktop for that version. It seems like Arch is really versatile and compatible with almost anything. Pair that to the experience that I have had for the server side of things, and the USB boot version I have, it is hard to beat.

@DownPW the ‘js’ code for the banner takes the time from the client, so what it displays really depends on the regional settings for the operating system. I’ve not seen this issue myself but would like to see some examples of screenshots if possible.

Ohh super ^^ Thank you Mark

@DownPW said in "Glass" (shine) effect on Sudonix logo: Perfect with White background theme but much less with black themes backgrounds (we see the edges of the shine effect) Yes, you will need to modify the CSS according. For example, on Sudonix, I use --bs-node-shine: linear-gradient(90deg, rgba(28, 38, 44, 0) 0%, rgba(74, 100, 116, 0.5) 50%, rgba(28, 38, 44, 0) 100%); Essentially, you choose the base background, the shine colour, and then the base background again.

@phenomlab lol it is a great excuse and sometimes a combination of both haha

This is certainly an interesting article I read this morning. https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cjewvpkw7weo Whilst appealing from the unlimited solar power perspective, the main issues I can see are as I’ve highlighted below Do we really need more space junk? Think of all the abandoned satellites that are simply floating around in space because the cost of returning them is too high. Any critical failure in these data centres would probably mean a very costly repair mission. It takes data transmitted from earth to space around 1.5 seconds to arrive. Whilst this is not an issue for backups or longer term storage, real time applicatons and services would not work properly such as voice, video etc. And who mans this infrastructure?

Updated, but still a privacy nightmare https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cj3xjrj7v78o

@phenomlab some good savings there Mark. I’ll post mine once my new deal changes over.

@phenomlab said in 50 years of Microsoft: NetBUI Netbeeuuuui in french Happy birtdead

At work, we are transitioning from NodeBB for our Knowledge Base to Halo ITSM, which we require for SOC2 compliance amongst other things. Because I had 165 articles in NodeBB I didn’t want to have to re-type, or even copy and paste, I decided to write a Python script to walk the target category and create a file for each. Here’s the script to complete that. There are a number of prerequisities here, which I’ve identified below import os import re import time import requests import html2text from datetime import datetime # --- CONFIGURATION --- # Your Forum URL goes here BASE_URL = "https:/yourforum.com" #The category ID you want to target goes here CATEGORY_ID = 3 # In my case, I needed to define a new "home" for the exported files under `/public/uploads` as this contained all the images I needed to embed into the new flat files. Therefore, ASSET_DOMAIN is nothing more than a basic website where I can grab the images from afterwards. ASSET_DOMAIN = "https://assetlocation.com" # The below directories are created at the same level as the script. If they do not exist, you need to create them. They will contain both `HTML` and `markdown` copies of the posts. HTML_DIR = "nodebb_export_html" MD_DIR = "nodebb_export_markdown" os.makedirs(HTML_DIR, exist_ok=True) os.makedirs(MD_DIR, exist_ok=True) h = html2text.HTML2Text() h.ignore_links = False h.body_width = 0 page = 1 total_exported = 0 print(f"🔄 Starting export for category {CATEGORY_ID} from {BASE_URL}") while True: print(f"📄 Fetching page {page}...") url = f"{BASE_URL}/api/category/{CATEGORY_ID}?page={page}" res = requests.get(url, timeout=10) if res.status_code != 200: print(f"❌ Failed to fetch page {page}: {res.status_code}") break data = res.json() topics = data.get("topics", []) if not topics: print("✅ No more topics found. Export complete.") break for topic in topics: tid = topic['tid'] title = topic['title'] print(f"→ Exporting topic {tid}: {title}") topic_url = f"{BASE_URL}/api/topic/{tid}" topic_res = requests.get(topic_url, timeout=10) if topic_res.status_code != 200: print(f"⚠️ Failed to fetch topic {tid}") continue topic_data = topic_res.json() posts = topic_data.get("posts", []) tags = topic_data.get("topic", {}).get("tags", []) tag_list = ", ".join(tags) if tags else "" safe_title = title.replace(' ', '_').replace('/', '-') html_file = f"{HTML_DIR}/{tid}-{safe_title}.html" md_file = f"{MD_DIR}/{tid}-{safe_title}.md" # --- HTML EXPORT --- with open(html_file, "w", encoding="utf-8") as f_html: f_html.write(f"<html><head><title>{title}</title></head><body>\n") f_html.write(f"<h1>{title}</h1>\n") if tag_list: f_html.write(f"<p><strong>Tags:</strong> {tag_list}</p>\n") for post in posts: username = post['user']['username'] content_html = post['content'] timestamp = datetime.utcfromtimestamp(post['timestamp'] / 1000).strftime('%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S UTC') pid = post['pid'] # Rewrite asset paths in HTML content_html = re.sub( r'src=["\'](/assets/uploads/files/.*?)["\']', rf'src="{ASSET_DOMAIN}\1"', content_html ) content_html = re.sub( r'href=["\'](/assets/uploads/files/.*?)["\']', rf'href="{ASSET_DOMAIN}\1"', content_html ) f_html.write(f"<div class='post'>\n") f_html.write(f"<h3><strong>Original Author: {username}</strong></h3>\n") f_html.write(f"<p><em>Posted on: {timestamp} &nbsp;|&nbsp; Post ID: {pid}</em></p>\n") f_html.write(f"{content_html}\n") f_html.write("<hr/>\n</div>\n") f_html.write("</body></html>\n") # --- MARKDOWN EXPORT --- with open(md_file, "w", encoding="utf-8") as f_md: # Metadata block f_md.write(f"<!-- FAQLists: Knowledge Base -->\n") if tag_list: f_md.write(f"<!-- Tags: {tag_list} -->\n") f_md.write("\n") f_md.write(f"# {title}\n\n") for post in posts: username = post['user']['username'] content_html = post['content'] timestamp = datetime.utcfromtimestamp(post['timestamp'] / 1000).strftime('%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S UTC') pid = post['pid'] # Convert HTML to Markdown content_md = h.handle(content_html).strip() # Rewrite asset paths content_md = re.sub( r'(!\[.*?\])\((/assets/uploads/files/.*?)\)', rf'\1({ASSET_DOMAIN}\2)', content_md ) content_md = re.sub( r'(\[.*?\])\((/assets/uploads/files/.*?)\)', rf'\1({ASSET_DOMAIN}\2)', content_md ) f_md.write(f"**Original Author: {username}**\n\n") f_md.write(f"_Posted on: {timestamp} | Post ID: {pid}_\n\n") f_md.write(f"{content_md}\n\n---\n\n") total_exported += 1 print(f"✔ Saved: {html_file} & {md_file}") page += 1 time.sleep(1) print(f"\n🎉 Done! Exported {total_exported} topics to '{HTML_DIR}' and '{MD_DIR}'") Run the script using python scriptname.py. If the script fails, it’s likely because you do not have the required modules installed in Python import os import re import time import requests import html2text In this case, you’d need to install them using (for example) pip install html2text To get them into an Excel file where they can all be bulk imported, we’d then use something like the below script import os import re import pandas as pd from datetime import datetime import markdown # --- CONFIGURATION --- export_dir = "nodebb_export_markdown" output_file = "Halo_KB_Import_HTML.xlsx" # This value can be whatever suits your needs created_by = "Import" today = datetime.today().strftime('%Y-%m-%d') # --- BUILD DATAFRAME FOR HALO --- import_rows = [] for filename in sorted(os.listdir(export_dir)): if filename.endswith(".md"): filepath = os.path.join(export_dir, filename) with open(filepath, "r", encoding="utf-8") as f: lines = f.readlines() # Default values # Change "Knowledge Base" to reflect what you are using in Halo faqlists = "Knowledge Base" tags = "" # Parse metadata comments from top of file metadata_lines = [] while lines and lines[0].startswith("<!--"): metadata_lines.append(lines.pop(0).strip()) for line in metadata_lines: faq_match = re.match(r"<!-- FAQLists:\s*(.*?)\s*-->", line) tag_match = re.match(r"<!-- Tags:\s*(.*?)\s*-->", line) if faq_match: faqlists = faq_match.group(1) if tag_match: tags = tag_match.group(1) markdown_content = ''.join(lines) html_content = markdown.markdown(markdown_content) # Extract summary from filename summary = filename.split('-', 1)[1].rsplit('.md', 1)[0].replace('_', ' ') import_rows.append({ "Summary": summary, "Details": html_content, "Resolution": "", "DateAdded": today, "CreatedBy": created_by, "FAQLists": faqlists, "Tags": tags }) # --- EXPORT TO EXCEL --- df = pd.DataFrame(import_rows) df.to_excel(output_file, index=False) print(f"✅ Done! Halo HTML import file created: {output_file}") This then generates a file called Halo_KB_Import_HTML.xlsx which you can then use to import each exported post into Halo. Cool eh? Huge time saver

@phenomlab said in Ex GCHQ employee risk to national security: I can’t believe also that security is so lax that someone without adequate clearance can waltz into a restricted area and take what they want. Yeah I can’t believe that either. It is crazy

@Madchatthew You have a good point about the server needing to be rebooted - specifically after a kernel update, and this is something I’ve noticed on increasing occasions with Ubuntu.

@Madchatthew Sounds very positive indeed.