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I spent Saturday morning setting up a Prosody XMPP server on my home LAN. It wasn't that difficult to set up and configure using the docs available on Prosody's own website. With my phone and laptop logged in the main process used about 50MB. I don't know how much the memory consumption increases as more users are added, but I read somewhere that it uses about 1MB per connected device. The real test would have to come with actual use by a number of users. It definitely seems like something that could be done with a Ramnode VPS and a Let's Encrypt certificate. On Sunday morning, I got the idea that I could write a bash script to dump the links from a web page (LXer.com) as text files into /var/gopher/whatever to mirror the site, which I read on a daily basis. Sadly, I don't know enough to follow the example here[1], so I scoured the internet looking for examples and reading commands, and the result is below. As a proof of concept, it works, but could be improved greatly by adding an automated gophermap creation section and developing some means of removing the page headers, either before or after dumping them to text. You can see the results at gopher://gopher.visiblink.ca ------------------------------------------------------------ #!/bin/bash # To clear the gopher directory (since I'm running the # script daily as a cron job) rm /var/gopher/LXer/* # To get a list of links from the LXer page (I put the # script in /opt/LXer and used that as my working directory) lynx --dump http://lxer.com/module/newswire/mobile.php | awk '/http/{print $2}' | grep http > /opt/LXer/file.txt # To dump the links to text files for i in $( cat /opt/LXer/file.txt ); do lynx --dump -nonumbers -nolist -width 60 $i > /var/gopher/LXer/"${i////_}"; done # To remove any unwanted dumped links (on a more complicated # page with a great number of regular headers this would be a # long list. Definitely not the best way of doing this, but # I'm not sure how to automate the process) rm /var/gopher/LXer/http:__lxer.com_ ------------------------------------------------------------ I left the script lines unwrapped in case anyone ever wants to cut and paste. Other than that, it was a quiet weekend. I drove about an hour to have lunch with my Dad on his birthday. It was an absolutely gorgeous day, clear and cold. Couldn't have asked for a nicer weekend. Now it's back to the grind for another week. [1] https://github.com/julienXX/gophsters