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Sat 15 November 2025

This is the first post in the Daily Notes category, where I collect things that I found interesting, but didn't want to write a full blog post about.

❤️‍🩹 Content Note: The following text mentions transmisia, Trumpism, and right-wing media.

Today: static site hosting — Róisín Murphy's TERFism & a browser extension — WebDAV — CLI-based playing & downloading of streaming music — unlocking multiple disk encryptions simultaneously — mixing colors in CSS — Jimmy Wales walking out of an interview

  • Grebedoc, by whitequark, is "a service that publishes the pages branch in your Git repository as a website on your domain; think GitHub Pages if it was open source and community operated". Basically, it's a free, hosted version of git-pages. It's been created for use with Codeberg, but should work with any Git forge that can trigger a webhook. In contrast to Codeberg Pages, which is contacting the source repo for every HTTP request, Grebedoc updates its copy of the repo every time you hit the webhook, and then serves it from "Rage4 anycast infrastructure routing to VPSes in six regions (Europe, North America East, North America West, South America, East Asia, Australia), with site contents stored on Tigris".
  • Them's Mathew Rodriguez talks about how Róisín Murphy has made transphobic comments in the past, and joined the "199 Days Later march" this November, calling upon the UK government "to adhere to the Supreme Court's ruling on Single Sex Spaces", a ruling that claims "that the terms 'man', 'woman', and 'sex' in the [Equality Act 2010] were 'always intended' to refer to 'biological sex' and not 'certificated sex'". In other words, the woman who once sang in Moloko is a TERF. I hate it.
  • Related: Shinigami Eyes is an (apparently unmaintained) browser extension "that highlights transphobic and trans-friendly social network pages and users with different colors". Seems like there's been a lot of infighting about it.
  • WebDAV Isn't Dead Yet, by feld, talks about using Apache Web Server for read/write file storage with LDAP integration.
  • Julien Maupetit's Onzr (pronounced like the French onze heure) is a Python CLI tool to search Deezer's streaming music catalog and play songs. Nathan Thomas's streamrip on the other hand will download music from Deezer, Qobuz, Tidal, or SoundCloud.
  • decrypt_keyctl is a passphrase caching script by Michael Gebetsroither, to be used in /etc/crypttab in Debian-based distributions. If you have multiple drives sharing the same passphrase (e.g. some kind of RAID), it allows you to unlock all drives at boot without having to enter the passphrase repeatedly. The script uses Linux's in-kernel key management facility and the keyctl command, automatically forgetting the passphrase 60 seconds after you've entered it.
  • color-mix is a CSS function that allows you to mix two colors. This can be used for example to add transparency to a CSS variable.

  • Jimmy Wales got interviewed by Jung & Naiv – for 50 seconds. During his introduction, after being asked repeatedly about whether he's founder or co-founder of Wikipedia – an old controversy, which Wales claims to "not care" about – he left the studio. Jung & Naiv, a Germany-based YouTube channel doing political interviews, is known for sometimes being unconventional and inquisitive to the point of being annoying.

    Edit: However, YouTuber and science communicator Hank Green recontextualizes this (13 min, via Merovius): Wales's reaction is most likely not one about ego or fame, but about his co-founder Larry Sanger in particular.

    Sanger is an outspoken critic of Wikipedia, calling it not trustworthy and claiming that its contributors have a left-leaning bias. He's also a Christian and is complaining about "pornography" on Wikimedia commons, as well as the criticism in the article about Donald Trump:

    You might approve of Wikipedia describing Trump’s incorrect statements as “false,” very well; but then you must admit that you no longer support a policy of neutrality on Wikipedia.

    Of course, words like these make you popular in right-wing circles, with him being interviewed by Tucker Carlson, Fox, UnHerd, etc., as "co-founder says Wikipedia is woke and untrustworthy" is a great headline when you're trying to undermine truth, neutrality, and consensus.

    So yeah, I can kind of understand how Jimmy Wales might really hate the whole "co-founder" debate right now, since it always has a smell of legitimizing Larry Sanger's opinions, which try to destroy the credibility of Wikipedia.