Richard Stallman's Personal Site

Re:Richard Stallman's Personal Site by simonswords82 on Sunday June 05, 2016 @02:33PM (#11842354)

The source code is very straightforward too. Commented out sections of the website with dated reminders to uncomment them. I guess he must look at his source code frequently enough that these reminders work?

Very simple but effective mechanical turk I guess?

e.g.

   <!--  Enable just after Thanksgiving thru Jan 6 -->
   <!--
   <center><h3>
   It's the Grav-Mass season!<br>  <a href="/grav-mass.html">Grav-Mass</a>
   is the celebration of physical laws. <br>December 25<br>
   Isaac Newton's birthday.<br>  &iexcl;Feliz Gravidad!
   </h3>
   <a href="./grav-mass.png"><img src="./grav-mass-icon.png" alt="A Grav-Mass tree"></a>
   </center>
   -->

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Re:Richard Stallman's Personal Site by gexcolo on Sunday June 05, 2016 @02:59PM (#11842470)

If memory serves me correctly, RMS doesn't actually manage his own website. He has a number of volunteers that help update the website and post political notes. Those notes are likely a message from him to his volunteers, or the volunteers reminding themselves.

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Re:Richard Stallman's Personal Site by sotojuan on Sunday June 05, 2016 @03:15PM (#11842561)

Source is in the fifth and sixth bullets of this page:

https://www.stallman.org/stallman-computing.html

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Re:Richard Stallman's Personal Site by jcvernaleo on Tuesday June 07, 2016 @09:02AM (#11854141)

RMS does edit things sometimes but most of the editing comes from the volunteers. That particular note is both for and by me.

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Re:Richard Stallman's Personal Site by tamana on Sunday June 05, 2016 @03:40PM (#11842710)

If he doesn't have a script that can update the website using those date notes, he is dishonoring his Unix heritage

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Re:Richard Stallman's Personal Site by jcvernaleo on Tuesday June 07, 2016 @09:02AM (#11854148)

That particular bit isn't scripted (I just haven't gotten around to write a script for it) but a bunch of other things are the site are done with perl scripts.

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