Open Stack

Hi all,
On 03/08/13 03:01, Stefano Maffulli wrote:
> starting today the OpenStack Planet aggregator on
> http://planet.openstack.org will become the main tool for community
> members (individual and companies) to disseminate information about
> OpenStack.

I've been watching this feed for a while, and normally I view this on my
desktop computer, where I've configured Firefox to disable animations on
GIF images.

Today I looked at my aggregated feed on my phone, and discovered that
the images were animated.  (I haven't figured out how to do the same in
Firefox for Android.)  Highly distracting trying to read a page of text
with things bouncing around in one's field of view.

Now I'm not going to start jumping up and down about how pointless posts
containing nothing more than a link to an animated gif are.  Rather, I
just flexed a little coding muscle to filter them out.

So those who are similarly irritated by these animations, I have a
sanitised version of the OpenStack planet available here:

http://portal.redhatters.yi.org/openstack/

and there is an ATOM feed here:
http://portal.redhatters.yi.org/openstack/atom.xml

Right now, the filter script is rather crude:
> $ cat filters/nogifs.py 
> #!/usr/bin/python
> import sys
> import re
> 
> data = sys.stdin.read()
> print re.sub(r'<img[^>]+src=["\'][^"\']+.gif["\'][^>]*>','',data)

I'll expand on this if I feel the need to (i.e. if people start posting
the animations as APNGs, I'll block all <img> tags).  People can always
click on the link headings to get the original posts should they see a
burning desire to see the original post anyway.

The service is hosted on my own personal equipment on my own Internet
service.  I do this more for my own personal use, but I don't mind
sharing it with the community at large.  I doubt I'm the only one that
find GIFs annoying.

Anyways, keep up the good work on OpenStack, I hope to get more into it
into the future... and I hope the above feed is helpful for those who
might want to keep up-to-date without the distractions.

Regards,
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