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layout: '../../../layouts/Layout.astro'
date: '2024-04-02T21:53:26.128Z'
title: 'April 2024'
author: 'The exozyme community'
description: "An April Fools' Day puzzle, Plasma 6 bugs, and a crawler for novels"
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---
## April Fools' Day puzzle
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On April Fools' Day, the exozyme homepage was completely blank. Or was it? The puzzle is no longer up on that homepage, but you can still find it [here](https://blank.exozy.me). Good luck! The solution will be posted next month.
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## Over-Engineered Novel Crawler
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[In this post](https://www.1a-insec.net/blog/45-explore/), @iacore talks about a prototype novel crawler built with PicoLisp to, as the name suggests, extract information on novel websites. What makes it different from other novel crawlers is that it comes with a task-agnostic planner. You can find the source code in its [codeberg repo](https://codeberg.org/iacore/c.noveler4/).
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## Plasma 6 fingerprint bug
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KDE Plasma 6 was finally released, but unfortunately nothing is perfect and it had some bugs, being one of them a fingerprint issue on the login screen. [In this post](https://a.exozy.me/posts/plasma-6-fingerprint-bug), @a describes how to solve the problem after some trial and error and by exploring some obscure features of systemd.
## RSS Combine
exozyme has an RSS aggregator to merge members' feeds together into one stream that can be subscribed to (find it at [feeds.exozy.me](https://feeds.exozy.me)). However, the software being used was less than ideal. It would break often, run slowly, and spit out extremely large feeds. This necessitated a rewrite. Ersei found a project that was written in Go and 90% of the way there to what exozyme needed, [forked it](https://git.sr.ht/~fd/rsscombine), and deployed it onto exozyme. Some growing pains later, the exozyme members' feeds are now more reliable!
## _Yeah, I Skate(board)_
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Ersei describes their fractional-life-long experience of skateboarding.
Commentary by @iacore
As a sociologist, it is refreshing to see someone describe their suffering with so many flavours ("many" as in >=4). The article definitely taught me some life lessions, but I cannot figure out which are the lessions. Read the article to find out yourself.
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## Origami puzzle solutions
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See [this post](https://a.exozy.me/posts/april-fools-day-puzzle/#solution-the-origami-puzzle) by @a for the solutions to last month's puzzle.
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## Discuss
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If you want to discuss anything of this issue, feel free to join our [Matrix space](https://matrix.to/#/#exozyme:exozy.me) and chat with our community!