LibreCalc and python for the win! I just love from bs4 import BeautifulSoup, import json, import re, import urllib.request.

I asked Claude 3.5 Haiku to write me a quine in COBOL in the bs2000 dialect. Claude does now that creating a perfect quine in COBOL is challenging due to the need to represent the self-referential nature of the code. After a few suggestions Claude restated its first draft, without proper BS2000 incantations, without a perform statement, and without any self-referential redefines. It's a lot of work. I stopped caring and moved on.

For those who wonder: https://sourceforge.net/p/gnucobol/discussion/lounge/thread/495d8008/ has an example.

Colour me unimpressed. I dread the day when they force the use of 'AI' on us at work.

gargle@p14:~$ cat /etc/debian_version 
13.4

I wrote a script to facilitate reporting the issues. You may find it at https://codeberg.org/gargle/check-friendica. Documentation is included.

Sat 19 Jul 17:15:35 CEST 2025 : 504 : 504 Gateway Time-out The server didn't respond in time. @[email protected]

Sun 20 Jul 07:46:41 CEST 2025 : 504 : 504 Gateway Time-out The server didn't respond in time. @[email protected]

Mon 21 Jul 15:03:13 CEST 2025 : 504 : 504 Gateway Time-out The server didn't respond in time. @[email protected]

Tue Jul 22 07:45:11 CEST 2025 : 504 : 504 Gateway Time-out The server didn't respond in time. @[email protected]

Wed Jul 23 09:06:20 CEST 2025 : 504 : 504 Gateway Time-out The server didn't respond in time.

Interesting! My script still reports "Wed 23 Jul 19:11:06 CEST 2025 : 504 : 504 Gateway Time-out The server didn't respond in time" but my browser does render all friendica.world pages. It's very slow though. My script queries api/statuses/public_timeline. If I change to api/externalprofile/show I get a 200 instead of a 504. I'll keep my script on api/statuses/public_timeline however..

Thu Jul 24 09:07:51 CEST 2025 : 504 : 504 Gateway Time-out The server didn't respond in time.

https://friendica.world/network initially gave a 504 Gateway Time-out in my webbrowser. https://friendica.world/profile/gargle works, and https://friendica.world/profile/gargle/conversations too. https://friendica.world/network (latest creation, latest post, and latest activity) work as well now. Tested at 9:15 CEST.

Tested again in my webbrowser at 9:30 CEST: https://friendica.world/network: 504 Gateway Time-out.

Fri 25 Jul 09:27:31 CEST 2025 : 504 : 504 Gateway Time-out The server didn't respond in time.

Sat 26 Jul 20:00:51 CEST 2025 : 504 : 504 Gateway Time-out The server didn't respond in time.

Sun 27 Jul 09:13:06 CEST 2025 : 504 : 504 Gateway Time-out The server didn't respond in time.

Mon Jul 28 11:20:33 CEST 2025 : 504 : 504 Gateway Time-out The server didn't respond in time.

https://friendica.world/network gives a 504 Gateway Time-out in my webbrowser every first attempt of the day. The second attempt however seems to work most of the last few days. My script always complains. 504 Gateway Time-out still appears in the webbrowser, but it's usable.

Tue Jul 29 08:45:19 CEST 2025 : 504 : 504 Gateway Time-out The server didn't respond in time.

https://friendica.world/network worked on first try today the 29th of July. It appears a bit slow, but usable.

Tue Jul 29 19:49:22 CEST 2025 : 503 : 503 Service Unavailable No server is available to handle this request.

Tue Jul 29 19:51:35 CEST 2025 : 504 : 504 Gateway Time-out The server didn't respond in time.

Thu 31 Jul 10:47:55 CEST 2025 : 504 : 504 Gateway Time-out The server didn't respond in time.

Thu Jul 31 21:56:11 CEST 2025 : 504 : 504 Gateway Time-out The server didn't respond in time.

https://friendica.world/network gave 504 Gateway Time-out in my webbrowser all day. https://friendica.world/profile/gargle gave a 504 Gateway Time-out in my webbrowser too. https://friendica.world/contacts shows the contacts, but the style sheet seems missing. Tested at 21:57 CEST.

Fri Aug 1 09:57:15 CEST 2025 : 504 : 504 Gateway Time-out The server didn't respond in time.

https://friendica.world/network worked first time in the browser today at 9:58 CEST.

Sat 2 Aug 10:01:35 CEST 2025 : 504 : 504 Gateway Time-out The server didn't respond in time.

https://friendica.world/network gave 504 Gateway Time-out in my webbrowser on the first try. https://friendica.world/profile/gargle worked right away in my webbrowser. https://friendica.world/contacts shows the contacts with proper style sheets, tested at 10:05 CEST. https://friendica.world/network in the webbrowser works too.

Sun 3 Aug 19:17:38 CEST 2025 : 504 : 504 Gateway Time-out The server didn't respond in time.

https://friendica.world/network gives a timeout at 19:33 CEST today Sunday the 3rd of August. https://friendica.world/profile/gargle/profile appears quick. https://friendica.world/contacts gave a 'Not Found' (Request: 688f9d89dc017). A second attempt at https://friendica.world/contact worked.

Tue Aug 5 09:18:19 CEST 2025 : 504 : 504 Gateway Time-out The server didn't respond in time.

Friendica.world is down again. I read @[email protected]'s explanation yesterday. I hope they figure it out.

I'm using friendica.world more since the 6th of July. My first login on the 6th failed. Since then I haven't experienced any trouble logging in. Everything is usable since the 7th and performance is a lot better. I'll report back whenever I experience trouble.

This is good to know, thanks for posting this!

https://friendica.world/network worked first time in the browser on the 1st of August at 9:58 CEST. My script however goes for the api, and https://friendica.world/api/statuses/public_timeline reported trouble that day. The 2nd of August https://friendica.world/network gave trouble in the browser.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ek6JUyOBMH8

What about emacs' eww?

For the record, I experienced the same behaviour yesterday the 14th of July, but it didn't take long. I tried again 5 minutes later and friendica.world was back. Today, it took way longer. 9:38 CET friendica.world is back it seems.

18 July, 09:42 CEST: 504 Gateway Time-out. The server didn’t respond in time. @[email protected]

19 July, 11:21 CEST: 504 Gateway Time-out. The server didn’t respond in time. @[email protected]

15th of July, 8:24 CET, 504 Gateway Time-out. The server didn't respond in time.

Thanks for all the work you're putting into this! Did you see https://lemmy.world/post/33265623/18360512? Some things do work, like https://friendica.world/profile/gargle/profile. My script however queries https://friendica.world/api/statuses/public_timeline with my user and password.