Thesaurus-Rex

Thesaurus tool that fetches a word's homonyms, synonyms, and antonyms from Thesaurus.com. It's also a dictionary tool that fetches definitions from Webster. It fetches etymology information from etymonline.

Installation

• from PyPI: pip install thesr
• from GitHub: pip install "git+https://github.com/treatmesubj/Thesaurus_Rex"

Usage

python -m thesr.thesr [-h] [--word WORD] [--define] [--etymology] [--antonyms] [--verbose]

Common English phrases & idioms such as toungue-and-cheek or dime-a-dozen sometimes work as well

john@spectre:~
$ python -m thesr.thesr -w purport -v

         _____ _
        |_   _| |
          | | | |__   ___  ___  __ _ _   _ _ __ _   _ ___
          | | | '_ \ / _ \/ __|/ _` | | | | '__| | | / __|
          | | | | | |  __/\__ \ (_| | |_| | |  | |_| \__ \
          |_| |_| |_|\___||___/\__,_|\__,_|_|   \__,_|___/ Rex

[purport!]

---Synonyms-------------------------------------------------------------------
{ noun: meaning, implication } == ['acceptation', 'aim', 'bearing', 'burden', 'connotation', 'core', 'design',
'drift', 'gist', 'heart']
{ verb: assert, mean } == ['imply', 'pose as', 'pretend', 'profess', 'allege', 'betoken', 'claim', 'convey',
'declare', 'denote']
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---Definitions-------------------------------------------------------------------
{ verb: to have the often specious appearance of being, intending, or claiming (something implied or inferred) }
{ verb: claim  }
{ verb: intend, purpose }
{ noun: meaning conveyed, professed, or implied : import }
{ noun: substance, gist }
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---Etymology-------------------------------------------------------------------
purport (n.)
    early 15c., "meaning, tenor, the surface or expressed meaning of a document, etc.; that which is conveyed or
expressed," from Anglo-French purport (late 13c.), Old French porport "contents, tenor," back-formation from
purporter "to contain, convey, carry; intend," from pur- (from Latin pro- "forth;" see pur-) + Old French porter "tocarry," from Latin portare "to carry" (from PIE root *per- (2)  "to lead, pass over"). Meaning "that which is to be done or effected" is from 1650s.
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purport (v.)
    1520s, "indicate, express, set forth, convey to the mind as the meaning or thing intended," from the noun in Englishand from Anglo-French purporter (c. 1300), from Old French purporter "to contain, convey, carry; intend," from pur- (from Latin pro- "forth;" see pur-) + Old French porter "to carry," from Latin portare "to carry" (from PIE root
*per- (2)  "to lead, pass over"). Related: Purported; purporting.
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---Antonyms-------------------------------------------------------------------
{ noun: meaning, implication } =/= ['exterior', 'exteriority', 'insignificance', 'meaninglessness', 'outside',
'surface']
{ verb: assert, mean } =/= ['conceal', 'deny', 'disclaim', 'hide']
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Thesaurus-Rex Web Server

thesr.online

Check out Thesaurus-Rex's Docker (Compose) Kubernetes containerized web experience built with an NGINX hardened reverse proxy & TLS/SSL encryption container in front of a containerized Waitress web server & Flask framework Python application.
It's running on a ufw firewalled Debian virtual machine in the cloud courtesy of Linode.
fail2ban protects the server from bruteforce attacks. Though, RSA asymetric cryptographic public-encrypt-key/private-decrypt-key pairs are used for administration of the host; OpenSSH server's password authentication is disabled.
I bought the thesr.online domain from Hover.
The TLS/SSL cryptographic certificate for the thesr.online domain is validated & signed by the Let's Encrypt open source certificate authority.

The Internet's Spooky

https://thesr.online has been on the internet for about 2 weeks now (5/12/23).
Here's a geo-map of thousands of malicious IP addresses that tried to bruteforce guess my credentials to gain control of my server from just some of the logs.
Also, here's a sample of the latest traffic to my server from the logs, showing probably botnets, trying to extract credentials, upload binary data, and exploit old software vulnerabilities.

Docker Compose -> Kubernetes

I first used Kompose to roughly translate my Docker Compose files to K8s resources.
Then, I used k3s to run a local cluster to develop and test my project.
I learned, asked, and answered some StackOverflow questions about Linux network interfaces and more about Linux DNS resolution configuration.
I used Helm to deploy the workload to my cluster.
My Nginx reverse proxy remains in place as a Deployment mounting the Letsencrypt certifcates via PersistentVolumeClaim and a LoadBalancer service routes external traffic to Nginx.
A CronJob attempts to renew my Letsencrypt certificates every 15 days.

See docker_k8s/README.md for the detailed steps.

Update (02/12/25): Turns out k8s IPv6 needs some extra configuration, so I've removed the IPv6 DNS AAAA record for thesr.online for now.