Notices by Terence Eden (edent@mastodon.social)

@simon tried running it on my phone, but looks like I'm stuck in dependency hell.
Perhaps I should ask it what I need to do to fix it? 😆

@simon yup. So far I've manually installed Rust, numpy, and a few other things. Getting closer!

One day there will be a package manager which Just Works™.

@tommorris if I can install it on Android, I'll give it a go!

Celebrity spotting at #FOSDEM!
Can't believe I got to meet the #Plushtodon 😍
(And some other bearded guy who photo-bombed us.)

@Gargron ah, that makes sense. Ta.

Is there a way to stop search engines crawling a site but still let rich previews work?

My robots.txt was:

User-agent: *
Disallow: /

But when I shared a link on Facebook & other sites, it often wouldn't show the OGP image & description even though the metatags are in there.

I want a site which is hidden from search engines, but still shareable on social networks.

Any tips?

Boost if you remember, regret, or resent using "hashbang" URls!

Mastodon enforces a "noreferrer" on all external links.

I have mixed feelings about that.

As a blogger, I want to see *where* visitors are coming from. I also like to see (and sometimes join in) with the conversations they're having.

But, I get that people want privacy and don't want to "leak" where they're visiting from.

Is it such a bad thing to tell a website "I was referred from this specific server"?

Two years later.

Want to know one of the major reasons Mastodon didn't catch on with journalists and large website owners?

It is *invisible* in referrer statistics.

Here's my blog from the last month.

BlueSky now sends me more traffic than Bing.

How much traffic does Mastodon send? It is impossible to know due to the "noreferrer" header in all links.

(I'm not saying your privacy isn't important. But you can't grow a community if no-one knows you exist.)

This #Caturday, I'm remembering Busby - the Dark Terror.

https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2020/11/a-visitation-of-long-gone-cats/

@Gargron ah! The actor, not the WebFinger?
Thanks.

What are the *technical* steps behind moving a Mastodon account?

I understand how to do it from a user perspective (https://docs.joinmastodon.org/user/moving/#move) but what does the new server need to do?

Is it as simple as adding an "aliases" to the webfinger?

#MastodonAPI #ActivityPub

@foone I built one 😄
https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2020/09/a-floppy-disk-mp3-player-using-a-raspberry-pi/
It was impressively awful.

@Gargron @bruno Interesting! It's always fun to see what happens to early posts. I've got some on Twitter which have been badly mangled over the years.

Is there a good way to convert embedded Tweets into static content?

I've got loads of Twitter content embedded on my WordPress blog. For obvious reasons, I'd like to reduce my reliance on Twitter's API.

Does anyone have a tool that I can feed a URl and it will give me an image of a Tweet + alt text?

(Looking for personal experience. I know how to use a search engine.)

Here's a list of everyone standing for election who has a Mastodon account:

https://candidates.democracyclub.org.uk/numbers/election/parl.2024-07-04/completeness?has_mastodon_username=yes

Only 11 candidates so far.

If you know of any others, please add it to their candidate page.

If you know of anyone standing, please encourage them to join the Fediverse.

#UKPolitics #GE2024

It *is* a genuine notification. But it isn't confirming the bank is calling you.

Should the bank word that differently?

In a rush, would you read it thoroughly?

Most likely, in a panic about the fraud, you'd confirm it was a genuine notification (it is!) and accept it.

3/3

The scammer is on the phone to you.
Their accomplice is on the phone to your bank, pretending to be you.
Your bank send you the notification.
You accept, and scammers proceed to drain your account.

Someone has just lost £18,000 because of this.
https://www.reddit.com/r/UKPersonalFinance/comments/1cih3kd/been_scammed_over_18000_through_my_chase_account/

2/3

You receive a call on your phone.
The caller says they're from your bank and they're calling about a suspected fraud.

"Oh yeah," you think. Obvious scam, right?

The caller says "I'll send you an in-app notification to prove I'm calling from your bank."

Your phone buzzes. You tap the notification This is what you see.

Still think it is a scam?
1/3

Wondering what the world would look like if we implemented "Universal Basic Website".

Entitle everyone to their own domain, a few GB of space, the ability to run simple apps / blogs / etc.

What does the world look like if people aren't beholden to Flickr / Facebook / Google Photos to share their family albums?

#UBI