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andrew_s, 1 day ago to gifs in Meteor lights up the sky in Portugal

No, it was over the weekend: https://www.popsci.com/science/spain-meteor/

andrew_s, 9 days ago to asklemmy in Some RSS links from lemmy feeds are broken - or is it my reader?

Oh, okay. Citing the specs is a good argument killer.

There's a Closed Issue relating to this at https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/3540
From there you can navigate to the right place to open a new Issue if you want.

andrew_s, 10 days ago to fediverse in For discussing Fediverse accessibility, where would you recommend me to go? Or stay here?

Oh right, yeah. I was thinking more of the images that people link to with posts. Lemmy currently sends those out, with

"attachment": [
    {
      "href": "<a href="https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/e798447e-a79f-45b2-b3da-3aa669cbc0e5.png" rel="nofollow ugc" target="_blank">https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/e798447e-a79f-45b2-b3da-3aa669cbc0e5.png</a>",
      "type": "Link"
    }
  ]

But there's nowhere in entire JSON for any alt-text. The plan is to add alt-text as a 'name' in there.

In-line images do prove a point for the OP, though. A Lemmy comment with one will be sent out as
&lt;img src="<a href="https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/9d483052-29b6-4d34-baaf-3ee092be9718.png" rel="nofollow ugc" target="_blank">https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/9d483052-29b6-4d34-baaf-3ee092be9718.png</a>" alt="bear vs man in woods meme" /> in the 'content' field, but Mastodon expects all images to be attachments, so it just completely ignores it. (compare https://lemmy.zip/comment/10342640 with https://mastodon.social/@Honytawk@lemmy.zip/112438348076482957).

andrew_s, 10 days ago to asklemmy in Some RSS links from lemmy feeds are broken - or is it my reader?

That's arguably the expected behaviour - for a discussion, 'link' effectively takes you to the comments, for an article (or a link to a image), it takes you there instead.

You could use 'guid' instead - that always links to the post on Lemmy, and it usually contains a useful thing on other sites' RSS feeds.

andrew_s, 10 days ago (edited 10 days ago) to mildlyinfuriating in Someone purchased the old domain of a FOSS app, then it's using it to deceive users to download adware

There was a great windows app called 'dvdshrink' that let you rip commercial DVDs onto blank DVDs (shrinking them if necessary). It got taken down with a Cease & Desist, but the MPAA or whoever didn't worry about who took the domain. For a long time, the site was just filled with ads instead - now it's a bit more sophisticated: no real link to download the software, but lots of genuine-seeming donation requests.

The fake site is at the first search result for that software (edit: it's probably best not to link directly to it)

andrew_s, 10 days ago to fediverse in For discussing Fediverse accessibility, where would you recommend me to go? Or stay here?

That sounds like a tricky combination. Wherever you go, they'll be a good chunk of users who are unaware of / indifferent to how well the app they're using interacts with other Fediverse platforms. Mastodon has the userbase, and - as you say - is the place where the serious discussion of accessibility takes place.

As for Lemmy - it doesn't yet support alt-text, but when it does, I believe that the plan is to follow Mastodon's format (i.e. a 'name' field in the 'attachment' array)

andrew_s, 10 days ago to asklemmy in Is it possible to de-duplicate lemmy posts from other instances?

Oh, right. Sorry. I've gone back and checked the post I was thinking of when I made that comment, and - yeah - it turns out I was misremembering / didn't properly investigate the first time.

andrew_s, 10 days ago to asklemmy in Is it possible to de-duplicate lemmy posts from other instances?

Yeah - I think anything the UI is doing, it's getting the info from the API, so the poster would've had to use the 'cross-post' feature. There are some apps (e.g. Voyager) that try to wrangle cross-posts by title or URL, but title-matching can give false postives, and URL-matching usually assumes that one link hasn't picked up some cruft, and it can't do much for uploaded images if the poster didn't cross-post (because it'll be 2 different files with different URLs)

andrew_s, 11 days ago (edited 11 days ago) to piefed_meta in Does PieFed support disabling notifications for submitted posts (or "unsubscribing") from them?

Have just seen your edit.

No idea whether you'll get this or not. You should do, even it's only as an Inbox message (sent if there's no subscribers to this community on lemm.ee, because it'll reject this if that's the case).

My first reply made it to lemmy.ml (see https://lemmy.ml/post/15165488), so that suggests the federation issue was on Lemmy's end, not PieFed's. (I'll see if this reply makes it to .ml, to confirm).

Edit: actually, just checked lemme.ee, and this reply is there, so 'Ner', and indeed, 'Ner'.

andrew_s, 11 days ago to lemmy_support in Constant warnings for what seems like ordinary activity

The video was recording a VM that had been tunnelled through to with ngrok, so the HTTP details were from that software's 'Inspect' window.

(I don't know how best to configure your server to ignore the errors, because Rust is too scary, ha ha).

andrew_s, 11 days ago to lemmy_support in Constant warnings for what seems like ordinary activity

Might just be 'cos LW is currently sending every activity out twice. Video from earlier today: https://imgur.com/a/lX0LPZk

You could probably tail your nginx log in another terminal to see if the journalctl errors match up with 400 errors for duplicates there..

Might not be this, of course (could just be that I saw this earlier, and it's influencing my thinking)

andrew_s, 13 days ago to piefed_meta in PieFed development update, May 2024

Oh. If you're viewing this post from a Lemmy instance, there's a comment tree missing because Lemmy didn't sign its request for the Mastodon user's details. Hopefully, this'll come in 0.19.4

andrew_s, 13 days ago to fediverse in Lemmy subscribe to post

Pièces?

andrew_s, 14 days ago to fediverse in Lemmy subscribe to post

"No", and "No". More info here: https://sh.itjust.works/post/18710212 (includes reply from Nutomic)

andrew_s, 17 days ago to funny in Fallout series was pretty good ngl

Rey just 'okey-dokied' her way through the entire trilogy.