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2024-08-30 16:28:33

I realized most of my favorite shows are on Apple TV -- Severance, Bad Monkey, Slow Horses, The Old Man, Shrinking, Silo. Didn't see that coming. :apple_inc:

2024-08-23 19:09:35

Successfully upgraded puddle.town to 4.3.0 beta 1. This one took more time and attention than the typical update. No major problems though. It took me maybe 45 minutes.
Everything looks different in the web UI. I dig the new hashtag "pills". Not sure about the new UI for filtered posts; it takes up a lot more space.
I haven't switched to libvips yet. I'm waiting for more clarity on those instructions.
#MastoAdmin

2024-08-23 18:38:50

In the 4.3.0-beta.1 release notes, it mentions you can enable "libvips as a faster and lighter alternative to ImageMagick for processing user-uploaded images". In one of the linked bugs is says to install `libvips42`. When I attempt to do that on Ubuntu 24.04 via `sudo apt install libvips42`, I see this:
Note, selecting 'libvips42t64' instead of 'libvips42'
It goes on to list 13 packages that will be installed. Does this sound correct to anyone who has enabled it?
#MastoAdmin

2024-08-23 07:16:16

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Interesting, I do use Hetzner. Their Oregon data center.

2024-08-23 06:51:08

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Thanks. Looks like it's been reported a few times now. 31308 seems to be the earliest. I guess it's not happening for all servers, and I'm one of the unlucky ones.

2024-08-23 06:49:04

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I found two open issues about it:
https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/31308
https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/31376
Looks like YouTube stopped returning valid metadata a few weeks ago, sometimes, it's not consistent.

2024-08-23 06:42:35

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Here's an example post:
https://puddle.town/@null/113004193514274927
The actual link at the end of the post works fine, but the preview text is German (I think) and if you hover over it, the URL is https://www.youtube.com/undefined.
It appears this way for me from two different networks, and doesn't seem to matter if I'm signed into Mastodon or not (i.e., I can reproduce it in an incognito/private window).

2024-08-23 06:38:54

Over the past few days I've noticed Mastodon is mangling YouTube link previews. The description text in the preview card is in German. And the links seem to be rewritten, sometimes breaking the link (only when clicking on the preview card, not the URL in the post itself). I've seen preview links get set to:
https:// www.youtube.com/undefined
https:// consent.youtube.com
I see this behavior in the web UI and in Ivory.
Anyone else see this or know what might be causing it?
#MastoAdmin

2024-08-22 03:42:18

Just ordered oysters at a seafood restaurant on the Oregon coast. The waitress stuck her tongue out and said "blurgh". Sure enough, they were nasty as fuck. Sent them back. I mistakenly thought she just didn't like them. WTF haha.

2024-08-15 20:07:57

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I resubmitted the app for review without changing anything and it was approved within 15 minutes. 🤪

2024-08-15 19:47:52

A Google Play reviewer rejected an app update at work. They claimed the provided login information wasn't working. However in the screenshot they sent, it was apparent they were using the login information from someone else's app (the email was from another company's domain). 🤣

2024-08-02 06:09:15

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I'm on the 18.1 beta and off the grid this week. Got a chance to try satellite texting. It works really well. Sent short messages (with emoji, for science) to a couple of contacts. One of them mentioned they got a warning they wouldn't be able to reply. I think they were on Android.

2024-08-01 20:08:34

Your moment of zen. Galice creek in Oregon, one mile upstream from the Rogue river.
https://puddle.town/system/media_attachments/files/112/888/572/208/520/773/original/21dfca4bd0e0ba42.mp4

2024-08-01 20:08:34

Your moment of zen. Galice creek in Oregon, one mile upstream from the Rogue river.
https://puddle.town/system/media_attachments/files/112/888/572/208/520/773/original/21dfca4bd0e0ba42.mp4