Meine Social‑Media‑Beiträge – offen und ohne Anmeldung
Buying a cheap document scanner I can carry around in a bag has created far more opportunities for building #graphicdesigns than buying and using a camera ever did. The camera is overburdened with meaning, instead of being a texture scanner at a distance. #asca
Quelle: Twitter
#aside and #tldr
Running a solo Mastodon instance? Here's how to keep it clean and #gdpr compliant:
– Disable link previews: DISABLE_FETCH_PREVIEWS=true
– Disable embeds: DISABLE_EMBED_PREVIEW=true
– Purge old PreviewCards via Rails console
– Avoid federated content
– Self-author everything
– Host locally, anonymize IPs
Respectful publishing, no third-party hosting
#asca #server #mastodon #selfhosted #germany
Quelle: Mastodon
And from there, I delete all #PreviewCards in #mastodon by using these commands:
1. docker compose exec web bash
2. RAILS_ENV=production bundle exec rails console
And then I run this in the console: PreviewCard.destroy_all
This will run for a while but it should remove all stored preview cards from my mastodon server, for all posts.
And it worked. Just climb back up to my prompt by punching in “exit” until I am back home, and that issue has been fixed as well. #server #asca #mastodon #gdpr
Quelle: Mastodon
Adding these lines to my application.env covered this issue
# do not fetch external resources
DISABLE_FETCH_PREVIEWS=true
DISABLE_EMBED_PREVIEW=true
I will need to go through my own feed next to ensure that there are no embeds left over. This is in addition to my recent purging of boosts: https://mastodon.mariobreskic.de/@mario/114982417840616548
Quelle: Mastodon
Next thing I need to do is to turn off the mastodon-native “cards” for links, because I am future-proofing my self-hosted services against issues with the law here in Germany, especially regarding what is called “framing” here.
In short, I better not EVER have a picture anywhere on anything I self-host I have not explicitly acquired the rights to, or have made myself.
There is a whole gray market in Germany for suing the people for that. Fixing this next.
#asca #server
#mastodon #gdpr
Quelle: Mastodon
Aside: you can read how to do this here https://doc.wallabag.org/user/configuration/rss/
Copy the #RSS link #wallabag puts out and add it as a source in #FreshRSS. And to my surprise, it actually links to the proper article instead of linking to the internal wallabag URL. I would’ve fixed it by parsing it in #huginn though, should it’ve behaved the way I expected it to #asca #server #aside
Quelle: Mastodon
To continue: I am also running a #wallabag server which I use to store bookmarks and interesting reading material for myself. And while working in public on a social platform, my partner recommended that I use my wallabag favorites to add to our informational feed. And the process for outputting #RSS from wallabag is very easy: I just had to generate a token for that, and then I plugged in the output RSS into our #FreshRSS backend. #server #asca
Quelle: Mastodon
So threads are a good tool to create context. And not just for the person reading, too, but for you as well: you can use it as a scaffold for the public part of your work, for instance, creating a trail of breadcrumbs instead of randomness #asca
Quelle: Twitter
To explain: to you who posts, what you post makes perfect sense, you have the luxury of context. But when someone who follows you logs in, all he sees is some most likely randomly chosen post of yours, sans context, solely based on some programmerʼs metric of significance. #asca
Quelle: Twitter