#indieweb 2021-11-26

2021-11-26 UTC
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samwilson hmm, so maybe the calendar's fine and google have changed how they fetch calendars? :-( that's annoying
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aaronpk hm i didn't test it from google
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samwilson is the content-negotiation thing new?
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aaronpk no
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samwilson ah well, google's just a twit then :)
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aaronpk hm i just checked and google is not sending any accept header đŸ¤Ļ
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aaronpk well that's going on the list to fix
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samwilson it seems fastmail is the same, it's showing "Sync with https://events.indieweb.org/ics/events.ics is disabled. Too many failures."
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aaronpk :sigh:
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petermolnar imo that url should never return html
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petermolnar .ics -> I'm expecting either a text/plain with the ics content, or download trigger
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capjamesg[d] +1
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aaronpk You are not most people. My thinking was there's links to the ics file on a bunch of pages and most people who click it wouldn't know what to do when it just downloads a file to their computer.
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[KevinMarks]1 on mac it opens the calendar app doesn't it?
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[KevinMarks]1 can you flip the conneg so it only does html if asked for it?
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[Sean] Hi everyone 🙂
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aaronpk [KevinMarks] -> #indieweb-dev
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[snarfed] Hi [Sean]!
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[Sean] [snarfed] heya 🙂 this slack channel works bit different - I cannot seem to edit or delete... hmmm
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[Sean] [snarfed] omg - r u Ryan from brid.gy ?
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capjamesg[d] Hello [Sean]!
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[Sean] ↩ī¸ James ? the coffe blog guy .. I been reading yr blog from here in Philippines. Love your work. Yo have been very inspiring to me 💚✔🙏
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capjamesg[d] Yep, that's me. Thanks 🙂
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GWG You two have a fan....
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[Sean] ↩ī¸ oooops - times like now - I wish I have edit.
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[snarfed] hah, yes
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GWG [snarfed]: I'm a fan of yours too, if it helps.
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[Sean] [snarfed] I was presenting about bridgy in dev meeting earlier today (technically yesterday is 12:05 midnight now) ).. and met resistance. Some confusion about why it needs twitter auth. Some saying that must indicate it only monitors for URL links connected to the twitter account for which auth is given.
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[Sean] [snarfed] for example - random guy from public shares the URL of a blog post to his twitter. He has zero connection to the twitter account auth-ed to bridgy. Does bridgy still find that share ?
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[snarfed] yes, it does, since it searches for all links to your site, from anyone
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[snarfed] (at least if their twitter account isn't private)
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[snarfed] https://brid.gy/about#which
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[Sean] [snarfed] so why then is the twitter-auth needed ?
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[snarfed] to read twitter data via their API. silos like twitter generally don't like scraping, they throttle and block it. they prefer that you use their APIs
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[Sean] ok - that is *AWESOME* ! I have screenshot this for Monday ! So (1) the twitter-auth account does**NOT** need to have "shared" all the blog posts , and i(2) it can just be a zero follower, zero folling .. empyty account just for the purpose of Bridgy using the API thru that account.. Did I undertand it ?
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Loqi hey [snarfed], [Sean], I don't mean to be a bother, but API, APIs, scraping seems like a better conversation for #indieweb-dev
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[Sean] no tech details ! I promise.. and I think my question is fully answered now anyway 🙂
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[snarfed] glad to help!
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[chrisaldrich] I've made my commitment. Whose next? https://indieweb.org/2022-01-01-commitments (Bonus points if you can do it before the newsletter's out.)
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[chrisaldrich] s/whose/who's
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[tantek]1 [chrisaldrich]++ nice work!
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capjamesg[d] Nice!
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