#dev 2022-05-09

2022-05-09 UTC
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[aciccarello] I just downloaded my instagram data to backfill my photo posts. But I can't seem to figure out how to map the instagram post data to an instagram link for generating syndication links. Has anyone worked with instagram data export before?
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aaronpk i just did this
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sknebel didnt micro.blog have an instagram importer? might be worth a look what that does
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sknebel of course thats ungoogleable...
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aaronpk oh yeah they do
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aaronpk huh now i can't figure out where i put my code
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aaronpk oh nvm i didn't import them from instagram, i imported them from flickr because my instagram account got shut down
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sknebel what is instagram
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Loqi Instagram is a popular photo and short video hosting silo most well known for square photos that have been processed with an image filter https://indieweb.org/Instagram
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sknebel hm, cant find any reference there either
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sknebel (also that page could use a cleanup...)
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[aciccarello] I might just have to skip the syndication links. It wouldn't be the end of the world
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[aciccarello] Seems like an odd omission though.
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sknebel no id or something that matches the url in the data?
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[aciccarello] nope
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[chrisaldrich] What is a webmaster?
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Loqi It looks like we don't have a page for "webmaster" yet. Would you like to create it? (Or just say "webmaster is ____", a sentence describing the term)
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[chrisaldrich] is so disappointed in us... I'll just leave this here, if only for the og:image https://justinjackson.ca/webmaster/
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GWG Is webmaster still an appropriate term?
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[chrisaldrich] Good question... it does have a bit of baggage there...
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[snarfed] GWG read the post 😁
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GWG I did...I meant, is there a new term for the same concept...
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GWG As master has been removed from many contexts
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[snarfed] ahhhh i see
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aaronpk one could argue that webmaster is the "expert" meaning instead, tho I'm not actually sure that's much better anyway
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[chrisaldrich] Power dominance over machines is better than machine dominance over people. We mostly need to focus on people (and people with machines) having power dominance over other people.
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[chrisaldrich] Given the historical context of the time, I suspect that the word was influenced by the idea of dungeon master which paints it with a more creative connotation of "I'm designing a story and an experience for you. I hope you enjoy it." Maybe we need to borrow a German or Japanese word that expresses "joy of the web"? KawaiiIndieWebvergnügen?!
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jacky talk about a history lesson lol
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[aciccarello] This instagram data export isn't great. I'm pretty sure it doesn't include the alt text in this data export. Also their images are smaller resolution than I uploaded but more KB.
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sknebel meh. so basically you'd want to still scrape your own profile to get the missing bits...
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aaronpk well that's annoying
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aaronpk instagram--
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Loqi instagram has -1 karma over the last year
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sknebel (anyone from EU play the same game and then send a letter asking for access to the missing pieces?)
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IWDiscordGateway <person> I figured out webmention support on my blog! I am very excited even though it turns out it was like two lines. But I need to share my excitement somewhere and I figured y'all might understand why it's exciting to feel like people can RESPOND??? to my posts???? Incredible.
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Loqi person has 1 karma in this channel over the last year (2 in all channels)
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[snarfed] person++ congrats!
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IWDiscordGateway <capjamesg> Congrats!
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AramZ-S[m] Congrats for sure!
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IWDiscordGateway <person> Thanks all!!
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vika_nezrimaya Ok guess what I found who's been unintentionally DDoSing me all these months
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vika_nezrimaya It was Yandex's search crawler that hit a codepath full of spaghetti code and my website was choking on it
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vika_nezrimaya I can now perfectly reproduce this bug in staging which means I can see why it hangs!
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vika_nezrimaya Turns out nginx logs are very useful in addition to 503-ing every time my server can't respond in 3 seconds (I treat the inability of Kittybox to do so as a bug)
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vika_nezrimaya I grep the logs by excluding Matrix stuff and excluding anything that's not 503s and I get a few requests that reproduce my bug perfectly
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vika_nezrimaya I also accidentally ddosed myself by trying it out in prod
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vika_nezrimaya fun!
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vika_nezrimaya Huh. Turns out trying to emulate an Iterator combinator using imperative programming is a really unsound thing Rust doesn't catch (because the compiler can't possibly know my intention! maybe I intended to write buggy code!)
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vika_nezrimaya Anyway this bug can't happen anymore... I think. I just need to update my website
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vika_nezrimaya The real problem was that I used an infinite loop instead of iterating over the iterator, honestly. I should've taken it Iterator::by_ref(&mut self) and knocked off unneeded items (which it now does do)
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