#social 2020-03-07

2020-03-07 UTC
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cwebber2 nightpool[m]: unfortunately I am experiencing an urgent medical issue and cannot make the meeting :(
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nightpool[m] oh no! good luck, I hope everything goes well
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nightpool[m] sl007 (IRC): doesn't look like we have enough people for a real formal meeting, but happy to have an informal chat on IRC if you still want to talk
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sl007 no, i am fine. It is hard to react for people within a few hours as said, I think, people already exchanged some ideas via AP today and I am able to use the ticket for #BMGBVB to drink a Corona w. 81.000 ;) All the best to cwebber2
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aaronpk IIRC there is some reason Mastodon sends Delete notices about accounts i'm not following to me, but I can't remember why
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aaronpk my inbox is full of these notices, and it's annoying, because I can't even verify the signature of them because the account is deleted so the key that signed them is 404 by then
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nightpool[m] In general it's very hard to enumerate all the ways an account or status might have been fetched by a remote server, so we send Delete notices to all known servers
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nightpool[m] since they're just a request to delete the local cache of the account/any of its content, if you don't have a local cache of the account it's completely safe to ignore
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aaronpk interesting
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nightpool[m] one thing that's interesting and might help you is that, to help smooth this process, mastodon returns 410 for accounts that have been deleted, so if you ever see a 410 when fetching a key, it's completely safe to just drop that job entirely
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aaronpk right now if i get an error fetching the key I return HTTP 400 and stop processing
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nightpool[m] yeah as long as you're returning a terminal error that should be fine
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aaronpk digs into the Mastodon source code to figure out how to send a profile update
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aaronpk ok i give up
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aaronpk i tried sending type: Update, actor: https://aaronparecki.com/aaronpk and object: {full actor object}
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aaronpk oh i see... it's just not re-fetching the image url
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aaronpk i guess i have to change the image url for it to recognize that it changed
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