Notices by Velocipede Rider (ruari@velocipederider.com), page 5

@pfefferle Did you mean to copy @binarytango because the domain appears to be cropped in your post.

@matthias

I am now following 35 unicyclist accounts on the fediverse. That is pretty crazy. Back when I was on Twitter I used to follow 4-5.

I feel this says something about the fediverse.

@mike The about page (or any page if you run the web interface on a big screen) would tell you near the bottom left.

In any case sauropods.win is indeed on v4.2.0 as I write this.

@feditips

@feditips I guess I could write a short blog post about it with maybe an example script.

@feditips I can tweak this old script that I used to use on my watch account that posted hourly updates of the time in binary as Christmas trees (lit and unlit).

Make it into something more useful and embed it in a blog post

https://gist.github.com/ruario/dcbb5a42df8590cb9bf61e846bba393e

@feditips Well it just makes the posting part really simple as you can just pipe text into it from the command line. Here is a small excerpt from the shell script that posts the @vivaldiversiontracker information.

@ihabunek

@feditips My "bots" (actually just automated posting) are tiny shell scripts run as cron jobs. At set intervals they use cURL to fetch information from the web, extract key values with tools like sed and grep and then post with Toot (if those values have changed since last time).

I know it is not for everyone but the barrier for entry is fairly low if someone is at all command line savvy.

@feditips I now eagerly await a future post on best tips when alt texting from you. 😆

@eys

@feditips FWIW I do think a lot of sighted users do use the alt text as well. Images are sometimes deleted from caches on instances. In addition there are extentions and tools built into browsers (including Vivaldi) to prevent loading of images for various reasons. Here is my earlier post, which interestingly shows the entire alt text even though the toltip did not.

@eys

@feditips I also sometimes use @ihabunek's wonderful Toot TUI masto client from the terminal and appreciate the alt text greatly myself.

Here is my older post as an example

https://github.com/ihabunek/toot

@eys

A side note @feditips since you write masto tips. Toot is really nice for automating posting from scripts. My @browserversiontracker and @vivaldiversiontracker are basically just short shell scripts powered by cURL to fetch information and Toot to post it.

With tools like these doing the heavy lifting simple info posting masto bots are pretty straightforward if you have basic command line skils.

You have probably written about these things before but I mention it nonetheless. 🤷🏼

@ihabunek

@feditips Yeah I need to think about this going forward. I often have long alt text and not just because I include a full copy of written words from a screenshot. Now I am thinking about how I should order things, so that the most relevant part is near the front, so when it is too long, they'll at least get something.

@eys

Ok, yes the full alt text is present apparently. I see it when I inspect the page with dev tools but does not display in its entirety for the tooltip.

It rained a fair bit last night and Lørenskog is feeling it. I took this while I was out earlier today. #Oslo.

@sotolf Have you ever seen this picture of "Grensen 1" by the way? There is that Danish style "velociped" spelling for you (with the 'c') used in Oslo.

Here is a modern picture of the same location using Google Map's "Street View"

https://goo.gl/maps/HdaXiBJPgU9xakSH9

https://velocipederider.com/@ruari/109959212383566325

@sotolf See this is where billionaries miss a trick. Rather than buying a social media company and running it into the ground it would be better to buy Grensen 1 and re-open it as a velociped store.

@sotolf There is a store running that sells these bikes by the way. In Sweden. It is where I bought mine!

https://www.standardhighwheels.se

@sotolf To be honest, I usually do explain immediately after. I am not good at playing it cool with subtle jokes like that.

@sotolf I had never thought about the latter! 🤔 That is kind of cool and makes a lot more sense now.

@sotolf I thing I have sometimes done when I meet people and they ask about the unicycles, is that when they say something like, "Do you own a normal bike?". I reply, "I have an ordinary bike!" 😜