Notices by Terence Eden (edent@mastodon.social), page 11

@mikedev @silverpill
Yeah, it is a "write only" account. It sends messages which seem to be federated out.
I'm logging likes, boosts, and replies, but not doing anything with them yet.
Thanks 🙂

@mikedev @silverpill

I've now got a basic outbox at https://location.edent.tel/outbox
Do please let me know if it is broken in some way. Ta!

@Gargron haha! Fair enough.

I've added a feature request to #Mastodon to display geotags.

https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/29002

#MastoAdmin

Goodness me! The ActivityPub network is chatty.
In the last 6 hours, I've received 371 different messages to my single-user inbox.

Most of which seem to be from servers announcing users have been deleted. They're not users or servers I've seen before.

Is this normal?

#MastoAdmin #MastodonAPI

Image upload works! And those photos percolate through the #fediverse!

I still need to add proper alt text (just a static description for now).

And the UI is 💩

But I'm pretty pleased with how far I've got in a few hours of hacking away.

It is *totally* possible to build a location-based service on top of #OSM and #ActivityPub!

@PlaneSailingGames You are a little out of date.

Gmail - and most other large email providers - use TLS to secure your email in transit.

https://www.yahoo.com/tech/explained-how-tls-keeps-your-email-secure-88310223169.html?guccounter=1

🆕 blog! “Envelopes and GDPR”

Privacy is a funny concept, isn't it? Very few people want the whole world to know what medical complaints they have. But most hospitals are open-access buildings, where the waiting rooms have large monitors to tell patients that their doctor is running late. A few years ago I was sat in the proctology waiting room. […]

👀 Read more: https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2024/01/envelopes-and-gdpr/
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#gdpr #privacy

@Gargron 🥰

Yes please!

It's all working!

You can follow @edent_location for my "FourSquare-style" check-ins to locations.

TODO:

📸 Upload and store photos.
🔣 Set the language text to prevent spurious "Translate" options.
🖼 Make the interface look nice.
🔒 Better security
👨💻 Tidy up the source code.

Not the prettiest page on the web, but I can now Geolocate my phone and find the 25 nearest named places on #OSM.

Next stage is making a button to send that location to my ActivityPub server to send out a message.

(This is crappy code, poorly architected. Just a Proof of Concept.)

Nice! My toy server can now:

✅ Record who is following it.
✅ Post to multiple inboxes.
✅ Generate a permalink for its posts.

It doesn't do:
❌ Signature verification
❌ Handling replies, likes, or unfollows (it is a read-only account)
❌ Showing number of followers, posts, etc.

Pretty happy with that.
Next step - a UI so I can actually send custom posts.

OK gang! I now have an *extremely* basic ActivityPub server which can send messages to its follower!

Next steps:

* Record who is following it.
* Post to all followers (not just me).
* Stable URl for posts.
* Front end for picking locations nearby.
* About a dozen other things!

I've just reposted a public status from my new location check-in service.

It doesn't handle replies or likes, but you can follow it.

Expect buggy and untested weirdness 🙂

⚠️🦆

@evan Thanks Evan, I really appreciate that!
I've got the bare-bones working. I can now post a location. Let me know if you want to take a look at the account.

🆕 blog! “Rebuilding FourSquare for ActivityPub using OpenStreetMap”

I used to like the original FourSquare. The "mayor" stuff was a bit silly, and my friends never left that many reviews, but I loved being able to signal to my friends "I am at this cool museum" or "We're at this pub if you want to meet" or "Spendi…

👀 Read more: https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2024/01/rebuilding-foursquare-for-activitypub-using-openstreetmap/
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#ActivityPub #fediverse #FOURSQUARE #geolocation #OpenStreetMap

I fucking love the #Eurostar!
Such a civilised way to travel. Wander down to the station, minimal security, hop on a train, and a few hours later you're in the centre of town.

The only thing that slightly spoils it is the decrepit station facilities at terminals. St Pancras, Centraal, and Midi are a bit cramped and dilapidated.

@dansup that cat needs to chase a few mice!

@Gargron sadly not, just a flying visit.