Notices by Terence Eden (edent@mastodon.social), page 17

Anyone here know of an *offline* reverse #geolocation database?

I want to convert a lat/long into Country and, possibly, city.

All the results I can see are for IP lookup, which I don't need.

@pfefferle @lordmatt it's OK. Forced me to redesign some of my files which had lazy assumptions ?

@pfefferle got it!
I'll send a PR soon for disabling specific types of comments (I get lots of reposts that I don't want to moderate, for example).

@pfefferle sorry for being grumpy.
It is a great and useful plugin. I just wasn't expecting so many breaking changes first thing in the morning.

@pfefferle and now I need to check the comment meta for "protocol" right?
It would be really nice if these changes were documented somewhere.

@pfefferle My comment code was calling `Linkbacks_Handler::get_canonical_url( $comment );`

Which I guess you've now removed?

@pfefferle No, it appears something you changed is messing with my comment walker. I'll do some digging.

@pfefferle Ummm... It also seems to have deleted all my comments!
They're in the DB, but not showing on any post.
Investigating now.

@pfefferle
It seems to have turned any existing mentions into a sort of facepile.
Is there any way of getting them back into the comments?
https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2023/03/zero-interfaces/
(I can raise on GitHub if that's easier?)

@pfefferle
I've updated! Just waiting for some comments now ?

@pfefferle brilliant news! Congratulations ?

The latest "innovation" from Meta is - I shit you not - *arms*!

They are *super* realistic and just what the platform needs to stop it from stagnating then dying.

#Oculus #MetaQuest2

The screenshots people are sharing is not the *new* #Twitter API pricing.

Those are the *existing* costs for accessing Twitter's premium APIs.

Developers can see them at https://developer.twitter.com/en/account/subscriptions/

Please do a little bit of due diligence before spreading misinformation.

@Gargron I guess a few things:
1. Let users discover posts by metadata - for example ISBN, star rating, etc.
2. Format the post in a specific way to people can see the data.
3. Let robots or other apps read the metadata to do something with it.

I'm not quite sure *what*. This isn't a serious Pull Request (yet) ?

? blog! “Book Review: Rising Tide (Lauren Fraser mysteries Book 2) - Jennifer Palgrave”
★★★★☆

Nat Spiller, an admired climate change activist, has accidentally drowned. That’s the police verdict. But was it an accident? His partner Ellie thinks otherwise. Pam, Ellie’s aunt, draws a reluctant Lauren Fraser into the mystery. It's a bit weird…

? Read more: https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2022/12/book-review-rising-tide-lauren-fraser-mysteries-book-2-jennifer-palgrave/
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#BookReview #newzealand

Is there any way to post #MetaData to an ActivityPub post?

The blog post linked to above has Schema / JSON+LD. But the toot just has a star rating.

Is it possible / worthwhile to add something more?

The fire service for Aotearoa New Zealand has a brilliant campaign running, trying to stop people using the stove if they're drunk.

Lots of lovely recipes at https://fireandemergency.nz/yourecooked

@Gargron oh! Wow! That's super helpful. I will have a play around this weekend.
Thanks for the tip (and, y'know, everything else ?)

Ages ago, I built an "On This Day" service for Twitter [1].
It was really useful (to me) for seeing what I'd posted on this day in previous years.

I'd like to build the same thing for Mastodon, but it looks like the #API doesn't do date-based searches.

So I'm going to build it using archive data. Would anyone like to help?

Also, what's the best way to suggest improvements to the Mastodon search API? I don't want to be demanding - I want to work collaboratively.

[1] https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2020/11/introducing-on-this-day-in-twistory/