Notices by nev (nev@bananachips.club)

I know I've said on here, don't stan* politicians

and now I must beg of you, please don't fucking stan NATION-STATES, jesus christ, get a grip.

___
* Become an obsessed and uncritical fan of; from the 2000 song "Stan" by Eminem, whose titular character is the rapper's desperate, unhinged stalker

@goatsarah @ianb Likewise, the anti-abortion movement's longer-term goal is banning hormonal birth control, which I am afraid dovetails a little too well with the campaign to ban HRT for trans people.

Apropos of current Fedi Main Character but perennially applicable: everyone, every single person (but particularly anyone high-profile and/or male) needs a mutual who often reads their posts, who can tell them to log off and stop posting, and whom they solemnly swear to obey (or at least, whose advice to seriously consider) in this regard. Plus, ideally, a few other mutuals who know who they are and can contact them if necessary. Like an emergency contact, but for embarrassing yourself on the internet.

I'm completely fucking serious about this. This is one of the responsibilities of the backup admin for the server I run.

@dansup can we get a third option for "you should log off, spend time with your loved ones, and touch grass"?

@quanin I'm trying to make a script for (Linux-using, I guess) users to fetch a list of users they follow, and users who follow them, from a particular server. Right now there isn't a quick and easy way to do that, except using the API and parsing the output—which requires the user ID.

(You can export your following list as a CSV, and manipulate it with a spreadsheet application, but 1. that's awfully unwieldy, and 2. there isn't a way to do that with *people who follow you*.)

It's for cases when I (as the admin) am going to defederate a server, so users might want to figure out what connections they have.

@gnomon just making sure i have this right: this puts the header info into a file called ".headers" for separate grepping? and all "verbose" does is print $result to stdout?

@gnomon thank you so much for your help with this! this is what i eventually went with, though of course it's not carved in stone and there's likely more efficient ways to do this: https://codeberg.org/flippingrocks/pages/raw/branch/main/media/downloads/mastodon-fws.sh

@gnomon yeah, I wanted to see the output in standard out as it proceeded. But I suppose I could combine them into one? (A cursory search seems to show that I can use tee & process substitution?)

@gnomon so i ended up doing

curl -s -D - -o /dev/null "$url" | grep -Po '(?<=link\: \<).+(?=\>\; rel\=\"next\")'

which I'm sure is terrible and non-portable but it works for me lmao

after making some mini mockups with homemade play-dough, i think the new brutalist menorah i'm making will be based on an expressway bent, inspired by the ones left along Lake Shore Blvd. that supported elevated expressway off-ramps:

- https://www.toronto.ca/explore-enjoy/history-art-culture/online-exhibits/web-exhibits/web-exhibits-architecture-infrastructure/the-gardiner-expressway-east-comes-down/
- https://globalnews.ca/news/5480921/yyz-why-lake-shore-blvd-east/
- Google Street View:
https://maps.app.goo.gl/breHf2PGqDRyA69UA

#חנכה
#hanukkah #khanike #mazeldon #brutalism

Update: it worked!!! Presenting Brutalist Menorah 2024 (well, 5785 I guess).

As you can see I'm still not good at concrete, so it's a good thing I'm okay with a "weathered" look. I already want to try making another one, with a taller pillar!

All it needs is some graffiti.

#חנכה
#hanukkah #khanike #mazeldon #brutalism

quick Mastodon question: is there an easy way for a user to get their account ID? The long string of numbers?

I have toot installed so I can simply do, e. g., `toot whois account@mastodon.example.com` and it prints it out, but is there a way to find it in the web interface?

Update: nvm found it it's `https://<server>/api/v1/accounts/lookup?acct=<username>`

#MastoHelp #MastoAdmin

also, for #curl / #bash aficionados: how do I actually DO this, like in a script

https://docs.joinmastodon.org/api/guidelines/#pagination

(I'm trying to get a list of all the people I follow, via the Mastodon API, but of course it paginates. I can get the "next" link with some gnarly-looking `curl -D` and `grep -Po` stuff but do I just, like, do a for loop to repeatedly do it until there isn't any response?)

@gnomon thanks so much!

> then convert those headers from DOS to unix line endings

…of fucking course line ending differences are somehow involved

Heads up: the #Guardian and the #Observer are both full of TERFs and have played, and continue to play, key roles in stoking the UK's transphobic panic. So do whatever the fuck you want on December 5 and 6 because UK journalism does not deserve to survive.

(I'm seeing unsourced and usually no-alt-texted screenshots asking people not to share stories from those outlets. I am not going to do people's work for them.)

Context: https://www.npr.org/2024/12/04/nx-s1-5213914/guardian-strike-observer-sale

#news #MediaLiteracy #Mediajustice #labour #strike

@dansup Look, I'm sure you're getting dogpiled for this, and it's entirely deserved what the fuck were you thinking.

i'd like to share my thoughts on juncos

#birdeing #MastoArt #ArtWithOpenSource #CreativeToots 🐘

1. Sorry this is happening

2. OK, now some tough love: Don't even fucking think about escaping to Canada. We have the exact same people here and they will now be emboldened., and it is quite likely the next Prime Minister will be of the same mold.

Immigrating legally is incredibly long and expensive and you basically need a skilled job already lined up. Don't count on getting asylum or being allowed to stay if you overstay a visa. If you don't have housing lined up, you will likely end up on the street. Remember, if you die in Canada you die in real life!

Whatever you want to do will be immensely easier in a place where you are already a citizen. Save your money and stay in the US.

#USpol #canada

cat people: what do we think happens if we don't say "big stretch" after the cat does a big stretch? it must be something horrible, right?

#CatsOfMastodon

Off to a very promising start for #Monsterdon.

✅ Day for night
✅ German Shepherds and Rottweilers standing in for wolves