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work oof 

finally going to send an email to the shitty company I still do hosting for. I'm like 9 months overdue on sending them a new invoice, which is on me, but I will be doing a sizeable price increase for the months to come if they still want the service..
because either they pay me more money and the cool interactive bits of their sites keep working, or they have to figure something out themselves, they don't even have a webdesigner employed oof

So, pretty cool can import and export domain blocks

- but why does it struggle to parse basic CSV without any visible error, just an "oops something went wrong" having to view the logs to get any clue

- choke on a suspend reason containing an emoji, "incompatible character encodings: ASCII-8BIT and UTF-8'", what year is this??

So, pretty cool can import and export domain blocks

- but why does it struggle to parse basic CSV without any visible error, just an "oops something went wrong" having to view the logs to get any clue

- choke on a suspend reason containing an emoji, "incompatible character encodings: ASCII-8BIT and UTF-8'", what year is this??

mastodon is so fuckin annoying to set up, terrible mess of reverse proxy headers and blocked hosts. How is it that literally every other proxied software I set up doesn't have to deal with this

I see glitch-soc instances have a version tag v3.4.6+glitch, but glitch-soc doesn't seem to tag releases so like how does that work?

making nice progress again today though, refactored cosmos' nixos config which was the last file that wasn't split into it's distinct service components yet. Now going to add a glitch-soc test instance to it, which we'll eventually migrate social.pixie.town to

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oof thought temperature in my room/at desk would be fine but it's still too hot, dev stuff will continue on the laptop outside i guess

think we'll go to glitch-soc since we're migrating anyways

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hmm maybe today I'll look at running Mastodon on NixOS, to prepare for migrating terra

Fediblock rec.: fedi.tyil.nl 

Here's a guy who sucks:

fedi.tyil.nl/@tyil

Boosting transphobic shit from Spinster, Kiwifarms, poast—

#fediBlock

oh you wanna take this outside??

you're right it's way too hot to program behind a desk, let me get my laptop

Phew, 3 separate PRs over the last couple days to fix EXIF image orientation data in thumbnails, and to optimize EXIF stripping!

Why have we spent so much time focused on EXIF data, you ask? Well, here’s why it’s important:

Many images floating around on the internet contain EXIF tags, which are little extra pieces of information encoded into the image, beyond the actual pixels that you can see.

Some of these tags are useful, because they can tell you how the image should be displayed (whether it should be rotated, for instance, when it’s shown to a user).

However, many of the EXIF tags are not very useful for just viewing an image, and some of them are downright dangerous because they can reveal the exact place and time the image was taken, and what kind of device was used to produce it. For example, ever wonder how Facebook knows where your pictures were taken? Usually that’s because your GPS coordinates were written into the image when you took it with your camera!

When you upload an image to GoToSocial, though, it removes this EXIF data entirely, keeping only the useful stuff like orientation/rotation tags. This means that no matter where your photo ends up, people can’t use the EXIF data to figure out where you were when you took it, or what kind of phone you have. Hurray!

GoToSocial also removes any EXIF data from images it retrieves from other instances. So even if another software implementation doesn’t remove this data, GoToSocial will!

GoToSocial has removed EXIF data since the very first alpha release, so this is not a new feature or anything, just something that’s received a bit more polish and attention lately :)

(With all that said though, luckily most other Fediverse servers also already remove EXIF data for their users, so this is by no means unique to GtS. Phew!)

Relevant PRs:

https://github.com/superseriousbusiness/gotosocial/pull/746

https://github.com/superseriousbusiness/gotosocial/pull/747

https://github.com/superseriousbusiness/gotosocial/pull/749

mmmm i made such a tasty coffee, strong Chemex pourover on top of vanilla icecream

blood 

only as i was putting on my glasses again after sleep/shower i realized there was dried blood on them 😬 (from nosebleed)

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