Notices by Ted Gould (ted@social.gould.cx), page 68

@garrett playing with Twitere right now, which has the interesting feature of blending Mastodon and Twitter.

@garrett ah, didn't go back and check Tusky after learning Mastalab did that. Seems to be common behavior from the clients. I expected it in the time line itself.

@sajith no problem, I'd not expect you to have read everyone else's toots.

I think it should be a feature that can be turned off, but a good default as it makes the experience graphically richer.

Bandwidth is a concern. As long as your server is caching the data you shouldn't have to worry about privacy as they'd only find out there is a Mastodon server there that linked to them, and nothing else.

@sajith it seems to be when you touch to expand the toot. Which at least has it there. I was hoping to have it in the feed as well.

@cassidyjames the only design reason I could see to not do link previews is as a privacy leak, you'd automatically connect to a site for any item in your feed. I think the fix there is to have the server request and cache the link previews. I'm guessing it doesn't do that (or every client app would use it).

But we should ask. @Gargron , is there a design reason link previews aren't on by default in feeds?

@cassidyjames that's good to know, I like Mastalab the best for other reasons as well. This confirms my bias further 😃

There doesn't seem to be a Mastodon app for Android that does link previews. Is there one I'm missing?

This made me laugh. Not a good idea, but a clever use of technology. — https://www.dpreview.com/videos/5432264807/video-how-to-make-an-hdr-image-using-microsoft-excel-seriously

I always felt like the financial markets didn't care about security, sadly the data agrees with me. One of those times it stinks to be right. — https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2018/01/security_breach.html

Didn't realize how few Computer Science teachers we're training, seems like a potential problem. — https://computinged.wordpress.com/2018/01/05/what-universities-can-do-to-prepare-more-computer-science-teachers-evidence-from-uteach/

2017 was a depressing year for computer security as well. — https://blog.gemalto.com/security/2017/12/29/four-2017-data-security-trends/

@garrett I think something that works with Mastodon is awesome, but curious whether it doesn't make more sense to add ActivityPub support to an existing photosharing tool.

I learned about Unsplash from the article and was surprised that it isn't Open Source.

Ello seems to be trying to focus on artists. I wonder why they're not federating.

Flickr needs a reason to be cool again.

Not an Instagram user so I didn't realize how they've changed over the years. Seems like there is a lot of room for more artist focused social networks. — https://www.dpreview.com/opinion/9312839751/what-i-ve-learned-after-sharing-my-photos-for-free-on-unsplash-for-4-years

@hergertme oh, no! Looking educated! The lies he tells with his eyes! 😆

Welcome to the old folks club!

Got Newsblur sharing posting to Mastodon using IFTTT. Would like to clean up the formatting a bit, but generally happy.

The main tutorial I used was this one by @kelsonv
https://www.hyperborea.org/journal/2017/12/mastodon-ifttt/

Why can't we give kids the healthcare they need, help immigrants that are good for the country AND have a functioning government? Seems like playing politics for deals instead of thinking about people. All of these poll really positively. — https://www.texastribune.org/2018/01/19/us-government-heads-toward-shutdown/

The "essential 55" rules as seen on the wall of an elementary school. As little kids are completely capable of learning over fifty rules.

@jmwright yes, my understanding is that isn't 100% yet though. That kernel will get updates from the Ubuntu security team.

@tinker @jmwright yeah, I don't run it now. Hopefully they can get onto a security patched kernel, which is key for me running it full time.

Didn't realize how big DuckDuckGo is getting! Makes me hopeful people will take privacy seriously. — https://spreadprivacy.com/duckduckgo-growth-2017/