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legoktm, 10 days ago to random

I wrote a (brief) blog post about burning out: https://blog.legoktm.com/2024/05/31/wiki-burnout.html

legoktm, 3 months ago to random

Not ready to fully advertise this, but since the spam wave is picking up again, here's the tool we're using for automated reporting of spam: https://gitlab.wikimedia.org/legoktm/masto-monitor

everything is still human moderated, this is just helping us detect it as soon as it appears on the timeline.

and as always, thanks to the humans who unfortunately see the spam and are reporting it!

legoktm, 4 months ago to random

#WikipediaDay in NYC has started with @fuzheado explaining how the Statue of Liberty was also crowdsourced (the stained glass just so happens to be in the other room)

legoktm, 5 months ago to random

@brion @TheDJ hi, I have a question about how MediaWiki+TimedMediaHandler handles transcodes of deleted and undeleted files

context: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Picture_of_the_day#Steamboat_Willie

The plan is to undelete the video on Commons and then immediately put it on the enwp Main Page. Is that a bad idea if the transcodes haven't finished yet? Will transcodes from before it was deleted still work or do they need to be generated again?

legoktm, 5 months ago to firefox

New blog post: My "Skip Mobile Wikipedia" add-on is usable on Firefox for Android again!

https://blog.legoktm.com/2023/12/27/skip-mobile-wikipedia-add-on-available-on-android-again.html

Install it from here: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/skip-mobile-wikipedia/

#Firefox #Android #Wikipedia #AddOn #WebExtension

legoktm, 5 months ago to random

@lapcatsoftware poast is one of the nastiest servers on the fediverse, so good on threads for blocking them.

legoktm, 5 months ago to nyc

Please don't leave a full pizza on a #NYC subway platform...seriously, exactly what you expect is what happened

A rat drags a slice of pizza away from a box on a subway platform

magnusmanske, 6 months ago to random

@legoktm https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Help_talk%3AToolforge%2FRust#Job_framework_compilation

wikifunctions, 6 months ago to random

Introducing Wikifunctions: first Wikimedia project to launch in a decade creates new forms of knowledge

https://wikimediafoundation.org/news/2023/12/05/introducing-wikifunctions-first-wikimedia-project-to-launch-in-a-decade-creates-new-forms-of-knowledge/

legoktm, 6 months ago to random

New blog post: "Support my work, please"

https://blog.legoktm.com/2023/11/27/support-my-work-please.html

I am privileged to work full-time on FOSS at the Freedom of the Press Foundation, and as a result, get to spend my free time contributing to wikis, running a Mastodon server and riding bikes.

FPF is doing its annual year-end fundraising drive and if you like my work and have the means to do so, I'd ask that you make a donation. (My blog post also has instructions on what to do if you hate my work.)

Thanks!

legoktm, 7 months ago to random

Happy Election Day!

Here's a pretty straightforward explainer of the 2 NY state constitution amendments on the ballot: https://gothamist.com/news/schools-and-sewers-what-to-know-about-new-yorks-2023-ballot-proposals

legoktm, 7 months ago to rust

I haven't been very good with posting/writing about what I'm working on, so here's a 1,200+ word post about how we replaced[1] the GPG code backed by a library aptly called "pretty-bad-protocol" with a Rust library named after trees, Sequoia-OpenPGP.

This is the first written-here Rust code that will be shipped by SecureDrop \o/

https://securedrop.org/news/migrating-securedrops-pgp-backend-from-gnupg-to-sequoia/

[1] okay technically we didn't replace p-b-p entirely, but largely sidelined it

#SecureDrop #Sequoia #OpenPGP #encryption #Rust #GPG

magnusmanske, 7 months ago to random

@legoktm The last update to the Rust toolforge crate lost the ability to use DB pools for tools-db? Or did I miss the documentation for this?

krinkle, 8 months ago (edited 8 months ago) to webdev

"Google Sites" now supports embedding images.

What you want: <img style="margin: 0 auto;">

What you get:

• ~100 HTML elements, including 57 unique CSS class names across 83 attributes, 30 hidden DIVs, 3 iframes, 2 external script tags, 2 inline script tags, and 1 actual <img> tag.
• the <img> is inside an iframe, nested 3 (!) levels of iframes deep.
• an image cut off in both X and Y directions.
• not one, but two unwanted scrollbars.

#enshittification #webperf #SemanticHTML #html5 #HTML