blued_gear

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[–] blued_gear@fedia.io 0 points 1 week ago

The palette for color-picking. Also, ze Germans have another version (with RGB codes): palette

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[–] blued_gear@fedia.io 1 points 4 months ago

That is not really correct, posts are represented differently from threads in Mbin (internally and in the UI). You don't have to post to a specific magazine / community. If you want your post to just float around in the Fediverse (so have the post associated with just your account + hashtags) you choose the random magazine for the post.
I admit that this is not really intuitive and the random magazine is a crutch for this platform to handle plain posts. To make it a bit easier to grasp I created a PR to select the random magazine if one is not on a magazine page.

But all of what you described is possible with Mbin. As an example I created this post (using the form on the generic microblog page) which you can see under posts on my local account. I would like to add links to federated Mbin and Mastodon instances, but nobody follows me, so remote instances don't pull posts.

What is currently not possible is to follow hashtags (but you can list posts), but I am going to implement this soon.

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[–] blued_gear@fedia.io 1 points 4 months ago (2 children)

What exactly do you mean "to a profile"? Can you give an example of the difference (I never used Mastodon)?

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[–] blued_gear@fedia.io 1 points 4 months ago (4 children)

Could you describe your problem in more detail?

Microblogs are always associated to your profile. If you want to post something which is not meant for a specific magazine, the random magazine is what you need to use. It is a pseudo-magazine (and so not federated as a community) which aggregates all microblog posts which are not attached to a real magazine.

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test img + url (fedia.io)
 

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Do you know a project for maintaining sticker packs for multiple platforms? (fedia.io)
 

My goal is to have a folder with images + a configuration-file which describes the stickers (file, associated emoji, name, link for sources / artist name) and then an application which can create / update sticker packs from the images for messengers like Signal, Matrix, Discord and so on.

Is there already such a (preferably FOSS) project or service?

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LocalPiped: Packaged Piped to run locally (github.com)
 

As a regular user of Piped, it got very annoying when Google blocked almost all the public instances. As even Invidious is affected, I decided to run Piped on my local machine with my residential IP, so that it won't get blocked so easily.
To make the process of running such an instance as easy as possible for me and also other Piped enjoyers, I created LocalPiped, a project to deploy all the server components via AppImage.

You can download prebuild AppImages here.
For a description on how to make the database persistent, see the README in the Repository.

Please be aware, that most of the privacy-advantages do not apply anymore, as the application has to run via your own IP.
This also means that you might need split-tunneling if you use a VPN.

It is also possible, to use the application on an Android Phone:

  1. you need Termux
  2. in Termux, install PRoot Distro
  3. with PRoot Distro, install Fedora: proot-distro install fedora
  4. switch into Fedora: pd sh fedora
  5. update packages and install wget and java-21: dnf update; dnf install wget java-21-openjdk-headless
  6. download the AppImage: wget -O LocalPiped.appimage https://projects.chocolatecakecodes.goip.de/blued_gear/localpiped/-/package_files/16/download
  7. make it executable: chmod +x ./LocalPiped.appimage
  8. extract the contents of the AppImage (as it is not possible to use fuse in normal Termux): ./LocalPiped.appimage --appimage-extract && mv squashfs-root LocalPiped && rm LocalPiped.appimage
  9. run it: cd LocalPiped; ./AppRun
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I heard you like desktops, so I put a desktop in your desktop in your desktop (fedia.io)