Got a long-procrastinated project to Dockerize this @logotron mastodon bot. It's running in a tmux session in a random dev VM that's definitely not reliable.

Thus, as my ADHD brain inevitably forgets it exists for weeks or months at a time, it falls over and is no longer running at any given time.

Problem is that the bot itself uses Docker to spin up sandbox containers that run UCBLogo. So it's a Docker-eats-itself sorta scenario.

I'd mounted the Docker socket in the "controller" container, but that doesn't seem to do the trick. :sadcowblob:​

https://github.com/lmorchard/logotron/compare/dockerization

@Writing Okay but that's genius actually

This also gives me an idea for an uptime leaderboard for all my stupid long-running projects.

Not to alert me when they fall over, mind you. Rather, as a source of self-mockery to measure the relationship of uptime vs last time I remembered the project exists.

That said, I am kinda happy with this stupid shell script that automates running UCBLogo with tmux & Xvfb to capture an .mp4 video of the run with ffmpeg. I keep trying to think of other stupid toy things to do with this rube goldberg machine

https://github.com/lmorchard/logotron/blob/main/ucblogo-runner/entrypoint.sh

"With Postmarks, social bookmarking is back — but this time it’s built on the fediverse"

(I wonder if my instance of Postmarks will pick this up?)

https://techcrunch.com/2023/09/08/with-postmarks-social-bookmarking-is-back-but-this-time-its-built-on-the-fediverse/

#bookmarking #postmarks #delicious #pinboard

Oh hey, Postmarks picked up that link! Makes sense it would, but I hadn't tried it yet

Will Postmarks pick up this toot that has no link?

edit: Seems like it hasn't, which also makes sense! Also I could probably just look at the code and see what it actually does, but I'm lazy right now.

Okay, I got less lazy and looked at the code. Postmarks does indeed seem to check for at least one link in the received activity before deciding to accept it as an incoming bookmark. 👍

https://github.com/ckolderup/postmarks/blob/main/src/routes/activitypub/inbox.js#L173C46-L194

@duncanhart @billseitz @harold For what it's worth, a nice thing about Postmarks is that it speaks essentially the same ActivityPub messages as Mastodon and friends.

So, you could run Postmarks, or you can just post URLs to Mastodon. I have a Postmarks account following my Mastodon account over here, and I see links I post here showing up over there.

@duncanhart @billseitz @harold Granted, there's a bit more to it than that - e.g. a server like Postmarks can present a more social-bookmark-centric user interface. But, the plumbing is promising!

@ArtBear@mastodonapp.uk It took me longer than I'd like to admit in realizing that the second picture wasn't depicting the person blowing up the mountain into a crater ala the old DOS-era game Scorched Earth

@duncanhart @billseitz @harold The big thing I'm hoping is that lots of social bookmark shaped things can all interoperate using ActivityPub, so then you can just use or build whichever you want on the same fediverse

@specter i want a poutine menu and now i'm hungry