Merlin Mann“He’s right behind me, isn’t he?”
Just for the record, I have a favorite Bon Jovi song.
At some point, I’d love to learn why YouTube embeds stopped working and moved to Berlin.
Both make me a little envious.
Annika Backstrom@hotdogsladies I've been wondering the same thing!
Joe Beam@hotdogsladies @annika
You can blame me, I’m the scapegoat.
I’m in the scapegoat union, “We take the blame so you don’t have too.”
You can blame me, I’m the scapegoat.
I’m in the scapegoat union, “We take the blame so you don’t have too.”
Eric A. Meyer@hotdogsladies Mastodon’s German roots, I presume.
Joshua, at Lincolnite@hotdogsladies That’s interesting because it’s in French, for me. Moved to Brussels?
Karl Baron@jw @hotdogsladies It depends on your mastodon server, mastodon.social is in Germany and it looks like lincolnite.net is in Quebec
Jacob Tender@hotdogsladies I’ve noticed this too. It’s very inconsistent and seemingly not related to the client.
Mark Rakes@hotdogsladies seems ok here on Ivory/Mac? Maybe my mileage varied?
@mrakes @hotdogsladies It depends on your mastodon server, mastodon.social is in Germany, and twit.social is in the US
Philip Bussmann@hotdogsladies Just came through fine on @ivory on my iPad. (In Frankfurt, Germany)
Renaud Lienhart
Marty Day@hotdogsladies I’ve had this explained to me recently. Basically, your Mastodon instance caches the link preview. Since Mastodon.social is in Germany, you’re getting the German preview, which mentions cookies and whatnot.
Tony WellsI usually cut and paste the browser in the browser instead of the longer 'shortened' youtu.be URL from share.
I have no idea which, if any, is better, and which one will go bad first.
Kevin H@hotdogsladies I can’t find anything to back it up but I’m assuming they host in Germany, probably with Hetzner. My instance hachyderm.io does the same thing making embeds into German, and that’s where they are hosted.
John Willis 🔰@hotdogsladies the link shortened “share” links don’t seem to work in Ivory, but the regular URL seems to work okay.
All links shared count the same number of characters (23?), so long URLs are not punished.
(Edit: sorry it is not a direct answer to your question. I assume ivory blocks redirected links for some phishing reason, but 🤷🏼♂️)
Bon Jovi - She Don't Know Me
Dr. Drang@hotdogsladies They are working, just not as fast as you’d like. The process that generates the preview is queued up to run after your toot is published. Depending on server load (and maybe some other things), that may be quite a while. In the meantime, there’s typically a placeholder for the preview, the language of which depends on where the server is located. I always see a French placeholder.
Marina Epelman@drdrang @hotdogsladies Docteur le Stress
Andrew White@hotdogsladies that is really weird. .be is Belgium, and German is the least most common of their major languages.
I think it's just because it spells the name of the company, yeah?
@hotdogsladies Ah, I missed that. Totally makes sense.
Joe Rosensteel 🏳️🌈
Old account@joesteel @hotdogsladies it is probably your instance. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
@joesteel It's probably my sins.
BenRiceM
Niléane@BenRiceM @joesteel @hotdogsladies Yeah YouTube thumbnails started breaking for most mastodon instances a few days ago 🥲
They’re probably flagging those IP addresses in a different way now
They’re probably flagging those IP addresses in a different way now
Matthew Cassinelli@nileane @BenRiceM @joesteel @hotdogsladies I just asked Rene Ritchie to check it out or get an answer
Craig Hockenberry@joesteel @hotdogsladies Your Mastodon server is not in Germany and is therefore not getting a cookie redirect.
This cookie bullshit infuriates server admins as much as it does end users.
@chockenberry @hotdogsladies wow, that’s really the reason? Wild
Michael B. Johnson@hotdogsladies @joesteel ISCH HAVEN EIN KLEINER ALBTRAUM CON QUESO
Okay, I only just realized *how* many people in this photo were thinking “He’s right behind me, isn’t he?”
At first, I saw one, and then ha ha, I realized there was technically the other, and then oooh holy shit it really gets a person thinking.
And, that’s why the world's eternally funniest thing to say will always be, “He’s standing right behind me, isn’t he?”
It gives and gives.
This new skill has absolutely come out of regularly KILLING it at the Spangram.
Jeff Phillips@hotdogsladies Who is he? I recognize opera singer Joyce DiDonato, but for some reason don't recognize him…
Mine are:
1. Rami Malek, about Jon Bon Jovi
2. White-haired man, about either Jon Bon Jovi OR Rami Malek
3. White-haired man, about Emma Corrin
4. EVERYONE ELSE
Mark Eichin@hotdogsladies Thank you. (I recognized the bond villain, and the lady front left looks like someone I *should* recognize, but had no idea about the rest.)
Drew Pickard@hotdogsladies
“oh shit it's that guy who pretends to be a musician”
“oh shit it's that guy who pretends to be a musician”