TriLinder 1y ago • 100%
Oh, how did I not notice that before? Now should be fixed.
TriLinder 1y ago • 100%
It's just a simple Flask server. I parse the user-agent using the user_agents
Python library, apply some conditionals upon the result, render the image using Pillow and send it to the user.
TriLinder 1y ago • 100%
Yup, I'm parsing the user agent with the user_agents
Python library.
TriLinder 1y ago • 100%
If you wanted to target a specific user, you could always send a DM with the image
TriLinder 1y ago • 100%
It does
TriLinder 1y ago • 100%
Looks like your home instance hexbear.net is filtering external images.
TriLinder 1y ago • 100%
Cool, didn't know some Lemmy instances did this
TriLinder 1y ago • 100%
That's weird. The extension should definitely work with the image, as that's what I used when building this quick demo. Does the content of a site like this update?
TriLinder 1y ago • 100%
Thought about adding the user's location, but was worried PythonAnywhere could somehow cache the image between multiple people.
TriLinder 1y ago • 100%
Yeah, I just use whatever the user_agents
Python library gives me as user_agent.os.family
.
TriLinder 1y ago • 100%
You could also send the image through a DM if you want to find a particular user
TriLinder 1y ago • 100%
The user-agent detection definitely isn’t great. If it doesn't recognize a client, it just says unknown. But that wasn't the main point of the post anyway, this was just meant as a quick proof of concept for anyone curious.
TriLinder 1y ago • 100%
The user-agent detection definitely isn't great, this was just meant as a quick proof of concept for anyone curios.
TriLinder 1y ago • 100%
Thought about adding the user's location, but was worried PythonAnywhere could somehow cache the image between multiple people. A great demo though!
TriLinder 1y ago • 99%
This is possible because Lemmy doesn't proxy external images but instead loads them directly. While not all that bad, this could be used for Spy pixels by nefarious posters and commenters.
Note, that the only thing that I willingly log is the "hit count" visible in the image, and I have no intention to misuse the data.
Note: This post now archived and as such no longer works ![An external image showing your user-agent and the total "hit count"](https://web.archive.org/web/20231112152307if_/https://trilinder.pythonanywhere.com/image.jpg)
TriLinder 1y ago • 100%
This is possible because Lemmy doesn't proxy external images but instead loads them directly. While not all that bad, this could be used for Spy pixels by nefarious posters and commenters.
Note, that the only thing that I willingly log is the "hit count" visible in the image, and I have no intention to misuse the data.
Note: This post now archived and as such no longer works ![An external image showing your user-agent and the total "hit count"](https://web.archive.org/web/20231112152307if_/https://trilinder.pythonanywhere.com/image.jpg)
TriLinder 1y ago • 100%
This is possible because Lemmy doesn't proxy external images but instead loads them directly. While not all that bad, this could be used for Spy pixels by nefarious posters and commenters.
Note, that the only thing that I willingly log is the "hit count" visible in the image, and I have no intention to misuse the data.
Note: This post now archived and as such no longer works ![An external image showing your user-agent and the total "hit count"](https://web.archive.org/web/20231112152307if_/https://trilinder.pythonanywhere.com/image.jpg)
TriLinder 1y ago • 100%
This is possible because Lemmy doesn't proxy external images but instead loads them directly. While not all that bad, this could be used for Spy pixels by nefarious posters and commenters.
Note, that the only thing that I willingly log is the "hit count" visible in the image, and I have no intention to misuse the data.
Note: This post now archived and as such no longer works ![An external image showing your user-agent and the total "hit count"](https://web.archive.org/web/20231112152307if_/https://trilinder.pythonanywhere.com/image.jpg)
TriLinder 1y ago • 100%
I've also started working on my own Lemmy app (in NativeScript). Maybe we should all create a community to share insights.
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