Advice for Telegram usage in education

Telegram is being used frequently at schools for allowing an easy communication flow using the ‘channels’, where teachers can send information to families without sharing their personal contact details so that they can’t be contacted outside of the official tools. This comfort, came, probably because of not knowing the problems/dangers that were not taken into consideration. For making it easier for parents to join the channel of the class, many times, public channels are created… this allows to use a shorter ‘alias’ but that everyone else can search and find… and here is the problem… ’everyone’ it’s not just parents or other teachers… if you do the test by searching for clase de or classe dels you’ll find lot of groups: ...

January 5, 2024 · 7 min · Pablo Iranzo Gómez

Showing calendar events in Telegram

If you’ve a Telegram group, it might be interesting the ability of https://t.me/redken_bot for adding a calendar ical that automates publishing each day the events in the agenda for the day. If you did read Python and iCalendar ICS processing, part of the basis in that article are part of the bot and are easily used: For configuring, only a few simple steps are required: Have a calendar ICS/webcal accessible (for example a public Google Calendar one) Have a Telegram group where we do want to publish the events Add @redken_bot to the group Specify the URL del calendar and the name Lets see some screenshots of the process for you to check how easily it can be achieved. ...

March 21, 2023 · 2 min · Pablo Iranzo Gómez

In action...@redken_bot with examples

Redken in action with some examples Let’s learn about using Redken in Telegram or Discord with some examples…. but first, let’s add the bot to a new group based on the platform we’re using: Redken_bot in Telegram Redken in discord Let’s get hands on! First of all, some of the commands shown will require admin privileges in the chat (from the user point of view) and from Redken. Redken uses admin privileges to: ...

January 20, 2022 · 3 min · Pablo Iranzo Gómez

LDAP query from Python

Recently, some colleagues commented about validating if users in a Telegram group were or not employees anymore, so that the process could be automated without having to chase down the users that left the company. One of the fields that can be configured by each user, is the link to other platforms (Github, LinkedIn, Twitter, Telegram, etc), so querying an LDAP server could suffice to get the list of users. ...

October 19, 2021 · 2 min · Pablo Iranzo Gómez

Redken machine learning for spam detection

For some of the telegram groups I’m in, I’ve been detecting users that after some period of time, just publish spam messages of any topic. There are many bots for controlling when a user joins, by showing a CAPTCHA that user must resolve (either clicking a button, answering a mathematical operation, inputting a CAPTCHA image text, etc). Some time ago, a colleague was using Machine Learning and I wanted to have a look at it and it would make a good feature to implement. ...

June 24, 2021 · 8 min · Pablo Iranzo Gómez
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