Posted by jpluimers on 2020/11/23
The G+ exodus caused some people to create some great information on available online messaging and social-networking / social-media / social-graph based technologies: [WayBack] Protocols and Networks – PlexodusWiki.
Via [WayBack] Protocols and Networks +Mr. McNoname compiled and formatted an excellent rundown of open & federated social networking protocols. This is the kind of… – Edward Morbius – Google+
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2020/11/02
I got a bit tired of scrolling back to a known date for posts (as having a couple of 100 tweets visible really makes browsers slooooooooooooooow), so I wondered if you could limit a date range. Yes you can! There are even more options, and there is even a special search page for that:
You can use all these from the regular search as well as per [WayBack] Find Your Old Tweets: How to See Your First Tweet | WordStream.
A was too lazy to find all the possible keywords myself, so used [WayBack] How to use advanced Twitter search queries (with examples!) | Union Metrics (and a few others I found later) to make this list:
keword/prefix meaning/values include word or phrase
if it is an account: includes tweets from, mentions and retweets of that account– negate: exclude this word or phrase @ mentions of an account, but not tweets from it # hashtag lang: two-letter ISO 639-1 language code from [WayBack] What languages can I limit report results to? – Union Metrics Help Desk;
might actually be any BCP 47 IETF language tagnear: region (country, city) within: distance around center of region (at least ##mi for miles and ##km for kilometers are supported) since: date, including the since date until: date, excluding the until date to: reply-tweets to an account (which does not allow an @) from: tweets from an account (which does not allow an @) filter: at least recognises filter:linksto only returns tweets having links:( searches for negative attitudes (it recognises many negative emoticons) :) searches for negative attitudes (it recognises many positive emoticons) ? searches for questions source: at least recognises source:twitterfeedto only return tweets posted via twitterfeedOR include multiple words or phrases
A few tips of things to avoid:
So this does not work: https://twitter.com/search?l=&q=from%3Ajpluimers%20since%3A2020-01-01%20until%3A2020-01-01&src=typd
But this does: https://twitter.com/search?l=&q=from%3Ajpluimers%20since%3A2020-01-01%20until%3A2020-01-02&src=typd
You can even reclaim your time-line on a specific date: just increase the date by one day: https://twitter.com/search?f=tweets&vertical=default&q=filter%3Afollows%20until%3A2020-01-02%20-filter%3Areplies&src=typd
Three really cool things on that last URL
Hmm, maybe I should make a redirect that always shows your timeline for today in the non-mangled way (:
Some more links I found during this search:
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2020/10/23
[WayBack] Using Permalinks « WordPress Codex:
http://example.com/?p=N
So for instance https://wiert.me/?p=35558 points to Delphi version info table: C# Builder, Delphi 8 through 10.3 Rio and Appbuilder despite the actual URL not fully matching the title (because I do not like link rot): https://wiert.me/2016/09/06/delphi-version-info-table-need-help-with-these-projectversion-for-c-builder-delphi-2005-and-2006-dllsuffix-for-c-builder-appbuilder-1-13-codename/
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2020/08/17
Blocking persons (for instance for sending you materials that in G+ would be a T.O.S. violation) is only possible by blocking them, not by reporting them.
Most hangouts users however do have a G+ account, so you can request a block there.
Relevant links:
If you don’t feel comfortable in a Hangout with someone, you can block them. When you block someone, they can see that you’re online but can’t send you Hangouts messages.
Tip: If you are contacted by strangers or spammers, choose who can contact you directly.
You can see your conversations, invites and contacts. Contacts that are online are at the top of the list with a green circle on their photo.
…
Let people contact you without an invite.
If you see something on Google+ that violates our User Conduct and Content Policies, you can report it. Violations might include: Bullying, threatening, or harassing someone Hate speech …
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2020/07/03
A friend asked me what tools I use for downloading media, converting it to various formats (including audio extraction) and audio editing.
It is a surprisingly short list:
Most of it runs out of the box on Mac OS X/MacOS/OS X, as I’ve moved there form Windows for most of my day to day access to systems (there is a great set of Microsoft Remote Desktop in the app store: [Archive.is] Microsoft Remote Desktop 8.0 on the Mac App Store and [Archive.is] Microsoft Remote Desktop 10 on the Mac App Store; I like the first one better).
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Posted by jpluimers on 2020/04/24
I am have been using ThreadReaderApp.com – and more so since G+ went belly up – but forgot to schedule a post on it, so here it is:
[WayBack] Show HN: Unroll Twitter threads for easy reading | Hacker News:
I made this new service called Thread Reader that given a first tweet from a twitter thread will return a carefully designed web page with the full [WayBack] Tweetstorm unrolled.
It comes with two “bots” – one that answer people who mention “@tttthreads unroll” replying to the first tweet of a threads and give them a link to the unrolled story – the second that search twitter for “#threads” and check if it is a valid thread (> 5 tweets) and if so post a unrolled version back to the author (limited to a few post per hour to avoid to be too spammy)
The stack is good old LAMP using the PHP silex micro framework and of course Twitter API
[WayBack] Thread Reader Thread Reader helps you discover and read the best of Twitter Threads
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2020/04/14
I’ve used these excellent posts to find out which youtube-dl version started to exhibit troublesome NPO downloads, then later find the actual failing commit:
Why the effort? I needed an as recent as possible youtube-dl working on as many sites as possible because of some work preparation.
The first link is very important because brew versions and alternatives have stopped working some 6 years ago, even though they turn up high on Google searches for brew install specific version. Hence the quote from the first link:
Installing software packages on Mac is very easy with homebrew. You typically get the latest version, however often in production you do not have the latest version of a software package. Another use case is when you upgrade to the latest and you find out there is bug which blocks you doing something. In this case you would like to downgrade to the previous version until the bug is fixed.In both cases you need to install a specific version of a software package with homebrew on your Mac, which tends to be not that trivial. There is a lot of discussion about this on stackoverflow but some of them are outdated based on brew versions which is not available anymore.
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Posted by jpluimers on 2020/04/08
After a 2018 discussion with a “zorgkantoor” (Dutch for office that arranges for special long term health care needs, successor of AWBZ) about their very low (10 megabyte) SMTP message size limit – even though they expect scanned PDF documents.
Their web-care team posed this limit as normal, so I made a list of limits in their peer group, common world-wide and well-ranked Dutch internet providers.
My plan is to check the progression of these limits over time.
Note these are the bruto message sizes including encoded attachments. Since encoding in [WayBack] MIME Base64 – Wikipedia has a overhead of at least 37% (encoded size is at least 1.37 the original size), the unencoded maximum size is less than 73% of what is listed below.
References:
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Posted by jpluimers on 2020/04/06
I found this in one of my logs a a while ago:
Error when executing EHLO command for domain mail.com on SMTP server mx00.mail.com.
(554, 'mail.com (mxgmxus007) Nemesis ESMTP Service not available\nNo SMTP service\nBad DNS PTR resource record.\nFor explanation visit http://postmaster.gmx.com/en/error-messages?ip=37.153.243.242&c=rdns')
It means that gmx.de / mail.com are among the strictest email handling providers I know. I don’t blame them: EHLO is at the start of an extended SMTP session.
At [WayBack] Error messages | GMX Postmaster it indicates:
5xy Bad DNS PTR resource record
Emails from your email server were rejected because the PTR Resource Record (PTR-RR) of your IP address does not follow our guidelines. Possible reasons for this can be:
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2020/04/03
TL;DR of [WayBack] How to Share a Direct Link to a Dropbox File – How to Do Anything in Apps | Zapier and [WayBack] How to force a shared link to download or render – Dropbox Help
www.dropbox.com with dl.dropboxusercontent.com:
?dl=0 with ?dl=1
?dl=0 with ?raw=1r
Related:
–jeroen
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