Posted by jpluimers on 2018/05/30
I saw the below notification recently, but it was already enabled.
Akismet & Privacy.
To help your site be compliant with GDPR and other laws requiring notification of tracking, Akismet can display a notice to your users under your comment forms. This feature is disabled by default, however, if you or your audience is located in Europe, you need to turn it on.
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2018/05/04
This message was sent because you may have an older version of the Google+ app installed on one of your mobile devices.
Now if the message would tell on which device, I could find it….
Source: [WayBack] Old Google+ versions and photo backup may stop working on May 20, 2018 – Google+ Help
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2018/03/24
“Downloaded my facebook data as a ZIP file Somehow it has my entire call history with my partner’s mum a historical record of every single co […]” @dylanmckaynz
Full Unrolled thread from @dylanmckaynz [WayBack], the Twitter thread head is below.
The unwrap/unroll was done by ThreadReadApp which I bumped into thanks to Kristian Köhntopp: [WayBack] Discover and Read the Best of Twitter Threads.
My archive was less than 20 megabytes, likely because I hardly used it as it is way too much of a time sink.
You can download yours via the steps at [WayBack] How can I download a copy of my Facebook data? | Facebook Help Center
Basically, logon to Facebook, navigate to www.facebook.com/settings, initiate the download to create the archive (requires your credentials again), want for the confirmation, then download the archive, then run the script that Dylan created: [WayBack] A Ruby script for collecting phone record statistics from a Facebook user data dump · GitHub.
Cannot run it yet (Mac OS sierra has a ruby version that is too old).
–jeroen
Via:
@threadreaderapp unroll“
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Posted by jpluimers on 2018/03/21
Spring time, cleaning time: [WayBack] How to use Facebook while giving it the minimum amount of personal data – The Verge.
Via: [WayBack] Ah it’s that time of the year where all the “this is how to quit [name of service involved in a scandal]”-articles pop up. Oh well, not a bad idea to ch… – Roderick Gadellaa – Google+
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2018/03/05
Al een jaar of wat volg ik de Nederlandstalige #Tech45 podcast van tech45.eu:
Tech45 is een wekelijkse technologiepodcast. In minstens 45 minuten loodst een panel je door het interessantste technieuws van de voorbije week.
Ze hebben altijd een leuke titel zoals bijvoorbeeld de eerste van 2016: [WayBack] Tech45 #322: Ik heb eigenlijk alleen maar slechte voornemens
Wees niet verbaast als het ineens 60 of 80 minuten duurt en vol humor zit. Meestal luister ik ook na afloop en soms meerdere episodes achter elkaar.
Misschien is de nieuwe layout al af, zo niet dan staat het experiment op [WayBack] http://43.tech45.eu/
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2018/02/28
Clever, as I didn’t know you could directly refer to the YouTube preview image using the “/0.jpg” trick:
Youtube videos
They can’t be added directly but you can add an image with a link to the video like this:
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=YOUTUBE_VIDEO_ID_HERE " target="_blank"><img src="http://img.youtube.com/vi/YOUTUBE_VIDEO_ID_HERE/0.jpg" alt="IMAGE ALT TEXT HERE" width="240" height="180" border="10" /></a>Or, in pure Markdown, but losing the image sizing and border:
[](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YOUTUBE_VIDEO_ID_HERE)
Source: [WayBack] Markdown Cheatsheet · adam-p/markdown-here Wiki · GitHub
If you allow using resources outside of YouTube, then you can use gifs.com to render the video into a gif image and use that image in the above construct.
I tried that with a few seconds from http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iHOpw55TI-U which resulted in https://gifs.com/gif/liquid-prompt-Lg1kPp and the gif file https://j.gifs.com/Lg1kPp.gif
via: [WayBack] flash – How to embed a video into GitHub README.md? – Stack Overflow (thanks [WayBack] aloisdg for answering)
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2018/01/26
Oh cool:
Formatting your messages –
WhatsApp allows you to format selected text inside your messages.
Italic
To italicize your message, place an underscore on both sides of the text, like so:
_text_Bold
To bold your message, place an asterisk on both sides of the text, like so:
*text*Strikethrough
To
strikethroughyour message, place a tilde on both sides of the text, like so:~text~Monospace
To
monospaceyour message, place three backticks on both sides of the text, like so:```text```Alternatively: On Android, you can tap and hold the text you’re typing > More …
Source: [WayBack] WhatsApp FAQ – Formatting your messages
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2018/01/20
As I keep forgetting the Notifications – Google+ URL and G+ kills “older” notifications: https://plus.google.com/notifications/all
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2017/12/31
Bugs happen: [WayBack] Did I miss something ? I’ve tried to add a custom image loader for FMX … TBitmapCodecManager.LoadFromFile calls TImageTypeChecker.GetType that returns ONLY predefined image types ! (gif, bmp, png, tiff, jpg) … – Paul TOTH – Google+
I’m not so much surprised by bugs, but what scares the heck out of me is that since about halfway October 2017, there are 900+ Reported issues with status Unresolved (i.e. no change to the issue after it got reported).
Before switching to half-year product release cycles, the yearly ones had an issue triage cut-off date of about 3-6 months.
Now back on yearly cycles, I don’t expect that to be much different.
Expecting a new release in the halfway March 2018 till beginning May 2018 time frame, and assuming the past being a good indication of the future, the window of processing issues is closing soon.
I really hope I am wrong and wish 2018 turns out to he a great Delphi year.
–jeroen
Sorry this post became victim to the “Missed Schedule” issue (I finally found out there is a ridiculous limit of 100 scheduled posts over which scheduling becomes unreliable; this limit used to be much much larger in the past).
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Posted by jpluimers on 2017/12/31
Via: [WayBack] It’s a German thing, you wouldn’t understand. „Dinner for one“ am 31.12 … 12 mal… – Kristian Köhntopp – Google+
In case you are still interested (I think it is an hilarious sketch):
–jeroen
Sorry this post became victim to the “Missed Schedule” issue (I finally found out there is a ridiculous limit of 100 scheduled posts over which scheduling becomes unreliable; this limit used to be much much larger in the past).
[WayBack] Warning: Please do not schedule more than 100 posts. Any posts scheduled beyond that amount will not be published.
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