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@BritisAirwaySup: a parody account on Webcare teams always wanting to directly move to private DM conversation and sharing full privacy details

Posted by jpluimers on 2024/07/18

Too bad many webcare / social media corporate accounts respond to every question (even ones of importance to the general public) along these lines:

we extremely apologize for the challenge encountered, customer relations haven’t forgotten about you, it wasn’t our intention, kindly follow back, share full names, reachable WhatsApp number via DM, so we can assist further

[Wayback/Archive] Thread by @BritisAirwaySup on Thread Reader App

Via a quote tweet of [Wayback/Archive] Thread by @mysk_co on Thread Reader App

When you join a Wi-Fi network that shows a captive portal on the iPhone, iOS opens the captive portal in a Safari web view regardless of which default browser you’ve chosen.

This little experiment implements a captive portal that detects the browser. Brave was the default browser, but iOS opened the captive portal in Safari. The second screenshot shows what this sample website displays if opened with Brave.

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Important to defeat Twitter wrongly auto-guessing of URLs (and assuming anything with @ or # is a mention or hashtag) is Nelson’s Weblog: tech / zero-width-space

Posted by jpluimers on 2024/07/11

Quoting in full from [Wayback/Archive] Nelson’s Weblog: tech / zero-width-space to demonstrate a zero-width-space problem with WordPress too.

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Posted in Bookmarklet, Classic editor, Development, Gutenberg editor, JavaScript/ECMAScript, Power User, Scripting, SocialMedia, Software Development, Twitter, Web Browsers, Web Development, WordPress | Leave a Comment »

Some pCloud links

Posted by jpluimers on 2024/05/27

For my link archive (Swiss pCloud is GDPR conformant, has European servers in Luxembourg, supports Windows/MacOS/Linux/Android/iOS and various browser extensions).

Before the lists of links: note that cloud storage is not a back-up (despite many of them trying to lure you into thinking they are), so note two things:

  1. Backup stuff in multiple places.
  2. A backup is only a backup if you can prove that a restore from backup functions well.

The links:

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Climbing up from a deep pit it just as admirable as climbing a mountain (via Liz Fosslien)

Posted by jpluimers on 2024/05/06

A while ago in 24 hours time, I bumped into both of these great illustrations about accomplishments that help strengthen your mental state.

Time to give the authors a boost:

You can find more about their books and workshops at [Wayback/Archive] Liz + Mollie Feel Things.

The illustrations that triggered me

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Wetend dat veel Twitter reacties bestaan uit externalisering van de innerlijke conflicten van de reageerder kun je die makkelijker negeren

Posted by jpluimers on 2024/04/15

[Wayback/Archive] Sam Gerrits on Twitter: “Had het net met goede vriendin die psychotherapeut is over zeg 25 % van de reacties op Twitter. Las er een paar voor. Zij: “Ze reageren niet op wat je zegt, ze externaliseren hun innerlijke conflict. Dit zie ik ook in mijn behandelkamer. Maar het is mijn vak en ik kan in overleg””.

[Wayback/Archive] Sam Gerrits on Twitter: “Hier een uitleg over externaliseren. Zinvol om in je achterhoofd te houden en om compassie op te kunnen brengen voor zelfs de meest schuimbekkende reacties. Of om ze gewoon naast je neer te kunnen leggen, zonder het idee te hebben dat je er iets mee moet. …”

[Wayback/Archive] Externaliserend gedrag vraagt om kijken naar mogelijkheden | Blik op hulp

–jeroen

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“Skiff – Private, encrypted, secure email – 10 GB free” was too good to be true: discontinued (“sunsetting”) at 2024-08-09

Posted by jpluimers on 2024/04/09

Skiff (email service) – Wikipedia already mentioned them as too good to be true for a while:

It launched in 2021 and was developed in San Francisco, California. In November 2023, it reached its own record of almost 2 million users (17 months since launch).

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In a 2023 article, PCMAG reviewed Skiff pointing that Skiff offers “End-to-end encryption for email, collaboration, and calendar”, making complements to the fact of its services being free and easy to use (while being available as Apps for macOS, Android, and iOS).

This was all in the midst of me trying to find another place for our mail than GMail, and I am considering Proton Mail (which is profitable and offers both paid and free plans).

I had heard about Skiff Mail, and was lucky to not have included them on the shortlist as mid February, the above Wikipedia articled was updated to contain these two sections:

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ApplesSoft BASIC code which includes assembly language: Twitter bot AppleIIBot could run it!

Posted by jpluimers on 2024/03/20

This was a trip down memory lane where I was totally unaware that you could embed 6502 assembly language inside AppleSoft BASIC code.

It turns you can, and even better: the Twitter bot named AppleIIBot could execute it too!

Though I bumped into AppleIIBot during winter 2021, I published the BBC equivalent last week (see BBC trip down memory lane – 8bitkick/BBCMicroBot: Runs your tweet on an 8-bit computer emulator) as that one got released earlier.

For the moment it is down because Elon blew up Twitter and shut down on 2022-11-05, but hopefully – like the BBC equivalent – it will resurface on a Mastodon instance somewhere in the future.

Luckily all old Tweets with code and rendering are still there, though you need a Twitter account to view them: Elon broke the feature of anonymous access seeing all messages in a thread.

Below the signature are the full Tweets that led me into it; the texts are these:

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BBC trip down memory lane – 8bitkick/BBCMicroBot: Runs your tweet on an 8-bit computer emulator

Posted by jpluimers on 2024/03/13

I am publishing this in order of the Twitter bot Social bots appearing, though I found this one later than the Apple ][ equivalent:

[Wayback/Archive] 8bitkick/BBCMicroBot: Runs your tweet on an 8-bit computer emulator which is a GitHub repository with full source code.

The odd thing is that I bumped into it while performing a [Wayback/Archive] bot that reads unicode – Twitter Search / Twitter (I was looking for a bot responding to fancy Unicode in account names and messages that makes using Twitter for visually impaired a pain to use wich I covered in To make Twitter a better place for visually impaired: please do without those fancy Unicode letters in your account and messages – Global Accessibility Awareness Day 2022 – #a11y).

It made me find this thread stat started in spring 2022:

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Posted in 6502, 6502 Assembly, Assembly Language, BASIC, BBC Micro B, Development, History, SocialMedia, Software Development, Twitter, TwitterBot | Leave a Comment »

For my link archive: responses to Iris Classon asking for “least privacy invading way to track some metrics regarding traffic to my website?”

Posted by jpluimers on 2024/03/12

This sparked some great responses [Wayback/Archive] Iris Classon on Twitter: “What’s the least privacy invading way to track some metrics regarding traffic to my website? Basic stuff, not length of stay, color of underwear or body count.”, for instance:

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Thread by @AlanLevinovitz on Thread Reader App – Thread Reader App

Posted by jpluimers on 2024/03/01

Some 2 years ago, but still relevant on all Social Media platforms is the [Wayback/Archive] Thread by @AlanLevinovitz on Thread Reader App – a short list of flexible rules I use to make this a wonderful paradise I enjoy almost all the time.

Quoted in full (#7 really works, see the screenshot at the end of the blog post):

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