Archive for the ‘SocialMedia’ Category
Posted by jpluimers on 2024/08/28
For my TODO list: [Wayback/Archive] twitter-to-bsky
Crosspost from Twitter/X to Bluesky and Mastodon
twitter-to-bsky – crosspost from Twitter/X to Bluesky and Mastodon directly in the web browser
It allows to automatically crosspost to
Bluesky and/or
Mastodon when writing posts in the
Twitter/X web application in a desktop browser.
More links:
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Posted by jpluimers on 2024/07/27
Mentioned this on various social media already yesterday, as then suddenlyย – even for EU users, which is against their GDPR regulations – Twitter turned on data sharing with Grok AI of your Twitter data at x.com/settings/grok_settings (direct settings link) without given prior warning at all

[Wayback/Archive] GTarqIOWEAAs4jy.png (768ร290)
I got this default setting despite living in The Netherlands and Twitter knowing that:
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Posted in AI and ML; Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning, Development, GDPR/DS-GVO/AVG, LLM, Power User, Privacy, SocialMedia, Software Development, Twitter | Leave a Comment »
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 ofย [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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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 »
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:
- Backup stuff in multiple places.
- A backup is only a backup if you can prove that a restore from backup functions well.
The links:
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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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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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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 โ 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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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 โ Global Accessibility Awareness Day 2022 โ #a11y).
It made me find this thread stat started in spring 2022:
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