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Memories of the Twitter Fail Whale that got discontinued 10 years ago (HT @YiyingLu, @failwhale).

Posted by jpluimers on 2023/11/01

From 2008 to fall 2013, Twitter used the Fail Whale, a 2006 artwork by Yiying Lu originally titled “Lifting A Dreamer”, to indicate problems on their site.

Now that it is about a year after Musk burned some 44 milliard USD buying Twitter, it is also 10 years ago they phased out the Fail Whale, so it is a good time to remember it and a reminder to check out how Twitter faired during Elon’s ownership.

With Twitter down, you’d see the image from [Wayback/Archive] Yiying Lu 🐳 🥟🧋 on Twitter: “It has been 10 years since my art piece “Lifting a Dreamer” became the Twitter Fail Whale, a symbol as @Twitter’s service outrage during 2008-2013. It has inspired hundreds, probably thousands, of funny, clever & amusing homages and take-offs from users globally. Here are a few: …”:

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0x48piraj/fadblock: Friendly Adblock for YouTube: A fast, lightweight, and undetectable YouTube Ads Blocker for Chrome, Opera and Firefox.

Posted by jpluimers on 2023/10/31

[Wayback/Archive] 0x48piraj/fadblock: Friendly Adblock for YouTube: A fast, lightweight, and undetectable YouTube Ads Blocker for Chrome, Opera and Firefox.

At the time of writing, it was available in these web-browser extension/addon stores:

A 404 was returned at [Wayback/Archive] https://addons.opera.com/en-gb/extensions/details/fadblock/ which I reported in [Wayback/Archive] Extension vanished from the Opera Addons page · Issue #15 · 0x48piraj/fadblock.

Via:

–jeroen

Posted in Chrome, CSS, Development, Firefox, JavaScript/ECMAScript, Opera, Power User, Scripting, SocialMedia, Software Development, Web Browsers, Web Development, YouTube | Leave a Comment »

Python code from @baekdal (find tweets you retweeted by someone else)

Posted by jpluimers on 2023/10/26

Need to try this out: [Wayback/Archive] Code from https://twitter.com/baekdal/status/1279123542144094208 and https://twitter.com/baekdal/status/1279123544052563968 (find tweets you retweeted by someone else)

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Posted in Development, JavaScript/ECMAScript, JSON, Python, Scripting, SocialMedia, Software Development, Twitter | Leave a Comment »

In the WordPress classic editor, avoid the SyntaxHighlighter Code Block

Posted by jpluimers on 2023/10/25

When you use the WordPress classic editor (which for me still works far better than the Gutenberg one), avoid at all cost the use of the [Wayback/Archive] SyntaxHighlighter Code Block – Page 2 – WordPress.com Support.

Each time you switch between from Text View back to Visual, some characters are html-encoded, like:

  • & becomes &
  • > becomes >

Switching twice makes & into &&gt.

Switching three times makes & into &&&gt.

I already explained why to avoid the Gutenberg editor in Bookmarklet to force WordPress classic-editor.

Via:

–jeroen

Posted in Classic editor, Development, Gutenberg editor, SocialMedia, Software Development, Web Development, WordPress, WordPress | Leave a Comment »

Help saving time drain: YouTube Time – Chrome Web Store

Posted by jpluimers on 2023/10/09

Trying to help someone with a time drain: [Wayback/Archive] YouTube Time – Chrome Web Store

Via [Wayback/Archive] How to Limit YouTube Time on Mac on Chrome and Safari.

–jeroen

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Meredith Whittaker on X: “Facebook messages turned over by the company served as key evidence used to convict Jessica Burgess and her daughter. E2E encryption keeps people safe.”

Posted by jpluimers on 2023/09/24

This is why you don’t use Facebook Messenger (and use E2E encrypted messengers):

[Wayback/Archive] US mother sentenced to two years in prison for giving daughter abortion pills | Nebraska | The Guardian

Court documents in the case revealed that Facebook’s parent company Meta supplied police with the private Facebook messages that Celeste and Jessica Burgess had sent one another. In one message, Celeste told Jessica: “Remember we burn the evidence.”

Via

  1. [Waybacksave/Archive] Meredith Whittaker on X: “Facebook messages turned over by the company served as key evidence used to convict Jessica Burgess and her daughter. E2E encryption keeps people safe.”
  2. [Wayback/Archive] Max Burns on X: “People scoffed and said it was overdramatic to say that overturning Roe v. Wade would mean putting women in prison. Welcome to the new America. Nebraska Mom Who Gave Teen Daughter Abortion Pills Sentenced To Two Years In Prison”
  3. [Wayback/Archive] Nebraska Mom Who Gave Teen Daughter Abortion Pills Sentenced To Two Years In Prison

–jeroen

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Revision of some JavaScript bookmarklets for WordPress published pages centered around navigation and IDs: WordPress ditched the undocumented HighlanderComments structure

Posted by jpluimers on 2023/09/15

As promised yesterday, I updated the scripts for Some JavaScript bookmarklets for WordPress published pages centered around navigation and IDs

Code (which broke at 20230914 because of WordPress.com changes: the undocumented HighlanderComments structure got removed; I will update the gist later on and post an updated blog post)

Instead of the undocumented HighlanderComments structure, I now use two (also undocumented) link rel elements.

In addition, I found this element that will be interesting in the future: <link rel='shortlink' href='https://wp.me/pvelJ-m8g' />.

You can view the change with the below archivals of the Wayback Machine and Archive.is.

And of course I learned a few things from these MDN entries:

The 20230530 archivals (Wayback/Archive) of wiert.me/2022/02/14/philosophy-of-management have this HighlanderComments structure:

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Posted in Bookmarklet, Conference Topics, Conferences, Development, Event, HTML, JavaScript/ECMAScript, Power User, Scripting, SocialMedia, Software Development, Web Browsers, Web Development, WordPress | Leave a Comment »

John Scott-Railton on X: “Where are the Quote Tweets? 1️⃣ Find & click the tiny dots 2️⃣ Navigate this cumbersome menu 3️⃣ Marvel at the deliberate enshittification of Twitter 4️⃣ Ponder whether this change is because someone didn’t enjoy getting ratioed.”

Posted by jpluimers on 2023/09/14

[Wayback/Archive] John Scott-Railton on X: “Where are the Quote Tweets? 1️⃣ Find & click the tiny dots 2️⃣ Navigate this cumbersome menu 3️⃣ Marvel at the deliberate enshittification of Twitter 4️⃣ Ponder whether this change is because someone didn’t enjoy getting ratioed.”

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Help:Two-factor authentication – Wikipedia

Posted by jpluimers on 2023/09/06

For my link archive as this page contains instructions to request 2FA privileges at Wikipedia: [Wayback/Archive] Help:Two-factor authentication – Wikipedia

Checking whether 2FA is enabled

To determine whether your account has 2FA enabled, go to Special:Preferences. Under “Basic information”, check the entry for “Two-factor authentication”, which should be between “Global account” and “Global preferences”:

Viewing m:Steward requests/Global permissions#Requests for 2 Factor Auth tester permissions is possible to do without being logged on at Wikipedia, but for requesting the 2FA permission and accessing Special:Preferences you need to be logged on.

Visit [Wayback/Archive] Steward requests/Global permissions/2018-12 – Meta and look for “OATH tester” for some examples of motivations for requesting.

–jeroen

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Email Handling and vBulletin Cloud – vBulletin Community Forum

Posted by jpluimers on 2023/08/25

For my link archive: [Wayback/Archive] Email Handling and vBulletin Cloud – vBulletin Community Forum.

  • Asking your end users to white list your email address and the Sendgrid IP (167.89.58.99) can help alleviate the issues.

I didn’t know the above but bumped into an issue because I didn’t know a supplier had moved to vBulletin Cloud, my account password stopped being accepted and my account password reset messages would not arrive.

So I wrote this as part of a mail to sort this out, and it was confirmed to be correct:

Then I re-checked a few connection refusals that appeared close to the password reset tries. Not sure if this a pattern, but a few of them had this:
2022-02-20T19:41:42.999415+01:00 snap sendmail[24314]: NOQUEUE: connect from o1678958x99.outbound-mail.sendgrid.net [167.89.58.99]
2022-02-20T19:41:43.015958+01:00 snap sendmail[24314]: NOQUEUE: dns 99.58.89.167.bl.spamcop.net. => 127.0.0.2
2022-02-20T19:41:43.016442+01:00 snap sendmail[24314]: ruleset=check_relay, arg1=o1678958x99.outbound-mail.sendgrid.net, arg2=127.0.0.2, relay=o1678958x99.outbound-mail.sendgrid.net [167.89.58.99], reject=553 5.3.0 Spam blocked see: http://spamcop.net/bl.shtml?167.89.58.99
2022-02-20T19:42:29.527789+01:00 snap sendmail[23814]: 21KIeTfo023814: engine10.uptimerobot.com [69.162.124.231] did not issue MAIL/EXPN/VRFY/ETRN during connection to MTA
From the linked page I got to https://www.spamcop.net/w3m?action=blcheck&ip=167.89.58.99 indicating

167.89.58.99 listed in bl.spamcop.net (127.0.0.2)

If there are no reports of ongoing objectionable email from this system it will be delisted automatically in approximately 13 hours.

Causes of listing
  • System has sent mail to SpamCop spam traps in the past week (spam traps are secret, no reports or evidence are provided by SpamCop)

Express-delisting is not available

Listing History

In the past 44.4 days, it has been listed 12 times for a total of 13.3 days

Can you check if the forum software uses sendgrid?

The confirmation linked to the first post in this blog entry on how to whitelist the SendGrid outgoing IP-address.

One thing I wonder: why does SendGrid use a single outgoing IP-address? If it gets blacklisted, many of their clients have problems.

Anyway: before adding the entry to my whitelist, the problem had resolved itself, and the blacklist entries were done:

Related: [Wayback/Archive] Forum Move – Scooter Forums

We’ve moved our forums to vBulletin Cloud.

New forum URL: https://forum.scootersoftware.com/

Links to the old forum will be redirected to the new URL.

If you notice any problems after the move, please let us know.

[Wayback/Archive] Forums – Scooter Forums

–jeroen

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