Archive for the ‘SocialMedia’ Category
Posted by jpluimers on 2023/12/12
Based on these tweets, I want to write a bookmarklet that at least removes the s= and t= parameters from Twitter URLs, maybe even all parameters (TODO: figure out if there are useful Twitter URL parameters first):
Even Jack Dorsey didn’t know they were introduced when he was still Twitter CEO. From the tweets below:
- The
s parameter seems to have to have to do with both the kind of sharing and the type of client used.
- The
t parameter could correlate with the user ID.
There is a sort of bookmarklet below which goes through an external web-site (search for “unfurl”), but I want to do it purely client-side.
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Posted in Bookmarklet, Development, JavaScript/ECMAScript, Power User, Scripting, SocialMedia, Software Development, Twitter, Web Browsers | Leave a Comment »
Posted by jpluimers on 2023/11/29
Low-tech beats hi-tech. It always does.
Oh, and it so much reminds me of BITNET relay, early internet and BBS/Fidonet days.
[Wayback/Archive] Nick Wright: “1993: I use BBSes for online i…” – Mastodon.ART
1993: I use BBSes for online interaction. Each BBS is run by some random person. They connect to a federated worldwide network. I keep my notes in .TXT files.
2008-2022: I use social networks like Facebook and Twitter for online interaction. They’re huge and popular. I use Evernote for my notes, which is full of features.
2023: I use Mastodon for online interaction. Each instance is run by some random person. They connect to a federated worldwide network. I keep my notes in .TXT files.
--jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2023/11/28
Reminder to self to yearly check all my Google accounts because of [Wayback/Archive] Updating our inactive account policies
we are updating our inactivity policy for Google Accounts to 2 years across our products. Starting later this year, if a Google Account has not been used or signed into for at least 2 years, we may delete the account and its contents – including content within Google Workspace (Gmail, Docs, Drive, Meet, Calendar), YouTube and Google Photos.
The policy only applies to personal Google Accounts, and will not affect accounts for organizations like schools or businesses. This update aligns our policy with industry standards around retention and account deletion and also limits the amount of time Google retains your unused personal information.
We are going to roll this out slowly and carefully, with plenty of notice:
- While the policy takes effect today, it will not immediately impact users with an inactive account — the earliest we will begin deleting accounts is December 2023.
- We will take a phased approach, starting with accounts that were created and never used again.
- Before deleting an account, we will send multiple notifications over the months leading up to deletion, to both the account email address and the recovery email (if one has been provided).
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Posted by jpluimers on 2023/11/15
Posted in About, Autistic Spectrum/Autism, Development, Instagram, JavaScript/ECMAScript, Node.js, Personal, Scripting, SocialMedia, Software Development, Web Development | Leave a Comment »
Posted by jpluimers on 2023/11/08
Edit: I scheduled this post a long time ago, but it likely won’t work any more because of Space Karen demolsing Twitter. So for now, view this post as a how historically we had nice things on Twitter.
When writing this, the fork [Wayback/Archive] woluxwolu/twint works and the original [Wayback/Archive] twintproject/twint: An advanced Twitter scraping & OSINT tool written in Python that doesn’t use Twitter’s API, allowing you to scrape a user’s followers, following, Tweets and more while evading most API limitations. does not.
See these tweets in Dutch (Google Translate on them works well):
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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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Posted by jpluimers on 2023/10/31
Posted in Chrome, CSS, Development, Firefox, JavaScript/ECMAScript, Opera, Power User, Scripting, SocialMedia, Software Development, Web Browsers, Web Development, YouTube | Leave a Comment »
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 &>.
Switching three times makes & into &&&gt.
I already explained why to avoid the Gutenberg editor in Bookmarklet to force WordPress classic-editor.
Via:
–jeroen
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