Finished disconnecting a blog from Facebook and Twitter, and fixing its connection to Tumblr. Amusingly, while FB, Twitter &…

Finished disconnecting a blog from Facebook and Twitter, and fixing its connection to Tumblr.

Amusingly, while FB, Twitter & Tumblr all broke, the LiveJournal Syndicated Feed I haven’t touched in 13 years because I don’t want to have to log in and agree to the Russian terms of service…is still functional.

Probably because it’s just something on their end polling the RSS feed.

The Mastodon bot I set up using the RSS feed and IFTTT sometime pre-Covid (checks notes: 2017????) still works too.

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“Between hordes of scalpers and website outages, The Pokémon Company’s Van Gogh collab wound up being a big headache for coll…

“Between hordes of scalpers and website outages, The Pokémon Company’s Van Gogh collab wound up being a big headache for collectors”

Yes, they had a Pokemon event at the actual Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam.

https://www.theverge.com/23896251/pokemon-van-gogh-pikachu-sold-out-scalping-promos

#pokemon #museum #VanGogh

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Since the power plant was officially slated for decommissioning a few years back, the new local hot button political issue ha…

Since the power plant was officially slated for decommissioning a few years back, the new local hot button political issue has been where to route a planned Metro extension: along a major commercial street, or along the existing right of way through residential neighborhoods. Which would be cheaper and done sooner. But, again, routed through residential neighborhoods.

And, it turns out, a hidden WW2-era graveyard. 🤦‍♂️

https://easyreadernews.com/newly-discovered-graves-haunt-la-metro-green-line-through-north-redondo-beach/

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Insightful and (ironically) gut-punching post from @Catvalente on the way we — as humans in …

Insightful and (ironically) gut-punching post from @Catvalente on the way we — as humans in general — think about pain.

“The idea that pain is punishment is at the core of humanity's nasty little habit of turning its back on itself and we've been doing that for quite some time now. For all of the time, really.”

https://open.substack.com/pub/catvalente/p/pain-is-not-a-penance

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Don’t get me started on “Your software is up to date! Last checked 1 minute ago!” when the last check happened in the 2 secon…

Don’t get me started on “Your software is up to date! Last checked 1 minute ago!” when the last check happened in the 2 seconds between the device waking up and the wifi connecting, and hitting reload immediately discovers that yes, there is in fact an updated version available and has been for the last several days, we just told you it was current because we couldn’t be bothered to update the message according to how long ago the check was made or whether the check actually went through.

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Popped over to Twitter to delete the last handful of posts I left there when I deleted most of them back in December. Decided…

Popped over to Twitter to delete the last handful of posts I left there when I deleted most of them back in December. Decided to leave two for now, though I might still delete them before the new TOS takes effect.

Oct 2008: “If only the super high-tech jet fighters had identified, clarified & classified, they’d have seen the attack for what it really was.”

Nov 2022: “Weird, it’s almost like the needs of a “town square” for people to communicate and exchange ideas aren’t compatible with the incentives for a single for-profit entity to maintain it.”

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Related question for those who still have #twitter on their phones and are willing to …

Related question for those who still have on their phones and are willing to look at the technical situation a bit:

Does the X app still save settings and other data in a twitter-named folder, or has that been renamed too?

Because if it's been renamed, I bet they didn't bother migrating drafts from the old location.

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I missed this article on the libwebp vulnerability the first time through, but I really have to appreciate this line after a …

I missed this article on the libwebp vulnerability the first time through, but I really have to appreciate this line after a list of high-profile projects and the versions with it patched:

“The number of affected software packages is too large to check all of them.”

https://arstechnica.com/security/2023/09/incomplete-disclosures-by-apple-and-google-create-huge-blindspot-for-0-day-hunters/

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