Archiving my Twitter, Facebook and other social network activity
@sohkamyung@mstdn.io wrote:
Bwhahaha! More ‘coffee emotions’ in the twitter thread. 🙂
“Field Museum @FieldMuseum
Too. Much. Coffee. 😳”“These watercolors were painted by Chinese artists during the mid-19th century and sold to Western customers in port cities of Hong Kong, Macao, and Canton. They’re imaginary birds but with some real #MondayMood feelings.”
These are great!
@InvaderXan @hafnia @Zuph I live near two oil refineries that use modified HF. Ever since an explosion at one of them narrowly missed the HF tank a few years ago, people have been trying to get them to phase it out.
Fortunately it wasn’t one of those two that was struck by lightning last week…
Downloaded MCEdit so the 8YO can edit Minecraft world’s. He used it to fill 10 entire chunks with TNT. Then lit one of the edges. The chain reaction has been going for at least 10 minutes, punctuated by periods of major lag.
@cryptovexillologist That’s the thing I miss most about the 1990s: the optimism for the future.
“Use a static site generator so you don’t have extra software running on your server!”
“Run your static site generator on your server so you can automate it!”
🤔
@OldBrushNewPaper Heh! It’s at least a more interesting explanation than “No one’s paying close enough attention to realize they ought to turn it off!”
I wonder how many people on Google+ will sign on the last day to see who else is still there. It doesn’t seem like the kind of place where a lot of people would want that last chance before the lights go out, but there’ve got to be some communities on there that will.
Why is Google+ still showing “You may know…” suggestions?
There was a study last year on how/why crater rays form. It turns out that when you simulate an impact on an uneven surface instead of a smooth one, the material splashed out of the crater is blocked in some places and is able to get through in others, forming rays just like the ones seen on the moon.
Very cool! A view of the far side of the moon and Earth beyond it, from the Chinese Longjiang-2 satellite in lunar orbit.
https://www.syfy.com/syfy-wire/the-earth-peeks-out-from-behind-the-lunar-far-side
#Snow in the mountains above #LosAngeles.
By mid-afternoon, the patches on Mt. Wilson (barely visible at the left) had faded, though the ridge behind it still has a ton of snow visible.
TODO: Which version of this is on Flickr?
@FiXato Ugh, that’s got to have been a real pain.
Yeah, some sort of in-between approach like that for existing accounts would’ve been better.
Or at least giving people more time (measured in months) between locking new uploads/hiding old pics and flat-out deleting.
When Yahoo realized they’d missed the smartphone shift, they tried to make Flickr something it wasn’t suited for (Instagram! Look, filters!) & couldn’t sustain (cloud storage for ALL your photos, just like FB!) Maybe chasing FB kept them alive for a while, but it put them in a bind down the road.
It sucks that SmugMug is deleting pics, but taking it back to basics might make it more viable long-term.
Maybe they can become a 1st-rate Flickr instead of a 3rd-rate Instagram or FB.
Expanded on my blog:
1. How did I not know there was a stage musical of Evil Dead?
2. Why am I remotely surprised that it exists?
Rain: *hasn’t started yet*
Me: “I’m going to do a grocery run this morning.”
Rain: *starts*
A sundog, looking like a ball of rainbow. The sun was shining through clouds, too hazy to make out the disc, but apparently had a clear path to some ice crystals at just the right angle.
I was thinking I should convert my Les Misérables commentary blog from WordPress to something static, since I’m basically done with it and won’t need to be able to post from anywhere.
And I realized:
I have to use Hugo.
I feel like I still have a lot of comic boxes cluttering up the place. My project to sell off the ones I don’t want anymore kind of stalled a year or two back.
But I stumbled on an old post and realized: Despite continuing to buy new comics, I have *half* as many now as I did when I moved into my current apartment.
I’ve made a lot more progress than I thought I had!
1. Encouraging people to spread out from mastodon.social to encourage further decentralization is a good idea.
2. Mastodon.social probably shouldn’t be as big as it is, since it’s also the beta-testing instance.
3. Wholesale blocking mastodon.social is short-sighted at best, and will counter-productive to decentralization, because it shows all those people you’re blocking that federation doesn’t actually live up to its promise.
I mean, how many of your friends from Facebook and Twitter have you convinced to move over to Mastodon so they can still talk to you?
And now you’re telling them they have to move again?
Yeah, how do you think that’s going to go?
OK. Your server, your rules. If you personally don’t want to interact with m.s, that’s your choice. If you can’t keep up with the traffic, I get that.
Just make sure your users are OK with it, because they’re going to have friends who won’t move.
I spent 10 years as the sysadmin of a small ISP’s mail server. We blocked a boatload of incoming spam, phish, malware and more, using multiple tools to catch different types of bad email.
We never blocked Hotmail, Yahoo, AOL or Gmail outright. It might have cut down the volume, it might have made *some* people happy, but it wouldn’t have solved the problem, and it would have caused *more* problems for our users and those they interacted with.
There’s a version with Sean Bean? As both the original and the impostor?
It’s like… Schroedinger’s Sean Bean!
