Archiving my Twitter, Facebook and other social network activity
It is so weird to see triple-digit boosts in the feed.
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The funny thing is all the viral posts about how Mastodon is designed to make it harder for things to go viral.
With comment threads longer than I’ve seen in ages.
(Harder, of course, doesn’t mean impossible!)
(And yeah, I’m guilty of boosting some of them too!)
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Time for me to stop contributing to the problem of over-saturating the feed with meta-commentary.
(Oh no, I’m doing it right now!)
In the process of disentangling connected accounts from the birdsite, stumbled on #IntenseDebate. I’m not sure I’ve seen a site using them for comments in years.
And considering that the list-your-other-social-sites-on-your-profile still has spots for Digg, FriendFeed, MyBlogLog, and Orkut, I have to wonder…is Automattic doing anything with it other than keeping the lights on?
Speaking of stumbling on things, I miss StumbleUpon
It’s too bad they already used the “Nemesis” title.
Made the mistake of reading comments on a WSJ editorial with people simultaneously accusing the entire democratic party and mainstream media of living in a bubble while also claiming that Biden and the DNC are “far left.”
I think it’s fair to assume they’ve never stepped out of their own bubbles and heard what actual leftists have said about Biden and the DNC.
DOJ seizes stolen bitcoin from a 10-year-old heist against the Silk Road (remember them?), some of which was stored “on a single-board computer that was submerged under blankets in a popcorn tin stored in a bathroom closet.”
It’s like the classic saying about the only way to guarantee your computer is safe from hacking.
Search warrants, on the other hand…
via
https://www.theverge.com/2022/11/7/23445125/bitcoin-silk-road-recovered-investigators-billions
Or, now that I think about it, the plans for demolishing Arthur Dent’s house.
Oh jeez, I bet there are a lot of bitcoin aficionados who would file stuff under Q on principle
Actual WaPo headline:
Please stop licking psychedelic toads, National Park Service warns
“As we say with most things you come across in a national park, whether it be a banana slug, unfamiliar mushroom, or a large toad with glowing eyes in the dead of night, please refrain from licking.”
A #MonarchButterfly spotted over the weekend. Not sure what kind of flower it’s hiding behind.
Reply to a poll about custom link shorteners
Personally I think a shortener is just an extra layer of complexity that can go wrong.
If you’re in control of your own URL scheme for your site you can make it human-readable and short enough to avoid word-wrap on email, and it’s not going to take up any extra space on Twitter, Mastodon or anything else unless you’re sending it in an actual SMS message.
A fox #squirrel spotted running across the lawn at the park.
Found myself thinking about this old joke about operating systems as airlines, and the punchline on Linux Air.
https://fossbytes.com/what-if-operating-systems-were-airlines/
#humor #ComputerHumor
Backlit Skeleton. Seen while walking around a few weeks ago. They kept adding more stuff to the yard as #Halloween approached.
The things that go bump in the night, tra la!
From a link swap spam I got this morning:
“I recently read one of your articles (https://hyperborea.org/journal/category/entertainment/sci-fifantasy/page/35/ – to be precise).”
Precise. 🙄
I swear, they don’t even try! 😆
1. Sign up for Fastrak account so I can auto-pay tolls on a route I’ll be driving a lot for a few months.
2. Realize that the agency I signed up through doesn’t manage the route I’m using, so I have to wait for the transponder to arrive. 🤦♂️
3. Look at the agency that does manage it…and they have both a monthly fee and a setup fee…while the one I went with only charges for the actual tolls incurred. 🙄
I’m a bit less annoyed over number 2 now!
A walk through a seasonal marsh that’s out of season. (We’ll see how much rain we get this winter.) And a virtual hiking buddy.
#nature #hiking #butterflies #flowers #bridge #path #PokemonGo #MadronaMarsh
Me: Ok, you want to be at the top of this cliff. Here’s a staircase, a ladder, and an elevator.
Kid: What if I free-climb the cliff?
Me: There aren’t any handholds.
Kid: What if I wear climbing gloves?
Me: That doesn’t work without handholds, try one of the options you have.
Kid: But what if I wear climbing gloves *and* boots?
Me: …
Kid: A rope?
Me: Attached to what?
Kid: Why won’t you let me be at the top of the cliff!!!!
Also: catapult, human cannonball, hitching a ride on a large bird, rocket shoes, giant springs, freak windstorm, tunneling under the cliff and somehow ending up at the top, helicopter pickup, teleportation, and portals.
*Anything* but the stairs, ladder or elevator that are actually *available to use*
Oh, and of course insisting that he’s already at the top of the cliff he’s looking up at, and that we’re trying to send him back to the bottom
The kid finally uninstalled the game he’s been screaming at all week.
Responding to a comment about a similar incident with Flight Simulator
He’s gotten more persistent since then. Even though I don’t think he enjoyed more than about 20% of the time he was playing it, including the stealth levels he asked me to play for him. (He can hyper-focus, but has no patience.)
Review of The Time Machine ★★★★☆
H.G. Wells: A bit dry, but it draws you in, and if the plot is simple, it’s enough to wrap around some thought-provoking speculation about the future of humanity – and a critique of industrial society.
