Archiving my Twitter, Facebook and other social network activity
@peter Yeah, we’ve both been using the mobile website since then, also. I’ll have to check out the basic version for messages, that’s helpful.
I’ve been running an experiment since I replaced my phone last month to see how long I can go without using FB on it. Just over a month so far. Putting a roadblock in front of it so I have to be deliberate about getting on the site has helped me be more deliberate about using it.
@peter My wife & I stopped using the FB app on our phones when it started asking for access to SMS (supposedly to confirm your #). It’s made for a number of missed messages from family & friends as FB drops more features from their mobile website.
Funny thing: A few years ago I made a point to only use FB on my phone b/c the desktop site was too addicting. Now it’s the other way around. I feel better logging into FB in a private window for 10 minutes or whatever & closing it.
Nighttime fountain at the Anaheim Convention Center. This was a popular spot for cosplay photos even after sunset, but I managed to catch an angle that looked deserted.
#wondercon #photography #fountain #night
My full gallery of photos from WonderCon is up on Flickr. Most of them are just cosplay snapshots. This ended up being the only artistic shot I took that came out really well.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/kelsonv/albums/72157694829944955
Instagram has added the ability to link to hashtags & other users in your profile.
But it’s not rolling out evenly. I’ve linked my main account to a topic specific one & back. Both accounts have shown me the announcement of the new feature, but only one of them is actually linking the name in the bio. (This is in the same install, on the same device.)
I guess it’ll fill in eventually.
It’d be nice if they were willing to let you link *out* of the silo, though.
Realized just why I feel so detached from current #TheFlash comics.
Long series can be:
– Static: You have a handle on the status quo & follow stories within it.
– Dynamic/Illusion of Change: Things change superficially, balancing familiarity with novelty.
– Dynamic/Progression: Things change, and you can get attached to the characters’ journey.
– Dynamic/Churn: Things change so fast you can’t get your bearings.
I was a fan of 20 years of progression. A decade of churn has left me exhausted.
So apparently the sender domain name in DKIM is case-sensitive?
Why?
Domain names themselves *aren’t* case-sensitive. There is no difference between Example.com and example.com. Not for IP routing, not for email routing.
What purpose does it serve for email from blah@Example.com to fail DKIM when sent under the exact circumstances & from the same computer as email from blah@example.com?
Birds of Madrona Marsh in Torrance, California.
It’s a seasonal marsh, where the low-lying parts stay wet most of the year, but the rest dries out ever summer and floods during winter rains.
I spotted ducks, doves, geese, these black birds with bright red wings that sound like a smoke detector battery alert, this white bird that looked like it was fishing, plus dragonflies, a huge bee, and I heard (but didn’t see) frogs.
Full album (21 pics) on Flickr
Actually the croaking frogs might have been quacking ducks in the distance, now that I think about it.
I think the white bird might be a snowy egret, and that red-winged black bird turns out to be… a red-winged blackbird. 😄
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snowy_egret
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red-winged_blackbird
Reminder to self: No more pre-built desktops unless *every component* is upgradable.
I just spent 2 1/2 hours convincing an old Dell to see the new graphics card again after upgrading the processor. It’s mostly working now, but everything before Windows finishes booting will only go out on the old onboard video.
Photo taken at: Los Angeles, California
Rising above the clouds… I tried a lot of crops on this (otherwise it’s unmodified) but finally settled on the square because I wanted enough of both the rooftops and the sky bracketing the clouds and mountain, and I wanted to steer clear of some of the foreground buildings that would have appeared on the sides and break up the layout.
@peter If I could just get Kids’ Youtube to disable autoplay…
I love that Mozilla is asking for donations in the amounts of $3.14, $15.9, $26 or $53 on Pi Day!
🍕🥧 #π
Good article by Anil Dash: 12 Things Everyone Should Understand About Tech
There are a few key things that I’ve learned about the way tech works in the 20+ years I’ve been creating technology, and not all of them are obvious. I hope you’ll take a look & share these principles, and help identify any ones I missed
Indian hawthorn flowers in bloom, spotted on my lunch hour walk. It’s been a warm winter in California, and we’ve finally gotten some rain over the last few weeks (not enough, but some is better than none).
Twitter locked the two project-specific accounts I use regularly, but not the personal account I use to log into Tweetdeck. Supposedly for behavior violating the Twitter Rules(tm), but all I had to do was verify my phone number on each.
I only tried to log in b/c Tweetdeck wasn’t loading their columns. I suspect that it was Tweetdeck’s error causing the suspicious behavior to begin with.
Or Twitter just really wants a phone number on every account now.
It’s funny how spicy foods can be both comfort food and discomfort food at the same time.
“small b blogging” (via ma.tt) – interesting read on how blogging has changed over time, and inding a big audience vs. a small (but more focused) audience.
It’s really weird to see what YouTube has “recommended for you” when you’re on a clean browsing session & it only has your shared IP address to go on…
Wait, what? Alexa devices are laughing at people, unprompted…
https://www.theverge.com/circuitbreaker/2018/3/7/17092334/amazon-alexa-devices-strange-laughter
That seems like a weird kind of thing to be a bug. It’s probably intentional on *someone’s* part.
It really makes you wonder about the security of things like Amazon Key.
Update from the article: Apparently there was an “Alexa, laugh” command that was picking up on sounds that it wasn’t supposed to.
Which brings up an entirely *different* set of concerns over internet-connected voice activation.
Sometimes I’m annoyed that Pocket won’t tell me how many unread articles I have.
Sometimes I’m relieved.
