Archiving my Twitter, Facebook and other social network activity
We have reached the stage of video streaming where it would have been faster to go to blockbuster and rent the damn DVD than figuring out which streaming service and how to access it through what account without messing up existing subscriptions.
They might've had the movie too.
Tubthumping:
[] A song that reminds you of the good times
[] A song that reminds you of the better times
[] Chumba-what?
I’d guess the mangling has more to do with Mastodon not trying to render the “Article” type yet than it being from a group. Mastodon has the same problem with reviews from Bookwyrm and blog posts from WriteFreely.
I mean, at least it shows the title and link, which is better than the “this type isn’t supported yet” from Takahe, but with the size of its user base, Mastodon *really* needs to get on just treating an Article the same way it treats a long Note!
Time for another episode of Admiral Grouchy vs the Slime Creatures From Outer Space.
Rep. Weber just accused tiktok of pushing chinese propaganda and “woke” propaganda in the same sentence — thedextriarchy
I think their mind would be blown if they knew what Chinese state ideology thinks of the things they call “woke.”
Not exactly big on minority rights, racial equality, acceptance of non-traditional gender roles, or awareness of and wanting to dismantle state abuses of power in enforcing conformality.
Interesting: apparently Norovirus is the shortened form of Norwalk Virus, which was first identified in an outbreak in Norwalk, Ohio.
So a noro-bot wouldn't be a computer virus, it would be a robot from Norwalk. 😜
Misparsed “norobots” as “noro-bots” instead of “no robots” and briefly wondered what kind of virus they were referring to.
Opened up my work laptop after lunch to find 5 messages on Skype. Worried I’d missed something important that should’ve gone to my phone.
No. They were all from Bing, introducing itself. 
TIL that #Firefox autocorrects the nonexistent .xom and .vom TLDs to .com, which is seriously convenient!
How to get rid of the extra “discover” page on the Android home screen:
https://www.theverge.com/23643205/google-discover-android-how-to-delete
Hot take: If we're serious about encouraging more small and single-user instances to join the Fediverse, we really need to work on improving the setup and upgrade experiences.
Managed hosting is great for this, but it re-centralizes the infrastructure, and it's going to be hard to find the less well-known platforms, so that re-centralizes the tech stack.
Pre-configured images at hosting companies are also great! But again, you're mostly going to find the bigger projects, and you still have to upgrade it.
Funny to think:
Newsgroups and early mailing lists were all plaintext, so people came up with conventions like using asterisks and underscores.
Web forums were able to display rich text, and they used markup to implement it.
Early social media like LiveJournal and such supported rich text via raw HTML
Twitter was designed to fit in an SMS message, so it was plain text.
And everyone went back to using asterisks and underscores. Plus abusing Unicode lookalike chars.
Website: Would you like to pay through PayPal or with a credit card?
Me: Credit card. I don't want give PayPal more of a cut than I have to.
Website: OK, Credit card via PayPal!
Apparently there’s a known issue where some games will trip Sophos’ “HollowProcess” detection rule.
Including, as I discovered, StarTrek Online via Steam.
Workaround here if anyone needs it
No, brain, it’s Martin Guerre, not Martian Guerre
OMG it would be a perfect match: Astronaut goes to Mars, comes back…different. Is it really him? Is an alien presence hitchhiking in his mind? Or is it a shape-changer like The Thing? Or did he simply have a life-changing experience on the mission?
It could be played for comedy, horror (body or psychological), or anything in between.
Spot. On.
“I don’t want to log in to your website”
https://www.theverge.com/2023/2/28/23618804/google-facebook-login-ads-web-design-hell
“I am just going to point out something obvious: not reading is easier than reading — and *way easier* than logging in.”
“I don’t want to log in to do a search. If I wanted to log in, I would.”
“if I have clicked into a newsletter on the web, blocking my view of the thing I’m trying to read with a subscription pop-up isn’t going to make me more likely to subscribe.”
Why the US banning TikTok would be either ineffective, or worse than TikTok.
I remember reading about this idea a while back: EV car batteries that no longer hold a strong enough charge for driving can still hold a strong enough charge for grid storage, fitting the “reuse” part of reduce, reuse, recycle.
The big reuse: 25 MWh of ex-car batteries go on the grid in California
Google: “You are currently running an experimental version of Earth.”
Well, THAT explains it!
This is not how you usually consume #GPS with #Python.
#weird
“Pythons are snacking on GPS-wearing opossums that give up their locations”
https://wapo.st/3lOpFzv