Archiving my Twitter, Facebook and other social network activity
Saga AND Arrowsmith are back?
I need to get back to the comic store.
I don’t think I’ve been there since summer or fall 2020. I was down to one series at the point that publishing shut down for 2 months, and it was a limited series. I went in during a lull in cases to pick up the last few issues.
At least they managed to hang on. I drive past the place occasionally on my way somewhere else, and they’re still open.
Just caught a glimpse of the monochrome OpenVPN status icon on my work box and wondered why Target was showing up there.
Western monarch butterflies spending the winter in California rebound to 247,000, up from less than 2000 last year!
(Back in the 1980s it was millions annually, but this is still a big sigh of relief after the last couple of years)
https://www.latimes.com/science/story/2022-01-25/western-monarchs-butterflies-rebound
Yay, my visual cortex is done defragging!
Or whatever the heck is going on when I get a visual #migraine
Well, that's a #finch of a different color!
A lesser #goldfinch and a #housefinch are both visiting the #birdfeeder.
Kid caught a Jolteon with stats that match our area code. He named it as a phone number that would spell out JOLTEON
#PokemonGo
I guess there are worse things to stress eat than half a sleeve of Ritz crackers.
Thought I'd try a black-and-white edit of the sunbeams in the park. I kinda like it!
It’s always interesting when these two apps both send me notifications at the same time.
There's a former railroad route to the coast that's been converted into a greenbelt and walking path lined with trees. Some parts (not these) specifically focus on native California plants. Others open into grassy parks.
Fake COVID testing sites (at least one chain, anyway) appear to be a multilevel marketing fraud, not a data harvesting fraud. (As Schneier points out, there are much easier ways to harvest data.)
https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2022/01/are-fake-covid-testing-sites-harvesting-data.html
This looks helpful: someone compiled a list of where the #Fairphone 4’s network bands overlap with various US carriers, so if you manage somehow to get one across the pond, you have an idea of how likely it is to work on your carrier!
While messing around with #IndieWeb, I’ve decided I want to build a consolidated #PESOS gallery of my photos at Instagram, Twitter, Mastodon, Pixelfed etc. I’ve got current archives for all (including from a dead Pixelfed instance).
Specs:
* Gallery, individual, and tag galleries
* Include captions and descriptions (I can add descriptions to the old photos)
* Links to wherever it’s posted (may be several sites)
* Light page code. I’d rather things load quickly than act fancy.
1/3
I’ve made a prototype in #WordPress so far, and it looks nice, and I already know how to automate new posts using IFTTT. But it feels heavy. And of course it’s one more instance to increase my attack surface & maintenance.
I’m going to give #Eleventy a shot next. I’ve worked with it before, and I can optimize the templates however I want. The image plugin can generate different sizes, thumbnails, etc. The main drawback: I haven’t researched ways to automatically import to 11ty yet.
2/3
Long-term I’d like to add #POSSE (selectively) to make it easier to cross-post. I had a set of 3 photos yesterday that I wanted to post to Flickr, Pixelfed, my blog, and my gemlog, and while it was mostly copying and pasting, it was also time-consuming.
Some of the stuff @stringerblog and @dansup have been talking about kind of overlap with this space.
3/4
Oh yeah, Flickr…the way I use it is different enough that I don’t want include my zillions of photos in this project. I might try a more full-featured gallery like Piwigo at some point. It’s less linear and more collection-based. But for photos I’ve cross-posted, I would like to link to it same as I would to Pixelfed or wherever, and it would be nice to include it in the outgoing posts once I get that up and running.
And I do like the idea of just federating the photos out directly!
4/5
OK, this got way more complicated and should’ve been a blog post.
So: building a personal #IndieWeb capable gallery of my sociallly-shared photos from various sources, keeping it light, pulling in new posts automatically (#PESOS) and eventually posting on my gallery and auto-posting it to Pixelfed/Twitter/Flickr/etc. (#POSSE) on a per-photo basis. Probably using #eleventy.
Anyone have any recommendations on tools that might be better than WP/11ty, or that would work well with this workflow?
Ooh, I could also generate a Gemini gallery! I remember @FiXato came up with some ideas on how to format one. I’d probably want to break it into categories or do it by tag or something
I wonder how much storage this will end up taking up. I probably won’t need to use S3 (finally started setting things up on DigitalOcean instead of AWS!) for this gallery unless I really want to CDN the images. By the time they’re scaled for whatever social network, it doesn’t take up any more space than by blog storage.
If I ever make my own Flickr mirror, though, that’s going to have to be a consideration!
Whatever you think of Big Pharma, consider that Big Insurance is happy to pay for vaccines because it’s cheaper than paying for treatment for the diseases they target.
