I have been really impressed with the cool visualizations in pygame that @gereleth over on Twitter has been making. #AdventOfCode

This day one advantage of code was pretty neat looking.

https://twitter.com/gereleth/status/1730495736070938786?s=09

Code here: https://github.com/gereleth/aoc_python/blob/main/src/year2023/day01vis.py

Six Months Ago NPR Left Twitter. The Effects Have Been Negligible - Nieman Reports

Run Threads on Desktop with Mac, Windows PC, Linux
Threads, the social network microblogging Twitter/X competitor launched by Meta (Facebook), is typically thought of as a mobile only experience, with users having the Threads app on their iPhone or Android device. But, if you have a Mac, Windows PC, or Linux computer, and you want to use Threads on your desktop computer, you can … Read More ⌘ Read more

EU warns Elon Musk after Twitter found to have highest rate of disinformation | X (formerly known as Twitter) | The Guardian

Not a surprise I guess.

@prologic@twtxt.net Invidious might satisfy these requirements: https://invidious.io

It’s worth noting, though, that Youtube is right now in the process of locking itself down and it might not be long before all third-party frontends stop working. Similar to what twitter and reddit are doing.

Rewriting wipEout
The source code for the classic PSX launch title wipEout was leaked in 2022. A few month ago I finally sat down to take a look at it. The result is a (nearly) complete rewrite that compiles to Windows, Linux, macOS and WASM.

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I’m not the only one who embarked on a path to r … ⌘ Read more

There’s all this talk and speculation about Twitter, Threads, Mastodon, Minds and so on. Meanwhile twtxt sits there, forever free and open.

Wondering how long I’ll keep twitter-related feeds (like on fraidycat, or here) before giving up on them as permanently dead.

Whelp. The suckification of social media is continuing to expand. Twitter only allows 600 tweets per day unless you pay and then its 6k per day.

Kan ikke beslutte mig for om #Roskilde eller #RoskildeFestival er det rigtige hashtag at bruge.

Det ligner at @orangefeeling på twitter anbefaler at bruge #rf23 - men det tror jeg ikke at jeg har set nogen bruge i fødiverset endnu… ⌘ Read more

Also, what a douchebag using the title “Dr.” in his twitter handle. As a general rule, a white dude who isn’t a medical doctor putting “Dr.” in their social media title is a gigantic flashing red flag.

for context, Peterson and a bunch of other know-nothing men are reacting on twitter to an article in The Atlantic co-authored by Applebaum, who has quite a bit of expertise on the subject she’s writing about. That doesn’t seem to matter at all to Peterson, who knows nothing of these subjects but opines about them anyway. She’s been tweeting about these reactions and the screencapture I posted previously is one of hers about Peterson.

Looks like they edited the headline, but here’s a receipt from twitter (well, nitter):

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Sam Altman on Twitter: “a new version of moore’s law that could start soon: the amount of intelligence in the universe doubles every 18 months” / Twitter

The more I read from this guy, the more I come to believe he is a gigantic douchecanoe. What a profoundly stupid thing to say.

Well, @twitter, what’s the excuse here?
Well, @twitter, what’s the excuse here?

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Not sure how anybody can be undecided about Twitter after everything else really

If you’re still undecided about Twitter, surely animal abuse should be the final nail right ? https://lien.sus.fr/xJPvB

@prologic@twtxt.net https://twitter.com/ardenthistorian/status/1625653951776292864?lang=en

I deleted my Twitter account a long time ago, but sometimes I still used Nitter to search Twitter or we linked tweets. I decided to stop that and removed Nitter from my home server and added “twitter.com” to the deny list at NextDNS. There are too many reasons to list here. ⌘ Read more

The era of ad supported services is coming to an end (and that’s a good thing).
Services like Substack, Locals, and Twitter (seriously) are leading the way. ⌘ Read more

Twitter in 2023 is better than LiveJournal in 2005 - Plume https://lien.sus.fr/CJRHq

**É por coisas como esta que eu ainda ando por aqui pelo Twitter.

A conta que marca o ano, todos os anos, a thread para reviver o 25 de abril.

Haverá quem ainda não conhece ou não segue, mas vão agora bem a tempo.

O 25 de Abril está a começar. 25 de Abril, sempre!**
É por coisas como esta que eu ainda ando por aqui pelo Twitter.

A conta que marca o ano, todos os anos, a thread para reviver o 25 de abril.

Haverá quem ainda não conhece ou não segue, mas vão agora bem a tempo.

O 25 de Abril está a começar. 2 … ⌘ Read more

an interesting observation in a post twitter reality is how services that are sprouting up to claim some of the refugees are setting themselves up as closed gardens. without the option to federate with other services. like spoutable, counter.social, post, clubhouse and such.

**Speaking of supervillains…

I was expecting the twitter game bots to stop updating after meeting the new policy threshold or something… I did not expect them to be banned.

Well, finally I have one less reason to peek on twitter so often.**
Speaking of supervillains…

I was expecting the twitter game bots to stop updating after meeting the new policy threshold or something… I did not expect them to be banned.

Well, finally I have one less reason to peek on twitter so often.

[nitter.net/EmojiPrincess … ⌘ Read more

O @turismoportugal continua activo pelo twitter e não acho mal, mas não era de já ter resolvido o facto do site, http://turismodeportugal.pt , estar inoperacional já desde Fevereiro passado? Sei lá, se não conseguem ter os serviços todos a funcionar, ter ao menos uma página estática?
O @turismoportugal continua activo pelo twitter e não acho mal, mas não era de já ter resolvido o facto do site, turismodeportugal.pt , … ⌘ Read more

The Lunduke Big Tech Show - Apr 9, 2023 - Hour 1
Listen now (51 min) | RISC-V Tablet, New Linux Laptops, The possible End of the Internet Archive, and the Substack v. Twitter War! ⌘ Read more

💻 Issue 359 - Twitter’s Recommendation Algorithm ⌘ Read more

**Now that @JoeSondow’s bot games like @EmojiSnakeGame are no longer going be free to play, I can only hope he will soon have mastodon versions of it running, and I will no longer have a reason to open twitter’s app often.

And no, paying for a verified account is not on the table.**
Now that @JoeSondow’s bot games like @EmojiSnakeGame are no longer going be free to play, I can only hope he will soon have mastod … ⌘ Read more

In case you didn’t notice, I deleted my Twitter and Keybase accounts. Going full indieweb.

OAuth Support in Bluesky and AT Protocol
Bluesky, a new social media platform and AT Protocol, is unsurprisingly running up against the same challenges and limitations that Flickr, Twitter and many other social media platforms faced in the 2000s: passwords! ⌘ Read more

WTF @Twitter?
WTF @Twitter?

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RT by @mind_booster: O Twitter vai agora cobrar pelo uso da sua API, o que entre outras coisas significa que é preciso pagar para ter bots a rolar. Por isso devemos encerrar brevemente o @PureDeNoticias aqui; ele continuará a distribuir combinações insólitas no fediverso: https://ciberlandia.pt/@puredenoticias
O Twitter vai agora cobrar pelo uso da sua API, o que entre outras coisas significa que é preciso pagar para ter bots a rolar. Por isso devemos encerrar brevemente o [@PureDeNoticias](https://nitter.net/PureD … ⌘ Read more

Trying to wrap my head around webfinger..

my first thoughts about it were that a subject of acct:me@sour.is would have a listing of rel’s for the different accounts that are related to me (ie. yarn, salty, twitter, mastodon, etc…)

but maybe my thinking is at the wrong level.. that each of those accounts would be on a subject level and the rels are describing different aspects of that account. so i would have salty:acct:xuu@sour.is, twitter:acct:xuu, mastodon:acct:xuu@chaos.social, yarn:acct:xuu@ev.sour.is and then i could have a main acct:me@sour.is that links them together as aliases.

I found okta will do something similar with its accounts to show as okta:acct:user@domain so maybe I am on to something?

On my blog: Tweets from 12/26 to 12/30 https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2022/12/30/week.html #twitter #week #socialmedia #linkdump

On my blog: Tweets from 12/19 to 12/23 https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2022/12/23/week.html #twitter #week #socialmedia #linkdump

it’s really funny when people tag jimmy wales on twitter when they don’t like some of the content on wikipedia. it’s like someone would tag Nat Friedman when they find a bug in a program hosted there

On my blog: Tweets from 12/12 to 12/16 https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2022/12/16/week.html #twitter #week #socialmedia #linkdump

On my blog: Tweets from 12/05 to 12/09 https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2022/12/09/week.html #twitter #week #socialmedia #linkdump

On my blog: Tweets from 11/28 to 12/02 https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2022/12/02/week.html #twitter #week #socialmedia #linkdump

“Bloggers, Dump Your Twitter Card Tags”
It’s crazy to think how much bandwidth is being used by metadata tags. Every company wants to invent it’s own new system. Wouter Groeneveld gives a brief overview and recommends getting rid of them (for the most part). I agree with him completely. The only one of these systems that my blog supports is Microformats, which is quite popular among the IndieWeb community. ⌘ Read more

On my blog: Tweets from 11/21 to 11/25 https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2022/11/25/week.html #twitter #week #socialmedia #linkdump

💻 Issue 340 - 2 years at Twitter · eed3si9n ⌘ Read more

While I’m all for people moving away from platforms like Twitter and embracing more freedom- and privacy-centric systems such as Mastodon, I do worry that many of them might be doing it purely for ideological reasons and may have no interest in maintaining the respectful atmosphere Mastodon is well-known for.

asbjorn: “Nå er det “Elon køber twitter”…”
Nå er det “Elon køber twitter” sæson igen?

Velkommen til alle nylige twitter-emigranter! I er hjertens velkomne her i fødiverset. ⌘ Read more

**So many different “clever” and “funny” takes around here lately, comparing “Twitter vs. Mastodon” with “Windows vs. Linux”, making fun of ‘the year of Linux in the desktop’…

…an I still wonder why would anyone freely and willingly choose to use Windows over GNU/Linux. 🤷‍♂️**
So many different “clever” and “funny” takes around here lately, comparing “Twitter vs. Mastodon” with “Windows vs. Linux”, making fun of ‘the year of Linux in the desktop’…

…an I still wonder why would anyone freely and willing … ⌘ Read more

PSA: DMs on social media sites are not truely PMs. This is why we have a separate tool for private messaging from yarn. Always remember, if you don’t own the infra (or the parts at the ends of e2e encryption) you don’t own the data. and the true owners can view it any way they want!

https://twitter.com/TinkerSec/status/1587040089057759235?t=At-8r9yJPiG6xF17skTxwA&s=19

twitter not worth 44 billion

RT @joinmastodon@joinmastodon

Monetization usually means ads, changing the website to have people see more ads, invading people’s privacy to make sure they’ve seen ads… A single website also means one organization is in complete control. If they do what you don’t want them to do, you’re out of luck.

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/joinmastodon/status/1586886723858042880 ⌘ Read more