Vincent Cloutier @vincent@librem.one
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Open source developer. Wikidata, IPFS, Linux, Ethereum. /r/fuckcars enthusiast. I tend to boost funny stuff.
Joined May 2019
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@fishcharlie Seems like Elon has fired all the backend engineers, so all the new stuff since he is here is just UI changes, including this. Backend stays the same.
But it seems the twitter backend is becoming super flaky, often failing to return results (getting 404, failing to return videos, etc). So I will have to figure out a way to reliably get the info I need, or have graceful degradation when I don't get everything
@fishcharlie Seems like Elon has fired all the backend engineers, so all the new stuff since he is here is just UI changes, including this. Backend stays the same.
But it seems the twitter backend is becoming super flaky, often failing to return results (getting 404, failing to return videos, etc). So I will have to figure out a way to reliably get the info I need, or have graceful degradation when I don't get everything
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fun fact, you can bypass it by setting the "googlebot" useragent
Looks like Twitter is rejecting many bird.makeup requests today. Expect degraded performance until I figure a workaround
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Now Twitter does not allow users to view tweets without creating an account!
Thanks, though, now I don't even get tempted to look at posts on the bird site.
The change also breaks archival tools, making tweets effectively much less verifiable.
Let's hope these changes wii drive people away from the platform.
It can always get worse.
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"JavaScript Gom Jabbar" by Alex Kotliarskyi https://frantic.im/javascript-gom-jabbar/
This one hits a little too close to home.
@geekgrrl Many thanks! If you can send screenshots that would be great, then I will be able to see if the cards are complete or not
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@geekgrrl That would be appreciated! I have Mona and IceCube that are confirmed to work so far
On the plus side, large servers banning bird.makeup gives people an incentive to move to smaller servers, and thus keeping the fediverse decentralized.
Also I remember having QT in @IceCubesApp, but not anymore. Did I dream of this or this feature got removed?
Testing QT behavior in apps: in which apps can you see this toot as containing a QT instead of just a link?
@sporez your server has just banned the service I’m afraid
@kpwn It continues to work! I am not using that api.
I do have to spread queries among many servers though, and I'm frequently reshuffling things as more people use the service, so there is some downtime once in a while
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Canada: We’re gonna tax Facebook for letting news outlets post links on it
Facebook: Ok, but if you charge us for allowing news links in Canada, we’ll stop allowing news links in Canada
Canada: Nuh-uh
Facebook: Done
Canada: Wait no how could you
From @mmasnick @ Techdirt:
https://www.techdirt.com/2023/06/23/as-canada-passes-corrupt-link-tax-meta-says-no-more-news-links-in-canada/
What I’m working to today, 8-bit radiohead: https://youtube.com/watch?v=X1I0_bsjEsY
What an amazing band to be this good in 8bits
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Computers are like onions. Everything is layers built on layers, and every layer makes you cry. #sysadmin
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Reddit communities on alternative platforms:
https://sub.rehab/
@quephird highly recommend https://www.codingame.com you can start easy on the challenges but you can go very deep, and you see in real time how your solution fares against others. It’s really fun
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- https://github.com/cloutier
Open source developer. Wikidata, IPFS, Linux, Ethereum. /r/fuckcars enthusiast. I tend to boost funny stuff.
Joined May 2019
