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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Y’all, he’s proudly displaying the entrails of a fellow M&M. What are the rules in the candy kingdom? Why are some M&Ms meant for eating while others have sentience? 🤔
Even though people thought bird.makeup would die this weekend with the login wall, it's actually more popular than ever!
The process I use to get information from Twitter still works but has a 40% percent error rate it seems. It's also much higher for accounts followed for the first time. It's very likely that's it's coming from their internal service being flaky and not actual ban enforcement. I'll see over the week if this improves otherwise I'll start figuring workarounds for those cases.
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the elon google cloud bill thing doesn't actually affect the actual prod site
nothing about the real website actually ever lived in the cloud at all
the only shit that ever ran in the cloud was acquihire products (periscope, smyte)
and some very experimental t3 TLS-terminating reverse-proxy point-of-presence shit to improve first-byte latency
twitter the website lives in physical datacenters. always has.
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this has to be a desperation move related to the migration off of google cloud rather than anything involving scraping
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Lest anyone doubt that Twitter was idiotic enough to release code that would cause a race condition and result in its own users doing a DDOS attack on it, here's the network console readout from Firefox showing all the network requests blasting away.
Unbelievable. It's amateur hour.
Taking a break today of trying to improve bird.makeup because it looks like it’s already working better than Twitter itself
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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
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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.
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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?
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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
- Github
- https://github.com/cloutier
Open source developer. Wikidata, IPFS, Linux, Ethereum. /r/fuckcars enthusiast. I tend to boost funny stuff.
Joined May 2019
