⊥ᵒᵚ Cᵸᵎᶺᵋᶫ∸ᵒᵘ ☑️ @falken@social.cleverlibre.org

Hans Ruedi Giger was born 83 years ago today.
He left us in 2014, no doubt for a stranger world.

Ah, so now he wants you to produce free content for his dying, unstable platform, after threatening you, on a whim, to shut off your free access. I see.

In response, I will be discontinuing all my projects that rely on Twitter's API, and I advise you all to do the same, rather than let him decide their fate.

#twitter #TwitterAPI #TwitterBots

It's true WinSxS is the cause of all your pain and suffering on your PC and why the CoD install won't fit without deleting all your other games WinSxS serves no purpose and only subsidizes SSD manufacturers because Microsoft is lazy delete it and go on to a blissful life

Somebody please just bring back small phones.

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Whoever made the almond-milk carton the exact same shape as the chicken-broth carton should have to eat this cereal.

Been on a nice long walk to Dane Moss

#macclesfield

few things more dangerously misleading than a simple answer to a deeply complex nuanced problem

From Project Alpha to the Gangs Matrix and the case of the Manchester 10, policing is taking on #PreCrime. Supposedly what you do online and even private messages can predict criminality, triggering surveillance and punishment. This quiz by Fair Trials shows you how. #privacy #AutomatedInjustice #AIAct

https://www.fairtrials.org/predictive-policing/

I wrote this six years ago about Google's "family plans". It could quite easily apply to #Netflix and their recently announced changes.

"Falsehoods Programmers Believe About Families"

https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2017/03/falsehoods-programmers-believe-about-families/

This is short notice (and brand new to us!) but we may be cut off as early as Feb 9th, as Twitter is switching to paid API access

We do have funds in OpenCollective, so will look at paid plans.

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RT @TwitterDev
Starting February 9, we will no longer support free access to the Twitter API, both v2 and v1.1. A paid basic tier will be available instead 🧵
https://twitter.com/TwitterDev/status/1621026986784337922

The Github Mastodon support is really neat - just add a link to your Mastodon account in Github, then add your Github account here, and it automatically verifies you.