Category Archives: Social Networks

Fedora, Manjaro, WordPress & Twitter

30 Apr 2023 By in Linux, Social Networks, Technology Tags: , , , , , , ,

So, quite a few things have been happening recently.

I tried to go the next step on Manjaro and copy my home directory across ready for me to run the Ansible playbook to do the setups (I’ve been testing it would work via VirtualBox on my Windows laptop)

After waiting ages for the file copy, when I went to do the backup, there was a btrfs checksum error so I’ll have to try again some other time.

Separately, I got a message on an issue I raised at Fedora’s bugzilla the Fedora 36 (the version of Fedora I raised the bug on), was coming up to EOL so I should look to move away from it or upgrade. So I decided to try doing the upgrade.

The upgrade completed without error, but first boot after the upgrade hung with a weird Kernel Panic error (I have posted this on the Fedora Forums)

So I rolled my laptop back to preupgrade state for now.

I suspect I may need to end up doing a clean install, so I’ve prepared a btrfs and a ext4 lvm installation and have imaged those in preparation.

Finally, WordPress posted that they’re stopping Autosharing to Twitter because of Twitter’s Idiot-in-Chief screwing up the API usage.

Still, they have mentioned they will be adding autosharing to Instagram and Mastodon instead, and that helps me, since I’m slowly moving what little Twitter presence I had onto Mastodon anyway.

My Twitter has been disconnected from my WordPress and I’ve revoked its access from Twitter’s side anyway.

Twitter, TFL and Dilbert

28 Feb 2023 By in Dilbert, News, Social Networks, Technology, Thoughts, Twitter, Web Comics Tags: , , , , , , , , , ,

It’s been a while so here’s a few updates in the meantime

It’s coming up to a year since I moved house and only now have the pile of construction rubbish been moved from outside my old flat. Dumping of rubbish by the neighbours in the adjoining block of flats into the garage is still happening.

Conservatives lost control of the area to Labour but I’m seeing absolutely no change

We went through a period of very cold weather (-6degC) and this was costing us £10-£15 per day in gas usage.

Moving onto other updates. As posted previously, I went into hospital to remove a lump from my mouth. I’ll soon get a follow up call from the doctor to check how I’m doing. Stitches took about 10 days to dissolve. I just have a small white patch there now where the lump was removed and the doctor cauterised the wound.

Twitter has descended into a real s**thole since Elon took over. First killing all third-party clients and then indicating it may start charging for API usage.

The third-party client purge I can tolerate — it was originally started during the Jack era, but charging for API usage, or even limiting tweets per day is not something many people will accept.

I started working on stripping out twitter functionality from my TFL updates bot and that’s near enough done now. It now tweets (or should that be toots) into a Mastodon account at https://mastodon.xyz/users/updatesbf

RSS feed functionality should still work, but it is not enabled yet, until I can get Keda to work.

WordPress and Twitter

1 Jan 2019 By in Blogging, Social Networks, Technology Tags: , , , ,

I wondered why I didn’t enable auto-sharing to Twitter from WordPress,

Then I remembered, that method only puts the title of your blog entry, plus an embedded link. Unless you have a really informative blog title, I don’t think it works.

Instead, I use IFTTT, but have to remember to either add a picture somewhere in the post or manually shre it through force checking the IFTTT applets.

Mike from McDonald’s Is Blowing Up on Facebook With His Public Service Announcement About Fast Food Employees Getting a Bad Rep – Cheezburger

12 May 2016 By in Inspirational, Social Networks Tags: , , , ,

I can’t really argue with this…

 

 

Cheezburger.com – Crafted from the finest Internets.

Source: Mike from McDonald’s Is Blowing Up on Facebook With His Public Service Announcement About Fast Food Employees Getting a Bad Rep – Cheezburger

Sharing Stats

13 Oct 2014 By in Sharing, Social Networks Tags: ,

Most used sharing sites:
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LinkedIn 1074
Reddit 1068
Pocket 1067
StumbleUpon 1065
Twitter 1052
Facebook 1036
Tumblr 1034

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