Social Media is Dead, Long Live Social Media
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Social Media is Dead, Long Live Social Media

And other Hyperbolic click baity headlines. Two articles today. https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/01/mastodon-becomes-nonprofit-to-make-sure-its-never-ruined-by-billionaire-ceo/ And https://www.heise.de/en/news/Unprecedented-growth-Facebook-blocks-links-to-Instagram-alternative-Pixelfed-10237928.html Basically, Mastodon, the Federated Open Source client for microblogging is shifting itself to be a not for profit company. John Mastodon os no longer in control. Or, he won't be. These things apparently take a few months to do. Tangentially related, its picture centric counterpart Pixelfed, has experienced unprecedented growth. I saw one post where a Pixelfed instance was no longer allowing Instagram importing and Facebook is apparently blocking links to Pixelfed. Both of these moves are very good for the internet as a whole, but they also…
The Dead Internet Reality
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The Dead Internet Reality

Facebook and Instagram introduce AI bot ‘user’ accounts Hey Facebook, you ok there? Meta plans to roll out generative AI (genAI) characters on Facebook and Instagram this year in an effort to boost user engagement. Also, they apparently also deleted these accounts after the backlash, with some excuse about it being a "test product" and that it was run by humans on the backend. You know it will come back though. These companies have wasted too much time and money on this AI garbage to turn back now. But one, I don't know why they need to do this, these…
What I’ve Been Playing – Mobile Pixel Games Edition
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What I’ve Been Playing – Mobile Pixel Games Edition

Things have been really heavily mobile gaming focused lately. I suppose its also worth mentioning, sometimes, often times, there are games that I don't mention at all. Like when I spent ten minutes on some Steam game that was meh. Or the CAT CEO game I played for like, a day. Games I am omitting this week because I barely played them… A Godzilla Racing game. Oregon Trail Infinity Nikki Unreal Life Fortnite That Cat CEO game LinkedIn's Daily Puzzle games Sky: CotL Loop Hero I decided to dig a bit into what was available on Play Pass, since I…
Weekly Wrap Up – 11.24.2024 – 12.01.2024
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Weekly Wrap Up – 11.24.2024 – 12.01.2024

When I write these in my local copies, I don't put the date ranges on them, just the date they were written. Its one of the most pain in the butt parts of this because it means opening some sort of calendar. I mean, its not hard, but I really do not look at calendars a lot. At least not beyond "Day of the week". While I am rambling about things I don't follow, I also don't really follow the weather. Somehow, despite decades of data, and AI and all the magic pf technology, weather predicting still seems like a…
Weekly Wrap Up (11.17.2024 to 11.24.2024)
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Weekly Wrap Up (11.17.2024 to 11.24.2024)

I started posting these, a while back but they kind of fell by the wayside. I guess some of it just got covered in regular posting, and some of it ends up on the other blog, if I bother. Probably, I decided I didn't really care. But maybe I should care. So here we are. I have actually done a few of my "wishlist todo" projects this week. I have recently been hardcore digging through my too many bookmarks problem in Firefox. This has been an ongoing effort for a few months now, but I started on a phase two…
What I’m Playing – Not Dead Yet Edition
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What I’m Playing – Not Dead Yet Edition

I'm gonna be straight up here. I just have not really been much in the mood for writing and blogging lately. In addition to just being busy lately, the latest news developments are just, very very depressing, to put it mildly. Fortnite I have not been really playing a lot of variety lately either. I have no interest in Fortnite OG 2, I didn't care for OG1 either. The Music pass was… Weirdly easy to complete, because they changed how you gain pass tiers. I finished it in days and barely played. I didn't get premium. I am not real…
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Code Project – Python – FreshRSS to WordPress V4

A few days ago I posted about updates to my little FreshRSS script. I already did some fairly quick simple updates, though some didn't quite work out as hoped initially. Firstly, I didn't care for the big blob daily article file it pushed out to the archive. So now it spits out a bunch of individual articles, formatted "YYYY-MM-DD-Article Title.md." this created my first issue. I got a "Filename too long error." So I set up a check to truncate the article title to 100 characters, if its longer than 100 characters. I can't just always slice it, because if…