Well that was fun.
For those who didn't see the shenanigans on #birdsite - turns out my router was garbage. You know, the one the ISP said was _required_ to use their network? It was trash and killing my connection.
Pulled it and ran from the ONT straight to my Eero and had network just fine. But all of my NUCs are hardwired ... so needed a new TP-Link router in front of my 1GB switch before I could get k8s back online.
So glad to have things live again.
Projects, companies, or YouTube channels that still link to a "Twitter" account are doing their users and the internet a gross disservice.
Twitter is gone. It no longer exists. There is X, a fascist propaganda and GenAI revenge porn site, that happened to buy Twitter's database before shutting it down. But that's not Twitter.
Giving X any karma or nostalgia because Musk bought Twitter's user database before destroying it is foolhardy and dangerous, and irresponsible.
OK, so I spent a few days on the #birdsite, and I learned to fear its algorithm. Why? Because once I began interacting with a few tweets about one same topic, all I saw were posts about that topic. The birdsite got really boring then.
Why do people tolerate such nonsense?
Many years ago in Trump alpha version, I had a twitter account called something like "1930s Reich Family" (I think I named the account "Magda und Detlev"). I posted replies to Trump and trumpish politicians as if I were a Good German Citizen in the 1930s. It was things like "Yes, Leader, we should fear the outsiders because it is clearly they who have taken our jobs, not our national economic policy". As you might imagine, it had zero interaction.
I felt daring posting those things, but (a) nobody noticed or cared, and (b) the things I posted then, which I thought were highly provocative, don't even register on the awfulmeter for the past year.
@luca @nihalxkumar @afewbugs yeah I looked at all these.
The only free one I found needs someone at least vaguely savvy to open the right box to paste some code into and locate files to use for the deletion.
Unfortunately X also takes ages to send you your data, if your request even works.
https://github.com/lucahammer/tweetXer
As it's a brute force method, it can also get the account banned. If that matters.
#birdsite #deleteTwitter
Remember, these clowns didn’t test this feature properly nor stop it once they saw what it was doing.
It was only AFTER threats of blocking / fines that they have “mostly” disabled it.
Utterly fucking gross.
Anyone who uses X or Grok is flagging they’re fine with all this.
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/jan/09/grok-image-generator-outcry-sexualised-ai-imagery
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