Camiel Hirschberg

@iwamoto
52 Followers
111 Following
547 Posts
30 something Apple System Engineer at Zalando SE, i like tech stuff, movies, transformers and i do triathlon.
Periodic reminder: if you find I (or anyone else you follow) boosts too much and it's cluttering your feed, the ... on my profile page has "Hide boosts from..." It's a great way to curate your feed without unfollowing.

"Thanks for the name, idiot. You want all this Twitter shit we're throwing away?"

https://mashable.com/article/elon-musk-twitter-take-x-handle-from-original-user

Elon Musk takes @x handle from its original user. He got zero dollars for it.

Here's how it went down.

Mashable
Your reminder that this isn't Mastodon, this is the Fediverse. And you can optionally use Mastodon, or many other pieces of fantastic software, to access the Fediverse.

Tell your friends.
Looking forward to #Musk trying to trademark a Unicode symbol, in this case 𝕏 :) Maybe we should start using #x1D54F as the new Hashtag for everything #Twitter and #X #𝕏 :) http://www.unicode-symbol.com/u/1D54F.html
𝕏 - mathematical double-struck capital x (u+1D54F) copy and paste - Unicode® symbol

Overview of U+1D54F code point glyphs and encodings

wait, which one is it now? #twitter #x

LOL this is not how you deal with "data scraping," this is how you deal with a catastrophic loss of system capacity.

You limit data scraping by blocking things a human user couldn't do, like access a thousand posts a minute. This is aimed directly at reducing normal activity across the whole system.

Fox on the left, potential fox snack on the right
#RejectedMoviePlots "Fast to the Future" Dom and the gang are testing experimental NOS that makes them faster than light and go back in time to the first movie, they have to figure out a way to get back without ruining things. hilarity ensues ("wait,you guys was boosting DVD players?!" and it's touching as Dom looks back at meeting Brian for the first time through different eyes.
Gog.com is currently having a summer sale and the Monkey Island games are getting huge discounts.
https://www.gog.com/en/games?query=monkey%20island
#monkeyisland #returntomonkeyisland
monkey island | GOG.COM

Apollo users, decline your subscription refund while you can

Reddit has forced third-party clients like Apollo to shut down due to exorbitant fees, and please refuse the subscription refund to help keep your favorite developers afloat.

AppleInsider