Tag Archives: twitter

This link may be unsafe

Posted on December 16, 2022 by blogmywiki

Or: The Straw That Broke This Camel’s Back Elon Musk changed Twitter bio links to Mastadon to http instead of https – or blocked them. He is a free speech absolutist free marketeer who doesn’t believe in free speech he … Continue reading →

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Social migration

Posted on October 30, 2022 by blogmywiki

This is not intended to be another long take on Elon Musk’s Twitter takeover, heaven knows enough has been said about that, but a few thoughts as I mothball my Twitter account… I have long-disliked Musk. He’s not a good … Continue reading →

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Tweeting photos from PS2 EyeToy on Raspberry Pi

Posted on April 19, 2014 by blogmywiki

It took some fairly heavy footling and jiggery-pokery, but I finally managed to get my Raspberry Pi to run a Python script which takes a photo on a webcam and tweets the picture – meaning I could set up a … Continue reading →

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Kids in America: Newtown and Twitter

Posted on December 16, 2012 by blogmywiki

Watching Newtown unfold on Twitter was a strange experience. Like most news now, I first heard of it there, a colleague breaking the news in my timeline. I didn’t join in with RTs, and there was perhaps slightly less of … Continue reading →

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Making FridgeGizmo run automatically

Posted on September 19, 2012 by blogmywiki

…or How to Get a Script to Run Automatically at the Auto-login on default Raspberry Pi Raspbian Linux. I want to get my FridgeGizmo that displays local weather and global tweets on an LCD display to start itself up automatically … Continue reading →

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