Amanda Unvarnished

New post: 43% of the Web Can No Longer (Easily) Auto-Share to Twitter – https://www.disruptiveconversations.com/2023/05/43-of-the-web-can-no-longer-easily-auto-share-to-twitter.html

… wherein I write about how Twitter’s decision to impose huge prices on API access has caused Automattic to discontinue auto-sharing from their hosted #WordPress .com site and also through the #Jetpack plugin used by people (like me) who host their own WP sites.

The good news is that Automattic says they’ll soon enable auto-sharing to #Mastodon , which will be a great help!

—@danyork

Nostr: Verify your name on your WordPress site

Another day, another social network. In my continued quest to try new decentralized networks, I had to create a small WordPress plugin to verify myself with Nostr.

https://jeremy.hu/nostr-verify-wordpress-plugin/

#activitypub #en #fediverse #nostr

—@jeremy

Folks have been talking a lot about QT’s lately. I’ll just relay my personal experience:
I can’t count how many times I’ve come across a post, thought “that post is stupid, let me show my followers so I can make fun of it,” then remember that quote tweets aren’t a thing. I then go: “Oh. Well. Hm. Probably for the best TBH”… and then I move on with my life!
F*cking glorious.
Not everyone uses QT’s this way, but I absolutely did.
Having that urge taken from me isn’t a bad thing.

—@objectinspace

I’m glad to see reporting looking into the data theft behind “AI”. But it’s super frustrating to be misquoted like this. I was not talking about “current laws”, nor about “AIs”. Collections of linear algebra are not the kind of things that can have accountability, period.

I’ve sent email to @mimsical asking for a correction, but haven’t heard back. (It is a Saturday, but also the piece went live today.) Hopefully he can get the WSJ to correct the article.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/chatgpt-ai-artificial-intelligence-openai-personal-writing-5328339a

—@emilymbender

Hello everyone, just moved the account to this new instance!

I think it’s time for a new #introduction then!

Ice Cubes is available on the App Store for iOS, iPadOS and macOS, it’s a fast, customisable, easy to use client.

– Pin any local timeline from any instance!
– Quote toot!
– Easy access to your lists and followed tags!
– Proper direct messages interface.
– It’s 100% free and Open source!

Feel free to boost so the whole Fediverse can know about it!

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/ice-cubes-for-mastodon/id6444915884

—@IceCubesApp

Doctor: Are you sexually active?

Me: I don’t just lay there if that’s what you’re implying.

—@TheTootOfBob

Still haven’t heard a good reason as to why we don’t fight wars with dirty diaper cannons instead of live ammunition.

—@Suig

Count Dracula was 412 when he moved to England in search of new blood.
Sauron was 54,000 years old when he forged the One Ring.
Cthulhu had seen galaxies flare into life and fade into darkness before he put madness in the minds of men.
See, it’s never too late to follow your dreams!

—@MostlyHarmless

Maybe we’d all be happier if we just made mud pies again

—@seapea808

Rock on, sis.

43-year-old used her life savings to open a bar that only plays women’s sports—it brought in almost $1 million in 8 months

https://www.cnbc.com/2023/04/27/jenny-nguyen-how-the-sports-bra-became-haven-for-womens-sports-fans.html

—@stopthatgirl7

There’s this very specific brand of infosec guy I keep coming across that just loves shitting on people who don’t know a great deal about the subject for extremely minor things while having a ring doorbell, fitbit, and half a kitchen that’s online and please, just one tiny iota of self awareness. Just one. A grain. A spec.
They accept cookies? Ok, well you drive a fucking tesla.

—@doot