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This link may be unsafe

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

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

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

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

…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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