Notices by Luca Hammer (luca@social.luca.run)

I collected posts from people using TweetXer to exterminate their Tweets. It makes me happy that my script helps them with letting go.

#Twitter #Xcorp

Sometimes I install a program to solve a very specific problem. Because of the time and energy I invested to find the right program, I tend to not remove it afterwards, even though I don't need it anymore. I should just create a list. But what if I can't find that list again? And where should I store it? [in logseq like all my other notes] Too many decisions. And every time I upgrade programs, I am reminded of those awesome programs that I don't need.

Maybe it's easier to let them go, when I post about them.

PDF Arranger is a neat little program to move pages around in a PDF file. Combine PDFs, split them. But don't change the content of the pages. A GUI for pikepdf. https://github.com/pdfarranger/pdfarranger

@thomasfuchs That example is a post on the official Twitter account, but they deleted the post.

@earthshine @thomasfuchs I meant the combination with solar. Solar produces the most energy during summer, but heat pumps need the energy during winter. ACs need the most energy when solar produces the most energy.

As an EU citizen, I'm using my right to deletion to get #StackOverflow to remove my data for me.

Here is the link to the form: https://policies.stackoverflow.co/data-request/

I requested a copy of my data for my personal backup and to confirm if they fulfilled my request. #GDPR

Edit: As people noted in the replies, this will probably not remove your questions or answers, but only your profile. I'm going to edit with my result once they have fulfilled my request.

@thomasfuchs Shit can still have nutrients that can be extracted by eating it. Capybaras for example eat their shit because they don't have multiple stomachs like many ruminants.

Toxic garbage would be a more appropriate term.

@thomasfuchs The school therapist says to first affirm their emotions (“I see that you are angry. It's okay to be angry.”), tell them why you didn't like what they did (“But calling others names hurts them.”) and finally ask them how to fix the situation (“What could we do to fix this situation? Maybe delete the post and bake muffins for the person you hurt?”).

Most posts about #37c3 were published on the Fediverse.

I found 11.130 posts on the Fediverse (known to chaos.social or mastodon.social), 2.620 posts on X/Twitter and 1.069 on ATProto/Bluesky. Published between 2023-12-23 and 2023-12-31. (I haven't figured out how to collect posts on Threads, but I have found 150 there. Maybe there are more, but they don't show up in the search results.)

Als Tarifbeschäftigter an einer Hochschule beteilige mich heute am Warnstreik der GEW. Wir fordern 10,5% mehr Gehalt und einen Tarifvertrag für studentische Beschäftigte.

Weitere Infos und wo gestreikt wird: https://www.gew-nrw.de/profisbrauchenmehr-tvl-2023 und https://hochschulaktionstag.de/

Wenn es einen Streikaufruf durch die Gewerkschaft an einem Standort gibt, dürfen alle betroffenen Beschäftigten dort streiken. Unabhängig davon, ob sie selbst in einer Gewerkschaft sind oder nicht. Ist man in einer Gewerkschaft und hat durch den Streik einen Lohnausfall, kann man Streikgeld beantragen.

#GEW #TVL #TVStud #Streik #FediLZ #ProfisBrauchenMehr (ich habe ein Problem mit dem Slogan, aber das ist eine andere Diskussion) #Tarifverhandlungen #Hochschulaktionstag

@drawnonglass @feditips Can you send me some examples of broken links? I just tested it and the URLs to the accounts worked.

@yvg https://fedifinder.glitch.me/ is back and working. #fedifinder

@yvg Please use https://fedifinder-backup.glitch.me until I am able to fix it. #fedifinder

I heard that the tools to delete all your Tweets don't work anymore. This script allows you to delete them anyways: https://gist.github.com/lucahammer/1aa16b4d3c1fb04035839da5ef699d65

- #Xcorp may view it as a violation of their terms (automation) and ban your account. Use at your own risk.
- At least in the EU you have a right to delete your own data which overrules any company terms.
- This only removes them from your profile, Tweets may still exist in backups and other places.

I wasn't able to get the script to run unsupervised. After some time the timeline stays empty and you have to manually reload the page and run the script again. Currently, I am testing it with a 15 year old account with 19 k Tweets. I had to reload every 500 Tweets on average. After adjusting the script to not hit the rate-limit (50 requests per minute), it should run with less interruptions. But the Xcorp infrastructure is unreliable. #twitter

2023-09-19 Initial release
2023-09-19 Replies get deleted as well. Script switches between Tweets and Replies until neither returns new results.

Short video for people who haven't used the browser developer tools yet.

Because I was only able to delete a few thousand Tweets from my profile, I had to write a new script to delete old Tweets. This one works with the tweets.js file from the Twitter Data Export to delete Tweets that aren't visible on the profile or search.

1. Log into Twitter with Firefox
2. Have at least one visible post on your profile
3. Paste code to browser console (F12)
4. A new area appears at the top of the page
5. Choose your tweets.js file
6. Wait for Tweets to vanish (takes long)

Script: https://gist.github.com/lucahammer/a4d1e957ec9e061e3cccafcbed599e16 #XCorp #twitter

@feditips As far as I remember, it was never broken for more than a few days.

"Your X/Twitter contacts are on these instances." https://fedifinder.glitch.me/ #fedifinder #update #xTwitter #TwitterX #Twitter #branding

@thomasfuchs Legal stuff already happened earlier this year. Twitter Inc. was merged into X Corp.. https://social.luca.run/@luca/110525953936170888

(Doesn't make it less stupid.)

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