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X (Twitter) wants your ID - don't give it to them.

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Now the social app formerly known as Twitter, X, wants you to verify your identity by uploading your ID. If this becomes a requirement, my account will be script-deleted so that I can remove as much data as a user possibly can.

Aug 20, 2023

"Why self host?" is the wrong question. "Why rescind your control?" is the right one.

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Free and easy to use platforms are only fun while they are free, easy to use, and actually available. They pop up like mushrooms and their season ends just as abruptly.

Dec 19, 2022

Paypal shuts yet another account down

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The concept of credit cards and digital cash seems so convenient, with no heavy coins to carry, and no need for purses at all in the future when you can just skip the phone altogether and use your fingerprint everywhere.

Sep 22, 2022

Updating a really old Ghost theme to 5.0 so custom templates and comments work

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Ah, Ghost is now released in 5.0 and I was using an ancient theme that didn't have all the bells and whistles available.

Aug 24, 2022

When Ghost upgrade dies on "ERROR alter table `products_benefits`"

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There is a bit of a surprise in upgrading your Ubuntu to 20.04.2 , because that will include upgrading your MySQL to mysql Ver 8.0.25, and before you know it, you're upgrading your LTS Node Version: v14.16.1 , your Ghost-CLI Version: 1.16.3 and finally, your Ghost version

Jul 17, 2021

Cleaning Twitter by unfollowing, to reset your follows/following flow.

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Sometimes a Twitter cleanse is necessary, as the Twitter app has some odd bugs in it and acts up from time to time.

Apr 7, 2021

Moving off S3 with Drupal 7

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It seemed a great idea to use S3, but after receiving a DMCA takedown request from them regarding a film I stored there, I knew that I needed to move.

Sep 22, 2020

Fixing that pesky "Parameter must be an array" error in PhPMyAdmin

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I don't know who needs to hear this... Oh well, I do, because I forget things that I've done and this here blog is as good a place as any to put something that I might need to look up later.

Sep 21, 2020

Bye Drupal 8.

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I moved my personal portfolio and blog from Drupal 8 to Ghost. I don't think I can even begin to explain how much I despise Drupal 8.

Jul 1, 2020

Adland : the never-ending project

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I bored all my friends talking about advertising all the time. I am obsessed with ads. I wanted to share ad knowledge with other ad geeks.

Jun 30, 2020

How do you get emojis accepted in Drupal 7? ? ? ?

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Quite a long time ago, as Kidsleepy was writing an article on Adland, he added an embedded tweet that contained an emoji.

Apr 27, 2020

Website as hidden service: how do?

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Was talking to a pal about ssh as hidden service. “It’s simple” he said, and practically dared me to do it. But I didn’t really want ssh, I thought let's do http instead because Adland. Oh okay. So you want to try it too? Lets go.

Jan 6, 2016