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Over the weekend, X's head of product Nikita Bier dropped a nuclear bomb - it showed country of origin if a user looked at another users "about" section. The amount of "tradwife", pro-MAGA, pro-Euronationalism etc accounts that turned out to be from India, Saudi, Thailand or Nigeria was staggering.

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

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

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.

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.

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

How embarrassing. I noticed that things were moving slowly on my server today

I have been in the habit for years now, to delete my Twitter favourites or likes, because I 'heart' them for lots of reasons, most of which have nothing to do with actually liking the tweet.

Let's say you did something kinda not-so-smart and you rebooted your EDS instance, and for some reason, it restarts, but won't let you in via SSH, or worse... It simply will not restart.

The Fan Club wanted people to notice the homeless in Malmö. With $0 budget. While people were busy playing gowalla and 4square on their phones.

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.

So, you were minding your own business chmodding things left and right while logged in to your Ubuntu instance the other day