Replacing broken avatar images with background SVG Emoji by @edent@edent (shkspr.mobi)
When someone on Twitter mentions my blog, the WordPress WebMentions plugin automatically fetches those Tweets and turns them into comments on the blog post. It looks something like this: Matt's smiling face. That is pretty cool - but has one slight problem. If someone changes their Twitter avatar, o...

Doing the same @edent – just less fancy:

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The one where I spun up a virtual machine to deDRM my ebooks. by gergolippai (A day in the rants)
The area where I didn’t expect I would have to uncloud is books, but behold, it is happening. My kids addicted to books. They read all the time. They read in the car, they read in the evening…

Yeah, this happened to me before too: https://gergolippai.com/2021/08/29/the-one-where-i-spun-up-a-virtual-machine-to-dedrm-my-ebooks/

You bought a book, how wonderful! But you can only read it on our devices. Fuck portability. — gergolippai

And I scratched my itch in a similar way. Calibre ❤️

Rant.

So this is what I got for replying to a question what others use as educational material for events in reenactment:

No one else can see your comment. We have these standards to prevent things such as false advertising, fraud and security breaches

Know what FB? Fuck you. Our fragile relationship is coming to a grinding halt here and now.