ratcreature: WTF!? (WTF!?)
I'm contemplating whether I shouldn't put the effort in to make myself a "eating popcorn" icon because of the Twitter mess, after years of deciding that I don't need one for online kerfuffles etc., because I tend to just miss drama, and then my "under a rock" one works when I catch up eventually.

I mean, I barely had time to notice the hastily introduced new "official" check marks, before reading a tweet that apparently they got killed again not a day later? But clearly this train wreck overall will go on for a while...
ratcreature: RatCreature fixing a laptop with a dark ritual (computer)
I don't use Twitter to post but I follow a couple of people, only my reading feed sometimes doesn't show all tweets and I don't know why.

I have set it to "Latest" so Twitter should show things to me in chronological order, yet just now of the last three links to goodreads reviews an author I follow posted, I see only one in my feed, even though I see all three when I go to their Twitter directly. I only noticed because one of the two reviews was actually shown to me earlier, but then when I went back to my feed after reading it on goodreads it was gone from my Twitter feed. Then I checked the poster's Twitter directly and discovered that tweet and the second one that are there, but not in my feed when I refresh it. I remember noticing something similar when I noticed tweets missing when I visited Twitter on different devices. I don't use their app, but view logged in, in a browser, regardless whether I view on a laptop or a mobile device, if that makes a difference.

Is there some reason for this weird behavior? Can I stop Twitter from doing this to me, or do I just have to live with a randomly incomplete reading page?
ratcreature: First fandom: RatCreature as Donald Duck (first fandom)
I saw an article about Minnie Mouse getting a redesign with a pantsuit and I can't say that I like the look, though less so because of the pants, but because of the colors. I don't think dark blue with black dots is really Minnie's color. The red with white dots gave a nice contrast

Also, if they wanted to be less gender essentialist with their wardrobe, they'd also let Mickey wear a skirt every now and then.

The visible gender markers in the style are messed up anyway, because basically it's just very long (presumably fake or at least enhanced) eye lashes and rouge that distinguish Minnie from Mickey, aside from their clothes. So from a Watsonian perspective Minnie always puts on makeup to be more female presenting.
ratcreature: WTF!? (WTF!?)
So my last entry linking to my [community profile] chocolateboxcomm gift is getting a ridiculous amount of anon (and thus screened) spam bot comments in Japanese. Just that entry. I dutifully deleted and reported 28 since I posted, but it's been getting really annoying, so I disabled all comments to it now. I honestly don't get how the targeting of these spam bots works.

ETA: And now the bots apparently switched to this one. If this continues I will have to disable anon comments. Already have turned on captcha for anon, but apparently that is useless.

ETA2: I had to disable anon comments, after getting another flood of spam comments. Sorry to potential anon commenters, but they seem fairly rare anyway.
ratcreature: WTF!? (WTF!?)
I haven't yet looked into the potentially helpful python script that [personal profile] odditycollector linked in the comments to my last post, but I did start the backup export option Tumblr provides yesterday. Only it seems to still be "processing" now.

Mind, I do not have many Tumblr posts, just 81. For comparison I have over 2500 posts here. So I am not a heavy Tumblr user. And yet, the site seems to be unable to export even this few. (My long defunct side Tumblr [tumblr.com profile] jamesmcavoywithsloths in its run actually got to 600 posts, which still isn't that many, and Tumblr is "processing" that as well.)

Is their backup just broken right now, because everybody is trying to use it?
ratcreature: WTF!? (WTF!?)
So I got a mail from Flickr informing me that they have been acquired by "SmugMug", whatever that is, and that if I don't want my account data transferred I ought to delete the account by May 25.

Now, I don't remember to ever having signed up for Flickr, but I used to have a Yahoo Account, because of the YahooGroups merger back in the day, and at some point Yahoo acquired Flickr, so who knows what I got auto signed up for. So I tried to login with the e-mail that they sent the notification about my supposed account to, only then the login tells me that they don't know that email address.

So obviously I can't try to login or do a password recovery to see that Flickr account they informed me I have. I actually still have the password for my old YahooID written down, but apparently they don't ask for YahooIDs anymore. I mean, they can't have it both ways, mailing me and then claim they don't know that email.

ETA: Apparently they prompted for an email, but in reality wanted my YahooID in that field. So now I could delete the Flickr account that I never signed up for in the first place.
ratcreature: Like a spork between the eyes. (spork)
Why is there an annoying, pixelated, pooping horse on my Tumblr dashboard? It is not even April 1st yet. How can I make it go away? Why is Tumblr doing these things?
ratcreature: Like a spork between the eyes. (spork)
Why is there a stupid confetti animation disrupting my dashboard? I guess it is because it's Tumblr's tenth anniversary?

I suppose it is totally in the site's spirit to make themselves even more unusable as celebration.
ratcreature: RatCreature sleeps. (sleeping)
Last night I dreamed about being hassled by Donald Trump. WTF. I think I participated in some game show? I need to watch less US election coverage if my dreams get invaded.
ratcreature: Like a spork between the eyes. (spork)
You should not send spammy emails that claim that the account's tweets got lots of attention (and then explain how to promote them more or something) to accounts that have never posted even a single tweet.

After first glancing at the mail I wondered whether this meant that my twitter, which I don't actively use, had been hacked (it hasn't), and somebody had actually tweeted from it, or something, and now they wanted to inform me about unusual account activity.

This applies in particular since, afaik, I had already unchecked all seven checkboxes for receiving emails about Twitter updates, including the one about new features and services. So they should not have sent me spammy emails in the first place. Though maybe they added a new one, I was opted in by default and only unchecked the latest, seventh(!) fine-grained twitter product "information" box with my unsubscribe click.
ratcreature: Eeew! (eeew)
I've just seen US-style processed "cheese" in a spray can sold for the first time in a supermarket here. Granted it was part of some special display dedicated to American foods and not their normal range of products but still.

The most bizarre thing was that it apparently was produced by a Wisconsin company that calls itself "Old Fashioned Foods Inc." which is just-- though maybe it's meant to be ironic.

ETA: Also now that I'm thinking about spray can cheese (and calling that an "old fashioned" food), I don't think I've ever read a fic where Steve Rogers when adjusting to the future/present isn't going the Farmer's Market route, but instead (or additionally) is totally thrilled with all the modern convenience food developments, because "scientific"/"hygienic"/"modern" food is awesome to him. I mean, I think he is of the generation that initially brought us the stuff like TV dinners and spray can cheese and food technology in general in the post war period, that only then in the backlash got its current bad reputation, because now "natural" is fetishized as the best and healthiest food.
ratcreature: grumpy (grumpy)
Tumblr forcibly logged me out, and refuses to let me log in via a webbrowser unless I change my password. Though it doesn't seem to have any problem to let me log into my account via the Android app.

Admittedly I haven't changed my password in a while, but still this is obnoxious behavior, in particular since they did not bother to sent me an email or such to explain or alert me to anything.
ratcreature: RatCreature at the drawing board. (drawing)
Sometimes people are leaving odd comments on AO3. Like this one by inky-pen on my Furry and Animals drawbles collection on AO3. It just says "Can u draw a mixture of a snake and squirrel. Please."

It is somewhat strange to get a comment that doesn't actually say anything about having liked the art that is there, and just asks for a new drawing. And since inky-pen didn't comment from an AO3 account, I don't even know who they are. I did however draw them a Frankenstein snake-squirrel mix, though I'm not sure whether you even get email comment notifications without an AO3 account, so maybe they'll never know.

for inky-pen )
ratcreature: Eeew! (eeew)
I was making myself some banana-oatmeal pancakes for breakfast when a tiny fruitfly decided to commit suicide by flinging itself into the hot butter. So I had to fish a tiny fried insect out of my pan. I guess it was lucky it didn't try to land on the then still soft topside of my pancakes.
ratcreature: Like a spork between the eyes. (spork)
The Tumblr app has notifications, usually only "So-and-so liked your photo", but sometimes the notification starts differently but then I can't find out what it wanted me to inform about, because when I tap on the notification, it only opens my dash, and when I go on to check account activity nothing shows there either.

I just clicked on a Tumblr notification on my tablet that had popped up without really reading the excerpt, except noting that it wasn't the standard like/reblog thing, but now I have no idea what it was, because there is nothing new in the inbox or the account activity of either of my two Tumblrs, and of course the notification goes away once you tapped it. Argh.
ratcreature: Like a spork between the eyes. (spork)
Does Pinterest somehow add boards to what you follow when you're not looking via some algorithm or something like that? Whenever I've been away from the site for a while and then check back there somehow are a ton of pins on my dash from boards and people I don't remember following (at least I'm fairly sure about that, though they often vaguely overlap with previous interests).

And is there a way to turn this behavior off?
ratcreature: RL? What RL? RatCreature is a net addict.  (what rl?)
Tumblr has created a way to not show a Tumblr via the web URL but only on the dashboard to followers. But as I understand it, the behavior is that anyone can follow you if they know your name unless you explicitly block them. So content is not actually private as such, because if I for example came across one of these error pages following at a web URL, I could follow the name in the URL and then see the content on my dash, at least unless/until I got blocked.

Only I probably couldn't find any specific content because I'd have to scroll back through my dashboard to see it, since the URLs don't work anymore for anyone, logged in or not, including the owner even, based on the reblog comments?! So if you hide your Tumblr, how could you find or see your old posts if neither archive nor tag links work any longer?

And how does this behave with reblogging? The post says the social functions all work as before, including reblog, does that mean if your followers, who may not even realize you disabled URLs as there is no symbol on the posts like on LJ/DW, can still reblog and it would show on theirs with a proper URL (and be visible to all including search engines if they set their Tumblr for maximal exposure?) or only reblog through the dashboard feeds to their followers but not the public Tumblr?

This implementation of (faux-)privacy doesn't sound like a recipe for wanky misunderstandings and disaster at all... /sarcasm
ratcreature: Flail! (flail)
Getty Images, which apparently own the copyright to the penguin photograph that is used in the Socially Awkward Penguin Meme, threatened to sue a German blogger for reblogging a couple of meme images. The blogger decided to pay the fine of about 785€ they were offered, rather than risking a court decision on whether this infringed on Getty Images' copyright. German copyright does not have "fair use" like it exists in the US though there are other provisions (for citations and parody for example), so apparently it's not clear how it would have gone in court. However, the blogger didn't follow the gag order Getty Images wanted to be followed (I guess it's bad for the business model if people are forewarned what they might risk) and posted about it. I haven't found any English news articles but here's a link to a German one.

WTF, nearly 800€ for reblogging a penguin meme...

Eta: Some English language news now have picked this up, so you can read about the case here in English.

Gaah!

Sep. 5th, 2015 01:06 pm
ratcreature: RatCreature as Rodney recoiling from a Lemon: Gaah! (gaah)
Checking links can also be hazardous (or at least leave you in need of brain bleach). I just clicked on a story link, the fanfic site has vanished, but now there is a site with porn videos titled "granny fucking video" featuring delightful content such as "dog fucks grandma" videos. At least they weren't autoplay. Yikes.

It adds motivation to also update my xover rec page (which unfortunately right now inadvertently links to this crap), though. On the upside, the story in question is still online elsewhere.
ratcreature: Like a spork between the eyes. (spork)
So apparently the Amazon Kindle app on Android infrequently will notify you about some sale or other. So when I actually clicked on the notice to get to the app (and then hopefully be able to turn off the annoying advertising notifications somewhere), I got not to a display of deals that were supposedly of interest to me, but to an empty page that said it could not find any results for that search. WTF? How can they fail this much at their advertising, that they got me to click on it, and then don't show me anything?

Also there doesn't seem to be any option to turn their sales notifications off, I just see an option for the download notifications (no matter that the Amazon help center claims there was an option for Kindle deals notification in the same place), which I'd actually like to keep on. Or does that turn off both? Or do I have to turn off its permission for notifications in the Android settings?

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