Gone from Twitter forever. Mastodon: mastodon.social/@lapcatsoftw…
Joined July 2016
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31 Oct 2022
Dear followers,
Thank you for having followed me. After today, however, I will no longer be tweeting. I will no longer read or reply to my timeline, notifications, or DMs. I'm leaving Twitter permanently.
I'm not leaving the internet, though. You know how to reach me.
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31 Oct 2022
The previous President, kicked off Twitter, failed to build a huge audience for a new network of political propaganda, so the world's wealthiest person decided to just buy a preexisting huge audience.
But I can't be bought. I'm not part of the package. I won't participate.
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31 Oct 2022
I don't believe that staying and tweeting is "fighting back". I believe the opposite: tweeting and participating adds value to this platform, helps the new owners. I can't do it. I don't expect to single-handedly destroy Twitter, but it's a moral imperative for me to leave.
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30 Oct 2022
It appears that the Muskrat deleted his tweet, but that's not good enough.
He needs to issue a public retraction/correction, an apology, and a pledge to not do that again in the future, otherwise he's just a coward hoping that everyone will forget.
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31 Oct 2022
And... completely unrepentant.
Fuck him. I'm leaving this $44 billion shithole.
x.com/elonmusk/status/158687…
This is fake – I did *not* tweet out a link to The New York Times!
Community note
Elon is making a joke here. He did tweet a link to a site known to publish fake articles. He subsequently deleted the tweet.
The joke conflates this site with the New York Times.
google.com/amp/s/www.nyti…
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30 Oct 2022
Ok, that's it, I'm done.
Whatever it costs me financially, I have a moral obligation to leave Twitter and not provide anything of value to what has now become a site fully owned by extreme right-wing political activists.
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28 Oct 2022
We'll see what happens. If the Muskrat goes full bore with using Twitter for his own right-wing political activism, I may be forced to leave. I can't be a part of that.
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28 Oct 2022
The fact that a Gatekeeper bypass is only worth $5K clearly demonstrates that Gatekeeper itself it not worth much.
Security theater.
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26 Oct 2022
This works to remove the System Preferences Dock badge!
It won't remove the badge from the preference pane, but you can actually hide the preference pane (which you can't do in System Settings).
ALT System Preferences, View menu, Customize...
26 Oct 2022
When it's in your Dock, change its <tile-data><dock-extra> to false in Dock's plist -- hides the badge, obviously not the checking, though.
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26 Oct 2022
Once again, it appears that nobody considers the Mac App Store worth selling ads on.
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24 Oct 2022
It turns out that I have to block softwareupdated with Little Snitch to get rid of the Dock badge on System Preferences in Monterey, because it periodically checks in the background regardless of your preferences.
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24 Oct 2022
Achievement unlocked:
A link to my blog post in the review!
24 Oct 2022
macOS 13 Ventura: The Ars Technica review arstechnica.com/gadgets/2022… by @AndrewWrites
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22 Oct 2022
In Ventura System Settings, modal windows just pop up when I'm using the up and down arrow keys to navigate the search results.
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11 Oct 2022
Here's a trick for removing Exif data from a photo:
1. Open in Preview app
2. Select All, Copy
3. File, New from Clipboard
4. Save
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10 Oct 2022
I just purchased @alfredapp the other day. It's pretty cool. I need to remember to use it, because I'm not in the habit yet.
A few things I like so far:
1) # to run a command in Terminal (I changed the prefix from >)
2) / to show a file browser
3) This:
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10 Oct 2022
"StopTheMadness is likely the most capable and quirky extension on this list."
Best Safari extensions for iPhone, iPad, and Mac in 2022 9to5mac.com/2022/10/10/best-… by @arinwaichulis
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