daanksy

I deactivated my X account due to a privacy issue I was having. The issue being that my feed (on my pseudonymous account) started serving me local tweets, despite having all location data hidden (according to my settings). When I say local, I mean, a guy that lives 10 doors up from me, followed by a post from the mayor of my hometown. That certainly can't be coincidence. I don't mind seeing their posts, but it's indicative of precise location data making it into the algo, and likely means the guy up the street, and people in my area are seeing my posts too. Deactivating my account temporarily was the surest way to get my posts off their feeds. I have never once mentioned my precise location, always ensuring to obsure those details in one way or another. I don't even use a local phone number. The only thing I can think of that might explain this was that I posted about the eclipse when it started, which would have given away my geographical location to the algorithm, but it shouldn't have been that precise.

2 years ago, I didn't know how crypto worked, what Linux was or how to code. I always loved technology, but always found "better" things to do than to immerse myself in it. I honestly wish I had sooner. This is definitely where I belong.

I have successfully automated the creation process for 4-panel comics using a combination of python scripts, imagemagick and (temporarily) calls to a free dog picture API. Now I just need to train an image generator to generate images in a very specific style, and add this into the pipeline (replacing the current dog picture api thing) and hopefully then I'll have a comic generator. This last part will take some time.

imagemagick is fricken excellent