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Ask HN: How do I successfully register a new Twitter account these days

3 pointsby mcnesium5 jaar geleden5 comments

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2 jaar geledendiscuss

What are some use cases for this?

3 jaar geledendiscuss

HN, please explain why everyone is so upset with having a time offset in the city/region/country next door.

In Germany, there are 16 states. Many of them have different laws, e.g. regarding store hours and so on. Neighboring countrys like Austria or Poland have even more conservative laws.

The difference between sunrise and sunset in Palermo and Oslo is almost 90 minutes twice a year.

There are tons of cultural differences between Europeans. In southern countries, people tend to stay up later in the evening and sleep longer in the morning than in northern countries (at least that is my impression from traveling).

In the continental United States, there are four time zones, none of which even pay much attention to state borders.

Still, everyone manages to live their lives, talk to people on the phone, commute from one place to the other.

So why are Europeans so afraid that the people they talk to might be an hour or two off?

4 jaar geledendiscuss

> discuss the topic of being removed from mailing lists with people with similar interests

lol

5 jaar geledendiscuss

for the majority of people it should also be fine to walk (yes, walk!) from their appartment to the next bus/tram/subway station around the corner.

5 jaar geledendiscuss

and I use it almost every day. It's great, thank you very much!

5 jaar geledendiscuss

Arthur est un perroquet!

5 jaar geledendiscuss

reply to my e-mail to [email protected]:

> We appreciate you reaching out, but Twitter doesn’t monitor emails sent to this support address. To contact our support team, please submit a request through our online form. We also have resources and articles on our Help Center that might be able to answer your question.

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

5 jaar geledendiscuss

Sorry for the noise everyone, I found out how to do it:

Do not register an account only with an e-mail address of yours and then ruefully append your phone number later because you are denied any usefulness of the account otherwise.

Instead, choose to register by your phone number in the first place right away, and pretend to volunteer to be easily trackable throughout the entire internet.

5 jaar geledendiscuss

I would, but what address should I use? I mean, I could just write to [email protected] or whatever, but I would be amazed if that would return anything.

They do not announce an official mail contact anywhere. Looks like they don't actually want to really get in contact with their (potential) users.

5 jaar geledendiscuss

Sorry for sort of OT, but my post on Reddit has been removed, and I hope that Twitter people might read this here.

5 jaar geledendiscuss

My almost 70 years old dad uses Pass for iOS in his everyday life. He does not have a clue about what's going on under the hood (gpg, git, my instance of gitea where it pushes to, me being able to intervene or fix stuff from somewhere else than his phone, etc.), but thats fine for both of us. He even complained, when I suggested to try Nextcloud Passwords because he might understand better what's going on there. So I guess in terms of UX this is a positive example.

6 jaar geledendiscuss

Using Wikipedias language switcher to translate things seems to be quite common here, so I thought I'd share how I moved the languages up on top, so I don't have to scroll down on smaller screens or when zoomed in.

In `<firefox-profile>/chrome/userContent.css` I wrote the following:

    @-moz-document domain(wikipedia.org) {
        #mw-panel {
            display: flex;
            flex-direction: column;
        }
        #mw-panel nav {
            order: 9;
        }
        #mw-panel nav#p-logo {
            order: 1;
        }
        #mw-panel nav#p-lang {
            order: 2;
        }
    }

This is only for Firefox, but imho that is the… least bad browser anyways ;)

6 jaar geledendiscuss

OT: is that level difference to baseline in the logo intended?

7 jaar geledendiscuss

but then you wouldn't do "search engine optimization", but rather proper web engineering.

7 jaar geledendiscuss

It is clearly explained in this 1968 movie, how and why the Sphinx happens to lack her nose: https://youtu.be/RFnfR26jnzo?t=2033

7 jaar geledendiscuss

> Easter Egg during Christmas season

true punk!

8 jaar geledendiscuss

This is why we all should not be using these kinds of services, at least in a production setting. We should run our own services based on open source software, federate them, share and improve them, and never depend on any third party.

8 jaar geledendiscuss

Google and Facebook are the first proof for why the Do Not Track header is bullshit. Privacy should be the default, and if I for some reason want to be sniffed all around the web, I can happily opt-in.

8 jaar geledendiscuss

> "Why would you want to do that?"

I don't remember a Linus Torvalds say "you're not supposed to hold it this way" to anyone. Instead, …

8 jaar geledendiscuss

It feels awkward that it is called "exotic". This exposes the common understanding of todays web as a set of services, that everyone is supposed and used to consume, while anything out of that scope is not regarded as normal. This is the opposite of what it should be.