Category: Social

Twitter 宣佈要廢掉免費的 API 權限

昨天下午的時候看到這則官方在 Twitter 上提到的消息，要廢掉 free tier 的 API access：

但這邊提到的 paid basic tier 的價錢還沒看到公告。以「API Pricing - It’s very dark out here」這邊看到的價格，目前的 premium plan 超級貴：

這下看起來是真的得搬了，目前有好幾隻程式在上面跑 :o

Twitter 新政策禁止推廣其他社交平台的連結

看到 Paul Graham 這個宣告：

裡面提到的新政策在「Promotion of alternative social platforms policy」這邊，直接禁止其他社交平台：

At both the Tweet level and the account level, we will remove any free promotion of prohibited 3rd-party social media platforms, such as linking out (i.e. using URLs) to any of the below platforms on Twitter, or providing your handle without a URL:

  • Prohibited platforms:
    • Facebook, Instagram, Mastodon, Truth Social, Tribel, Post and Nostr
    • 3rd-party social media link aggregators such as linktr.ee, lnk.bio

在 Hacker News 的討論上面，Paul Graham 有回應 (帳號是 pg)，他又提出了一些猜測與見解，包含了他覺得這個新政策會被收回：「Paul Graham is leaving Twitter for now (twitter.com/paulg)」。

I'm not leaving Twitter. It seems more likely than not that Elon will reverse the ban on links to other social media sites. I just don't want to hang out there in the meantime. Plus given the way things are going, it seemed like a good time to learn about alternatives.

I still think Elon is a smart guy. His work on cars and rockets speaks for itself. Nor do I think he's the villain a lot of people try to make him out to be. He's eccentric, definitely, but that should be news to no one. Plus I don't think he realizes that the techniques that work for cars and rockets don't work in social media. Those two facts are sufficient to explain most of his behavior.

He could still salvage the situation. He's the sort of person it would be a big mistake to write off. And I hope he does. I would be delighted to go back to using Twitter regularly.

不過的確如他說的，這是個好機會嘗試其他的 social network...

Tumblr 打算要支援 ActivityPub

Tumblr 現在的老大 Matt Mullenweg 在 Twitter 上提到了 Tumblr 打算要支援 ActivityPub 的消息：

如果支援的話，對於 ActivityPub 這個圈子會是個大消息，等於是有個大平台跳進去支援...

南韓最高法院也對 Web Scraping 給出了類似美國的判例

也是上個禮拜在 Hacker News 上看到的新聞，南韓最高法院對於 web scraping 也做出了類似美國 HiQ Labs v. LinkedIn 案的判例：「Korean Supreme Court Provides Clarity on Web Scraping and Violation of the Relevant Korean Laws, including the Copyright Act and Information Protection Act (Supreme Court, 2021Do1533, May 12, 2022)」，原文似乎已經被 paywall，但可以從 Internet Archive 的「這邊」與 archive.today 的「這邊」讀到原全文。另外在 Hacker News 上的討論「The Supreme Korean court says that scraping publicly available data is legal (lexology.com)」。

hiQ 的案子之前有寫過，可以參考「hiQ 爬 LinkedIn 資料的無罪判決」這邊。

南韓最高法院認為這次的抓取公開資料不違反南韓的法令：

On May 12, 2022, the Korean Supreme Court held in Case No. 2021Do1533 that scraping publicly available data from a competitor’s website does not violate the asserted laws, including the Copyright Act and the Act on Promotion of Information and Communications Network Utilization and Information Protection (“Information Protection Act”).

比較特別的是在講刑事責任的第三點提到了 read only，不確定是不是反駁原告的立論：

The Supreme Court also found Defendants not guilty of violating the Criminal Code in light of the following findings: (i) the Defendants’ act of scraping did not interfere with information processing on Yanolja’s API server; (ii) the Defendants’ act of scraping did not interfere with Yanolja’s booking business; (iii) the Defendants did not interfere with Yanolja’s business, because its scraping did not modify data within Yanolja’s API server; and (iv) the Defendants lacked mens rea for criminal interference with business, as the Defendants merely intended to collect accommodation information from Yanolja’s API server.

整體看起來是被告的大獲全勝？

美國人使用社群媒體的情況

在「Social Media Usage by Age」這邊看到的文章，把美國人使用社群媒體的情況做成圖，資料來源是 Pew Research Center 的「Social Media Fact Sheet」這裡。

很明顯的可以看到 Google (Alphabet) 基本上就是 YouTube 一個產品吃天下，而 Facebook (Meta) 有三個產品在滲透，包括 Facebook、Instagram 與 Whatsapp：

LinkedIn 在出社會後會開始用，另外 Pinterest 這麼多老人家在用到是很驚奇 XDDD

DigitalOcean 買下 CSS-Tricks

Hacker News 首頁上看到的消息，DigitalOcean 買下 CSS-Tricks：「CSS-Tricks is joining DigitalOcean!」，DigitalOcean 的公告在「CSS-Tricks joins DigitalOcean, expanding our commitment to community」，而 Hacker News 上對應的討論在「DigitalOcean acquires CSS-tricks (css-tricks.com)」。

不知道 DigitalOcean 的想法，有人猜算是買媒體的一種，也有人猜是因為 css-tricks.com 的 SEO 分數超高。

對 css-tricks.com 這邊來說，基本上就是脫手賣掉？不過沒看到金額...

Twitter 的 Tor Onion 位置

在 Hacker News 上看到「Twitter is now available on Tor (help.twitter.com)」這篇，講 Twitter 官方的說明裡面有提到 Tor 的 Onion 服務：「About twitter.com supported browsers」。

會用到的網址分別是：

看起來這些開頭為 twitter 的 domain 是撞出來的... 不過還是討問題，如果已經可以用 Tor 的話，exit node 應該夠用？

BBC 這次拿出短波廣播...

Hacker News Daily 上看到的，BBC 這次戰爭拿出短波廣播發送訊號，讓烏克蘭地區的人，以及一部分俄羅斯的人可以收到 BBC 的新聞：「BBC resurrects WWII-era shortwave broadcasts as Russia blocks news of Ukraine invasion」。

The BBC says its shortwave broadcasts will be available on frequencies of 15735 kHz from 4PM to 6PM and 5875 kHz from 10PM to midnight, Ukraine time. News will be read in English, which the BBC says will be available in Kyiv as well as “parts of Russia.”

主要還是用到短波廣播可以傳很遠，以及難以封鎖的特性，相較於 internet 容易被牆掉所以被拿來用...

另外 BBC 也提供了 Onion 的版本，讓俄羅斯的人可以翻出來看 BBC 的新聞：

The BBC’s current onion domain is: https://www.bbcnewsd73hkzno2ini43t4gblxvycyac5aw4gnv7t2rccijh7745uqd.onion.

不過有 Tor 的話基本上可以直接從 exit node 看，好像沒有必要特別用 Onion 位置...