Hey everyone, Bit here. Time for another blog post, this time about something going on with Twitter (X) and its current owner, Elon Musk. What is happening? This morning (Sunday, August 11, 2024), a new hashtag suddenly hit the trending bar. It was #BlockMusk. Apparently Elon Musk has done something horribly wrong and people are on a rampage of blocking his Twitter profile. It seems like most of the controversy surrounding Elon is related to him giving some negative political opinions, as peo...

Hey everyone, Bit here! I decided to put the Handle Handler updates I just made in a blog post instead of a Tweet since it would be too long for me to explain everything. Better-looking error page Now if you give no handle or a handle with special handling, then the page that appears is no longer monochrome and in a serif font. Special handling updates The Handle Handler will now handle certain handles differently than others. Twitter (X), Instagram: No @ will be in the URL that is redirec...

Hey everyone, Bit here! We're diving into the Ethereum ecosystem again, this time with a social networking protocol called Farcaster. What is Farcaster? Farcaster (https://farcaster.xyz) is a decentralized social networking protocol. Decentralized, in this context, means that the content published using Farcaster clients is not controlled by one single entity. There are other protocols that meet this goal, like the AT Protocol (which powers Bluesky) or ActivityPub (which powers Mastodon). Farc...

Hey everyone, Bit here. As you may know, I have been talking about cryptocurrencies lately, mostly Ethereum. I'm not a "crypto degenerate", but I have been very afraid of speaking about this since it seems to cause many of my followers to cringe. I even got an opinion from one of my Discord server admins, and I want to analyze that opinion here. Environmental concerns? Here's the first concern: nft is just bad and harmful to the environment There was an event on the Ethereum chain called "The...

Hey everyone, Bit here. I’m here to write about the hidden blockchain in Reddit. For people who cringe at crypto: see the last section! What do I mean by ”Reddit’s hidden crypto”? In 2022, Reddit introduced a feature called Collectible Avatars. It allows people to go to the Style Avatar menu in the Reddit mobile app and buy special Reddit avatars they can use as their profile picture. Purchasing them looks like any ordinary in-app purchase, and a few times Reddit gave them out for free (I hap...

During battles, Bit can become overloaded if things get too serious. The more he gets splatted, or the more infuriated he becomes, he's closer to entering this state. If his special aura is red, then that means he's already overloading. In this state, his next special turns into its Overloaded form, after which he loses the overload and returns to normal. Overloaded Booyah Bomb: An explosion that wipes out the entire stage, no matter how big it is. Overloaded Trizooka: The Trizooka device, bu...

Hey everyone, Bit here. It's time to make a drawn-out blog post about another topic: emulation. Why is this being brought up? On March 4, 2024, Tropic Haze settled out of court with Nintendo and the documents of the agreement finally came out. Tropic Haze were the developers of two Nintendo console emulators, Yuzu for the Switch, and Citra for the 3DS. Both of their emulators as well as their websites have been forced to shut down, and their open-source code repositories have been destroyed an...

Hey everyone, Bit here. Tumblr is ending its live-streaming service and directing people to an app that is awfully personal for the purpose of replacing it. What is Tumblr and its live streaming service? Tumblr (tumblr.com) is a blogging platform structured more like a social media app. It allows much longer posts than Twitter does, and also allows you to have multiple blocks of content (like a title and some text and an image, or a title and some images with text after each one). Tumblr Liv...