Oh dear. What a pity. Someone had their “not road legal in this country” Deplorian taken away from them.
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David Dorward
@dorward@mastodon.social
mastodon 4.8.0-nightly.2026-10-06UK software engineer, tabletop gamer, painter of miniatures, LARPer, and hacker of things. he/him. 🔸
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@HelloAndrew You’re welcome, it’s helping pass my commute. I’m probably providing more information than you need (I learn better with more context) which might be a bit overwhelming. Don’t let that discourage you. You know your way around a computer, this is just typing your way around instead of pointing.
The minimum to get up and running is:
1 Open the Terminal
2 Type “cd” then drag the folder on top of the terminal window (to enter its name) then press return
3 Run the Python command
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@HelloAndrew @dougholton @timhutton macOS makes this very easy. https://support.apple.com/en-gb/guide/terminal/apd5265185d-f365-44cb-8b09-71a064a42125/mac explains how to open the terminal. I think Python is preinstalled on Macs.
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@HelloAndrew You can also use ls (list) (or sometimes dir (directory)) to list the files in the current directory.
python parser.py
This is the command to run python (a program that executes scripts written in the Python programming language) followed by the name of the script (which will be in the directory you cded into). You will need to install Python to use it.
https://missing.csail.mit.edu/2020/course-shell/ might also be useful.
Hope this helps.
I probably should have done it a while ago, but that’s all my site-previously-known-a-Twitter accounts deactivated. One of them had been around for aproaching 20 years.
I get the impression that someone on the #Warhammer team has recently read Shape's Eagle.
My plan for lunchtime today was clear away some ongoing #warhammer projects so my space was more suited to hosting people to play Ticket To Ride Legacy on Saturday.
Unfortunately I managed to get chatting to people about Anvil of Apotheosis and now I've got half a dozen sprues out of my bitzbox added to the pile on the table.
Looks like it is going to be an evening of kitbashing.
Finally bit the bullet and hit delete on my Instagram accounts. I’ve barely used it in years as The Algorithm™️ was terrible and when i did see something interesting it was too easy to accidentally hit refresh and lose it forever. The last straw was when it started showing me “reels I might be interested in“ which I can only describe as being borderline pornographic.
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@HelloAndrew On a Mac I use Spotlight and type Terminal. On Linux flavours there will usually by some Terminal app in menu although it might be a little deep by default). On Windows you can use the search feature of the Start menu and look for PowerShell (which has its own flavour of shell).
In That Directory
At the command prompt type “cd” (change directory) followed by a directory name to go down into that directory. Use “..” as the directory name to go up a level.
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@lizl_genealogy Does this screen recording of how I used it help? https://imgur.com/nGqh0Ga
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@HelloAndrew If Python isn’t installed already then all you need to do is download the Mac installer from https://www.python.org/downloads/release/python-3110/ and run it.
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@lizl_genealogy You need to specify the path to twitter-archive-parser-main/parser.py not to the directory containing it.
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@lizl_genealogy You don't need to know Python, you're just running a program written in it. You literally type the path I just said instead of the path to the directory. You left parser.py off the end.
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@lizl_genealogy Did you accidentally add a space between the directory and (drag and dropping a folder on Terminal will add one by default) the filename?
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@erb Sounds like you have multiple versions of Python installed and it’s getting the old one. Try typing python3 instead of just python. If that doesn’t work then it gets into questions about your OS.
@Bluedonkey@mastodon.social Roblox are a truly terrible company. This video brought it to my attention. https://youtu.be/vTMF6xEiAaY?si=1qB9UNEJFoB7fhp5 It’s exploitative awfulness all the way down.