Archiving my Twitter, Facebook and other social network activity
Whoa: Ads tracking users by putting up a hidden, fake login form and reading the email address that the browser auto-fills.
Fortunately it only works on built-in auto-fill, not third-party tools like LastPass or 1Password.
If you save passwords in your browser, here’s one more reason to switch to something more secure.
I’ve been thinking about archiving my third-party social media accounts so I have a searchable copy.
It turns out I actually have an archive of #GoogleBuzz (remember that?) but I can’t search it, or copy/paste, because the text is scrambled with a font that unscrambles it for human viewing.
WTF, Google?
Interesting idea: Secure Scuttlebutt, a totally decentralized social network that syncs through mesh & LAN connections & can handle being off-grid.
The Nomad Who’s Exploding the Internet Into Pieces – The Atlantic
An Off-Grid Social Network – André Staltz
Via A Plan to Rescue the Web from Internet – André Staltz
Ask @Slashdot: What’s The Worst IT-Related Joke You’ve Ever Heard?
Some highlights:
“I like telling UDP jokes because I don’t care if you don’t get them.”
“A QA Engineer walks into a bar. He orders a beer. He orders 0 beers. He orders 9999999999 beers. He orders -1 beers. He orders a lizard. He orders asldkfjinw. He orders….”
Totally forgot that AIM is shutting down tomorrow. I remember the talk about these new “buddy lists” that were going to change communication.
https://tech.slashdot.org/story/17/12/14/2122217/psa-aim-will-be-discontinued-tomorrow
Weirdly enough, ICQ seems to still be around.
It turns out I’ve been driving around with a giant cardboard Minecraft spider in the back of the car all week. Yes, including the day I went to Downtown LA for jury duty.
Spoilers for last night’s #supergirl & building up to Reign
I liked the way her journey to Earth and discovering her past paralleled a mirror version of Clark’s, but i would have rather watched the fortress holo slowly convince her over several episodes to become a villain instead of just activating latent programming. Flipping the villain switch is boring.
It seems like such a waste of the build-up. Something like Morgana’s journey or even Anakin’s would have been a lot more interesting.
The building is testing the fire alarm system. I found myself wondering: What if an actual fire breaks out during the test?
This year’s Mexico City quake hit the same day as an earthquake drill. At least in that case you can tell immediately that it’s the real thing.
Cool wildlife photos: Feral Photography: amazing animal imagery from Silicon Valley trail cams
I’m kind of reminded of XKCD’s initial response to Google+
Ultimately, though, I think the separate instances are going to be both the biggest roadblock to adoption and the key feature that distinguishes Mastodon from Twitter.
Wait, is there a taboo against naming that other microblogging site? that other microblogging site. Should I call it “You-know-where” or “That which must not be named?”
(I will admit I was amused to see someone refer to it as “The Bad Place” yesterday.)
…and I just noticed the editing error in this toot. :facepalm:
I do wonder about permanence, though: How often do Mastodon instances shut down? How much notice?
Data Export seems to only cover follow/block/mute lists so far. I suppose I could hook up my atom feed to IFTTT or something.
Or I can just do what I do with “the bird site,” and if I really want to make sure I keep something I’ve written, copy it over to my blog.
So I noticed Mastodon’s been trending again & figured I’d take another look. I don’t need another time sink, but I figured it might be worth jumping in this time. Now to replicate just the good parts of that other network…
I should probably figure out what I want to talk about here before I try to figure out who to follow, huh? I mean, I’ll probably end up cross-posting photos & blogging (yes, I still blog), but other than that, do I want to talk about…tech? politics? comics? sci-fi/fantasy? I don’t think anyone I know IRL is here, so it’s a matter of topics for now.
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Actually, what *is* the etiquette for cross-posting here?
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So, the 5-7 interests meme (this feels like early 2000s LJ): #comics #scifi #space #computers #science #art #photography
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Hmm, looks like I may want to check out wandering.shop for scifi/fantasy and photog.social for photography…
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OK, so I’ve set up @kelsonv@photog.social for photography posting. I’ll probably keep this one for other stuff.