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  • When Stan Pines and Soos Report Voter Fraud

    When Stan Pines and Soos Report Voter Fraud

    When Soos reports voter fraud…

    When Stan reports voter fraud…

    Am I the only one who read these tweets in Stan’s voice?

  • Account security, baby!

    Account security, baby!

    1. Use a strong password (16+ characters, combination of letters, numbers, uppercase and lowercase and special characters).
    2. Get a password manager like Lastpass, Dashlane, 1Password or Keepass, so you don’t have to memorize 100 passwords.
    3. Use 2 factor authentication. Most places offer SMS 2FA (where they sent a number code to your mobile number), but using Google Authenticator/Authy is more secure, because phone numbers are hijacked more easily.

    These won’t keep your account from being hacked*, but it can make it harder for bad guys to break in.

    *Your account can still be broken into if there’s a security exploit, or the software/online service does something stupid like store passwords in plain text. But even if the online service stores people’s passwords correctly, it’s still a good idea to change your password. Better safe than sorry. (Choosing a new password is easier if you have a password manager.)

    (Also I’d like to note that people throw the word “hacking” around too lightly. If someone’s account was broken into because they have a weaksauce password, it wasn’t really hacking. Their account just had a weak password. 😐)

  • Great googly Twitter, WHYYYYYYYY? ;o;

    Okokok. This is a little late, but I only found out about it a few days ago. Luckily, despite their recent(ish) Facebook-level of noisyness:

    • They actually let you go by an alias. (Facebook tends to get in your face if you try to sign up with a name they think is fake. “But what if my name is Tweedledee?”)
    • Modern browsers have a setting called Do Not Track. When you check it, it tells sites to not track you (instead of actually trying to block tracking cookies or anything). It’s up to the sites to honor that request. Supposedly Twitter honors that request. Supposedly.

    In addition to Adblock (which lets you block tracking cookies), in Opera, you can go to Settings > Preferences > Content. You can either set up a profile for Twitter under Manage Site Preferences to have it block cookies (if you will never use it, but visit it occasionally), and have it not send referral info. ORRR under Block Sites, you can just block it entirely if you don’t ever plan on visiting it. Ever.

    Disclaimer: I actually have a Twitter account. But I almost never use it, since the 140 character limit is kinda useless to me. ><;; Heck, I would prefer not to have any character limit, which is why I’m wondering if there will be an option to have longer posts in App.net.

  • “A Microsoft Creative Director ‘Doesn’t Get The Drama’ Around Always-Online Consoles, Devices”

    “A Microsoft Creative Director ‘Doesn’t Get The Drama’ Around Always-Online Consoles, Devices”

    I don’t get the drama around having an “‘always on” console. Every device now is “always on”. That’s the world we live in. #dealwithit

    -Adam Orth

    Hmmmm…..hmmmm…hmmmm…acting like a jerk to your client’s userbase on Twitter (which is also used for PR purposes by a lot of companies…like your client…while claiming to represent your client)?

    Reasons why you might want offline capabilities:

    • power goes out, taking your internet with it.
    • You’re out of the house and don’t have a mobile connection.
    • You’re playing a single player game and…how many times do you need internet for single player?
    • you DO have mobile internet, but don’t want to pay the data fees while your game does its giant downloads