I finished lighting for the second night of Hanukah, and then looked at Twitter, only to find that 2016 has seriously trolled us by taking George Michael from us … On Christmas. Really 2016? Are you serious? I mean, I wasn’t a superfan or anything, but damn. It’s like, since Carrie Fisher looked 2016 in the eye and 2016 blinked, it needed to make up for it or something. So I’m currently listening to a George Michael’s Greatest Hits playlist on Spotify, (and yeah, there’s a ton on here, including a lot of non-radio excellent stuff), while I drink a beer and plan for the week ahead.
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So I’m reading the 13th Scott Harvath book, and I’ve gotten to a point where Scott Harvath is able to tell whether or not the terrorists are logging into Facebook, and what their visiting on Facebook. Come on! Facebook even when this book was written was using SSL. The entire point of SSL is to protect data while it’s in transit. That includes usernames and passwords, and it also includes what URLs (or pages in Facebook’s case), people are visiting. There’s absolutely no way this character would be able to tell whether or not some terrorists were visiting Facebook and even if you could there’s no way for him to be able to tell what Pages they are visiting, and what they’re doing on Facebook. Christ on crutches, I know research is hard and everything but this is pretty simple to find out. Google is amaze! It can help with all kinds of things! Including researching how technology works and how Facebook works. Not that Facebook is terribly awesome about privacy, but even they don’t screw up this badly.
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I think it may be time to wander back out of the Indieweb rabbit hole and climb into bed. This has been a lot of fun, and tomorrow will definitely be RTFM Friday, (actually, no it won’t, because I have some emails to respond to and work to do), because I’m missing something. I’ve gotten set up with Bridgy, but still need to figure out how to merge accounts, because I have two of them. I will re-automate social sharing when I’m more awake. I need to switch plugins because it appears that Social has finally quit working as of WordPress 4.7. I’m not complaining. Hell, I got eight years out of the thing, across I don’t know how many WordPress versions. I also need to play around with changing the webmentions endpoint for this site so that Bridgy can handle them. There are extra meta boxes and I’m pretty sure I need to change it there but will do some more digging later. Oh, and I need to find out the extent of microformats in Genesis so I can add what’s not already there to this child theme and the one on customerservant.com. I also need to fix the typo in that post. Anyway, good night WordPress, and good night Indieweb, and good night IDE.
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I think I have spent just about this entire day distracted with indieweb shiny objects. Currently setting up all my WordPress sites to accommodate. Here’s a quick guide with some tools if you’re interested. And really, you should be.
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Dear The Facebook: Apparently it’s time for me to clear my cookies again, because when I logged into the Facebook to check on a notification, it didn’t ask for username and password. Also, we need to talk about all the email you’re sending. So yeah, time to go screw around with settings. God I hate the settings screens. All of them. And the ninth circle of hell that is threaded comments on the Facebook. God, interminable “View previous comments”. God help you if a post has more than ten comments. You’ll never get out again. It’s like an infinite loop of “What the hell!”. I mean, you can get back out, if you click the logo, or if you click on the original post, which may or may not reappear, and God help you if you leave a comment and want to pick up where you left off reading. Everybody on my Facebook just start blogging and get it over with. Then we can all leave. Make webrings great again!
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Gonna go out on a limb here and guess that #DumpKelloggs will be just as successful as the Hamilton boycott.
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That time you find that there’s an outlet very ver…
That time you find that there’s an outlet very very close to where you sit outside. Woohoo!
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Googling all these damn internet acronyms and addi…
Googling all these damn internet acronyms and adding them to NVDA’s speech dictionary.
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Dear PC: If you could get over yourself, that woul…
Dear PC: If you could get over yourself, that would be great. kthxbye
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I’d like to wish a very happy Thanksgiving to all…
I’d like to wish a very happy Thanksgiving to all my fellow WordPressers, a11y people, hackers, blinks, and Jews.
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That time when I open your link and you immediatel…
That time when I open your link and you immediately drop me into a modal dialog that doesn’t follow spec. Time to nope the hell out of here.
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Dear people who voted for Trump because emails. How’s that Trump vote working for you now? twitter.com/chemishalev/st…
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Briefly switched to Eloquence, and the sound remin…
Briefly switched to Eloquence, and the sound reminds me of what tape decks with dirty heads sound like. Ug.
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Espeak has really grown on me. As in, I’ve gotten…
Espeak has really grown on me. As in, I’ve gotten to the point where it’s easier on my ears and brain than Eloquence.
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I’m gonna go do something productive! Think I’ll s…
I’m gonna go do something productive! Think I’ll spend some time on the social medias. Said no one, ever. twitter.com/object_inspace…