Aside – Page 92 – Amanda Unvarnished

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· 4 Av 5780 (Saturday 25 July 2020) · 1 minute to read

I’m using Chrome because I have Jaws running so I can use some of the more advanced stuff in Outlook. I’m waiting on the Firefox tab crashing bugfix to move from nightly to stable. And dear God I hate this browser so much. Everything displays weirdly, screen reader won’t drop out of forms mode when it’s supposed to, and the worst part is the Facebook mobile interface. I log in here to see what everybody’s up to, and something that is supposed to be stripped down, fast-loading, and minimalist is a series of nested raging trash fires. I’m not blaming the Firefox devs because I know some of them and I know for a fact that they’re working hard on fixing the tab crashing issue. But I definitely can’t wait until we have the fix so I can quit using Chrome for anything other than testing.

State College, Pennsylvania, Bag End, State College, Pennsylvania(1102ft)

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Amanda CAARSON

· 21 Tammuz 5780 (Monday 13 July 2020) · 1 minute to read

Dear author of this novel: No, IP addresses are not a data trail. At all. Cookie jars do not perform any analysis of whether or not someone who has valid passwords is supposed to be on a site. Someone’s email address can’t be determined by looking up their IP address. I’ll give you credit for making it five books into this series without trying to talk about how the internet works, but this is the kind of stuff that gets you three stars instead of four or five for your book. If you can’t manage to find someone to help you do the research you need in order to make these hacker scenarios appear at least partially plausible, stay in your lane and don’t use it as a plot device. My kingdom for a novel not written by a geek that at least makes an attempt to get some of this right instead of just spewing stuff because you think it helps your hero.

State College, Pennsylvania, Bag End, State College, Pennsylvania(1106ft)

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Amanda CAARSON

· 11 Tammuz 5780 (Friday 3 July 2020) · 1 minute to read

I bit the bullet and switched the server that’s going to hold all the Indieweb apps from Linode to Digital Ocean. Everything’s infinitely more accessible over there with regard to their control panel.

I’m to the point where I’m setting up DNS for the domain I want to point to it, which is the part I actually hate most because I hate setting up DNS so much.

In a super ironic twist, Digital Ocean’s domain control panel is way more accessible than Namecheap’s control panel so once the DNS finishes propagating so the domaon can be properly delegated I’ll be managing things from there.

The server’s timing out if I try to access it from the browser but fine for SSH and SFTP, so I’m going to wait for all the DNS stuff to get ironed out before I start digging into why this is happening. I’m hoping it’s because of a DNS screw-up. It’s easy for those to happen when using Namecheap’s DNS manager. I found it easier to update DNS via the app.

First app I’m testing is Compass. Hoping I get it all working this weekend.

904 S Pugh St, State College, PA 16801(1106ft)