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azurelunatic) wrote2011-04-05 12:33 am
azurelunatic) wrote2011-04-05 12:33 am
(Old stuff: January 4-7) New headset, chains are the solution to your social networking woes?
1/4:
There was a lot of curry-making, in which somehow I made enough curry to feed a small army. I think I picked a rather large squash.
I escalated my Facebook activities to including gender as well as religion.
5:19 PM 1/5/2011
Had nice chat with Nora (norabombay, not anyone else who many of us might know named Nora; mentions of unlabeled Noras are usually her). Headset ran out before we were done talking. That was just Not On.
8:47 PM 1/5/2011
Back from headset exchange. I didn't have the outer box or the receipt, but I did have all the inner parts (including the pretty blue piece of plastic it rested on, complete with little bit of keep-it-there artificial snot); the helpful guy at the front desk sent me back to the electronics department to see if I could get another box to scan. The helpful guy in the electronics department did not have another box, but between the item, my memory, and his system, he was able to get the proper number so that the people up front could refund me.
So then I turned around and went back into electronics and got a headset that had more than two hours or so of talk time. This one is advertised to have 2 weeks standby, 10 hours talk. A bonus: it's also using a microUSB charger, just like my phone (and JD and Tif's, and I think Jed's as well). This means I can charge it off my phone charger, any microUSB cable I might happen to have around for phone charging, or a friend's charger, or that little charger gadget I try to keep in my purse nowadays. Compatible chargers are srs bzns.
1/6:
My aunt had discovered, in cleaning up and throwing out, a large fish-shaped pillow. She'd asked if I wanted it. I gladly accepted. It was not made by Mama, as my aunt had thought, but by Janlee Irving. I was not quite certain what I was going to use it for. Then,exor674 asked IRC to sit on her until she slept. I realized that this was perfect for trouting.
10:37 AM 1/6/2011
Out of context exchange is out of context:
[10:25] <Azz> THE SOLUTION IS CHAINS.
[context redacted]
[10:25] <mizzy> The solution according to you is always chains!
[10:26] <mizzy> Mind you, you're always right.
(So at some point or another, we discovered that Ev could access IRC. I think this was because Chatzy went down for a day or two, and I set up an emergency backup IRC chatroom. But I talked Ev through the process of connecting to IRC "the fun way" with just the Windows terminal, and once we confirmed that yes, she was getting in, that the crud on her machine wasn't blocking that port -- then she got a proper client set up. So there has been IRC fun with many of the chatfish. IRC, unlike Chatzy, does not try to time you out on purpose to keep idlers to a minimum, so there are a lot more people coming in and hanging around and making noise when more people come in.)
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khasael updated people on what has been going on with mathsnerd (later updates: http://mathsnerd.dreamwidth.org/15283.html & http://khasael.livejournal.com/228172.html)
7:31 AM 1/7/2011
Finally finished the ramble on gender that I'd started on November 12. That one took a while. Multiplicity came up. http://azurelunatic.dreamwidth.org/6478632.html (locked)
When there are 403 unread messages in someone's email box, this causes a very specific and horribly scary moment of geek panic. I don't recommend it. Looking at your tab and seeing '403' resulted in a tizzy.
Mainstream social media types are finally getting around to the idea that filtering one's online content is a good plan in some circumstances. Filters are getting treated as groundbreaking, when LJ & its code descendants have had that for years upon years, and LJ users have evolved some very refined practices for dealing with same.
LiveJournal has entry-level security filters for one's own journal; comments to an entry are under the control of the entry owner, who can choose to screen comments from view, in addition to restricting the people who can see the entry to start with. The journal owner can set the entry to private, friends-only (and control who they list as friends), to one or more custom security groups, or to the public. (A token attempt at keeping kids out of smutty stuff can be made by setting an adult content setting, but there are ways for public stuff; if someone reports a public entry as too adult for the precious children to see, the Abuse team can flip the "this is adult content" switch on your entry, but locked entries don't have that sort of oversight.) Reading someone's entries on your friends page and allowing someone access to your friends-locked entries is bundled together in adding someone as a friend. The "Friend" status is not necessarily mutual, and someone adding you as a friend does not get them any more access to your stuff, just that they can see public stuff on their friends page.
The journal owner creates custom friends groups, and anyone who is made a member of this group has the ability to view anything that this group has been given access to, no matter when it was posted. While the ability to add single people to view an entry, one-off, or to say "all of these people except that guy" is desired, it does not exist on LiveJournal or any known code descendant.
LJ communities have the ability for people to decide whether they would like to join the community, and additional control from the community maintainers, who can allow anybody to join, allow anyone to ask to join (but review who asks before letting them in), or close the community so any new members must be invited by a maintainer. Community entry security is public or members-only, controlled by the person who has posted the entry. Watching and joining the community are separate.
Facebook lets you control access to any given status update, but general wall posts and some other things are apparently fairly lax in viewing permissions, so you'd better hope that your buddy doesn't post about the drunken night out where your high school students will see it. Security and reading are joined, and friendship is mutual.
Facebook's status update permissions are more granular than LJ's, with the ability to add single people, and exclude people. Pity the status update is so flippin' short. And that I loathe Facebook so completely.
Dreamwidth has similar security capabilities to LiveJournal. Subscription and access are separate. There's less pretense about age-based security: it's two levels of content warning, and there's no one enforcing that it get set on anything in particular. Communities have an administrators-only setting. Paid users can set up tag-based filtering for the reading page.
Twitter allows for accounts that are all public, or all locked. A friend must request access to one's locked account before one can grant it. There is no entry-level granularity, and no sub-grouping for security, though Twitter lists can be used to either expand one's reading list beyond the everyday, or pare down a noisy list to something manageable. You can also send individual direct messages to friends privately.
Most WordPress installations seem to be public, but apparently you can password-protect them.
I don't even know if you can make Tumblr locked.
I would like to see if DW can snatch some access-filter stuff from Facebook.
There was a small earthquake in my area. I check for earthquakes on Twitter, because they tend to make a lot of noise there. Plus there are things that tweet USGS data.
There was a lot of curry-making, in which somehow I made enough curry to feed a small army. I think I picked a rather large squash.
I escalated my Facebook activities to including gender as well as religion.
5:19 PM 1/5/2011
Had nice chat with Nora (
norabombay, not anyone else who many of us might know named Nora; mentions of unlabeled Noras are usually her). Headset ran out before we were done talking. That was just Not On. 8:47 PM 1/5/2011
Back from headset exchange. I didn't have the outer box or the receipt, but I did have all the inner parts (including the pretty blue piece of plastic it rested on, complete with little bit of keep-it-there artificial snot); the helpful guy at the front desk sent me back to the electronics department to see if I could get another box to scan. The helpful guy in the electronics department did not have another box, but between the item, my memory, and his system, he was able to get the proper number so that the people up front could refund me.
So then I turned around and went back into electronics and got a headset that had more than two hours or so of talk time. This one is advertised to have 2 weeks standby, 10 hours talk. A bonus: it's also using a microUSB charger, just like my phone (and JD and Tif's, and I think Jed's as well). This means I can charge it off my phone charger, any microUSB cable I might happen to have around for phone charging, or a friend's charger, or that little charger gadget I try to keep in my purse nowadays. Compatible chargers are srs bzns.
1/6:
My aunt had discovered, in cleaning up and throwing out, a large fish-shaped pillow. She'd asked if I wanted it. I gladly accepted. It was not made by Mama, as my aunt had thought, but by Janlee Irving. I was not quite certain what I was going to use it for. Then,
exor674 asked IRC to sit on her until she slept. I realized that this was perfect for trouting. 10:37 AM 1/6/2011
Out of context exchange is out of context:
[10:25] <Azz> THE SOLUTION IS CHAINS.
[context redacted]
[10:25] <mizzy> The solution according to you is always chains!
[10:26] <mizzy> Mind you, you're always right.
(So at some point or another, we discovered that Ev could access IRC. I think this was because Chatzy went down for a day or two, and I set up an emergency backup IRC chatroom. But I talked Ev through the process of connecting to IRC "the fun way" with just the Windows terminal, and once we confirmed that yes, she was getting in, that the crud on her machine wasn't blocking that port -- then she got a proper client set up. So there has been IRC fun with many of the chatfish. IRC, unlike Chatzy, does not try to time you out on purpose to keep idlers to a minimum, so there are a lot more people coming in and hanging around and making noise when more people come in.)
khasael updated people on what has been going on with mathsnerd (later updates: http://mathsnerd.dreamwidth.org/15283.html & http://khasael.livejournal.com/228172.html)7:31 AM 1/7/2011
Finally finished the ramble on gender that I'd started on November 12. That one took a while. Multiplicity came up. http://azurelunatic.dreamwidth.org/6478632.html (locked)
When there are 403 unread messages in someone's email box, this causes a very specific and horribly scary moment of geek panic. I don't recommend it. Looking at your tab and seeing '403' resulted in a tizzy.
Mainstream social media types are finally getting around to the idea that filtering one's online content is a good plan in some circumstances. Filters are getting treated as groundbreaking, when LJ & its code descendants have had that for years upon years, and LJ users have evolved some very refined practices for dealing with same.
LiveJournal has entry-level security filters for one's own journal; comments to an entry are under the control of the entry owner, who can choose to screen comments from view, in addition to restricting the people who can see the entry to start with. The journal owner can set the entry to private, friends-only (and control who they list as friends), to one or more custom security groups, or to the public. (A token attempt at keeping kids out of smutty stuff can be made by setting an adult content setting, but there are ways for public stuff; if someone reports a public entry as too adult for the precious children to see, the Abuse team can flip the "this is adult content" switch on your entry, but locked entries don't have that sort of oversight.) Reading someone's entries on your friends page and allowing someone access to your friends-locked entries is bundled together in adding someone as a friend. The "Friend" status is not necessarily mutual, and someone adding you as a friend does not get them any more access to your stuff, just that they can see public stuff on their friends page.
The journal owner creates custom friends groups, and anyone who is made a member of this group has the ability to view anything that this group has been given access to, no matter when it was posted. While the ability to add single people to view an entry, one-off, or to say "all of these people except that guy" is desired, it does not exist on LiveJournal or any known code descendant.
LJ communities have the ability for people to decide whether they would like to join the community, and additional control from the community maintainers, who can allow anybody to join, allow anyone to ask to join (but review who asks before letting them in), or close the community so any new members must be invited by a maintainer. Community entry security is public or members-only, controlled by the person who has posted the entry. Watching and joining the community are separate.
Facebook lets you control access to any given status update, but general wall posts and some other things are apparently fairly lax in viewing permissions, so you'd better hope that your buddy doesn't post about the drunken night out where your high school students will see it. Security and reading are joined, and friendship is mutual.
Facebook's status update permissions are more granular than LJ's, with the ability to add single people, and exclude people. Pity the status update is so flippin' short. And that I loathe Facebook so completely.
Dreamwidth has similar security capabilities to LiveJournal. Subscription and access are separate. There's less pretense about age-based security: it's two levels of content warning, and there's no one enforcing that it get set on anything in particular. Communities have an administrators-only setting. Paid users can set up tag-based filtering for the reading page.
Twitter allows for accounts that are all public, or all locked. A friend must request access to one's locked account before one can grant it. There is no entry-level granularity, and no sub-grouping for security, though Twitter lists can be used to either expand one's reading list beyond the everyday, or pare down a noisy list to something manageable. You can also send individual direct messages to friends privately.
Most WordPress installations seem to be public, but apparently you can password-protect them.
I don't even know if you can make Tumblr locked.
I would like to see if DW can snatch some access-filter stuff from Facebook.
There was a small earthquake in my area. I check for earthquakes on Twitter, because they tend to make a lot of noise there. Plus there are things that tweet USGS data.
no subject
Would test notes, but it's been timing out on me with a "something went wrong" message each time. PRetty sure you can use the same privacy settings though.