Teyrnon

I think that if Twitter goes the way of MySpace or sites so forgotten that I can't think what they were I'll make more effort to post my random thoughts and musings here instead of FB, Twitter, or any of the other toxic meme dumps that make up modern social media.

I haven't posted much here in 2016. When the year began I figured I would be because I thought having a Chromebox connected to the TV in the living room would make it so much more convenient and by virtue of the convenience I'd spend more time here on LJ. That obviously is not what happened. In truth what the Chromebox made more convenient is watching streaming video off the 'net in the comfort of my living room on a 32" television. It's also been wonderful for general web browsing, on-line shopping, and reading my email.

Aside from being a cesspool of ignorance, falsehoods, and bigotry Facebook has demonstrated some disturbing flaws over the years. This morning I discovered what I consider a nasty security flaw but I'm sure they think it's a feature offering terrific ease of use. I recently did a full wipe of my hard disk by zeroing it. This morning I logged into the email account that I use for Facebook. I decided to have a look at my news feed there so I clicked a link from one of the dozens emails from FB waiting for me. It went directly to my account without prompting me for a login. That's right, from a completely fresh install I got into my FB account without having to enter a password. This is absolutely frightening and should not ever happen. Email is not a secure means of communication by any stretch of the imagination. Sending a link via email that let's you bypass logging into an account on any server is incredibly irresponsible. I have half a mind to just delete my FB account right now and be done with the place.

In other news I've been watching the first few seasons of Arrow on DVD. It's been interesting. I quite enjoy the show's take on the DC Comics universe. It's a much more positive and heroic version than the recent DC related movies have given us.

This week I've installed Linux Mint 18.1/64bit on the computer I use for most things. It's a definite improvement on the Mint 16 I'd been running since the summer of 2014.



I think that's enough for one post. I'll post again soon. (I hope.)

I haven't logged into Facebook at all this past week. Not even my customary once every third day. This is largely because I haven't been on the internet much this week. Now that my desktop is back online and I've checked my email other sites I check regularly I find myself disinclined to bother with Facebook. Anybody care to convince me to overcome this revulsion and check FB?

I'm also a bit bugged that FB has been filling my inbox with inane messages telling me how many notices I'm missing. Does it really need to send out emails every eight hours to remind me it exists? I've encountered despicable authoritarian cults that were less intrusive in their wheedling. This behavior does nothing to persuade me to ever login to a site that indulges in such wretched practices.

I just checked the email account that I use for stuff like Facebook.  Most of the mail in the inbox is from Facebook kindly letting me know that I'm missing bunches of notifications and updates because I haven't logged in for awhile. The only computer I ever log into FB from is the one that took a turn for the worst. It's the only one I had that logging into Facebook didn't make the machine slower than molasses. I wonder if anyone on Facebook has actually noticed that I haven't logged into it in three weeks.