Somebody subscribed to me on Dreamwidth with a name I didn’t recognize, but by the time I noticed and checked them out they had deactivated, noting that they were creeped out by the fact that the site made your email address public.
In case they see it over here, I wanted to note that while this is the default and therefore kind of a newbie trap, it can be disabled in the settings (along with your birthdate, location and other stuff). You can also choose to show that stuff only to people who are logged into Dreamwidth or only to people you’ve granted access to (i.e., people who can read your private posts). Finally, if you want to show an email but not the email that you use for account admin, there is an option for that, though nowadays having any email exposed on the web is kind of gutsy.
Dreamwidth has a good rundown of site privacy here and here, if you want more detailed information. I wish I could conceal my subscribes and community memberships, but other than that I’m pretty satisfied with how they handle things.
this is a good psa if you’re like me and hastily made an account for later use and didn’t know that a website operational in 2018 would display an email by default D:
1 – Really? Mine is set as “Do not show” and I don’t remember deliberately doing that, so it must have been a pretty seamless part of the account creation process to set that.
2 – Actually this may well be the best email privacy control I have ever seen on the net:
I can pick whether or not to show an email – and even then, I can pick different email addresses for administration and user contact. That’s fantastic.
(But you probably should go check your email default – it might have come completely naturally to me to mark that as “Do not show” during the account creation process, but perhaps not so much for you?)
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#PSA #Dreamwidth #(I honestly don’t remember what the default privacy settings were it’s been six years since I originally made the account) #(I know that currently my email is private and my birthday and location are precisely as public as I intended them to be)
The slight possibility that God is waiting until all the peoples of Earth have heard the gospel before he unleashes the apocalypse makes contacting the Sentinelese a completely unacceptable x-risk
For further evidence, consider the kabbalistic implications of “Sentinelese”.
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#this is actually not the first time that I’ve had this train of thought #apocalypse cw #high context jokes #reply via reblog
V: Hey Siddy guess what happened with that Luke guy S: I hope you’re contacting me to report he’s been turned, or failing that, taken prisoner, or failing that, killed S: and if you call me Siddy one more time I am officially changing your name to Darth Vaddy on all the official documents V: nah the Luke guy fell down a shaft and my Force senses tell me he’s still alive S: how did you manage to accomplish this particular military outcome using the tens of thousands of troops under your command V: not important V: the important part is S: oh no V: just before he fell down the shaft S: please tell me you didn’t V: I was like “Obi-Wan never told you the truth” S: Vader what is WRONG is with you V: “I am your father!” S: do you HAVE to try to convince every Jedi that you’re their father
#Star Wars #(those of you who read the comments on my previous post will recognise this as the post Tumblr wouldn’t let me read) #(but I read it anyway and it’s great so I’m sharing it with all of you) #fanfic
Hey everybody, the ArchiveTeam tumblr project is up and running!
If you have resources, please install Archiveteam’s warrior program to contribute to the project! It’s very easy to set up on and install on any computer, there are step by step instructions at http://tracker.archiveteam.org/tumblr/
We’re already up to 11TB and 187 million blogs archived, but we’re going to need a lot more help to get all the NSFW content before the 17th!
main project discussion takes place irc at #tumbledown on efnet, and you can add blogs to be saved using this google form: https://goo.gl/RtXZEq
Where did you get the 187-million figure from? It makes sense that the ~65k figure on the tracker would just be the sex blogs, since all of the blogs I’ve seen go by on it have been sex blogs, but I didn’t see any information regarding non-sex blogs.
I have unlimited Internet, cheap electricity, and a cool climate, so I’m in a pretty good position for (small-scale) volunteer computing. I’ve been running a warrior for a couple days now. I’ve been leaving my laptop on overnight because if I’m interpreting the instructions right, you only get to pause a task for a few hours before it’s considered abandoned and re-assigned, and I didn’t want to lose work. (especially since my current task has been 22 hours and counting; some of these blogs are pretty big)
I think I’ll continue helping out with their other projects once this one is finished: archiving is (as anyone reading this blog has probably noticed) a pet cause of mine. Since it mostly just needs bandwidth and doesn’t take much CPU, I can even run it and World Community Grid at the same time without problems (anti-disease efforts are my other pet cause).
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#reply via reblog #signal boost #101 Uses for Infrastructureless Computers #The Great Tumblr Apocalypse #The Last Tumblr Apocalypse
I’m an oldie who used to use Semagic but I haven’t done a backup in a while and I believe Semagic doesn’t work anymore. Let me pitch this to the crowd.
as far as i know there’s no great way to do it right now, though I would ask over on DW, they would have a better idea. iirc they do intend to build a native backup tool in the future but I probably read that in, like 2013, so it’s worth asking about again.
Wait they have a native exporter now??? Holy crap I had no idea that was a thing. The fact that it’s CSV/XML sucks but dang I’ll take it over nothing. Thanks @brin-bellway, this is gonna come in super handy for me.
Anyway as far as comments go I actually just use my email as an archive. Not ideal but it’s better than nothing. (You can also get your own comments emailed to you.) There might be a tool that does still work with DW but if there is I don’t know it, unfortunately.
I appreciate the effort, but I think we cross-posted. I just figured out how to fix the access-lock problem with wget [link].
I hope you find it handy too! :)
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#reply via reblog #Dreamwidth #101 Uses for Infrastructureless Computers
