June 2022 archive

18
Jun
2022

I think it’s time for another re-AOL post, folks!

categories: personal; word count: 191 words

Sometimes the randomly generated Guest screen names are amusing. I try hard to screenshot them.

Anyway…

As always, a lot of work gets done behind the scenes by devs (developers) to improve re-AOL’s stability and security, which directly translates to more people being able to enjoy using it, the chat rooms functioning better, Instant Messenges functioning better, the whole nine. One of the developers has been working hard on bringing us Slingo, though! In before a lot of the people reading this post go nuts, though: that’s the slots and bingo — portmanteau — that a lot of us who used this version, and subsequent versions, of America Online grew up playing because the only place that you could play it for the longest time… wait for it… was America Online. And man oh man, growing up did I love me some Slingo. I am going to love playing it again on re-AOL when Tommy brings it back for us. I savor the nostalgic experience of being able to play one of my favorite online games on something that I grew up with. You literally can not beat that, folks. Any of that.

17
Jun
2022

I don’t think I’m capable of doing fandom at all.

categories: television shows; word count: 341 words

There are shows that I want to watch, like Lucifer and The Boys — to name just two of them — that… for the life of me, I can’t commit to actually watching even though I could make the time for them after the boys have gone to bed and fallen asleep for the night. This seems to be why it was so easy for me to fall out of fandom in 2012, although that was more a matter of me pretending to like things that I did not actually like at all, whereas the decision to fall out of fandom this time was brought about because of the drama, negativity and toxicity that fandom circles have in them and the fact that I did not want to continue pretending to like something more than I actually liked that thing. At some point I suppose I’ll get around to it and watch the shows that I want to watch (oh, and The Walking Dead and everything that’s related to that), but it will be on my terms and on my own time. If I want to take a break I am absolutely taking that break.

Another amusing tidbit to note is that it actually took me several years to finish Supernatural, which I did on Netflix. I would drop it for six months here, a whole year here… it would just get to the point where I didn’t want to continue watching it, where I wanted a break from watching this television show, so I just took one. I didn’t get into the fandom for it until 2020 (which to this day I regret doing), but it had taken me at least several years to watch and finish the show, and by the time the finale had aired I was still catching up on episodes on Netflix. You know, I can kind of see why the few people I know in person who know that I like Supernatural have a hard time wrapping their heads around me liking it. That actually kind of amuses me.

16
Jun
2022

I couldn’t help but see this in Google Analytics.

categories: personal; word count: 91 words

These are the view counts for the post that I made about Tumblr’s… site security issues.

This is good.

Please continue to view this, let other people know, and consider finding another site to blog on. LiveJournal is still around even though ownership has changed hands. There are always Blogger and WordPress, especially self-hosted WordPress. So far, these sites don’t appear to have any of the gaping security issues that have been observed on Tumblr (and let me tell you, an oath exploit is a hell of an “oops” to have…).

14
Jun
2022

This shouldn’t really have surprised anyone, but…

categories: personal; word count: 360 words

I was this many years old when I found out that Tumblr has had far more data leaks than they have come clean about. However, I tend to run in the right circles to make myself privy to that sort of information — I grew up around hackers and programmers, and I consider them “my people” before I would consider anyone else my people. It was humorous to find out that someone with… insider information on the May 2022 data leak for Tumblr had actually found my blog, read the posts that I had written in it about security concerns, and validated them by contacting me on Discord to let me know that all of my security concerns were correct. I was then walked through the exploit used to get into Tumblr’s back end and how one would… keep getting into Tumblr’s back end, and I was told what the hackers could do (and perhaps what they were most interested in doing), which I wrote about in more the last blog post of mine that addressed the data leak.

Again, I tried to bring this up to Tumblr in the form of Tweets directed to them. And again, I was literally ignored by Tumblr. If they want to ignore an active data breach that exposed passwords in plain text, that’s fine by me. I don’t have an account on their website any more, and I have absolutely no inclination on ever making one again if this is how things are going to be. I don’t think I’ve ever truly seen a website so utterly incompetent — they couldn’t even bother responding to me to thank me for my concerns, and I already know that their “site security” (if you can even call it that) has not addressed the exploit that the hackers literally uploaded to facilitate ease of use continuing to get back into Tumblr’s back end because it is seriously still there. I mean, how can you ignore security issues that are this glaring when there is tangible proof that they exist and are actually there? Do you not care about the safety of the information that users of your site post?

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