You probably didn’t know, but I am working on redoing my site. It will be much sinpler, nothing really fancy. The goal is to provide an easier experience to any user. It will be easier to contact me, etc. Hope you like what I have done, and visit diytto.com soon!
So today I got the major parts of http://diytto.com updated. The new site looks REALLY nice, and I can actually work on it :) I am quite proud. Feel free to go check it out!
I’m currently working on a new social website. Me and a couple friends are creating it. I think you guys will like it :)
I don’t feel like doing an introduction, I will just jump right into this post. I would like to start out by saying these are my opinions, and you have yours. Opinions don’t always agree. Also, yes I do have a Facebook. I use it to keep in touch with people. Now let me begin.
If you have seen The Social Network you know why Facebook was started. It was to meet that person you met at that party so you can talk to them again. It has since evolved to ehat it is today. A blue and white friend/family finding machine. I don’t like it. No one really cares if someone they don’t know adds them. They accept anyway. Usually because of a few common friends. Do you see something wrong here? What happened to privacy and really close friends?
Another thing about Facebook. It is a mess. I find the site difficult to use. To get from A to Z you have to go through every letter in between. This sucks. Along with the random UI/UX changes that throw everyone out of wack for a while. Thankfully I have an iPod Touch and the Facebook app for it is decent. It’s not great, but it works. I hardly ever use a computer for that sort of thing. As Steve Jobs said in the latest keynote, it is a post-computer era now. I won’t even go into how bad the Facebook chat is.
Another thing I hate on Facebook (A LOT) is the apps. Frankly, they are a waste of time. I mean, cool you can play with friend and all, but woopty frickin doo. Ever heard of Steam? Google it sometime. However that is my opinion. Really though, if you play a game on Facebook DON’T EVER SPAM ME WITH YOUR STUPID INVITES TO IT. If I’m not already playing it I could care less. I want a setting to just disable all posts from apps through a user on my wall.
Now for some serious business. Facebook security, and why I don’t do much on Facebook.
For starters Facebook security sucks. My friend recently got hacked amd some loser posted on his wall that he was gay. This loser hacker used a free proxy based service (probably TOR, google it) while sitting at home thinking they’re the funniest thing since Family Guy. Of course, my friend, being a smart and well managaing guy, called up Facebook and planted a stern FIX MY STUFF into their minds. The best Facebook could do was trace ip addresses back to some obscure place outside the country. Cool. You suck. Fact of the matter is, anyone can break into your Facebook. It’s not hard. In fact, I could do it. Download a bruteforcer and put in the users email and you’re in. Moral of the story, don’t put valuable/personal stuff on Facebook, and use a different password on it than you do anywhere else.
Another thing about Facebook security that makes me laugh is this. When people moan that they have been “hacked.” LOL. No. You’re stupid to think that. You know those over 100 random useless quiz things you take? Yea, that one about how compatible you are to someone? That was a malicious developer. You granted them all access to everything on your profile, as well as access to post anywhere. Haha, you hacked yourself! Hey, guess what? These developers can now also get your address, credit card info, phone number etc. From Facebook now. I am so excited about this! Not. So basically if you want people to stop spamming tell them to remove all their apps. Mainly quizzes.
If you really want to be secure, just delete Facebook. I won’t because I like to keep in touch with friend and family, and also look at everyone’s pictures :p which is probably true for many people. However, if you looks at my Facebook you will see it is basically standard. I don’t really have anything on it. I don’t really care to have anything on it.
That’s basically all I have to say. Please be aware and have a good time. Until next time, happy Social Networking!
I am done with speech online! Wheeeeeeee!
Oh hey! Look at me posting to tumblr from AIM!
So yesterday I went to the Mac Life store. They have like 5 iMacs, 2 MacBook airs, 2 or 3 MacBook Pros, a MacBook, and 3 iPads. I chat on IRC for a while, but realize I need to update some things on a server. What happens next scares the crap out of me.
So I get off this iPad I’m currently on and go jump on an iMac. I get back on IRC and while I’m on IRC I update GoDaddy. I just need to add an A record to the DNS for the Void IRC Round Robin. After I’m done I close the tab for GoDaddy. That is mostly irrelevant. However when I get back on IRC I realize I do not have any sort of oper. This is bad since I try to manage Void IRC well, and there are not really any other opers on. So what do I do? The natural thing. I ssh the server.
So I ssh qwertyoruiop’s server to add myself an O:Line. I finish this and rehash the server. OH LOOK, IT WON’T LET ME OPER UP. Fun. So I tinker around with the configs more. While I do this I guess the store manager is watching me. I am tinkerimg away with these configs and rehashing as I go. By the way, qwertyoruiop didn’t compile his Unreal. Just ran it off the source. THIS FAILS! I finally finish my tinkering and log off the server ssh. Guess what’s next?
So the whole time I guess the store owner/manager is watching me or something. He gets on another store iMac and WHAT IS HAPPENING?! WHO IS REMOTE CONTROLLING THIS IMAC?! Bam. He looks at the Terminal with a lot of crap typed into it. Like any manager he gets nervous for the safety of his store and of his Macs. I just quit Terminal since I am now scared to death, and I’m done with it anyway. I continue chatting on IRC not knowing what will happen to me.
About 5 minutes later the store manager walks over and asks me what I’m doing. I politely reply that I am on IRC. He gives me a evil look and asks me what IRC is to which I reply: IRC is Internet Relay Connection. Basically a huge chatroom over the web. After that he asks what were you doing on the Terminal? I tell him I was just ssh’ing my server. I try to be polite about this and not act like he is crazy and stupid for asking me this. Does he really think I can hack a Mac? Yea right. A 15 year old kid can’t just walk in and root your Macs bro. Anyway, he tell me to not use the Terminal again. I go back to IRC.
At this point I have a nervous sweat and my hands are shaking. I text my mom to ask if my brother’s bass lesson is over and nervously glance out the window. I want to leave. Now. I don’t want to look bad though. So I just stay and chat. Finally my mom texts me back and says they are done. I run outside to safety. I SURVIVED! You can be quite sure I’m not going back there anytime soon though :p.
So, can I be labeled as a hacker now? :p
I’m going to church as I write this today. Today is not a day I want to go to church. I want to work on my website (more on that later), and work on my online Speech class. By the way, NEVER take online classes. It’s really hard for me to keep to the schedule. Right now I’m way behind. Lets move on though. Today I want to talk about the changes that have happened lately, and my plans for the future.
There are a couple things I’m excited about that have happened over the last few months. I think the greatest thing is that I started my own IRC network. It’s called Void IRC (@VoidIRC on Twitter) and me and some of my internet friends run it. No one really gets on. Maybe that will change later though. We try to stay pretty open and cool. You can hop on if you want by connecting to irc.diytto.com. We have non-ssl on 6667 and ssl on 6697. I don’t remember the other ports :p.
The next thing I’m pretty happy about is about me personally. I got straight A’s last semester in school. It’s not really that big, but it just makes me feel proud of myself.
Now for some other miscellaneous stuff. I finally have MyWi and can make wireless networks with my iPods (>:D mwahahaha). Along with this I got lighttpd (a web server) to run on my iPod. This means I can walk around school broadcasting a wireless network from one of my iPods and have a full blown website up on it at the same time. I want to create some sort of chat thing so other kids at my school with smartphones or iPods or something can jump on my network and send messages to eachother. I don’t know how to do this, but it would be REALLY cool.
I found some pretty cool music this week. I have been listening to Daft Punk a alot lately, and I really like their music. Yesterday a friend of mine on IRC showed me his music he has created and put on SoundCloud. I loved it! You can listen to his music at http://soundcloud.com/unctuous. I actually got an account on SoundCloud because of him. I don’t know if I’ll upload any music though :p.
Now I would like to talk about my plans. I have some pretty big ideas. Some of my ideas need money too. I want to get a summer job or something so that I can actually get money. I don’t know how that will work though since I plan to take summer school, and I think I’m going to be gone for July. Oh well.
I think the first thing on my list of plans is to get Apache on my server to work correctly. I can’t get the VirtualHosts to work at all. Once I get this to work I can get the Void WebIrc to work (yay!).
Along with this I need to redesign my website. I have some really cool ideas, but I will need help from Max who seems to be more and more busy :p. Once it’s done thought it will be really cool. I might upload my ideas later.
Now comes the part where I ask you to help me out. I would really like a new computer. Thing is, this costs money. My goal is to get a computer sometime in the next 2 years. I either want a MacBook or a computer I build myself. A MacBook would be awesome since it’s so portable, but a computer I build myself would have some real power. Plus I would learn how to put together a computer which is a plus. I will be working towards this myself, and I hope to get a job over the summer. You can always donate to me on my home page at http://diytto.com. The computer I am currently using is a 10 year old PowerPC Mac G4 Quicksilver. It’s an awesome computer, but it just doesn’t have the power I need in a computer.
That’s all for this time around :) see you on Void!
Well… Feels like I haven’t done a blog in a while! I’ll keep this short just because I don’t feel like spilling my brain right now :p. Nothing has really happened, except my new domain and site which is at http://diytto.com I’m thinking about getting a new linux VPS box. I need money for this though :p. That’s basically it. I’ll probably do a big post over Christmas break, and I hope you’ll enjoy it when I do :). Until then, see ya!
An eagle I found over Thanksgiving Break :)
