Brief update about Dreamwidth

[andrewducker]

I think I've now been through all of the notifications of people adding me over the last few days, and added them back. If I haven't subscribed to you and granted you access then let me know!

As a note, I don't have access to Dreamwidth at work, so replies will be a little sparser than usual. I don't like typing long things on my phone, so anything more than a sentence or two will have to wait for me to get home for a reply.

On which note, can anyone recommend a small bluetooth keyboard I could pair with my phone, in case I _did_ want to write a longer post on it?

And finally, for those playing along on FB, hopefully this post will appear there as a link to the DW post rather than the LJ one. Let's see how prompt IFTTT is!

Comments

[ironymaiden]

I have the "Amazon Basics" Bluetooth keyboard and find it a nice compromise between size and portability. also, cheap.

[mb2u]

+1; have had one for years, still works

[digitalraven]

I like this one for use with my phone. It's not too small, and I'm a sucker for a folding keyboard.

The backlit one (the other option from the page) is full laptop sized; I use it with an iPad mini and a small stand so I've got a writing platform that fits in my back pocket.

[andrewducker]

Thanks, looks good!

[synecdochic]

If you have access to email at work: you can reply to comments by just replying to the comment notification!

[andrewducker]

All email sites completely blocked.

I can forward emails to myself though - do I have to reply from the original email address for the functionality to work?

[synecdochic]

Oh, ugh. Mutter mutter mutter work filters mutter.

You don't have to reply from the address the email was sent to, but you do have to tell Dreamwidth about the address you're replying from before you reply. It runs off the same list of email addresses as the post-entries-by-email option, and you can add more addresses on the mobile tab of Account Settings.

[andrewducker]

Giant financial company.

You do not want me leaking personal data ;-)

But cheers, that will work fine!

[synecdochic]

Heh. When I worked for a Very Large Insurance And Financial Company back in the mid-to-late 90s to early 00s, they had a draconian web filter, plus they logged all URLs that everyone visited (by your login ID) and regularly audited them, so people would regularly have their manager come in and say "what was the business purpose for you looking at such-and-such a site" even if the site itself wasn't blocked.

However, their filter only worked on HTTP/HTTPS requests (and even then, only on ports 80 and 443). Nobody blocked or monitored outgoing SSH. I would come in for my shift, pop in the floppy I had downloaded PuTTY onto, and log into my server at home, from which I could do anything I wanted...

Black and white

[andrewducker]

Yeah, we used to work like that. And then at some point they got smart about it. No floppy drives, no USB drives, no access to install software unless you're a developer (which I am, which helps, but I don't want to betray that trust), but also no access outside of the proxies at all unless you can get whitelisted. So specific applications, coming from specific IP addresses can use specific ports to well-defined endpoints.

Which is a pain, but understandable.

(I think the footer got snipped off there because I put in a "--" after my message deliberately. Let's see this time what happens if I leave that off!)

Confidentiality - This email is confidential. Not meant for you? - If you don't think this email is meant for you, please let us know. Do not copy or forward the information it contains, and delete this email from your system. Views expressed - Any personal views or opinions expressed in this email are the sender's, and do not necessarily reflect the views of snip

Testing

[andrewducker]

Let's try a reply from work. I had to go looking in the headers to get the reply-to for this though, because forwarding on the email just passes on the "From" which is a null address. I wonder if there's an easier way...

Of course, I bet this appends a horrible suffix onto things.

Re: Testing

[synecdochic]

Nope! The thing that processes emailed-in clients has the most hackish regular expressions in the world to try to identify and strip quoted text. :)

Re: Testing

[andrewducker]

Looks like I need that -- to avoid the footer (see above). I'll go stick that in by default!

Re: Testing

[synecdochic]

HA. Yeah, those auto-appended "if you received this email in error, please do us the courtesy of taking yourself around back and shooting yourself" signatures are things we can't strip, but we do strip everything after a "-- " (space important) in hopes of catching most of them. Looks like your company doesn't put the signature separator before the boilerplate, but I wonder if you could set up something in your client to do it automatically...

Re: Testing

[andrewducker]

Done! And thanks!

Re: Testing

[synecdochic]

Welcome! 

[desperance]

Me, me! ... I think me?

[andrewducker]

Was you. Hopefully I now have you!

[sravakavarn]

I use FB and wordpress more than this, but I have always kept my private persona on LJ. Moving it here was only after necessity. That said, I am enjoying dreamwidth, and its forcing me to look for active profiles so my feed isn't GRRM, you, and largely dead air.

[andrewducker]

Yeah, LJ was getting a bit that way. I'm glad that DW has shaken things up a bit.