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Today, I've blacked out my journal over at Dreamwidth for 24 hours in order to raise awareness of SOPA/PIPA, alongside many other websites, including Wikipedia.

Please note: SOPA is still a threat, despite the news reports recently that it was shelved indefinitely. (Lamar Smith plans to resume SOPA's markup in FebruaryI'm ( Read more... )

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I don't tend to do new stuff explicitly for LiveJournal nowadays, since I'm on Dreamwidth, but LJ came out with an interesting claim recently regarding the lack of a Preview button on the new commenting form:Since a Preview button isn't easily/quickly possible with the new form, we have made the ability to edit ( Read more... )

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I meant to post about this before this week, but there's still a few days left, so.

This week, from February 21st to February 28th, you don't need an invite code to create an account on Dreamwidth, at all. So if you've been thinking of creating an account but didn't want to ask anybody for a code, go ahead and create ( Read more... )

If you've seen the recent LJ news post, please be aware that it was written from the wrong spec. While I (soph, the original author of this post), am not staff, this has been confirmed officially by staff and the news post has been rewritten accordingly.

Only accounts that have no entries, or have only the initial welcome entry, will be purged.A new ( Read more... )

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A heads-up to anybody who is running an alternative operating system on a Playstation 3 - Sony will be releasing an update tomorrow that will prevent you from doing thisAs I don't have a PS3 myself, I'm not sure whether you can just choose not to install the update or not, but one assumes that at the very least you'd be ( Read more... )

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I've just read of data loss *possibly* caused by a recent Windows update, and has so far been experienced by varying people on Windows XP, Vista and 7. Please read the article about it at Vitalsecurity.org, and this follow-up postIf you have any information about it, or it's happened to you, please post about it on ( Read more... )

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I'm seeing a lot of misinformation going around LJ regarding the security of LiveJournal accounts, so I want to take this opportunity to correct these.

Myth: Setting a secret question will make your account more secure.

This is false. Secret questions are not intended to make your account more secure; they're intended to ( Read more... )