Do you use Two Factor Authentication with your mobile phone? Do you use your phone as a password recovery option? In case if you are wondering what the hell is two factor authentication, let me simplify it like this. Have you coupled your Gmail/ Facebook/ etc. account with your mobile phone in a way that you receive a ‘code’ that you should enter in the web browser? If so, read on this short note.
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Cleaning up Facebook “Friend” list
I created my Facebook account in 2007, when Facebook was slowly making its trend in this side of the world. And then I made the worst mistake – adding anyone.
How I use Facebook on Android
Once installed their app, Facebook thinks they own our mobile devices.
At first, there was the peaceful all-purpose Facebook app. And some time later they separated messaging into another app, creating the Messenger. Initially it was at user’s discretion to use Messenger or Facebook app for messaging. Initially it looked polite but lately everyone was gradually forced to install Messenger. Another app… sigh! Personally, for me messaging is just messaging. I don’t want a childlike fairyland for just sending and receiving messages.
What now, Mobitel?
Recently I wrote about Mobitel LiveScreen because I was unhappy about the experience.
As soon I published that on my Facebook page (850+ likes), it instantly took vast public attention. So far it reached 13,000+ people without targeted advertising. Given my page’s member base is small, the post made a significant reach. Unless advertised none of my other blog posts ever reached more than 500 people on average. By the time of this writing, I’ve seen more people have started to voice against VAS scams which is a good trend.
Wunderlist Today wallpaper for Ubuntu
Wunderlist again. Currently this is the only Microsoft thing that I use – apart of Windows servers involved in my DevOps job.
Remove imported (stolen) contacts from Facebook
I have reasons to believe that it rather steals contacts from your phone rather than politely synchronizing them.
Once you install Facebook, it forces you to install Messenger aside. If you don’t it will keep sending you new message notifications but not letting you read them. So you install Messenger.
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උබුන්ටුවේ සිංහලෙන් ලියමු
උබුන්ටු වලට සිංහල දාන හැටි? කැම්පස් කාලෙ ලියාපුවනේ…! 😀
හරි. එහෙනම් චූටි ළමයි ටික ඉස්සෙල්ලම අහගන්න. මීට අවුරුදු හත අටකට කලින් ඔය ළමයි ඉස්කෝලෙ යන කාලෙ උබුන්ටු වලට සිංහල දානව කියන්නෙ වෙනමම ගේමක්. ඒ දවස් වල අපි අළුතින් වින්ඩෝස් හෝ ලිනක්ස් ඉන්ස්ටෝල් කළ ගමන්ම ඊළඟට දාගන්න එක තමා සිංහල යුනිකෝඩ් කියන්නෙ. ඊටත් කලින්, වින්ඩෝස්, ලිනක්ස් ඔය ඔක්කොටම සම්මතයක් විධියට සිංහල යුනිකෝඩ් එක ගේන්න විවිධ බාධක මැද තවත් පිරිසක් තමන්ගෙ කාලය, ශ්‍රමය කැප කරමින් ගොඩක් මහන්සි වුණා. තවත් පිරිසක් සිංහල භාවිතය ප්‍රචලිත කරන්න ලොකු වෙහෙසක් දැරුවා. ඒකෙ ප්‍රතිපලයක් විධියට, අද වෙනකොට අළුතින් වින්ඩෝස් හෝ ලිනක්ස් ඉන්ස්ටෝල් කළාම සිංහල ඉන්ස්ටෝල් කරන්න ඕනෙ කියන එක අමතක වෙන තරමටම අද අපි සිංහල භාවිතා කරනවා. වෙන එකක් තියා, සිංහලෙන් ලියන එක පොෂ් මදි වගේ දැනිච්ච අයත් අද අපූරුවට සිංහලෙන් ලියනවා. සිංහල තමා දැන් ට්‍රෙන්ඩ් එක! 🙂
Cisco AnyConnect VPN for Ubuntu Xenial?
Post-upgrade first World problems are here.
A friend who recently upgraded to Ubuntu 16.04 Xenial Xerus LTS told me that Cisco AnyConnect VPN doesn’t work anymore. So I wanted to give it a try.
More on constructing passwords
So, that happened and I had to spend a considerable amount of time choosing new passwords.
I really didn’t write about how I manage my passwords. I thought about writing this tip because it’s a game of battle between convenience and confidentiality.
Password trainer software
I screwed it up again.
I logged into one of my e-mail accounts from a shared computer owned by someone else. This is something I never do (unless there’s a top urgency) because I fear keyloggers. So now, time has come to change the passwords. Next factor of two factor authentication will keep me protected, but still need to fix the first factor.
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