An Idiot’s Guide to Parler

 

There seems to be a push by conservatives on Twitter to go a new social media app, Parler, so I decided to check it out. What unfolded was painful so I have a few tips for other senior citizens.

1. If you are a grandma, let your kids set up your account. If you intend to do it yourself, read on.

2. Have your cell phone handy so it can send a code and you don’t have to run to the other side of the house to find your phone and type in the code in 60 seconds, or be by your landline so a computer can call you with the code.

3. Type in your email carefully. You will need it when you forget your password and need a password reset link sent to your email. If you have a dot in your email, heaven help you (liz.herring).

3. Captcha should be called gotcha. I had some script letters and numbers that were so cutesy I couldn’t read them. It took four tries to get it right. If you do it on an IPad, type upper and lowercase letters like you see them. The IPad will try to trick you by presenting what you typed as all uppercase. Parler will then send you a number code that expires in a minute.

4. If you survive the captcha, you move on to the part where you pick a password. The IPad recommends a “strong” password that hackers can’t hack and you can’t remember. Don’t do it. Cheat. Enter something you can remember. IPad will then give you the option of adding it to your keychain. Be very careful and press the right little button or you will be in a big bag of hurt later when you want to add the app to your phone.

5. Once in, it is easy to use. I searched for one person I knew was on it, clicked on his profile, clicked on who he was following, and started clicking on the follow buttons on his list. I rather quickly filled up my list of follows with all the folks I like. Echo=retweet. I really liked it, played a while, and then logged off so I could add it to my phone and log in. Big mistake. I got stuck at the password part…wasn’t in the keychain.

6. So, what does one do? Naturally, click on “reset password” then wait for the email that it says will come in a minute. And wait. And wait. Then try again, and again. Then check the spam folder, then try again. Then I assumed I had typed my email in wrong so I clicked on “forgot email” and it asked for the phone number. Once given, it told me it was sending a message about my email….wait for it…..to my email…..but it never came. Next, we went to customer service to “help“ and typed in a message with our problem. Never heard back.

7. After 9 hours, I gave up and said the heck with this, I am creating a new account. I couldn’t use my email because Parler said it already had an account so my husband created a new email for me. Great. Now it needed a phone number but wouldn’t take mine because it was already in another account, and wouldn’t take the house number because my husband had used it, so we used my husband’s number. Finally got back on.

8. I do like the site. If you go there, I am lizherring, but can’t access that one, and elizabethherring, at least until I mess it up. Moral, don’t let grandmas do technology.

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  1. Suspira Member
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    EHerring: The IPad recommends a “strong” password that hackers can’t hack and you can’t remember. Don’t do it. Cheat.

    No, no, a thousand times no! Although no techie, I work in the IT biz. Internet security is no joke. Here’s how to cope: Download a password manager. I use pwSafe, the Mac version of Password Safe. All your passwords are safely stored in there and you have to remember only one password, the one that opens the safe.

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  2. She Member
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    Suspira (View Comment):

    EHerring: The IPad recommends a “strong” password that hackers can’t hack and you can’t remember. Don’t do it. Cheat.

    No, no, a thousand times no! Although no techie, I work in the IT biz. Internet security is no joke. Here’s how to cope: Download a password manager. I use pwSafe, the Mac version of Password Safe. All your passwords are safely stored in there and you have to remember only one password, the one that opens the safe.

    If you don’t have a PW manager, one alternative is to use a phrase, and interesting substitutions that make sense to you.  Such as  “OutWithA!” (out with a bang), or 4soothA#OfFlesh (forsooth, a pound of flesh).  Sometimes, it depends on what the allowed characters are.  But I’ve found that is an easier way to do it and remember than just picking numbers, letters, and special characters at random.  “Seeing10*s” (Seeing 10 stars).  Don’t use any of these, please.

    • #32
  3. Suspira Member
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    She (View Comment):

    Suspira (View Comment):

    EHerring: The IPad recommends a “strong” password that hackers can’t hack and you can’t remember. Don’t do it. Cheat.

    No, no, a thousand times no! Although no techie, I work in the IT biz. Internet security is no joke. Here’s how to cope: Download a password manager. I use pwSafe, the Mac version of Password Safe. All your passwords are safely stored in there and you have to remember only one password, the one that opens the safe.

    If you don’t have a PW manager, one alternative is to use a phrase, and interesting substitutions that make sense to you. Such as “OutWithA!” (out with a bang), or 4soothA#OfFlesh (forsooth, a pound of flesh). Sometimes, it depends on what the allowed characters are. But I’ve found that is an easier way to do it and remember than just picking numbers, letters, and special characters at random. “Seeing10*s” (Seeing 10 stars). Don’t use any of these, please.

    Those are good ideas and I use them. But a check of my password safe tells me I’m storing 150 passwords. I never had the memory to hold that many passwords, no matter how clever. Now I have about five that I actually can remember, and I’m proud of that number!

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  4. EHerring Coolidge
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    Brian Watt (View Comment):
    Also searching for other users is painful and arduous. The user experience at the moment isn’t good.

    You don’t have to search for many people. Once I find someone, I can click on his profile, just like on Twitter, and see who he is following. I can scroll down and see which ones I am already following and click on any I want to add to my list. It is easy.

    • #34
  5. EHerring Coolidge
    EHerring
    @EHerring

    Sisyphus (hears Xi laughing) (View Comment):
    But my search efforts were…exotic. A search yields no results, clear the search string and start a new one, and results for my previous three searches pop up.

    See my comment #34

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  6. Douglas Pratt Coolidge
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    Suspira (View Comment):

    EHerring: The IPad recommends a “strong” password that hackers can’t hack and you can’t remember. Don’t do it. Cheat.

    No, no, a thousand times no! Although no techie, I work in the IT biz. Internet security is no joke. Here’s how to cope: Download a password manager. I use pwSafe, the Mac version of Password Safe. All your passwords are safely stored in there and you have to remember only one password, the one that opens the safe.

    What do you think of Norton Vault?

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  7. JesseMcVay Inactive
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    I joined Parler yesterday in response to repeated reports of Twitter censoring and suspending conservative accounts.  Now they’re fact checking the president.  OK. I get it.  Trump is a liar.  Did Twitter just discover that politicians are dishonest?  The bias is real and I expect it will get worse.  So I’m transitioning to Parler.

    My impressions so far:

    1. Network effect is a problem.  Not enough people on the platform yet to make it as interesting and a valuable as Twitter has become.  I intend to persevere and hope that will improve with time.  Meanwhile, I use both Twitter and Parler.  If I post or retweet on Twitter, I post the same on Parler.  It’s work, but that’s my contribution to trying to make Parler a success.
    2. Mostly conservative voices on Parler.  They only came because they were disillusioned with Twitter.  The result is a lack of diversity of opinion.  That’s a problem.  I have plenty of moderates, progressives and even some radicals on my Twitter feed.  It is my primary news source.
    3. The lefties are catching on to the shift to Parler and are trying to muddy the waters.  When I search on Parler for the accounts of some of my Twitter follows I sometimes find multiple accounts.  Some of them are fake.  They’re obviously being spoofed by lefties to make it difficult to find the real entity for whom you are searching.  My advice here is twofold.  First, just persevere.  Do the best you can to discern the legit source.  My second recommendation is for anyone opening up a Parler account.  Post a pinned Tweet on your Twitter page so anybody trying to locate you on Parler will know how to find you (the right you!)

    I’m still a noob on Parler.  I’ve noticed one advantage so far.  You can post longer messages than on Twitter.  Who knows.  Maybe with some real competition, both Twitter and Parler will get better.

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  8. DrewInWisconsin Doesn't Care Member
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    Brian Watt (View Comment):

    The “principled” geniuses at The Bulwark are referring to Parler as a “Far Right Autonomous Zone”.

    I think they’re having a hissy-fit because they didn’t think of it themselves.

    Like the barbarian leftist mobs, the geniuses at The Bulwank don’t know how to build anything. They only know how to tear down and destroy.

     

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  9. Weeping Inactive
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    JesseMcVay (View Comment):
    I’m still a noob on Parler. I’ve noticed one advantage so far. You can post longer messages than on Twitter. Who knows. Maybe with some real competition, both Twitter and Parler will get better.

    I don’t Twitter and I doubt I’ll Parler, but I agree with what you’ve said here. Competition almost always improves things for the consumer.

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  10. SkipSul Inactive
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    She (View Comment):
    A bad user interface is a bad user interface, no matter the age or familial status of the poor soul trying to navigate and mitigate around it. And using “security” as an excuse for creating a bad, and difficult to use, user interface is just a cop out.

    Worse still, a lot of what passes for security “best practices” is, like advice for COVID, apocryphal at best, or deeply flawed, or even flat out wrong.

    Let’s take passwords: 

    • We are advised not to re-use passwords from one site to another because if one is guess, they all are guessed.  OK so far.
    • We are advised to use very complicated passwords that even we cannot remember because they are less vulnerable to social hacking or brute force attacks.  Well – they don’t do US any good if WE cannot recall them when needed and have to reset them, because…
    • Then we have to set up and remember the dreaded security questions, which rely on knowledge that is hopefully arcane and esoteric (mother’s maiden name, first dog), but which is seemingly all over the place any more, and thus easily hacked.  More esoteric questions could be posed of course, or we could give deliberately incorrect answers, but what good are those if, as with point 2, we cannot remember which lies went with which questions, or the incorrect spelling we used, etc.  In the frustrated heat of the moment, we’re bound to forget.
    • And then so many places have password expirations and password retention policies to try to keep us from rotating our easily memorized set.  And yet, frequent password change policies force people back towards the very thing they are supposed to thwart – easily guessed passwords.  In short, mandated frequent password changes can actually undermine security quite badly.

    Security will always have to be a balance between common sense protection and usability, and too often I fear we end up losing on both.

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  11. Misthiocracy got drunk and Member
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    She (View Comment):

    Then, there’s that whole French thing. Bit like Ricochet, really. Only more so, because, not a word that’s become part of the Anglospeak, yet, anyway.

    Rule, Britannia.

    They were probably going for parlay.com, (a parlay being a civil negotiation between enemies with the intention of averting war) but that URL isn’t available.

    Parlour.com is available, but that doesn’t really convey the same idea.

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  12. Miffed White Male Member
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    SkipSul (View Comment):

    • And then so many places have password expirations and password retention policies to try to keep us from rotating our easily memorized set. And yet, frequent password change policies force people back towards the very thing they are supposed to thwart – easily guessed passwords. In short, mandated frequent password changes can actually undermine security quite badly.

    Security will always have to be a balance between common sense protection and usability, and too often I fear we end up losing on both.

    The company I work for is soon going to a “pick one really long password,  and then you never have to change it again” policy.  I forget what the special character requirements will be.  Maybe just a number or somethying.

     

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  13. kjl23 Member
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    RightAngles (View Comment):

    RushBabe49 (View Comment):
    backup email address so they can communicate with you if there are problems. In order to add my last account, I had to set up two new email accounts, since I had closed my gmail account over a year ago and couldn’t use that one as a backup. I also can’t use my work email, since

    By the way, in case nobody has said this already, parler (par-LAY) is the French infinitive “to speak.” I don’t know if that’s what they had in mind or not, or how we’re supposed to pronounce it.

    Yes, also the origin of the English term “parlay”, which is how it is pronounced in French.

     

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  14. Jim Kearney Member
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    @JimKearney

    After a month of being wary of their front page demand for a phone number, I finally relented yesterday and tried to enroll in Parler. Thanks for the reassurance that others are sharing this nightmare.

    It’s so easy to sign on to Twitter. One logon ID, one password. I’m a compulsive cookie eraser (CCleaner) so it’s no trouble to sign in with a logon ID and password. As a retired boomer, a landline guy, I do not appreciate the assumption that a smartphone accompanies me at all times. It does not.

    During the pandemic house arrest my smartphone sits on a night table. That’s to check my historic fantasy baseball simulation scores in the morning. (For the baseball history-curious, that’s via Diamond Mind Online [http://www.imaginesports.com] a fabulous computer sim for baseball hobbyists which BTW could use about 150 Ricochetti to balance things out on their far left-leaning off-topic discussion boards.)

    Count me out if Perler continues to require text message identification codes. I’d endure capcha, reluctantly. What’s with a multi-level ID screener for a Twitter clone, anyway? I could post a tidy little rant on Twitter in a tenth of the time it takes to log on to Parler.

    Parler is also pretty far along on the OCD spectrum when it comes to approving your password. Okay, I get one number, one cap, one lower case, and alright, a special character even though few demand it at this point. So I composed a fresh one. Sorry, it says, “not complex enough.” Hello? Never heard that before. Alright, here’s another. And another. Same result, for five minutes. Finally I append a period to a friend’s old address and bada-bing, I’m in. It takes my simplest, most transparent plain English attempt, after rejecting all kinds of imaginative gobbledygook. Go figure.

    Now, forgive me, time to generalize from the specific.

    Conservatives needs to do a better job of competing with all mainstream media, down to not-so-tiny details like being as or more user friendly than everything the Left has. 

    I’ll spare you my rant on how profound this need is in television networks, SVOD streaming, news organizations, non-profits, tech, education, and minor pursuits like cinema, book publishing, music … and everything else except talk radio. You know that already.

    It’s just the last few weeks have been really beyond the pale. Everything from Amazon Prime’s opening page to many heretofore neutral major corporations have their home pages graffiti-splattered with BLM garbage. Even Up With People now be woke.

    I deleted half a dozen of the most politically loaded Black History TV shows from the Amazon Prime home page, but I’m still getting — I kid you not — an invitation to watch a Moms Mabley special whenever I try to find the next Poirot episode in my viewing sequence.

    Why can’t our media just be as omni-present as the MyPillow guy? Citizen Free Press, OANN, Epoch Times and Parler have all got a long way to go. Especially Parler. They need to learn that when they get their 15 minutes of fame, they must be seamlessly user friendly and ready for the traffic.

     

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  15. Miffed White Male Member
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    Misthiocracy got drunk and (View Comment):

    She (View Comment):

    Then, there’s that whole French thing. Bit like Ricochet, really. Only more so, because, not a word that’s become part of the Anglospeak, yet, anyway.

    Rule, Britannia.

    They were probably going for parlay.com, (a parlay being a civil negotiation between enemies with the intention of averting war) but that URL isn’t available.

    Parlour.com is available, but that doesn’t really convey the same idea.

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  16. TempTime Member
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    EHerring: 2. Have your cell phone handy so it can send a code and you don’t have to run to the other side of the house to find your phone and type in the code in 60 seconds, or be by your landline so a computer can call you with the code.

    LOL.  Yep.  This is what happened to me when I signed up last week after seeing Devin Nunez’s tweet about Parler — had to run to the other side of the house   :-)    And, yes, it took me a couple of attempts to finally create an account.   Mostly because i wanted to set up an account without given them a telephone number.   

    @EHerring,I will look you up in Parler.    Thanks for the post. 

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  17. Brian Watt Inactive
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    Just now…on Twitter…a message tweeted about Parler from Parler’s founder:

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  18. EHerring Coolidge
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    TempTime (View Comment):

    EHerring: 2. Have your cell phone handy so it can send a code and you don’t have to run to the other side of the house to find your phone and type in the code in 60 seconds, or be by your landline so a computer can call you with the code.

    LOL. Yep. This is what happened to me when I signed up last week after seeing Devin Nunez’s tweet about Parler — had to run to the other side of the house :-) And, yes, it took me a couple of attempts to finally create an account. Mostly because i wanted to set up an account without given them a telephone number.

    @EHerring,I will look you up in Parler. Thanks for the post.

    Be sure to pick the one with my full name. I feel like the display is cleaner. I don’t log out now. Is easy to open it since I don’t. 

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  19. Suspira Member
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    Douglas Pratt (View Comment):

    Suspira (View Comment):

    EHerring: The IPad recommends a “strong” password that hackers can’t hack and you can’t remember. Don’t do it. Cheat.

    No, no, a thousand times no! Although no techie, I work in the IT biz. Internet security is no joke. Here’s how to cope: Download a password manager. I use pwSafe, the Mac version of Password Safe. All your passwords are safely stored in there and you have to remember only one password, the one that opens the safe.

    What do you think of Norton Vault?

    I’m not the one to ask (I do administrative work for the techies). I’d check the reviews.

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  20. EHerring Coolidge
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    @EHerring

    I have played around on it and found something cool. Seems all the posts on the main feed have pictures, cute but space hogs so one must scroll a lot. If you go to notifications, you just get words so you don’t have to scroll a lot. I am happy with Parler so far. Seems cleaner with easy on eyes presentation. Bottom left button lets you alternate between a day and night mode presentation. Pictures show what I mean. Presentation is sharper than my screenshot. 

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  21. EHerring Coolidge
    EHerring
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    If you swipe right, you get this menu. The bottom right button is the one that alternates between day and night mode.

    • #51
  22. DrewInWisconsin Doesn't Care Member
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    Two questions:

    Can you actually use it in a web browser?

    And can you actually read it in a web browser if you don’t have an account?

     

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  23. Sisyphus (hears Xi laughing) Member
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    DrewInWisconsin Doesn't C… (View Comment):

    Two questions:

    Can you actually use it in a web browser?

    And can you actually read it in a web browser if you don’t have an account?

     

    Yes, and no. But accounts are free.

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  24. DrewInWisconsin Doesn't Care Member
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    Sisyphus (hears Xi laughing) (View Comment):

    DrewInWisconsin Doesn’t C… (View Comment):

    Two questions:

    Can you actually use it in a web browser?

    And can you actually read it in a web browser if you don’t have an account?

    Yes, and no. But accounts are free.

    And by “use it in a web browser” I mean, can you post to it? For example, our church has an Instagram account, and I can read it/see it in a web browser, but I can’t post to it without a phone or tablet. So another guy is in charge of the Instagram account, and I do all the Facebook stuff.

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  25. Sisyphus (hears Xi laughing) Member
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    DrewInWisconsin Doesn't C… (View Comment):

    Sisyphus (hears Xi laughing) (View Comment):

    DrewInWisconsin Doesn’t C… (View Comment):

    Two questions:

    Can you actually use it in a web browser?

    And can you actually read it in a web browser if you don’t have an account?

    Yes, and no. But accounts are free.

    And by “use it in a web browser” I mean, can you post to it? For example, our church has an Instagram account, and I can read it/see it in a web browser, but I can’t post to it without a phone or tablet. So another guy is in charge of the Instagram account, and I do all the Facebook stuff.

    Yes, you can do it all in browser. With a couple of caveats where things are still getting stabilized. Searches are interesting.

    • #55
  26. Ontheleftcoast Inactive
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    Parler’s TOS make me think that it’s already on the slippery slope. 

    9. Parler may remove any content and terminate your access to the Services at anytime and for any reason or no reason, although Parler endeavors to allow all free speech that is lawful and does not infringe the legal rights of others. 

    As Vox Day notes,

    Don’t forget that Twitter and Facebook both used to cloak themselves in free speech rhetoric before unmasking their social justice faces. Parler also mandates AAA arbitration while banning group action, but lacks the California consumer protection laws.

    As usual, it can unilaterally modify the end user agreement, and also as usual, this:

    From Parler’s privacy policy:

    Merger, Sale, or Other Asset Transfers. We may transfer your information to service providers, advisors, potential transactional partners, or other third parties in connection with the consideration, negotiation, or completion of a corporate transaction in which we are acquired by or merged with another company or we sell, liquidate, or transfer all or a portion of our assets. The use of your information following any of these events will be governed by the provisions of this Privacy Policy in effect at the time the applicable information was collected.

    One word: Fitbit.

    Google’s decision to buy the health tracking device company Fitbit for $2.1 billion is raising concerns over how users’ data will be used by the tech giant.

    Google appeared to anticipate the fears, noting in its announcement Friday that “privacy and security are paramount” to the company. Google promised to be transparent about the data it collects and to “never sell personal information to anyone.” Google also said it will not use the health data for its own ads, and will give users the choice to “review, move or delete their data.”

    Fitbit, which has more than 27 million active users, echoed that message. “Strong privacy and security guidelines have been part of Fitbit’s DNA since day one, and this will not change,” the company said in a press release.

    But data privacy experts caution that, while those sentiments might reassure some customers about the potential use of their personal health data, current laws and regulations do little to hold Google and other companies to their promises.

    The sole protection I can see is the hope that Parler’s investors will keep Robert Conquest’s second law in mind:

    Any organization not explicitly right-wing sooner or later becomes left-wing.

     

    • #56
  27. EHerring Coolidge
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    Sisyphus (hears Xi laughing) (View Comment):

    DrewInWisconsin Doesn’t C… (View Comment):

    Sisyphus (hears Xi laughing) (View Comment):

    DrewInWisconsin Doesn’t C… (View Comment):

    Two questions:

    Can you actually use it in a web browser?

    And can you actually read it in a web browser if you don’t have an account?

    Yes, and no. But accounts are free.

    And by “use it in a web browser” I mean, can you post to it? For example, our church has an Instagram account, and I can read it/see it in a web browser, but I can’t post to it without a phone or tablet. So another guy is in charge of the Instagram account, and I do all the Facebook stuff.

    Yes, you can do it all in browser. With a couple of caveats where things are still getting stabilized. Searches are interesting.

    Glad you answered that techie question for me. I am the one who has two accounts because I goofed up one of them and locked myself out.

    re privacy and what we post, never post anything you don’t want attributed back to you.

    • #57
  28. Peter Gøthgen Member
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    SkipSul (View Comment):

    She (View Comment):
    A bad user interface is a bad user interface, no matter the age or familial status of the poor soul trying to navigate and mitigate around it. And using “security” as an excuse for creating a bad, and difficult to use, user interface is just a cop out.

    Worse still, a lot of what passes for security “best practices” is, like advice for COVID, apocryphal at best, or deeply flawed, or even flat out wrong.

    Let’s take passwords:

    • We are advised not to re-use passwords from one site to another because if one is guess, they all are guessed. OK so far.
    • We are advised to use very complicated passwords that even we cannot remember because they are less vulnerable to social hacking or brute force attacks. Well – they don’t do US any good if WE cannot recall them when needed and have to reset them, because…
    • Then we have to set up and remember the dreaded security questions, which rely on knowledge that is hopefully arcane and esoteric (mother’s maiden name, first dog), but which is seemingly all over the place any more, and thus easily hacked. More esoteric questions could be posed of course, or we could give deliberately incorrect answers, but what good are those if, as with point 2, we cannot remember which lies went with which questions, or the incorrect spelling we used, etc. In the frustrated heat of the moment, we’re bound to forget.
    • And then so many places have password expirations and password retention policies to try to keep us from rotating our easily memorized set. And yet, frequent password change policies force people back towards the very thing they are supposed to thwart – easily guessed passwords. In short, mandated frequent password changes can actually undermine security quite badly.

    Security will always have to be a balance between common sense protection and usability, and too often I fear we end up losing on both.

    I would like to put in a big vote for 1Password.  I have been using it for years.  I have a families account, so that my wife & I share most passwords, but a few are in a vault that our children can access on their devices too.  Having all passwords instantly available on everyone’s device is a major timesaver.

    The solution to the security questions is to append a note to the password entry for a website indicating what fake answers you have used.  I always use nonsense responses for each one.

    A good program like that one helps you easily navigate the security theater.

    • #58
  29. EHerring Coolidge
    EHerring
    @EHerring

    I am enjoying Parler more each day. It is a good news aggregator, like Drudge used to be. Epoch Times, American Greatness,  and National Review, to name a few, post article notices and links. When I am in a hurry, I skim through the Notifications list for articles and comments of interest then clear it. At other times, I go straight to the Feed.

    • #59
  30. Doug1943 Member
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    @Doug1943

    I’ve been trying to join Parler … it says there are ‘invalid characters’ in my username, Doug1943.  And all the usual problems others experience with it …  could there be a Lefty infiltrator-saboteur among its coders?  This is the second or third time I’ve tried to sign up with it, and have always ended the attempt in frustration.

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