Since I recently worked on the Fluff Grabber during my spring break, something caught my eye. Poking around in the database, I noticed there were some really long user IDs. It had about 15 digits. I found this incredibly strange. I prompt asked on twitter, does that mean there are more than 1 Quadrillion Facebook [...]
Here’s the script. “Hey Ry, Firefox crashed again!” “What were you on?” “I was on Farmville…” “So you’re on Facebook using Flash. You’re asking for trouble…” That’s how it goes with my parents every so often. They love Facebook and the games, but they hate when Firefox crashes on them. I’ve attempted to explain the [...]
When visiting any of the major fluff friends petting zoos you might encounter this annoying dimmed (fluff)Book page phenomenon. I just noticed this today. It’s a big deal, but because it effectively breaks many major petting zoos that historically relied on frames. Someone kindly wrote a page explaining the situation. So, what is clickjacking? For [...]
I love Facebook. My friends use it, my parents use it and even my grandmother uses it. There are plenty of great uses for Facebook like sharing notes when someone misses a class, looking at pictures of my grandmother’s now one year old kitten. But then there are applications. They clutter my news feed and [...]
I received a suspicious email tonight from, seemingly, Facebook. I thought it was phishing instantly until I opened the original message. And then of course Facebook.com. And you know, even after looking, I see not a single explanation from Facebook about it. Delivered-To: daybreakmaster@gmail.com Received: by 10.67.22.10 with SMTP id z10cs132264ugi; [...]
(fluff)Friends has started a new game this week. It’s Trick or Treat, just in time for Halloween. You might’ve noticed it on your page, a little door with pumpkins off to each side. The game is like the egg hunt and treasure hunt, but rather than getting odd eggs or berried treasure, you get Halloween-like [...]
During big fluff friend events, the fluff friends server has quite high slow down. One of the recommendations is to use the old style of petting and feeding or in other words, page-reload. Sometime last year, they implemented the ajaxy-version which has no reload for the entire page. They say this can speed up the [...]