How To Backup All Of Your Photos and Videos From Facebook

Last week we mentioned that we were abruptly suspended from Twitter. Just a few weeks before that we were temporarily suspended from Facebook as well. In fact, I spent roughly 60 days in the first quarter of 2019 banned from Facebook!

With all of this censorship I thought it would be a good idea to backup all of my photos and videos from Facebook in case I got permanently banned. Since I was doing it, I figured you might want to know how to do it too. It's pretty easy really.

• Login to Facebook from your computer browser
• Navigate to Settings from the drop down menu at the top of the page

• In the left menu, click on Your Facebook Information then click on Download Your Information

• Check all of the information you want to backup (I only left Photos and Videos checked) then click the Create File button

• After a while you will be able to download a zip file will all of your information from the Available Files tab

That's it. Pretty easy right?

I highly recommend this if you are a conservative on Facebook, especially if you are active with your political posts. As it gets closer and closer to the 2020 Presidential election, things are only going to get worse! I'd hate for folks to lose years of family photos and videos due to Facebook bias.

Did this help you out? Let us know in the comments!

Incidentally, if you didn't know, we've moved to Gab! The social media platform that values freedom of speech! Follow us there!

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We've been suspended from Twitter. We're moving to an alternative!

Well, we pissed off the liberal engineers at Twitter today. They unleashed a righteous ban hammer not just on my political website's (mainwashed.com) Twitter account, but on all of my accounts including the account for Bauer-Power as well!

This isn't that surprising, I mean Project Veritas exposed that Twitter engineers are actively censoring conservatives.

Check it out:



What is surprising is that they banned my conservative account, and every other account that I've ever logged in as. Including my son's Twitter account for his YouTube channel!

Well, we give up. You win Twitter! If you only want socialists and liberals on your site, they can have you. We found an alternative to Twitter (and Facebook for that matter) that values free speech! It's called Gab!

From their page:

A social network that champions free speech, individual liberty and the free flow of information online. All are welcome.

If you are concerned about freedom of speech on Twitter and Facebook as well, you should definitely jump ship and give Gab a try! If you do, give us a follow at https://gab.com/bauer-power!

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My new favorite mobile Twitter client

Ever since being in Facebook jail for 2/3rds of the first quarter this year, I've spent quite a bit of time on Twitter instead. Facebook is actually teaching me how NOT to use their service! 🤣

Ironic isn't it?

Well, since I'm spending so much time on Twitter, one thing I noticed with the stock Twitter app is that it drained my battery very quickly. Some folks say changing it to night mode helps, but it's still a battery hog.

Enter my new favorite client, Friendly for Twitter!

From Google Play:

Like our Friendly For Facebook app, it is built as an extension of the light Twitter mobile website. It preserves your battery, storage, data and use a smart notification system.

◆ DOWNLOADER ◆
Friendly T helps you to download Twitter videos, gif or pictures to your device.
◆ BATTERY SAVER ◆
Less services and background tasks. Option to disable all notifications. Design and animation optimized to use less power.
◆ SMART NOTIFICATION ◆
Notification system with option to enable/disable Direct Message and option to choose a check frequency.
◆ LITE ◆
Lightweight client with storage and cache optimized. Fast on all devices.
◆ MULTIPLE ACCOUNTS ◆
Add as many Twitter accounts as you want.
◆ CUSTOM ◆
Change theme color of Friendly T. Easy dark mode access.
◆ AD-FREE ◆
No banner. Block all Sponsored Tweets.

One thing to note too, with the stock app I was frequently getting logged out for some reason. That no longer happens with Friendly for Twitter. The biggest thing though is that it saves my battery life!

Do you use a third party Twitter app? Which one do you use? Let us know in the comments!

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How To Fix SPF Fail: Too Many DNS Lookups

At my day job that shall remain nameless, we use a lot of hosted platforms that are set to send out emails on our behalf. The problem with that comes when creating a SPF record so all these services can essentially spoof your emails!

Why would this become a problem? Well, just to give you an example, let's say you are using Office365 for email, but you also use SalesForce and maybe some other platform. On top of that, maybe you have an internal SMTP server or servers for whatever reason. This ends up making a very long SPF DNS record!

Well, I found a really good article from the folks at Black Knight Solutions that shows you how to create large SPF records the right way:

Consider the following SPF record for 'sampledomain.com' - note that the entries are for example purposes only. 

sampledomain.com TXT
v=spf1 a mx a:mail.domain.com a:mail.domain.ie a:server5.somedomain.com a:server7.somedomain.com mx:server95.somedomain.com include:thatdomain.com ip4:192.168.0.1 ip4:192.168.0.2 ip4:192.168.03 ip4:192.168.0.4 ip4:192.168.0.04 -all

This record above is too long and needs to be shortened; you will have to split this up into two or more records and include them in the main SPF record.

Create the following SPF records on the domain name: 

spf1.sampledomain.com TXT
v=spf1 a mx a:mail.domain.com a:mail.domain.ie a:server5.somedomain.com -all 

spf2.sampledomain.com TXT
v=spf1 server7.somedomain.com mx:server95.somedomain.com include:thatdomain.com -all 

spf3.sampledomain.com TXT
v=spf1 ip4:192.168.0.1 ip4:192.168.0.2 ip4:192.168.03 ip4:192.168.0.4 ip4:192.168.0.04 -all 

Note: You can create more records as required.

Then amend the initial SPF as follows: 

sampledomain.com TXT
v=spf1 include:spf1.sampledomain.com include:spf2.sampledomain.com include:spf3.sampledomain.com -all"

Once DNS updates, all records would be read as one by recipient servers.

Essentially, you need to break up all your multiple entries into separate SPF records, then only reference those records in your top level record! Makes sense right?

After I did this, the error is was getting when running a SPF check tool (SPF Fail: Too Many DNS Lookups) went away!

Did this help you out? Let us know in the comments!

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How To Tell If You're "Shadow Banned" on Twitter

Have you heard of the term shadow banning on Twitter? In short, it's when Twitter feels that you are violating some broadly interpreted term of service, so they limit the reach of your account... and they don't tell you about it! The funny thing about it though is that it seems to only happen to conservatives.

From The Independent:

The issue of online "shadow banning" has once again provoked a major debate about free speech and censorship, after US President Donald Trump accused Twitter of silencing Republicans. 

Shadow banning essentially means that a user of Twitter or any other online forum is not actually banned outright. Instead, all of their posts are made only visible to themselves. 

For example, if a Twitter user was shadow banned, they would still be able to see their tweets but no one else would. The idea is to limit the reach of a user without them being aware that they have been silenced – potentially preventing them from retaliating against the moderators responsible for the ban.

Well, Shadow Banning is a very real thing. In fact, a recent hidden camera video from Project Veritas shows how Twitter engineers use Shadow Banning to silence conservatives:




So why am I bringing this all up? Well, our Mainwashed political Twitter account recently got shadow banned and we didn't even realize it! How did we figure it out? I'm glad you asked!

We found an online Shadow Ban check tool! All you have to do is enter your Twitter handle, and click check!

I'm not sure who exactly we pissed off, but we're taking it as a compliment that we did! It means our message is getting out there!

Anyway, if you are a conservative person on Twitter and your reach has been significantly stifled, try this tool out. You might just find that you've been Shadow Banned!

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The Rise of Kubernetes [Infographic]

At the company I work for during the day that shall remain nameless, we're starting to look at containerized application deployments instead of running applications on servers in an "old school way."

One thing we're starting to look at is Kubernetes. If you haven't heard of it before, here is a short description from their page:

Kubernetes (k8s) is an open-source system for automating deployment, scaling, and management of containerized applications. 

It groups containers that make up an application into logical units for easy management and discovery. Kubernetes builds upon 15 years of experience of running production workloads at Google, combined with best-of-breed ideas and practices from the community.

From what we've seen, Kubernetes will drastically change the way my company hosts, runs and deploys our applications to clients. With that in mind, I found this really cool infographic about Kubernetes. Check it out!

[Via Mapr]

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Should I Bother with Mobile Marketing?

Have you ever wondered whether or not your mobile marketing campaigns are worth the time and effort you spend on them? There's no denying that they're cost effective, but are they getting the kind of results you hoped for? Should you try something else instead?

Before you abandon your mobile marketing efforts for good, consider this. The team at App Geeks found that in 2015, 92% of adults had a mobile phone. Fast-forward to this year, and the evidence in favor of mobile becomes even more compelling: 55.79% of web searches were conducted through a mobile device.

There are several other similar statistics in the infographic below, so we won't go into those right now. We've shared a copy down below so that you can see for yourself.

It won't take long to read through, but don't let that fool you—it's packed with information. What's nice about its format is that it is all pure facts. There's no airy-fairy, flowery prose to wade through either.

Considering the medium they're talking about, this makes sense. After all, with mobile marketing, you need to get your message across quickly and succinctly. There are places to publish a novel, but this isn't one of them.

What's also interesting with the research they conducted is that they looked at case studies of how companies used this form of advertising. So you get the statistics proving why you should look into it, as well as the practical examples of it in action.

But why are we still talking about this? You want to check out the infographic, don't you? So here you are—enjoy. And don't forget to leave us a note if you want to see more posts like this one.

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