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Copyright
Today I got notification from Google that my site was named in a massive list of copyright takedown URLs. Remove Your Media LLC made claims on behalf of Viki Inc claiming "sites are back linking to illegal Viki streaming sites", for my blog entry of 2011/10/17.
On that page were two links - one to the English language subtitles for one of the Battle Royale movies, and one to a video on YouTube.
I'm just going to guess that it's the subtitles, but it kind of sucks to be accused of linking to an illegal streaming site when anybody with a half-functioning brain knows better than to do something like that.
Whatever, it's fourteen years old and I think both movies have been on Film4 a few times, so I simply took the entry down. It's ancient, not worth getting concerned about, unless you're really interested in my thoughts on the PS2 version of The Sims. ☺
Bots
I wonder if this is part of the mass of bots hammering sites these days? I'm sure trawling for potential copyright issues is a lucrative business these days, of course the deep irony is that the other annoying bots are run by companies doing all they can to give the middle finger to copyright - and sadly delusional governments seem to be falling for it "because AI". Because what? It isn't possible to rationalise a child getting in trouble for having some music in the background of their video, with the wholesale theft of the AI spammers. Either copyright should be respected and creative works have value, or they don't.
Anyway, I came across this (edited for width):
2025/06/26 07:16:27 ?=20201209 Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; Android 6.0.1; Nexus 5X Build/MMB29P) [...] (compatible; Googlebot/2.1; +http://www.google.com/bot.html)
2025/06/26 07:16:28 ?=20220500 Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; Android 6.0.1; Nexus 5X Build/MMB29P) [...] (compatible; Googlebot/2.1; +http://www.google.com/bot.html)
2025/06/26 07:16:29 ?=20100400 Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; Android 6.0.1; Nexus 5X Build/MMB29P) [...] (compatible; Googlebot/2.1; +http://www.google.com/bot.html)
2025/06/26 07:16:30 ?=20170700 Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; Android 6.0.1; Nexus 5X Build/MMB29P) [...] (compatible; Googlebot/2.1; +http://www.google.com/bot.html)
2025/06/26 07:16:31 ?=20250213 Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; Android 6.0.1; Nexus 5X Build/MMB29P) [...] (compatible; Googlebot/2.1; +http://www.google.com/bot.html)
2025/06/26 07:16:33 ?=20210900 Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; Android 6.0.1; Nexus 5X Build/MMB29P) [...] (compatible; Googlebot/2.1; +http://www.google.com/bot.html)
2025/06/26 07:16:39 ?=20210928 Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; Android 6.0.1; Nexus 5X Build/MMB29P) [...] (compatible; Googlebot/2.1; +http://www.google.com/bot.html)
2025/06/26 07:16:42 ?=20150900 Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; Android 6.0.1; Nexus 5X Build/MMB29P) [...] (compatible; Googlebot/2.1; +http://www.google.com/bot.html)
2025/06/26 07:16:45 ?=20110508 Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; Android 6.0.1; Nexus 5X Build/MMB29P) [...] (compatible; Googlebot/2.1; +http://www.google.com/bot.html)
2025/06/26 07:16:50 ?=20200424 Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; Android 6.0.1; Nexus 5X Build/MMB29P) [...] (compatible; Googlebot/2.1; +http://www.google.com/bot.html)
2025/06/26 07:16:52 ?=20240500 Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; Android 6.0.1; Nexus 5X Build/MMB29P) [...] (compatible; Googlebot/2.1; +http://www.google.com/bot.html)
2025/06/26 07:16:55 ?=20220423 Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; Android 6.0.1; Nexus 5X Build/MMB29P) [...] (compatible; Googlebot/2.1; +http://www.google.com/bot.html)
2025/06/26 07:17:05 ?=20220411 Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; Android 6.0.1; Nexus 5X Build/MMB29P) [...] (compatible; Googlebot/2.1; +http://www.google.com/bot.html)
2025/06/26 07:17:07 ?=20220402 Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; Android 6.0.1; Nexus 5X Build/MMB29P) [...] (compatible; Googlebot/2.1; +http://www.google.com/bot.html)
2025/06/26 07:17:08 ?=20220407 Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; Android 6.0.1; Nexus 5X Build/MMB29P) [...] (compatible; Googlebot/2.1; +http://www.google.com/bot.html)
2025/06/26 07:17:09 ?=20220408 Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; Android 6.0.1; Nexus 5X Build/MMB29P) [...] (compatible; Googlebot/2.1; +http://www.google.com/bot.html)
2025/06/26 07:17:11 ?=20220401 Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; Android 6.0.1; Nexus 5X Build/MMB29P) [...] (compatible; Googlebot/2.1; +http://www.google.com/bot.html)
2025/06/26 07:17:12 ?=20220410 Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; Android 6.0.1; Nexus 5X Build/MMB29P) [...] (compatible; Googlebot/2.1; +http://www.google.com/bot.html)
2025/06/26 07:17:13 ?=20240812 Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; Android 6.0.1; Nexus 5X Build/MMB29P) [...] (compatible; Googlebot/2.1; +http://www.google.com/bot.html)
2025/06/26 07:17:15 ?=20120729 Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; Android 6.0.1; Nexus 5X Build/MMB29P) [...] (compatible; Googlebot/2.1; +http://www.google.com/bot.html)
2025/06/26 07:17:18 ?=20120805 Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; Android 6.0.1; Nexus 5X Build/MMB29P) [...] (compatible; Googlebot/2.1; +http://www.google.com/bot.html)
2025/06/26 07:17:20 ?=20120701 Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; Android 6.0.1; Nexus 5X Build/MMB29P) [...] (compatible; Googlebot/2.1; +http://www.google.com/bot.html)
2025/06/26 07:17:21 ?=20120715 Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; Android 6.0.1; Nexus 5X Build/MMB29P) [...] (compatible; Googlebot/2.1; +http://www.google.com/bot.html)
2025/06/26 07:17:26 ?=20120800 Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; Android 6.0.1; Nexus 5X Build/MMB29P) [...] (compatible; Googlebot/2.1; +http://www.google.com/bot.html)
2025/06/26 07:17:28 ?=20160500 Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; Android 6.0.1; Nexus 5X Build/MMB29P) [...] (compatible; Googlebot/2.1; +http://www.google.com/bot.html)
What the actual hell Google? If you go to the mentioned bot.html page (using Android, not NetSurf as it goes to something simpler) it will talk about how Google has sophisticated algorithms to determine the optimum crawl rate for a site.
If you then look at the read the description of the robots.txt file, Google straight up says:
Google supports the following fields (other fields such as crawl-delay aren't supported)
You bastards.
Failure to respect the crawl delay of 30 seconds in the robots.txt file is what gets you on my block list. Being AI or SEO scum, also, but one thing at a time.
Indeed, the only reason I'm giving this a pass and not now blocking Google is that they have paid oooooodles of cash to various companies to be "the default search engine", though there is ongoing legal action that may put a stop to that practice. But, anyway, most of the word still Googles stuff. One of my phones and the Linux box now default to DuckDuckGo but it's...often not as helpful as Google, though I see that entering a calculation as a search term now brings up a calculator instead of some nonsense result, so it's getting there.
New on today's shitlist is the semantic-visions.com crawler. It fired off 6-7 requests per second and pulled about 300 pages in four minutes. Bye, Felicia.
It seems that a number of bot parsers don't seem to pay attention to, or get confused by, the base HTML command, so links to /entry/zzzzyyxx from the page /entry/ccccbbaa end up trying to find /entry/entry/zzzzyyxx (which fails). Real browsers handle this, even NetSurf, so I'm got going to bother adding additional code to the blog system it was a two minute job. Now if you enter a URL that is /blog/entry/entry/yyyymmdd it'll throw back a message saying your parser is broken, complete with a 400 Bad Request header. Because I'm nice.
I must give a special shoutout to the Thinkbot which mangled this mess:
2025/07/03 15:50:08 ?=entry/entry/entry/entry/entry/entry/entry/entry/entry/entry/entry/entry/entry/entry/entry/entry/entry/entry/entry/entry/entry/entry/entry/entry/entry/blog-rss.xml Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Thinkbot/0.5.8; +In_the_test_phase,_if_the_Thinkbot_brings_you_trouble,_please_block_its_IP_address._Thank_you.)
Koi-Koi!
This entry began with something from fourteen years ago. Well, rummaging around in the dustbin of time one can find my Koi-Koi (hanafuda) application. This is, actually, not as old as it seems. Started in October 2018 and the last version actually released in August 2023... I am probably mixing it up with my lengthy write-up of Koi-Koi, which is also from 2011. I guess I was busy that year (mom found a baby duck (which didn't survive), Steins;Gate and Shiki, Mick visited, let's not mention March...or August, I got a PS2 and mom found a kitten (which lived until just a few years ago)).
Anyway, my game got spotted by somebody looking at retro systems:
He links to the ROOL forum entry regarding version 0.04. I would imagine he picked up v0.05? It's on PlingStore (and it works, unlike my later attempts to update stuff).
Still, it's nice that it got seen.
Heat and distance
This was coming home on Monday.
 Phew! What a scorcher! Amirite?
Don't worry, I wasn't paying attention to the camera, I was looking at the road. Simply grabbed the phone with my gearstick hand, double-pressed the power button to start the camera, and then held the shutter button down (burst photo) while pointing it at the dashboard, all whilst not looking at the phone at all. It took nearly fifty photos in a couple of seconds, most of which were rubbish, but post-production (straighten and crop) got me a useful one, showing it reading 39.5°C. My car isn't exactly accurate, I think that day my weather station recorded 38-something. Not as death-scorchy as southern Europe, but pretty mad for here.
At work one of my cow-orkers was saying that there was somebody on the TV saying it'll be 50°C in France by 2050. Which could be horribly incorrect. Because what these climate activists fail to understand is that if you get that much heat in France, it's going to be correspondingly hotter north of France. Which risks a big glacial melt. Which risks dumping vast amounts of very cold water into the north Atlantic. Which risks completely buggering up the North Atlantic Drift.
If that happens, if we should manage to break the mechanism that gives Europe it's mild and pleasant weather...
...know that Paris is just below the 49th parallel, Charles de Gaulle Airport is on it. The 49th parallel also forms a large part of the US/Canada border. The entirety of the United Kingdom is above this...
...and you know what winter is like in Canada.
To my mind, a more likely scenario is a much colder pole, extending further south than it currently does (although it may largely go and return with a vengeance), much hotter around the equator, and some pretty wild weather in between the two as the extremes of temperature cause hurricanes like they get around Pacific Asia.
On a less world-is-going-to-end note, that day was also exactly the first anniversary of my car. I have an "allowance" of 10,000km a year and it looks as if the car reads about 9%(ish) over.
And today? Today I just did 6,666km. Which means I have three thousand or so unused. So, I dunno, maybe I can go into Big Town on Saturday? Haven't decided. I probably won't until I see how I feel on Saturday morning. It is supposed to be 27°C, but reaching that by 4pm. If I'm out in the morning and back by noonish, it'll be more like 23°C.
Next week? Well, that is another one up in the mid-30s. Like... what?!
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| jgh, 4th July 2025, 00:16 |
I've had to take the BeebWiki offline by 403'ing all requests because it was just getting completely swamped with bots. I did a bit of work on it about three weeks ago that seemed to have fixed things, and then last week it got so bad the small bits of PHP *my own site* that shared the host wouldn't respond.
I've had to just kill the wiki at the moment as I've been too busy with actual life, and this week driving to an airport and back, to find the time to sit down and plough through things to erect some sort of anti-fascist machine-gun turret, sorry did I say that bit out loud?
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| Rob, 4th July 2025, 15:39 |
Don't worry too much about the arctic ice melting by 2050.. There are big issues happening down south *now*.
https://www.icm.csic.es/en/news/major-reversal-ocean-circu lation-detected-southern-ocean-key-climate-implications
“The planet is sending us increasingly clear signals that we are crossing critical thresholds,”
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| C Ferris, 4th July 2025, 18:20 |
It's about time for another ice age - pity we can't understand what the aboriginals painted about the end of the last ice age abt 12000 years ago. |
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