Rick's b.log - 2025/02/09
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Rick's b.log - 2025/02/09 |
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Continuing from that, I am going to examine the situation relative to the document about the seventeen categories of harm (PDF) such as terrorism, hate, harassement, child sex, etc.
Short and sweet and to the point. This text is not present on the mobile version of the blog as, really, it ought to be obvious to not be an arsehole online, so I'm not inclined to want to clutter things up with legalese that nobody will read. The desktop version has more space so it's there.
Every comment posted generates an email to me. This is an example from the comment that I posted yesterday:
"noname -at- given" is what it says when no email address is provided. The email address that you optionally provide is in case I want to contact you directly regarding a point that is raised.
If I feel that a comment is in very bad taste, potentially defamatory, or illegal then it will be deleted. Deletion is performed by way of a small script running on the server that allows me to edit the contents of the file holding comments. There is no audit log, no record of deletion. And adding such a thing isn't really feasible as comments are written to the file in plain text form, they aren't "records in a database". This blog does not use SQL or anything fancy like that.
Lesser infractions like excessive swearing or just being rude may push me to edit the content of a comment (along with an annotation saying that I did so), or in some cases fixing URLs given in text form into something that can be clicked upon. Note well that it is me making URLs by editing the underlying HTML that the comments are built from. Users can only post "text".
I sleep, obviously, like any human trying to pass itself off as vaguely normal. Also I work. In an environment where I don't get to check my phone every five minutes. So there may be a delay between a comment being posted and its removal. That delay could be as much as 12 hours, but would usually be less. It depends upon the time of day and what I'm doing.
I'm old-school. There's an email address. It works. Use it. And preferably just text, because this nonsense is just annoying:
If, on the other hand, you are an actual adult who likes raping actual little girls, then public televised hanging is what you need. Just die.
In terms of user-provided content, it is text only. It isn't possible to create links, nor to attach pictures. Any links that you may see in the comments were made by me by editing the raw comment data. I've already mentioned this.
Did I miss anything?
The first was to the big mass of weeping willow out front.
The second was to... was this an old cherry? I don't recall. It wasn't growing straight and the wind just pushed a little too hard.
Oh, and the plastic chair fell over. ☺
Rick's Statement on the UK Online Safety Act
Following the introduction of the idiotic UK Online Safety Act, I was required to close commenting to UK residents, as this is a one-person blog with zero budget, zero advertising, and no legal department to look for loopholes. Plus, comments come from maybe ten people. Not "at a time", in total. And, sadly, most of them are indeed UK resident. ☹
Notice about what not to post
Prior to posting a comment, the desktop version of my blog states in small text at the start of the comment section:
Please note that while I check this page every so often, I am not able to control what users write; therefore I disclaim all liability for unpleasant and/or infringing and/or defamatory material. Undesired content will be removed as soon as it is noticed. By leaving a comment, you agree not to post material that is illegal or in bad taste, and you should be aware that the time and your IP address are both recorded, should it be necessary to find out who you are.
Moderation
There is no pre-post moderation. Automated moderation rarely works as there are so very many ways to get around it - for instance, guess the word: w@nkr
The only effective moderation is for me to preview each and every message prior to it being posted, and I don't have the time to do that, nor to try to futz together some sort of technical solution to make that work in the first place.
Rick posted a comment on the 20250206 b.log entry. :-)
Link: https://heyrick.eu/blog/index.php?diary=20250206#comments
From: noname -at- given
IP : 2a01:x:x:x:x:x:x:eda (2a01xxxxxxeda.ipv6.xx.fr)
[!UK ticked]
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I've linkified your link. It's the same one as in the article.
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And, of course, I've munged my own IP address.
Suffice to say, I'm notified when comments are posted.
Contact details
There is an email address given at the top of every page. A very small number of people have my phone number, I'm an introvert so I don't share.
There is no Twitter, SnapChat, Telegraph, WhatsApp, Messenger, Slack, Signal, Facetime, WeChat, Skype, Discord, or other sort of messaging service because I'm not on those.
Don't waste your time looking, I'm not there, and my neurodivergent introvert personality means that if you were to send me an "urgent" message, you would not get an urgent reply. Likewise, don't phone me. Not without prior arrangement.
If letters and numbers are good enough
for books, they're good enough for email.Risk assessment
This site is low risk. While the blog often strays into politics and technical hackery, it's opinions (politics) and about knowing how things work (everything). There is nothing relating to ordinarily prohibited categories here. The most offensive things on this blog will depend entirely upon your morals (if you're somebody who believes in the magical sky fairy, this blog is not for you; if you're a right-wing nutter that supports Tory scum or, worse, idiots like Farage, this blog is not for you).
[I don't think I can be any clearer than that]
The seventeen 'harms'
From the PDF linked above.
The problem with global politics is that this is constantly shifting. The old saying is that "terrorist" or "freedom fighter" depends upon what side you're on.
That said, glorifying terrorism is a dick move however you look at it.
Please define "information likely to be of use". How to pick a lock? The bus timetable? I know you mean things like "how to make Semtex using bleach and three egg whites", but the wording is broad.
Fair enough, on both counts.
Definition needed; especially as the UK has been providing military support to
Israel which may well make them complicit in the Palestinian genocide.
...says the country whose financial instruments were more than happy to deal with huge amounts of Russian cash until it became very clear how international feeling lay.
Fair enough. Saying "I'm going to kill you" is neither a joke nor a prank and it says a lot about the mentality of the person that would say such a thing, even if in jest.
Oh, no! You mean I can't call thieving corrupt Tory scumbag bastards thieving corrupt Tory scumbag bastards? That simply won't do!
Yeah, sadly some of my gender can be total creeps.
My mother had to put up with such a person. There was no interest then, I doubt there will be now given the pillaging of police financing by those thieving corrupt Tory scumbag bastards ( oops! sorry! ) and... let's just say "The MET" and leave it at that.
How can you possibly state such a thing in all seriousness when your national television channels frequently report on the President of The United States doing exactly that? Are you censoring him? Or does he get a free pass because "he's important"?
Oh, and I would just like to leave this here, we all know what remained unsaid here...
Leave Lies, image found online in a Reddit post.
Makes sense. To have intimate images implies trust, and disclosing them is about as far from trust as can be.
That said, I don't get the intimate images thing at all. If the pretty girl/guy is a part of your life, then... you know... appreciate the real thing, not a data representation of it. <shrug>
Define "extreme".
While I think there should be some leeway in cases like 16 year olds making out with 15 year olds, especially if they're in the same group/class/etc; I think I have already made my feelings on adults sexually abusing children quite clear already.
"Prostitution for gain"? Isn't "sex for money" the basic definition of what prostitution is? I guess for a better definition of what "prostitution for gain" means, we would need to ask a Tory MP.
If only there were legal ways of entry that didn't involve brown envelopes...
...that being said, why does everybody want to go to a country with failing services, structurally unsafe public buildings, and actual shit in the rivers, not to mention the wonderful wonderful weather?
These sorts are scum. People are people, not objects. Something you could do well to remember given that the UK in 17xx was the world's biggest slave trading nation; something the UK carried out between 1562 and 1807. Yes, two hundred and forty five years.
That's not to say human trafficking today is okay, it isn't and it never was, but stones and glass houses... try apologising like you mean it.
What the hell does that even mean?
Wahay! So no more adverts on TV then? Brilliant!
Fraud by abuse of position? <side-eyes the Tories>
Oop, shit, bye London, was nice knowing ya.
You mean those ones on TV? Or all that crypto-scam nonsense advertised in apps? Won't miss them.
Whatever that means.
I don't know...it seems that if one is careless they go to prison but if one is audacious enough they get elected to public office.
Nope, you're going to have to do way better than that blanket statement given that there are people in horrific pain that just want to end it but cannot do so by themselves. I consider myself both lucky and glad that my mother's demise was fairly rapid. It would have been extremely traumatic if she had to suffer years of hell at the end as her body ravaged itself.
While I fully accept that taunting and pushing a teenager or vulnerable adult to kill themselves should carry a heavy penalty; we need to have a grown-up discussion about end of life care and elective termination. Me, personally, I fully believe in quality of life, not quantity. What's the point in being alive if you are unable to be up and about and instead writhe in pain that is barely touched by heavy doses of morphine, not to mention a constant supply of different RNs that don't know you, think the dosage indicated is a typo, and proceed to dose out a fraction of what is required. Yes, I speak from experience. I used to work in nursing homes. We need to have a grown-up discussion about end of life care and elective termination.
The only drugs around here are tea, sugar, and chocolate.
Maybe linguine. Does linguine count as a psychoactive substance? Hmmm... crap... that's me done for then...
I'm not an American, guns just don't do it for me, you know?
What's an 'offensive' weapon? One that snarks about how you couldn't even hold a bread knife correctly?
You know, I'd take this a lot more seriously if you took the threat of Elon Musk seriously. But, then, you all seemed to turn a blind eye to the huge amounts of foreign influence and money that prop up right wing campaigns that gave us such joys as Brexit, the vast influence of foreign money on large amounts of the UK press (in essence foreigners telling your citizens how to think), and in the recent American elections various MPs on both sides going over to cosy up and campaign in the US.
In other words, piss off you utter contemptible hypocrits.
There's one word too many in that sentence.
Storm damage
Following the storm that blew through here at the end of January, there as damage to two trees.
It's actually a bit massive, isn't it?
Don't look up!
Of all the trees, why this one?
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