“If you can’t identify what makes your story unique and interesting, chances are nobody else will either.” gatech.edu

never blocked roads. I never participated in those sorts of actions. I did urge for boycotts, but I did not risk an arrest for it. My “weapon” is the pen. That is both legal and safe (for the most part).

The way I campaign (a sense of purpose for campaigners) is simple: I explain what I see. Sometimes I call for actions.

However, effective communication is key. I try to improve this. In my 40s, I still have a long way to go and to improve. I hope to still do it (even better) in my 70s.

The world needs more “pen warriors”. Even the writings alone can compel companies to change their behaviour.

Expect further abuse

his week we’re taking things “up a notch” and telling the story of how, two years ago, retaliation attempts (after I wrote about corruption and hate crimes) came to target our webhost. The series’ part so far:

There will be dozens more. Later I’ll cover swatting attempts as well (another series).

“Please make sure that each mention of crazy Matt [Garrett] connects him with Restricted Boot,” a reader has said. “For many it will be the first Techrights post which they read and it is thus essential to keep the connection visible. So that they understand WHY he is a problem And WHY Microsoft is keeping him alive.”

“Restricted Boot” being opposed is what started this whole mess.

Reject bots, ask to speak to a person

was confronted by (or faced with) an effort to do a process with a voice bot earlier today, but asking to speak to a person worked again, as before, provided I was willing to wait for a human to become available.

So even though businesses try to force us to waste time with nonsense, there’s still an “opt-out” for those insistent enough.

Crossposted from Techrights

Sirius no more

here is an ongoing effort to finish off “Reform UK”, which is a company disguised as a political party that breaks the law and panders to racists – a “skill” mastered by Farage and his enablers.

The boss of SIRIUS OPEN SOURCE LTD (not founder!) is probably still hiding in the US (from the engineers that he robbed; he had engaged in pension fraud) and being a “Conservative” that he is (and has long been), maybe he even supports Reform UK.

Will their fate be similar?

“Hi,” an old mate said today, “hope you’re both well!”

My wife received this too.

“The latest Sirius news is that they’ve been liquidated by HMRC,” we got told, so we’ve checked.

Read on

And not only youth

recently acquired some decently-priced gifts and one of them – which I had acquired for only a pound – was a non-Sony Discman. It still works OK, despite a few falls (those falls caused only temporary issues), and the CDs cost about 10 pence each. Being “behind” means not just cost-savings; it means owning and keeping (sometimes for a lifetime) one’s music collections.

How do we explain to young people that to own and keep your music used to be normal and should be normal again?

DRM and streaming are regressions.

We see insufficient protests over this.

Is this country still governed by actual laws?

oday marks a year since a hearing we were not invited to because hired guns tricked a court while breaching Civil Procedure Rules.

This is a topic I’ll be covering one day. It’s definitely in the public interest to know when rules are breached by so-called ‘law’ firms to exploit tragedies and cover up strangulation of women.

ibera Chat (IRC network) has a CoC, but this CoC seems to not cover really tasteless things or simply does not enforce the rules against truly terrible and potentially dangerous people. In the interests of transparency, I’d like to share information about the sorts of people protected by Libera Chat: