Crossposted from Tux Machines

oday and tomorrow there will be network-related works in London where we have the server, so IRC might be impacted. In the past 7 hours we served over a million requests in this site alone, so it was slow (response time could be 10 seconds or more). We can safely assume those were bots, maybe even a DDoS attack (attempt thereof). In the past we suffered from DDoS attacks for sure; we verified the malicious intent.

We want London to deal with actual crimes, such as DDoS attacks and online abuse/Hate Crimes against my wife, even death threats.

DDoS attacks are cyber crimes.

What was done to my wife and I qualifies as crimes.

Death threats are serious crimes.

Does London correctly prioritise anything other than money?

A good husband would protect the wife from illegal abuse

he City of London became familiar to us. We’ve travelled there by coach at least 5 times this past year alone.

We’ll go there again soon.

It wasn’t always involuntary. Sometimes we make the most of it, too. Last December we went there for family reasons.

The core (seminal) reason for the involuntary visits is that my wife was attacked online. A Judge did in fact acknowledge that she had been attacked online.

Am I supposed to feel bad about involuntary trips caused due to my insistence that my wife should not be attacked online? The judge has already said my wife neither invited nor deserved those attacks.

A clearer picture is forming over time. The public understands what really happened.

Some precedents exist

his past summer I spent some time searching for related caselaw at the Court of Appeal (higher than the High Court), as noted in the official site. I found several relevant cases (precedents) and added them to my lawsuit against Graveley [1, 2]. I now need to wait. Maybe progress will be made next year.

At this point it’s advised not to share pertinent details. They will come out later. Maybe next year.

Graveley has since then lost his job.

And I’m just passing time with our animals until then

ast night the young birds stayed until it was rather dark. I think their biological clock or instincts are maladjusted. They eventually both flew away – at the exact same time – after 6:40PM.

Today it’s a sunny day, well suited for a round of feeding in the park (in the late afternoon) and I urgently need to find a heating body for my fish tank, otherwise the tetras will need to move to Rianne’s tank, which can be warmed up.

I’ll have a good look this morning at the Sunday Market.

The nights are getting cold and sometimes the days too (with gusty winds that make it chilly). We are, after all, just weeks away from Halloween.

We are now 4 weeks away from Techrights@20 (anniversary), so we need to give a thought to plans. It needs not be anything expensive or extravagant, just special.

In a way it’s hard to believe 20 years have passed since I began writing in Techrights. 20 years is two decades or about half my lifetime!

I’ll need to liaise with other Techrights people and figure out how we can collectively mark the milestone.

Maybe Techrights can introduce some major new feature?

But to who?

am a fairly normal individual, even if my views on technology (that area in particular) diverge somewhat from “the average” (or “norm”) because I am opinionated about Software Freedom. Nothing wrong with diverse perspectives in the planet.

If that sort of divergence is because it is my professional area, then it’s somewhat expected that my views will differ from “unwashed (bombarded by commercial propaganda) masses”.

Last October I spoke to a judge who later said I was courteous. I cannot recall saying anything rude or impolite. I didn’t shout, didn’t curse. I didn’t make “funny faces”.

This was the first time and the last time I saw someone who had sued me. He would no longer show up, even when he was just around the corner (from the courtroom).

Absent an explanation, I’m left to deduce he’s just afraid of facing me or seeing me. That was never my intention.

Coming soon

think that this Halloween we’ll be a bit busy, as there are two deadlines for us to meet around that time.

Halloween is about scare and fright. Some people try to scare us.

In practice, however, they keep us busy and that’s about it.

Next month we celebrate 20 years of Techrights. Nothing will disrupt this.

We didn’t start this

t’s sunny again, but very cold (about 5 degrees this morning). Today we’ll go out a number of times, taking advantage of the good weather.

Yesterday’s “Litigation Update” seems to have struck a nerve. Good. It means it was effective.

We now have more than a fortnight to put forth some input to the judge, who said Garrett’s case was a waste of the court’s money.