As planned

oday I saw this new (and timely) screenshot of something I had posted to Twitter (and JoinDiaspora, not Mastodon) 5 years ago. The screenshot was posted yesterday in Twitter (now ‘X’) and this relates to an issue we plan to bring to the Court of Appeal next year. A judge did not object to the matter being discussed just before Christmas of this year. Likewise, he did not award costs to anybody.

The plan to address the Court of Appeal remains relevant and practicable.

Getting Aggressive Suggestive of Loss

omorrow morning we’ll have an important story regarding “GGG”.

At this point it seems like one man (or highly aggressive hired gun) subsidises the lawfare again us.

Stay tuned!

Techrights plans and more

oday’s bright start, with 20 degrees expected on Monday (yes, in October), is nothing to complain about. Today, for a change, the sick bird isn’t sleeping here overnight; we’d like to think of that as a sign of this bird getting better. She had loads of food yesterday as I fed her close to 20 times.

Tomorrow it’ll be one week before football resumes. This very long recess feels rather strange.

In other news, it seems increasingly probable that next year we’ll touch base with the Court of Appeal. There’s some other good news, but it’s premature to talk about it in public.

We’re starting to plan how to celebrate the twentieth anniversary of Techrights. Not all of us are in the UK, so it’s tricky.

Just because they’re paid more doesn’t mean they deserve more trust

HE High Court in the UK has been lied to quite a lot by a so-called ‘law’ ‘firm’ (lie firm) that bullies myself and loved ones. It continues to lie to the High Court, it has lied to many judges there already, and perhaps it tries to bait me into talking back by saying something about very obviously false statements.

Courts don’t like liars. Courts are also smart enough to see when law firms lie to them.

The SRA belatedly realises this is a crisis to the reputation of the occupation.

Still doing well, even better

hree quarters of this year are gone and it’ll soon be 3 years since I last rebooted my laptop (uptime right now is 1,022 days). That more or less (almost) marks 3 years since the change in our life and, more important still, life’s priorities.

Back in 2022 we knew something was wrong, aside from COVID-19. We made a decision to make big changes and we finally made them in October. That same year I wrote here in this blog about it. I still remember that.

I slept 7 hours this past night, a bit more than the usual, with the aim being on top of things, not tired. I need to keep running many things for a community of ardent, courageous volunteers. It takes energy and care.

Last night we made it to the front page of Hacker News and the Techrights site could cope with the traffic.

The thing about self-hosting is, not all parties are equal. Setting up one’s environment is one thing, whereas keeping it running for decades takes focus, not jumping from one idea to the next every month or so (like so many devs do).

Techrights turns 20 soon.

Good news

oday we have a productive day.

Some years ago in IRC someone called me “badass” (I took that as a compliment) for how I had been covering abuse and corruption in the technical world. Today I published this long article about the EPO and there’s more to come. The EPO’s reply? Nothing, nada, zilch.

They refuse to respond to any queries. They’re secretive and corrupt.

Aside from that, we got good health news today (sorry if slow to publish blog posts so far today!) and I’ve made someone a card, will do articles soonish.

I think this day is a memorable one in a positive way.

But birds don’t care

oday the birds started drinking from the old fish tank (several of them did this). It’s old, and it’s also rather odd, as it’s meant to be there not to be used for animals but rather to erode and let green buildups degrade.

Recently more birds landed here, seeing that we feed young ones as they need to ‘beef up’ ahead of winter. Some of them are still small, visibly underdeveloped, and they don’t know how to fly too well. We still have some time left to prepare them for cold days (especially nights).