Tomorrow

oday we expect to see some tourists from France around here, as there’s a big opportunity for ManCity to show that it’s better than the two-times (in a row) champions of Europe, PSG.

It’s going to be partly sunny today and tomorrow.

This coming weekend we’ll need to do further testing of new improvements to sites, as there are long-overdue things in the queue and procrastination prevents further work on further extensions.

I recently managed to split my writings across more sites. It helps keep the signal-to-noise ratio higher.

This year Rianne and I found a good rhythm and have managed to stay highly productive and focused.

For ManCity, sooner or later the negative press will fade away and people will talk about the football.

Seeking affirmation through conformism and appeasement means being toothless

ournalism requires courage – sometimes stubbornness – and good journalism “pushes boundaries” (or touches them). The notion of “playing it safe” comes from high-risk disciplines like rock-climbing; the risks are different with ropes and high falls.

Moreover, one tactic to discourage particular reporting or reporting about a particular topic is to paint the reporter as “vlogger” or “blogger” or “social media user” etc. It’s not accidental, as the real intention is to rob people of protections offered to reporters, columnists, commentators and journalists.

I’ve seem all those demonisation tactics over the years. I think I know how to tackle or defuse them.

If you always “play safe”, you probably will never expose the most dangerous people and not achieve anything meaningful. Retaliation is proportional to the magnitude of measurable outcomes.

Trip to Liverpool

oday we discussed some of the tasteless things Liverpool FC (LFC) fans did yesterday at the match, using caricatures of players in prison and saying words like “penalties” or “breaches”. As if the players were guilty of something…

ManCity is appealing and it gave a bitter defeat to LFC (0-3 at home).

No penalty kicks.

LFC should have prepared for a match, not a show trial by grotesque placards.

Women are targeted a lot

oday I started a new series about events that happened about 3 years ago. I meticulously took notes to document what happened. It’s still relevant and may be legally relevant for years to come as we plan to pursue the Court of Appeal – it’s a pursuit of justice for many victims of online bullying. People who do reporting (like the journalist mentioned in today’s parts) deserve praise, not bullying.

Countries that have a culture of free press are better at attaining and maintaining democracy. We need the public to be suitably informed.

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.

Aim high

Last month: E.ON (E.ON Next) Tried to Force or Trick Me Into Talking to a Chatbot, Not Staff of E.ON

he other day (or night rather) I phoned a support line; the thing to note is, some companies outsourced to call centres overseas, some hired on the cheap domestically, some experiment with voice menus (that lead to the “right” person/department), and some try chatbots (which are offensive). If one tries hard enough, there’s a domestic team over the phone (upon escalation), but it is not available 24/7. If you can reach it, things will be resolved quickly and effectively.

If we value or strive for “full employment”, we’ll collectively do our best to reject the “cheapening” or support line and always demand local workers with ample knowledge of what they support.

This isn’t about nationalism, it’s about time savings for customers. Subpart support leads to time-wasting and frustration.