After a near five month hiatus, I have made an underwhelming return to the black hole that is social media. Hell, I’ve even paid for a Mastodon setup this time. What was I thinking‽
Until the inevitable time that I get a strop on and delete it all again; the webshite will return to its original setup of longer rants and weekly round-ups, whilst quick pics and pot shots will be sent over to Bluesky and Mastodon.
The following item popped up on my Faecesbook feed recently:
It got me thinking; why is the best argument that pro-unchecked immigration folks can come up with just “infinity migrants because «product»”?
You have to be pro-immigration to like pop music? You have to be pro-immigration to like Indian food? You have to be pro-immigration to like anything imported?1Okay, that’s an old joke. Point still stands though.
Quite ironic seeing as most pro-unchecked immigration folk also tend to identify as “socialist” or “communist” and believe that you shouldn’t own anything, or you should share out what you do. How very consumeristic!
I can now be sure that the site fully complies with the Online Safety Act, as any attempt to access it from a UK IP address will be met with the following message:
Sorry, requests cannot be accepted from backward countries, so as to comply with the Online Safety Act. Unlucky citizens are instead invited to visit my Facebook page (https://www.facebook.com/anto.davi833/) where an faceless corporation will steal all your data to sell advertising whilst you peruse a sanitised version of my posts. Enjoy!
This is, of course, all completely unnecessary as I don’t fall under the scope of the Act. However, I feel it is a far too over-reaching piece of legislation, so it’s my own little pointless protest at it all.
The slackness continues through the year. Mind you, I found some old webpages that I had made from 2004 on a USB drive that I was trying to find something else on. Those pages followed a similar pattern to this, so it’s good to see that I have retained some level of consistency over the past 20 years.
In other news, I’ll be making some changes to this webshite over the next few weeks. Included in this will be transfer over to a new domain name as I don’t really use the deyes moniker any more. It was more a thinly veiled disguise from the “professional” real life, but as I no longer require that cover I might as well go back to something more recognisable.
I had planned to accompany the last paragraph with an image of an exceedingly useless sign that was displayed on multiple shelves in the local Tesco Extra that read “We’ll be making some changes soon” and no further detail. Unfortunately, they had all disappeared before I got a chance to take a photo of one. I can’t tell what changes have been made either, as everything is still in the same place as it was before.
Reblog via deyes
Ordering Starbucks coffee on a delivery app is surely the height of laziness.
Dude, just walk 10 feet into the kitchen. There’s a kettle and coffee right there!
Slightly miffed. Atkinson’s car park in Sheffield used to be dirt cheap on evenings and Sundays – only 50p per hour. A new tariff started this weekend and it’s now £1 per hour!
They’re still cheaper than most of the other car parks in the city centre, so I’ll probably continue to park there.
Thurs 19:50 – thanks for your order.
Thurs 22:15 – we’ve packed your order.
Fri 04:36 – we’ve dispatched your order.
Fri 10:40 – LOL, JK! We’ve not even processed it yet!
Cunts.
Northern Trains’s Delay Repay portal where deleting a redundant entry from an address field doesn’t actually delete it!
I presume the lack of postal correspondence from them is a result of them thinking I now live at:
<New number and street name>
<Old street name>
<Old suburb>
<New post town>
<New postcode>
I’d have hoped number and postcode would have been sufficient for the post, but, never mind.
Made a relatively easy journey by rail yesterday (Chesterfield to Headingley). Let’s see how that went.
Fairly well then, only arrived two and a half hours later than planned.
Looking at the webshite logs, it appears I’ve ended up on the l33t hax0rs brute-force attempt list. Multiple failed attempts to log in using a variety of user names. Not that they would have ever got in, seeing as I’ve deliberately used a long password and 2FA.
It’s clogging up my logs and using precious bandwidth anyway so some black magic is now in place which should stop that in future.
