Automated services need a mandatory human resolution service with a legal avenue if the service is substandard.
Looking at you, google.
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#122A number of my personal sites end up blocked by corporate firewalls. It’s slightly infuriating. Even my own company. I got in a literal fight with IT needing to justify the why in why I needed access to my own website. Like I can live without it, but it’s nothing but my blog where I rant about tech. The why should be why is it blocked to begin with. The default state should not be blocked .
The word "model" as in "Data Model" or "Mathematical Model" is blocked at my work. Why? Because otherwise people might look up clothing models or something... This impacts multiple programming divisions and has not been lifted even after it was raised.
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#123And if this wasn't bad enough, they want your credit card info to unblock the site.
Citation? I wonder if the card authorities would be pleased to hear that.
There's a screenshot of the block page in the original post.
"3. Use your credit card to confirm your age (you won't be charged)."
https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/vodaf...
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#124Earlier quoted context omitted.
In the UK the filtering is on by default. The customer can opt out of the filtering by contacting the ISP and requesting to opt out. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_blocking_in_the_United_Kin...
My ISP asked my if I wanted filtering when I signed up. Amusingly if you say yes it suggests you find a different ISP.
AAISP? That sounds like the Reverend.
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#125Earlier quoted context omitted.
I know that Dick is another name for Richard. But Why? They don't seem to even be plays off of the same name, nor do they sound the same at all. It's like if another name for John was Frank. It makes zero sense.
Did you know people often use Jack as a shorthand for John? JFK was often, famously, referred to as Jack Kennedy when he was alive...
And of course he married a woman named Jacqueline.
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#126Earlier quoted context omitted.
I know that Dick is another name for Richard. But Why? They don't seem to even be plays off of the same name, nor do they sound the same at all. It's like if another name for John was Frank. It makes zero sense.
Did you know people often use Jack as a shorthand for John? JFK was often, famously, referred to as Jack Kennedy when he was alive...
See also Prince Harry (Duke of Sussex) who was christened Henry.
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#127Earlier quoted context omitted.
Wait till you find out about "Buffy". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buffy
Wait till you find out about "Tiffany" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9LMr5XTgeyI (CGP Grey) (spoiler: he couldn't find out where it came from, and did this video on his research to explain more: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qEV9qoup2mQ )
The standard of counting as "Tiffany" is strange. He's not happy with Θεοφανώ or Theophania, but he's perfectly happy to count (French) Tiphaine, Thifaine, Thiephaine, and (English) Tephany as being "obviously" the modern name. But the difference between Tephany and Theophania is down to the "Th" at the beginning. Why agonize over the difference between the very well-attested Greek Theophania and modern Tiffany if it's so clear that medieval Tephany matches the modern form? It's a better match for the Greek form!
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#128For once I am happy to live in a third-world country. This wouldn't fly here, thanks to the telecommunications law:
ARTICLE 57. - Network neutrality. Prohibitions. Service Providers shall not:
a) Block, interfere, discriminate, hinder, degrade or restrict the use, sending, reception, offering or access to any content, application, service or protocol except by court order or express request of the user.
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#129A number of my personal sites end up blocked by corporate firewalls. It’s slightly infuriating. Even my own company. I got in a literal fight with IT needing to justify the why in why I needed access to my own website. Like I can live without it, but it’s nothing but my blog where I rant about tech. The why should be why is it blocked to begin with. The default state should not be blocked .
Any exception to the firewall policy requires supporting documentation. IT may just be covering their own ass/literally doing their job properly when they ask for the justification.
As a manager, I've noticed people tend to overthink the "business justification" field on forms and get themselves all worked up that they are being told no because they know what to put, but in reality all you normally need to do is string together a handful of words that vaguely makes sense to the person processing the request so they can check a box.
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#130And if this wasn't bad enough, they want your credit card info to unblock the site.
UK citizen here - yeah, it's supper annoying. It's to verify you're over 18 as that's the age at which you can obtain a credit card.
You can though ring the mobile phone provider and tell them to turn off the block - and we can blame our conservative government for pushing this through (and looking to go even further in the future).