Dispatch from the Bowels of Moloch

[mobiusstripper]

I finally got my new health insurance set up so I can go to therapy again. Yaaaaaay. Much-needed since the nausea has cycled back on me again & I spent the last two weeks in the bottomless pit. This country's healthcare system is effing ridiculous, but I'm still one of the lucky ones.

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[mobiusstripper]

I gave up caffeine a while ago. It is indeed very, very, very bad for me. Makes me feel like there are bees under my skin.

Made oatmeal with frozen berries today. Yum.

[purglepurglepurgle]

Yeah I felt silly going 'and caffeine' because, duh, but then I did make friends with someone for whom this was a revelation and it helped them, so now I just make the dumb comment on the off chance. xD

I raise you a hot cross bun.

(also lol your new theme now has the ip-address-logging warning message in allcaps; makes it feel like it's going to be used for nefarious purposes!)

[mobiusstripper]

I don't see the warning message? I probably will use it for nefarious purposes if I can think of any. ;)

Are IP addresses of any use these days to people besides the cops? I feel like the main use of logging them on a blog is if you get trolls, you can tell if a bunch of them are sock puppets for the same person. But I imagine any troll worth their salt would know how to set up a basic VPN.

[purglepurglepurgle]

The warning is under the reply window.(It's no longer allcaps now! :D)

I don't think they're much use to normal people, but weirdos use them to narrow down people's location to doxx them sometimes. If they administer a few sites or access leaks from a few sites they can cross-reference them to uncover identities.

Istr dreamwidth doesn't actually have support for IP-banning people, which makes it all stranger. But I suppose if you're administering something else and then someone starts sending you abuse on dreamwidth, you can see if the same person shows up in both places. Still a bit of a strange priority; I wonder if they intended to do more with it.