Interesting Links for 11-02-2015

• Buried in a minor consultation - Scotland's ID cards plans
  (tags: Scotland identity )
• 7 Tips For Safer Internet Day
  (tags: advice safety internet )
• Belgian rugby club record 356-3 win
  (tags: sports funny )
• Charles Manson wedding off after it emerges that fiancee just wanted his corpse for display
  (tags: murder prison death marriage epicwtf )
• A Map of true names.
  (tags: maps names uk history language )
• What the UK Political Parties Stand For (2015 edition)
  (tags: politics uk )
• Eurogamer has dropped review scores (and adopts other sensible policies for modern game reviewing)
  (tags: reviews games )
• Thousands raped & sexually abused in British prisons
  (tags: prison rape uk )
• How on Earth did people cope before there were cell phones and the internet?
  (Badly)
  (tags: internet communication phones history )
• Forget Kanye - Tenacious D’s “Best Metal” Grammy was the true injustice
  (tags: music metal epicfail )
• Girl Scout sells cookies outside legal weed shop, breaks sales record
  (tags: chocolate marijuana food funny usa )
• What everyone gets wrong about anti-vaccine parents
  (tags: vaccine privilege viaTeresaFloyd )
• Samsung smart TVs inserting ads into third-party apps (including video people own)
  (tags: tv samsung advertising OhForFucksSake )
• The invisible shipping network that keeps the world running
  (tags: shipping ocean network globalization )
• The State of Whole Brain Emulation in 2015
  (tags: brain emulation ai )

If you didn't feel old before you read this...

Anyone know a back-end engineer at Livejournal?

My link poster stopped working with LJ yesterday*.

Oddly, it works when I run exactly the same code on my machine at home.

Which makes me think that it's a block on their end, possibly against the Google App Engine range of IPs.

But the support person who looked into it is denying that it's being hit by a block.

So, with the code not having changed in about three years, and it working fine from my machine is there _anything_ else it could be that I could suggest to their team?



The error is happening when the XML-RPC library I use calls the LJ back-end. Sadly, the only error message I get is:
Uncaught Exception: org.apache.xmlrpc.client.XmlRpcHttpTransportException: HTTP server returned unexpected status: OK

Last time this happened, it was DW-only (same error message) and it was fixed by mark updating some Apache modules.


*Still works with Dreamwidth, and DW can still post to LJ, which is why my link posts are working fine. But it's blocking, for instance nwhyte from getting his links posted.