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  • I would think very carefully before contacting the police. I am not suggesting that you should provide a safe harbor for people sharing CSAM, or obfuscate their crime. You absolutely should take action, but carefully weigh your options before calling the police.

    While it may (possibly!) be true in your jurisdiction that platform operators are not liable for user content, police aren’t on “your side”. Even if you assume the highest standards of professionalism from them, they need to represent the interests of the victims (not you) and need to diligently investigate the crime. That means they need to confirm beyond reasonable doubt that you are not involved beyond operating the host.

    Just because you self-disclose does not mean that you are innocent. You could’ve been actively participating and when threatened with blackmail you’ve decided to self-disclose to avert guilt.

    Another consideration is what else I have on my server. I’m catch and release for pirate movies and TV these days so there’s only 100gb or so. I do have several hundred pirate audiobooks though. Deleting all that before handing my server over will look very suspicious.

    With all of this in mind, the only course of action is to talk to a lawyer. A lawyer will know exactly what laws are relevant, and can guide you through the process of self-disclosure while minimising the imposition on you.


  • ok so don’t hate me but h001, h002, h003, and so on.

    That’s h for host. I also use n to number networks, and k to number physical keys.

    I list them all in my keepassxc password database, where I can include any additional information.

    With the prevalence of vms, docker containers, and docker networks, there’s just too many things to name. By numbering them I can just side step that whole game.





  • I think we’re dealing in generalisations.

    Sure police forces have been used at various times to protect capitalist interests, and to protect vanguardist dictators.

    Just thinking about my (indirect) interactions with police here in Western Australia in the last few decades.

    • A friend of mine was charged with driving while intoxicated.
    • They showed up to my neighbours house to resolve a domestic dispute.
    • They charged an acquaintance with theft.
    • I reported a theft at my home which they investigated.

    I guess theft could be related to “protecting capitalist interests” but we’re not talking about the theft of someone’s million dollar yacht or gold bullion or something. My acquaintance stole some tools from a construction site, and some nice shoes were stolen from my front verandah.

    IMO all of these things are just social harmony type things.


  • Yeah so explicitly saying “I want to know how much I have to work” is what set her off. It would probably upset most people.

    Obviously this is supposition, but she’s probably under a lot of pressure because they’re under staffed. She’s probably working really hard to help the patients in her care, going way above and beyond what’s expected or required in the regs simply because things need to be done and there’s no one else to do them.

    She’s desperate for help, and the person that gets assigned to her calls in advance to ask whether it’s going to be busy?

    I can see that it may have seemed like a reasonable question, but when posed to someone who’s overworked the response is to be expected.

    Can I ask what you would have done with the information? Like if she just said “sure we have n patients”, and that had exceeded the regular for patients to nurses, what would you have done?