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Thirsty?

Posted in Uncategorized with tags damian o'hare, down with this sort of thing, gillette, lt gillette, pirates of the caribbean, potc, things you don't need but probably want on 14 August, 2014 by ambarussa

Does this also come in the Zero version?

This one, however… wants!!!

Special thanks to Evvie for finding/making these!

Movies: Damian O’Hare in Mrs Brown’s Boys: D’Movie!

Posted in movies with tags down with this sort of thing on 1 April, 2014 by ambarussa

Excellent news: make sure you’ll catch Damian O’Hare in “Mrs Brown’s Boys: D’Movie”, where he’ll play Henry, an old flame of Cathy’s who turns up at the Brown’s household and causes a lot of trouble. But no worries, mam will sort him out!

“Mrs Brown’s Boys: D’Movie” will open nationwide on 27 June. Don’t miss this masterpiece of existentialist movie-making!

Oh well – if something is too good to be true, it probably isn’t!

DDoS attack

Posted in Uncategorized with tags down with this sort of thing on 8 February, 2012 by ambarussa

The place where “Unofficial Damian O’Hare” is hosted is currently facing a large DDoS attack which affects all systems.

In five years, this website has been hacked twice and DDoSsed five times. Not bad!

I’ll let you know as soon as the site works properly again.

Ambarussa.net will join the SOPA Blackout on 18th January, 2012

Posted in Uncategorized with tags blackout, down with this sort of thing, pipa, sopa, strike on 17 January, 2012 by ambarussa

A message from your friendly neighbourhood webgnome:

Disclaimer: the following statement represents the personal views of the webmaster only.

Maybe some of you have heard of SOPA (Stop Online Piracy Act), a bill backed by the Motion Picture Association of America, the Recording Industry Association of America, Macmillan US, Viacom and many other. However, it wouldn’t stop online piracy at all, but instead devastate the economy and social texture of the internet, implement a system of censorship and give big businesses a powerful and dangerous tool to influence the internet and its users.

In short, SOPA is a thorn in the side of anybody who’s doing more on the internet than checking the weather.

What would SOPA do?

Let’s assume one of you guys posts a video of a news clip you’ve recorded off CNN and uploaded to Youtube to your wall on Facebook, to your Livejournal, posts a link to it on Twitter or embeds it in a comment here. So far, if the copyright holder felt that you infringed their copyright, they’d have come after you. With SOPA, they’ll come after the website. So Youtube, Facebook, Livejournal, Twitter or, hey, ambarussa.net could be blacklisted or taken down because somebody linked to a movie clip or a music video. Or a picture. Or anything else considered “copyrighted”. In a nutshell: you couldn’t link to websites anymore, unless you were 100% certain that nobody had posted any material or a link to material that infringes copyright there before.

Sites like Youtube, Vimeo, Reddit, Wikipedia, Livejournal, Dreamwidth, Etsy, Tumblr, Twitter, Facebook etc. could all be held responsible for the content posted by their customers and, as a consequence, very likely cease to exist. This would mean the end of the internet as we know it, because the “net” part is linking, and most sites couldn’t exist under SOPA. Creativity, expression of free thought and criticism would be silenced.

To protest SOPA and the attempted censorship of the internet behind it, I’ll join in Reddit, Boing Boing, Wikipedia and many others in their Stop SOPA & PIPA Day tomorrow. All websites that I maintain will go dark on 18th January.