Daily Archives: March 7, 2026

Improvement?

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There's been a bit of trouble adding images to comments; some load with no problem, some don't load at all. Some of it has to do with Wordpress security - allowing such things can create problems. Joe let me know he was having problems embedding an image and even as Administrator, I also had trouble getting it to embed.

Say what??? I am supposed to be dictator of this universe. :)
(I did get it work though ... finally)

Images can speak volumes so I added a few bits of code to make it easier to intentionally load images. There is a 1Mb limit on size and only JPG, GIF, WEBP, and PNG formats are allowed.

When you want to add a comment, you get a box that looks like this:

In the lower right corner is an itty-bitty icon. Clicking this allows you to add an image from a file. As long as the image fits within the parameters, it should load. I first tried it under the post "Once Was And Never Again Great Britain". The first time didn't work ... grumble, mumble ... tweaked a bit more and it seems the second time did.

Let me know if you have any problems. Just because I've stayed at Holiday Inn Express doesn't make me a programmer.
If security issues come up, I'll yank the code.

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Once Was And Never Again Great Britain

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They must be trying for a 3rd go-around.

"Ofcom has confirmed it is referring 4chan to a final enforcement decision under the Online Safety Act. The target is a Delaware company that runs an entirely anonymous imageboard from the United States, with no offices, staff, servers or assets in Britain.

The demand: install age-verification systems and content filters so that British children cannot access the site or face daily fines levied from London on an American platform."

Ofcom: A British government agency - the Office of Communications is the government-approved regulatory and competition authority for the broadcasting, internet, telecommunications and postal industries of the United Kingdom.

In summary, the Brits are trying to apply British law (and fines) to an American company operating on American soil because the bloody Brits don't like something or another ... mostly complaints about the Islamic British government policies.

Bugger the Brits - at least their government.
Maybe Trump should liberate the British people and leave the Middle East muzzies to themselves.

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