In an earlier incarnation, Hayden Veil enjoyed a successful career in software engineering, writing late-night poetry in pursuit of sanity. On 2 February 2020, the world of Hayden Veil changed: Ghosts became real and with its soul laid bare there was no turning back from the perpetual path of poetry.
She walks her dog
through leafy coppice,
birds chirp their
sunshine fancies,
She never stop
for doggy droppings,
in likelyhood; completely
unaware
All hail the extention leash!
All hail multitasking!
Facebook updates
and
smiley tweets
preventing her from seeing
all that is
around her
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Daisy’s mum
can’t find any socks
Daisy’s dad
can’t stand their noise
Daisy’s neighbour
sits in a chair, only
wanting bird song and
the freedom to hear
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Dark Sky’s map show pink clouds
approaching, will they miss or
give my thirst the soaking it
deserves
I am sitting here,
waiting for the
pink clouds to arrive
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} but you, you did not notice as you
let my hand
go.
-=€
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{I do remember, yet do not
believe the maths for I am
same; similar at least}
and the earthquakes are still felt
{daily}
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On the fringe of society
Neither menace; nor fowl – I roam
Off the beaten track
Neither bleeding; nor path – I find
Over mountain ridges cloud bound
Neither up; nor down – I soar
Below the manhole covers
Neither rich ; nor poor – I am
For you to come
For you to follow
For you to plead
For you my sorrow
My woes on the fringe of
society, I will one day pray tell.
For now I leave you wanting
more, with an image of a
burning hell
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Evil reared its ugly head as the first
lightbulb blew up.
There was no replacement bulb, no
plans for light extinguished.
There was worry caused by evil
thoughts, but laughter followed
swiftly.
The sum of poets required, to
change a broken bulb, that joke
is still a favourite; to this very day
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after this post (quite unexpectedly) gained a lot of reblogs and questions, I dug around a little to try and find some information about the most common problems and issues happening currently (may 27th 2018, 15:30 Berlin time)
General information:
The new TOS is applicable to those inside the EU. Users outside of the Union don’t seem to have access to the options of choosing to restrict the access to their user data.
The changes are caused by companies having to abide the GDPR (general data protection regulation), a set of laws about the use of EU citizen’s personal data. Heres the official homepage and wikipedia page for further reading. The GDPR Hall of Shame collects examples of companies failing spectacularly at complying. Tumblrs mother companyOath is also featured.
I’m haven’t seen any new TOS!
Then you are likely not inside the area affected by the GDPR and can’t change the settings.
(Some users have recommended to try using a proxy server or vpn client to get access. Don’t ask me about whether that actually works or not, I’m in the EU and have no idea.)
Troubleshooting
I call this troubleshooting, but the problem actually lies with Tumblr, so there’s actually not too much users can do at the moment.
The first problem:
There is no actual way to switch off the options for data sharing. As soon as everythind is switched off and you leave the settings page, they all turn back on. This has happened to me several times, I’ve read about it happening to numerous times to people reblogging this post, and it’s frankly pretty fucking annoying. There’s a reddit thread about this problem as well.
It is NOT A USER PROBLEM but a technical problem from Tumblrs side. You are not doing anything wrong, it’s the sites fault.
I accidentally clicked OK without changing the settings! / I’m on mobile! What do I do?
I did some digging and found a page with instructions how to change your privacy in the Tumblr Support Center! This is a lot more organized than my shitty graphics that I put together in Microsoft Paint, using screenshots with a really weird language-mix.
But it’s not working! What am I doing wrong?
Absolutely nothing! This is the second issue users have run into. At the moment, there is NO WAY TO ACTUALLY ACCESS the privacy dashboard after clicking OK in the initial message. At least no way that I know of.
The second problem:
The privacy dashboard cannot be accessed. When you follow the instructions on the support page to go to your privacy dashboard, you will be redirected to the Oath website, Tumblrs mother company. If you want to access your Tumblr privacy dashboard, you’ll be asked to log in with your Tumblr information.
On the Oath page, you can click on your Tumblr Privacy dashboard – and will be redirected right back to the page you started out from. Basically, you’re being led in neverending circles, never actually able to access the page to change your settings on.
Tips for later
In case this will somehow start working properly at some point, and you want to change the settings without having to click a bazillion options seperately, there’s a script for Chrome to opt out of every option at once, made by @buckysaur
