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The day before yesterday I was up late (at least 6.30 am, maybe 7.30 am), and I was logged out while firefox was still open to Bleatings. I hadn't refreshed for a few hours or maybe six, so I refreshed and was logged out on the refreshed page.
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Today (Wednesday 27.1.2016, if this post takes me too long to write) (oops now it's Thursday, but this all happened yesterday), I was logged out while firefox was shutdown but my computer was still in use.

I mention this because it's unusual, and because it reflects on the idea that being logged out reflects on my IP address. If my computer was on the whole time, which it was, I presume my IP address didn't change in that period.
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I'll notify the relevant authorities immediately.
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Jedburgh wrote:I'll notify the relevant authorities immediately.
No rush. :)

This is only very mildly annoying, the only reason I mention it is because something is going on that seemingly isn't fully understood yet, and it's generally a good thing if such things can be understood.
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Hm, is this only happening to me recently?

It happened again today Saturday 24.9.2016, first time when I logged in in the afterrnoon, which was my first visit since early this morning, and again later this afternoon.

It's almost as if someone is pissed off with me and having a sly dig, if it was I could sort of see that, but they'd have to be very dedicated to do it manually two mornings a week or so, so I tend to assume it's not that.

If it's not that, it seems that it's actually fairly persistent whatever it is, but it's probably not persistent enough to be a robot.

Are there logs of where I've failed to login from? I mean, I do misspell my password from time to time, so my address would be among those, but if such logs exist it might be possible to see whether this is coming from outside Yakyak.
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zip accident wrote:It's almost as if someone is pissed off with me and having a sly dig, if it was I could sort of see that, but they'd have to be very dedicated to do it manually two mornings a week or so, so I tend to assume it's not that.
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