As O’Brien passed the telescreen a thought seemed to strike him. He stopped, turned aside and pressed a switch on the wall. There was a sharp snap. The voice had stopped. Julia uttered a tiny sound, a sort of squeak of surprise. Even in the midst of his panic, Winston was too much taken aback …
Category Archives: Technology
Bucking
Today at work I got to enjoy another round of “Operation: Donkey Punch”, a term I picked up from my hacking friends. It’s where, after fighting with a device to make a change through standard means and failing repeatedly because the standard means are absurdly dumb or limited by policy or design, you tear it …
Kill All Serial Scrapists
Yesterday, I saw this site was timing out with HTTP 503 (Service Temporarily Unavailable) and I couldn’t access my WordPress blog. Whut? I logged into my shared hosting shell, looked at the server logs, and saw I was being hammered by some scraper bot. So of course Apache’s mod_security was throttling my site and returning …
Deshaded
Apparently 10 days was the time set on my Mastodon shadow ban. I was thinking either 1 day (after apology and mod review), 3 days, or 7 days. But when the 7th day passed and I still had a limitation on my account, my next guess was 10, and I was right. The ban lifted …
Shock-Blocked
I just found out tonight that, for the first time in my internet life, I’ve been #blocked. I’ve been missing the voice of a #Mastodon friend for a while, and assumed she had jumped completely over to #Bluesky. Haven’t been seeing her posts. After subbing to her blog, which she just restarted, I got confirmation …