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 …
Category Archives: Technology
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 …
Bye FeliXia
Did the nasty tonight and deactivated my #Twitter/X account. It’ll be destroyed 30 days from now. Had it since 2018 when Jack still owned it. It was kinda shitty then, but it’s hella shitty now. Nazi bar. Good riddance. Figured that, while I was at it, I’d also close my #Feedly account. Been with them …