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 …
Category Archives: Technology
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 …
#Crickets
Tonight, #Mastodon is dead #IRC channels. If you’re in #EFNet, drop into #electronic-mp3 and tell ’em Phrang says Hi.