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 …

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 …