Phil Landmeier @shuttersparks@qoto.org

The first 12 minutes of MTV, August, 1981.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oVrEzH9gkZk

@HopelessDemigod It's a bit puzzling because I'm the opposite of a high value target. There's all the stuff readily visible on the net and tons of other "classified" stuff like pictures of birds, cats,, dogs, grandkids, dishes I've made. Lmao. Not very exciting. No naked pictures either.

And STILL at it. Bam, bam, bam, one IP after another is getting locked out. Good thing I have terabytes of storage to hold the database. And two more.

And three more. I guess changing to 2-strikes sped up the process. Two more.. and another.

And still at it. Hahaha. Tightened it up a bit more. It's now 2-strikes and the IP is blocked. Seems they have lots of IPs, though.. Iran Germany, Belgium, all over.

What they don't know is that even if they succeed in the bajillion to one password guessing game, they'll hit my own encrypted 2FA. You don't get to log in unless the app (that I wrote) on my phone says yes.

@lowqualityfacts Yes, smoked a pipe for much of my life. Loved it. Quit in 1991 and after years finally got over the cravings.

I wish it wasn't harmful to oneself and others or I'd do it again.

@zompus Ahh, yes. People should read the official Charter of their local police and learn what they "Protect and Serve..." dot-dot-dot, called an ellipsis signifying something omitted. Read the charter and learn what's omitted. It's not what you've thought all your life.

@europesays Typical Russian behavior.

They're still at it. Never seen an attack this relentless.

Well, keep at it guys. You'll run out of IP addresses centuries before you succeed. Lol. (IP lockouts are permanent until I manually override.)

Three more lockouts while I was writing the above.

I sometimes wonder if I seem like a more interesting target because I have security so strictly enforced.

Interesting. Over the past half hour my server has come under heavy login-attempt attack and from lots of different "countries" -- Pakistan, Netherlands, Hungary, USA, India. It's probably that huge hacking operation based in Wyoming.

No worries, though. 3-strikes IP lockout and passwords are random strings. Still amusing, though because there are definitely more interesting targets than me.

@Alice Bahahaha. Nicely done.

@daniel_bohrer Interesting info.

I use both systems on the fly. Some things are more naturally or intuitively measured by dividing things in half, in half, etc. Others work better in base-10.

@europesays So in other words Trump plans to kill the domestic US auto industry. Figures.

@karlauerbach @lauren Yes, I miss the first 40 years of my life when I was fortunate to grow up around and work with people smarter than I.

The one person I consider a close friend here isn't highly educated but clearly has very high intelligence. I enjoy that she thinks even faster than I, always jumps to the right conclusion, is usually a step or two ahead of me. It's like a breath of fresh air and renews my hope for humanity. But that's one person I've met in a decade here.