Phil Landmeier @shuttersparks@qoto.org

@europesays The funny thing is that most of them will get burned, too.

@europesays Good. I've long recommended the USA send missiles that are not range-limited in order to demolish the Kremlin.

I hate to see such a work of art turned to rubble, but Putin chose this.

Tit for tat is proven to be the best strategy. Attack ancient Kiev, fine, there goes the Kremlin.

@karlauerbach Yes! The junction. We can meet up with some electrons and holes. (!?!)

We feed the local bird population here in our back yard. Just did a little arithmetic and found we feed about 2-1/2 tons of bird feed each year. Hahaha. Holy crap.

@HopelessDemigod Also, avoid magnetic fields strong enough to disrupt brain function. Don't ask me how I know this.

@HopelessDemigod From what I've heard I suspect I may like it. But I don't watch TV. Don't have a TV. Bought a big screen Samsung to watch GoT, then put it in a storage unit. It's been there ever since. Lmao.

Happy 77th Birthday of the Transistor !!!

https://shuttersparks.net/happy-60th-birthday-to-transistor/

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.