Setting "marysu" as an alias for "sudo" because it's the command that turns you into the hero of the story.

... and I've spilled a lot of my first coffee of the day over myself and my keyboard.

Today is cancelled.

Dear body, I did not need to wake up for no apparent reason at 4am.

Today is going to suck.

This is a real time recording of my git server's web access logs. It's a constant stream of requests from "Claude" attempting to access every possible item on the site.

A couple of months ago, I set up a rule to return an error code for every request its user agent makes. It has not retrieved a single valid item for many, many weeks at this point. Every request is immediately and abruptly terminated.

It hasn't even slowed down as a result.

Tell me again how their operation involves "intelligence" of any kind.

Handy tip: if you don't know the answer to a question someone has asked, it's perfectly acceptable to keep your fucking mouth shut and go and do anything else at all with your life.