Chinwag Posts

Mike [SEC=OFFICIAL] https://social.chinwag.org/@mike
Chinwag admin, fan of open communication standards, maintainer of communities, male comedienne.
Winner of Time Magazine "Person of the Year" 2006 and will never get tired of that joke.
I talk about #retrocomputing a lot. I also do a lot of #gardening and occasionally make #bread and #beer. I have been a Unix #sysadmin for about 30 years but I think I'll be OK.
I live in #Melbourne, #Australia and sometimes tell jokes on stages around here. I co-host a #StarTrek podcast with @ThePingMachine
... 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.
Turns out my bank has been sending my replacement cards to an address I haven't lived at for over a decade. This isn't as annoying as the fact that they only have one song on repeat for their hold music, however.
I listened to Benny and the Jets far too many times in a row to obtain this information.

