How the fuck do I block these guys? They shouldn’t be allowed access to any (of my) servers.

I actively avoid using AWS for most stuff so I could probably get by blocking all AWS IP blocks. Though of course that could change if someone was consuming my API from EC2, Kubernetes or whatever on AWS.

This was an awesome read. I might have a chance to go to China within the next few years and have been desperately trying to learn Mandarin beforehand. It’s a lot harder than Japanese or Spanish but the challenge is awesome!

I’d love to find a CIDR blocklist for BrandShield. I’m not hosting any piracy content on any domains that I own, but I’d still love to simply close any connections they might make to my server.

Crazy stuff.

Having lived here for ~10 years after ditching Iowa, I hate that this is the takeaway people have. I wouldn’t live anywhere else in the US.

I think it’ll be wild if AI actually becomes incredibly intelligent. I’m thinking specifically about materials and what crazy new one AI could dream up but at a level that would require it to actually think and not regurgitate some LLM data it scraped.

People trying to be attention-seeking in public. I used to see this a lot driving down Melrose in Hollywood a lot, and I’d have to look away because it was so disgusting.

I don’t understand why people watch others play video games, but I also don’t understand why people watch people playing sports.

People who pick stuff off the curb, refurbish it, and resell it.

My neighbor (apartments) does this but mostly around the time rent is due because she doesn’t have a job. She leaves her shit all over the property: half-finished furniture, tools to move it, etc.

Look at the millionaire that has time off

I’ve never heard of this but I didn’t grow up near mountains. I did however grow up in the Midwest and couldn’t stand anti-lock brakes — one time I hit a car because instead of allowing me to control the sliding the car refused and just went straight into the car ahead of me.

These days I live nowhere near snow (unless I choose to drive into the mountains) so I’m not sure what the situation is with modern cars. I did go up into the mountains last years when the temperature dropped to 39°F overnight and my car freaked about tire pressure — that wasn’t a fun lesson to learn.

I wish it stayed cool longer only because I didn’t care for it at first but then really got into it around 2020, but by then the genre was already dead.

My grandmother worked at a bank in the 90s and I remember seeing the cool pneumatic tubes for the cars (like five lanes) in the teller lanes; that was pretty cool while I was that young.

As a teenager in the early 2000s I got to take a trip to a family friend’s job working with Linux all day. That was around the time that I myself started getting into Linux and it was really fucking cool seeing people with big monitors everywhere programming, using the terminal and all that.

Freddy’s > Culver’s

But I won’t eat either now that I’m vegan 🤐

Nexx Burger and Burgerlords but I’m vegan so they’re only the best available to me in Los Angeles.

I loved Wendy’s in Iowa but Wendy’s in Los Angeles is always hood

Desktop and phone: macOS and iOS

Smart home, Docker containers, VPS servers: Alpine Linux

Sadly the nanoPi R6S I bought came with OpenWRT preinstalled which is a very annoying OS in my eyes. Wish I had enough time to get Alpine Linux built for it.

And technically I’d use FreeBSD UNIX (huge UNIX fan!) but Docker and a lot of stuff I want in unsupported, which totally blows.

Me neither. I don’t expect texting to be instant either and basically have the same attitude you do.

I remember for the longest time family would be angry that I texted them at night, and I’d always think to myself “then just respond later?”

Then you get the dumb websites saying “we don’t recognize this device.” I can’t stand that. Especially while I’m using Passkeys to log in, like how are you this paranoid as a web developer not to realize that?

I’m a web developer myself armed with a VPN, and I’m tired of being hassled on others’ websites. Security based solely on IP address is lame.

it’s a bad to look “desperate”

I see this from time to time, and really all I can think is “do people really think like this?”

I work from home and a lot of times while waiting for CI I take a look at my phone and oftentimes I get texts and respond immediately.

Who is it exactly that would perceive this as desperate? I’m not going to hide the fact I was at my phone when I was just to make people think higher of me, and I really don’t understand this thinking at all.