The Doctor @ drwho @beehaw.org

Living 20 minutes into the future. Eccentric weirdo. Virtual Adept. Time tr

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Is it bad that I keep wondering if one of the big book publishers bought a DDoS from somebody's botnet?

That lawsuit was a long time in coming. Covid just goosed the schedule forward about a year, and probably made it easier.

There are spambots that still post on Usenet newsgroups even after organics abandoned them twenty years ago.

Don't forget folks aging bot accounts by downvoting everything they see to generate history.

It would be far easier for the manufacturer to set up fuses that a killer poke could blow than to jump through all of the (legal) hoops to get hold of an explosive of some kind. And get Legal ready for it, because nothing like this ever affects only the intended group you don't like. To put it another way, one USian gets hurt because it went off at the wrong time and they're in a world of shit.

Give her my best!

Of course it will.

If they could get away with it.

Is Lisa still running site security?

It's probably something easier to set up, like a couple of fuses in the package that, when a signal is applied to a particular set of pins, will blow and disable the chip.

Historically, playing by Chicago Rules when reacting has done pretty well. It's certainly worked pretty well for me.

I'm in a similar situation these days. Things are too crazy these days for that kind of risk.

The prisons he was in previously definitely are not the touchy-feely kind. These days he's in California Health Care Facility, which is geared toward prisoners with significant mental health problems (notably, multiple serial killers). So, therapy of some kind definitely makes sense. However, Reiser's been denied parole each and every time he's been up for it (next review in 2025), so it is unlikely that he's getting out.

Edit: Excuse me, he's in California Health Care Facility, which is a state prison which is geared toward patients with long-term medical needs (acute chronic diseases, debilitating injuries) and acute mental health needs (which Reiser definitely fits the profile of). He was transferred out of San Quentin some years ago.

It's worth trying.

Got it in one.

Isn't this just a personal website with a links page?

Ask Amazon why they picked a name that was the same as a small publishing company that had been around for years and sued them into a smoking crater in the ground.

"Illegal state subsidies?" From whom?

The folks who're recommending analysis of your site's access logs are correct. However, Github Pages doesn't have any such notion. You might have to go with the recommendations of moving stuff over to a VPS.