I got a CA-53 recently myself, for much the same reason.

Nobody ever said anything about my Apple Watch, but holy crap does everyone love a calculator watch.

(Which is hilarious because as a kid, I was teased as a nerd for having such a thing.)

Time to rename the blue shell to The Shell of Equity, I guess?

I’m going to go with ‘not dying’ as the achievement of the year.

Sounds easy but boy, has it not been.

Had heart failure in 2022, and at some point in early 2023 it turns out I had a stroke and that seriously fucked up my head and destroyed my vision (I went meme-levels of cross-eyed).

2024 was recovery and uh, was not the smoothest. But fuck it, I’m almost normal and I didn’t completely torch anything and so, yay.

I’ve done it twice!

I’ve always debated between it needing to be on my resume as an ‘Achievement’ or not.

Couple of weeks ago. NSI decided to push some of their domains into CLIENT HOLD status, and that will cause DNS resolution to stop working for the domain.

Took down uh, well, everything: https://status.digitalocean.com/incidents/jm44h02t22ck

Tut tut, I would expect someone with a private school education to not make claims built on such specious reasoning

Well, they did say the educational aspects were the least important, so perhaps your expectations are a wee bit too high?

As with all things in life: if you’re rich, you can get access to better things.

And, so, therein lies the problem with ‘everyone should just go to a private school’, unfortunately.

Honestly, I’d contact their support and ask what their processes are and what timelines they give customers for a response/remediation before they take action.

Especially ask how they notify you, and how long they allow for a response before escalation to make sure that’s something you can actually get, read, and do something about within.

It might not be a great policy, but if you at least know what might happen, it gives you the ability to make sure you can do whatever you need to do to keep it from becoming a larger issue.

This new uh, tactic? of going after a registrar instead of a hosting provider with reports is a little concerning.

There’s an awful lot of little registrars that don’t have any real abuse department and nobody is going to do shit other than exactly this: take it down and worry about it next week when they have time.

It really feels like your choice of registrar is becoming as much or more important than your choice of hosting provider, and the little indie guys are probably the wrong choice if you’re running a legitimate business as you’re gonna need one that has enough funding and a proper team to vet reports before clobbering your site.

On the OTHER hand, Network Solutions is just took down DigitalOcean for no reason, so maybe they all suck?

Well, fortnite is already full of shitty movie tie-in skins, so that’s not much of a jump.

Extra fun nginx thing: don’t use 403, use 444.

That’s a nginx special response that doesn’t actually send anything back, it just drops the connection and moves on.