@chirpbirb A very short list, I have to admit: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:DDoS_mitigation_companies
Akamai Prolexic, Fastly, F5, Google Project Shield and Verizon seem to be the largest.
@chirpbirb If you go third party, then use literally anyone but Cloudflare. I'm not aware of any evidence since these receipts that they've changed for the better:
@binney if they want it fixed, they'll have to get more creative
https://themanc.com/art-and-culture/manchester-graffiti-artist-wanksy-penis-drawings-potholes/
@binney This worked for me in 2017, when someone fly-tipped asbestos in a local lane. Council did nothing for months, then I decided it was worthy of a blue plaque.
AI, LibreOffice, hope
In a rapidly AI slopifying world, there is hope after all.
The Document Foundation, makers of LibreOffice, the most frequently recommended free alternative to Microsoft Office, listed its *lack* of AI integration as a product feature in the newest version: https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2026/08/26/libreoffice-26-8/
It broke their previous download record for the first week post-release: https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2026/09/02/one-week-of-libreoffice-26-8-the-stats/
How I found out: https://manualdousuario.net/en/libreoffice-download-record-no-ai/
microsoft fucks with hacker, hacker makes it their life mission to ruin microsoft, hacker is winning
Nightmare Eclipse is such a hero tbh. if you haven't been following this saga, a bunch of the backstory is here:
they've been dropping exploits right after microsoft's patch tuesdays, where microsoft patches their previous exploit. in many cases, they negate microsoft's "secure" patches to make the new exploit. which is such an incredible flex.
My wife started making animations in the spirit of 2000s Flash clips and I couldn't be more proud.
#noai #animation #gif
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A curious CC-0 Wikimedia picture inspires one of the best ramen bowls I've had on the blog to date.
https://ramen.science/blog/nissin-demae-sesame-a-la-wikimedia
@maddy Then they went and made as their logo a rudder wheel with not-8 spokes and not-8 handles inside a polygon with not-8 sides.
@maddy It's not just you. The way I often say it is that them using 'a11y' for 'accessibility' everywhere makes them the furthest thing from an ally for accessibility.
It took me a month to figure out why a CSS background was perfectly aligned with rows of pre element text in one browser on one PC, but refused to line up in any browser on another PC, not even the same browser.
Some fonts have line height oddities, & my font-face stack named fonts not on both PCs. Oops.
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