youtube • video ID: OurGZr5EGLY

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I think it’s at least 10 years since I’ve heard this one. Still waiting for the Lega-Lega-Legalización.

For the love of what’s holy, please make it stop with the retarded faces thumbnails.

I think the morons from Google in their great wisdom managed to somehow bash one of the sites I’m hosting on a server and this shit ensued. 2 requests per second towards the homepage using an “?u=RANDOM_NUMBER” parameter. Where does it come from? No idea, maybe Google knows. Meanwhile, I pathed this easily with two lines:

index.php (but if you’re using Wordpress, put it in wp-config.php so it doesn’t get deleted on your next update)

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<?php 
	if(isset($_GET['u']) && ($_GET['u'] != '') ) {
		header('HTTP/ 429 Too Many Requests', false, 429);
		echo "Too Many Requests";
		exit;
	}
?>

robots.txt

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Disallow: /*?*u=*

Before you ask, yes, I triple checked the IP and it is actually Google’s.

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131.79.249.66.in-addr.arpa domain name pointer crawl-66-249-79-131.googlebot.com.

I receive some spam comments every now and then either on the article comments or my guestbook, but today I noticed a spam comment that really made me raise an eyebrow. It went something like:

Hello, Neat post. There is a problem along with your website in internet explorer, might check this? IE still is the market chief and a big component of folks will pass over your wonderful writing because of this problem.

I bolded the important part because it really made me laugh out loud. So in the honour of the now defunct Internet Explorer, I leave you with this funny IE ad, in glorious 144p:

youtube • video ID: Jb5NTwAEi2w

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Got this back in 2013 when I was living in UK, from a charity shop. Paid only £12 for it, and while I know it’s not one of them fancy space watch, I grabbed it because it’s elegant, stylish and functional

youtube • video ID: k9pUR1QV3yQ

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and the days go by just like the white-winged dove

May The Fourth Be With You, Bad Motherfucker!

youtube • video ID: f7KWyo8UFZI

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Stepping on a carpet of glass
You’re just happy you don’t drop on your ass
Just be thankful that it’s there in your grasp
Recovery

Open up your cynical eyes
Step forward now
Don’t be shy
If it’s complicated, simplify
Recovery

Back to the roots.

youtube • video ID: n7Nb3mzNA1w

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Mais où, où iras-tu, où iras-tu quand les regrets reviendront?

youtube • video ID: C0H6WlogsXM

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One of the best songs ever. At the 4:20 mark you’ll also notice something spectacular begins to unfold.

If you say about yourself that you’re a “dev”, or a “geek” and you list your pronouns before the technologies you use, congratulations! You’re not a dev, you’re not a geek, you’re just an attention whore.