Considerable drama today; bureaucratic, financial, emotional and more than one family related issue. AND my server is being hammered every 15-20 minutes with brute force password attempts, from multiple sites simultaneously; mostly from China.
I haven’t had time to work out the next comic. I know whats coming in the future, but I wanted a smooth segue into it.
Most of the drama is either resolved or something I can think about later. The password attempts I really don’t have to worry about, my passwords are insane and WordFence automatically blocks too many failed attempts. There’s another reason it’s not going to work, but I’m sure you’ll forgive me if I don’t give any more hints.
So, I’m gonna get some ice, poor some incredibly cheap scotch over it (Diet Dr Pepper may also get involved). Sacrilege, I know. Chill out for a bit. And hope inspiration hits before exhaustion does. Cross your fingers!
Cheers!
I cannot think of any reason to skip including Chinese hack attempts to the comic. And there were no hole-in-a-lawn jokes for quite some time
I wish web services would allow you to block countries altogether. For instance my email account has been hacked by the chinese at some point and I was quite annoyed. Why can’t I tell gmail “hey, I’ll never, EVER access my email from these countries, so block them permanently”.
Likewise, you should be able to say “I don’t want any traffic from china, they just suck up my bandwidth allowance and are worthless in ad revenue, and the majority of chinese traffic is hackers”.
Just read this again and missed the comment about scotch and soda. I drink diet Dr Pepper too but I usuall drink bourbon with mine (I found a really good bourbon at of all place Costco under thier Kirkland lable) Its really good with Dr P.