Bots Are Eating My Blog for Lunch
Peter digs into why his server was suddenly overloaded and finds a swarm of bots chewing through his blog.
📅 11 June 2025
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One of the things that really annoys me about #Ubuntu are tabs on the Files app. The colours are back to front. If you look at the image attached, "Home" is the active tab here, not "GitHub".
It should be inverted; the inactive tab should be grey and the active tab should be white.
Hot weather ☀️ + pooches with thick coats 🐶 = uncomfortable pooches. 🥵
Lucky for us we have a way of cooling down at home. 🙃
Always reassuring when you're sat on the toilet in work and you hear the iOS camera sound coming from another cubicle. 🫣
One of the things that's been frustrating me about #MicroBlog is that it only ever replies to a single person. If I want to reply to multiple, I have to remember their handle.
...and then I discovered the little @ symbol in the toolbar that lets me reply any/all in the thread. Idiot! 😂
Is there anything more frustrating than updating the maps on a Sat Nav? Why have Sat Nav manufacturers not figured this out yet? It's been long enough...
I watched a bit of the #Apple event, but lost interest after 40 mins. So this "groundbreaking re-design" is (drum-roll please 🥁🥁)...
Translucent backgrounds. 🎉🎉🎉
🤣🤣 Oh Apple...
Really enjoying Lillihub from @heyloura. It has some nice touches that the default #MicroBlog timeline doesn't have, like the ability to reply to multiple people in a thread.
Clutch has gone on my wife's car. Bloody brilliant.
I asked her if it's felt different recently and her response was "yeah, it's felt like it wasn't going into gear properly for a while now, and there's a light on the dash."
You didn't think to fucking tell me??? 😡
Woohoo! Completely problem free and only a minute or so of downtime. Good job, #Ubuntu! 🎉
