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Looks like Frances McDormand’s grandma considering throwing an annoying person down a well as she plays haunting space banjo LOFI compositions. I suspect that the annoying person might be me but I hope it is Frank. |
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08/28/2025 6:40 Comments ||
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^^^You seem strangely attracted to this young lady...^^^ |
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Posted by: technochitlin ||
08/28/2025 7:57 Comments ||
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"It's either 1) play the banjo, or 2) back to the bedpost rings. Your choice" |
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Posted by: Frank G ||
08/28/2025 8:46 Comments ||
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Cue Deliverance background music |
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Posted by: Warthog ||
08/28/2025 10:21 Comments ||
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About Monday's outage
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Rantburg.com was hammered by a multitude of servers, which slowed the server down to a crawl, last Monday and Tuesday.
I call it a distributed denial of service attack, in that there were a number of servers listed in the scan hitting the ethernet port hard with data totaling at one point - cumulatively - 50 gigabytes in about 20 minutes. May not seem like much, but when its in 4,000 byte packets hitting the port at one per second, it's a problem.
As may or may not have indicated before, the great bulk of the servers hammering rantburg.com were in Latin America, which led me to believe it was the inevitable reaction of bad actors to Trump's "Gunboat Diplomacy."
Dunno.
Deliberately analyzing the IPs hitting the server, about two thirds of them were not coming from a live host, i.e. they were spoofed IPs.
The attacks were finally mitigated when one of the command servers directing the attacks was blocked, along with about 1,500 other servers. All blocked netblocks contained Unix/Linux web servers: A shot in the dark, as it were.
A little bit older and a little wiser, we have a much better idea of what to look for going forward and how to defend against such attacks.
The Bad Guys will return, there can be no doubt.
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08/28/2025 00:00 ||
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They just want to speak to you about your car's warranty. |
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Posted by: ed in texas ||
08/28/2025 8:03 Comments ||
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Everyone on the internet has Cloudflare now.
Dos protection.
An old-fashioned metal server? Just get a virtual instance from...anywhere. |
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Posted by: Jairong+Scourge+of+the+Gepids2435 ||
08/28/2025 9:10 Comments ||
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Brave new world with all the differet kinds of warfare: propaganda, biological, kinetic, lawfare,cyber, political, etc. |
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Posted by: JohnQC ||
08/28/2025 14:33 Comments ||
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Trump salutes Sgt. Michael Verardo, wounded Afghanistan veteran who inspired Independence Fund's Trackchairs
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[FoxNews] President Donald Trump is honoring Retired U.S. Army Sgt. Michael Verardo, one of the most catastrophically wounded heroes of the Afghanistan war and a Purple Heart recipient who died at age 40 Tuesday due to complications from injuries sustained on the battlefield.
Trump praised Verardo in a Truth Social post as "a true American Hero" whose courage and sacrifice "will forever inspire us."
Verardo’s story was not only one of sacrifice for his nation but also of lasting impact. His courage in the face of devastating injuries and the determination of his wife, Sarah, led to the creation of the Independence Fund's Trackchair initiative for wounded veterans.
With the support of Fox News viewers, more than 2,000 all-terrain Trackchairs were delivered to double, triple and quadruple amputees, the Independence Fund has said. The initiative gave freedom back to wounded veterans of Iraq, Afghanistan and even Vietnam, allowing them to hunt, fish and go off-road with their families.
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08/28/2025 03:34 ||
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Chilean synagogue vandalized with posters of Netanyahu shot in head
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[IsraelTimes] Pictures bearing caption ‘Your silence is cooperation with Israel’s genocide’ appear in Santiago synagogue, which has seen repeated graffiti since Oct. 7
The oldest synagogue in the Chilean capital was vandalized on Saturday with anti-Israel graffiti, including red paint and posters that showed Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu with a bullet hole drawn on his forehead.
The posters littered around the Bicur Joilim synagogue in Santiago read "Your silence is cooperation with Israel’s genocide," in the latest synagogue vandalism to reflect the war in Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with a rusty iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response ...
The Masorti
…traditional but not ultra-Orthodox seems the best way to define it… synagogue, built in 1930, is located in downtown Santiago and has experienced anti-Israel graffiti at least three other times since the start of the Israel-Hamas
 ..one of the armed feet of the Moslem Brüderbund millipede,...
war on October 7, 2023, according to the Jewish Community of Chile.
The latest attack took place during Shabbat and triggered recriminations from Jewish voices across the region.
"Chile is a country that values freedom of worship, and that means we must respect, care for, and protect one another, regardless of our beliefs," the Jewish Community of Chile wrote on social media. "Vandalism of a sacred site is not an attack on a community, but on the coexistence and peace of the entire country."
The incident comes amid heightened tensions over Chile’s stance on the war in Gaza. President Gabriel Boric has adopted one of the most critical positions toward Israel in Latin America. His left-wing government recalled Chile’s military attachés from Israel, backed legal proceedings against Israeli officials in international courts and imposed an arms embargo.
Chile is home to the third-largest Jewish community in South America, after Argentina
...a country located on the other side of the Deep South. It is covered with Pampers and inhabited by Grouchos, who dance the Tangle. They used to have some islands called the Malvinas located where the Falklands are now. They're not supposed to cry for Evita...
and Brazil. The roughly 16,000 Jews living in Chile account for about 0.11% of the country’s population. (Last year, they were joined on Yom Kippur by a famous guest, musician Paul McCartney, who attended services with his Jewish wife at the capital’s largest synagogue, located about 12 miles from Bicur Joilim.)
Chile is also home to the largest Paleostinian population outside the Middle East, with estimates of up to 500,000 people; it recognized a Paleostinian state in 2011. One of the country’s main soccer teams is the Paleostinian Sports Club, which wears the colors of the Paleostinian flag.
Gabriel Silber, the Jewish community’s director of public affairs, told the Jewish Telegraphic Agency that the government had turned a blind eye toward antisemitic incidents during the war.
"Unfortunately, we see a certain invisibility and denial of this reality by the authorities in our country, which leads to inaction and is a breeding ground for impunity for these serious actions against our community," Silber said. "Here, the motive for the attacks is not Israel, but Chileans who suffer hatred and constant stigmatization simply for being Jewish. We see no real concern from the Chilean state regarding this issue."
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08/28/2025 2025-08-28 02:21 ||
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Yeah. Right. |
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Posted by: Mercutio ||
08/28/2025 10:16 Comments ||
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Why? Not like it does the US any good and would just be another quagmire. |
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Posted by: DarthVader ||
08/28/2025 10:42 Comments ||
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^How about it'll send a message to all Latino-American "countries" - gunboat diplomacy is back! |
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Posted by: Grom the Affective ||
08/28/2025 11:24 Comments ||
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a massive invasion with 4000 troops? |
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Posted by: Mercutio ||
08/28/2025 11:51 Comments ||
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This is one reason we still need battleships. Aircraft are good, and missiles are good, but nothing says "May I have your attention" like 16-inch shells falling on your ports, bridges, and other infrastructure from many miles away.
Can you imagine a half-dozen "Iowa" class battleships cruising along the coast of Gaza, saying "release the prisoners, or else"? Pulling up in the Straits of Hormuz with the message "Behave, or die"?
It's either that or ARCLIGHT strikes, and those are so impersonal. However, bad guys need to learn to be afraid of the US might again, and for that we have to HAVE might. |
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08/28/2025 12:08 Comments ||
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Crocus visitor knocks out hesitant terrorist with one punch
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Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
[Regnum] Two men managed to temporarily neutralize one of the terrorists who attacked Crocus City Hall, said a participant in the trial, which is taking place at an off-site session of the Second Western District Military Court in the Moscow City Court building.
One of the men who temporarily "disabled" the terrorist was questioned at the court hearing.
"During the attack on concert-goers in the lobby of the Crocus hall on the first floor, one of the terrorists either jammed his weapon or ran out of ammunition, but at some point he hesitated. Taking advantage of this delay, one of the men running nearby did not lose his head and grabbed the attacker by the machine gun, and the second knocked the shooter out with one blow," TASS quotes a participant in the trial as saying.
The terrorist was unconscious for some time, which allowed a group of people to leave Crocus City Hall.
The terrorist attack in Crocus took place on the evening of March 22, 2024. The attackers broke into the building, opened fire on people, and then started a fire. As a result of the terrorist attack, 149 people were killed, one is missing, and 609 citizens were injured. Four terrorists were detained the next day in the Bryansk region, 100 km from the Ukrainian border. During the investigation, they admitted that the terrorist attack was organized by the Ukrainian special services. The organizers were put on the wanted list.
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Anti-Israel protesters block Israeli cycling team in major Vuelta a España race
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[IsraelTimes] Pro-Paleostinian, anti-Israel protesters attempted to block riders from the Israel-Premier Tech team at the fifth stage of the Vuelta a España on Wednesday, forcing them to slow down in a race determined by differences of seconds.
A number of people with banners and Paleostinian flags tried to disrupt the Israeli team, owned by Israeli-Canadian billionaire Sylvan Adams,
…son of a Holocaust survivor who settled in Canada after fighting for the independence of Israel and got into real estate, Sylvan ran the family company for a quarter century before handing it off to his own son in turn and emigrating to Israel in 2015. His philanthropies in Israel and Canada are varied and admirable, including the bicycle team, unlike the incestuous efforts of our very rich, mostly-tech Progressives… at the start of the fifth stage time-trial in Figueras, Catalonia.
The race is one of cycling’s three major Grand Tours, along with the Tour de La Belle France and Giro d’Italia.
The Israel-Premier Tech team was also targeted during the Tour de La Belle France.
On a video circulating on social media, three people can be seen holding a banner with the inscription "Neutrality is complicity. Boycott Israel" in Catalan, flanked by Paleostinian flags, before being removed by race officials.
Although riders were forced to slow down, no accidents were reported. The team had been assigned police protection prior to the race, according to the Hebrew outlet Ynet.
In a statement, the team said it respected the right to peaceful protest but said the disruption endangered its riders. A statement from Adams, reported by Ynet, called the action an act of "terror."
"Israel-Premier Tech respects everyone’s right to freedom of speech, which includes the right to protest peacefully, but we absolutely condemn the dangerous acts of the protesters on stage 5 of the Vuelta a España, which not only compromised the safety of our riders, race personnel, but the protesters themselves," the team said in its statement. "The team continues to work with race organizers and relevant authorities to ensure our safety at the Vuelta a España and all races, and ensure any protests do not impact our safety, nor our right to race."
Adams has worked to promote cycling in Israel, including by creating the first indoor velodrome in the Middle East in Tel Aviv, and by bringing the opening of the Giro d’Italia to Israel in 2018.
Israeli-organized psychedelic festival in Portugal faces shutdown after BDS campaign
[IsraelTimes] Anta Gathering, a five-day music festival organized by Israelis scheduled to kick off tomorrow in central Portugal, says it is facing being shut down following a campaign by BDS Portugal.
Organizers had expected to receive final approval for the event today, but were instead told by the São Pedro do Sul municipality that there were additional regulations that needed to be fulfilled, including designating a fire-safe zone surrounding the festival site, a festival spokesperson says.
The event is advertised as a “psychedelic journey” on a wooded mountaintop some 30 minutes outside the city. Two brothers, Shahar and Dean Bickel, are producing Anta Gathering, and hosting it on land owned by Yotam Ittah, their cousin who built a retreat center in Portugal, the festival spokesperson says.
The producers spoke to the mayor and local politicians to understand the delay, and were told that there had been threats made against the local municipality, according to the festival spokesperson.
The spokesperson adds that organizers are trying to delay the start of the festival in order to receive the necessary permits from local authorities.
According to local media, pro-Palestinian opponents of the festival had pressed local officials to deny granting the festival necessary permits. BDS Portugal posts on social media that it has also threatened several of the participating artists, causing some to cancel their appearances.
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