Michael Jordan 

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20 years experience in running and securing production and mission-critical systems in large and small environments using Linux and macOS.

How it started: managed the second web server at #apple (www.info.apple.com)
How its going: helping secure the information assets of F500 companies.

"An" MJ, however not "the" MJ. Still, I'm a very nice person. I maintain a vast trove of movie quotes for use as metaphors for the real world.

OriginWestern Texas
Words to live by:“Good judgment comes from experience. Experience comes from bad judgment.”
@spaf Happy birthday! Go out and be the living example of “Good judgement comes from experience. Experience comes from bad judgement.” 😅

RE: https://sigmoid.social/@Dreamwieber/116281479243118760

Go watch this impressive history of The Connection Machine.

@Dreamwieber does an excellent job explaining the inspiration, creation and unfortunate end of this innovative supercomputer.

h/t @layoutSubviews for pointing me to it in the first place.

@RobertoArchimboldi
These are most commonly automated attempts. I am surprised you don’t see these links for the admin user.

@RobertoArchimboldi
Unless you have charity workers in Hong Kong, this is likely an attempt by bad actors trying to get access to your WordPress.

No need to be worried. They are trying an amateur way to break in.

There is a useful add-on to WordPress called “WordFence”. It gives you more options when people like this make these attempts. Like blocking that IP from reaching your server for any amount of time you choose (hours or days). This makes them lose interest and move to other WordPress sites.

I use it on WordPress sites I manage and it is reasonably priced.

RE: https://flipboard.com/@caranddriver/features-lrdlml2nz/-/a-2c5-VYcvQzmk9O5yo26waQ%3Aa%3A3199498-%2F0

Ye gods, it was the Chevrolet Cavalier. This was just before manufacturers from Japan started achieving higher market share.

@jerry Thank you for running one of the best places on the Internet.

I’ll gladly support any way I can.

I’ve done a fair bit of system admin to global data center builds in my day if you ever need extra hands.

@jerry I’ve just bumped my monthly contribution by 50% to try and help a bit more.
@grumpasaurus On my IT team, if it happens twice, write it up so everyone can help themselves.
If it happens 5 times, look for a way to automate it, so everyone can clear the obstacle quickly and move on.