Work in progress: those security issues
I apologize once again for the fact that the blog has been intermittently going down. The cause is still apparently brute force bot attacks which overload the server. I’ve added several layers of security as my host has suggested, but it’s still happening from time to time. My goal is to completely eradicate the problem, and I’ve been working on it, but in the meantime it may occur now and then.
Please be patient and keep trying if you have trouble accessing the blog. I’m determined to fix it.
No worries.
Meantime enjoy 4mins 40secs of Debussy’s Arabesque no. 1 with Maria Joao Pires: https://youtu.be/JCTQTp1PdnA
I’ve only had one experience with “submitting too many request” on one of my comments with about 5 links. There doesn’t seem to be as big a problem in the usual late hours when I am reading the blog.
@ sdferr > thanks for the music link.
Here’s one for viola fans- he plays the melody of Ave Maria and the arpeggios on a separate track.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tH1Q92GunzE
Ditto on the ‘No worries‘ – took my humble nap later than usual today, at around 12:15-+ PM – due to primary care Doc scheduled this morning. The site was having issues when I checked in so moved on to nappy…
Either bots are just unusually active, or you’ve said too many true things and they want you stopped. Carry on!
The cause is still apparently brute force bot attacks which overload the server.
Shoot. I thought it was maybe the flurry of activity generated by one of my comments.
I’m still curious about all the “why” questions?
Why your site?
Why now?
Why so persistent?
No answers at all I’m sure. Keep fighting the good fight. That’s all I have.
John Guilfoyle:
I don’t think I’m necessarily a special target, although it’s possible I am. But more likely, bot attacks in general have increased, and for some reason my site has also become more vulnerable. The increase is real and documented and I’m not the only one. But why the vulnerability? I have the same firewalls as before.
My guess is that it has to do with my host. You can pay for different types of hosting. The lowest and least expensive level means you share a server with tons of other sites. Therefore the server can get overwhelmed easily by all the attacks. The middle level means you still share a server, but with fewer sites. That’s the level I pay for. Then there’s a very expensive level where you have a server all to yourself. The very biggest sites have that.
So I think my middle level site is dealing with more bot attacks and also perhaps the host (unbeknownst to me) has somewhat increased the number of sites on the server. Then the server is more often overwhelmed because it’s dealing with more.
I think bot attacks in general have increased. From time to time I can’t load the Daily Mail, which should have a massive server considering its volume.
Maybe since Antifa isn’t on the streets this time around, they are being used to attack servers, in lieu of being able to censor them, which they are not able to do much of anymore.
IF the Democrats are still able to pay them, and they probably are.
A lot of cash from the slush funds formerly known as American “we’re only here to help you” agencies is almost certainly stashed in Swiss bank accounts or the modern equivalent.
Anything to keep the truth away from the voters.
In re sdferr’s link – the pianist’s name looked familiar, and I was remembering rightly.
https://www.classicfm.com/composers/mozart/maria-joao-pires-wrong-piano-concerto/
“When Maria João Pires learned the wrong piano concerto, but had a ‘miraculous’ recovery”
The mind-boggling error (she got a last-minute request to replace someone else and misheard the K number over the phone) was actually filmed in 2009, but it keeps making the rounds; that link is from 2024.
She didn’t actually “learn” the piece, they were both in her repertoire, but she practiced the wrong one.
She is really amazing!
Some more easy listening.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2WcKKdlLMpw
You come home to listen to relaxing Classical Piano (Debussy, Scriabin, Satie, Schumann, Sibelius)
0:00 Scriabin – Prelude Op.11 No.5
1:56 Erik Satie – Gymnopedie No.1
5:34 Sibelius – The Sapin Op.75 No.5
9:34 Schumann – Op.15 No.7 Traumerei
12:54 Claude Debussy – Reverie
The Satie “Gymnopedie” is one of my favorites.
Must be AI scrapers because of the erudite conversation amongst the commentariat here.
Another nice long playlist for the winter doldrums.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y6MIQq_80cA
Dec 10, 2024 Music Mood: Playlists for Every Emotion
00:00 Sergei Rachmaninoff – Elegy, Op. 3 No. 1 – Martin Villeneuve
05:45 Franz Liszt – Consolation No. 3 in D-flat Major- Joseph Renouf
09:56 Grieg – Lyric Pieces, Book 6, Op.57 – 1: Vanished days- Chris Breemer
15:56 Debussy – Arabesque No.1 – Chris Breemer
20:33 Jean Sibelius – Ten Piano Pieces, Op. 58 I. Rêverie
24:59 Frédéric Chopin – Nocturne in B flat minor, Op.9 No.1 – John Mar
30:37 Claude Debussy – The Snow Is Dancing (from Children’s Corner)-Joseph Renouf
33:01 Gabriel Fauré – Nocturne No. 6 in D-flat Major, Op. 63 -David April